Anthony:
I have checked the British Library's holdings of Our Games (B.L.
shelfmark: P.P.8001.m) and I'm afraid that it appears that we only
hold the volumes for 1963 and 1964.

You might like to try the 2 other copyright libraries in England
which have a right to claim material published in the Republic of
Ireland:
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
Tel: 01865 277000
E-mail: enquiries[at]bodley.ox.ac.uk
or
University Library,University of Cambridge,West Road,Cambridge CB3 9DR
Tel: 01223 333000
E-mail: library[at]ula.cam.ac.uk

Alternatively, you might wish to contact the GAA directly and see if you
could obtain from them a copy of the article you require:
Gaelic Athletic Association, Croke Park, Dublin 3
Tel: 00 353 1 363222
Enquiries to: Publications Officer.
Held there is a large collection of documentation from the founding of the
Association to the present, including minutes of all meetings, photographs,
programmes, and printed material. (According to the Directory of Irish
Archives).

Best wishes
Mary Doran
Curator, Modern Irish Collections
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

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Author: "cornelius mcnicholas" at Internet
Date: 03/11/98 05:21




anthony mcnicholas mcnichc[at]wmin.ac.uk

Dear list, I wonder can anyone help me. I came across a reference to a
C19 journalist I am interested in - Dennis Holland. There is, apparently
a two page biography of him in Our Games 1968 the annual of the GAA. I
was in Dublin recently for a few days and tried to get Our Games at the
National Library. The 1968 issue was missing. 'That's strange, try
Trinity' they said. I did. 1968 was similarly listed as being in the
library but was also missing. I was unable to chase the matter up
further while in Ireland, but I would like get my hands on the article.
I wonder could anyone tell me where I might see a copy? I am in the
London area.

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On Newfoundland...

There is
O'Hara, Aidan, 'The Irish in Newfoundland', in Galway Labour History
Group The Emigrant Experience, Galway, 1991.

I've never seen this, so I don't know how useful it will be.

Professor George J. Casey
Department of English Language and Literature
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7
has written on Irish language survival in Newfoundland and has a general
interest in the history of the Irish on the island. He may know more.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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Dear Friends,

For those interested in the SSNCI's conference in Bath next
spring, check out the following URL for a call for papers and
further info:

http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/irldconf.htm

All good wishes,

Leon

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Head of Undergraduate Teaching
School of English
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/prometheus.html

Tel. +44-1232-273266
Fax +44-1232-314615

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L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk


Dear friends,

If you have not been able to get through to Bath Spa College's
web page for SSNCI conference details, it is because their
server has been down for a couple of days.

You should keep trying; but as a back-up, please e-mail the
conference organiser, Brian Griffin, for details. His e-mail
address is b.griffin[at]bathspa.ac.uk

All good wishes,

Leon

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Leon Litvack
Head of Undergraduate Teaching
School of English
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/prometheus.html

Tel. +44-1232-273266
Fax +44-1232-314615


[Moderator's Note:
The SSNCI conference Web site is
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/irldconf.htm
And, yes, anyone who runs a project - like the Irish-Diaspora list -
which connects with a large number of academic Web and email servers
will know that they often shut down at weekends, while they clean out
the pipes or something.
Drives me mad.
P.O'S]

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In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
the guns of World War I ceased firing...

And, 80 years later, today, on November 11, at Messines (Mesen) in
Flanders, President McAleese, the Queen of England, and the King and
Queen of Belgium, dedicate a monument to the memory of those Irishmen
who died in the Great War. The monument itself - a 100ft round tower,
symbolically built with stones from all 32 of Ireland's counties - is
rather ugly. But I suppose it will mellow.

Some 30,000 men from what is now the Republic of Ireland died in the
Great War, and 20,000 from what is now Northern Ireland. I am not being
cynically detached if I suggest that there is a possible fascinating
case study here, of the processes of memory and memorialising, and the
uses of history.

There are interesting cultural turning points, in the re-remembering of
the Great War dead - of which the most significant is most probably
Frank McGuinness's 1985 play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards
the Somme. Many have commented on nationalist Ireland's 'collective
amnesia' about Irish involvement in the War - I can particularly
recommend an elegant little essay by Keith Jeffery, 'Irish Culture and
the Great War', Bullan, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 1994.

Those of us who study the Irish outside Ireland were aware of this
amnesiac gap - the largest army ever to have left Ireland, the greatest
number of Irish dead in any conflict - and were aware, of course, of the
implications of involvement in the War for Irish-Americans, Irish-
Australians, Irish-Canadians. Scholars, like Tom Dooley and Myles
Dungan, who have studied the Irish of World War I, have reported meeting
an initial reluctance to understand the significance of what they were
trying to do. There has been a cultural change, and it is a change that
has been lead by writers and scholars.

But the case study of that cultural change would not be complete if it
looked only at the Irish of Ireland, and the Irish of the Diaspora. For
there has been a change in Britain too. Those who commented on how long
it took Ireland to develop a sober discourse of the Great Famine may
notice how long it has taken England to come to terms with the Great
War, the betrayal of trust, the betrayal of patriotism - when, of
course, the only sober message to come out of the Great War is to
distrust your leaders.

Patrick O'Sullivan
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Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England