From: "EugeneOBrien"
Subject: Understanding Ireland - series of books

Hi Paddy,

Can I crave your indulgence to make list-members aware of the following =
call for authors of books in a new Irish Studies series?

Call for Authors:

Oak Tree Press is in the process of initiating a new series entitled =
Understanding Ireland, and would be interested in contacting people who =
feel qualified to write a single author/artist study of any important =
figure on the contemporary Irish aesthetic an cultural scene.

Each book would be between 120 - 150 pages in length, aimed at a target =
market of an undergraduate and general readership - serious but =
accessible being the key terms of reference.

The series rationale is broadly as follows: =20

This series would publish books devoted to contemporary individual =
authors and artists and to political, social and cultural issues, =
seeking to examine how Irish
writers, film makers and artists have created the conditions for change =
in our notions of culture, ideology and identity. The transformation =
from a given notion of Ireland and Irishness to a more modern and =
outward-looking notion of Irishness would be the thematic core of each =
book. =20

The amount of new writing, film and aesthetic activity in general that =
has been ongoing in Ireland over the past twenty or thirty years or more =
and the influence of this activity on our sense of selfhood has been the =
subject of surprisingly little analysis, hence the initiation of this =
series.

In line with a cultural studies approach, all aspects of cultural =
activity - both elitist and populist - will be the subject of analysis, =
thereby making the series the most inclusive examination of contemporary =
aesthetic and cultural activity in Ireland to date. Each book would =
examine the following general areas:

a.. The social, cultural, political and literary context
b.. The critical reception of the writer
c.. The aims of the writer
d.. The major texts
e.. How these texts transformed notions of Irishness
f.. Contextual implications of these texts on our sense of self
g.. The nature of the new understanding of Ireland that is created in =
and by these texts

Volumes on Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, John Banville and Neil Jordan are =
already underway, and will be appearing late in 2001.

The series is planned as an ongoing one, with a number of titles each =
year.

Anyone interested should contact me at the enclosed email address.

All the best,

Eugene.



Eugene O'Brien,
Series Editor Understanding Ireland,
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick.
Eugene.OBrien[at]oceanfree.net

From: Don MacRaild
Subject: Up the Amazon without books

John Hickey's email prompted to share another little problem with list
members. Amazon sent me an email last week saying it couldn't get hold of
Lyndon Fraser's new edited book, about the Irish in New Zealand.

Whether this is a problem at their end, or
with the publisher, I don't know. Whatever the reason, it will have a bad
effect on both sales and the rate at which the ideas contained within the
book enter the diasporic consciousness. Anyone who read Lyndon Fraser's
Tara to via Holyhead will know that this is doubly a shame.

Has anyone managed to pick it up by more old-fashioned means?

Best wishes


Don MacRaild
University of Northumbria at Newcastle

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Through my playwrighting contacts I am in touch with Victor Goultchenko, in
Moscow, Russia.

Victor is one of those people who is trying to re-establish links between
Russia's cultural heritage and the rest of the world - I do not know him
personally, and can give no guarantees. But Victor does seem an energetic
person.

One of my own plays, Dear Maria, has been described as 'an Irish working
class Three Sisters'. This year is the 100 anniversary of Three Sisters,
and there is even talk of my play going to Moscow, to be part of the
commemoration. Which would be nice.

From Victor's latest message, below, it will be gathered that he is
developing a bi-lingual, Russian and English, Chekhov Magazine.

And he is very keen to include an essay on Friel and Chekhov. This seems to
me a very good idea.

I know that this is a theme of interest to my Irish Diaspora and Irish
Studies colleagues. Would anyone interested in writing this essay for the
Chekhov Magazine contact me, and then we can make contact with Victor
Goultchenko.

Patrick O'Sullivan



- -----Original Message-----
From: Victor Goultchenko [mailto:vgoultchenko[at]mtu-net.ru]
Sent: 22 January 2001 19:23
To: P.OSullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Contacts


Dear Mr. O'Sullivan,


As I informed you previously, we are working under the first issue of
Chekhov Magazine in two identical versions ? in Russian and in English.
We are strongly interested in a theme ?Chekhov and Brian Friel?. We would
like to publish ideas of Friel about Chekhov, as well as an essay about
Chekhov's motifs in Friel's plays.
We would appreciate very much if you could cooperate with us in any
possible form and could help us in establishing of needed contacts for
realization of our intentions.

With best wishes,

Victor Goultchenko
International Chekhov Fund

Contacts: Please feel free to contact with us for any questions &
offers:
Fax: +7 ( 095) 197 17 45
E-mail: victor[at]chekhov.org
You can find all our Chekhov's materials on the web-site:
http://www.chekhov.org.


