From Email Patrick O'Sullivan



Oxford University Press has some new catalogues out...

It is worth occasionally visiting the OUP Web site...

http://www.oup.co.uk

because sometimes you can download sample chapters.

Amongst the new books are...

1.
'This is the book I have wanted to write for a lifetime' Barry Cunliffe

Facing the Ocean
The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500

Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology,
Oxford University

608 pages, 24 pp colour (32 colour illustrations); 150 black and white
illustrations, 242mm x 178mm
Table of contents

Details Ordering

Hardback, 0-19-924019-1
UK Price: £ 25.00
Publication date: 25 January 2001

The people living along the Atlantic facade of Europe have usually been
regarded as peripheral to the main stream of European development. But this
is not so. Facing the Ocean explores the identity and remarkable
achievements of generations of these communities from the time of the early
hunter-gatherers of 8000 BC to the explorers of the fifteenth century AD who
first ventured across the ocean.

Contents/contributors
1 Perceptions of the Ocean
2 Between Land and Sea
3 Ships and Sailors
4 The Emergence of an Atlantic Identity: 8000-4000 BC
5 Ancestors and Ritual Landscapes
6 Expanding Networks and the Rise of the Individual: 2700-1200
7 Sailors on the Two Oceans
8 Restating Identity: 1200-200 BC
9 The Impact of Rome: 200 BC-AD 200
10 Migrants and Settlers in the Early Middle Ages: AD 200-800
11 The Coming of the Northmen
12 New Centres, New Peripheries: 1000-1500
13 The Longue Duree
A Guide to Further Reading

[Note: I hear that Barry Cunliffe will be on BBC Radio 4 this coming
weekend, talking about his book.]



2.
Ireland and Empire
Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture

Stephen Howe, Tutor in Politics, Ruskin College, Oxford

342 pages, 234mm x 156mm
Table of contents

A sample of this book is available in PDF format.


Hardback, 0-19-820825-1
UK Price: £ 25.00
Publication date: 6 April 2000

Readership: Students and scholars of Irish and Imperial/Colonial history; of
Irish Politics;Comparative Politics;Conflict Studies; general readers
interested in Irish Studies
A growing number of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics
have sought to analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For
some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for
understanding Ireland. Others reject the very use of the colonial label for
Ireland's history; while using the term for the present can arouse outrage,
especially amongst Ulster Unionists. This book evaluates and analyses these
controversies, which range from debates over the ancient and medieval past
to those in current literary and postcolonial theory. Scholarly, at times
polemical, it is the most comprehensive study of these themes ever to
appear. It will undoubtedly arouse sharp controversy.

Contents/contributors
Introduction
Contexts and Concepts
The Past in the Present
Irish Nationalists and the Colonial Image
British Imperialists and Their Critics
Chroniclers and Revisionists
Colonialism, Criticism, and Cultural Theory
The Irish Republic as Postcolonial Polity
Northern Ireland after 1968: An Anticolonial Struggle?
Ulster Unionism: A Colonial Culture?
Comparative Perspectives
Conclusions
Bibliography, Index

P.O'S.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

Donal P. McCracken
MacBride's Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer War.(Review) / (book
review)

Rerviewed by Bavid Harkness
Sept, 2000

Donal P. McCracken's MacBride's Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer
War (Dublin: Four Courts P., 1999; pp. 208. 19.95 [pounds sterling]) is a
labour of love which tidies up one of the minor but none the less
interesting escapades of early twentieth-century Irish history. It is, of
course, an even more minor footnote to South Africa's story, but it can now
be said firmly that those Irishmen who turned out to support the Boer cause,
either became they were already on the spot or because they felt compelled
to journey out to take a swipe at the dastardly British Empire, did more
good than harm. They fought courageously and effectively in support of their
Boer superiors and, if their discipline was not outstanding, their worst
fault was a reluctance to disengage rather than any tendency to break off
too soon. Occasional unofficial requisition of food and drink, and some
resulting mayhem, may also have characterized their off-duty activities, but
the Boers were right, at the conclusion of hostilities, to pay tribute to
their Irish allies. That the principal Brigade was led by the
Irish-American, Colonel Blake, with Major MacBride as his second-in-command,
may seem to be anomalous, given the book's title, but MacBride, who has his
wider place in Irish memory as the husband of Maude Gonne and as one of the
few to be executed for participation in the 1916 Dublin Rising, ended up in
command, and the Brigade is always referred to as his. Other Irishmen fought
briefly in a second Brigade, under the command of Arthur Lynch, and others
again joined various Boer outfits, and McCracken gives an account of them
all. He also puts their contribution in the context of Irish nationalist
despair at a time when the centenary of the '98 Rebellion and the
humiliation of their Home Rule cause pointed up the subservience of their
own land. More importantly, he sets it in the context of what was to come.
Arthur Griffith, after all, had just returned from South Africa, and his
pro-Boer activities were to provide a solid basis for future Irish
separatism. It was the Irish Transvaal Committee, as the author points out,
that formed the nucleus of Cumann na Gaedheal in 1901. By 1905 it had become
Sinn Fein. So McCracken's determination to scour the archives of Ireland and
Britain, South Africa, America and France to put together as complete as
possible an account of this minor military phenomenon pays dividends. It is
a scholarly and readable military history, with some excellent photographs
and some poems and ballads, not least `The Battle of Dundee' which describes
one of the many occasions when Irish pro-Boers found themselves fighting
their fellow countrymen in British regiments (`That's how the "English"
fought the "Dutch" at the Battle of Dundee'). It also evokes well the mood
of that formative era of anti-imperial endeavour.

DAVID HARKNESS Queen's University, Belfast

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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bernie.folan[at]sagepub.co.uk
Bernie Folan
Journals Marketing Manager
SAGE Publications
6 Bonhill Street
London EC2A 4PU
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Subject: CFP: Ethnicities - a new journal, issue One April 2001
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:51:12 -0000

New in 2001!
Ethnicities

Editors
Stephen May and Tariq Modood University of Bristol, UK

Corresponding US Editors
Craig Calhoun Social Science Research Council, New York, USA, Troy Duster
University of California, Berkeley and New York University, USA and Min Zhou
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

. . . .

There is currently a burgeoning interest in both sociology and politics
around questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as
identity politics and minority rights. Ethnicities is a new
cross-disciplinary journal that will provide a critical dialogue between
these debates in sociology and politics, and related disciplines.
Ethnicities has three broad aims, each of which will add a new and
distinctive dimension to the academic analysis of ethnicity, nationalism,
identity politics and minority rights.

