From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Ir-D members will be pleased to learn that Bob Reece's book about the
Transportation of Irish Convicts is now available.
Published by Palgrave - which has a considerable presence throughout the
northern hemisphere.

Go to...

http://www.palgrave.com/

And you can get the following information...

The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales
Mixture of Breeds
Bob Reece

Hardback
January 2001
400 pages

216mm x 138mm
ISBN:0333584589
£50.00.

Paperback
January 2001
400 pages

216mm x 138mm
ISBN:0333584597
£17.99.


Description:
This study explores the pre-history of Irish convict transportation to New
South Wales which began with the Queen in April 1791. It traces earlier
attempts to revive the trans-Atlantic convict trade and the frustrated
efforts by Irish authorities to join in the Botany Bay scheme after 1786.
The nine Irish shipments to North America and the West Indies are described
in detail for the first time, including the dramatic outcomes in Nova
Scotia, Newfoundland and the Leeward Islands which eventually forced the
Home Office to find space for Irish convicts on the Third Fleet. These
events are related against the background of Dublin's burgeoning crime rate
in the 1780s, the critical insecurity of its prison system and the troubled
political relationship between Ireland and Britain.

Contents:
List of Plates and Maps

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Irish Transportation Before 1783

Crime in the Late Eighteenth Century

Prisons and Punishment

The Revival of Trans-Atlantic Transportation

Emigration, Runaways and Returnees

The Revival of Irish Transportation

Irish Anticipations of Botany Bay

The Voyages of 1788: New London and Cape Breton

The Newfoundland Voyage

The Newfoundland Convict Crisis

The Barbuda Affair

Crisis in the Gaols

Irish Transportation to New South Wales

The Queen Transport

Irish Transportation 1792-1795

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Author Biographies:
BOB REECE is Associate Professor in History at Murdoch University in Western
Australia. He is the author of Aborigines and Colonists: Aboriginal-European
Relations in New South Wales in the 1820s and 1830s, and editor of Exiles
from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia.

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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Melbourne seminars

Dear Paddy,

I'm beginning a series of seminars on Irish topics in March and would
appreciate if you could publicise them as a number will address
migration issues. The idea is to hold about 3 per semester inviting
academics, postgrads and others working in the field of Irish Studies
to talk about their current research. Initially speakers will
probably be from Melbourne, but, if the talks are popular, I'd like
later to expand to invite contributors from other parts of Australia and
even(!) beyond. I'm aiming at both an academic and non academic
audience. The details of the first series are below:

MELBOURNE IRISH STUDIES SEMINARS
Newman College, University of Melbourne, Swanston Street
Tuesdays 6.00pm, refreshments provided

27 March
Elizabeth Malcolm (U. Melbourne)
'What would people say if I became a policeman'? (Ned Kelly): the
Irish Policeman Abroad

1 May
Frances Devlin Glass (Deakin U.)
Reviving Cultures: Irish Culture in the Late 19th-Century and
Aboriginal Culture in Cyberspace in the Early 21st-Century

29 May
Philip Bull (La Trobe U.)
Irish Historical Revisionism: Anti-Nationalist or Nationalism Neutral?

Elizabeth

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Department of History FAX: +61-3-8344 7894
University of Melbourne email:
e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Parkville, Victoria
Australia, 3010

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following letter from Tom Gallagher will appear in a future issue of
Scottish Affairs. It replies to the criticisms of Gallagher and of Tom
Devive, ed., Scotland's Shame, by Owen Dudley Edwards - all previously
discussed on the Irish-Diaspora list.

My thanks to Tom Gallagher for making the text of this letter available to
us.

P.O'S.


The Editor
Scottish Affairs

7 February 2001

Dear Sir,

The first 22 pages of the Autumn 2000 issue of Scottish Affairs was
devoted to a review of Scotland?s Shame? Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern
Scotland, edited by Tom Devine of which I was one of the contributors.

The reviewer, Dr Owen Dudley Edwards, describes me as having written one
?of five Cromagnon Catholic essays? despite the fact that much of my
chapter is devoted to criticising triumphalist, anti-ecumenical and
homophobic positions taken up by Cardinal Thomas Winning and showing how, by
contrast, the Church of Scotland has been refreshingly low-key and
fair-minded when confronted by the retrograde views of Scotland?s best-known
Catholic churchman.

Michael Tumelty, the music editor of The Herald, argued in the edition of
19 August 1999 that the composer James MacMillan had damaged his own
reputation as a result of his 1999 Edinburgh Festival lecture in which he
made outspoken claims about the continuation of bigotry in Scottish
society; in my chapter I criticised Tumelty for being unwilling to allow an
open-ended debate on an issue previously kept under wraps, while parting
company with MacMillan over at least one of his claims.