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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Personal Fax National 0870 284 1580
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Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Fitzpatrick 2

Dear Ir-D List

I was reluctant to offer my thoughts on David Fitzpatrick's piece, just as I
was when I heard him deliver it at UNL. It is self-consciously intended to
goad people into outraged opposition and nobody wants to behave like one of
Pavlov's dogs. However. It might be as well to point out, even in these
post-modern days that identity, ethnic or otherwise, is not merely a
question of self-definition, you don't necessarily have to feel particularly
'anything-ish' to be identified as such. You might ask Annie Maguire's kids
how Irish they felt before they were dragged off to borstsal. At various
times and in various places immigrants, their children and their
grandchildren have found that though they may have considered themselves
wholly and happily assimilated into whatever society they happened to be
living in, that society then rejected them, sometimes with horrible
consequences

The Asian and West Indian kids I grew up with, wear their ethnicity on their
skins, and so the question for them is perhaps one of self-electing
themselves out, if they so desire, from ethnic groups ascribed to them by
society. Those of us who are the children of Irish migrants, on the other
hand, have greater scope in deciding for ourselves how much we identify and
are identified with, the group to which our parents belong. That being said,
what do members of the list make of the following from Fitzpatrick?

"Even for the first generation born outside Ireland, Irishness was often a
self-consciously constructed identity, an amalgam of emigrant narratives and
positive ethnic stereotypes of largely foreign manufacture."

I have been racking my brains for a positive stereotype of Irishness with
"Made in the UK" stamped on it, which I could use to bolster my no doubt
bogus identity with, but have been unable to come up with one. Can anybody
help?

Similarly, where he says that Irish migrants bore their Irishness 'lightly',
but "their electively 'Irish' descendants
were more inclined to flaunt and exploit their assumed characteristics" and
that "the appropriation of Irishness by their
descendants often brought social, political, or material advantages". If
anyone can tell me how I can gain political office or make money out of it,
reply to me off-list and perhaps we can do a deal.

Anthony McNicholas

This is the Contents list and Editorial if the latest British Association
for Irish Studies, kindly made available to us by Jerry Nolan, the
Newsletter Editor.

The Newsletter includes an interview with Celia de Freine, and a full
version of David Fitzpatrick's paper, from the recent Irish Diaspora
conference at the University of North London.

P.O'S.

BAIS NEWSLETTER NO. 25
January 2001

Contents

Focus Interview: Celia de Freine interviewed by EibhlÍn Evans
Battle in the Books: The Irish Diaspora
BAIS CHAIR?S REPORT 2001
BAIS BURSARIES 2001
Hubert Butler Conference 2000
Noticeboard
BAIS National Council
BAIS Membership Application Form


EDITORIAL
Recently Irish migration has been a recurring theme in the world of Irish
Studies. There has been RTE?s The Irish Empire, a 5-part documentary series
of the Celtic Tiger about the Irish abroad. Tim Pat Coogan?s book Wherever
Green is Worn, a wide ranging journalistic account of meeting Irish people
across the globe, was launched at a splendid reception held at the Irish
Embassy in London. Another book Being Irish consisting of a hundred people
explaining their Irishness (including , by the way, Tony Blair) was
compiled and edited by Paddy Logue, almost along the lines of a superior
game show ?Do You Want to be Irish?, launched in Britain at the Irish Club
London and leaving the impression that to be considered Irish is very
attractive nowadays, and that anyone can assume an Irish identity ?free
from the bloodlines of ethnicity?.

Then there was that very successful conference co-hosted by the Irish
Studies in the University of North London on the topic of The Irish
Diaspora. At that conference there was one strikingly dissident voice which
sounded a note of caution about our understanding of the Irish abroad.
The sceptical voice belonged to David Fitzpatrick, author of Oceans of
Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (Cork 1994)
and The Two Irelands 1912-1939 ( Oxford 1998). On being invited to present
his challenging intellectual analysis in condensed form within the format
of the Newsletter?s Battle in the Books, Professor Fitzpatrick very
generously agreed to do so. Apparently it is hoped that Professor
Fitzpatrick?s paper will appear in due course in published form alongside
other conference papers given by the invited speakers. Readers of the
Newsletter have the opportunity to become involved NOW in the debate about
Irish Diaspora Studies which Professor Fitzpatrick opens up for thorough
discussion at a time when to be considered Irish is to be in the fast
popular lane in the so-called mature era of Irish development.

Many thanks to EibhlÍn Evans for interviewing the writer Celia de Fr¾ine
during a recent visit to Connemara. The resulting Focus Interview opens up
interesting subjects of debate within Ireland, such as the state of Irish
women writers and of Irish language poetry. This excellent piece presents
yet another opportunity to readers to prove that you are really out there
by letting your Newsletter have your comments on matters arising, perhaps
on my e-mail address indicated below.

A very welcome contribution arrived from Eleanor Burgess as a follow up to
the last Focus Interview about Hubert Butler. Then for those members who
were unable to attend the BAIS AGM 2000, there is a copy of the very
comprehensive Chair?s Report presented on that occasion by Sean Hutton.

Copy and/or discs (Word 97) with articles, reports, notices, letters etc. to
be included in No. 26 should be sent to Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road,
Chiswick , London W4 5HY by 9 April 2001.
Email: Jcmnolan[at]aol.com

Forwarded for information...

