From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

A random list of 8 items, recently found in the databases, and of interest
to Irish Diaspora Studies...

Some are very slight - count the page numbers. But some intriguing stuff...
And something for (almost) everybody. Even the linguists...

P.O'S.


1.
Irish law and lawyers in modern folk tradition by Hickey E
Schempf H
FABULA
41 (3-4): 334-336 2000

2.
'Irish Washerwomen in the New World'
Hennessy J
SEWANEE REVIEW
109 (1): 27-28 WIN 2001

3.
Thomas Carlyle, 'Chartism', and the Irish in early Victorian England
Swift R
VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
29 (1): 67-83 2001

4.
Saved souls and abortive foetuses. Nineteenth century Ireland
[Anon]
QUADERNI STORICI
35 (3): 767-801 DEC 2000

Document type: Article Language: Italian Cited References: 0
Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
This article analyses the case of John Curtis, Jesuit missionary in
nineteenth century Ireland, who in 1861 presented to the Holy Office of the
Catholic Church a detailed project of education of midwives, doctors and
priests about the baptism of premature foetuses. This originated a
discussion in the Holy Office which involved concepts such as ensoulment and
the definition of baptism, which appears interesting, because it was
conducted in a period in which the position of Catholics on these points
seemed to be homogeneous and defined. The original sources of the Archives
of the Holy Office, letters of Curtis and instructions already circulating
in Ireland and Great Britain and inquisitorial papers have been examined in
the context of mid-nineteenth century Ireland. In this perspective an
attempt of disciplining Irish Catholics to the model of Council of Trent
emerges, most of all in the politics of sacraments. The battle for
proselytism in which Catholics and Protestants had been involved for years
appears as one of the motives of the Curtis initiative. In this some of the
dynamic which involved pregnancy and birth are made apparent. On the other
hand the implication of some of the most important concepts of Catholic
discipline of abortion, such as animation of the foetus and definition of
baptism, have brought the analysis in the perspective of Catholic discourse.
The negative answer of the Holy Office compose finally an image of the
Catholic positions on these concepts that is more articulate than has
previously been thought.
Publisher:
SOC ED IL MULINO, BOLOGNA

IDS Number:
394VU

ISSN:
0301-6307

5.
The performance of Jewish ethnicity in Anne Nichols's 'Abie's Irish Rose'
Merwin T
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY
20 (2): 3-37 WIN 2001

Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 99
Times Cited: 0

Addresses:
Merwin T, Dickinson Coll, Carlisle, PA 17013 USA
Dickinson Coll, Carlisle, PA 17013 USA
CUNY, New York, NY USA
Publisher:
TRANSACTION PERIOD CONSORTIUM, PISCATAWAY

IDS Number:
418FG

ISSN:
0278-5927

6.
Mixing beginners and native speakers in minority language immersion: Who is
immersing whom?
Hickey T
CANADIAN MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW-REVUE CANADIENNE DES LANGUES VIVANTES
57 (3): 443-474 MAR 2001

Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 62
Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
The mixing of L1 speakers with L2 learners occurs regularly in immersion
situations where a minority language is the target language. This study
looks at early immersion in Irish among children from diverse language
backgrounds. It examines the children's frequency of target language use and
the effect of the group's linguistic mix on that use. A sample of 60
children from different language backgrounds was drawn from pre-school
classes with different compositions of children from Irish-only,
Irish-English, and English-only homes. The results showed relatively low
levels of target language use even by the native speakers. The linguistic
com position of the group significantly affected the frequency of target
language use by the L1 children and the children from bilingual homes but
had less effect on the use by English speakers. The importance of addressing
the needs of native speakers as well as those of beginners in such immersion
situations is explored, and the implications for teacher training and
teaching strategies are considered.
KeyWords Plus:
ACQUISITION, PROGRAMS

Publisher:
CANADIAN MODERN LANGUAGE REV, N YORK

IDS Number:
414DC

ISSN:
0008-4506

7.
Propagating the word of Irish dissent, 1650-1800 by Herlihy K
Powell MJ
JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
25 (1): 101-102 FEB 2001

Document type: Book Review Language: English Cited References: 1
Times Cited: 0

Addresses:
Powell MJ, Univ Wales, Cardiff CF1 3NS, S Glam, Wales
Univ Wales, Cardiff CF1 3NS, S Glam, Wales
Publisher:
BLACKWELL PUBL LTD, OXFORD

IDS Number:
408CK

ISSN:


8.
Journal name Social Science and Medicine
ISSN 0277-9536 electronic:0277-9536
Publisher Elsevier - Science Direct
Issue 2001 - volume 52 - issue 7
Page 999 - 1005

Morbidity and Irish Catholic descent in Britain - Relating health
disadvantage to socio-economic position
bbotts, Joanne; Williams, Rory; Ford, Graeme

Keywords
rish Catholics, Scotland, Morbidity, Inequalities, Ethnic minorities,

Abstract
In common with some other ethnic and religious minorities whose forebears
migrated from their country of origin, Irish Catholics in Britain are less
well off than the host population in terms of socio-economic position and
health. Results are presented from a Scottish study, where Catholic religion
of origin mainly indicates Irish ancestry, and it is estimated that about
one-third of the population is of significant Irish descent. In this study,
excess of physical and mental health problems and disability have previously
been reported for those of Catholic background, particularly in the eldest
cohort (aged 56 in 1988), and have not been fully explained by
health-related behaviour. In this paper, we examine a number of key health
measures, namely self-assessed health, number of symptoms in the month prior
to interview, sadness or depression, disability and lung function, and
various indicators of socio-economic position (head of household social
class, main source of income, car ownership, housing tenure and
school-leaving age), which all show Catholic disadvantage. Using
longitudinal results from the 723 respondents who completed interviews both
at sweeps one (1988) and three (1995), it is estimated that about half of
the morbidity excess amongst middle-aged Catholics in Glasgow can be
explained by socio-economic disadvantage. The health and socio-economic
position of white minorities and disadvantaged religious minorities like
Catholics in Scotland should be monitored by a co-ordinated information
strategy.

