From Patrick O'Sullivan

News of Pierre Purseigle's CERP Conference will be of interest, since we
have before discussed some Irish 'collective amnesia' about the Great War -
an amnesia partly overcome, witness the (rather stubby) new round tower
memorial at Messines.

Further information is widely available on the Web... For example...

http://www.greatwar.ie/rem-mem3.html

http://www.roundtower.de/mess.htm

http://indigo.ie/~mattc/flanders4.htm

Also involved with the Conference are our friends at the Menzies Centre for
Australian Studies, London.

P.O'S.




- -----Original Message-----
Subject: CFP: European Conference In First World War Studies

=46rom: Pierre Purseigle

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE IN FIRST WORLD WAR STUDIES
LA GRANDE GUERRE AUJOURD'HUI : ACTUALITE DE LA
RECHERCHE
Organized by the C.E.R.P, Institut d'Etudes
Politiques, Lyon,
the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, and the
Department of War Studies, King's College, London,
the International Society for First World War Studies
with the support of the Historial de la Grande Guerre,
P=E9ronne.


The re-kindling of annual commemorations of the First
World War in particular, and the upsurge in
memorialisation in general, are demonstrative of
renewed interest in 1914-18.
This renewal is mirrored in the vitality of academic
activity in this area. This is illustrated both by
the large increase in publications, and by shifts in
methodology and areas of study. Indeed, Pierre Nora
has suggested that the Great War has undergone the
kind of reappraisal applied to the French Revolution a
decade ago.
Nowhere have these shifts been better illustrated
than in the Historial de la Grande Guerre at P=E9ronne
in France. It epitomises what could be dubbed the
second upheaval of the Great War: the academic
upheaval which has meant that isolated study of the
military, cultural, social or economic facets of the
war is no longer possible.
Amidst such reappraisals, how are the newest scholars
responding?

This conference aims to bring together an
international group of young scholars - postgraduate
and postdoctoral - who work on the Great War in order
to assess the influence of these historiographical
shifts upon our work, to foster international
collaboration and comparative history, to share our
preliminary or more polished findings, and to
scrutinise our works in progress in a broader context.


This conference, to be held at the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques in Lyon on the 7th and 8th September 2001,
will address the following themes in four consecutive
sessions:

1- Waging war:
To what extent have cultural and military historians
truly colonized each other's areas as the epigraph to
the Cambridge University Press series "Studies in the
social and cultural history of modern warfare"
suggests? Can the social history of war be studied
without a thorough engagement with events at the front
or vice versa? Does the recent and provocative Niall
=46erguson's Pity of War point to an original and proper
way to combine military, economic, diplomatic,
political and cultural history?

2- Communities at war:
>From the individual to the state, how did the
different levels of social organisation deal with the
conflict and its consequences? What kind of
solidarities, discrimination & mobilisation processes
were at work in 1914-18? What relationship was
established between military and civilian needs? Can
new light be shed in this way upon the economic and
political life of the belligerent societies?

3- The First World War and the intimate:
The "totalizing logic" of the Great War meant that it
pervaded the most intimate spheres of the belligerent
societies. How did the conflict impinge on sexual
morality and gender relationships, on individuals and
families?
>From shellshock to home front anxieties and mourning
process, how were the variegated sufferings faced?
How did contemporary medical science and practices
cope with the war?

4- Intellectual responses to the war:
What kind of artistic, literary & scholarly responses
did the war provoke? Where did the dividing line run
through these different responses? What should be
deemed as paramount: degree and qualities of
participation in the war effort, nationality, or
intellectual generation?

The official languages of the conference will be
English and French.

Vendredi 7 Septembre 2001
=46riday 7 September 2001

9 am/ 9 h Opening of conference / Ouverture des
d=E9bats
Jean-Jacques Becker, Universit=E9 de Paris X - Nanterre
(sous r=E9serve - to be confirmed)

PREMI=C8RE SEANCE - FIRST SESSION
=46AIRE ET MENER LA GUERRE - WAGING WAR
Sous la pr=E9sidence de / Chair : Dennis Showalter,
Colorado College, American Society of Military History

9.30 - 9.55 Dr Susan Grayzel, (University of
Mississippi),
" Militariser les civils: rapports de genre et
r=E9actions culturelles face aux bombardements a=E9riens
durant la Premi=E8re Guerre mondiale "
'Militarizing Civilians: Gender and Cultural Responses
to Aerial Bombardment during the First World War'

9.55 - 10.20 Michelle Moyd, (Cornell University, New
York),
"Le racisme allemand durant la campagne d'Afrique de
l'Est"
'German racism in the East Africa campaign'

10.20 - 10.45 Andrew Parsons, (King's College,
London),
" La r=E9ponse britannique =E0 la guerre chimique en
1914-1918 "
'The British response to Chemical Warfare in WW1'