A Journal of Sociology and Politics
Ethnicities aims to achieve a critical nexus between the disciplines of
sociology and politics with respect to debates on ethnicity, nationalism and
identity politics. These debates have until recently been largely
constrained within disciplinary boundaries, resulting in the two disciplines
'talking past each other' with respect to such issues.
Consideration of the interconnections between ethnicity and other forms of
identity also lends itself to an even wider interdisciplinarity. As such,
the journal aims to encourage work from a wide range of related disciplines,
including anthropology, black studies, cultural studies, education, gender
studies, geography, history, law, literary and media studies, philosophy and
social policy.

A Journal of Culture and Structure
Ethnicities aims to explore the complex interconnections between culture and
socioeconomic structure with respect to the mobilisation of ethnicity, other
social movements, and the implications of such mobilisation(s) for modern
nation-states. In this sense, it aims specifically to bring together the
more 'traditional' materialist emphases and concerns of 'race' and ethnicity
studies, with the wider theoretical debates (both sociological and
political) on the (re)construction of democratic societies. In so doing, it
will also explore the interface between modernist and postmodernist debates
on such issues.

An International Journal
Ethnicities will have a truly international reach, as reflected in the
composition and research expertise of the Editorial and International
Advisory Boards. The journal welcomes discussion of any country or region of
the world, as well as transnational and diasporic contexts. Contributors are
encouraged to set their work, wherever possible, within a transnational
and/or transregional perspective.

Topics Will Include
=B7 minorities and the nation-state =B7 multiculturalism =B7 culture, class
=
and
representation =B7 gender and ethnicity =B7 citizenship, universalism and
difference =B7 minority rights and political representation =B7 hybrid and
multiple identities =B7 racism and antiracism =B7 ethnicity and
socioeconomi=
c
equality =B7 diasporic movements =B7 transnational networks =B7 indigenous
movements =B7 language and ethnicity =B7 education and cultural pluralism =
=B7
colonialism and postcolonialism =B7 whiteness =B7 religious mobilisation and
conflict =B7 regulation of ethnic conflict =B7 ethnonationalisms =B7
ethnici=
ty,
nationalism and globalisation

Preliminary Contents from the First Two Issues
Articles
Transforming Peoples and Subverting States: Developing a Pedagogical
Approach to the Study of Indigenous Peoples and Ethnocultural Movements
Alice Feldman
The Reinvention of a National Identity: Women and 'Cosmopolitan' Englishness
June Edmunds and Bryan S Turner
Comparing Ethnic Minorities' Ethnic Options: Do Asian-Americans Possess
'More' Ethnic Options then African-Americans? Miri Song
When Identity Becomes a Knife: Reflecting on the Genocide in Rwanda Helen
Hintjens
Rights and Recognition:Perspectives on Multicultural Democracy Morag L
Patrick
Deep Diversity vs Constitutional Patriotism: Taylor, Habermas and the
Canadian constitutional crisis John Erik Fossum
Diversity and change in representations of citizenship and nationality: A
comparison of Turks, Moroccans and Belgians in Brussels Karen Phalet and
Marc Swyngedouw

Debates
Veit Bader and Gerd Baumann on critical realist and constructivist accounts
of ethnicity
Ghassan Hage and David Burchell on multiculturalism and toleration

Review Symposiums
Review Symposium on Paul Gilroy's new book Against Race/Between Camps
featuring reviews by Patricia Hill Collins, Stuart Hall and Troy Duster
Review Symposium on Bhikhu Parekh's new book Rethinking Multiculturalism
including reviews by Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Rainer Baub=F6ck and
Iri=
s
Marion Young


Call for Papers
The first issue of Ethnicities is to be published in April 2001. There will
be 3 issues per volume, with the journal being published in April, August
and December of each year.

Submission of mss
Authors should retain one copy of their manuscript and send four identical
copies, each fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one
side only of white A4 or US standard size paper, and a disk version saved in
MS Word 6/7 or RTF to: Stephen May and Tariq Modood, Editors, Ethnicities,
Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8
1UQ, UK. Fax: +44 117 954 6609 Email: ethnicities-journal[at]bristol.ac.uk
Covering letter
Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have
agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being
considered for publication by any other journal.
=46ormat of mss
Each manuscript should contain:
=B7 title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of
blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full
address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be
supplied on a separate sheet.
=B7 abstract of 100-150 words and 5-10 key words
=B7 main text and word count -- suggested target is about 7000 to 8000
words=
.
Text to be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of headings and
subheadings and quotations exceeding 40 words displayed, indented, in the
text.
=B7 end notes (if necessary) rather than footnotes, which should be
signalle=
d
in the text by superscript numbers and supplied as a list at the end of the
ms
=B7 references should be cited in the text by author and date (Parekh, 2000)
with a full alphabetical listing (examples below) at the end of the article:

Books and articles in books
Parekh, B. (2000) Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and
Political Theory. London: Macmillan.
Hamelink, C. (2000) 'Human Rights: The Next Fifty Years', in R. Phillipson
(ed.) Rights to Language: Equity, Power and Education, pp. 62-6. Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Journals
Levine, H. (1999) 'Reconstructing Ethnicity', Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute 5(2): 165-80.
Papers
Costa, J. and Wynants, S. (1999) 'Catalan Linguistic Policy Act: External
Protection or Internal Restriction?', paper presented to the Nationalism,
Identity and Minority Rights Conference, University of Bristol, September.
Websites
Indigenous Delegates Consensus Statement (1994) Fourth World Documentation
Project [http:/www.cwis.org/fwdp.html], file IPPM_4.TXT
Tables
Tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their
position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have
short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below
the tables.
Illustrations
All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be
referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered
consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for
immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4
sheet. They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 115 mm x
185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy,
unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are
also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on
a separate sheet.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for
reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations
previously published elsewhere.
Style
Articles must be written in English. Use a clear readable style, avoiding
jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when
first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than
he/she.
Spellings
UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford
English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).
Punctuation
Use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Dates
should be presented in the form 1 May 1998. Do not use points in
abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD)
Disks
On acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to
supply a diskette (preferably IBM compatible) of the final version.
Copyright
Before publication authors are requested to assign copyright to Sage
Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in
other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published
preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
Proofs and offprints
Authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send
corrections to Stephen May and Tariq Modood, Editors, Ethnicities, Sociology
Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ, UK
[email: ethnicities-journal[at]bristol.ac.uk] They will receive a complimentary
copy of the journal and 25 offprints of their article. Reviewers receive 5
offprints.
Books for review and manuscripts of reviews should be sent to the Editorial
Assistant, Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road,
Bristol BS8 1UQ, UK.
Email: ethnicities-journal[at]bristol.ac.uk
Website: http:/www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology

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From: "noel gilzean"

>From Noel Gilzean
rosslare51[at]hotmail.com

Hi
I have been asked to pass this on to anyone who may be interested. I
attended last years conference and thouroughly enjoyed the experience. The
CAIS members were very friendly and the papers were of a very high quality.
The conference is presented in association with the Congress of the Social
Sciences and Humanities so there exists the opportunity to attend or present
papers to other associations.
Noel



Dear CAIS Members and Friends:

Below is the Call for Papers for our 2001 Conference. Please submit
your proposals by February 7 and encourage others, including your
students, to do likewise. The Call is also available in French, and in
a formatted version which can be pinned on bulletin boards etc. and I
would be happy to send either of these to you on request, either by
email or by Canada Post. Just let me know.