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Philip E Smith
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Subject: Approaches to Teaching Wilde: CFP
>
>
> I'm editing a volume in the MLA *Approaches to Teaching* series and I'm
> looking for colleagues who:
> (1) Teach works of Oscar Wilde and would be willing to respond to
> a questionnaire about their appoaches.
> (2) Would be interested in proposing an essay on an approach to
> teaching Wilde.
>
> If you're interested, please read on; if not, delete the message now.
>
>
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>
> I am preparing a volume on Oscar Wilde in the MLA series of Approaches to
> Teaching. Along with essays from contributors, this volume will report on
> current practices among teachers who include any of the works of Oscar
> Wilde--fiction, drama, poetry, criticism--in classes ranging from
> introductory to graduate. I have prepared a questionnaire for teachers of
> Wilde and I have attached it in plain text at the end of the message.
> Anyone filling out a questionnaire will be acknowledged in the completed
> book.
>
> One-page single-spaced proposals for essays are also welcome and may be
> returned (accompanied by a c.v.) with the completed questionnaire. I
> already have 15 proposals, but I would happily entertain more.
>
> Here are the areas where I need proposals, listed by priority of need.
>
> 1) The literary criticism: I have an essay on "Mr. W. H." and an essay
> on teaching all of Wilde's works in a single-figure course (which will
> mention the criticism) but I have nothing focused on the essays in
> *Intentions*.
>
> 2) The comedies: I have one proposal which focuses on *Importance* and
> another on *Ideal Husband* and a third which takes a psychoanalytic
> approach to all four comedies, but nothing which considers *Lady
> Windermere* or *A Woman of No Importance*.
>
> 3) The poetry: I have one proposal on "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and
> the prison letters; nothing on the other poetry.
>
> 4) The short fiction: I have an essay on two of the fairy tales ("The
> Nightengale and the Rose" and "The Young King"), and one possible on "The
> Canterville Ghost" but nothing on the other short fiction.
>
> If you have questions about anything, please ask. Please forward this
> request to any colleagues who teach Wilde and who might be interested in
> responding or contributing to the volume.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philip Smith
>
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> Philip E. Smith psmith+[at]pitt.edu (412) 624-6520
(Off.)
> Department of English (412) 624-6639 (FAX)
> University of Pittsburgh (412) 661-1303
(home)
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA Office: CL 509-C
>
>
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> Please return by 1 June 2001 to Philip E. Smith, Department of
> English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. E-mail:
> psmith+[at]pitt.edu
>
> Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Oscar Wilde
> Edited by Philip E. Smith
>
> Name___________________________________________________________
>
> Dept.__________________________________________________________
>
> Institution ___________________________________________________
>
> Address w/ZIP _________________________________________________
>
> E-mail ________________________________________________________
>
> Phone/FAX______________________________________________________
>
> Please answer the following questions (or as many as apply to your
> teaching) on separate sheets of paper--or e-mail me at psmith+[at]pitt.edu
> if you wish to receive and submit the form via e-mail. I welcome
> submission (in hard copy or electronic versions) of supplementary
> teaching materials (syllabi, handouts, assignments, examinations,
> bibliographies, etc.). Survey respondents will be acknowledged in the
> published volume.
>
> 1. Please list the courses in which you teach writings of Oscar Wilde.
> Indicate the nature of the course (literature, literary
> criticism/theory, composition, creative writing, cultural studies),
> lower- or upper-level, graduate, major or nonmajor, required or
> elective course, department or program, class size, and format
> lecture, discussion, etc.).
>
> 2. For each course, please list which of Wilde's works you teach and in
> what edition and discuss your reasons for choosing particular editions
> (e.g., presence of useful introductions, essays, or other writings by
> or about Wilde).
>
> 3. Please comment on your pedagogical purposes for each selection and
> course. If you teach Wilde's writings differently (or present different
> selections) to different groups of students (i.e., graduate students vs.
> first-year undergraduates), please explain how your methods and selections
> vary.
>
> 4. Which theoretical and/or critical works do you assign to your
> students? How do you integrate criticism and theory with teaching
> Wilde's writings? If you emphasize a particular theoretical or
> critical perspective, how do you apply this approach in the classroom
> and in writing assignments, and why do you find it useful?
>
> 5. Which writings by Wilde do your students find most engaging or
> stimulating? Most difficult or challenging? Why? What effective
> ways of dealing with the challenges have you found?
>
> 6. What reference and background works (cultural, historical, literary,
> biographical) would you recommend to teachers or students interested
> in learning more about historical, social, literary, cultural, and
> biographical contexts for Wilde's writings?
>
> 7. What audiovisual resources (films, videos, pictures, sound recordings)
> or related materials from the other arts have you found useful in
> teaching the works of Oscar Wilde?
>
> 8. What computer-based instructional materials do you suggest or require
> students to use? CD-ROMs, resources on the WWW, electronic texts (for
> example, Wilde's works on CELT)? Research pages or search engines
> (for example, Victoria)? A self-designed class website or proprietary
> software (for example, CourseInfo)? Please comment on particularly
> useful resources as well as issues or problems.
>
> 9. Describe how the work you assign students (for example, oral reports,
> written projects, research papers, examinations, journals, revisions)
> is effective for your approach to teaching Wilde's writings.
>
> 10.If you treat Wilde's influence on other writers (both those writing in
> English and in other languages) in your teaching, how do you present
> comparisons and differences?
>
> 11.If relevant to your teaching, how do you approach the theme of love in
> relation to the kinds of intellectual and erotic desires reflected in
> Wilde's texts or recorded in versions of his life? How do you present
> or ask students to investigate the nexus of homophilic and homophobic
> social structures and the practices of individuals, both in history
> and in Wilde's works? How do you negotiate these issues in the
> classroom given our own contemporary contexts not only of greater
> recognition and acceptance of gays within society but also of
> pervasive homophobia and incidents of homophobic violence?
>
> 12.Again, if relevant, how do you and your students deal with the
> presence of class consciousness as a social determinant in Wilde's
> writing and in his life? How do current students and teachers
> understand or reconcile Wilde's social climbing, his hobnobbing in and
> writing about high society with his political positions favoring
> anarchist socialism?
>
> 13.If you address issues raised by Wilde's Irish heritage, how do you
> relate his writing to the "Celtic Renaissance" of the turn of the last
> century? What contemporary questions about Irish identity (and the
> identification of the Irish with Wilde) are important for your
> teaching or of interest to your students?
>
> 14.If you use the texts connected with Wilde's trials, conviction, and
> imprisonment, including documents like the trial transcripts, *De
> Profundis*, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," and his letters on prison
> conditions, how do you present or deal with the perspectives these
> texts offer on Wilde's relations to freedom of expression and society?
>
> 15.If you address Wilde's portrayals of women in fiction and plays, his
> alliances with various feminist writers in his own time, his
> editorship of *Woman's World*, and other issues related to Wilde's
> attitudes toward women, discuss how you present these issues in the
> classroom.
>
> 16.Wilde's preface to *The Picture of Dorian Gray* famously denounced
> 19th-century critics who practiced the moral labeling of literary or
> artistic works, but some scholars see the novel as intensely moral and
> moralistic in intent, Wilde's preface notwithstanding. What
> approaches to teaching issues related to art and morality in general,
> to the moralism some find in *Dorian Gray*, and to Wilde's critical
> position on these points have been effective for your classes?
>
> 17.How do the perspectives furnished by gender studies, cultural studies,
> and poststructuralist approaches figure into your teaching of *Dorian
> Gray's* text and context?
>
> 18.What kinds of information or articles would you like to see included
> in a volume on *Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Oscar Wilde*?
> What particular issues--pedagogical, theoretical, historical,
> interpretive, cultural--need to be addressed?
>
> 19.If you would like to suggest an essay for this volume, please submit a
> proposal on a separate piece of paper. Your proposal should include a
> brief abstract describing your approach to teaching one or more works
> of Wilde and should outline why you think your essay would be helpful
> to other teachers. Please also attach a current c.v.
>
>
>
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Our attention has been drawn to the launch of the Archives Hub, a UK
research resource - see below.

Small beginnings, but it will develop. As always with these things it is
worth typing in the search term 'Irish' or 'Ireland' - and have a happy
browse. But note also that the Search looks at the useful archive summaries
and descriptions, so that it is worth seeing if the Archive turns up
anything on a specific figure you are researching.

P.O'S.