10.45 - 11.00 Pause - Break

11.00 - 11.25 Dr Anne Dum=E9nil, (Universit=E9 de
Picardie),
" Souffrance combattante et justice militaire dans
l'arm=E9e allemande de la Grande Guerre "
'Combatant's suffering and military justice in WWI
German army'

11.25 - 11.50 Dr Helen McCartney, (J.S.C.S.C., GB),
" Identit=E9 municipale et consentement =E0 la guerre "
'Civic identity and motivation in war'
11.50 - 12.15 Dr Michael Neiberg, (U.S.A.F.),
" Les relations entre civils et militaires fran=E7ais et
am=E9ricains durant la Grande Guerre "
'US & French civil-military relations in the Great War
'

12.15 - 12.45 Discussion. Animateur / Discussant : Dr
Adrian Gregory, Pembroke College, Oxford University

1 o'clock D=E9jeuner - Lunch
DEUXIEME SEANCE - SECOND SESSION
LES COMMUNAUTES FACE A LA GUERRE - COMMUNITIES AT WAR
Sous la pr=E9sidence de / Chair : John Horne, Trinity
College, Dublin

2.30 - 2.55 Dr Matthew Stibbe, (Liverpool Hope
University College),
" Ruhleben. Le r=E9cit d'intern=E9s civils britanniques en
Allemagne durant la Premi=E8re Guerre mondiale. "
'Ruhleben. The Story of British Civilian Internees in
Germany during the First World War'

2.55 - 3.20 Dr Eric Lohr, (Harvard University),
" Le nationalisme =E9conomique russe pendant la Premi=E8re
Guerre mondiale : la campagne contre la pr=E9sence de
sujets ennemis dans l'=E9conomie imp=E9riale. "
'Russian Economic Nationalism during WW1: the campaign
against Enemy Aliens in the Imperial Economy'

3.20 - 3.45 Pierre Purseigle (Universit=E9 de Toulouse),

" En-de=E7a et au-del=E0 des Nations: enjeux et limites
d'une histoire compar=E9e des communaut=E9s locales en
guerre "
'Below and beyond the Nations: towards a comparative
history of local communities at war.'

3.45 - 4.00 Pause - Break

4.00 - 4.25 Susanne Terwey, (Simon-Dubnow-Institute
for Jewish Culture and History, Leipzig),
" Juifs allemands. Juifs et Allemands. Tous les Juifs
sont-ils allemands ? La combinaison de l'antis=E9mitisme
et de la germanophobie en Grande-Bretagne durant la
Grande Guerre. "
'German Jews. Jews and Germans. Are all Jews German?
The Combination of Anti-Semitism and Germanophobia in
Great Britain during the Great War'

4.25 - 4.50 Emmanuelle Cronier (Paris I - Sorbonne),
" La schizophr=E9nie des permissionnaires "
'The schizophrenia of soldiers on leave'

4.50 - 5.15 Stefan Goebel, (Magdalene College,
University of Cambridge),
" 'Le charbon et l'=E9p=E9e' : l'arri=E8re et son industrie
en Allemagne durant la Premi=E8re Guerre mondiale. "
'"Coal and Sword": Forging the Industrial Home Front
in Germany during the First World War'

5.15 - 5.45 Discussion

7.30 - 9 D=EEner - Conference Dinner

Samedi 8 Septembre 2001
Saturday 8 September 2001

TROISIEME SEANCE - THIRD SESSION
LA GRANDE GUERRE DE L'INTIME / THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND
THE INTIMATE
Sous la pr=E9sidence de / Chair : St=E9phane
Audoin-Rouzeau, Universit=E9 de Picardie

9 - 9.25 Dr Jean-Yves LeNaour (Universit=E9 de
Toulouse),
" Moralisation et d=E9structuration sociale : le
paradoxe de la guerre "
'Moralization and social deconstruction : the war's
paradox'

9.25 - 9.50 Jessica Meyer (Pembroke College,
University of Cambridge),
" L'identit=E9 h=E9ro=EFque masculine en Grande-Bretagne
face au Shell Shock (choc traumatique) 1914-19. "
'Shell Shock and the Heroic Masculine Identity in
Britain 1914-19'

9.50 - 10.15 Dr Tammy Proctor, (Wittenberg University,
Ohio),
" La Dame Blanche : rapports de genre et espionnage
durant la Grande Guerre. "
'La Dame Blanche: Gender and Espionage in the Great
War'

10.15 - 10.30 Pause - Break

10.30 -10.55 Andr=E9 Loez (EHESS),
" Les larmes des combattants: une histoire "
'The fighters' tears : a history'

10.55 - 11.20 Santanu Das, (St John's College,
University of Cambridge),
" 'Kiss me Hardy " : Intimit=E9, rapports de genre et
Geste dans les tranch=E9es de la Grande Guerre. "
'"Kiss me Hardy": Intimacy, Gender and Gesture in the
=46irst World War Trenches'

11.20 - 11.45 Dr Hans-Georg Hofer, (University of
=46reiburg),
" La m=E9decine viennoise durant la guerre face au
Shellshock (choc traumatique), aux rapports de genre,
et =E0 la multi-ethnicit=E9. "
'Shellshock, Gender and the question of
multi-ethnicity in Viennese War Medicine'