The Conference schedule will include:
Excursion to Grosse Ile led by Marianna O'Gallagher, followed by
informal reception (Wednesday, May 23)
Papers, sessions, readings, entertainment (Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26)
CAIS Annual General Meeting (Saturday afternoon, May 26)
Banquet (Saturday evening, May 26)

Jean Talman
Secretary-Treasurer
Canadian Association for Irish Studies
c/o Celtic Studies
St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES CONFERENCE 2001
23-26 May 2001
Universiti Laval, Sainte-Foy, (Quebec City)

Call for Papers : "2001: An Irish Odyssey"

Held once again in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences
and Humanities, this year's conference of the Canadian Association for
Irish Studies promises to be an exciting, stimulating few days of
discussions, presentations and of course arguments about Irish culture,
history and politics. The conference largely depends, of course, on the
papers submitted by the Irish Studies community at large, so we
encourage proposals from everyone with a scholarly interest in Ireland.

The themes of this year's Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
are "Language, Culture and Community", "Plagues and Viruses" and "The
Role of the Intellectual in Society". We encourage, then, submissions
on these topics, and also want to especially encourage proposals about
the complex, unique relationship enjoyed (and sometime not enjoyed!)
between Ireland and Quibec.Some possible topics might include:

Representations of The Famine as a plague.

The contemporary meaning of the Grosse Nle memorial.

Irish health care policy.

Medieval Irish representations of plagues.

Cz Chulainn: Public Intellectual avant la lettre ?

Irish creative artists engaged with Irish politics, from Padraig
Pearse to Sean O'Faolain to Nuala Nm Dhomnaill.

The novels of Brian Moore, Jacques Ferron's Le salut de l'Irlande, or
Madeline Ferron's Sur le Chemain Craig.

Post-1960 fiction and poetry in Irish Gaelic

Important political or philosophical work being done in Irish Gaelic.

Comparisons of Bord na Gaeilge's policies with those of Comunn na
G`idhlig or Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg.

The changing nature of the Gaeltacht communities.

Policy for the islands of Ireland, Quibec or Canada.

Newfoundland English and its relationship to Irish Gaelic and Irish
variants of English.

The relationship between Irish and Francophone clergy.

Comparisons of the October Crisis and British policies in Northern
Ireland.

Relationships between Native Canadians and the Irish.

Irish women's movements in the context of international feminism.


These are just suggestions! We hope that the next conference will
reflect the enormous diversity of interest and expertise that defines
the organization. Please do not feel limited by the Congress topics, but
also please feel free to use them as a jumping off point for ideas that
might not be seen in other Irish Studies venues.

Please send a ~300 word abstract, in English or French, by 7 February
2001 to:

Canadian Association for Irish Studies Conference 2001
c/o Celtic Studies
St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
81 St. Mary Street
Toronto ON
M5S 1J4
or email to: Laura.Shintani[at]utoront

Noel Gilzean
rosslare51[at]hotmail.com
n.a.gilzean[at]hud.ac.uk
University of Huddersfield UK
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hip

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


We have received an email from IrishKnowledge.com

Apparently the Irish Diaspora Studies Web site has been awarded a rating of
8.5 by the IrishKnowledge Review team.

Which is nice...

See http://www.irishknowledge.com

At this stage I know nothing about IrishKnowledge.com. At first sight it
seems to be yet another Irish links page, but evidently a commercial
organisation, with some resources, an Editor and reviewers. It describes
itself as 'the Irish Studies Network'...

And its postal address is...

IrishKnowledge - the Irish Studies Network,
Silver Apples Media Ltd.
Guinness Enterprise Centre,
Taylor's Lane,
Dublin 8.
Ireland
tel. +353 1 4100610
fax. +353 1 4100985

Does anyone know more?

My gossips will know that our Web site could be even better - I have some
wonderful stuff waiting to publish and display. But my chief Web designer
and HTML coder, my son Dan, is too busy with his important GCSE
examinations...

P.O'S.

- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Forwarded on behalf of
Jim Rogers
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

Dear Ir-D List:

I'm happy to report that the fourth issue of New Hibernia Review's 2000
volume is in the mail, this one bearing on its astoundingly vivid cover -
fire-engine red!!!! -- a reproduction of a contemporary quilt by Cork
textile artist Kitty Whelan.

Here's a rundown of topics and articles included that may interest the list:

The issue opens with a nearly oral history of Irish dance in Chicago in the
years 1933 through the early 1950s, written by Kathleen M. Flanagan. Next,
the New Poetry section offers a suite of poems by the Irish-American poet
Brendan Galvin, including a long piece originally intended for his 1992
reworking of the Brendan legend, Saints in Their Ox Hide Boats.

Edward Hagan then surveys the (unnecessarily?) harsh treatment of McCourt's
Angela's Ashes at the hands of Irish-born critics, and suggests that the
blockbuster novel displays an art all its own, best illumined by chaos
theory. Joel Hollander looks at popular culture of a century past, and the
harsh treatment dealt to Parnell by political cartoonists of his day.
Accompanying illustrations display Parnell as a hapless tightrope walker,
almost ready to fall with a thud or a splat.

In the fourth essay, QUB's Brian Walker also turns to the Home Rule era with
a biographical study of long-neglected Unionist politico E. S. Finnigan, who
deftly marshaled the Orange vote into Northern electoral matters. Shane
Murphy looks at contemporary Northern poets and what happens when they
choose to write about paintings - offering some striking new suggestions for
sources of McGuckian. And modern physics comes into the critical
conversation again in an essay by Daniel Davy on The Playboy of the Western
World and quantum mechanics. Finally, Canadian poet and critic Dermot
McCarthy offers a psychoanalytical reading of Dermot Healy's
under-appreciated novel, A Goat's Song.

Listers who wish to submit work to New Hibernia Review can find guidelines
and subscription information at this web site:
http://department.stthomas.edu/irishstudies/index.htm

or contact us directly at the address below

Jim Rogers
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

Forwarded for information...

From the publisher...

>We thought you might find this of interest.