>
> MIMAS is pleased to announce the launch of the Archives Hub.
>
> This new service provides free access to information about the archives
> available in the UK?s universities and colleges. It is available via a web
> interface at http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk and uses international standards
> for the description of archives (ISAD(G)); their format (EAD) and their
> retrieval (Z39.50). With other similar initiatives the Archives Hub will
> form part of the newly-emerging National Archive Network.
>
> The Archives Hub will initially hold data at collection level but is
> technically capable of dealing with multi-level descriptions which allow
> researchers to explore collections down to the level of individual items.
By
> 2003 the Hub should provide access to over 25,000 collection level
records.
>
> The service, which has been developed by a team at the University of
> Liverpool, is funded by JISC. It is delivered and managed by MIMAS at the
> University of Manchester on behalf of the Consortium of Research Libraries
> (CURL).
>
> Further information can be found on the Archives Hub website or via the
> contact details below,
>
> Regards,
>
> Michelle Bell
> Archives Hub User Support Officer
> MIMAS, Manchester Computing,
> The University Of Manchester,
> Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.
>
> Tel: 0161 2756789
>
> E-mail: michelle.bell[at]man.ac.uk
>
> Web: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

'May the Road Rise Up' is a film that follows the return to Ireland of Alan
MacWeeney who in the '60s embarked on a two year project photographing and
recording the Irish Travellers of Dublin and Galway.

7.30 on Wednesday May 30th at Hammermith Irish Centre Blacks Road London

Tickets 8741 3211
Info 8563 8232

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am sharing this book book review with the Ir-D list because, yes, it does
mention Ireland and because it makes some interesting points about the
things that televisin does to scholarly research - something we have
discussed in the past, and something which many of us have experienced.

Note that I have placed two contrasting studies of the Disney series, Long
Journey Home, on our Irish Diaspora Studies web site
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
And I am looking for similar studies of The Irish Empire television series.
Then, with a few more bits and pieces, we are well on our way to having a
useful display about the ways in which the Irish Diaspora is portrayed and
discussded on television.

P.O'S.



H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (May, 2001)

Simon Schama. _A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World?
300 B.C.-1603 A.D._ New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2000. $40.00
(cloth), ISBN 0-7868-6675-6.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Bruce P. Lenman, ,
Department of History, University of St Andrews

Only a fool would try to review this book as if it were an
academic textbook or monograph. It is by a very well-known
academic, but it is neither. It is a manifestation of two
phenomena. One is the new relationship between the most potent
of the new media -- television -- and history. Then within this
general phenomenon there is the extraordinary phenomenon of
Simon Schama. The first phenomenon is the easier to explain,
and it forms the framework within which printed books of this
kind and quality (material and mental) are generated. This is a
"book of the series." To be precise it is the book of the first
half of the series, going from an improbable 3000 BC to the
point at which its ostensible subject becomes a bee in the
bonnet of the first Stuart king to reign over the three kingdoms
of Scotland, England and Ireland. James VI & I declared himself
King of Great Britain by proclamation, but it must be added that
he never did persuade his subjects to merge the distinct names
and polities of England and Scotland into a combined realm of
Great Britain. That had to wait until 1707, when the United
Kingdom of Great Britain was created, lasting until 1800, when
it became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

With the multiplication of television channels and the extension
of viewing hours, there are now vast amounts of viewing time
that has to be filled somehow. It cannot be entirely filled
with mindless sitcoms, sports events, or even news and weather.
In the UK (incidentally, now the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland), history has become one of the standard
stocking fillers, alongside other academic subjects such as
geology. The zoologists in a sense were always in there,
because the media people spotted early that programs on nature
attracted large audiences. The presenters, however, tended to
be independent entrepreneurs and academics have come in, so to
speak, on their tails. Archaeology is the bit of history that
has lent itself most easily to presentation on television in the
style that we have come to associate with the better geology or
nature programs. There is an element of practical activity,
from digging to facial reconstruction on a partially-preserved
skull, which makes for virtual involvement by the audience, plus
the "lost treasure" syndrome, or what one may call the "Indiana
Jones and the Lost Ark" option. The trouble with source-based
history is that it opens the floodgates to two problems.

The first is the essentially mindless nature of the television
medium. Its 30-second long visual slots inherently lend
themselves to over-simplification, not least because of the
appallingly limited minds of those who commission and make these
films. In the UK it is quite common for an academic to be hired
to present material into which he or she has had no input,
though the viewer will inevitably think otherwise. A circular
was on my email yesterday asking for such a person. The only
requirement was that the person be young, to establish rapport
with the target audience, which was under 30. Now some of this
was already a problem in the last days of radio. Simon Schama
reminds us in the preface of this book that in his youth there
was a radio series which consisted mainly of unreconstructed
readings from Sir Winston Churchill's multi-volume history of
the English-speaking peoples. That history, published after
1945, was largely a product of Churchill's spell of virtual
unemployment in the later 1930s. It tells one more about the
romantic delusions in Churchill's mind than about history.

The second problem is that nowadays a TV history series can have
violent bias built in from the start. For example, I was
recently approached by a freelance writer of television
programs. He had been urged by a Channel Four producer to write
a series on Queen Elizabeth I and the founding of the British
Empire. He had in effect been told to write it in a way that
would maximize the feelings of guilt and shame in British
viewers. I became a non-person by pointing out that Elizabeth
had no interest in empire let alone a British one; wished only
to die ruling what she inherited; and that if there is a distant
founder of a British Empire it is the bow-legged Scot James VI.
This is typical, particularly of the British Broadcasting
Corporation.

Which brings us to Simon Schama. He is by common consent the
cleverest thing that came out of Cambridge (England) in the
1960s. He was one of a viciously competitive group of post
graduates. Since your average Cambridge postgrad represents the
English lower middle classes clawing their way up through
education and there are not enough academic jobs in Cambridge to
go round, the atmosphere tends to be mephitic at the best of
times. It has to be said that, atypically, Schama has always
projected a relaxed and amiable personality of real charm, a
factor that made his contemporaries even more jealous. His
progress from jobs in Cambridge and then from Oxford to Harvard
seemed effortless. The fantastic impact he has made since
reaching Harvard has been the result of two factors. One has
been the writing of very large and successful, though at times
whimsical, books. He has described himself as a happy academic
hamster trundling round on his writing wheel. The other has
been his huge exposure on television. The man is a media star
and celebrity.

But was it sensible to pressure, as the BBC clearly did, a man
who has never been a committed historian of Britain into the
series that gave birth to this book, which admittedly is
different from the series? The series could not convey more
than a fraction of the historical data in even this far from
dense text. A lot of the film coverage was almost elegiac with
shots of the romantic figure of Schama walking around historic
sites musing mellifluously in soft light. He must know that he
does not have a profound grasp of the literature, let alone the
sources. This book summarizes a selection of the better recent
literature at a level which is acceptable. There are alarming
signs in the continuation of the series beyond 1603, currently
being screened, that when Schama tries to spread his wings, the
result can be unfortunate.

