From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Kurt Mills

Apologies for cross-posting...

Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International
Studies Association (ENMISA)

43rd Annual International Studies Association Convention
New Orleans, March 23-27, 2002

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals

Convention Theme: "Dissolving Boundaries: The Nexus Between
Comparative Politics and International Relations"

ENMISA Program Statement

Next year's theme for the Annual Convention of the International
Studies Association aims to look at the connection between
comparative politics and international relations. ENMISA is well
positioned to address this theme since the subjects that many of the
members of ENMISA work on are, by their very nature, simultaneously
concerned with domestic/comparative and international political
processes. Communal identification and conflict have both domestic
and international roots and consequences. International migration and
refugee flows, too, have both domestic and international causes and
consequences.

We welcome paper, panel, and roundtable proposals that address, among
others, the following issues:

* The interrelationship between domestic and international causes and
consequences of ethnic/national/religious identification and conflict
in terms of economic, political, and other conditions
* The causes and consequences of international migration and refugee
movements
* The connection between the apparent dissolution of boundaries and
the transnationalization of domestic conflict, i.e. the move from
civil war to war systems (such as the Great Lakes region of Africa)
and the resulting war economies and the links to transnational
movements, such as human smuggling networks
* The interdisciplinary connections between ethnicity, nationalism,
and migration and the concerns of other ISA sections, such as foreign
policy analysis, feminism, IR theory, security studies, peace
research, and international organization, as well as the
incorporation of theoretical perspectives, such as
neoinstitutionalism, which might bridge the international/comparative
divide
* Critical perspectives on identity and boundaries

Given that one of the section's goals is to foster teaching, we would
welcome a panel or roundtable proposal which addresses the state of
the art of teaching in the areas of ethnicity, nationalism, and
migration.

Although preference will be given to proposals which incorporate the
program theme, we also welcome submission of proposals which address
any of the broader concerns of the ENMISA section.

The complete ENMISA call for papers can be found at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/enm/2002Call.htm. The overall ISA
statement and call for papers can be found at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/neworleans/call.html.

All proposals must be submitted directly to the ISA program chairs
at: http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/neworleans/submit.html. The deadline
is June 1, 2001.

More information about ENMISA can be found at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/isa/enm/.

You can direct ENMISA program related questions to the ENMISA Program
Chair, Kurt Mills, at kmills[at]hampshire.edu

Dear Paddy,

I'm intrigued by the references to the Mullin asnd his Toiler's Life.

Naturally I came across it while I was doing my research on Cardiff. I
interviewed Mullin's grandson who
gave me a copy of the original book which, I regret to say, was lost during
one of
my frequent moves. I did not regret the loss too much. At the time I thought
that Dr. Mullin came across as such an arrogant and obnoxious character -
despising his ignorant, Irish patients and all those, clergy and
politicians,
who dared to disagree with him - and was so untypical of the other Irish
physicians in Cardiff that he was not significant enough to be included in
my
study. My feeling then was that though he might prove to be an interesting
study
for some social psychologist he was not worthy of the time I had already
spent in tracking him down.

However, times change, though not always for the better. It's good to see
the amount of micro-research being done but that itself has its problems,
including the over-emphasis of the importance of individuals. But, I should
be very grateful if we could see the 'ecstatic' review from Irish Studies
Review you
mentioned and let us know the means by which I can replace my copy of
Mullin's book.

Thanks again for all you have done and continue to do.
Best,
John

John Hickey

[Moderator's Note:
We will see if we can get permission to re-distribute the book review - we
do not like to simply distribute things without permission. The book
details are:
The Story of a Toiler's Life
James Mullin (1920)
Patrick Maume, ed., 2000
Dublin, University College Dublin Press
ISBN 1 900621.40.1
£13.95 pb
P.O'S.]

From: Bronwen Walter


Dear Paddy,

In response to Paddy Walls? comments on the Irish 2 Project Newsletter which
suggest that the research lacks objectivity and simply follows the political
agenda of Irish community groups, I would like to clarify the purpose of the
Newsletter.

It is targeted at user groups of research on the second-generation Irish,
including mainstream policy makers and service as well as Irish community
and welfare groups. The policy relevance, and public accessibility, of the
Project is central to its funding by the ESRC.