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Just Published: "A Brooklyn Family"

Freeport resident Patricia Mansfield Phelan is the author of a newly
published work, A Brooklyn Family: A Brief History of Mary Elizabeth Ryan,
John Francis A. Stewart, and Their Ancestors .

The book presents genealogical and historical information about members of
an
old Brooklyn family. Among the individuals highlighted are:

- --Alderman David Samuel Stewart, a first-generation American and the last
president of the Board of Aldermen of the old city of Brooklyn, who
remembered the debut of the Brooklyn Eagle in the late 1830s: "Now we have a
good Democratic paper," his father said.

- --Charities Commissioner James J. Ryan, an immigrant from Dublin City,
"whose
funeral procession [in 1895] was one of the largest that has ever passed
through the streets of Flatbush." Owner of a marble works, he donated the
baptismal font still in use today in Holy Cross Church.

- --William H. Stewart, a young Brooklyn police officer who was among 32
people
to die of consumption in Brooklyn in the first week of 1861: "All of the
police force off duty, a deputation of firemen to which body Stewart
formerly
belonged, and a long line of carriages containing sympathizing friends and
relatives, accompanied the remains to the grave. A band of music played the
dead march as they passed along, and the fire-bells were tolled."

- --Mary Elizabeth Ryan and Frank Stewart, whose 1885 marriage united the
daughter of one of Brooklyn's most prominent Democrats with the son of one
of
its most ardent Republicans

- --Teresa Ryan, "regarded as one of the most beautiful girls in the 29th
Ward"

- --Elizabeth Seaman, a "member of the old Seaman family of Long Island,"
whose
ancestry could be traced to 1545 in Southwold, England, and who married the
Irish David Stewart

- --David Stewart, who immigrated from Co. Tyrone, Ireland, two hundred years
ago and worked in Brooklyn as a ropemaker

- --Alexander McGuire, "one of the most popular young men of Flatbush"

- --Margaret McNulty, Irish immigrant and mother of ten children, who buried
three husbands

A Brooklyn Family should appeal to anyone with an interest in genealogy,
family history, Long Island history, or Irish and Irish-American history.
The book contains an index of about 150 names. It consists of 70 pages
(including frontmatter and index), has a trim size of 8.5" x 11", and has a
plastic see-through cover and a plastic comb binding. The book, which sells
for $20 (plus postage), is published by Glanvil Enterprises.

About the author
Patricia Mansfield Phelan, a great-granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth Ryan and
Frank Stewart and a descendant of the Seaman and Conklin families of Long
Island, traces her roots to Ireland, England, France, Switzerland, and
Germany. Born in Flatbush, she makes her home in Freeport, New York, where
she lives with her husband, novelist Tom Phelan. A poet and freelance
editor, she is also an officer of the Irish Family History Forum, a Long
Island organization devoted to genealogy and family history.

###

Forwarded for information...

Subject:
Research Seminar in Contemporary Irish History
(Dublin Jan.-Mar. 2001)

From: "Deirdre Mcmahon"

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY
Programme for January-March 2001

This seminar is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research
in contemporary Irish history can discuss their work. It is open to all
willing to participate; researchers from abroad who are working in Irish
archives and libraries are particularly welcome. Proposals for papers can be
sent to any of the three convenors:
Professor Eunan O'Halpin, Trinity College Dublin:
eunan.ohalpin[at]tcd.ie
Dr Michael Kennedy, Royal Irish Academy: difp[at]iol.ie
Dr Deirdre McMahon, Mary Immaculate College. University of Limerick:
Deirdre.McMahon[at]mic.ul.ie

10 JANUARY: Agendas for Contemporary Irish History (Professor Eunan
O'Halpin, Dr Michael Kennedy, Dr Deirdre McMahon).
17 JANUARY: Dr John Horgan (Dublin City University), The Politics of Irish
political biography
24 JANUARY: Anne Dolan (TCD), Forgetting the Fallen ? State commemoration of
the Irish Civil War.
31 JANUARY: Dr Gary Murphy (DCU), The Tortuous Path Revisited: New evidence
on the Irish applications to join the EEC 1961-72.
7 FEBRUARY: Dr Susannah Riordan (University College Dublin)Sin and
Citizenship in the Irish Free State.
14 FEBRUARY: Dr Maria Luddy (University of Warwick): Reflections on the
Women's History Project.
21 FEBRUARY: Brendan Barrington (editor, Dublin Review), Francis Stuart's
War 1939-2000.
28 FEBRUARY: Dr Robert McNamara (University College Cork), Stephen Roche and
the Department of Justice.
7 MARCH: Dr Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick), Ireland after the
Marshall Plan.

Seminars will take place in Room 3025 at 4pm each Wednesday in the Arts
Building, Trinity College Dublin.

Forwarded for informatiion...
And without comment...

A selection from
Read Ireland - Top 10 Books of 2000


Turlough by Brian Keenan
(Hardback; 16.99 IEP / 21.50 USD / 14.50 UK)

While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of
Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough
O' Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the 17th century. This
novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a
personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life
imprisoned, shaped by the dark.

Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his deathbed, and through the
recollections of those closest to him, the novel powerfully brings to life a
lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression. Stalking
through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical
prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the
aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and
women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and
some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by
contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind
man afraid of the dark.

A panoramic picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland
and peopled by a host of angels and devils, this novel is a remarkable
historical journey, and a huge imaginative feat.

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The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
(Hardback; 16.99 IEP / 18.99 USD / 14.50 UK)

This collection contains twelve new stories from one of Ireland's master
storytellers. Set mostly in Ireland, they show the author to be writing at
the height of his powers. In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the
proposal for his daughter that will never some from the man who once told a
lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade
across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small
inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for
his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his
unwelcome inheritance. Trevor writes with understatement and precision
about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and
those who barely have control over their lives.

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Non-Fiction:


Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora by Tim Pat Coogan
(UK)(Hardback; 25.00 IEP / 32.50 USD)

The total population of the island of Ireland is only five million - some
800,000 of whom describe themselves as British! - yet there are seventy
million people on the planet entitled to call themselves Irish!

This ground-breaking book tells their story. It is based on first-hand
research in both North and South American, Africa, the UK, Europe, Asia,
Australia and New Zealand. Apart from contemporary interviews with
significant figures from today's diaspora, it also explores how the Great
Scattering occurred, through war, famine and dispossession. How a stricken
people produced the movers and shakers, the dreamers of dreams who climbed
to the world's highest pinnacles of politics and the arts. It does full
justice to the horrors which lay behind some of the emigration, but
concentrates also on the extraordinary and positive experience of Irish
people throughout the world.