Schama was primarily a historian of the Dutch Republic and its
successor states in the era of the French Revolution and
Napoleon, who then wrote a big book on the French Revolution.
Do the high quality of the paper and printing and the many
superb color illustrations made possible by this commercial
context compensate for the fact that Schama is no medievalist
let alone a historian of the Roman Empire, and even less of a
prehistorian? He obviously had help. He needed it. That he
had not lived in the UK for twenty years was no handicap, but
that he has to deal with what he shrewdly describes as the
religious civil wars of the gentiles, without any track record
of that scholarship, is a sobering thought. It would frighten
me, who am a British historian in every sense, to even try.
Quite clearly, the situation limits what Schama can do. This is
mainly high political narrative, dashingly and breezily done,
with wit and humor devoid of venom. Schama is aware of the
recent research which shows that the Peasants Revolt of the
fourteenth century was not a rising of the poorest of the poor,
but of the more prosperous sections of the rural commons.
Nevertheless, I cannot see my medieval, and much less my Tudor,
colleagues learning much from this book. The overall message is
glued on at the end. It is like the advice given to the black
novelist Chester Himes by the man who commissioned the first of
the detective novels which became the Harlem Cycle: keep the
action going and don't worry about the overall sense of it until
the end.

Despite the BBC wanting Schama for all the wrong reasons (and
despite the limitations on his knowledge of the field) the
result in both the television series and in this book is not an
unhappy one, though it is no great event in historiography. It
is likely to be as successful and ephemeral as many of the late
A.J.P. Taylor's books and television performances. The key is
the relatively modest level of Schama's ambition and self-image.
Since he is very intelligent as well as charming, his unassuming
approach brings out the best in him. I have yet to talk to a
professed Scottish historian with a high opinion of his
treatment of Mary Queen of Scots. Yet for an expatriate
metropolitan Englishman he does well to talk about the history
of the now British peoples in this distant era with some sense
of the fact that they are a complex group (even today they can
be Welsh, English, Scots or Irish) whose past needs to be
understood rather than used. This happy outcome was partly
accidental. I have just watched him orating self-righteously in
the continuation series over the massacres which followed the
storming of Drogheda and Wexford in the War of the Three
Kingdoms. Something fresh needed to be said on this topic, but
Schama has no apparent knowledge of the conventions of early
modern warfare with respect to an assault on an indefensible
position summoned but refusing to surrender; nor of the similar
contemporary massacres in Dundee and Kirkaldy in Scotland (where
only Scots were massacred so I suppose they do not count); let
alone of the crucial case of Bristol, where a sane decision by
Rupert to surrender averted a similar massacre, and angered
Charles I, ever anxious to fight to the last drop of his
subjects' blood. When he thinks he knows more than he does
Schama is like the rest of us. Let us meanwhile be grateful for
small mercies, one of which is this particular book.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman
jtalman[at]interlog.com

Subject: CAIS conference Laval 2001 May 24-26


Dear CAIS Members and Friends

The conference schedule is now available on our website at:

http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/cais

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Jean Talman
Secretary-Treasurer

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have been asked to remind members of the British Association for Irish
Studies that they need to get up to date information for the BAIS Research
Register in before June 1 2001. The form is on the back page of the latest
BAIS Newsletter, April 2001.

Last year this exercise led to the production of a very useful little
booklet, compiled by Mary Doran (Curator, Modern Irish Collections, British
Library), which went out to all BAIS members. A guide to the work of 101
scholars, active in our fields in Britain, with full contact information AND
a thematic index of research themes. It sits by my right hand.

P.O'S.


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For those who asked for further information on this series, see...

Irish in America: The Long Journey Home
PBS site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/irish/

There is also the Irish Mart site
http://www.irishmart.com/iv1-06-24-1999-6.htm

And note the reviews at
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

P.O'S.



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University of Bradford
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Forwarded for information...

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (May, 2001)

David Dickson. _New Foundations: Ireland 1660-1800_. Second
revised and enlarged edition. Dublin and Portland: Irish
Academic Press, 2000. xvi + 248 pp. Tables, maps,
illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cloth),
ISBN 0-7165-2632-8; $24.50 (paper), ISBN 0-7165-2637-9.

Reviewed for H-Albion by James Kelly, ,
Department of History, St Patrick's College (a College of Dublin
City University)

When the first edition of David Dickson's _New Foundations:
Ireland 1660-1800_ was published in 1987, it was warmly received
for a number of reasons. It was the first textbook written on
the period since Edith Johnston's brave but thinner effort,
_Ireland in the Eighteenth Century_ (Dublin, 1972). More
importantly, it sought to take cognisance of and, in so far as
possible, both present and integrate the findings of a rising
generation of scholars. To this end, Dickson sought not only to
embrace recently published work but, unusually for a book of
this kind, to integrate the finding of much that then lay
unpublished in thesis form in history departments and university
libraries throughout the British Isles. No less unusually, the
author deployed his exceptional familiarity with the extant
manuscript record to particular effect in illuminating his
analytical narrative with a rosary of quotations that appositely
glossed his reconstruction of the familiar and, in many
instances, broke new interpretative ground. As a result,
Dickson's _New Foundations_ was not only one of the most
impressive, it was one of the most original works in the series,
The Helicon History of Ireland, of which it was a part.

Since its publication, the reinterpretation of early modern
Irish history has not just proceeded apace, it has accelerated,
and the need for an up-to-date synthesis is long overdue. For a
time, it appeared that this would be provided by the Gill and
Macmillan History of Ireland series, but the limitations of the
volume appertaining to the seventeenth century and the delay in
producing the eighteenth-century volume in the series has meant
that this is not yet an option. In its absence, Dickson's _New
Foundations_ has continued to serve successive cohorts of
students exceptionally well, but since it had gone out of print
in the early 1990s, they were obliged to rely on increasingly
tatty second-hand copies, and to compete with their peers for
access to the thin stock in College libraries. For these
reasons, the publication of a second, revised and enlarged
edition of one of the minor classics of modern Irish
historiography will be welcomed warmly by students, teachers and
scholars alike. It remains the most reliable introduction to
Ireland in the era of what is commonly called "Protestant
ascendancy".

That said, it will not pass the notice of those familiar with
the first edition of this work that -- the protestations of the
publishers apart -- this new edition bears close comparison with
the original. For instance, the chapter structure that served
the author well in 1987 is retained, and large swathes of text
are reprinted verbatim, or with only minor verbal modifications.
Dickson is fully aware that "entirely new areas of study" have
been opened up in the interval (in the introduction, he cites
"crime and the legal system, dueling, popular religion, family
and gender, the book trade, political patronage and the Irish
house of lords" among a list of themes that have been the
subject of investigation); he is equally conscious of the import
for his reconstruction of "a handful of synoptic monographs of
greater interpretative sweep" and of "several major political
biographies" (pp. xi-xii). However, the realization that their
integration "would have required a major reconstruction" of the
text prompted him to take the more limited course of revising
rather than rewriting his text.

The work before us, therefore, remains "an essentially
chronological study of the history of public affairs, a
narrative introduction to the period and to the interpretative
problems that vex those that are seeking to understand it" (p.
xii). As such, it commences appropriately with an original (and
important) account of the Restoration era -- still inadequately
researched in many respects -- that is notable for the strength
of its analysis of public finance and reconstruction of the
fateful course of the Williamite/Jacobite wars. The dominant
theme is the establishment of what is generally denominated
"Protestant ascendancy," though it is significant that Dickson
does not appeal to that term. This is entirely appropriate, not
least because of the implication (with which he is not in
agreement) that "Protestant ascendancy" was inevitable once
Oliver Cromwell had completed his crushing military conquest
(1649-51) and ruthless efforts to consolidate economic and
political power in Anglophone hands. Historical change is
seldom so clear cut, and one of the virtues of Dickson's nuanced
narrative is the skill with which he makes this point. Thus,
the reluctance of many Irish Protestants to forsake James II in
1685-89, and the fitful emergence of the Penal Laws against
Catholics in the decades that followed is amply and carefully
delineated. To be sure, there are some inconsistencies; for
example, the revealing analysis of the kingdom's finances during
the restoration era (chapter one) is not emulated with similar
accounts for later periods. Similarly, Irish Jacobitism is
accorded perceptive consideration, but not one proportionate to
its importance.