Owen Dudley Edwards claimed that I had been disingenuous to the extent of
betraying my academic integrity, by ?omitting Tumelty?s major reason for
criticising MacMillan?s lecture?, namely his reference to the way he claims
an article written by former Herald editor Arnold Kemp was distorted by
MacMillan.

This point is made by Tumelty but in one sentence taking up the
penultimate paragraph of his article. Most of this article refers to
MacMillan?s role as a public figure, how his reputation, in Tumelty?s view
had been damaged by his lecture, and the hostility towards the composer
apparently widespread in the world of Scottish music during August 1999.

Tumelty may, or may not, be on strong ground in claiming that Kemp?s views
were taken out of context by MacMillan, and that the latter misinterpreted
the Herald?s editorial policy on integrated schools. But on re-reading
Tumelty?s article I am satisfied that I did not play fast and loose with his
arguments in the way the reviewer claims and that if I have betrayed my
academic integrity, it is certainly not by the way I interpreted Michael
Tumelty?s article.

For months I was inclined to forget this tedious matter until it was
pointed out to me that I ought to set the record straight, especially
because of more serious charges made by Owen Dudley Edwards.

On p. 8 he writes: ?MacMillan and his apologists may not agree with their
fundamental outlook ? though several of them sound as they do ? but the IRA
have every reason to thank them for increasing the camouflage of grievance
in which the bombers find their best refuge?.

Later on, p. 21 there is: ?Any danger that may exist of Catholic neo-fascism
(and some of the MacMillianilists offer disturbing symptoms)??

Rather than enter into a polemic with Owen Dudley Edwards, I wrote to him
to ask if there was anything in my chapter which suggested that I was
displaying such ?disturbing symptoms?. On 25 January he informed me that
there wasn?t and it is now left to me to try to set the record straight
concerning the above two regrettable claims. Personally, I do not think any
of ?the Cromagnon five? can be so accused and I am writing to Scottish
Affairs primarily because of emerging enquiries on the basis of ? there?s no
smoke without fire??.

I do not think Scottish Affairs covers itself with glory by allowing such
unfounded charges to be made. Owen Dudley Edwards wrote with his usual
mischievous panache and wit but any editor mindful of the need to set
acceptable standards in a journal of Scottish current affairs, would not
have allowed allusions to IRA sympathies and Catholic neo-fascism to get
into print unless firm corroboration was provided.

Yours faithfully,

(Professor) Tom Gallagher

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Professor H.T.Dickinson
Department of History
University of Edinburgh

The New Dictionary of National Biography is still looking for authors
for the entries on three 18th century aristocrats who served as Lords
Lieutenant of Ireland: Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland; Sir John
Jeffreys Pratt, 1st Marquess of Camden; and Frederick Howard, 5th earl
of carlisle.
Anyone with a good knowledge of any of these or an appropriate
background for exploring their careers should contact me privately
(Harry.Dickinson[at]ed.ac.uk) and I will approach NEWDNB on their behalf.
Harry Dickinson

Professor H.T.Dickinson
Department of History
University of Edinburgh

The military historians will find of interest the work of the Simonides
Group. It seems to be still early days, as far as this developing Web site
is concerned. But already there are a number of items of Irish Diaspora
Studies interest - for example, they have started to list the contents of
Irish Sword, the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland.

http://www2.prestel.co.uk/simonides/

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>

The Simonides Group is a non-profit organisation devoted to remembering the
world's military heritage
through providing research, restoration, preservation and archaeological
support to any individual or
organisation that demonstrates a need for it's services irregardless of
race, religion or creed.
It is named for Simonides of Ceos (556-468 BC) the greek lyric poet
who, after the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, wrote as a memorial to the
valiant defenders ;

'Go tell the spartans, Thou that passeth by,
That faithful to their precepts, Here we lie'

These sentiments were later used by John Maxwell Adams [1875 - 1958]
as part of a collection of 12 epitaphs for World War One

'When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We gave Our Today'

EXTRACT ENDS>>>

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

It has taken me a while to think this one through - it just goes to show how
slow the brain can be some times...

This has to do with trying to turn the Web into a resource for art
historians and those looking at representations of the Irish, emigration,
etc...

Through the AltaVista search engine you can search the Web for images -
illustrations, art images and photographs. You go to the AltaVista web site
http://www.altavista.com

And the Image Search facility is on the left hand side.

Searching with the key word 'Irish', of course, brings you tons of that
dreadful 'Irish' clip art. And darling pictures of Irish setters and
wolfhounds. But you can refine the search in various ways - 'migrant',
'immigrant', 'emigrant'. Or you can broaden the search. And interesting
stuff quickly appears - for example...

http://www.memphismuseums.org/magevney.htm

It does look too as if, in some cases, we are getting into the online
displays of the famous art galleries and museums.