11.45 - 12.15 Discussion. Animatrice / Discussant :
Dr Gail Braybon, University of Brighton

12.30 - 1.30 D=E9jeuner - Lunch
QUATRIEME SEANCE - FOURTH SESSION
LES REPONSES INTELLECTUELLES ET SYMBOLIQUES A L A
GUERRE / INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES TO WAR
Sous la pr=E9sidence de / Chair : Christophe Prochasson,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

1.30 - 1.55 Ismee Tames (Nyfer, Pays-Bas),
" Les intellectuels n=E9erlandais dans la guerre. "
'Dutch intellectuals at war'

1.55 - 2.20 Dr Aaron Cohen (CSU, Sacramento),
" La m=E9moire de la Premi=E8re Guerre mondiale en Russie.
1917-1939 "
'Meta-myth-making: the Memory of Russia's First World
War 1917-1939'

2.20 - 2.45 Dr Olivier Compagnon, (Universit=E9 de
Toulouse),
" 14-18 comme agonie de la civilisation: les =E9lites
latino-am=E9ricaines face =E0 la Grande Guerre "
'1914-18: the death throes of civilization:
Latin-American elites and the Great War.'

2.45 - 3.00 Pause - Break

3.00 - 3.25 Dan Todman, (Pembroke College, University
of Cambridge),
" Sans peur et sans reproche : la mort de Sir Douglas
Haig, Janvier 1928 "
'Sans peur et sans reproche: the death of Sir Douglas
Haig, January 1928'

3.25 - 3.50 Dr Jenny Macleod, (Menzies Centre, KCL),
" Persistance et renouvellement de la romance de
guerre : la Grande-Bretagne, l'Australie, et
Gallipoli. "
'The persistence and renewal of the romance of war:
Britain, Australia and Gallipoli'

3.50 - 4.15 Thomas Ort (New York University),
" Karel Capek et la 'G=E9n=E9ration Tch=E8que' de 1914 "
'Karel Capek and the Czech Generation of 1914'

4.15 - 4.45 Discussion
4.45 - 5 Pause - Break

5pm D=E9bat - Debate entre/between Professor Jay Winter,
Columbia University (N.Y.) et/and Professor Arthur
Marwick, Open University : 'Modernism, Tradition and
the Great War'

6.30 Conclusions - Closing remarks : Antoine Prost,
Universit=E9 de Paris I - Sorbonne



=46or further information and registration, check out
our conference website
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/ click on Latest News

Or contact Dr Jenny McLeod or Pierre Purseigle at
wwi_studies[at]yahoo.com


=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Pierre Purseigle, Universite de Toulouse
c/o University College Northampton
Park Campus, William Carey Halls Flat 38, Room 5
Boughton Green Road
Northampton, NN2 7AL UK
Tel: +44(0) 77 52 69 25 83 purseig[at]univ-tlse2.fr
*European conference in First World War Studies, IEP de Lyon, September
2001* http://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/ click on Latest news

Forwarded for information, on behalf of
Basil Walsh
basilwalsh[at]msn.com

Subject: Michael W. Balfe (1808-70)


The following UPDATED WEB site should interest you.

It details the life and times of the eminent 19th century Irish born
composer, Michael W. Balfe who wrote 28 operas for London, Paris, Milan,
Vienna, Trieste and other places.

www.britishandirishworld.com

Balfe's most famous work is "The Bohemian Girl" composed in 1843 for London,
is still performed today.

Balfe's 200th anniversary will be in May 2008.

Basil Walsh (Author)
Palm Beach, Florida
basilwalsh[at]msn.com
www.catherinehayes.com

From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Alcohol 6

Thank you Ultan for a very moving quote. Can you post more details about
your
book, please i.e.address of publisher/other contact details and let us know
when its actually made an appearance?
Best,
John Hickey.

From: Ultan Cowley
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ultan Cowley's Book

John
Glad you liked the quote; there are many former navvies whose acute
perceptions are matched by their ability to articulate them and I have been
fortunate to have met and interviewed a number of them.

I believe the results, especially in the case of a community as defensive
and beset by negative stereotyping as the Irish in British
construction,justifies my faith in the value of oral history. Readers must
judge for themselves...

The details you requested are as follows:

BOOK TITLE: 'THE MEN WHO BUILT BRITAIN': A HISTORY OF THE IRISH NAVVY.
ISBN: 0-86327-829-9

PUBLISHER: WOLFHOUND PRESS LTD.
68, MOUNTJOY SQUARE
DUBLIN 1
IRELAND

PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 2001

LAUNCH DATE: WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 17th (DUBLIN & LONDON).

Because the subject-matter is both arcane and alien (to the British book
trade) we anticipate difficulties with distribution in Britain.