"Beginnings and Ends of Emigration: Life Without
Borders in The Contemporary World", Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University,
Lithuania, November 22-23, 2001.

>From: Orm Overland

The Lithuanian Emigration Institute and the Vytautas Kavolis Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University invite
contributions for the conference BEGINNINGS AND ENDS OF EMIGRATION: LIFE
WITHOUT BORDERS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD which will take place on November
22-23, 2001, in Kaunas, Lithuania.

This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the problems of
emigration,immigration and exile. Welcome are papers on any historical,
cultural,political and theoretical aspect of emigration. Topics that
participants might consider include transnational migration and
displacement, globalization, immigration narratives, nation and diaspora,
homelessness and nomadism, exile and identity, immigration and citizenship.
The proceedings of the conference will be published.

Send abstracts by May 15, 2001, to Dr. Arturas
Tereskinas(atereskinas[at]hotmail.com; Dept. of Social Sciences-311, Vytautas
Magnus University, Donelaicio 52, 3000 Kaunas, Lithuania) or to Dr. Dalia
Kuizinien=F2 (Dalia_Kuiziniene[at]fc.vdu.lt; Center for Emigration Studies,
Donelai=E3io 52-218, 3000 Kaunas, Lithuania; tel., fax ( 370- 7) 32-36-89).

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D BAIS NEWSLETTER NO. 25


Would it be possible to scan and print Fitzpatrick's remarks in a
forthcoming message to Irish Diaspora list members? It sounds of
interest and importance. Thanks,
Kerby.


>This is the Contents list and Editorial of the latest British Association
>for Irish Studies Newsletter, kindly made available to us by Jerry Nolan,
the
>Newsletter Editor.
>
>The Newsletter includes an interview with Celia de Freine, and a full
>version of David Fitzpatrick's paper, from the recent Irish Diaspora
>conference at the University of North London.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>BAIS NEWSLETTER NO. 25
>January 2001
>
>Contents
>
>Focus Interview: Celia de Freine interviewed by EibhlÕn Evans
>Battle in the Books: The Irish Diaspora
>BAIS CHAIR'S REPORT 2001
>BAIS BURSARIES 2001
>Hubert Butler Conference 2000
>Noticeboard
>BAIS National Council
>BAIS Membership Application Form
>
>
>EDITORIAL
>Recently Irish migration has been a recurring theme in the world of Irish
>Studies. There has been RTE's The Irish Empire, a 5-part documentary series
>of the Celtic Tiger about the Irish abroad. Tim Pat Coogan's book Wherever
>Green is Worn, a wide ranging journalistic account of meeting Irish people
>across the globe, was launched at a splendid reception held at the Irish
>Embassy in London. Another book Being Irish consisting of a hundred people
>explaining their Irishness (including , by the way, Tony Blair) was
>compiled and edited by Paddy Logue, almost along the lines of a superior
>game show 'Do You Want to be Irish', launched in Britain at the Irish Club
>London and leaving the impression that to be considered Irish is very
>attractive nowadays, and that anyone can assume an Irish identity 'free
>from the bloodlines of ethnicity'.
>
>Then there was that very successful conference co-hosted by the Irish
>Studies in the University of North London on the topic of The Irish
>Diaspora. At that conference there was one strikingly dissident voice which
>sounded a note of caution about our understanding of the Irish abroad.
>The sceptical voice belonged to David Fitzpatrick, author of Oceans of
>Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (Cork 1994)
>and The Two Irelands 1912-1939 ( Oxford 1998). On being invited to
present
>his challenging intellectual analysis in condensed form within the format
>of the Newsletter's Battle in the Books, Professor Fitzpatrick very
>generously agreed to do so. Apparently it is hoped that Professor
>Fitzpatrick's paper will appear in due course in published form alongside
>other conference papers given by the invited speakers. Readers of the
>Newsletter have the opportunity to become involved NOW in the debate
about
>Irish Diaspora Studies which Professor Fitzpatrick opens up for thorough
>discussion at a time when to be considered Irish is to be in the fast
>popular lane in the so-called mature era of Irish development.
>
>Many thanks to EibhlÕn Evans for interviewing the writer Celia de Fræine
>during a recent visit to Connemara. The resulting Focus Interview opens up
>interesting subjects of debate within Ireland, such as the state of Irish
>women writers and of Irish language poetry. This excellent piece presents
>yet another opportunity to readers to prove that you are really out there
>by letting your Newsletter have your comments on matters arising, perhaps
>on my e-mail address indicated below.
>
>A very welcome contribution arrived from Eleanor Burgess as a follow up to
>the last Focus Interview about Hubert Butler. Then for those members who
>were unable to attend the BAIS AGM 2000, there is a copy of the very
>comprehensive Chair's Report presented on that occasion by Sean Hutton.
>
>Copy and/or discs (Word 97) with articles, reports, notices, letters etc.
to
>be included in No. 26 should be sent to Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road,
>Chiswick , London W4 5HY by 9 April 2001.
>Email: Jcmnolan[at]aol.com

[Moderator's Note: I also have forwarded Don's query to the University of
Otsago Press
P.O'S.]

