Subject: Ir-D Minorities in Ireland
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Although rather anecdotal, a useful source for life stories
and images relating to the Indian community in Ireland (mostly NI) is
Narinder Kapur, _The Irish Raj: illustrated stories about Irish in
India and Indians in Ireland_ (Greystone Press, Antrim, 1997).
Peter Gray

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:18:16 EST Lx555[at]aol.com wrote:

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>
> I was having a chat with my supervisor the other day - Dr Panikos Panayi who
> is working on a book about European minorities - and he made the remark that
> Ireland seems to have no significant settled ethnic minorities. I had to
> confess that, apart from travellers, I could not think of any. I wondered if
> the network knows of any studies on minorities in Ireland?
>
> Somewhat in jest, I mused that perhaps there was a new English minority living
> un-researched within the bosom of the 'Celtic Tiger' economy, drawn in by the
> very pull factors that helped create the Irish community in Britain
> previously. English economic immigrants within Ireland would make an
> interesting paper I suspect! There must be some immigrants from the Indian
> subcontinent I would imagine. Any help would be very interesting to myself and
> useful to Dr. Panayi's research.
>
>
> Alex Peach
> DeMontfort University
> UK
>

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Peter Gray
pg2[at]soton.ac.uk

Yes, also in the Daily Telegraph today (29 Jan 99) - the fictional
Zorro was based on a 17th Irishman called William Lamport. The source is
Fabio Troncarelli, a lecturer at Viterbo University.

Lamport, born in Co. Wexford in 1615 "of noble stock" ended up in Mexico
after a series of adventures. After what sounds like a very full life
there (spying for the King's prime minister, a full love life, etc.) he
was arrested by the Inquisition for plotting to free the black slaves
and Indians and establish himself as the first King of Mexico.

Russell Murray
Department of Social & Economic Studies
University of Bradford
United Kingdom

For an end to another (relatively) hidden Ireland, see Paul Hainsworth
(ed.), Divided Society: Ethnic Minorities and Racism in Northern Ireland
(Pluto, 1998)

Don MacRaild
Sunderland

$79.00 dollars is about 79 Euros, I reckon. Thanks to everyone who has
weighed in on this subject. I think some of my students will enjoy watching
the series, writing reviews and then reading the reviews of the experts!

Don MacRaild
Sunderland

Subject: Ir-D Zorro was an Irishman
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For background on the Lamports, see (Mr) Hilary Murphy, Families of Co.
Wexford (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1986). Hilary is a sub-editor at
the Wexford People; if anyone has access to the newspaper, it might be
interesting to have a local take on Zorro-from-Wexford.

By the late C17th, the original surname de Lamporte or Lamport had become
Lambert. Bishop Patrick Lambert, Wexford-born Vicar Apostolic of
Newfoundland, 1806-1816, may be related.

Also a strong hint of swashbuckling antecedents in Rudolph de Lamporte, son
of Milo, founder of the Irish family. After building a castle on Lady's
Island, land granted by Strongbow, Rudolph joined the Second Crusade. He
died at the Battle of Hattin, 1187, having deeded his Lady's Island land to
the church in case he did not return.


Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn[at]clark.net

Subject: Ir-D Reviewing Ireland
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The Irish Studies Review team have published in book form a collection
of 29 essays. These essays originally appeared in the Irish Studies
Review 1992-1997 - that is in the journal in its original, large page
(European A4) format, before its 1998 re-incarnation as one of the
scholarly journals published by the Carfax company.

The book is...
Sarah Briggs, Paul Hyland and Neil Sammells, editors, Reviewing Ireland:
Essays and Interviews from Irish Studies Press, Sulis Press, Bath, 1998.
Hardback ISBN 0 952665655 £40
Paperback ISBN 0 952685663 £14.95

Contact address... Sara Kirkby, Sulis Press, Bath Spa University
College, Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN, England.

The book is divided into 5 sections...
1. Early Modern,
includes Terry Eagleton on Francis Sylvester Mahony, Barbara White on
Criminal Confessions of C18th women, Alan Booth on Irish Radicalism in
England, 1790s.
2. Modern
includes Niall O Ciosain on Silence about the Famine, Mervyn Busteed on
Manchester's Little Ireland, Grahan Davis and Eugenia Landes on the
Irish in South Texas, Patrick O'Farrell on New Zealand, Owen Dudley
Edwards on Wilde, Margaret Ward on Irish Women and Nationalism.
3. Contemporary
includes Bridget O'Toole on J. G. Farrell at Work, Sarah Briggs on Mary
Lavin, Liam Greenslade on 'ethnic' health, Mary Hickman on the Irish in
Britain, Incorporation and Identity, Maurice Goldring on Irish in
contemporary Europe.
4. Nationalism and Post-Nationalism
includes George J. Watson on Celticism and the Annulment of History,
Gerry Smyth on Irish Cultural Criticism.
5 Interviews
with Dermot Bolger, Patrick McCabe, Eavan Boland, Brian Coffey, Roy
McFadden, Tom Paulin.
Plus 'Afterword'
Garret Fitzgerald 'Ireland in the next Millenium: The Irish State on
the Threshold of the New Century'.

Irish Studies Review articles, in the earlier ISR format, could be quite
short - this here the Booth article on Irish involvement in the London
Corresponding Society is 4 pages of text plus one of notes. And ISR
article is very unlikely to be the last word on a topic - often it is
the first word. But the journal is always well-written, approachable
and stimulating.

I was associated with Irish Studies Review from the beginning - I am a
member of the Advisory Board. And it is a special pleasure to see here
articles that I had a hand in finding and placing. I especially
recommend Bridget O'Toole's piece about her relationship with Jim
Farrell - just a lovely piece of writing.

Relevant Web sites are
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk
http://www.carfax.co.uk

P.O'S.




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