A complicating factor is the predilection of the target readership for the
boozer over the bookshop (84% of Irish emigrants to Britain in 1961 left
school before the age of fifteen) but we intend to turn this obstacle into
an opportunity by marketing the book via the Irish social and community
network.

You might therefore expect to be appraised of its availability through the
Irish-oriented media in Britain. Any other thoughts on this problem
gratefully received...

Best wishes
Ultan



At 21:00 04/06/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
>From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
>Subject: Re: Ir-D Alcohol 6
>
>Thank you Ultan for a very moving quote. Can you post more details about
>your
>book, please i.e.address of publisher/other contact details and let us know
>when its actually made an appearance?
>Best,
>John Hickey.
>
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This item has only just reached us, and is forwarded for information...

And if you happen to be in Furbo...

P.O'S.


"IRISH LANGUAGE ON THE INTERNET" - IIA EVENT, FURBO, CO. GALWAY
The Irish Internet Association is organising an event on Thursday,
June 7, 2001 in the Connemara Coast Hotel, Furbo, Galway. This
seminar is entitled 'Irish Language on the Internet'. The event
begins at 7.30pm with the first speaker at 8.00pm. The speakers are:
Dr Martin Fahy, UCG
Alan Rowe, MD, Aro - Internet Consultancy
Liam O Cuinneagain - Director, Oideas Gael
For more information visit http://www.iia.ie

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

[Note: Francis A. Fahy (1854-1935) was an Irish cultural and linguistic
activist in London - there is an outline of his activities in 'Irish
studies: a historical survey across the Irish diaspora' by Nessan Danaher,
Chapter 10 of Patrick O?Sullivan, ed., The Irish in the New Communities,
Volume 2 of The Irish World Wide, Leicester University Press, London &
Washington, 1992, 1997.
P.O'S.]

Forwarded on behalf of
Caoilte Breatnach
Project Coordinator

Friends of Kinvara!
Dear Friends,

We trust this finds you well.

Next month will see the release of a Kinvara-produced CD, The Ould Plaid
Shawl. The album features songs of Francis Fahy (1854-1935), who wrote many
well-known songs, including The Queen of Connemara and Galway Bay.

This first-ever compilation album includes Francis Fahy's most famous songs,
performed by local and well-known singers and backed by At the Racket and
Gary O'Briain. Amongst the better-known artistes performing on the CD are
Dolores Keane, Eleanor Shanley, Seán Tyrell and John Faulkner.


Parallel to this development is the scripting of a major new play on the
life and times of Francis Fahy, who achieved prominence in the Revival
Movement in London.

The play premieres in Galway's Town Hall Theatre, 26 Sept next.

This new play is a compelling, poignant story of Fahy the teacher,
songwriter, humorist, social reformer, and champion of the Revival Movement
in Victorian London.

So far, our fundraising campaign has been quite successful. We have raised
two thirds of the estimated production costs to date but still have a few
miles to go.

This is you chance to help! Send us a donation now and we will send you a
copy of the CD as soon as it is released. For more detailed information of
funding etc., visit our website: www.kinvara.com/francisfahy/

Best wishes,

Caoilte Breatnach

Project Coordinator

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT IRELAND

This Series begins on Irish Television RTE1 at 10.15 on June 21st.
See...

http://www.rte.ie/tv/insearchofancientireland/

FROM THE RTE WEB SITE

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>
IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT IRELAND: is a 3 hour documentary TV series tracing the
history and the legends of ancient Ireland. From 2000 BC - when Stone Age
farmers built some of the largest and most spectacular Neolithic monuments
in Europe - the series explores events and stories from three millennia of
history, up to the Norman invasion of 1167AD.

IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT IRELAND is steeped in the sights, sounds and stories of
Irish history, filmed at many of Ireland's most spectacular and dramatic
historical sites. As well as forts and monasteries, Stone Age tombs and
royal enclosures, we explore the Irish treasury of gold and bronze and the
stunning illuminated manuscripts-like the Book of Kells -that are scattered
in libraries and museums across Europe.

"HEROES"- looks at the heroic age before the coming of writing. Later monks
describe it as a time of myth and magic, of mighty warriors, immortal queens
and a warrior society as vivid as that of Homer's Trojan War.

"SAINTS" - looks at the early Christian period, from the coming of the first
missionaries to the time when art and scholarship flooded out of Ireland to
help Europe recover from a dark age following Rome's fall.

"WARLORDS" - follows the centuries of war that lead up to the Norman
invasion. We see Viking raids grow in strength as they try to take over
Ireland as they have other parts of Europe. We meet Brian Ború and show how
struggle over religion, along with 150 years of war for the High Kingship
after Brian Ború's assassination, sets the stage for the Norman invasion.

EXTRACT ENDS>>>

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Please circulate widely...

Forwarded on behalf of

Irish Exile and Resettlement Conference
Carroll House
Annapolis

Mianna Jopp, Conference Coordinator
miannaj410[at]aol.com

"ANYWHERE SO LONG AS THERE BE FREEDOM:
IRISH EXILE AND RESETTLEMENT, 1600-1800"
CONFERENCE - OCTOBER 19-21, 2001

This conference explores the Irish experience of Catholic/Protestant
conflicts and struggles against the English conquest in Ireland which
produced Irish dispersion and resettlement across Europe and North America.