This edition had the specific aim of attempting to ensure that the census
question is answered systematically so that all those who want to be counted
as Irish tick the right box. That is all that can be done at this stage to
make a very poor question have any academic or policy use. Obviously, as
Paddy found in Scotland, many people will choose not to tick this box even
if they have Irish parents and there is no reason to ?coerce? them. This is
not a question about parentage.

Research on the Irish in contemporary Britain ? especially in England - has
been characterised by close links between academics and policy makers both
in the mainstream and Irish community groups and service providers. This is
a strength, not evidence of a lack of objectivity.

The Irish 2 Project used focus groups as a first exploratory stage,
intentionally seeking volunteers. As the Newsletter points out, the second
stage employs quotas to ensure that interviewees match the class, age,
gender, religion and ?race? profile of the second generation and include
low- and non-identifiers.

What comes through clearly from Paddy Walls? comments, and from our own
findings, is the specificity of Irish experience in Scotland. The low rates
of identification as Irish she mentions were also apparent in our focus
groups discussions, and were markedly different from our findings in
England. Scotland has been left out on a limb in many academic, community
and policy activities relating to the Irish in Britain. An important aim of
the Irish 2 Project is to reintegrate Scotland into Irish diaspora studies
of contemporary period in Britain.

Bronwen Walter
Project Director

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Irish-Diaspora list - like all the scholarly email groups - is going
through a quiet patch, over the Easter holiday period.

I am going to be away over the next few days - seizing the opportunity to go
away on a quick, short holiday with my family.

Ir-D members can send messages to
Irish-Diaspora list
in the usual way. Such messages will be automatically stockpiled, and will
be sent on to the membership when I return.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Our friend, Peter O'Neill, in Rio, has brought this to our attention...


From: Peter O'Neill
pon[at]ireland.com
Subject: Bloomsday Brazil 2001


Dear Friends of James Joyce,

Details about this year's Bloomsday celebrations in Brazil on
Saturday 16 June are now available at the following web site:

www.gringoes.com

Padraig Flavin at Rio's Shamrock Pub will also have his own mini
Bloomsday celebration on the same date at Rua Ronald de Carvalho 154 -
Copacabana. Tel.: (0xx21) 244-8163.

Peter O'Neill
Caixa Postal 16286
22222-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

P.O'S.


Odyssey Pictures is delighted to announce the production of a new feature
film of James Joyce's universal epic, Ulysses.

Filming will commence in Dublin on the 16th June 2001 and the main cast
includes Stephen Rea playing Leopold Bloom, Angeline Ball playing Molly
Bloom and Andrew Scott playing Stephen Dedalus.

This is an important, potentially controversial and exciting project; a
project that will open up the wonderful world of James Joyce to a far wider
audience.

We hope that you can take the time to visit our website:

www.millbrook.ie/ulysses

Thank you very much for your time and please do forward this e-mail to
anyone whom you think would be interested in this historic work.

With my best personal regards.

Sean Walsh

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item has been brought to our attention. Please circulate
widely...

P.O'S.

ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, &
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
AHRB CENTRE FOR IRISH AND SCOTTISH STUDIES
£16,775 - £25,213 per annum

An AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies has been established
in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies,
in collaboration with Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's
University, Belfast.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
in Irish and Scottish History based at the AHRB Centre for Irish
and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen. The post will
involve the completion of a comparative study of emigration from
Ireland and Scotland between 1921 and 2001. This project is
directed by Dr Enda Delaney of Queen's University Belfast. You
will undertake a programme of research on source materials
located in the UK, Ireland, United States and Canada. You must
have successfully completed a doctorate in History or a cognate
discipline. Preference may be given to candidates with proven
expertise in modern Irish or Scottish history and/or an interest
in comparative history. This is one of seven postdoctoral
fellowships to be appointed over the first five year cycle of
the AHRB Centre.

The post is available from 1 October 2001, and is for two years
in the first instance with the possibility of an extension for a
third year. Informal enquiries relating to the project may be
directed to Dr Delaney in Belfast by telephone (028) 90273423 or
email E.Delaney[at]qub.ac.uk, or to Professor T M Devine in
Aberdeen on (01224) 273683 or email riiss[at]abdn.ac.uk

Application forms and further particulars are available from
Human Resources, University Office, University of
Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, telephone (01224)
272727 quoting reference number YIS004R. A 24-hour answering
service is in operation.

