From: Kevin Kenny
Subject: Re: Ir-D Timothy Guinnane - article 2

>From Kevin Kenny, kennyka[at]bc.edu

Yes, Patrick, that's the article I was looking for. Many
thanks!

And best wishes for the holidays.

Kevin

On Thu 21 Dec 2000 07:31:00 +0000
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Kevin,
>
> This looks like the one...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Timothy W. Guinnane and Mark C. Foley
> Did Irish marriage patterns survive the emigrant voyage?
> Irish-American nuptiality, 1880-1920
> Irish Economic and Social History XXVI 15-35 1999
>

----------------------
Kevin Kenny
Associate Professor of History
Department of History, Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone(617)552-1196; Fax(617)552-3714; kennyka[at]bc.edu
www2.bc.edu/~kennyka/

From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Happy Christmas and New Year

From: Patrick Maume
Best wishes to all for Christmas and New Year.
Sorry I haven't been contributing as often lately - work pressure.
Back in January,
Patrick.

Forwarded for information...

From Richard Lebrun...

Joint Meeting: American Catholic Historical Association
Canadian Catholic Historical Association

6-7 April 2001
University of Toronto

All Sessions will be held in the Cardinal Flahiff Centre, St.
Michael's College.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6

8:15 a.m.-12:00 noon/2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Registration - Foyer, Carr
Hall

9:15-10:45 a.m.

1. SOCIAL JUSTICE (Room 101)
Chair/Comment: Brian Hogan, St. Michael's College, University of
Toronto

"Feeding the Hungry: Caring for the Poor in an Affluent Society"
Elizabeth Rapley, University of Ottawa
"Peter Maurin's Canadian Years: Social History as Biography"
Francis J. Sicius, St. Thomas University
"Women as Insiders and Outsiders in the Church: Dorothy Day and
Sister Thea Bowman"
Anne M. Klejment, U. of St. Thomas

2.MISSIONARY ACTIVITY IN FRENCH NORTH AMERICA (Room 205)
Chair/Comment: David Higgs, University of Toronto

"A Lost Presence: The Franciscans in New France"
Gregory S. Beirich, California State University, Los Angeles
"French Jesuit Martyrs of North America: Jean de Brebeuf and Isaac
Jogues"
Madeleine Grace, University of St. Thomas
"Mgr. De Mazenod et les debuts des Missionnaires Oblats en Amerique
du Nord"
Blandine Chelini-Pont, Universite de Aix-Marseille

3. ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERICAN CATHOLICISM (Room 207)
Chair/Comment: Elizabeth Smyth, Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education

"Managing the Apostle and Prophet: The Catholic Peace Fellowship as
an Educational Organization during the Vietnam Era"
Penelope Moon, Arizona State University
"The Canadian Government's Establishment of Diplomatic Relations with

the Vatican"
Fred McEvoy, Ottawa
"The Contribution of Convent Education to the Development of Acadian
New Brunswick"
Sheila Andrew, St. Thomas University (Fredericton)

10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

4. CATHOLICISM AND LIBERALISM IN THE 'AMERICAN CENTURY'
(Room 101)
Chair: Richard Wiggers, University of Windsor/Comment: Earl Boyea,
The Pontifical College Josephinum

"The First Inter-American Episcopal Conference, November 2-4, 1959:
Canada and the USA Called to the Rescue of Latin America"
James Garneau, The Pontifical College Josephinum
"'America, Grateful Child of Mother Europe:' Francis Spellman and His

Unflappable Americanism"
Thomas A. Lynch, St. Joseph's Seminary
"Saving American Liberalism: Catholic Thought on the Religious
Foundations of Freedom, 1930-1945"
Zachary R. Calo, University of Pennsylvania
"'I Find Saint Paul Appealing, and Saint Peale Appalling:' How the
'Religious Right' United Liberals Behind John F. Kennedy's 1960
Presidential Campaign"
Thomas J. Carty, Springfield College

IN MISSIONARY PRACTICE: THE EARLY MODERN EXPERIENCE
(Room 205)
Chair/ Comment: John FitzGerald, Memorial University of Newfoundland

"Gaelic Catechesis: the Irish Franciscan Experience in Scotland"
Patrick Holt, Fordham University/St. Basil's College
"To Banish the Huacas: Adaptation of Catholic Theology in Andean
Catechisms"
Mauricio Damian Rivero, Florida International University
"Catholic Catechetical Adaptations in Missionary Practice Among
Native Peoples of North America in the Nineteenth Century"
James T. Carroll, Iona College

6. CREATING THE AMERICAN PARISH (Room 207)
Chair/Comment: James O'Toole, Boston College

"Dying Well in Milwaukee: Seventeenth-Century Roman Devotion in an
Early Twentieth-Century American City"
Michael W. Maher, St. Louis University
"The Origins of a Czech Redemptorist Parish in East Baltimore"
Robert J. Horak, Jr., Eureka College
"Chronicling the Social Ministries of Clergy and Laity in the
Archdiocese of New York via the Medium of Oral History"
Edward J. Thompson, Consultant in Oral History, Archdiocese of
New York

2:30-4:00 p.m.


7. CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS
(Room
101)
Chair/Comment: Lorna Bowman, Faculty of Theology, St. Michael's
College

"Writing a Congregational History from the Perspective of the
Insider/Expert"
Veronica O'Reilly, St. Michael's College
"Writing a Congregational History from the Perspective of the
Outsider/Expert"
Patricia Byrne, Trinity College (Hartford)
"Researching Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Professional

Education Across Congregations"
Elizabeth Smyth, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

8. THE CATHOLIC STRUGGLE WITH POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS (Room 205)
Chair/Comment: Brian Clarke, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

"Catholics and Community in Hamilton, Ontario, 1880-1914"
Edward Smith, University of Guelph
"For God and Country: The Meeting of Political and Religious Minds in

Nineteenth-Century Canada"
John P. Comiskey, St. Peter's Seminary, London, Ontario
"Social Justice, Southern Style: Father Arthur Terminiello's
Integration Projects in Alabama, 1936-1946"
Jeffrey Marlett, College of St. Rose

9. SECUNDAM LITTERAM: LITERAL EXEGESIS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN
MEDIEVAL
CHRISTIANITY (Room 207)
Chair/Comment: Constance H. Berman, University of Iowa

"The Literal Meaning of Genesis and the School of Chartres"
Robert Ziomkowski, University of Toronto
"The Letter of the Law: Abelard, Moses, and the Problem of Being a
Eunuch"
Sean Eisen Murphy, University of Toronto
"Literal or Spiritual? The Exegesis of Pollution in the Adversus
Iudaeos of Amulo of Lyons"
Abigail Firey, University of California, Los Angeles

5:30-6:45 p.m.