The historians participating in the program examine the varied experiences
of
the Irish in lands to which they emigrated. The opportunities and
restrictions inherent in these new settings, and the role played by
Ireland¹s
religious and cultural heritage, constitute a principal focus of the
symposium.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration
of
Independence, and his Maryland family are part of this transatlantic story
and provide a unique perspective on early America.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:

PROFESSOR NICHOLAS CANNY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

LIAM CHAMBERS, MARY IMMACULATE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IRELAND

PROFESSOR LOUIS CULLEN, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, DUBLIN

DEPUTY LIBRARIAN BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAM, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, DUBLIN

PROFESSOR RONALD HOFFMAN, OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY AND
CULTURE

PROFESSOR THOMAS O?CONNOR, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH

CIAREN O?SCEA, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, FLORENCE, ITALY

PROFESSOR ANDREW O?SHAUGHNESSY, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, OSHKOSH

PROFESSOR JANE OHLMEYER, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND


CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

DR. RONALD HOFFMAN, DIRECTOR, OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
AND CULTURE

LOIS GREEN CARR, HISTORIAN, HISTORIC ST. MARY?S CITY

SANDRIA ROSS, PRESIDENT, CHARLES CARROLL HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS

Supported by the Maryland HumanitiesCouncil
Conference Registration: $25/person
For more information: 410.269.1737 or toll free: 888.269.1737 (country code
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CHARLES CARROLL HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS
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Hosted by the Charles Carroll House of Annapolis, Maryland USA, a nonprofit
educational institution whose mission is to: Preserve and restore the 300
year built landscape of the Carroll family and provide public educational
programs that will encourage research and enhance understanding of American
history as shown in the Carrolls? world. After the O?Carroll lands were
confiscated, Charles Carroll the Settler arrived from Ireland in 1688 to
rebuild the Carroll dynasty in Maryland. Among distinguished family members
and descendants were: 1) Charles Carroll of Carrollton, only Roman Catholic
signer of the Declaration of Independence; 2) Daniel Carroll, signer of the
U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; and 3) John Carroll, first ordained
Roman Catholic Bishop in America and founder of Georgetown University.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Last year Ir-D Member, Carmel McCaffrey, cmc[at]jhu.edu, and I shared notes
about the experience of working with the television folk...

Oh, how we laughed...

The television series with which Carmel is associated, 'In Search of Ancient
Ireland' covers Irish history from earliest times to the Norman invasion.
It begins on RTE1 on 21st June at 10.15 pm. It will run for three weeks, an
hour a programme.

Carmel herself will be in Dublin for a week from June 21 onwards. Best
wishes to Carmel, as the television series is broadcast - and I am sure it
will be all right really...

I have distributed, as a separate email, information from the RTE Web site
about the series.

P.O'S.


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


Testing Links Potato Famine to an Origin in the Andes

By NICHOLAS WADE


A delicate piece of detective work in the collections of the Royal
Botanic Gardens at Kew has started to cast light on the origins of
the blight that caused the Irish potato famines a century and a
half ago.

Analysis of DNA from stricken potato leaves has confirmed that the
pathogen was a fungus known as Phytophthora infestans, but suggests
that it did not originate in the Toluca Valley of Mexico, a hot
spot of different strains of the blight that has been proposed as
the most likely source. Instead, researchers theorize, it may have
arisen in the ancestral home of the potato in the Andean highlands
of South America.

The Irish potato famines lasted from 1845 to 1860, during which
about a million of Ireland's 8 million people starved to death and
1.5 million emigrated, mostly to the United States.

Diseased leaves deposited at the time in botanical collections
have been analyzed by Dr. Jean B. Ristaino, a plant pathologist at
North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

She and colleagues report in the current issue of Nature that they
were able to extract DNA from samples collected in Ireland, Britain
and France between 1845 and 1847. In the right conditions, DNA can
survive for many years after the death of the living cells that
make it.

The samples lack the genetic signature of a widespread strain of
the fungus, US-1, which has been assumed from its worldwide
distribution to have descended from the 19th- century blight that
struck Ireland and much of Europe. The US-1 strain is thought to
have originated in Mexico because that is where the known diversity
of blight strains is highest.

Because the potato famine samples differ from the US-1 strain, Dr.
Ristaino and her colleagues suggest that it is likely to have come
from the Andean highlands. It is a well known phenomenon in biology
for a pathogen and its host to evolve together.

A South American source was proposed by several people who studied
the blight in the 19th century, including Charles Darwin.

He had collected potato tubers from Chile in 1835 during the
voyage of the Beagle that led him to propose his theory of
evolution by natural selection. Darwin was very concerned about the
blight, Dr. Ristaino said, and gave Irish potato breeders £100 of
his own money to support efforts to develop resistant strains.