P.O'S.

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From: MacEinri, Piaras
p.maceinri[at]ucc.ie
Subject: RE: Ir-D Virus


Hello Patrick

Commiserations on the virus problem. We got stung badly, twice, last year.
In both cases the viruses were only recently 'in the wild' - hence it's
vital to stay up to date (and back up all files...). The 'hahaha' and
'snowwhite' messages are endemic at the moment and the viruses do carry a
very dangerous payload, enough to render a hard disk useless and thus
require complete re-formatting, with a total loss of data.

I know you have virus protection software yourself but others on the list
might not and may have limited economic resources with which to purchase
same. There is a free DOS version of one of the best commercial anti-virus
products (it's the same suite of products we have on a site-licence basis on
this campus).
http://www.datafellows.com/download-purchase/tools.shtml

This should protect against any of the nasties out there , including the one
you mention, and prevent unintentional onward distribution.

Regards

Piaras

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Yes, New Zealand takes her place amongst the nations of the Irish
Diaspora...

Congratulations to Lyndon Fraser for so efficiently seeing this splendid
volume through to completion...

Lyndon Fraser, ed.
A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement
University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2000
ISBN 1 877133 97 3

I have pasted in, below, the Contents list and the list of Contributors, to
give some idea of the range and approach of
the collection - a nice mix of old devils and young turks.

Donald Akenson's chapter is not simply a re-hash of his bibliographic
chapters for me and for Andy Bielenberg. New Zealanders now find themselves
in the happy position of having the most up to date Irish Diaspora Studies
bibliographic chapter on the planet - each of Akenson's footnotes, on women,
religion, the USA, imperialist collaborators, etc., is a bibliographic essay
in itself. This has the merit of putting everything that follows,
specifically on New Zealand, within the world wide Irish Diaspora and
general diaspora discussions. And Akenson does start some new discussions,
in ways that I cannot recall seeing before - for example (p. 21) he notices
in 'the classic documents on Irish emigration' '...a pervasive sense of the
failed male.'

Patrick O'Farrell's chapter is indeed a meditation, on his own New Zealand
origins, on New Zealand-Irish poetry and literature, on New Zealand-Irish
silences, and invisibility - a theme that is taken up by a number of
chapters.

The detailed chapters that follow all place their detail within the wider
Irish Diaspora Studies themes and discussions, and thus have research
implications, and guidance, for us all. Thus Alasdair Galbraith's chapter
on Protestant Irish migration has its feet firmly in the fine detail of the
patterns in Ireland and in New Zealand. Terry Hearns' first chapter, his
exploration of the long term patterns, makes excellent use of passenger
lists and death registers. Whilst his study of the Otago gold rush brings
some calm research to that interconnection between the Irish and gold rushes
everywhere. Lyndon Fraser's own chapter shows the colonial nomination
system in action within kinship networks. And Angela McCarthy's chapter is
both a nice addition to the historiography of Irish women, summarised by
Akenson, and a careful reading of women's letters. Sean Brosnahan looks at
the divisive role of the politics of Ireland within New Zealand society -
another important Irish Diaspora theme, and maybe a reason for O'Farrell's
'silence' and 'invisibility'. And the book ends with Rory Sweetman's study
of 'Hibernian' themes, charities, friendly societies, commemorations.

Throughout the book what impresses and cheers is the way the detail of the
excellent research links with the wider Irish Diaspora historiography and
themes. The editor has kindly provided an outline map of Ireland. I have
to add that I found it helpful to dig out my world atlas and follow the
detail of the stories on the map of New Zealand there...

Note that since the book went to print Angela McCarthy has moved her New
Zealand Ireland Connection web site to...
http://www.geocities.com/nziconnection/

P.O'S.

Contact Information

Lyndon Fraser, ed.
A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zealand Settlement
University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2000
ISBN 1 877133 97 3

Price 39.95 New Zealand dollars.
Which is about UK£13, Us$ 20, Canada$28, Ire£16 - though I don't know how
that will work out in practice...

University of Otago Press
PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Tel 66 3 479 8807
Fax 64 3 479 8385
Email university-press[at]stonbebow.otago.ac.nz

The University of Otago Press does not, as yet, have a distributor in
Europe. North America is better served...