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Re: Ir-D Amazon cannot find NZ

Dear Don,

I'm not sure if this is a great help, but I have a copy of the book
in front of me now. Lyndon gave me a copy when he was here in
Melbourne early in December. I suggested he join the diaspora list.
Whether he has or not, I don't know, but I'll copy the recent emails
about the book to him. I'm sure he'll be interested and maybe he can
query his publisher, the University of Otago Press, about
distribution. Lyndon's in the Dept. of Sociology at Canterbury
University in Christchurch, NZ and his email address is
l.fraser[at]soci.canterbury.ac.nz.

Best wishes,

Elizabeth Malcolm
Melbourne




>From: Don MacRaild
>Subject: Up the Amazon without books
>
>John Hickey's email prompted to share another little problem with list
>members. Amazon sent me an email last week saying it couldn't get hold of
>Lyndon Fraser's new edited book, about the Irish in New Zealand.
>
>Whether this is a problem at their end, or
>with the publisher, I don't know. Whatever the reason, it will have a bad
>effect on both sales and the rate at which the ideas contained within the
>book enter the diasporic consciousness. Anyone who read Lyndon Fraser's
>Tara to via Holyhead will know that this is doubly a shame.
>
>Has anyone managed to pick it up by more old-fashioned means?
>
>Best wishes
>
>
>Don MacRaild
>University of Northumbria at Newcastle

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


Kerby,

I have contacted the Newsletter's Editor with this query.

Much may depend on the specific agreement the Editor had with David
Fitzpatrick.

The arguments of the piece will be familiar to anyone who knows David's
work - which is most of the Irish-Diaspora list, I wsould think. It lists
the reasons why we might want to study the Irish Diaspora, along the way
questioning notions of 'ethnicity', etc.

He does not include one of my own main reasons for studying the Irish
Diaspora - that we have here the paradigmatic interdisciplinary scholarly
activity, where an interdisciplinary approach brings genuine rewards.

Paddy

- --
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/

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Fax International +44 870 284 1580

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Sent: 23 January 2001 22:00
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D BAIS NEWSLETTER NO.25 2




From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D BAIS NEWSLETTER NO. 25


Would it be possible to scan and print Fitzpatrick's remarks in a
forthcoming message to Irish Diaspora list members? It sounds of
interest and importance. Thanks,
Kerby.


>This is the Contents list and Editorial of the latest British Association
>for Irish Studies Newsletter, kindly made available to us by Jerry Nolan,
the
>Newsletter Editor.
>
>The Newsletter includes an interview with Celia de Freine, and a full
>version of David Fitzpatrick's paper, from the recent Irish Diaspora
>conference at the University of North London.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>

From: Lyndon Fraser
Subject: New Zealand Lost in the Amazon

Lyndon Fraser

My sincere thanks to Don for alerting us to problems with Amazon and
access to the collection of essays on the Irish in New Zealand. It is a
shame - Don Akenson's essay is worth the price of admission alone. And,
we want to make as much money as we can for the New Zealand Child Cancer
Foundation (the recipient of all book royalties).

I have now contacted the publisher and await their response. I'll send
on any new information that comes to hand. For the more old-fashioned
list members, copies can be ordered directly from the publisher:

University of Otago Press
PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
tel: 64-03-479 8807
fax: 64-03-479 8385
university.press[at]otago.ac.nz

Best wishes,
Lyndon Fraser
- --
Lyndon Fraser
Lecturer
Department of Sociology
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

tel: 64-3-3667001 extn. 7102
http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/staff-lf.htm

From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Amazon cannot find NZ

Thanks Don. I was beginning to feel paranoid and obsessive about this
whole
business of getting hold of important books, given my experiences over the
last year with every sort of outlet and publisher you can imagine which
claims to operate in the academic world. Something rather nasty seems to be
happening here. What the publisher did to Frank Neal should give us a hint.
You issue a limited run of a book like his, then 'temporarily' withdraw it,
as I was informed by Waterstone's in London, and then re-issue it at a
prohibitive price so you can 'cream' whatever is left of the market, cover
your costs and make a small profit. Never mind about the book's intrinsic
value to scholars - that doesn't count; the bottom line dominates.
I thought at one time that Amazon might be a useful alternative but that
river is rapidly running dry. They are in such a state, financially, that
they actually had a celebration last November because their quarterly losses
were less than they had predicted. They won't be able to find us the book on
NZ because the cost of tracking it down, little though that is, is something
they can't carry. Goodbye Amazon; welcome (sic) the chain that takes them
over.
What about the University Presses? Yes, what about them! I had an
interesting conversation recently with an editor who works for Northwestern
University Press. ( Prestigious, you know). I asked her how long it took for
a book to get into print. Her answer - 6 to 9 months, after the Editorial
Board had taken an average of 5 years to approve the text for publication.
She said that this made the authors, particularly younger academics,
somewhat
distraught. I'm surprised. What they really liked to do, she said, was to
publish limited runs of, say, 450 copies of the works of people like
Merleau-
Ponty; Universities, whose original copies had become slightly tattered over
the years, were always in the market for replacements.
So, to answer Don's question, we'll be lucky to find a copy of the book
short of writing to the author and asking for help to track it down. Or, we
can all get together and find some publisher who will listen to us and
provide the outlet we need. But that means we'll have actually to buy the
books and support each other that way.
Best,
John Hickey