Along with the brawlers and battlers, the heroic soldiers, the passionate
labour leaders, the American presidents, the Australian Prime Ministers, the
founders of Latin American nations and the creators of Riverdance and U2,
the Irish gave the world a caring tradition, the missionaries and the
teachers who spread a message of a 'dream born in a herdsman's shed and the
secret scriptures of the poor.'

Some died by the wayside, some successfully pitched their tents near the
stars. All come to live in this vivid historical and contemporary portrait
by Ireland's most readable and most trenchant contemporary historian.

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The Catholics of Ulster: A History by Marianne Elliott
(Hardback; 25.00 IEP / 31.00 USD / 20.00 UK)

There can be few European communities more soaked in their history than the
Catholics of Ulster. Ulster has always been politically and culturally a
land somewhat apart from the rest of Ireland, and its harsh history has
given both the Catholic and Protestant communities a unique stamp. Both
communities' understanding of their past remains central to their
identities, but the layers of myths, lies and half-truths which make up
these understandings have had ruinous effects.

In this book, the author has succeeded in creating a coherent, credible and
absorbing history of the Ulster Catholics - from their early medieval
origins to the devolution of 1999. In the process many myths are destroyed,
but a picture also emerges of a history which, while in many senses quite
different from the received wisdom, is none the less, with the arrival of
the English and Scots, an extremely brutal one. At a remarkable point in
Ulster's history, this book will be the focus of much debate.

*********************************************************

Northern Ireland: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay
(Paperback; 18.20 IEP / 25.00 USD)

Largely regarded by the outside world in a negative light, many Protestants
in Northern Ireland feel beleaguered, misunderstood and out-manoeuvred. But
to what extent are Protestants undermined by a sectarianism that few of them
acknowledge - including perhaps an ambivalence to loyalist violence?

Within the overall Protestant community there is a wide diversity of views,
from hardline defenders of the Union to a surprisingly large number who
would welcome the end to the notion of a Protestant State for a Protestant
people. With the current peace process founded on awareness that there can
be no resolution to the conflict without the consent of both communities, a
deeper understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes has
never been more essential.

This important book by a distinguished journalist breaks new ground in the
search for that understanding. Presenting and analysing over sixty in-depth
interviews with a wide range of northern Protestants, the author gives the
clearest picture yet of these perplexing - and perplexed - people.

*********************************************************

To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland by Sean O'Callaghan
(Hardback; 15.99 IEP / 19.00 USD / 13.50 UK)

Between 1652 and 1659, over 50,000 Irish men, women and children were
transported to Barbados and Virginia. Until now there has been no account
of what became of them.

The motivation for the initial transportation of the Irish was expressed by
King James I of England: 'Root out the Papists and fill it (Ireland) with
Protestants.' The author's search began in the library of the Barbados
Museum and Historical Society and its files on Irish slaves.

The author's search began in the library of the Barbados Museum and
Historical Society and its files on Irish slaves. This book documents in
the history of these people, their transportation, the conditions in which
they lived on the plantations as slaves or servants, and their rebellions in
Barbados.

********************************************************

An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean: Antarctic Survivor by Michael Smith
(Hardback; 25.00 IEP / 30.00 USD / 20.00 UK)

Tom Crean ran away from home as a youth and become one of the most
indestructible heroes in Antarctic exploration. He played a central role in
the dramatic events on three out of four British expeditions in the Heroic
Age of Polar exploration. He served Scott and Shackleton - both bitter
rivals - and outlived them both.

This book reveals how he volunteered for Polar exploration, was one of the
last to see Scott alive before his ill-fated expedition reached the South
Pole, and how he returned to bury him in the snow a month later. Tom Crean
played a leading role in Shackleton's legendary 'Endurance' expedition,
sailing the small open James Caird across the violent Southern Ocean, and in
the historic crossing of South George's glaciers.

Tom Crean is the unsung and inspirational hero of Antarctic exploration.
His astonishing life of adventure, heroism and survival against all the odds
is told for the first time in this remarkable book. It is an extraordinary
and unforgettable story.

The book is illustrated with photographs.

************************************************************

Read Ireland Web Site Home Page: http://www.readireland.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am sorry to have to become one of those people who spread alarm and
despondency by distributing complaints and warnings about computer
viruses...

But, over 10 times during the past few months, my computer has been attacked
by a computer virus, identified as Worm Virus W95.Hybris.Gen.dr.

This is one of those viruses that sends emails to email addresses in your
email address book, and adds its own evil attachment to those emails.

I have pasted in below some basic information about this virus.

The evidence suggests that the launcing of the contaminated email is
triggered by the sending of a legitimate email to me. The evidence further
suggests that this virus is stored in the computer of someone who regularly
sends emails, outside the Irish-Diaspora list, to my University of Bradford
email address. But that person may also have one of my other email
addresses stored in his/her computer.

I would be grateful if Ir-D members who regularly send me emails, off list,
could check their computers for this virus. Presumably I am not the only
person who has been inconvenienced in this way.

As will be gathered, my own anti-virus software protects my computer, and
will not allow this virus to be passed on from here.

Let me, just briefly, re-assure all Ir-D members that nothing naughty or
nasty can be distributed through the Irish-Diaspora list itself. The
Irish-Diaspora list does not accept email attachments, and all emails
distributed through the Ir-D list are cleaned of any nasty gubbins before
distribution.

P.O'S.


INFO >>>
Viruswarning: Worm Virus W95.Hybris.Gen.dr goes around

Everybody, who receives an email, coming from "hahaha[at]sexyfun.net" should
delete this message unread, and not open the attachment "dwarf4you.exe" or
any other.

Please be alert to a new computer virus that is being heavily distributed.

The virus is classified as a Worm of type W95.Hybris.Gen or
W95.Hybris.Gen.dr. It is extremely difficult to remove if you do not have a
commercial antivirus software package such as Nortons Antivirus.

You would receive an email from hahaha[at]sexyfun.com with the subject
'snowhite and the seven dwarfs'. This email is sent by the email program of
an infected machine, similar to the recent LoveBug virus, once after each
normal email they send. While there is no return address, the origin can be
traced to their IP address within the header information of the email. A
random-named attachment is included as a .exe or .scr file. If you run the
attachment, nothing appears to happen as the virus installs itself into the
wsock32.DLL and kernel32.DLL operating system files. The virus has a
mechanism to hide in the system registry if it cannot access these files.
The virus also downloads and installs additional viruses from internet
newsgroups into your windows system directory.

Please ensure you have the latest updates to your antivirus software as this
virus is relatively new (approx. November 2000). Do not try and run the
email attachment and make sure you delete the email immediately should you
receive it. If you do not run antivirus software that continuously monitors
your PC and email.

As a best-practice, never ever run programs that you receive by anonymous
email and be extremely cautious before you run or install any programs that
you receive from friends or colleagues.
INFO ENDS >>>>

- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Forwarded on behalf of...