Reception offered by President Richard Alway, St. Michael's College,

Robert Madden Hall, Carr Hall

7:00 p.m.

Dinner, Burwash Dining Hall, Victoria College

Saturday, April 7

9:15-10:45 a.m.

10. POPULAR CATHOLICISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA (Room 101)
Chair/Comment: Mark McGowan, St. Michael's College, U. of Toronto

"Catholics in Transition: The Pivotal Years in Canada, 1960-1967"
Terence J. Fay, St. Augustine's Seminary
"The Practice of Confession"
James O'Toole, Boston College
"Eucharistic Practice and Devotion"
Margaret M. McGuinness, Cabrini College

11. THE CHURCH IN A TIME OF UPHEAVAL (Room 205)
Chair/Comment: William J. Callahan, University of Toronto

"Borderline Catholics, 1756-1846: The Faithful and Their Priests in
An Age of Revolutions"
Luca Codignola, University of Genoa
"Joseph de Maistre's Defence of the Spanish Inquisition"
Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba
"Father John Thayer (1758-1846), Convert and Controversialist"
Thomas Jodziewicz, University of Dallas

12. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE FAILURE OF INCULTURATION IN INDIA
AND
ZIMBABWE, 1935-1975 (Room 207)
Chair/Comment: Mario I. Aguilar, St. Mary's College, University of
Saint Andrews

"A 'Do-Nothing' Organization?: The Catholic African Association and
Lay Initiatives to Inculturate Christianity in Colonial Zimbabwe,
1935-1974"
Nicholas M. Creary, U. of Notre Dame
"Inculturation and Irony in the Rise and Fall of a North Indian
Catholic Mission"
Matthew N. Schmalz, Holy Cross College

10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

13.REFORM AND RENEWAL IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (Room 101)
Chair/Comment: Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto

"The Episcopal Curia of Novara and the Disciplining of the Clergy: A
Comparison of Two Eras, 1574-1614, 1753-1800"
Thomas B. Deutscher, St. Thomas More College, University of
Saskatchewan
"The Failure of Mary Tudor's Catholic Restoration: The International
Dimension"
Robert E. Scully, LeMoyne College
"Imagining Saint Louis in the Age of Richelieu"
Thomas Worcester, Holy Cross College

14. THE CHURCH IN QUEBEC AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (Room 205)
Chair/Comment: Roberto Perin, York University

"Trois-Rivi=E8res's Orphanages, 1930-1960: Institutions Facing Major
Changes"
Lucia Ferretti, Universit=E9 du Quebec a Trois-Rivi=E8res
'"'he Presence of Heroism in Our Lives': Youth Catholicism, and the
Cultural Origins of the Quiet Revolution, 1931-1958"
Michael Gauvreau, McMaster University
"'L'Ecole des Parents:' The Development of A Catholic Lay Perspective

on Family Ideologies and Child-Rearing"
"Denyse Baillargeon, Universit=E9 de Montreal"

2:30-4:00 p.m.

15. EUROPEAN CATHOLICISM BETWEEN THE WARS (Room 101)
Chair/Comment: Jacques Kornberg, University of Toronto

"The Role of Hochland and German Catholics: Perspectives on
Nationalism, 1918-1933"
Martin R. Menke, Rivier College
"Who is Neighbor? Jews and Catholics in the Diocese of Berlin during

the Third Reich"
Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College
"Antimodernist/Ultramodernist?: Jean Cocteau, Jacques Maritain, and
the 1920s Parisian renoveau catholique"
Stephen Schloesser, Boston College

16. CHALLENGING AMERICAN CATHOLIC LAITY AT MID-CENTURY (Room 205)
Chair/Comment: William Portier, Mt. St. Mary's College

"Pastoring the Tar Heels: Bishop Vincent S. Waters and Desegregation
in the Diocese of Raleigh, 1953"
Cecilia Moore, University of Dayton
"Informal versus Specialized Catholic Action: The Examples and
Distinctions of Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia"
Courtney L. Carson
"The Emerging Laity, 1940-1962"
Sandra Yocum Mize, University of Dayton

17. TRADITION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN CATHOLICISM (Room
207)
Chair/Comment: David O'Brien, Holy Cross

"Lay Leadership in the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the
American South and West, 1920-1950"
John Bieter, Boston College
"The Family Rosary Crusade, 1940-1965"
James McCartin, U. of Notre Dame

Registration Information:

Registration fee: $60 Canadian/$40 US. Students $10.
Full information is available on the CCHA web site:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha

The ACHA/CCHA would like to acknowledge our sponsors:

The University of St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto
Victoria College of the University of Toronto


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St. Paul's College
University of Manitoba
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FAX: 204 474-7620
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Happy Christmas, and a Happy New Year to all the friends and colleagues of
the Irish-Diaspora list.

And to all the people who insist that the new millennium cannot start until
the END of 2000, a Happy New Millennium.

There was another, only slightly less significant, anniversary - which I
should have noted. But did not. I was too busy, writing. (This is good
news for all those people who expect a piece of writing from me...)

The Irish-Diaspora list was started late in the year 1997, and we usually
think of November as our anniversary month. So that we have just passed our
third birthday.

I tend to use this holiday period to tidy up my Ir-D files and archives.
Working from my home (yes, the attic, which I find has become a little bit
famous) means that I can potter about in the odd half hour between presents
and festivities. If I come across anything that I think is worthy of
sharing with the Irish-Diaspora list I will circulate it. Otherwise, I
would expect that the Irish-Diaspora list - like all the scholarly lists -
will go quiet over the next week or so. But do feel free to send it items
and queries, in the usual way.

My personal thanks to all friends and colleagues for their support and
encouragement over the past year.

Patrick O'Sullivan

- --
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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[Moderator's Note:
Carmel's remark about the 12 Days of Christmas refers to one of those
discussions that rolled around the Net recently - see the H-Albion archives
at
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~albion/
See also, Urban Legends at ...
http://www.snopes2.com/holidays/xmas/12days.htm

P.O'S.]