Yet as this suggests, conformable to his wish to retain the
structure he employed in the first edition, Dickson seeks both
to notice and (in so far as is possible) to embrace new areas,
new interpretations, and new information into his narrative. The
result is somewhat mixed. It works well in respect of his
commentaries on the motives of early Hanoverian politicians
(especially pp. 81-3) and the politics of Catholicism and
Presbyterianism (pp. 103-6), which are slotted in seamlessly.
However, the 1987 narrative is not always so amenable to such
interpolation, and this is particularly evident in the chapter
on "the economic base" which does not lend itself to expansion
to encompass much recent work. It may seem churlish to
criticize what is, in many respects, a _tour de force_, except
that (as the author himself acknowledges) it lacks a developed
material and, I would add, a developed social dimension.

Caveats can also be entered with respect of the reconstruction
offered of patriot and radical politics from the 1760s,
knowledge and understanding of which has grown considerably in
the past decade. When his narrative is at its strongest -- as,
for example, in the accounts of the Townshend administration,
agrarian disorder, the origins of the Volunteers, the embrace of
martial law in the 1790s -- Dickson not alone provides an
exceptional summary of current understanding, he illuminates it
with shrewd, perceptive and original observations. Yet, there
are a number of areas -- such as the politics of the 1780s and
the appeal of radicalism in the 1790s -- that are less deserving
of praise. That this is so is a measure of the ongoing
reinterpretation that has, and is, taking place with respect to
these and other allied and related issues. It is also a measure
of the challenge facing anybody contemplating preparing a
textbook covering the time period embraced by _New Foundations_.

But, lest there be any doubt, this is a valuable and important
work both for its information as well as its insights and
interpretations. If there is a third edition, it ought, as the
author acknowledges, to be a different book, but pending that
day we have good reason to be grateful for a new and improved
version of a familiar standard.

Copyright 2001 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits the
redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
"Joachim.Lerchenmueller"

Yearbook of the Centre for Irish-German Studies 2000/01
Editors: Marieke Krajenbrink, Joachim Lerchenmueller
WVT - Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001.
ISBN 3-88476-465-9
ISSN 1393-8061

Table of Contents

Part I Artikel
- - Political Culture in East Germany - a Reaction to the Indignities of
Unification - Wolf Wagner (pp. 14-26)
- - Austrian Identity and the European Challenge - Anton Pelinka (pp.
27-38)
- - Economic adjustment within the European Monetary Union: the Irish
experience - Anthony Leddin (pp. 39-49)
Part II Feature Schweiz
- - Swiss Integration Policy: Between Tradition and Adaption - Laurent
Goetschel (pp. 52-59)
- - Structure and Structural Change in the Bank Sector in Switzerland - Ueli
Siegenthaler (pp. 60-63)
- - Swiss and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War - Comparisons and
Contrasts - Christian Leitz (pp. 64-78)
- - The Ideology of Consensus in Swiss Media Representation of Northern
Ireland - Veronica O'Regan (pp. 79-96)
- - Irland in Romanen deutschsprachiger schweizer Autoren - Helen Hauser
(pp. 97-113)
- - Martin und Gabrielle Alioth: Von Basel an die irische Ostk=FCste - Hermann
Rasche (pp. 114-122)
- - Rhaeto-Romansh in Switzerland: Small is beautiful but often in danger -
Manfred Gross / Daniel Telli (pp. 123-129)
- - The History of the Goetheanum and the School of Spiritual Science -
Virginia Sease (pp. 130-141)
- - Aktivit=E4ten der Schweizerischen Botschaft im Jahr 2000 (pp. 142 f)
Part III Personal Encounters
- - Recollections of Erwin Schroedinger - Ruth Braunizer (pp. 146-149)
- - Petra Kelly and Ireland - Gisela Holfter (pp. 150-158)
- - Es war einmal vor langer Zeit - James Joyce und Feldkirch - Andreas
Weigel (pp. 159-177)
- - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy - Diether Schlinke (pp. 178-187)
- - Vom Schwarzen Mann zu den Schwarzen Bergen - Konrad Sarge (pp. 188-191)
Part IV Aktivit=E4ten des letzten Jahres:
A. The Centre for Irish-German Studies 2000 - Joachim Fischer, Gisela
Holfte=
r
(pp. 194-196)
Research in Progress - postgraduate students at the CIGS (pp. 197-205)
B. Organisations and Other Bodies (pp. 206-222)
- - The Austrian Embassy's Year 2000 - The German Embassy's Year 2000 -
Goethe Institut Inter Nationes e.V. Dublin 2000- Irland auf Deutsch (ILE
Dublin)
- - Die Lutherische Kirche in Irland im Jahre 2000 - Deutsch-irische
Parlamentariergruppe - Deutsch-Irischer-Freundeskreis Bayern e.V. - 2000:
das war's! war's das schon? (Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft e.V. D=FCsseldorf)
- - Veranstaltungen der =D6sterreichisch-Irischen Gesellschaft 2000/2001
Bibliography of German publications in the field of Irish-German Studies -
Andreas H=FCther (pp. 223-237)

=46or more information see
http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/Irish-German/publications.html

Joachim Lerchenmueller Ph.D.
Lecturer in German Studies

University of Limerick / Dept. of Languages & Cultural Studies / Limerick
/ Irish Republic
Office B2-031 / Phone 00353-61-20-2453 / FAX 20-2556
homepage
e-mail

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...
"Joachim.Lerchenmueller"

(FIRST) CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies, 4-6. April 2002:

Ireland and the German-speaking countries -
Questions of cultural identity in Ireland, Austria and Switzerland -

The Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick focuses on
relations between Ireland and the German-speaking countries. German-Irish
Studies are often seen as only concentrating on relations between Germany
and Ireland. In our 3rd Limerick conference we therefore aim to concentrate
especially on Austrian-Irish and Swiss-Irish relations.

We invite papers in English or German on the following themes:

* Irish-Austrian or Irish-Swiss relations - cultural, historical,
political aspects (preferably taking into account influences and
interpretations of these relations in debates of self-image)
*
* Questions of cultural identity in Ireland, Austria, and Switzerland
(preferably on a comparative basis)
especially in the areas of
* cultural traditions / language policy
* political system and international relations
* conflict resolution / security policy
* national economy / currencies

Deadline for proposals 31.10.2001
Please send your proposal (250 words) to: Centre for Irish-German Studies,
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick,
Limerick, Ireland
Contact: Dr. Gisela Holfter, Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of
Limerick,
Tel: +353/61/202395 Fax: +353/61/202556 gisela.holfter[at]ul.ie

The conference is being organised in collaboration with the Centre for
European Studies, University of Limerick, the School of Languages and
Literatures at the University of Ulster, Coleraine and the German Department
at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Contact: Prof Edward Moxon-Browne Edward.Moxon-Browne[at]ul.ie
Dr. Pól Ó Dochartaigh p.odochartaigh[at]ulst.ac.uk

Dr. Hermann Rasche hermann.rasche[at]nuigalway.ie


The conference is supported by the Austrian, German and Swiss Embassies,
Dublin


Joachim Lerchenmueller Ph.D.
Lecturer in German Studies

University of Limerick / Dept. of Languages & Cultural Studies / Limerick /
Irish Republic
Office B2-031 / Phone 00353-61-20-2453 / FAX 20-2556
homepage
e-mail

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

New on...
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Outlines of The Irish World Wide - in its own 'Folder'.