He also hoped that the tubers from Chile might be naturally
resistant to the blight and asked his cousin, William Darwin Fox,
to grow them. But they all succumbed to the blight, which was
endemic in England as well as Ireland, Dr. Ristaino said.

There were many hints available at the time pointing to South
America as a possible source of the blight, she said: European
potato crops had been wiped out earlier in the century by a
different disease, caused by a fungus called Fusarium, and were
replaced with varieties from Peru.

There was also a vigorous trade in bat guano fertilizer between
Peru and Ireland, and that material could have transported the
blight.

Dr. Ristaino said more strains of the blight needed to be sampled
worldwide to help pinpoint the origin of the one she had found in
the herbarium samples.

"There's a real treasure trove of materials over there," she said,
referring to the Kew herbarium collections outside London.

"There are many other pathogens hidden away on the shelves. You
can capture a whole window into past epidemics."

In a commentary in Nature, Dr. Nicholas P. Money, a botanist at
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, described Dr. Ristaino's analysis
as "a remarkable piece of molecular detective work."

Dr. Stephen B. Goodwin, one of the biologists who discovered that
the US-1 strain of blight now dominates the globe, said his theory
of its being the cause of the Irish potato famine now seemed
incorrect.

"Too bad it wasn't true," he said, "but that's the way it goes
sometime. It was a great hypothesis."

Dr. Goodwin, a Department of Agriculture plant pathologist who
teaches at Purdue University, said that the potato family had two
centers of diversity, one in Mexico and one in Peru, but that the
blight itself is far more diverse in the Mexican center and is
likely to have evolved there.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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


Voters in Ireland Reject Expansion of European Union

By SARAH LYALL


DUBLIN, June 8 ? Voters in Ireland threw the European Union's
expansion plans into sudden disarray today by unexpectedly
rejecting a European treaty that was to pave the way for 12 new
members, most of them former Communist countries.

The decision to reject the treaty, drawn up in Nice, France, in
December, seems to have come from a mix of apathy ? only 32.9
percent of registered voters turned out for Thursday's vote ? and a
deep-seated fear that an enlarged European Union would threaten
national sovereignty and siphon money away from Ireland in favor of
needier countries.

The vote, 54 percent opposed to the treaty and 46 percent in favor
of it, will surely delay plans to expand the European Union, but it
does not necessarily mean the expansion will not take place.
Ireland could renegotiate parts of the treaty and then take the new
version back to voters for another referendum, possibly as early as
the fall.

Over the last few decades, Ireland has been one of the biggest
beneficiaries of the increasingly powerful European Union, whose 15
current members are drawn from Western Europe. Despite an economic
expansion that has helped turn Ireland into one of Europe's most
robust economies, the Irish seemed reluctant to extend the same
generosity to others.

"There was nothing in the Treaty of Nice that was good for Ireland
to motivate people," Anthony Coughlan, secretary of the National
Platform, which worked to defeat the referendum, said in an
interview.

When the Irish imagined the inclusion of millions of Polish
farmers "with two cows apiece" in the European Union, Mr. Coughlan
said, they thought, "Our money would be going to farmers, but it
wouldn't be going to Irish farmers; it would be going to Polish
farmers."

Ireland's unease over European expansion is hardly unprecedented.
Many European countries are worried about ceding too much power
over domestic issues to the European Union. Last year, in the first
popular test for Europe's common currency, voters in Denmark
rejected the euro. Britain, too, is embroiled in a deep identity
crisis over its ties to Europe, although the Conservative Party's
Save the Pound platform proved unpopular with the voters in
Thursday's election.

Ireland is the only European Union country required by its
Constitution to have a referendum on the treaty. In other member
countries, the treaty is to go before the national legislatures,
and its passage has been presented as a virtual certainty.

Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said there were no easy solutions to
the problems created by the vote.

"While I am certain that the vast majority of the Irish people
remain strongly committed to the European Union and enlargement, it
is clear that there are genuine anxieties and concerns about the
future, which go well beyond the terms of the treaty itself," said
Mr. Ahern, whose government led the campaign for the treaty and who
was badly shaken by the defeat. "We are going to have to reflect
deeply on how those may best be addressed."

Other countries in Europe, too, were stunned by the results of the
vote. In a joint statement, Goran Persson, Sweden's prime minister
and the president of the European Council, and Romano Prodi,
president of the European Commission, said that they were "very
disappointed" by the result, but that they would continue to work
toward expansion.

Under the current plans, the first new members would begin the
process of joining the European Union as early as 2003.

In addition to providing for the broad expansion of the European
Union, the Treaty of Nice, negotiated over four difficult days and
nights last December, would reconfigure voting strength and the way
decisions are reached in a number of European Union institutions.

During the first half of the month- long campaign before
Thursday's vote, approval seemed all but assured. But a poll
published last week showed the gap between the two sides
decreasing, and opponents of the treaty ? a loose coalition of
religious groups, socialists, nationalists and environmentalists ?
began to capitalize on the public's fears about what acceptance
would mean.