Closing Date: Monday 7 May 2001

An Equal Opportunities Employer

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1492-1763

The University of Alabama English Department invites you to join us for
a symposium entitled "Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1492-1763."

To be held on 27-29 Sep 2001, it is the twenty-fifth Alabama Symposium
on English and American Literature and the first in a series of five to
be devoted to the subject of literature, race, and ethnicity from a
variety of cultural studies perspectives.

The distinguished African American playwright August Wilson will
inaugurate the Symposium with a public lecture on Thursday evening,
September 27.

Scholars presenting papers on Friday and Saturday, September 28-29,
include
Benjamin Braude (Boston College, History), Mary Floyd-Wilson (Yale
University, English), Barbara Fuchs (University of Washington, English),

Kim Hall (Fordham University, English), Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New
York University, History), Jennifer Morgan (Rutgers University,
History), Joseph Roach (Yale University, Theatre and African-American
Studies), Francesca Royster (DePaul University, English), and Gordon
Sayre (University of Washington, English).

Their topics cover the whole range of oceanic culture, addressing the
diverse ways in which categories of "race"--black, brown, red, and
white, African-American and Afro-Caribbean, Spanish and Jewish, English
and French, native American and northern European, Creole and
Mestizo--were constructed by early modern anglophone writers. With
lectures by scholars currently engaged in exciting work
across a range of cultural studies' disciplines, as well as the opening
presentation by August Wilson, we hope to provide a program unique in
its diversity and its energy.

For further information, please visit our web page at
http://www.as.ua.edu/english/symposium

It includes a registration form which can be printed out and faxed to

Symposium Committee, 205-3481388, or mailed to
Department of English,
University of Alabama
Box 870244, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244.

Please feel free also to contact co-directors
Philip Beidler (pbeidler[at]english.as.ua.edu) or
Gary Taylor (gtaylor[at]english.as.ua.edu)
at the English Department. We will respond promptly.

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, Director
African American Studies Program
The University of Alabama
http://www.as.ua.edu/amstud//aasthome.htm

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Michael Boss...


EFACIS 2001
?Ireland and Europe in Times of Re-Orientation and Re-Imagining?
6 - 9 December 2001, University of Aarhus, Denmark
2nd and final call for papers for the Third Conference of EFACIS (The
European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies). The
conference is hosted by the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN) and the
Centre for Irish Studies, Department of English, University of Aarhus,
Denmark.
For papers and abstracts contact: Michael Böss,
Centre for Irish Studies,
University of Aarhus,
DK-8000 Aarhus,
Denmark.
E-mail: engmb[at]hum.au.dk
Fax: +45 8942 6540

Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 June, 2001. Deadline for abstracts:
15 August 2001.

General information and on-line registration at:

www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/nisn/efacis2001


Paper and Panels
Papers within the fields of Irish culture, literature, history, sociology,
art and politics are invited. As of 1 April the following six panels
have been planned, but others may be suggested until 1 June:
1. Ireland and Europe in the 20th century: History and politics
(organised in collaboration with the Jean Monnet Centre)

2. Church, state and religion in contemporary Ireland

3. Irish writing in an international context

4. Celtic connections: Cultural interchanges between Ireland and Scotland

5. Irish music between two worlds

6. Literature of exile

The conference will be organised into a number of parallel sessions
according to the numbers and interests of the participants. We are
planning to accommodate about 100 participants, and we are prepared to run
enough parallel sessions to give space to all quality
papers. The conference will also be open to papers that do not fit into a
proposed theme.


Key-note speakers:
For each of the six panels mentioned above, there will be a key-note
lecture. The following key-note speakers have accepted an
invitation:
Professor Joseph Lee, University College Cork:
?Spiritually Closer to Boston than Berlin?

Dr. Tom Inglis, University College Dublin:
?Church, Conscience and Symbolic Domination?

Eileen Battersby, literary staff of the Irish Times:
?Contemporary Irish Writing - a World Literature??

Professor T.M. Devine, University of Aberdeen:
?Making the Caledonian Connection - Irish and Scottish Studies Past, Present
and Future?

Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, Limerick University:
Composer and pianist

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poet, Trinity College
?Re-Imagining Ireland?


Welcome in Aarhus!

Michael Böss
engmb[at]hum.au.dk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The preparations for the 2001 UK Census are now falling into place...

As well as...
http://census.ac.uk/

the following UK government sites might be helpful...