From: Don MacRaild
Subject: RE: Ir-D Amazon cannot find NZ 3

Thanks to Lyndon Fraser and Elizabeth for displaying what we might once have
been
allowed to call antipodean alacrity in addressing the distribution problems
for
Lyndon's book. I intend to try email Otago direct--we'll see what happens.

If Otago had real drive they might set up their own little distribution
network via
Paddy's list--I can't such a thing would result in less than a couple of
hundred sales.
Just a thought.

Cheers


Don MacRaild
Northumbria at Newcastle




> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 6:30 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D Amazon cannot find NZ 3
>
>
> From: Lyndon Fraser
> Subject: New Zealand Lost in the Amazon
>
> Lyndon Fraser
>
> My sincere thanks to Don for alerting us to problems with Amazon and
> access to the collection of essays on the Irish in New Zealand. It is a
> shame - Don Akenson's essay is worth the price of admission alone. And,
> we want to make as much money as we can for the New Zealand Child Cancer
> Foundation (the recipient of all book royalties).
>
> I have now contacted the publisher and await their response. I'll send
> on any new information that comes to hand. For the more old-fashioned
> list members, copies can be ordered directly from the publisher:
>
> University of Otago Press
> PO Box 56
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> tel: 64-03-479 8807
> fax: 64-03-479 8385
> university.press[at]otago.ac.nz
>
> Best wishes,
> Lyndon Fraser
> --
> Lyndon Fraser
> Lecturer
> Department of Sociology
> University of Canterbury
> Private Bag 4800
> Christchurch
> New Zealand
>
> tel: 64-3-3667001 extn. 7102
> http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/staff-lf.htm

Forwarded for information...

Dear Patrick,

I am sorry that some members of the Irish Diaspora list have had trouble
ordering Lyndon Fraser's book A Distant Shore.

Amazon in the UK doesn't list any of our books and will not list them until
we have a UK distributor (we are working on this). In the meantime we can
supply customers directly from our office in New Zealand (see below for
details).

A Distant Shore IS listed on Amazon's US website, and the book is currently
in stock with our US distributor (ISBS), so there should be no problems for
North American customers. If there are, please contact ISBS directly:
International Specialized Book Services, 5824 NE Hassalo St, Portland,
Oregon 97213-3644, phone 503 287 3093, fax 503 280 8832, tollfree phone 800
944 6190, email orders[at]isbs.com, website www.isbs.com

In Australia the book is available from good bookshops or directly from our
distributor:
Unireps, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney NSW 2034, phone 02
9664 0999, fax 02 9664 5420, email info.press[at]unsw.edu.au, website
www.unswpress.com.au.

Customers living in all parts of the globe except US, Canada and Australia
are welcome to send their orders direct to this office at the address shown
below. The safest way to order is to send a fax giving details of the type
of credit card being used (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, or Diners),
the cardholder's name, card number and expiry date. We ship all
orders that are in stock the same day by full international airmail, and
would expect them to reach customers in the UK within one week. The book
costs NZ$39.95, and we charge for actual cost of postage, which would make
the cost of one copy around NZ$53.00, which converts to approximately
sixteen pounds Sterling.

I'm glad that there appears to be much interest in the book overseas, and I
hope this lengthy explanation clarifies the availability!

Regards,
Philippa Jamieson

_______________________________________
Philippa Jamieson, Publicist
University of Otago Press, PO Box 56, Dunedin
Street address: 56 Union St, Dunedin
tel (03) 479 9094, fax (03) 479 8385
_______________________________________

From: Patrick Maume



From: Patrick Maume
I am doing a paper at the Nineteenth-Century Ireland Society
conference in Southampton in April on "Robert Martin and the Politics
of the Stage Irishman". Robert (1846-1905) was the brother of the
more famous Violet of "Somerville and Ross" and was famous (or
notorious) in his own time as a comic journalist and actor and
Unionist activist.
I would like to know where I can find copies of the sheet music of
songs by Robert Martin (they may have been published under his
pen-name "Ballyhooly"). I have the following titles:
Published by Messrs E. Acherberg and Co., London - BALLYHOOLY;
KILLALOE; MULLINGAR; VERY EXTRAORDINARY, ISN'T IT; THROUGH DARKEST
IRELAND.

Published by Messrs Hopwood & Crew, London - MULROONY'S DOG;
ENNISCORTHY; THE BLATHERUMSKITE.