A new 'Folder' called 'Irish Diaspora Studies - Projects'

I have placed in that 'Folder' two items which have been floating around for
some time amongst Ir-D members interested in the Irish language and in
literature in Irish...

Discussion Paper: The Irish Language Literature of America, by Patrick
O'Sullivan
Comment: The Irish Language outside Ireland, by Brian McGinn

We have not really been able to clear the space/time to take these ideas
very far. As yet.

But my Discussion Paper and Brian McGinn's Comment might as well become more
widely available now.

Our thanks to Brian McGinn for making his thoughts and research available.

P.O'S.


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University of Bradford
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England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item has been forwarded to us, and will be of interest to
colleagues using UK census material...


From "Richard Mitchell"

Dear Colleagues

Following completion of an ESRC funded grant, there's a new way to get
access to census data which is designed specifically for social scientists
who want to use census data, but don't want to spend the 50 years it takes
to become a census initiate (or grow that beard ;-). We would like to draw
your attention to this website, and ask you to try it out if you're
interested. If you're not remotely interested in census data, there's no
need to read on...

The website provides linked data (at electoral ward level and above) from
1971, 1981 and 1991, so you can study change over time without worrying
about how census definitions and geographies have altered over that period,
or you can just get data from one year if you prefer. It also provides an
entire set of data for 1991 which have been corrected for the "missing
million". These mean you can be more certain that any changes you see in the
figures are due to social change, rather than missed people, (particularly
useful for anyone interested in marginalised groups or minorities, since it
was these who formed the bulk of the missed 1.34 million).

You can get to the website and its accompanying instructions from here:
www.census.ac.uk/cdu/lct

Anyone can have a play around with the interface to see what sorts of things
are available, but only those who are registered to use census data can
actually get figures out at the moment (some progress is being made to put
all census data in the public domain). Links to registration instructions
are available on the site. If you want data from 1971 or 1981, you will need
to be registered for access to 1981 data.

We have only just launched this service & we're interested to hear how
people get on with it, and about any problems they have. Please mail either
me (richard.mitchell[at]ed.ac.uk) or Danny Dorling
(D.Dorling[at]geography.leeds.ac.uk) with your stories (good or bad).

Thanks
Richard

Dr Richard Mitchell
Research Unit In Health, Behaviour and Change
The University of Edinburgh Medical School
Teviot Place
Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Tel. 0131 651 1283 / 0141 334 1230
Fax. 0870 168 7523
www.social-medicine.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have been tracking ÉAMONN Ó CIARDHA through the universities of Aberdeen,
and Toronto and have finally located him at Notre Dame, Chicago. The poor
man has been travelling and working - and all the time trying to finish his
book for Four Courts Press...

The book is nearly ready now and - from what Eamonn tells us, below - is
certainly of interest to Irish Diaspora Studies, an exploration of a
neglected theme.

See also...
http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=ociardha.xml

Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766
'A Fatal Attachment'
ÉAMONN Ó CIARDHA

Forwarded for information...

From ÉAMONN Ó CIARDHA


Dear Patrick,

Here is the dust-cover of my forthcoming book. I have managed to include the
accents on this
version.

Jacobitism was the ascendant political ideology in Irish Catholic society
between the Battle of the Boyne (1690) and the outbreak of the French
Revolution (1789). Although it provided the dominant theme in Irish
literature throughout the eighteenth century, there has been little written
on the phenomenon apart from J.C. O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades in the
service of France (1875) and Breandán Ó Buachalla's Aisling Ghéar (1996).
This study offers the first analytic narrative of Irish Jacobitism in
English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and
the death of his son 'James III', 'the Old Pretender', in 1766. Jacobitism
as a topic has been increasingly moving centre stage in the history of
eighteenth-century Britain in the work of Cruickshanks, Clark, Macinnes,
Black and Monod. This book reinstates Irish Jacobitism to a similar level of
serious engagement. Eighteenth-century Irish history and Jacobite studies
have suffered from a disproportionate preoccupation with the history of the
minority Protestant population and an over-emphasis on the last twenty years
of the century. Two crucial features are the analysis of Irish Jacobite
poetry in its appropriate 'British' and European contexts and the inclusion
of the Irish diaspora as a pivotal part of the Irish political 'nation'.
Both Jacobites and anti-Jacobites were obsessed with the vicissitudes of
eighteenth-century European politics and the fluctuating fortunes of the
Stuarts in international diplomacy. European high-politics and recruitment
for the Irish Brigades in France and Spain provide the dominant themes in
the poems, letters, pamphlets and memoirs of Irish writers, at home and
abroad.
The succession of James II in 1685 ushered in a short-lived 'golden-age'
for Irish catholics which wittnessed a rehabilitation of the Catholic Church
and the re-invigouration of Irish Catholic society at all levels. However,
their high hopes were frustrated by James's unwillingness to overturn the
Restoration land settlement. Nevertheless, the Irish Jacobite polity
mobilised in defence of their king and sustained a war against William and
the English parliament for nearly three years before concluding favourable
terms after the second siege of Limerick in 1691. A close study of the early
eighteenth century questions both the 'shipwreck' of the Irish Catholic
polity and the unassailed march of the Protestant 'nation'. There was no
amnesia or loss of political consciousness among Irish Catholics in the
post-Boyne period. The imposition and maintenance of the penal laws shows
that contemporaries (unlike many modern historians who worship at the altar
of hindsight) did not underestimate the potential of the Irish Jacobite
challenge. In the era between the end of the Jacobite war in Ireland (1691),
the conclusion of the war of the League of Augsburg (1697) and the war of
the Spanish succession (1701-13), Ireland was awash with invasion rumours
which unnerved the body politic and resulted in the contravention of the
Treaty of Limerick. Catholic and Protestant Jacobitism continually
manifested itself in this period, in Irish poetry, correspondence to and
from the Irish diaspora in Europe, and through the seditious pamphlets,
songs and coffee-house culture of contemporary Dublin.
The death of Louis XIV and the inglorious collapse of the 1715 rebellion in
Scotland heralded a major shift in European diplomacy. A bankrupt and
war-weary France sought an accommodation with Hanoverian Britain. However, a
rejuvenated Spain emerged as the great champion of the Jacobites. Spain's
subsequent humiliation at the hands of the British Navy and Regency France
stifled her military ambitions. These diplomatic shifts resulted in the
isolation of the House of Stuart. The movements and machinations of James
III, his minister and erstwhile allies resounded among all sections of the
Irish polity. The period between the outbreak of the War of the Austrian
Succession (1739-49) and the end of the Seven Years' War (1763) witnessed a
reinvigoration of Irish Jacobitism which permeated all levels of Irish
society, at home and abroad. Britain's triumph in 1763 laid the basis for a
new geopolitics, which hastened the demise of Jacobitism. It also permitted
the emergence of a segment of Irish Catholic opinion willing to make a
strategic accommodation with the House of Hanover. The period between the
1760s and the 1790s saw a renewed battle for the hearts and minds of Irish
Catholics between die-hard Jacobites and Hanoverian integrationists. This
Jacobite twilight also witnessed the evolution from Jacobite to Jacobin
politics. Jacobitism, by preventing the emergence of a fully-fledged
Hanoverian loyalism within the broader Catholic community, was crucial to
the ease with which democratic republicanism penetrated Irish society in the
1790s.
This interdisciplinary study is a path-breaking narrative of one of the
most important but least studied ideologies of the eighteenth century.