USA and Canada
International Specialized Book Services (ISBS)
5824 NE Hassalo St, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644
tel 503 287 3093 or toll free 800 944 6190, fax 503 280 8832
email orders[at]isbs.com
website www.isbs.com


Contents

1 No Petty People: Pakeha History and the Historiography of the Irish
Diaspora
Donald Harman Akenson

2 Varieties of New Zealand Irishness: A Meditation
Patrick O'Farrell

3 The Invisible Irish? Re-Discovering the Irish Protestant Tradition in
Colonial New Zealand
Alasdair Galbraith

4 Irish Migration to New Zealand to 1915
Terry Hearn

5 The Irish on the Otago Goldfields, 1861-71
Terry Hearn

6 Irish Migration to the West Coast, 1864-1900
Lyndon Fraser

7 'In Prospect of a Happier Future': Private Letters and Irish Women's
Migration to New Zealand, 1840-1925
Angela McCarthy

8 'Shaming the Shoneens': The Green Ray and the Maori1and Irish Society in
Dunedin, 1916?22
Sean Brosnaban

9 'The Importance of Being Irish' : Hibernianism in New Zealand, 1869-1969
Rory Sweetman


Contributors

Donald Harman Akenson is Professor of History at Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, and concurrently is Beamish Research Professor
ofMigration Studies, in the Institute of Irish Studies, at the University of
Liverpool. He has published several books on the Irish at home and abroad,
including The Irish Diaspora: A Primer (Toronto: P.D. Meany and Belfast:
Institute of Irish studies, the Queen's University of Belfast, 1993) and
Half the World from Home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand,
1860-1950 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990).

Sean Brosnahan is a Dunedin curator who graduated with an Honours degree in
history from the University of Canterbury in 1986. He is descended from
early Irish settlers in Otago, Southland and South Canterbury. 'Wherever I
delve into the Irish past of the southern region, I inevitably find myself
tripping over relations and connections. I have delighted in bringing some
of their neglected stories to a wider audience, particularly the far-flung
descendants of the Irish diaspora's southernmost contingent.'

Lyndon Fraser teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of
Canterbury. He was the Concept Developer and Oral Historian for the
Passports exhibition at Te Papa. His first book, To Tara via Holyhead: Irish
Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch (Auckland: Auckland
University Press, 1997), won the Keith Sinclair History Prize.

Alasdair Galbraith recently graduated with a Masters degree in history from
the University of Auckland, where his thesis examined Irish Protestant
migration to nineteenth-century New Zealand. He currently works at the
Auckland University Library and as a part-time researcher for the Crown
Forestry Rental Trust.

Terry Hearn graduated with an MA (Hons) degree from the University of Otago
in 1971. He completed his PhD thesis in 1982 and currently works as the
Historian of British Immigration in the Ministry of Culture and Heritage.

Angela McCarthy recently completed a PhD in the Department of Modern History
at Trinity College, Dublin. Her study utilised personal letters to explore
individual accounts of Irish migration to New Zealand. Angela also runs a
website devoted to Irish migrants in New Zealand at
http://homepage.eircom.net/~McCarthy.
NOTE: This Web site has now moved to
http://www.geocities.com/nziconnection/

Patrick O'Farrell is Emeritus Scientia Professor of History at the
University of New South Wales. He is the author of books on Irish history,
Anglo-Irish relations, Catholics and the Irish in Australia, and the history
of his own university. His first book was a biography of the New Zealand
labour leader Henry Holland, and in Vanished Kingdoms {Kensington:
University of New South Wales Press, 1990) he has written about his New
Zealand Irish family background.

Rory Sweetman is a freelance historian who has written extensively on the
history of Catholicism in New Zealand. His latest book, Bishop in the Dock:
The Sedition Trial of James Liston {Auckland: Auckland University Press,
1997), won the Keith Sinclair History Prize. He is currently working on a
popular history of the passage of the Private Schools Conditional
Integration Act (1975).

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Some of our systems for collecting the Contents list of relevant journals
seem to have stopped working.

In poking around, trying to see why, we have discovered that it is possible
to download an issue of
Irish Studies Review, Volume 8 Number 1, Apr 2000 - previously discussed on
the Ir-D list - for free.

Go to the publisher's web site
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/

Then follow the leads through the alphabetical list of journals to the Irish
Studies Review section. And follow the instructions there. You have to
jump through hoops, but it does work. I have pasted in, below, the
Contents, so that you can see what is available - a number of Ir-D list
members there, I see...

P.O'S.