If anyone can supply me with any of these songs I will pay the
reproduction and postage costs. (I am looking for the music, not just
the text - several texts without music appear in his 1899 book BITS OF
BALLYHOOLEY).
The National Library of Ireland doesn't have them, and they don't
appear in the British Library Catalogue. Does anyone know where I
might look for them?
I would also be interestedin hearing from anyone who has worked on
Somerville and Ross and has any ideas or material on Robert.
Best wishes,
Patrick

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have mixed feelings about this one... But Ir-D members will be aware that
more and more census material is becoming available on CD - and I notice
that a number of professional genealogists in Ireland are offering a new
service, where they charge family historians a fee for looking up a name on
their CDs.

And in the US there is the Heritage Quest Company...
http://www.heritagequest.com/

Anyway...

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

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Product Information

Publisher : Heritage Quest
ISBN : 0944931847

Product Description

Discover and learn more about your Irish ancestors with World Immigration
Series: Ireland. This Generations® Archives title provides a vital search
tool for locating your Irish ancestor in 1870 America. It reveals all
1,103,549 Irish households in 1870 -- meticulously compiled from the US
Federal Census by Heritage Quest's team of professional Document Extraction
Specialists. Information for heads of household, all males over 50, all
females over 70 and anyone with a different surname includes: name, age,
sex, race birthplace, locality, and county, along with film number and page
reference, so you can easily identify your ancestor and obtain a copy of the
original record.

Packed with maps and illustrations, this unique resource also contains an
introduction to Irish history and culture, in-depth Irish research
techniques, and ports of Irish immigration. Generations® Archives Viewer
Software is included, allowing for powerful search and sort capabilities on
any data field. Publ. 2001.

Product Requirements

Requires Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2k, Pentium 100+, 16MB RAM, 4X CD-ROM drive.

Heritage Quest, 2001. ACD 0105. $39.95



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Do note that this is a very long WEB address and will very likely have been
fractured by your own emailer's line breaks. To make the address work you
have to reconstruct the full line.

P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From: "joan hugman"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Tribune, Newcastle 2

Anthony
I am involved in a conference on Peoples and
Migrations at sunderland University 14-16th September. I am going to
try to pull together some of my material on the Irish Tribune/Charles
Diamond/ Newcastle Radicalism for a strand on Ethnic Networks. I
wondered whether you fancy giving a paper?
Joan


Subject: Ir-D Irish
Tribune, Newcastle 2 Date: Sat 13 Jan 2001 21:02:00 +0000
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Reply-to:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk To:
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


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

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Tribune, Newcastle 3

Dear Joan
I would certainly be interested. The work I have done on two London papers
of the 1860s, the Universal News and the Irish Liberator shows there was a
strong degree of political radicalism as part of their nationalism. The
sub-editor of the Universal News in the late 1860s for example JP McDonnell
was part of the Ist International & quite a close colleague of Marx &
Engels. Both papers supported the National Brotherhood of Saint Patrick,
(the Liberator was their paper in England while it lasted) and the NBSP was
just such a network. What do you think?

Anthony

- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:30 AM
Subject: Ir-D Irish Tribune, Newcastle 3


>
> From: "joan hugman"
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Tribune, Newcastle 2
>
> Anthony
> I am involved in a conference on Peoples and
> Migrations at sunderland University 14-16th September. I am going to
> try to pull together some of my material on the Irish Tribune/Charles
> Diamond/ Newcastle Radicalism for a strand on Ethnic Networks. I
> wondered whether you fancy giving a paper?
> Joan
>

[Moderator's Note: So, that's how it's dpne. Anthony and Joan will now,
please, continue their scholarly wooing off-list.
P.O'S.]

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish in 1870 US Census CD


In a message dated 1/25/01 11:40:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk writes:

'It reveals all
1,103,549 Irish households in 1870 -- meticulously compiled from the US
Federal Census by Heritage Quest's team of professional Document Extraction
Specialists.'

What "meticulously" constitutes an "Irish" household in 1870?

DC

Danny Cassidy

Forwarded for information...

From
Prof. Luca Codignola, Direttore / Director / Directeur
Centro di ricerca in studi canadesi e colombiani
Research Centre in Canadian Studies and on the Age of European Expansion
Centre de recherche en études canadiennes et sur l'époque de l'expansion
européenne
Università di Genova


RECASTING CANADIAN HISTORY IN THE WIDER WORLD: TOWARDS NEW
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
ÉCRIRE L'HISTOIRE DU CANADA AU XXIe SIÈCLE: UNE NOUVELLE PERSPECTIVE
INTERNATIONALE
LA NUOVA STORIOGRAFIA CANADESE ALL'ALBA DEL XXI SECOLO: NUOVE
PROSPETTIVE INTERNAZIONALI
(Sestri Levante, Italy / Italie / Italia, 4-6 may / mai / maggio
2001)

[English version, 10 Jan. 2001]

Dear Professor O'Sullivan:

in cooperation with the Department of History of the University of Toronto
and the Département d'histoire of the Université de Montréal, the Research
Centre in Canadian Studies and on the Age of European Expansion of the
University of Genoa is organizing an international conference on "Recasting
Canadian History in the Wider World: Towards New Perspectives for the
Twenty-First Century". The conference will take place in Sestri Levante,
near Genoa, in Italy, on 4-6 May 2001.