The main site is at
www.statistics.gov.uk/countmein/

It took me a while to realise that 'countmein' is not some piece of
statistician's jargon, from the German perhaps... It is 'Count Me In', the
slogan from the UK government's census publicity campaign.

The Welsh version is at
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/countmein/windex.html
or
www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/countmein/windex.html

Details of Scotland's first census under its restored parliament are at
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/countmein/windex.html

Northern Ireland's details are at
http://www.nicensus2001.gov.uk/home.html

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY is now being
distributed.

Amongst the items of special interest to us are Mary Ann Lyons article on
maritime relations between Ireland and France, and the guide to Medical
Archives by Brian Donnelly and Margaret O hOgartaigh - very useful.

The full list of book reviews is too long to give here, but of interest are:
Tim O'Neill on Osborough, Legal History (very respectful); Margaret O
hOgartaigh on Malcolm & Jones, eds, Medicine Disease and the State (a good
start); Brian Griffin on 3 books about the Irish Constabularies; Christine
Kinealy on 2 books about the Famine; David Doyle on Gribben, ed., The Great
Famine and the Irish Famine in America ('testimony to the humanity, variety
and maturity of Famine studies in America...'); Katrina Goldstone on Keogh,
Jews in C20th Ireland ('a flawed beginning' - but a scoop in his account of
the Limerick 1904 pogrom); and Christine Kinrealy on Ruth Dudley Edwards,
Faithful Tribe ('undisciplined...')

P.O'S.

IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY
VOL. XXVII 2000
CONTENTS

ARTICLES
Mary Ann Lyons: Maritime Relations between Ireland and France, c. 148o-c.
1630
Andy Bielenberg: Entrepreneurship, Power and Public Opinion in Ireland: the
Career of William Martin Murphy
Susannah Riordan: 'A Political Blackthorn': Sean MacEntee, the Dignan Plan
and the Principle of Ministerial Responsibility

DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES
Jane Ohlmeyer: Calculating Debt: the Irish Statute Staple Records
Brian Donnelly and Margaret O hOgartaigh: Medical Archives for
the Socio-Economic Historian

ARCHIVES REPORT
Brian Donnelly: National Archives: Survey of Business Records Public Record
Office of Northern Ireland: Recent Accessions of
Interest to the Social and Economic Historian

THESIS ABSTRACTS
David Edwards: The Ormond Lordship in County Kilkenny, 1515-1642
Clodagh Tail: Harnessing Corpses: Death, Burial, Disinterment
and Commemoration in Ireland, c. 1550-1655
JosePh McLaughlin: The Making of the Irish Leviathan, 1603-25: Statebuilding
in Ireland during the Reign of James VI and I
David Brodt'Tick: The Irish Turnpike Road System
Petri Mirala: Freemasonry in Ulster, 1733-1813
Brian Cowler: A History of Irish Agriculture and European Integration,
1956-73
Fznola Doyle O'Neill: Challenging Irish Society: The Late Late Show,
1962-1997

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernadette Cunningflam and Raymond Gillespie: Select Bibliography of
Writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 1999

plus many book reviews

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Oonagh Walsh, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Email o.walsh[at]abdn.ac.uk
is organising a conference

Ethics and Ethnics
The Implementation of Western Medicine
1800 to present
June 29 to July 1, 2001
Department of History, University of Aberdeen
in association with the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Proposals of around 250 words, papers of 20 minutes. Participants are
encouraged to approach the issue of medical/cultural contact imaginatively.
Themes might inclide Medicine and Colonization, Medico-Ethnic Identities,
Medical Missionising, Western Absorption of Traditional Practice, Responses
to New Tecnologies, Gender, Culture and Medicine...

Some student bursaries available.

Contact Oonagh Walsh for further information.

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From the USA, the latest Newsletter of the American Conference for Irish
Studies, now counting down to its
39th Annual Meeting, Fordham University, New York City, 6-9 June 2001 - and
from Nancy Curtin an outline of the Conference.

Nancy Curtin has a home page at
http://www.fordham.edu/history/curtin/

from which there is an entry point, labelled FU-ACIS, to material about the
Conference - including a (slow to load) full colour poster.