From: C McCaffrey
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Subject: Re: Ir-D Winter Holiday Traditions

It's always interesting to read what is considered 'tradition'. Most of
what is
listed here as Irish in fact is common to the UK and not especially Irish in
foundation at all. My mother in law who left the Mayo Gaeltacht in the
1930s as
a young girl had no Christmas traditions at all. She maintained that
Christmas
was not a big holiday there. They had no Christmas cake, puddings mince
pies
etc. and no decorations associated with the day. As a Dubliner I grew up
with
all of these but so would anyone growing up in London for example. My
understanding of Christmas as we know it now anyway is that it is largely a
19th
century invention. The Twelve Days of Christmas code for Catholic
oppression?
That certainly is a new one on me! Any proof of this?
Carmel McC

irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> The following item has been distributed by The Balch Institute for Ethnic
> Studies, and will interest those who study traditions, and the 'invention
of
> tradition'. The Irish section is interesting, but insubstantial...
>

Acknowledging our duty to keep Ir-D members up-to-date-ish about gossip and
polemics...

From The Irish Post Archive...

http://www.irishpost.co.uk/

Ruth wins £25,000 in court damages

Irish historian and political commentator, Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards, was given
a public apology and awarded £25,000 compensation last week over allegations
that she ?grovelled to and hypocritically ingratiated herself with the
English establishment?.
The Irish Post exclusively revealed in its November 11 issue that Dr Dudley
Edwards was threatening to sue the publishers of Tim Pat Coogan?s book,
Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora, which accused her
of having caused the collapse of the British Association for Irish Studies
by unprofessional behaviour as its chairman.
At a High Court hearing the publishers, Random House UK, apologised for the
false allegations and agreed to pay compensation.
Rose Alexander, solicitor for Dr Edwards, told Mr Justice Eady that the book
suggested Dr Edwards was ?unable to divorce her political views from her
work as chairwoman of BAIS? - a non-political organisation set up to promote
the understanding of Irish history and culture - and that this somehow led
to financial instability and eventual collapse.
Miss Alexander said: ?Although tension within the executive committee of
BAIS did emerge, this was due to a difference of opinion over the
relationship of the BAIS and the Irish Studies Institute at Liverpool
University.?
It was also wrongly alleged that Dr Edwards had been commissioned by the BBC
to write a book, True Brits out of political favouritism.
Clare Lloyd-Davies, solicitor for Random House, said: ?The defendant and the
author regret that these matters were published. There was no intention to
question Dr Edward?s reputation and integrity.?
Random House agreed to remove all defamatory references to Dr Edwards from
future editions and imprints of the book, and correct the errors in current
copies by inserting erratum slips and distributing slips to libraries.
Dr Dudley Edwards expressed her satisfaction with the finding. ?I put six
years of my life into being chairman of BAIS. I did it because I was
passionate about raising the profile of the Irish in Britain in a positive
way,? she said.

Coincidentally, the H-Ethnic list has been looking at the history of the US
Census and its concepts of 'race'. Below I have pasted in some of the
further reading suggestions...

P.O'S.

Margo J. Anderson, THE AMERICAN CENSUS: A SOCIAL HISTORY (Yale U. Press,
1988)

See also Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg,
Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America
(Russell Sage 1999), and Margo Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg, "Race and
Ethnicity and the Controversy over the U.S. Census," Current Sociology,
48(3)
(2000).

And more: Clara Rodriguez, Changing Race, NYU Press 2000 and Melissa
Nobles,
Shades of Citizenship, Stanford U. Press, 2000.

Virginia Dominguez has written some interesting things about this. See,
for instance, her article: "Exporting U.S. Concepts of Race: Are There
Limits to the U.S. Model?" Social Research 65, 2 (1998):369-399.

The American Anthropological Association issued various statements
regarding the use of race in Federal statistics in general (and the
census in particular) which reviews some of the history of the concept.
These are available at the AAA website, see especially
http://www.aaanet.org/gvt/ombdraft.htm and
http://www.aaanet.org/gvt/ombprinf.htm.

David Theo Goldberg in _Racial Subjects: Writing Race in America_
(Routledge,
1997) has a v. useful essay on changing racial categories and the U.S.
census
- -- he even provides a chart.

The following item has been distributed by The Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies, and will interest those who study traditions, and the 'invention of
tradition'. The Irish section is interesting, but insubstantial...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
To: Friends of the Balch
Subject: Balch Digest - December 2000


The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies

Balch Digest

December 2000

**********
IN THIS ISSUE: ETHNIC WINTER HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

Hmong New Year
Ramadan and Eid AL-Fitr
Hanukkah
Christmas
Kwanzaa
Lunar New Years
**********

Calendar customs and holidays are central to the ethnic and immigrant
experience in the U.S. ? both a means of maintaining and enacting ethnic
identity. The fall and winter calendar is filled with ethnic holidays, and
this year witnesses a remarkable confluence of diverse traditions in a
three-month period. This month we take a look at web resources that help you
celebrate or learn more about diverse ethnic winter holidays. General sites
of use to get you started include:

Harvest Festivals from Around the World at http://www.familyculture.com/.
(this site also includes a multicultural holiday calendar).
http://www.holidays.net features many diverse holidays, including Hanukkah,
Ramadan, and Chinese New Year.
"Christmas rituals of immigrants affected by life in new country":
http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/NB/96.12/9612xmastip.html.
Hmong New Year

Every year while Americans celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving, the Hmong
community is marks its new year, the most important date in their lunar
calendar. Many Hmong communities across the country hold their New Year?s
celebrations on other American holidays because that is when participants
can get time off work. They also sometimes stagger their celebrations so
that communities can travel from locale to locale to celebrate together.
Hmong communities also bridge the distance through several prominent
resources on the web.