Irish Studies Review

Volume 8 Number 1
Issue Apr 2000

'Jazzing the Middle Ages': The Feminist Genesis of Helen Waddell's The
Wandering Scholars 5
Jennifer Fitzgerald
The Resident Magistrate as Colonial Officer: Addison, Somerville and Ross 23
Virginia Crossman
Plastic Paddy: Negotiating Identity in Second-generation 'Irish-English'
Writing 35
Aidan Arrowsmith
The Irish Language and Current Policy in Northern Ireland 45
D. MacGiolla Chriost
Disruptive Women Artists: An Irigarayan Reading of Irish Visual Culture 57
Hilary Robinson
Swings and Roundabouts: An Interview with Emma Donoghue 73
Stacia Bensyl
REVIEW ARTICLES 83

Reviews 99

Volume 8 Number 1
Issue Apr 2000

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From: TGLynch[at]aol.com
Subject: Fwd: New Web site on Irish Penal Laws

Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:10:31 -0600
From: David Weissbrodt

The University of Minnesota Law Library is pleased to
announce the opening of a new World Wide Web site,{
HYPERLINK "http://www.law.umn.edu/irishlaw" } which makes
easily available for the first time the text of the seventeenth
and eighteenth century Irish statutes known as the Penal Laws.
These laws, passed by the Protestant Parliament to regulate the
status of Roman Catholics, are key to understanding the history
of the period as well as the sectarian conflicts that still
plague Northern Ireland. The site contains summaries of the
statutes, organized by chronology and by subject, as well as the
complete texts in electronic form.

We hope that historians and other scholars, as well as people
with a general interest in Irish history, will find the site
useful. We have linked to your site and invite you to do the same.
Please feel free to forward this message to others who may be
interested. We would be pleased to receive your feedback and
suggestions at the e-mail address above. Sincerely, Katherine
Hedin, Curator of Special Collections, U. of MN Law School

From: "joan hugman"
Subject: The Irish Tribune

Dear Patrick

Does anyone know if there has been any recent work on the Irish Tribune
newspaper which was first published in Newcastle in 1884 for national
distribution and later (from 1898)circulated as
the Tyneside Catholic News, or on Charles Diamond's early career
(pre 1916)?

Also, can you tell me whether Tom Gallagher can still be
contacted at the School of Peace Studies, Bradford?
many thanks
Joan

Joan Hugman
Department of History, Armstrong Building,
University of Newcastle NE1 7RU Tel 0191 222 6701

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: FROM THE BARBARY COAST TO BROADWAY- MARCH 10TH-


New College Irish Studies Program, The Irish Arts Foundation
The SF Public Library, and The Consul General of Ireland
present

FROM THE BARBARY COAST TO BROADWAY:
The Culture of the Irish American Diaspora
Saturday, March 10th, 12 - 4 PM
San Francisco Main Public Library Theater
Admission: Free

For Immediate Release:
For Information:
415-437-3400
415-241-1302, ext. 427

On Saturday, March 10th, 2001, from 12 noon to 4 PM, the New College Irish
Studies Program, the SF Irish Arts Foundation, and the San Francisco Public
Library are pleased to present: From the Barbary Coast to Broadway: The
Culture of the Irish American Diaspora, at the SF Main Public Library
Theater
and Exhibition Hall.

Distinguished guests include: the incomparable singer and songwriter, Kenny
Rankin; Michael Patrick McDonald, author of the best-selling memoir "All
Souls: A Family Story from Southie"; Maureen Dezell, Boston Globe reporter
and writer of the critically acclaimed "Irish America: Coming into Clover";
award winning film critic (and New College faculty member), Joseph Mc Bride,
whose new biography "Searching for John Ford" is due in April from St.
Martin's; and the historic San Francisco Pearse and Connolly Band.
Featured Guests:
KENNY RANKIN
MAUREEN DEZELL
MICHAEL PATRICK MCDONALD
JOSEPH MCBRIDE
PEARSE AND CONNOLLY BAND

From the Barbary Coast to Broadway:
The Culture of the Irish American Diaspora
Saturday, March 10th, 12 - 4 PM
SF Main Public Library Theater
Admission: Free

Forwarded on behalf of...

John Russell
History Dept.
Boston College
russeljl[at]bc.edu


Subject: CFP: Set Apart? Locating Ireland


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 halsteam[at]bc.edu.
Or
send hard copies to GISC, c/o Cathy McLaughlin, Irish Studies
Program-Connolly
House, 300 Hammond St, Chestnut Hill MA 02135.

John Russell
History Dept.
Boston College
russeljl[at]bc.edu

Forwarded for information...

Forwarded on behalf of John Ellis

The North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History is
pleased to announce that the first issue of its new online journal is now
available.

The North American Journal of Welsh Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Winter 2001);
http://www2.bc.edu/~ellisjg/journal.html

Emyr Humprheys, "The Empty Space: Creating a Novel"

Tony Brown, "The Ex-Centric Voice; The English Language Short Story in
Wales"

Aled Jones and Bill Jones, "Y Drych and American Welsh Identities,
1851-1951"

Keith Robbins, "More than a Footnote? Wales and British History"

John Davies, "Wales and America"

Yours truly,
John S. Ellis
Editor, North American Journal of Welsh Studies

The following item is taken from the Web site of the Guardian newspaper,
London, and is a version of an item that appeared in the Guardian, January
11, 2001.