Éamonn Ó Ciardha holds an M.A. from the N.U.I. and a Ph.D. from Cambridge
University. He has published articles in Irish and English on Jacobitism,
law and disorder and the use of Irish-language sources in 17th-18th century
Ireland. Formerly visiting Professor of Celtic Studies at St. Michael's
College, University of Toronto, he now teaches in the University of Notre
Dame.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From: "noel gilzean"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Forthcoming O Ciardha Jacobite Cause

from Noel Gilzean
rosslare51[at]hotmail.com
Why poor man? If anyone wants to give me work at Aberdeen, Toronto and
Chicago they are more than welcome.
;-) Noel

[Moderator's Note:
Noel, it is a well known fact that I actively dislike travel - a peculiar
mixture of boredom and danger. Which inteferes with writing. As witness
this poor man, trying to finish his book...
Subjective, I know...
P.O'S.]

From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Forthcoming O Ciardha Jacobite Cause
Date: Mon 21 May 2001 16:00:00 +0000

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have been tracking ÉAMONN Ó CIARDHA through the universities of Aberdeen,
and Toronto and have finally located him at Notre Dame, Chicago. The poor
man has been travelling and working - and all the time trying to finish his
book for Four Courts Press...

The book is nearly ready now and - from what Eamonn tells us, below - is
certainly of interest to Irish Diaspora Studies, an exploration of a
neglected theme.

See also...
http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=ociardha.xml

Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766
'A Fatal Attachment'
ÉAMONN Ó CIARDHA

Forwarded for information...

>From ÉAMONN Ó CIARDHA


Dear Patrick,

Here is the dust-cover of my forthcoming book. I have managed to include the
accents on this
version.

Jacobitism was the ascendant political ideology in Irish Catholic society
between the Battle of the Boyne (1690) and the outbreak of the French
Revolution (1789). Although it provided the dominant theme in Irish
literature throughout the eighteenth century, there has been little written
on the phenomenon apart from J.C. O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades in the
service of France (1875) and Breandán Ó Buachalla's Aisling Ghéar (1996).
This study offers the first analytic narrative of Irish Jacobitism in
English, spanning the period between the succession of James II (1685) and
the death of his son 'James III', 'the Old Pretender', in 1766. Jacobitism
as a topic has been increasingly moving centre stage in the history of
eighteenth-century Britain in the work of Cruickshanks, Clark, Macinnes,
Black and Monod. This book reinstates Irish Jacobitism to a similar level of
serious engagement. Eighteenth-century Irish history and Jacobite studies
have suffered from a disproportionate preoccupation with the history of the
minority Protestant population and an over-emphasis on the last twenty years
of the century. Two crucial features are the analysis of Irish Jacobite
poetry in its appropriate 'British' and European contexts and the inclusion
of the Irish diaspora as a pivotal part of the Irish political 'nation'.
Both Jacobites and anti-Jacobites were obsessed with the vicissitudes of
eighteenth-century European politics and the fluctuating fortunes of the
Stuarts in international diplomacy. European high-politics and recruitment
for the Irish Brigades in France and Spain provide the dominant themes in
the poems, letters, pamphlets and memoirs of Irish writers, at home and
abroad.
The succession of James II in 1685 ushered in a short-lived 'golden-age'
for Irish catholics which wittnessed a rehabilitation of the Catholic Church
and the re-invigouration of Irish Catholic society at all levels. However,
their high hopes were frustrated by James's unwillingness to overturn the
Restoration land settlement. Nevertheless, the Irish Jacobite polity
mobilised in defence of their king and sustained a war against William and
the English parliament for nearly three years before concluding favourable
terms after the second siege of Limerick in 1691. A close study of the early
eighteenth century questions both the 'shipwreck' of the Irish Catholic
polity and the unassailed march of the Protestant 'nation'. There was no
amnesia or loss of political consciousness among Irish Catholics in the
post-Boyne period. The imposition and maintenance of the penal laws shows
that contemporaries (unlike many modern historians who worship at the altar
of hindsight) did not underestimate the potential of the Irish Jacobite
challenge. In the era between the end of the Jacobite war in Ireland (1691),
the conclusion of the war of the League of Augsburg (1697) and the war of
the Spanish succession (1701-13), Ireland was awash with invasion rumours
which unnerved the body politic and resulted in the contravention of the
Treaty of Limerick. Catholic and Protestant Jacobitism continually
manifested itself in this period, in Irish poetry, correspondence to and
from the Irish diaspora in Europe, and through the seditious pamphlets,
songs and coffee-house culture of contemporary Dublin.
The death of Louis XIV and the inglorious collapse of the 1715 rebellion in
Scotland heralded a major shift in European diplomacy. A bankrupt and
war-weary France sought an accommodation with Hanoverian Britain. However, a
rejuvenated Spain emerged as the great champion of the Jacobites. Spain's
subsequent humiliation at the hands of the British Navy and Regency France
stifled her military ambitions. These diplomatic shifts resulted in the
isolation of the House of Stuart. The movements and machinations of James
III, his minister and erstwhile allies resounded among all sections of the
Irish polity. The period between the outbreak of the War of the Austrian
Succession (1739-49) and the end of the Seven Years' War (1763) witnessed a
reinvigoration of Irish Jacobitism which permeated all levels of Irish
society, at home and abroad. Britain's triumph in 1763 laid the basis for a
new geopolitics, which hastened the demise of Jacobitism. It also permitted
the emergence of a segment of Irish Catholic opinion willing to make a
strategic accommodation with the House of Hanover. The period between the
1760s and the 1790s saw a renewed battle for the hearts and minds of Irish
Catholics between die-hard Jacobites and Hanoverian integrationists. This
Jacobite twilight also witnessed the evolution from Jacobite to Jacobin
politics. Jacobitism, by preventing the emergence of a fully-fledged
Hanoverian loyalism within the broader Catholic community, was crucial to
the ease with which democratic republicanism penetrated Irish society in the
1790s.
This interdisciplinary study is a path-breaking narrative of one of the
most important but least studied ideologies of the eighteenth century.

Éamonn Ó Ciardha holds an M.A. from the N.U.I. and a Ph.D. from Cambridge
University. He has published articles in Irish and English on Jacobitism,
law and disorder and the use of Irish-language sources in 17th-18th century
Ireland. Formerly visiting Professor of Celtic Studies at St. Michael's
College, University of Toronto, he now teaches in the University of Notre
Dame.