WWW Hmong Homepage: http://www.hmongnet.org is the premiere site for Hmong
culture.
Hmong Minnesota New Year: http://www.hmongnewyear.com/ -- from the heart of
Hmong settlement in the U.S.
Hmong New Year Celebration in Fresno, CA:
http://www.hmoob.com/home/art/beesandy/mainframe.htm
From Virtual Hmong, NYOB ZOO XYOO TSAB 2000-2001:
http://www.hmoob.com/newyear/
Lao Family Community of Minnesota: http://www.laofamily.org/ has cultural
background, plus coloring pages and interactive games for kids.
Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr

Ramadan is the month long fast in which Muslims seek blessings. The month is
spent in daily visits to families for fitr (breaking of the fast) and
culminates in Eid, three days of feasting, visits, and celebration at the
end of the fasting month.

The Glorious Month of Ramadhan -- A Guide to Selected Online Text, Audio and
Video resources for the Month of Ramadhan:
http://al-islam.org/help/ramadhan/
Essentials of Ramadan, the Fasting Month:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/pillars/fasting/tajuddin/fast_1.htm
l
Ramadan the month of fasting, a comprehensive site includes moon sightings,
recipes, and the "Mathematical miracle of the quran,":
http://www.submission.org/ramadan.html
Eid Ul-FItr: http://www.ifgstl.org/html/basics/eidfnf.htm (from Islamic
Foundation of Greater St. Louis)
HanuKkah

Hanukkah is the Jewish holiday that commemorates the survival of the Jewish
religion in the face of Syrian colonialism. In the U.S., its coincidence
with Christmas has heightened its visibility and significance in the Jewish
calendar.

Hanukkah Traditions, an interactive site:
http://www2.priscilla.com/priscilla/hanukkah/home1.html
Chanukah, The Festival of Lights:
http://www.his.com/~chabad/8days/chanu57.htm. This site includes a guide to
all 8 days, an interactive dreidel and a story, "The Horse Who Wouldn?t Eat
Latkes."
A byte of Hanukah: traditional Hanukah recipes:
http://www.wzo.org.il/encountr/recipes.htm
Jewish Holiday Cooking ? more recipes:
http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/fiszer/hanukah.htm
Christmas

Swedish

For Swedish Americans, St. Lucia?s Day, December 13th is an important Date.

Swedish Christmas traditions:
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/folklore/christmas.html
Christmas in Sweden: One family?s celebration:
http://pingvin.ourfamily.com/christmas.htm
Italian

The Christmas Eve Dinner of Seven Fishes: A Center of the Italian American
Christmas

Buon Natale! Christmas Eve Italian Style:
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/egg/egg1297/buonatale.html
Christmas eve feast of the fishes:
http://www.post-gazette.com/food/19991220lous7fishes2.asp
The tradition of the Italian American Christmas feast:
http://www.post-gazette.com/food/199912207fishes9.asp
Irish

Nollaig Shona Duit! Christmas in Ireland:
http://www.irishclans.com/articles/irish_christmas.html
O'Donnell Family Continues Christmas Tradition of Giving Back -- One Irish
American family?s holiday:
http://www.irish-eyes.net/MyoAlive/Mag1296/SulEye10.htm
"A Christmas Eve mystery: An oyster-stew devotee tracks down the tale behind
an Irish-American tradition" by Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dec. 21, 1999: http://www.jsonline.com/food/dec99/oyster22122199.asp
Polish

Christmas in Poland, including the annual issue of the Polish American
Journal, devoted to the celebrations of Polish Americans:
http://www.polishworld.com/christmas/links.htm
Christmas in Poland, from the Polish American Cultural Society of North
Carolina: http://www.polandcarolina.org/Christmas.htm
Latino

For Latinos, Christmas Eve (La Buena Noche), La Posada (a ritual enactment
of the holy family?s search for shelter in Bethlehem) and Three Kings? Day
(Epiphany) are all-important parts of the fiesta of La Navidad. Latino
traditions have their origins in the Spanish traditions that rooted
themselves in the New World, explored on these sites:

http://www.wnsc.org/spanish/span1/span1navidad.htm
Christmas in De Soto?s Florida: Spanish traditions in 16th century colonial
Florida: http://members.home.net/calderon/spxmas.html
La Posada and Three Kings? Day

Mexican traditions for Christmas: http://www.nacnet.org/assunta/nacimnto.htm
Christmas in Mexico from Mexico Connect:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/xmasindex.html
Christmas in Mexico and Central America, from about.com:
http://www.gomexico.about.com/travel/gomexico/library/weekly/aa991128a.htm
"La Posada: A seasonal dose of reality" Seattle Times, Dec. 14 1998:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/html98/altposa_121498.html
"Posada renown grows with U.S. Hispanic population" Seattle Times, December
23, 1999:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-world/html98/posa_19991223.html
Three Kings? Day:
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listthreeking.html
Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa had its beginnings in 1966 with the work of Dr. Maulana Kareng, who
invented Kwansaa as an African American adaptation of African harvest
festivals. The seven-day observance always falls between December 6 and
January 1 and celebrates seven principles (Nguzo Saba in Swahili) that are
believed to govern African life.

The Official Kwanzaa Website: http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/
Mela Net Kwanzaa Information Center:
http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/whatis.html
Kwanzaa Recipes:
http://familycrafts.about.com/parenting/familycrafts/library/misc/blkwnzrec.
htm


Lunar New Years (Chinese, korean, Vietnamese)

Many East and Southeast Asian communities mark the New Year by the lunar
calendar. For many Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese, the Year of the Snake
begins on or around January 24, 2001.

Chinatown Online: The year of the snake:
http://www.chinatown-online.co.uk/pages/new_year/index.html
Chinese New Year in New York City ? a photo essay by Martha Cooper:
http://photoarts.com/cooper/index2.html
San Francisco?s Chinese New Year Parade -- a beautiful site with history,
recipes and crafts, and a photo gallery form past parades:
http://www.chineseparade.com/index.html
Chinese New Year: lessons and activities for kids:
http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__spring_fes.html
"Enduring Traditions, Ethereal Transmissions: Recreating Chinese New Year
Celebrations on the Internet," by Seana Kozar, Department of East Asian
Studies,
University of Edinburgh: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue2/kozar.html
Chinese New Year recipes: http://www.shoppernews.com/c010197.html
Korean New Year: http://www.familyculture.com/korean_New_Year.htm
SEOL ? Korean Lunar New Year: http://www.clickasia.co.kr/about/h0101.htm
Lunar New Year recipes (pan-Asian):
http://www.asianfamily.com/newyear_food.htm
Vietnamese New Year (Tet): http://www.familyculture.com/tet.htm
**********

Happy Winter Holidays from all of us at the Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies!