P.O'S.

British troops shot unarmed Irish prisoners
Documents on suppression of Easter Rising reveal cover-up over the killing
of innocent bystanders

Special report: freedom of information

Richard Norton-Taylor
Guardian

Thursday January 11, 2001

British soldiers shot dead unarmed prisoners after they had surrendered,
along with innocent bystanders, during the 1916 Easter Rising, the spark
that was to lead to Ireland's war of independence, hitherto secret documents
reveal.

The papers, released yesterday at the public record office, also show how
army officers and civil servants covered up evidence that rebel prisoners
and uninvolved civilians were summarily shot, to avoid what they called
"hostile propaganda".

The top Home Office official, Sir Edward Troup, told the prime minister,
Herbert Asquith: "The root of the mischief was the military order to take no
prisoners."

He added: "This in itself may have been justifiable, but it should have been
made clear that it did not mean that an unarmed rebel might be shot after he
had been taken prisoner: still less could it mean that a person taken on
mere suspicion could be shot without trial."

Although Sir Edward said some of the people shot were "probably fighting or
sniping" he admitted there was "little doubt that others were not taking any
active part". Though the police described the area where the shootings took
place as a "nest of Sinn Feiners", some were probably not even sympathisers.

Sir Edward wrote the memo, marked "very confidential", at a time the Liberal
prime minister was under pressure from MPs in summer 1916 to conduct a
public inquiry into the shootings in Dublin's North King Street by soldiers
of the South Staffordshire Regiment.

The memo is based on a secret inquiry carried out by the army. Sir Edward
strongly advised against publishing the evidence, on the grounds it could be
used for "hostile propaganda". He added: "Nothing but harm could come of any
public inquiry that would draw further attention to the matter." Sir Edward,
who won the day, advised Asquith to take the line that the deaths had been
"thoroughly investigated", though he admitted that if the events had
occurred in England, "the right course would be to refer the cases to the D
of PP [Director of Public Prosecutions] ".

The North King Street area was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in
late April 1916. It is known one officer, Captain Bowen Colthurst, later
described as mentally unstable, shot six people in cold blood, including the
pacifist Francis Sheehy-Skeffington.

What has not been documented until now is the circumstances surrounding
other shootings.

James Moore was killed by soldiers at his front door in Dublin's Little
Britain Street. "He was probably a perfectly innocent person," the memo
notes.

Under the heading "The Case of Patrick Lawless and three others killed and
buried at 27 North King Street", the memo says: "It is not unlikely that the
soldiers did not accurately distinguish between refusing to make [sic]
prisoners and shooting immediately prisoners whom they had made [sic]."

Thomas Hickey, described by his widow, as a "great Britisher" and their
16-year-old son, Christopher, were also shot. "There is nothing to show
[they] were Sinn Feiners or had taken any active part in the fighting," the
document says. The files released yesterday were originally closed until
2017. They were listed as opened on January 2. Their release coincides with
the BBC television series Rebel Heart, whose first episode last Sunday
featured the Easter Rising.

One document shows that by October 1916, 187 "Irish rebels" had been
court-martialled, and 14 death sentences had been carried out. The records
of the proceedings had to remain secret, army officers insisted, because of
"the position of any general who in the future may be required to cope with
another rising".

An unidentified army officer in London admits: "I think the evidence in some
of the cases was far from conclusive".

The government's law officers argued there was no legal justification for
the trials to have been in secret.

The army responded by saying that if the evidence was published "a certain
section of the Irish community will urge that the sole reason for trial in
camera was that the authorities intended to execute certain of the Sinn
Feiners, whether there was evidence against them or not".

Part of the proceedings was later released to the families. General John
Maxwell, the British officer sent to Ireland to oversee martial law,
referred to "possible unfortunate incidents we should now regret". He added
in a letter to the Daily Mail: "A revolt of this kind could not be
suppressed with velvet glove methods."

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2001

Forwarded on behalf of
"D.M. Leeson"


Like other slowpokes before me, I would like to know if anyone is
interested in a last-minute panel proposal. I am working up a paper on
British recruits for the Royal Irish Constabulary--the infamous "Black and
Tans"--in the Irish insurgency of 1920-1921. I think it would fit well in
a panel on any of the following themes:

- --the social history of the Irish Revolution, 1919-1923
- --the social history of the postwar period
- --the social history of counterinsurgency and colonial conflicts

Anyone who is interested in a panel on any of these themes please contact
me off-list at leesondm[at]mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca.