Graduate Irish Studies Conference
c/o Cathy McLaughlin
Irish Studies Program
Connolly House
300 Hammond St.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02135


13th Graduate Irish Studies Conference - A Place Apart? Locating Ireland
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-04-15

Call for Papers

The 13th Graduate Irish Studies Conference
October 12-13, 2001
Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA

The graduate students of the Boston College Irish Studies Program and the
Irish American Cultural Institute invite your participation in "Set Apart?
Locating Ireland," the 13th Graduate Irish Studies Conference. The
conference will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 12-13, 2001, on the
Boston College Campus. Proceedings will include conference panels, a
plenary discussion, keynote address, and GISC business meeting. All papers
submitted in full before the conference will be considered for a $500 prize
sponsored by IACI, and possible publication in Eire-Ireland.

We especially encourage interdisciplinary projects and papers that use the
title conference as a window into Irish history, literature, and culture.
Possible panel topics include, but are not limited to:

* New immigrants to/ asylum seeking in Ireland
* Ireland and the EU/ adoption of the Euro
* Comparative literatures
* Ireland and the visual arts
* Ireland, Irish Studies, and theory in the academy
Celtic Tiger economics and contradictions
* Medieval history and literature
* Ireland in the context of European modernism
* Law and literature
* Language and translation
* Irish cinema
* The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland
* Post-Good Friday Accords Northern Ireland

We will consider detailed (2-3 pp) abstracts, or conference length (15-20
min) papers until April 15, 2001. Please send e-submissions to
the e-mail address below. Or send hard copies to address below.

Contact information:
Graduate Irish Studies Conference
c/o Cathy McLaughlin
Irish Studies Program
Connolly House
300 Hammond St.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02135
Email: halsteam[at]bc.edu

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

=46rom: "Stephane.Dufoix"
Subject: Re: CFP Heritage of colonization
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:47:07 +0100

CALL FOR PAPERS
"The Legacy of Colonization and Decolonization in Europe and the Americas"
Paris, France June 22-23, 2001
The integration of immigrants from former colonies has often proved
difficult in Europe and North America. Beyond the challenges faced by every
newcomer, these immigrants face obstacles that arise from national histories
in which relations between indigenous populations and the colonizers were
highly regulated. This conference seeks to examine the ways in which
colonization and decolonization have structured opportunities for
integration of migrants into European and North American societies.
The Paris conference will be the second of a series of three conferences
funded by the German Marshall Fund and sponsored by The Centre d'Etude des
Politiques d'Immigration, d'Int=E9gration et de Citoyennet=E9, a research
ce=
nter
located in Paris. The organizers of the series are the center's director,
Patrick Weil, Erik Bleich (Middlebury College), Laurent Dubois (Michigan
State University), St=E9phane Dufoix (University of Paris X-Nanterre) and
Randall Hansen (Oxford University). The overarching goal of the meetings is
to provide new, multidisciplinary perspectives - particularly by integrating
the history of slavery, emancipation, and colonization - on contemporary
debates about immigration and integration in Western Europe and the United
States. The conferences will be organized in a workshop format, with papers
distributed in advance. Sessions will begin with brief presentations by the
authors of the papers and will focus on discussion. A selection of papers
from each conference will also be prepared for publication. Some funding is
available to cover travel and lodging for participants.
We invite paper proposals for the Paris conference from scholars from all
disciplines working on the history and legacy of colonization and
decolonization. The focus of this conference will be how France, the United
Kingdom and the United States handled the question of "indigenous"
population in the colonies and produced differences between races through
legal and political distinctions, economic relations, social structures
and/or the construction of representations of colonizers and colonized.
Moreover, the conference will investigate how integration of immigrants from
former colonies has been, and continues to be, influenced by the lingering
effects of colonization and decolonization. We are particularly interested
in papers that provide a method for making connections between the past and
the present, and in efforts to take a comparative approach to these issues.
What were models of colonization like in France, the United Kingdom and the
United States and how did these countries relate to indigenous populations?
How widespread and robust were concepts and practices of indirect rule and
the "civilizing mission" ? How did the decolonization experience affect
subsequent immigration and integration patterns in the three countries ? How
precisely were the legacies of colonization and de-colonization transferred
to questions of immigrant integration, to what extent have they been
altered, and for what reasons ?
The Paris conference will be co-organized by Professor Patrick Weil, Erik
Bleich and St=E9phane Dufoix. It will be coordinated by Sam Spital at the
CEPIC in Paris. Proposals should include a title, 1-2 page description of
the proposed paper, and a curriculum vitae. Because the proposals will be
evaluated in France and the United States, we request that you send one
printed copy and one electronic copy (in the form of an email attachment) of
all materials to
each of the addresses below.

Erik Bleich Sam
Spital
Department of Political Science CEPIC/ Centre
d'histoire sociale du XXe si=E8cle
Munroe Hall, Middlebury College 9, rue Malher
Middlebury, VT 05753 USA 75181 Paris cedex
04 FRANCE
ebleich[at]middlebury.edu
spital[at]post.harvard.edu

The deadline is February 28, 2000

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Forwarded for information...

La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship in Transnational History
Fellowship Deadline: 2001-12-01

This newly created prize provides financial assistance to graduate students
whose dissertation topics deal with aspects of American history that extend
beyond U.S. borders. The fellowship may be used for international travel
to collections vital to dissertation research. Applicants must be currently
enrolled in a graduate program. One $1250 fellowship will be awarded
annually.

To apply, submit the following:

* A 2-3 page project description indicating the dissertation's significance
and including a statement of the major collection(s) to be
examined abroad and their relevance to the dissertation.

* Two letters of recommendation, including one from the dissertation
advisor.

* Current c.v. indicating language proficiency.