In addition to the unsavory prospect of paying money to the
European Union at the expense of Ireland's own subsidies,
ratification of the treaty raised for some voters the specter of a
European Union full of impoverished people from the East flooding
into Ireland in search of jobs. In the last several years, tens of
thousands of refugees from poor and war-torn countries have come
here, as they have to other countries in Western Europe. The influx
has been hard for Ireland, traditionally a country of emigrants
rather than immigrants, to accept.

"They've allowed too many refugees into this country at the
moment," said Kevin Collins, a 50-year- old house painter
interviewed outside Doheny & Nesbit's pub in central Dublin,
explaining why he voted against the treaty. "They've started ghetto
areas in Dublin."

Nor does Mr. Collins have much faith in the government's
explanation about what an enlarged European Union would mean, or
indeed in the European Commission itself. "It's too bureaucratic an
organization, and it's getting too big," he said.

Many Irish people feared that ratification of the treaty would
force Ireland to take part in the European Union's Rapid Reaction
Force, thus disturbing the country's traditional neutrality.

"I don't think the Irish public gives a tinker's curse about
European institutional reform," Ben Tonra, deputy director of the
European Institute at University College Dublin, said in an
interview. "The real issue is Ireland's involvement with the
European Rapid Reaction Force."

Mr. Tonra added that the government, which led the "Yes" campaign
along with the Catholic Church, had done little to convince voters
of the merits of the treaty. "What were the government incentives
to vote for it?" he said. "It was just generic abstract good will
towards potential future partners in Eastern Europe."

A humbled Mr. Ahern said the government should have worked harder
to sell the treaty to voters.

"I am disappointed that all of us on the `Yes' side ? the
government, the main political parties and the social partners ?
were not able to persuade a higher number of voters in making such
an important decision," he said. It was clear, he added, that those
supporting the treaty had not succeeded "in overcoming the negative
fears and perceptions, which in many cases were generated around
issues largely outside of the treaty."

Mr. Prodi and Mr. Persson said the European Union, too, had to do
find better ways to explain its work in ways that ordinary people
could understand.

"This situation undoubtedly underlines the need for greater
efforts from all of us to explain Europe to our citizens and to
involve them more thoroughly in the debate about the Union, its
role and its future direction," they said.

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From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"

Subject: Re: Ir-D Voters in Ireland Reject Expansion of EU

This is a very interesting, but not completely unexpected, development.
Ireland has done so much to establish a separate identity vis-a-vis England
for so long, is it any wonder that subsuming that separate identity into a
larger European identity poses a problem?

Bill Mulligan

From: "C. McCaffrey"
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Subject: Re: Ir-D Television Folk

Thanks Paddy for mentioning this. I should point out to you [and the list]
that the RTE people got it wrong when they transcribed the description of
the
programme because the date of the tomb building is 3,000 BC and not 2,000 -
the
programme is correct in this but the ad is wrong. Ah well, what is a 1,000
years or so!
Thanks again,
Carmel

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

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Last year Ir-D Member, Carmel McCaffrey, cmc[at]jhu.edu, and I shared notes
> about the experience of working with the television folk...
>
> Oh, how we laughed...
>
> The television series with which Carmel is associated, 'In Search of
Ancient
> Ireland' covers Irish history from earliest times to the Norman invasion.
> It begins on RTE1 on 21st June at 10.15 pm. It will run for three weeks,
an
> hour a programme.
>
> Carmel herself will be in Dublin for a week from June 21 onwards. Best
> wishes to Carmel, as the television series is broadcast - and I am sure it
> will be all right really...
>
> I have distributed, as a separate email, information from the RTE Web site
> about the series.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> England

From: "C. McCaffrey"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Voters in Ireland Reject Expansion 2

I think the issue of the referendum is much broader than 'Irish identity'.
The 20th century was a time of post-Colonialism sentiment and Ireland is
passing beyond all that now. The strong need for a separate a identity which
was 'not English' belongs to the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth
century. The vote for entry to the EU in the early 1970s was the first
indication that this time was passing. There are other issues involved here
now I believe. The question of immigration into Ireland is one. Will these
new
states mean more immigration into the thriving Irish economy? The fear that
funding a larger community will mean more taxes in the future and less money
being available to the current membership is another: Irish infrastructure
for
the past 10 or 15 years has been funded by EU money. The newer members
under
consideration need much building up economically and this has caused a lot
of
concern for Irish voters - those that bothered to vote that is.
Carmel McC


> From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
>
> This is a very interesting, but not completely unexpected, development.
> Ireland has done so much to establish a separate identity vis-a-vis
England
> for so long, is it any wonder that subsuming that separate identity into a
> larger European identity poses a problem?
>
> Bill Mulligan

From: Patrick O'Sullivan
P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk

Noticed at Findarticles.com...