Thanks,

Dave Leeson
PhD Candidate
McMaster University

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK,
IRELAND
22nd-23rd JUNE, 2001


"Understanding Tradition:
A Multidisciplinary Exploration"


Tradition is a central notion in the history of ideas, whether
as a constraint that has to be resisted in order to achieve
progress; as the inherited customs and beliefs which nations and
individuals must follow in order to be true to themselves; or as
a real or potential resource which can be mined in order to
further the strategies of individuals and groups in the here and
now. The ambiguity that accompanies the invocation of tradition,
from Latin traditio, 'passing on', is evident in the
punning title of a book dealing with continuity and rupture in
Brazilian culture - Tradição contradição ('tradition
contradiction'). Sociology, anthropology and folkloristics are
disciplines born from the transition from traditional to modern
society which so preoccupied nineteenth-century intellectuals.
The arts from the late eighteenth century constantly reflect
this tension, whether through the 'revolt of poetry' which
asserted the validity of literary models other than the
classical and universal, and in the engagement of Macpherson,
Percy and Herder, and later the Romantics, with the 'popular',
or in the debates within Irish folk music today as to whether
excessive innovation has taken the 'traditional' out of
traditional music. Postmodernism and globalization theory have
not neglected tradition, whether inventing notions such as
'hybridity' or 'creolization', which try to bring together the
particular and the universal (the traditional and the modern),
or by questioning the whole notion of tradition at this juncture.

This conference will investigate tradition in all of the
above-mentioned contexts, as a sacred model, as a strait-jacket,
and as a resource, but above all as a key notion in intellectual
discourse in every society. As such, there will be an emphasis
on international contexts and experiences. Various disciplinary
and interdisciplinary perspectives and preoccupations will be
invited to inform the papers: encompassing, anthropology,
art history, communications studies, cultural studies,
folkloristics, ethnology, gender studies, history, Irish
studies, literary theory, politics, post-colonial studies,
sociology.


PLEASE SEND A 200 WORD ABSTRACT BY 30th March 2001 TO ONE OF THE
ORGANISERS (note: Participants who wish to deliver a paper in a
language other than English will be expected to circulate a
summary of their paper in English to their audience'):

Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Department of English, UCC, Cork, Ireland -
Phone: 353- 21-4903290/E mail: c.gallchoir[at]ucc.ie
Linda Connolly, Department of Sociology, UCC, Cork, Ireland -
Phone: 353- 21-4902592/E mail: l.connolly[at]ucc.ie
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Department of Folklore and Ethnology, UCC,
Cork, Ireland - Phone: 353- 21-4902598/E mail: dog[at]ucc.ie


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INFORMATION


For detailed information about the university and Cork City,
visit the UCC web site: http://www.ucc.ie/

Cork International Airport is fifteen minutes from the
University/city centre. UCC is about 20 minutes (walking) from
the central train and bus stations. There are several B and B's
or hotels (and hostels) close to the campus. A list will be
provided.

The Conference will be held in the O'Rahilly Building, UCC which
can be accessed from the main entrance to the university on
Western Road (see web site for location of building).

Further information, the conference programme and abstracts will
be provided on a specific conference web page, which will be
displayed when all abstracts are received. Details of this will
be circulated in due course.

CALL FOR PAPERS
FACTS AND FICTIONS: IRELAND AND THE NOVEL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

CENTRE FOR EDITORIAL AND INTERETEXTUAL RESEARCH, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
14-16 SEPTEMBER 2001

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What was the relationship between the emerging national cultures of Britain
and Ireland and the increasingly institutionalised form of the novel in the
nineteenth century?
This conference invites papers which, rather than regarding 'Ireland',
'Britain' or 'the novel' as stable objects of knowledge, will locate ideas
of nationality within the multiple contexts determining how fictions were
written, read and distributed in the nineteenth century.
Our aim is to interrogate the concept of the 'Irish novel' through an
exploration of the meanings of 'Ireland' in nineteenth-century British and
Irish writing. In the process, we hope to open up what is often a narrowly
conceived list of Irish texts and authors to recent research in areas such
as bibliography and book production, cultural and social history, feminist
studies of reading and reception, and the new British history.