Send to:
La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship
Organization of American Historians
112 North Bryan Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408-4199

Deadline: 1 December 2001


Contact information:
Awards & Prize Committee Coordinator
Organization of American Historians
112 N. Bryan Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408
Email: awards[at]oah.org

Fellowship website:
http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/

From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D Virus

Hi - I received this virus twice and assumed the first time that it was
simply offensive posting - didn't realise the nature of the offensiveness!
Luckily my mac wouldn't let me open it even if I wanted to: the second time
I forwarded to our computer services people, who told me what it was & I
got my machine cleaned both with Norton and with the latest Virex - but
nothing was found. Maybe it just doesn't work on macs - most viruses seem
aimed at pcs (or mocrosoft!). This was a few weeks ago now and everything
seem to be ok, touch wood...
best,
Hilary

>>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>I am sorry to have to become one of those people who spread alarm and
>despondency by distributing complaints and warnings about computer
>viruses...
>
>But, over 10 times during the past few months, my computer has been
attacked
>by a computer virus, identified as Worm Virus W95.Hybris.Gen.dr.
>
>This is one of those viruses that sends emails to email addresses in your
>email address book, and adds its own evil attachment to those emails.
>
>I have pasted in below some basic information about this virus.
>
>The evidence suggests that the launcing of the contaminated email is
>triggered by the sending of a legitimate email to me. The evidence further
>suggests that this virus is stored in the computer of someone who regularly
>sends emails, outside the Irish-Diaspora list, to my University of Bradford
>email address. But that person may also have one of my other email
>addresses stored in his/her computer.
>
>I would be grateful if Ir-D members who regularly send me emails, off list,
>could check their computers for this virus. Presumably I am not the only
>person who has been inconvenienced in this way.
>
>As will be gathered, my own anti-virus software protects my computer, and
>will not allow this virus to be passed on from here.
>
>Let me, just briefly, re-assure all Ir-D members that nothing naughty or
>nasty can be distributed through the Irish-Diaspora list itself. The
>Irish-Diaspora list does not accept email attachments, and all emails
>distributed through the Ir-D list are cleaned of any nasty gubbins before
>distribution.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>
>INFO >>>
>Viruswarning: Worm Virus W95.Hybris.Gen.dr goes around
>
>Everybody, who receives an email, coming from "hahaha[at]sexyfun.net" should
>delete this message unread, and not open the attachment "dwarf4you.exe" or
>any other.
>
>Please be alert to a new computer virus that is being heavily distributed.
>
>The virus is classified as a Worm of type W95.Hybris.Gen or
>W95.Hybris.Gen.dr. It is extremely difficult to remove if you do not have a
>commercial antivirus software package such as Nortons Antivirus.
>
>You would receive an email from hahaha[at]sexyfun.com with the subject
>'snowhite and the seven dwarfs'. This email is sent by the email program of
>an infected machine, similar to the recent LoveBug virus, once after each
>normal email they send. While there is no return address, the origin can be
>traced to their IP address within the header information of the email. A
>random-named attachment is included as a .exe or .scr file. If you run the
>attachment, nothing appears to happen as the virus installs itself into the
>wsock32.DLL and kernel32.DLL operating system files. The virus has a
>mechanism to hide in the system registry if it cannot access these files.
>The virus also downloads and installs additional viruses from internet
>newsgroups into your windows system directory.
>
>Please ensure you have the latest updates to your antivirus software as
this
>virus is relatively new (approx. November 2000). Do not try and run the
>email attachment and make sure you delete the email immediately should you
>receive it. If you do not run antivirus software that continuously monitors
>your PC and email.
>
>As a best-practice, never ever run programs that you receive by anonymous
>email and be extremely cautious before you run or install any programs that
>you receive from friends or colleagues.
>INFO ENDS >>>>
>
>--
>Patrick O'Sullivan
>Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>
>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Irish-Diaspora list
>Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
>
>Personal Fax National 0870 284 1580
>Fax International +44 870 284 1580
>
>Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
>University of Bradford
>Bradford BD7 1DP
>Yorkshire
>England


_______________________________

Dr. Hilary Robinson
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster at Belfast
York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED
Northern Ireland
UK


direct phone/fax: (+44) (0) 28 9026.7291)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...


From: Stefan Wolff
Subject: Journal Announcement and Call for Papers: The Global Review of
Ethnopolitics [ISSN 1471-8804]

Journal Announcement and Call for Papers

The Global Review of Ethnopolitics [ISSN 1471-8804]

Editors:
Stefan Wolff, University of Bath, England, UK
Karl Cordell, University of Plymouth, England, UK
Maya Chadda, William Paterson University, New Jersey

Review Editor:
Chris Gilligan, University of Ulster, England, UK

Editorial Board:
Antony E. Alcock, Milton J. Esman, Michael Hechter, Niraya Gopal Jayal,
Brendan O'Leary, Gulshan M. Pashayeva, John Rex, Stefan Troebst, Joel H.
Rosenthal

Supported by:
The Themis Foundation, Inc., Canada
The International Relations and Security Network, Switzerland
The Westminster Foundation for Democracy, UK

To be launched in September 2001, this new authoritative peer-reviewed
online journal will provide a forum for serious debate and exchange on one
of the phenomena that had a decisive impact during the last decades of the
20th century and will continue to be of great importance in the new
millennium. The journal will give a voice to established as well as younger
researchers and analysts from both academic and practitioner backgrounds.
We will publish original work of the highest quality in the field of
ethnopolitics with methodological approaches covering mainly the
disciplines of political science and international relations and taking
primarily a contemporary, current affairs perspective.
Maintaining a fair balance between theoretical accounts of these matters
and case studies both of comparative as well as singular nature and
covering all geographic areas, the major focus will be on the analysis,
management, settlement, and prevention of ethnic conflicts, on minority
rights, group identity, the intersection of identity group formations and
politics, on minority and majority nationalisms in the context of
democratisation, and on the security and stability of states and regions as
they are affected by any of the above issues. Particular attention will
also be devoted to the growing importance of international influences on
ethnopolitics, including external diplomatic or military intervention, as
well as the increasing impact of globalisation on ethnic identities and
their political expressions.

Submission of Papers:
We invite the submission of original papers (6,000-8,000 words), research
notes (2,000-4,000 words), review essays (3,000-4,000 words) and book
reviews (800-1,000 words).
Please email your papers, including 100-200 word abstract, as attachments
in MS Word format to Stefan Wolff [S.Wolff[at]bath.ac.uk].

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...


From: "Jan Rath"
Subject: ImmEnt - lecture
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:59:21 +0100

Preliminary announcement

Institute for Migration and ethnic Studies (IMES)
University of Amsterdam
presents:


MARYLIN HALTER
Professor of Social and Cultural History, Boston University, USA

who will be speaking on:

'Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity'

Thursday, March 15, 2001
3:00-5:00pm
room 4.09, Rokin 84, Amsterdam

Open to the Public


Marylin Halter (A.B., Brandeis University; Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of
Education; Ph.D., Boston University) Twentieth-century American social and
cultural history, American Studies, immigration, race and ethnicity
Marilyn Halter is an Associate Professor and holds a joint appointment as a
Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture (ISEC)
as well as teaching in the American and New England Studies program. Her
interdisciplinary scholarship spans the fields of history, sociology, and
anthropology with particular emphasis on ethnographic and oral history
methodologies and a specialization in the study of immigrants of color.
Professor Halter's published works include Shopping for Identity: The
Marketing of Ethnicity (2000), Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean
American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (1993), The Historical Dictionary of the
Republic of Cape Verde [with Richard Lobban] (1988), and her edited volume,
New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs (1995). Her
co-edited collection [with Lisa MacFarland], Unmasking Ethnic New England,
is forthcoming. She is also the editor of the "Racial and Ethnic Identities"
section of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of New England Culture. Her current
research projects include a comparative study of the meaning of citizenship
in Hawai`i and Puerto Rico as well as an exploration of the dynamics of
ethnic identity and consumer culture in global perspective.