As we all know, over the past three decades the writing of history has
undergone a major transformation. In North America, Britain, Europe and
elsewhere, historical scholarhip has expanded dramatically, especially as a
result of the rise of the "new" social history, which has challenged
conventional narratives of Canada's national "story". Such scholarship has
engendered both critical reviews and energetic efforts to re-vision Canadian
history. In the latter case, Canadian scholars have drawn on the relevant
international literatures and contributed to them. For example, the
internationalizing of Canadian history if evident in the emerging field of
Canadian cultural history, especially the history of public spectacle and
pageantry, travel and travellers, and tourism. This scholarship is enlarging
our understanding of Canadian nation-building by turning attention to how
cultural iconography, rituals, pageantry, commemorative ceremonies, and the
creation of tourist sites have served as colonial identifiers,
nation-building devices, and as ways of self-representation to visiting
outsiders and to the wider world. As well as the flourishing of new field,
historical scholarship has seen the return, or recasting, of more
established approaches. Political and diplomatic history and the history of
international relations are also undergoing a major resurgence. New
approaches to the study of legal, political, and moral regulation have
enlarged our notions of government, politics, and the state. Similarly,
religious history and ecclesiastical history are undergoing a major
transformation. Most recently, we have seen renewed interest in the history
of colonialism and imperialism.

You shall find herewith attached a list of confirmed participants, mostly
Canadians, with the titles of their presentations. We now invite other
scholars to join in with papers whose topic and contents might match those
that already are on the attached list, or, alternatively, to act as
commentators, chair a session, or simply participate in the conference. We
look forward to a lively discussion at the conference and for productive
scholarly exchanges. Although we expect most papers to deal specifically
with Canada, we welcome proposals that are of a comparative nature or would
enable the audience to place the Canadian experience in a worldwide
framework.

The conference will be held at Hotel Miramare in Sestri Levante, a beautiful
and quaint seaside resort some 50 km east of Genoa. The hotel is located
right on the best beach ("Baia delle Favole"), with a spectacular view of
the cliffs. For conference participants arriving on May the 3rd and leaving
on May the 6th, the full package (including all meals , the banquet and any
conference material) costs Lit. 720,000 (single occupancy) or Lit. 575,000
(double occupancy). The hotel has a limited number of rooms. They will be
allocated on a first come, first served basis. Participants are advised to
contact the hotel as soon as possible, attention of Ms Cristina Zolezzi,
mentioning the "Canadian conference", by writing at the following address:
"miramare[at]miramaresestrilevante.com". The full postal address is: Hotel
Miramare, via Cappellini 9, 16039 Sestri Levante (Ge.), Italy, ph. (39)
(0185) 480855, fax (39) (0185) 41055. We shall provide participants with a
list of alternative hotels to assist those who prefer a cheaper
accommodation or shall try to book a room when the Miramare Hotel is already
full.

Sestri Levante can be reached by train from Genoa (the ride takes about 50
mnts), Milan (2 hrs), Rome (4:30 hrs), Nice in France (3:30 hrs). Genoa's
"Cristoforo Colombo" airport can be easily reached via Zürich, London, and
Rome. You might also fly into Milan or Nice and take a train from there. You
can visit the site "http://www.turismo.liguriainrete.it/". for any tourist
information about Liguria, the region to which Genoa and Sestri Levante
belong.

We would be grateful if you could confirm your intention to be with as -- as
presenter, commentator, or participant -- by writing via e-mail to the local
organizer, Luca Codignola. Do not hesitate to ask him any question you might
have at this time. We look forward to meeting you in Sestri Levante. Best
wishes,

Luca Codignola (Università di Genova), "codignol[at]unige.it"
Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto), "iacovett[at]scar.utoronto.ca"
Bruno Ramirez (Université de Montréal), "bramirez[at]globetrotter.net"

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS WITH TENTATIVE COMMON TOPICS [as of 10 Jan.
2001]

Natives

*Denys Delâge (Université Laval)
La place des autochtones dans l'histoire d'un pays tri-national:
orientations actuelles et rectitude politique
*J.R. Miller (University of Saskatchewan)
Bringing Native People in from the Margins: The Recent Evolution and Future
Prospects of Native-Newcomer Historiography
*Sylvia van Kirk (University of Toronto)
The Aboriginal History of Canada: Any Impact on the Over-Arching Narrative?