Noel Gilzean

rosslare51[at]hotmail.com

n.a.gilzean[at]hud.ac.uk

University of Huddersfield UK

http://www.hud.ac.uk/hip

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

One of the themes that is certainly around in Irish Diaspora Studies is the
study of the St. Patrick's Day Celebrations, world-wide, their history and
changing formats and meanings over space and time.

In fact there is something of an FAQ here, as the teckies say. FAQ =
Frequently Asked Question, I am given to understand.

I was wondering if it was not time that we did something systematic about
the theme - and, as a first step, simply listing any scholarly work that we
are aware of. We can then display that list on www.irishdiaspora.net

As a first step, pasted in below is something I came across recently. And I
am going through my own sources, seeing what else I can find.

P.O'S.

Journal of Social History

Index, Volume 29
The journal published a separate issue between issues #1 (Fall 1995) and #2
(Winter 1995) of Volume 29. This issue uses a separate pagination. This is
indicated by the marker Special Issue.

Abstract: Kenneth Moss, "St. Patrick's Day Celebrations and the Formation of
Irish American Identity, 1845-1875"

This study examines the process by which a nationalist and sectarian
corporate identity developed in the Irish-American community between 1845
and 1875. The reworking of collective identity involves a reformulation of
what some scholars dub 'collective memory,' and this process of identity
formation was both reflected in and shaped by the commemorative rituals
practiced by the Irish-American community. In particular, St. Patrick's Day
banquets and parades served both as fore for public reflection on the nature
of the Irish past, and as enactments of different versions of the
community's memory and identity. The development of full-fledged
Irish-American nationalism was paralleled and in part motivated by striking
changes in the rhetoric and form of these celebrations. This study draws on
contemporary accounts and depictions of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in
the U.S. in order to trace these changes and illuminate the developments in
question.

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

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list member Ms. Janick Julienne has written a Ph D thesis on
Irish nationalists in France from
1860 to 1890 (University Paris VII). She would be interested in hearing if
anyone else has researched this subject, or in hearing from anyone working
on Franco-Irish links.

I am compiling a list from my own sources, and any suggestions will be
gratefully received.

I have pasted in - below - an outline of Janick Julienne's work

P.O'S.

Janick JULIENNE
Janick.julienne[at]free.fr

PhD Thesis :
1) « La Question irlandaise en France de 1860 à 1890 : perceptions et
réactions », directed by Pr André GUESLIN, Université Paris 7, October 1997.
There are copies in Trinity College (Dublin) and in the University Paris
VII.

Articles :
2) « Mgr Dupanloup : l?engagement politique d?un prélat français dans l?
Irlande du XIXème siècle », to be published in Notre Histoire, in 2002
(march). The article explains the links between the French and the Irish
clergy from
the 1860?s to the 1880?s, and the role of the archbishop of Orléans, Mgr
Dupanloup, in this contacts.

3) « John Patrick Leonard (1814-1889), « chargé d?affaires d?un gouvernement
irlandais en France » », Etudes irlandaises, n°25-2, automne 2000.
This article explores the role of Leonard in Franco-Irish
links from the 1860?s to the 1890?s. Born in Ireland, Leonard had been
living in France during these period. He was in touch with many Irish
nationalists (Fenians, Home rulers?) and also with influential political
personalities in France. He tried to interest « the French elite » in the
Irish Question. He co-ordinated assistance from Ireland in support of France
during the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and tried to set up an Irish colony
in Algeria in 1869.

4) « La France et l?Irlande nationaliste de 1860 à 1890 : évolution et
mutation de liens multiséculaires », Etudes irlandaises, n°24-1, printemps
1999.
This article presents some of the main ideas of Janick's thesis : the
Franco-Irish links
and the evolution of these links from 1860 to 1890, the reactions of the
French society and governments toward the Irish nationalists, the impact of
the perceptions and stereotypes on the French analysis of the Irish
question.

Janick Julieene has given papers on « France and Ireland from
1860 to 1890 : changes and evolution>> in Trinity College (Dublin), and
Maynooth.

Anothher article entitled « General Mac Adaras, an
adventurer in the service of the Irish revolutionaries in France » is under
consideration.
This article explores the role of this Irishman who tried to set up an
Irish Brigade during the Franco-Prussian war.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am briefly off to London - public transport system willing, children
willing...

To call into Bob Reece's book launch - below.

And call into the British Library to develop and entirely new Irish Diaspora
theory of the origins of Ogam...

Back here tomorrow. So, brief gap on Ir-D.

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
Subject: Ir-D Book Launch, Irish Convict Transportation, London



>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A chance for Londoners to meet that busy man, Bob Reece - who is doing so
much to develop Irish Studies in Western Australia. I might even see if I
can park the children and get along myself...

P.O'S.


Book Launch

KING'S College LONDON
Founded 1829

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

To be launched by
Professor Carl Bridge,
Head, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies

18.30 Wednesday 23 May 2001
Hancock Room, 28 Russell Square WC1

All welcome - admission free RSVP - tel 020- 7862 8854
email menzies.centre[at]kcl.ac.uk
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies King's College London

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From: "Anne-Maree Whitaker"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

Hey Paddy

Patrick O'Farrell has an article "St Patrick's Day in Australia' in the
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol 81 pt 1 (1995).
It's not on line but the contact email for enquiries is history[at]rahs.org.au

Anne-Maree Whitaker


>From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Subject: Ir-D St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
>Date: Tue 22 May 2001 14:00:00 +0000
>
>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>One of the themes that is certainly around in Irish Diaspora Studies is the
>study of the St. Patrick's Day Celebrations, world-wide, their history and
>changing formats and meanings over space and time.
>
>In fact there is something of an FAQ here, as the teckies say. FAQ =
>Frequently Asked Question, I am given to understand.
>
>I was wondering if it was not time that we did something systematic about
>the theme - and, as a first step, simply listing any scholarly work that we
>are aware of. We can then display that list on www.irishdiaspora.net
>
>As a first step, pasted in below is something I came across recently. And I
>am going through my own sources, seeing what else I can find.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>Journal of Social History
>
>Index, Volume 29
>The journal published a separate issue between issues #1 (Fall 1995) and #2
>(Winter 1995) of Volume 29. This issue uses a separate pagination. This is
>indicated by the marker Special Issue.
>
>Abstract: Kenneth Moss, "St. Patrick's Day Celebrations and the Formation
>of
>Irish American Identity, 1845-1875"
>
>This study examines the process by which a nationalist and sectarian
>corporate identity developed in the Irish-American community between 1845
>and 1875. The reworking of collective identity involves a reformulation of
>what some scholars dub 'collective memory,' and this process of identity
>formation was both reflected in and shaped by the commemorative rituals
>practiced by the Irish-American community. In particular, St. Patrick's Day
>banquets and parades served both as fore for public reflection on the
>nature
>of the Irish past, and as enactments of different versions of the
>community's memory and identity. The development of full-fledged
>Irish-American nationalism was paralleled and in part motivated by striking
>changes in the rhetoric and form of these celebrations. This study draws on
>contemporary accounts and depictions of St. Patrick's Day celebrations in
>the U.S. in order to trace these changes and illuminate the developments in
>question.
>

Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker FRHistS
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From: "Thomas J. Archdeacon"
To:
Subject: Simon Schama

One wee emendation to Bruce P. Lenman's discussion of Simon Schama. Prof.
Schama moved a few years ago from Harvard to Columbia.