The Conference outline is at
http://www.fordham.edu/history/curtin/program.htm

Changing constantly. Worth a visit, and worth a browse - for the ACIS
Conferences are a simple way of tracking current research and preoccupations
within Irish Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies. We are all becoming much
more inter-connected - I note, for example, the presence at the Conference
of friends and colleagues from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland,
Britain, Canada, Australia...

At the June meeting outgoing ACIS president Nancy Curtin is replaced - in
the ACIS manner - by current vice-president Michael Patrick Gillespie. Our
best wishes to both, and our thanks to Nancy.

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From Canada, the Newsletter of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies -
with a note from a chum, saying '...saw you on the tv documentary, The Irish
Empire, last week...'

Does this mean that The Irish Empire has appeared on Canadian television?
Or had my contact seen the videos?

[Note: Contact points for getting hold of the videos are...
www.rte.ie/tv/irishempire
www.clarencepix.com
http://www.blackstar.co.uk/
But I am not guaranteeing anything...]

Generally the feedback from those who teach on the Irish Diaspora and from
their students is that they all find The Irish Empire series useful and
interesting. It certainly puts a lot of recent research and debate on the
screen. When people find the series confusing it is because the series is
sometimes confusing - and confusing in the manner of this kind of
television. (Oooh here's something 'cinematic' - let's film it and later we
can try to find a way of fitting it in... But this does mean that you get
to see Ultan Cowley's hat...)

In Canada, they are counting down to the CAIS Conference at Laval
University, 24-26 May. An important debate at the CAIS AGM, May 26, will
consider whether or not to continue the CAIS Conference's association with
the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada. It is a very
finely balanced debate, and of course outsiders cannot comment. But similar
debates take place throughout the Irish Studies/Irish Diaspora Studies
communities everywhere - about visibility, making connections, agendas,
organisational strengths and weaknesses...

On the day before the Conference, 23 May, Marianna O'Gallagher leads an
excursion to Grosse Ile, the quarantine station on the St. Lawrence - as the
CAIS Newsletter says, Irish Diaspora 'sacred ground'...

P.O'S.

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From: Ultan Cowley
Subject: Re: Ir-D From Canada


Re. 'Ultan Cowley's hat':

I figured that, if the unfortunate public were going to be fed an
unremitting diet of 'talking heads', they should at least be treated now
and then to a little visual light relief!

Besides, when one is filming (for hours - in a biting east wind) at Mode
Wheel Lock on the Manchester Ship Canal, what hat could be more appropriate
than a Panama?

Mine bears an unfortunate resemblance to something more vulgar because, in
the unremitting winds of South Wexford (so like Patagonia) it gets
constantly
pulled down fore and aft to keep it in place on my bald pate. The
discerning dresser, however, will of course recognise its true provenance...

As Paddy says, thats tv, folks - sorry!

Ultan


At 06:30 22/04/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>From Canada, the Newsletter of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies -
>with a note from a chum, saying '...saw you on the tv documentary, The
Irish
>Empire, last week...'
>
>Does this mean that The Irish Empire has appeared on Canadian television?
>Or had my contact seen the videos?
>
>[Note: Contact points for getting hold of the videos are...
>www.rte.ie/tv/irishempire
>www.clarencepix.com
>http://www.blackstar.co.uk/
>But I am not guaranteeing anything...]
>
>Generally the feedback from those who teach on the Irish Diaspora and from
>their students is that they all find The Irish Empire series useful and
>interesting. It certainly puts a lot of recent research and debate on the
>screen. When people find the series confusing it is because the series is
>sometimes confusing - and confusing in the manner of this kind of
>television. (Oooh here's something 'cinematic' - let's film it and later
we
>can try to find a way of fitting it in... But this does mean that you get
>to see Ultan Cowley's hat...)
>
>

From: Liz Newton
Organization: University of Regina
Subject: Re: Ir-D From Canada


yes, i think i saw the irish empire too, but maybe on channel 6 which is the
american public tv. station.