Questions to be addressed might include:

* To what extent and why has the Irish novel become synonymous with the
national tale of Ireland?
* How important is Ireland in the Irish novel? Or in the British novel? What
is gained-or lost-by placing the work of Irish novelists in relation to
British and/or European literary and intellectual traditions?
* How is a novel constituted as Irish? Through character, setting, authorial
identity? Is there another way?
* What difference has been made by the recovery through bibliographic
research of hitherto obscure or unavailable novels relating to Ireland?
* Irish novelists and British publishing industry: does London and the
metropolitan publishing scene dominate the relationship between Ireland and
the novel? What about connections with Scotland and Wales?
* What part does Ireland play in British nineteenth-century fiction? What
factors made Ireland (as opposed to, or perhaps in conjunction with, other
parts of the British empire) available for representation in the British
novel?
* What is the history of British novels in Ireland?
* How much interaction was there between Irish and British novelists and
their texts (e.g. Charles Dickens's reading tours of Ireland, Thackeray's
travels, Trollope's residence in Ireland)?
* Scenes of reading: what difference does the study of reviews, readers and
reception history make?
* Where do novels stand in relation to other kinds of writing (e.g.
pamphlets, newspapers, biographies, popular histories)?

Full details available on our website [at] www.cf.ac.uk/encap/ceir/facts

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Please send abstracts (200 words max) by 27 April 2001 to:

Dr Jacqueline Belanger
Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research (ENCAP), PO Box 94, Cardiff
University CF10 3XB, Wales, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 29 2087 6339; Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 4502
Email: BelangerJ[at]cardiff.ac.uk

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Anthony Mandal
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A A Mandal ( mandal[at]cardiff.ac.uk )

Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research, Cardiff University
(http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/ceir)

'Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text' [ISSN 1471-5988] (
http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey)

From: "joan hugman"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Easter Rising 1916

Dear Patrick

A rather slimmer version appeared in the D.Telegraph (which I read
courtesy of GNER as I snail travelled back to Newcastle). As ever,
the comparison of these two accounts is revealing...
Joan

Subject:
Ir-D Easter Rising 1916 Date: Sat 13 Jan 2001 13:00:00 +0000
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Reply-to:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk To:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


The following item is taken from the Web site of the Guardian newspaper,
London, and is a version of an item that appeared in the Guardian, January
11, 2001.

P.O'S.

British troops shot unarmed Irish prisoners
Documents on suppression of Easter Rising reveal cover-up over the killing
of innocent bystanders

Special report: freedom of information

Richard Norton-Taylor
Guardian

Thursday January 11, 2001

British soldiers shot dead unarmed prisoners after they had surrendered,
along with innocent bystanders, during the 1916 Easter Rising, the spark
that was to lead to Ireland's war of independence, hitherto secret documents
reveal....


Joan Hugman
Department of History, Armstrong Building,
University of Newcastle NE1 7RU Tel 0191 222 6701

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Tribune, Newcastle

Dear Joan
I know something of the Irish Tribune. In the early part of the research for
my PhD which I viva'd successfully just before Christmas (allow me to blow
my own trumpet) I did a kind of a survey of the Irish press in Britain in
general in C19. Diamond came to England from Maghera early in life and seems
to have been different from previous Irish newspaper proprietors in that he
had some money. The Irish Tribune lasted, at ten years, longer than any
other Irish paper here, the next in longevity being the Universal News.
Unusual too was the place of publication - almost all other Irish papers
were
printed in London, apart from a couple in Liverpool and Manchester and some
in Glasgow. He owned the Catholic Press Company of Gt Britain and Ireland
and published the Manchester Citizen, the Weekly Herald (London), the
Catholic Educator, the Glasgow Observer. He was president of the Newcastle
No1 branch of the Irish National League which the paper supported. In the
opening leader the Tribune said that the "schools and the politics" of
England were a greater danger to Ireland than any amount of physical force
and urged the Irish in Britain not to waste their energies on English
issues. The paper supported British reforms if there was a quid pro quo as
far as Ireland was concerned. In Scotland he formed the Scottish National
Printing Co and is reputed to have controlled up to 40 papers. I suppose you
are aware of the essay on the Irish press in Britain by Owen Dudley Edwards
& Patricia Storey in Swift & Gilley The Irish in the Victorian City, which
has more detail on his career. I am not aware of any work on any Irish paper
printed in Britain. Watch this space!
Hope this is of some use
Anthony McNicholas

- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:35 PM
Subject: Ir-D Irish Tribune, Newcastle


>
> From: "joan hugman"
> Subject: The Irish Tribune
>
> Dear Patrick
>
> Does anyone know if there has been any recent work on the Irish Tribune
> newspaper which was first published in Newcastle in 1884 for national
> distribution and later (from 1898)circulated as
> the Tyneside Catholic News, or on Charles Diamond's early career
> (pre 1916)?
>
> Also, can you tell me whether Tom Gallagher can still be
> contacted at the School of Peace Studies, Bradford?
> many thanks
> Joan
>
> Joan Hugman
> Department of History, Armstrong Building,
> University of Newcastle NE1 7RU Tel 0191 222 6701
>