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The following information has been brought to our attention...

1.
http://www.nwchamber.netheaven.com/

http://www.nwchamber.netheaven.com/yeats.shtml

'John Butler Yeats was born in Ireland March 16, 1839. Educated on the Isle
of Man, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he exchanged religious studies
for the law. After his marriage to Susan Pollexfen of Sligo, he exchanged
the law for art. A brilliant man who 'lived' everyday of his life. His fame
is mostly as the father of Willy & Lily & Lolly & Jack. Willy was William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939) world famed poet and Nobel Prize winner. Jack
(1871 - 1957), the youngest son, was one of Ireland's greatest painters.
Lily (1866 - 1949) & Lolly (1868 - 1940) ran Cuala Press in Dublin.
The Yeats family lived in Dublin and London alternately, with the children
spending most summers at their Pollexfen grandparent's home in Sligo. John
B. Yeats wife Susan died in 1900 in London and was buried there.

John B. Yeats returned to live in Dublin with his daughters in 1901. He went
to visit New York with his daughter Lily for an Irish Exhibition arriving
there on Sunday December 29, 1907. Despite many bookings of passage to
return to Ireland he never did, and he died in New York City on February 3,
1922. He was buried at Chestertown Rural Cemetery in a grave owned by his
friend Jeanne Foster who was born and raised in Chestertown.'

2.
From: Declan Foley [mailto:dfoley[at]interfusion.net.au]

My name is Declan Foley and I am one of the organizers of the John Butler
Yeats Seminar which will take place at Chestertown New York September 7 - 9,
2001. This is an important seminar on JBY in the town that holds his grave.
As his friend Jeanne Foster said: ". . .I wrote to the Irish Senate to
please send a battle ship to take John Butler Yeats to Sligo, I have their
reply. they said ' a member of the family must make the request and that no
request had come from the family and that the great old man of letters must
remain where he was.' "

I would be grateful if you could please pass this information around.
The Chester Historical Society are doing the groundwork and we hope to
encourage them to continue John B Yeats Seminars in the future.
Regards
Declan Foley
Beyond Ben Bulben
An Australian Yeats Society

This is the proposed program of speakers and papers for the weekend of 7 - 9
September, 2001.

Friday 7 Cocktail reception and registration 7 PM to 9 PM

Sat 8 10. 00 AM Introduction by Declan Foley
10. 15 Opening by Michael B Yeats
10. 30 WMM paper on John B Yeats ?
11. 00 Ann Saddlemyer on George/Lily & Lolly

11. 30 Morning coffee

11. 45 Bruce Arnold on Jack B. Yeats

12. 30PM Lunch

2. 00 Nora A .McGuinness on Literary world of Jack
Butler Yeats

2. 40 Hilary Pyle on the Art of John B. and Jack
Butler Yeats

3. 15 Afternoon tea

3. 30 Richard and Jan Londraville on Jeanne R. Foster



Saturday evening proposed banquet 7 - 11.30 PM

Sunday 9 10 00 AM Introduction by Andy McGowan

10 15 Sam McCready Letters of John B and WB
Yeats

11 15 Morning coffee

11 30 Cathy Fagan on JRF

12 30 Lunch

2 00 PM Lucy McDiarmid on Derek Mahon's JBY

2 40 Maureen Murphy on Lily & Lolly

3 00 Depart for Chestertown Cemetery for
Ecumenical Service
and closing of Seminar


The Chester Historical Society wish to have this program out by January 31.

Regards

Declan














Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Beyond Ben Bulben
An Australian Yeats Society
www.geocities.com/benbulben.geo

Forwarded for information....

From the Publisher...


Subject: Irish America by Maureen Dezell


A dazzling and bracingly honest look at a great people in a great land.

Irish America: Coming into Clover by Maureen Dezell

Doubleday is thrilled to announce the publication of Maureen Dezell's new
book Irish America: Coming Into Clover The Evolution of a People and a
Culture available in February 2001.

For many people in this country, Irish American culture conjures up thoughts
of raucous pubs, St. Patrick's Day parades, memoirs peopled with an array of
saints and sinners, and such quasi-Celtic extravaganzas as Riverdance. But
there is much more to this rich and influential culture, as Maureen Dezell
proves in this insightful, unsentimental reexamination of Irish American
identity.

Skillfully weaving history and reporting, observation and opinion, Dezell
traces the changing makeup of the Irish population in this country, from the
early immigrants to today's affluent, educated Irish Americans. With
sensitivity and humor, she pinpoints what unites them: the traditions (if
not the practice) of the Catholic Church; a sense of social duty; humor,
often self-directed; and the deep-seated, apparently unshakable belief that
any achievement is accidental and could easily be taken away tomorrow.

>From her exploration of the Church in Irish American life, to her
rediscovery of strong, culture-building women, to her historical and
sociological look at the role alcohol plays in the Irish identity (here and
abroad), to her discussion on the "New Irish," Dezell does not shy away from
the central, uniting myths and methods of this proud heritage. Irish
America is more than an enlightening look at a group of Americans long
masked by their own stereotypes--it is a long over-due tribute to one of the
building blocks of America itself.

Advance Praise for Irish America

"With this sparkling and shrewd portrait of a culture in transition, Maureen
Dezell joins the ranks of the Irish American woman journalists who are as
smart as they are charming."
--Nuala O'Faolain, author of Are You Somebody?

"With a fabulous blend of eloquence and anecdote, insight and compassion,
candor and wit, Maureen Dezell has brilliantly captured the Irish experience
in America. This is truly a wonderful book."
--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Fitzgeralds and the
Kennedys, and No Ordinary Time

"At last a book that dispels so much of the myth, the fairy tale, the
rose-tinted, shamrock-gilded blarney that has come to represent the way
Irish-American culture is often seen. Maureen Dezell gives us a vibrant,
cogent social history of the Irish in this country, rooting out the cliches
and stereotyping that have come to define a people. For that alone, I feel
indebted to this marvelous book."
--Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of A Drink Before the
War and Prayers for Rain

"Maureen Dezell is an unrepentant truth teller. With wit, insight and
unsparing intelligence she succeeds in demolishing the convenient time-worn
stereotypes - comforting as well as insulting - that surround Irish America.
In their place, she gives us a portrait of a people as they really are, with
all their strengths, and contradictions, and enduring sense of self. Irish
America: Coming Into Clover is a wonderful achievement."
--Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve

"With 'Irish America: Coming Into Clover,' Maureen Dezell has done
tremendous identity-affirming service for all Irish Americans who have ever
been confronted by the all too familiar assault, 'just who do you think you
are?' Dezell's brilliant exploration illuminates for all, the Irish
American character, in its multi-layered, diverse, and sometimes paradoxical
glory. And she does so in prose that mirrors that same character. This is
not a traditional text, for it is written by an Irish American, herself as
witty, hilarious, literary, and gifted at storytelling, as the very best of
the Irish artists and social analysts she writes about.