Liz


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

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> >From Canada, the Newsletter of the Canadian Association for Irish
Studies -
> with a note from a chum, saying '...saw you on the tv documentary, The
Irish
> Empire, last week...'
>
> Does this mean that The Irish Empire has appeared on Canadian television?
> Or had my contact seen the videos?
>
> [Note: Contact points for getting hold of the videos are...
> www.rte.ie/tv/irishempire
> www.clarencepix.com
> http://www.blackstar.co.uk/
> But I am not guaranteeing anything...]
>
> Generally the feedback from those who teach on the Irish Diaspora and from
> their students is that they all find The Irish Empire series useful and
> interesting. It certainly puts a lot of recent research and debate on the
> screen. When people find the series confusing it is because the series is
> sometimes confusing - and confusing in the manner of this kind of
> television. (Oooh here's something 'cinematic' - let's film it and later
we
> can try to find a way of fitting it in... But this does mean that you get
> to see Ultan Cowley's hat...)
> England

From: Ultan Cowley
Subject: citation

Could anyone oblige me with the title, volume, year, etc. of the journal in
which the following article appeared?:

Eric Hobsbawm, The Tramping Artisan

I have extracts from my notes on the article but have mislaid the originals.

Hobsbawm describes a 19C. British tradesmen's custom, with parallels on the
European continent, which was adopted by the railway navvies and which
accounts for the tradition amongst Irish 'Long Distance Men' in the
construction industry of giving unquestioning if limited financial
assistance to anyone 'on tramp' passing through their locality.

Some such men, returning to farming occupations in rural Ireland, have told
me they found the absence of any similar tradition, amongst the Irish
farming community, disconcerting. There it was (and is) unthinkable to
disclose financial embarrassment.

With thanks.

Ultan Cowley

Forwarded on behalf of
Sara Ellen Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu]

Announcing the premiere issue of Foilsiú, a new journal of Irish
studies published by GRÍAN Association.

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Foilsiú

Number 1, Spring 2001


Introduction

I. Insular Identities

Nature, Nostalgia, and Nation
OONA FRAWLEY

Beyond the ?Three Rs?
Education and Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland
MARY CAFFREY

Made in the City
Irish Catholic Gentry of the 19th Century
SOPHIE SWEETMAN MCCONNELL

Irish Identities in Thomas Kinsella?s Writing
DERVAL TUBRIDY


II. Political Inscriptions

Homophobia and Gender in Táin Bó Cúalnge
Translation as a Technology of Adaptation in Irish
Literature
LAHNEY PRESTON-MATTO

Science, Culture, and the Economy
From the Famine to the Celtic Tiger
DAVID ATTIS

Dietary Practice and the Cultural Construction of Irish
Identity
LINDA SCHLOSSBERG



III. Surrogate Actions

Sex and Popular Culture in Patrick McCabe?s Breakfast on
Pluto and Roddy Doyle?s The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
MOIRA E. CASEY


The Statue Moves
Isadora Duncan, W.B. Yeats, and the Reimagining of the
Body
BRUCE BROMLEY

?Newer? Irish in New York
Technology and the Experience of Immigration
SARA BRADY


IV. Engineered Histories

Surveillance Techniques, Memory, and History in a
Northern Ireland Town
WILLIAM F. KELLEHER, JR.

?Remembering the Celtic Past?
Translation and History as Identity Creation in
Cuchulain of Muirthemne
ELIZABETH GILMARTIN

The Cracked Camera Lens of a Servant
Photographing the Post-Modern in McCann?s Songdogs and
Bolger?s A Second Life
WILL HATHEWAY

Mapping the Sacred
Time, space, and politics in the stories of the saints
KAREN EILEEN OVERBEY

From: "Willie Jenkins"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Irish Empire' sighted

History Television in Canada (on cable) showed the Irish Empire as part of
its excellent 'Irish Week', broadcast after March 17 this year.

In addition to the five episodes, they also broadcast a fascinating
documentary about Shackleton's trip to Antartica, featuring the unsung hero
Tom Crean.

Since I missed the first two episodes of the IE, I will be looking out for a
re-broadcast. If anyone hears of the next broadcast, please let us
know.  That channel is one of the major redeeming features of North
American television.

William Jenkins
Geography, University of Toronto

From: "C. McCaffrey"
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Irish Empire' sighted


No, I think you are incorrect in this. So far PBS has not bought the series
which I am anxious to see. I only caught the first episode when I was in
Ireland. You may have seen 'Out of Ireland' which is similar and has run a
few
times on the various PBS systems in the US.
Carmel

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

> From: Liz Newton
> Organization: University of Regina
> Subject: Re: Ir-D From Canada
>
> yes, i think i saw the irish empire too, but maybe on channel 6 which is
the
> american public tv. station.
>
> Liz
>
>