Cultural Issues

William Barker (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
19th-Century Printing in Newfoundland in Relation to Book History in Canada
Colin Coates (University of Edinburgh)
Political Culture in New France
*Jean Levasseur (Bishop's University)
Joseph Provost et La Maison du coteau: un roman protestant dans le 19e
siècle franco-québécois"
Peter N. Moogk (University of British Columbia)
The Need for Unfashionable History in Canada
*Desmond Morton (McGill University) [not present in person]
History Wars in the Peaceable Kingdom: History in Canada's Schools
Jack Warwick (Rouen, formerly York University)
L'histoire politiquement corrigée par nos romanciers

Identity

*Stephen Bornstein (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
The Canadians' Health and the Building of their Identities
*Karen Dubinsky (Queen's University) [pending funding]
Everbody Likes Canadians. Tourism and National Identity in Canada
Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa)
[Title to be confirmed]
*Noreen Golfman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Representing History of the Tourist Gaze
*Ian Radforth (Victoria University in the University of Toronto)
Colonies and Identities: British North America at the Time of the Royal
Visit of 1860

International History

*Phillip A. Buckner (University of London)
The Rediscovery of Canada's Imperial Past
*Luca Codignola (Università di Genova)
[Title to be confirmed]
Allan Greer (University of Toronto and University of Cambridge)
Colonial Canada in Hemispheric Perspective
Fernand Harvey (INRC)
L'historiographie régionale au Québec et au Canada français: influences
européennes et nouvelles perspectives
John Manley (University of Manchester)
New Perspectives on Canadian Communism: Party, Class, Nation and 'People' in
the 1930s1940s
*Cecilia Morgan (OISE, University of Toronto)
Canadian Abroad: Imperialism, Gender, and Travel, 1870s-1930s. Rewriting
Canadian History through the Lens of the 'New' Imperialism [pending funding]

Religion

*Dominique Deslandres (Université de Montréal) [pending funding]
[Title]
Roberto Perin (Glendon College, York University)
An Illusive Reality: English Canadian Catholicism after World War II
*Giovanni Pizzorusso (Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici)
[Title]
*Massimo Rubboli (Università di Genova)
[Title]

Migration
Bruno Ramirez (Université de Montréal)
La place du Canada dans le cadre des migrations internationales / Canada's
Place in International Migrations

Society

Peter Gossage (Université de Sherbrooke)
[Title]
*Linda Kealey (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Feminism and Social History in Canada: Changing History, Rewriting the
National 'Story'
*Paul-André Linteau (Université du Québec à Montréal) [o speak 4 or 5 may,
pending funding]
L'histoire urbaine canadienne dans une perspective internationale
*Veronica Strong-Boag (University of Victoria)
The Role of History and the Protection of Canada's Children

Citizenship and the State

*Luigi Bruti-Liberati (Università di Milano)
[Title]
*Dirk Hoerder (Universität Bremen)
A Transcultural Social History of the Canadian State
*Franca Iacovetta (Erindale College, University of Toronto)
Making New Citizens in Cold War Canada, Re-Making the Nation after World War
II
*Gregory S. Kealey (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Subversives, Spies and Spymasters as Nation-Builders? Historian as Sleuth
and the Rewriting of Surveillance History as Canadian History

Chairs, commentators

*Terrence Murphy (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
*Matteo Sanfilippo (Università della Tuscia)
*Ferdinando Fasce (Università di Bologna)


Prof. Luca Codignola, Direttore / Director / Directeur
Centro di ricerca in studi canadesi e colombiani
Research Centre in Canadian Studies and on the Age of European Expansion
Centre de recherche en études canadiennes et sur l'époque de l'expansion
européenne
Università di Genova
via Lomellini 8
16124 Genova / Genoa / Gênes
Italia / Italy / Italie
tel. / ph. / tél. (39) (010) 246-5897 ufficio / office / bureau
tel. / ph. / tél. (39) (010) 839-9104 casa / home / résidence
fax / télécopieur (39) (010) 246-5810 ufficio / office / bureau
e-mail: codignol[at]unige.it

I have received the following email from Ruth Dudley Edwards, together with
3 documents as email attachments. I am going to forward those documents to
the Irish-Diaspora list - as RDE 1, 2 and 3 - without comment and simply as
a service to the Irish Diaspora Studies community...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Dudley Edwards
To: p.osullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Fw: TIM PAT COOGAN RE THE BAIS


Dear Patrick O'Sullivan,

I would love to know what you though of Coogan's book.

My standard letter follows.

Best wishes,

Ruth


Rather belatedly, I'm writing to those of my ex-colleagues on the BAIS
Executive whose addresses I have, as well as to other key people in Irish
Studies, to let you know about my successful libel action against the
publishers of Tim Pat Coogan's book about the Irish diaspora, Wherever Green
is Worn.

I am used to Mr Coogan's attacks on me in his columns and on the airwaves:
he hates my politics as I hate his and I have no objection to fair comment.
But while up to now I have taken his assaults in good humour, the travesty
of his account of my involvement with the BAIS outraged me and I was
determined not to let it go down to posterity uncorrected.

I attach some documentation that might be of interest. There was much else
in Mr Coogan's strange narrative that was inaccurate, but not
straightforwardly libellous.

I would be grateful if you would do what you can to ensure that any
libraries you are connected with insert the enclosed erratum slip in
existing copies and ask Random House for replacements.

I hope you are well and prospering.

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Best wishes,

Ruth