For up-to-date information on this lecture, please check the internet at
http://home.pscw.uva.nl/rath/events.htm, or call Jan Rath 020 525-3627, or
mail to rath[at]pscw.uva.nl

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Denis Linehan
Denis.Linehan[at]ucc.ie
Subject: Irish Geography Conference


Dear Patrick

We thought that the Irish-Diaspora list might like to know
more about the Irish Geography Conference, which will be held this year in
Cork, May 3-5th.

This year we are very keen to open up the conference to geographers from
outside Ireland and from people from cultural and Irish studies, who may
have worked on issues in the Irish Diaspora, or on representation of Irish
Landscape and Place, or engaged with questions about Ireland and cultural
identity.

All information is below, but you can also check the details on:

http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/geography/geog-ie.htm

With best wishes

Dr Denis Linehan

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Dr Denis Linehan
Department of Geography
University College Cork
Western Road,Cork
IRELAND

homepage: http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/geography/stafhome/denis/denis.htm

email: denis.linehan[at]ucc.ie
phone: 00-353-21-4904364
fax: 00-353-21-4271980

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Forwarded, with trepidation, for information...


Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 16:22:10 -0500
From: Thomas Reimer
Subject: Call for Contributors

Dear Historians and Archivists

The Encyclopedia of New York State is looking for authors for entries on
selected topics on ethnic and related topics pertaining to NYS. Find below
a sampling of available entries with allocated word lengths.

The Encyclopedia of New York State project is a partnership between
Syracuse University Press and the New York State Office of Cultural
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From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Spielberg Suppressed Irish Movie

Forwarded for information...

Dreamworks/Stephen Spielberg sued over suppression of Irish movie

Contact:
Eamonn Dornan or Russell Smith

(631) 668-0818 www.rsmithlaw.com/piece

or Jerome O'Connor
(212) 244-5003

FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE:

FILM PRODUCER FILES $10 MILLION
SUIT AGAINST
DREAMWORKS, ALLEGING
CENSORSHIP OF BARRY
LEVINSON FILM AT BEHEST OF
BRITISH GOVERNMENT

Jerome O'Connor, producer of the critically acclaimed, An Everlasting
Piece,
today filed a $10 million suit in Manhattan Federal Court to address an
extraordinary breach of one of the most fundamental obligations of good
faith
and fair dealing on the part of a motion picture studio. Defendant
DreamWorks Films, in an abrupt and dramatic departure from industry
standards and its own contractual duties, actively has tried, with
considerable success, to suppress one of its own motion pictures. And it
has done so for the worst of reasons.

Purely to accommodate the political and public relations goals of a foreign
government, over two hundred years after the signing of the American
Declaration of Independence, DreamWorks effectively has forbade the
American public from seeing this latest outstanding feature film by Barry
Levinson, the multiple award-winning director of such motion pictures as
Rain
Main, Wag the Dog, Diner, and Good Morning Vietnam (to name just a few).
Instead of honoring its agreed-upon duty either to distribute and promote
the
film in good faith, or alternatively to withdraw from the film and allow it
be
released by another studio, DreamWorks and chief executive Steven
Spielberg, recently designated as "Knight Commander of the Civil Division
of
the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire," have taken on the role of
the
private, but no less effective, censors for the British Government, in
support
of that government's military and political policies in the North of
Ireland.
Spielberg has become further entwined with the British Government in the
making of a $130 million television series, "Band of Brothers," with the
personal involvement of Prime Minister Tony Blair, who provided Spielberg
with 2000 British troops and military equipment without charge.

One of the more remarkable aspects of this situation is that "An
Everlasting
Piece" is a comedy. Set in the war-torn city of Belfast, it is about two
barbers, one a Catholic and the other a Protestant, who hope to corner the
market on toupee sales. The story is set against the backdrop of 1980's
political strife and involves the barbers in comedic situations with some
of the
armed protagonists of the northern Irish conflict, including the Irish
Republican Army (the "IRA"), the British Army and its locally-recruited,
militarized police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (the "RUC"). The
screenplay from which the Picture is derived is loosely based on the
real-life
experiences of the screenwriter's family.

DreamWorks, rather than honoring its agreement, deliberately set out to
quash the Picture at the request of the British Government immediately upon
the film's supposed release to the general public. The picture, which
originally was scheduled to be released in 800 movie theatres nationwide,
instead was released by DreamWorks on only eight screens, where
DreamWorks then quietly removed the film, to the point where it could not
be
seen by the public anywhere.

These actions were undertaken in stark contrast to the many favorable
reviews received by the film, from leading reviewers in such major media
outlets as The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, The New York
Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, and
despite the fact that the film was made by one of the world's leading
directors.

The film was suppressed not because of any artistic or commercial reason,
or for any other legitimate reason, but rather because of political
pressure.
Although the Picture was intended to be, and perceived by many to be, a
humorous portrait of the conflict in the North of Ireland, it was viewed in
official British circles as unflattering to the British Government and its
military
forces. Upon information and belief, DreamWorks arranged a screening of the
Picture for the benefit of officials from the British Government's Foreign
Office, who took exception to certain scenes, and in particular those
scenes
that portrayed IRA members as humorous, and those which portrayed British
Army soldiers as suffering from stress.

In part because DreamWorks chief executive Spielberg was due to be, and
was in fact, Knighted by the Queen of England, DreamWorks sought to
suppress the film, which, if it were widely released as promised at that
time,
would have proved embarrassing to the British Government and therefore to
Spielberg as well.

Although the film had adhered faithfully to its screenplay, with which
DreamWorks was well acquainted for over 12 months, DreamWorks
requested that Levinson remove certain scenes to which the British
Government objected, purely for political reasons. This was after
DreamWorks previously had abandoned the project, only to come back and
insist that it be the studio for the film, promising that it knew how to
market
the film and would be totally committed to it, while at the same time
threatening that only DreamWorks could do the job. Upon Levinson's refusal
to censor the film, DreamWorks reversed course again and actively tried to
quash the picture.

As a result of DreamWorks's unlawful conduct, it has denied the vast
majority of the general public, including approximately 44 million members
of
the Irish-American community, the opportunity to see the film and receive
its
message; it has caused the film to appear to be of inferior quality and has
severely damaged its marketability.

For further information about the case, including a copy of the full
Complaint
and various reviews of the film, go to www.rsmithlaw.com/piece.

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