The artistic, social, and psychological history in these pages also reveals
many paths that may traverse beyond the limits of shame, stereotype, and
self defeat, into an American landscape, already lush with Irish
contributions in art, altruism, diversity, and a sense of community."
--Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls: A Family
Story from Southie


Irish America
0-385-49595-1
Available February 2001 from Doubleday Wherever Books Are Sold
www.doubleday.com

I am sending this message again, because, evidently, the first version did
not reach some Ir-D list members...

P.O'S.

Forwarded for information....

From the Publisher...


Subject: Irish America by Maureen Dezell


A dazzling and bracingly honest look at a great people in a great land.

Irish America: Coming into Clover by Maureen Dezell

Doubleday is thrilled to announce the publication of Maureen Dezell's new
book Irish America: Coming Into Clover The Evolution of a People and a
Culture available in February 2001.

For many people in this country, Irish American culture conjures up thoughts
of raucous pubs, St. Patrick's Day parades, memoirs peopled with an array of
saints and sinners, and such quasi-Celtic extravaganzas as Riverdance. But
there is much more to this rich and influential culture, as Maureen Dezell
proves in this insightful, unsentimental reexamination of Irish American
identity.

Skillfully weaving history and reporting, observation and opinion, Dezell
traces the changing makeup of the Irish population in this country, from the
early immigrants to today's affluent, educated Irish Americans. With
sensitivity and humor, she pinpoints what unites them: the traditions (if
not the practice) of the Catholic Church; a sense of social duty; humor,
often self-directed; and the deep-seated, apparently unshakable belief that
any achievement is accidental and could easily be taken away tomorrow.

>From her exploration of the Church in Irish American life, to her
rediscovery of strong, culture-building women, to her historical and
sociological look at the role alcohol plays in the Irish identity (here and
abroad), to her discussion on the "New Irish," Dezell does not shy away from
the central, uniting myths and methods of this proud heritage. Irish
America is more than an enlightening look at a group of Americans long
masked by their own stereotypes--it is a long over-due tribute to one of the
building blocks of America itself.

Advance Praise for Irish America

"With this sparkling and shrewd portrait of a culture in transition, Maureen
Dezell joins the ranks of the Irish American woman journalists who are as
smart as they are charming."
--Nuala O'Faolain, author of Are You Somebody?

"With a fabulous blend of eloquence and anecdote, insight and compassion,
candor and wit, Maureen Dezell has brilliantly captured the Irish experience
in America. This is truly a wonderful book."
--Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of The Fitzgeralds and the
Kennedys, and No Ordinary Time

"At last a book that dispels so much of the myth, the fairy tale, the
rose-tinted, shamrock-gilded blarney that has come to represent the way
Irish-American culture is often seen. Maureen Dezell gives us a vibrant,
cogent social history of the Irish in this country, rooting out the cliches
and stereotyping that have come to define a people. For that alone, I feel
indebted to this marvelous book."
--Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of A Drink Before the
War and Prayers for Rain

"Maureen Dezell is an unrepentant truth teller. With wit, insight and
unsparing intelligence she succeeds in demolishing the convenient time-worn
stereotypes - comforting as well as insulting - that surround Irish America.
In their place, she gives us a portrait of a people as they really are, with
all their strengths, and contradictions, and enduring sense of self. Irish
America: Coming Into Clover is a wonderful achievement."
--Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve

"With 'Irish America: Coming Into Clover,' Maureen Dezell has done
tremendous identity-affirming service for all Irish Americans who have ever
been confronted by the all too familiar assault, 'just who do you think you
are?' Dezell's brilliant exploration illuminates for all, the Irish
American character, in its multi-layered, diverse, and sometimes paradoxical
glory. And she does so in prose that mirrors that same character. This is
not a traditional text, for it is written by an Irish American, herself as
witty, hilarious, literary, and gifted at storytelling, as the very best of
the Irish artists and social analysts she writes about.

The artistic, social, and psychological history in these pages also reveals
many paths that may traverse beyond the limits of shame, stereotype, and
self defeat, into an American landscape, already lush with Irish
contributions in art, altruism, diversity, and a sense of community."
--Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls: A Family
Story from Southie


Irish America
0-385-49595-1
Available February 2001 from Doubleday Wherever Books Are Sold
www.doubleday.com

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item has been brought to our attention.

Statistics on Irish Women who have had Abortions in England and Wales
This site is part of the Department of the Taoiseach and government
information services. Its introduction states that "there is evidence that
Irish women have for many years travelled abroad for abortions. However with
the introduction in England and Wales of the Abortion Act, 1967, Irish women
have been travelling there in increasing numbers. From 1970 to 1997 almost
89,000 women who had abortions in England and Wales gave Irish addresses.
However it is often speculated that the real figure may be higher insofar as
some Irish women may give British addresses for reasons of confidentiality."
The page comprises two tables, one of which shows the abortion rate in
England and Wales for Irish women normally resident in the Republic of
Ireland per 1000 women aged 15-44 in 1971, 1979, 1981 and 1991 onwards,
while the other provides a breakdown by age and marital status of Irish
women who had abortions in 1996. Some brief interpretations of the
statistics are included.
Keywords: Ireland, England, Wales, women, termination, abortion, pregnancy
http://www.irlgov.ie/taoiseach/publication/greenpaper/appendix2.htm

From Patrick O'Sullivan

1.
The Dominguez article, previously mentioned on the Ir-D list, is to be
recommended. One of its starting points is the exporting to Hawaii of the
US 'taxonomony of race', after annexation in 1898. It then looks at the
fine detail of US Census schedules and guidelines, over the centuries.
There is a struggle to maintain the 'taxonomony' - which, of course, has its
origins in C18th and C19th notions of 'race', and slavery. The 1980 US
census was the first census to not allow the census takers to enter 'race'
by observation.