The Ballykissangelization of Ireland.(television series,
Ballykissangel)(Critical Essay)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2584/3_20/65651972/p1/article.jhtml

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

The Ballykissangelization of Ireland.(television series,
Ballykissangel)(Critical Essay)
Author/s: Ruth Barton
Issue: August, 2000

Remember, the trick at FindArticles is to click on Print This Article - that
gets you the full text on one page, to Save or Copy... Or Print.

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Rethinking the colonisers: British colonial elites in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries

1st June 2002

University of Warwick, England
Department of History

Renewed scholarly interest in the agents of European colonialism has
been provoked by changes in the way that we approach the study of the
colonial past. Recent interest in the complexity of relations between
colonisers and the colonised has helped to call previous assumptions about
both groups into question. The result of this has been that the
colonisers, who sought to control vast empires and who attempted to bring
about the domination and control of native populations, are no longer seen
as having been a homogenous or unified group. Recent work suggests that
colonial regimes and discourses were, in fact, replete with competing
agendas and strategies and were characterised by fissure, doubt and
failure as well as by single-minded self-confidence and success.

The conference will address British colonising elites of the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries from the perspectives outlined above. It will
define such elites as the principle framers of colonial ideas, policies
and practices and will therefore include: administrators, including
governors, viceroys and civil servants; profit makers and capitalists,
including planters and entrepreneurs; military leaders; intellectuals; and
the leaders and organisers of missions.

The conference will encourage interdiscipliary approaches and its
principle aims will be to:

* Assess discord and fissure within and between different groups
of colonisers, at particular times and in specific locales.

* Examine how localised contingencies affected the ways in which
colonising groups interacted and operated.

* Consider the ways in which particular colonial projects changed
over time.

* Investigate the divergent ways in which colonisers interfaced
with the colonised and how this shaped different colonial
experiences.

* Question the extent to which colonisers were able to control and
change the lives of colonial subjects in the manner that they
intended.

* Consider how different, localised encounters might be considered
within the more general contexts of the discourses and practices
of British colonialism in particular periods.

The one-day conference will host themed sessions, comprising of up to
three papers, along with keynote lectures and will conclude with an open
discussion. Proposals for papers of up to 25 minutes are invited on any
aspects of British colonising elites in either (or both) the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, particularly:

* Administrators.
* Capitalists and Entrepreneurs.
* 'Civilisers', (including prominent missionaries).
* Relations and encounters with native elite groups and populations.
* Interaction and debate between colonisers.
* Comparative studies.

Abstracts of 300 - 500 words should be sent by July 31 2001 to: Christer
Petley, Graduate Programme in History, University of Warwick, Coventry
CV4 7AL, UK (Phone: 0779 0831 882 or e-mail: c.j.petley[at]warwick.ac.uk ).

Conference organiser: Christer Petley, Graduate Programme in History,
University of Warwick.

Conference advisers: Professor Gad Heuman, (University of Warwick), Dr
Cecily Jones (University of Warwick).

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Further to the recent Ir-D message, about the essay that Martin Baumann
wrote for is on 'that word Diaspora' - that essay now displayed at
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net
in the 'Debates' folder...

Martin tells me that another version of that essay has been published as...

Martin Baumann, 'Diaspora: Genealogies of Semantics and Transcultural
Comparison', NUMEN, 2000, Vol. 47, pp 313-337.

What I find of special interest in Martin's essay - this is clearest in the
version he did for us - is the way the historian of religion brings a
theological perspective to the study of diaspora, and thus emigration. This
is a theme that is around in Irish Diaspora Studies, but nowadays muted or
almost invisible.

I should report too that Martin Baumann's temporary post at the University
of Bremen has ceased, and he is back again at the University of Hannover.
However later this year he moves to a permanent post as professor at the
University of Lucern, Switzerland. Our sincere congratulations to Martin on
this move...

P.O'S.

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Speaking of 'Irish Studies' as an international phenomenon...

Is anyone keeping track of the extraordinary effervescence of 'Bloomsday'
celebrations throughout the world? We see more and more each year.

And is anyone developing any theory? We might - it is tempting - count
Halloween (in its US form) as an Irish festival. So, St. Patrick's Day,
Halloween, Bloomsday - three successful Irish cultural exports?

On Bloomsday, this is the information that has reached us so far...

A Bloomsday reading of Ulysses will take place in the Brechemin
Auditorium of the music building at the University of Washington
campus in Seattle at 8.00pm on June 16. Admission is free to this
staged reading of Chapters Five and Six, though a donation at the
door is very welcome. Directed by Dr Kieran O'Malley from the Dept
of Psychiatry, the fourth annual reading is presented by the Wild
Geese Players of Seattle.

A number of events will be taking place in Brazil to mark Bloomsday
on June 16. There will be readings at the Livraria Argumento in Rio
de Janeiro, songs and readings at Finnegan's Pub in Sao Paulo, guitar
music and readings at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana in Porto Alegre;
and readings at the bar of O Ponto de Cinema in Santa Maria. For
further details on all these events see http://www.gringoes.com

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