Title: Exporting U.S. concepts of race: are there limits to the U.S.
model?
Summary: The introduction of the concept of race into Hawaii was woven
into the society through geo-political circumstances.
Source: Social Research
Date: Summer/1998
Citation Information: (v65 n2) Start Page: p369(31) ISSN: 0037-783X
Author(s): Dominguez, Virginia R.


2.
As an example of the spreading influence of the 'US model'...

Inventing Germanness:
Class, Ethnicity, and Colonial Fantasy at the Margins of the Habsburg
Monarchy

Pieter M. Judson
Department of History
Swarthmore College
February 1993
Working Paper 93-2

http://www.cas.umn.edu/wp932.htm

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Contents lists, now acquired... Just to bring these up to date...

Aug 2000 includes many book reviews of interest to the Ir-D list,
including,...
Peter Gray on Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Meaning of the Famine (mildly
favourable), and Frank Neal, Black '47 (laudatory),
Patrick O'Farrell on Reginald Byron, Irish America,
Ann Dally on Jones & Malcolm, eds, Medicine, Disease and the State in
Ireland, 1650-1940,
Jurgen Kamm on Bruce Stewart, ed., That Other World: The Supernatural and
the Fantastic in Irish Literature,
Julie Smith on Joan McBreen, ed. The White Page: C20th Irish Women Poets
Tara Brabazon on Helen Brennan, The Story of Irish Dance...

December 2000 includes...
Charles E. Orser on Cooney, Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland (a very good
book)
Thomas Loughlin on Richter, Ireland and her Neighbours in the C7th
Margaret Kelleher, on Toibin, The Irish Famine
John Newsinger on the 2 books about Irish and Spanish Civil War, McGarry,
and Stradling...

[I will see if I can get hold of some of these reviews for Irish-Diaspora
list discussion. Thus, I am not daft enough to quarrel with Peter Gray
about the realities of Trevelyan's policies. But I am quite willing to
debate about the ways in which those policies were interpreted, in the 1840s
and subsequently... P.O'S.]


Irish Studies Review

Volume 8 Number 2
Issue Aug 2000

Why is there no Archaeology in Irish Studies? 157
Charles Orser
The Patriotic Children's Treat: Irish Nationalism and Children's Culture at
the Twilight of Empire 167
Janette Condon
A Split Unity: Gender and History in A.E.'s Poetry 179
Michael McAteer
Toppling Masonry and Textual Space: Nelson's Pillar and Spatial Politics in
Ulysses 195
Andrew Thacker
'Life is a series of oppositions': The Prose Work of W. R. Rodgers 205
Gillian McIntosh
Negotiating Peace: Politics, Television News and the Northern Ireland Peace
Process 217
Graham Spencer
Free State Interrogators: Liam O'Flaherty and Frank O'Connor
The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty and My Father's Son by Frank O'Connor 233
Liam Harte
Reviews 239


Irish Studies Review
Volume 8 Number 3
Issue Dec 2000

Breaking the Mould: Digitised Images of Ancient Outdoor Stonecarvings in
Ireland 293
Malcolm F. Fry; Alan H. Martin
Coleridge and Robert Emmet: Reading the Text of Irish Revolution 303
Timothy Webb
Lyrical Unions: Mangan, O'Hussey and Ferguson 325
Matthew Campbell
Patrick O'Brian: (Dis-)United Irishman at Sea 339
Kristin Morrison
Degree Zero: Language, Subjectivity and Apocalypse in the Poetry of Derek
Mahon 353
Patricia Horton
Folklore and Mythology 367

History and Politics 369

Literature 392

The Arts 409

Media and Cultural Studies 411

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of the British Association for Irish Studies...


BAIS
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES
POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES SCHEME 2001

The British Association for Irish Studies has established a scheme to
support postgraduate research in Britain on topics of Irish interest.

BAIS will award 4 bursaries of £1000 each to postgraduate students based in
a university in Great Britain, conducting research on any aspect of Irish
Studies. Students may use the bursary for travel expenses, payment of
fees, subsistence or other expenses related to the completion of the
research project. Applicants must be registered for a postgraduate degree
in a higher education institution in Great Britain. All applications must
be received by 1 March 2001.

How to Apply:
Applicants should supply 10 copies of the following information on no more
than 3 sides of A4:
*Personal details (full name, contact details, date of birth)
*An outline of the research project, in no more than 500 words.
*Details of the specific purposes for which the research funding is
intended, and when the money will be spent.
*Details of educational background, qualifications and postgraduate
registration.
*Information regarding any other source of funding received or applied
for.
*The contact details of 2 referees. Applicants must arrange for
references to be sent directly to the conveynor of the Bursaries
Committee, address below.

The Bursary winners will be announced in May 2001: the decision of the
Awarding Committee will be final.

Applications and references should be sent by 1 March 2001 to:
Dr Eibhln Evans, 48, Brampton Road, St Albans, Herts. AL1 4PT.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

Dr Nicholas Allen allenn[at]tcd.ie
Ruth Hegarty rhegarty[at]tcd.ie


Irish Studies Research Forum
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2

Dear Colleague,
We are writing to inform you of a new academic
electronic resource available to all those involved in the study
of modern Irish literature and its contexts. The Irish Studies
Research Forum (ISRF) is a free web based notice board and
e-mail response list initiated by Dr Nicholas Allen and Ruth
Hegarty. It is hosted from the School of English, Trinity
College Dublin, and intends to nurture research links between
postgraduates and staff of different institutions. Members can
§ post messages relevant to their current research,
information on upcoming seminars and lectures on the ISRF?s web
notice board § automatically receive e-mail responses from
other registered users to their posted messages
§ access the archive of previous submissions to search for
information relevant to their own particular field of study §
access online debates to be organised between leading members of
the Irish Studies community

To gain access to our website simply go to http://bb.tcd.ie and
right click on Irish Studies Research. You will then be able to
register with the ISRF and participate in its discussion lists.
As moderators of this project we very much hope that you will
register for this site and circulate its details among your
fellow staff and students. If you have any queries concerning
this initiative please feel free to contact either of us. With
very best wishes,
Dr Nicholas Allen allenn[at]tcd.ie
Ruth Hegarty rhegarty[at]tcd.ie







----------------------
Leon Litvack
Senior Lecturer
School of English
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/prometheus.html

Tel. +44-(0)2890-273266
Fax +44-(0)2890-314615

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following open lecture has been brought to our attention...

Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
University of London


Carol Hanson,
Brighton,

on

'Irish women immigrants in Britain 1930-60s'

5pm Wednesday 14 February

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf The Saxon Shore...

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE SAXON SHORE ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE

The Saxon Shore (http://www.pitt.edu/~jegst61/) is a quarterly
electronic magazine which focuses on the Late Antique/Early
Medieval/sub-Roman British Isles. There are many names for this era,
which Christopher Snyder has dubbed "the Brittonic Age." It includes
the Anglo-Saxon invasions, fourth century Roman Britain, the Early
Irish, Pictish Studies, the introduction of Christianity to the British
Isles, and the beginnings of a great number of Britain's legends,
including the Celtic saints, "King Arthur," and Beowulf.

The range of topics the Saxon Shore is interested in is very broad. The
following is only a partial listing:

+ The Anglo-Saxon invasions, as well as Anglo-Saxon history,
culture, etc. at that time.
+ The mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 597
+ Pictish Studies
+ Fourth century Roman Britain, and the end of Roman Britain
+ Aetius & Attila
+ Late Antique Gaul as a model for Britain
+ Adaptations to the "barbarian invasions" in Gaul
+ Analysis of SS. Gildas and/or Patrick
+ Saint Patrick, or discussions of other "Celtic Saints."
+ The Early Irish, their culture, history and society, 300-600 CE
+ The Late Roman Empire
+ Constantine III & Magnus Maximus
+ Gildas & the _De Excidio Britanniae_
+ The Merovingians
+ The Romano-Britons
+ The "historical Arthur," arguments both for and against
+ Christianity, Arianism, Pelagianism & Religion in Late Antiquity
+ Archaeological digs, excavations, and interpretations of relevance
to any of the other topics
+ Linguistic and philological analyses

This is not even a complete list. If you have written anything on any
of these topics, or a related topic, and would like to publish it on the
Saxon Shore, please contact Jason Godesky (jmg1[at]icubed.com) for
consideration.

The Saxon Shore is a non-profit entity. There is no money involved at
any level, so no monetary compensation can be rendered for articles.
However, the Saxon Shore is visited by thousands of students,
enthusiasts, and professionals interested in the sub-Roman/Early
Medieval period of British history. Publication on the Saxon Shore is an
excellent way to publicize.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following book review has been brought to our attention...


Martin J. Mitchell
The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848: Trade Unions, Strikes and
Political Movements.

Reviewed by Roger Swift
Feb, 2000

As Martin J. Mitchell observes in the introduction to The Irish in the West
of Scotland, 1797-1848: Trade Unions, Strikes and Political Movements
(Edinburgh: John Donald, 1998; pp. 286. 20 [pounds sterling]), certain views
have dominated the historiography of the experiences of Irish migrants in
early nineteenth-century Scotland since the pioneering research of James
Handley during the 1940s. In particular, it has been generally accepted that
Irish migrants, especially the Catholic Irish, were employed mainly as
low-wage labour or as strikebreakers; that they were despised by native
workers; that they formed separate and isolated communities, unlike Irish
Protestant migrants, who integrated with little difficulty on account of
their religious and cultural ties with the Scots; and that they were unable
or unwilling to participate in trade unions, strikes and political movements
alongside Scottish workers. In this much-needed revisionist study of `the
Irish in Glasgow and its hinterland, which formed the main focus for Irish
immigration (principally from Ulster) and settlement during a period which
has been relatively neglected by historians of the Irish in Britain,
Mitchell challenges these, and other, interpretations by reference to four
main themes: first, the role of Irish migrants in trade unions and strikes;
second, their participation in insurrectionary activities, namely the United
Scotsmen movement of 1797-1803 and the radical agitations of 1816-20; third,
their contribution to peaceful campaigns for Catholic Emancipation during
the 1820s and for political reform during the 1830s; and, finally, their
roles in Chartism and the campaign for the repeal of the Act of Union during
the 1840s. Using a range of contemporary sources, Mitchell argues that the
Irish migrant experience in west central Scotland was much more complex and
nuanced than some historical studies suggest. He shows, for example, that
although some Irish workers were used as cheap or blackleg labour, others,
including Irish cotton spinners, handloom weavers, colliers and miners,
participated significantly in strikes and trade unions alongside Scottish
workers, whose lowly economic and social position they shared. He also
rejects the view that the Irish were apathetic politically, demonstrating
not only that the Catholic Irish, who retained an interest in Catholic and
Irish issues, participated in local movements for Catholic Emancipation and
for the repeal of the Act of Union, but also that Irish workers -- Catholics
and Protestants -- contributed to working-class radical activities during
the period. However, Mitchell suggests that the bulk of the
politically-active members of the Catholic Irish population of Glasgow were
not involved in Chartism (although there was some support for the Complete
Suffrage movement when it adopted the Six Points) until its final phase, due
largely to the fact that the movement was led by Feargus O'Connor,
O'Connell's arch-enemy. Nevertheless, Mitchell's analysis suggests that
there was a far greater degree of interaction and co-operation between Irish
migrants and the host society than some historians have been willing to
concede, and this clearly raises further questions in regard to the extent
of Irish integration into Scottish society in the region during the period.
The general thrust of Mitchell's work is in line with much current research
on the Irish in England during the same period, and his thesis, which will
undoubtedly engender considerable debate among historians of the Irish in
Scotland, provides a useful agenda for further research in this area. There
are some typographical errors -- Professor John Belchem, whose work is often
cited, is consistently referred to as Belchem [Moderator's Note: ?] -- but
this is an otherwise well-informed and informative study that adds to our
knowledge and understanding of the experiences of Irish migrants in
nineteenth-century Britain.

COPYRIGHT 2000 Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

At the level of gossip...

I hear that
Graham Davis
Land Hunger: Irish pioneer settlers in Texas
is to be published by Texas A & M University Press.

It will probably come out in March 2002.

And that Michael Glazier is now preparing an encyclopedia of American
Catholic women.

P.O'S.

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