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Dr B K Lambkin
brian.lambkin[at]uafp.co.uk
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Omagh BT 78 5QY
Tel: 028 90 82 256315 Fax: 028 90 82 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms www.folkpark.com





The Second Literature of Irish Exile
Autumn School
Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

Saturday, 20 October 2001

This new autumn school is now into its second year. It aims to give members
of the public an opportunity to meet and mix with experts on some of the
less well-known aspects of 'exile' in Irish literature. The focus will be on
how emigrants from Ireland have given expression in words to feelings of
exile. The programme will take place in the stimulating settings of the
National School and the Post Office in the Ulster-American Folk Park, and in
the warmth of the library of the Centre for Migration Studies.

Speakers

Patrick O'Sullivan is Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit at the
University of Bradford and is editor of the monumental six volume series,
The Irish World-Wide. He has a particular interest in literature and is an
accomplished playwright.

Ann Brennan is a novelist from New Brunswick who has written on the theme of
Irish exile.

Professor Pat Coughlan teaches English at University College Cork. Her
research interest in the theme of exile ranges from the seventeenth century
to the present.

Dr Jason King has recently completed a doctoral thesis for Maynooth
University on ?exile? in nineteenth century Irish literature.

Piaras Mac Éinrí is Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies at
University College, Cork where the ?Breaking the Silence? oral history
project is investigating the effects of emigration on those left behind in
Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.



Saturday 21 October

10.0 Registration (CMS Library)
Coffee on arrival

10.45 Welcome (CMS Library)

11.00 'Discovering the literature of the Irish Diaspora', Patrick O?
Sullivan
Chair: Brian Lambkin

11.45 Discussion

12.00 ?Readings on the theme of exile?, Ann Brennan
Chair: Professor Pat Coughlan

12.30 Lunch, Ulster-American Folk Park Restaurant

1.30 Visit to Castletown National School, Ulster-American Folk Park
?The work of the contemporary novelist Alice McDermott and the literature of
Irish Exile?, Professor Pat Coughlan
Chair: Dr Sophie King, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen?s University,
Belfast

2.15 Visit to Mountjoy Post Office and Reilly?s Spirit Grocer
(Emigration Agent)
?The Post Office, Emigrant Letters and the Literature of Exile?
Piaras Mac Éinrí

3.00 Afternoon Tea (CMS Library)

3.15 ?The theme of exile in Irish Literature of the Nineteenth Century?, Dr
Jason King, Maynooth University
Chair: Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum

4.0 Panel Discussion (including chairs)

4.30 Reception for speakers and participants


Fee: £20.00 (50% concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)
This includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee
and drinks reception.

Contact
Tel: 028 82 256315
Fax: 028 82 242241
E mail uafp[at]iol.ie

Please circulate widely...

Forwarded on behalf of...

Dr B K Lambkin
brian.lambkin[at]uafp.co.uk
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Omagh BT 78 5QY
Tel: 028 90 82 256315 Fax: 028 90 82 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms www.folkpark.com



SEMINAR
To be held at the Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk, Omagh

at 11.00 am on Monday 22 October, 2001


?Issues in the study of the Irish Diaspora?
Patrick O?Sullivan
University of Bradford


Members of MAGNI with an interest in the Museum of Emigration project are
invited to this seminar at the Centre for Migration Studies at the
Ulster-American Folk Park on Monday 22 October. It is aimed at gaining a
better understanding of the wider context in which the Museum of Emigration
project is taking place.

Issues to be investigated are the historical development of the concept of
the ?Irish Diaspora? and of Irish Diaspora Studies as an academic
discipline. The current strengths and weaknesses of research and publication
in the field will be examined, and some likely future directions for
development will be considered, particularly the role of comparative studies
and the position of Britain in the Irish Diaspora.

The seminar will be given by Patrick O?Sullivan who is head of the Irish
Diaspora Research Unit in the Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
at the University of Bradford. He is the editor of the six volume series The
Irish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity (Leicester University Press)
and was a consultant to the major television series, The Irish Empire. He
currently runs the highly respected and influential Irish-Diaspora
discussion list on the Internet. The Respondent will be Piaras Mac Éinrí who
is Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies at University College,
Cork.

10.30 Tea / Coffee

11.0 ?Issues in the study of the Irish Diaspora?, Patrick O?Sullivan

12.00 Response, Piaras Mac Éinrí

12.10 Discussion

1.0 Lunch

Please circulate widely...

Forwarded on behalf of...

Robert J. Savage
Associate Director
Irish Studies
Boston College
savager[at]bc.edu
(617) 552-3966

web site: www.bc.edu/irish


Boston College Announces Summer Research Fellowship in Irish Studies.

Boston College will offer a summer research fellowship in Irish Studies
beginning in 2002. The scholarship will provide housing at the Mill Street
Cottage adjacent to the Boston College Law School and an office in Connolly
House, the home of the Irish Studies Program.

Scholars will be able to conduct research at Boston College libraries
including the Burns Library, which houses the Special Irish Collection, the
O'Neill Library and the Irish Music Archive. The fellowship will allow
researchers access to other institutions in the Boston area such as the
Boston Public Library, the Massachusetts State Archive, and the John F.
Kennedy Library. Scholars studying in all fields of Irish Studies are
invited to apply.

A travel grant of $1,000 will be offered to assist the research fellow.
Those interested in applying should write to Robert Savage c/o Boston
College Irish Studies Program, Connolly House, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

----------------------
Robert J. Savage
Associate Director
Irish Studies
Boston College
savager[at]bc.edu
(617) 552-3966

web site: www.bc.edu/irish

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A few hours ago my son called me downstairs to watch the television news
unfold of the attacks on New York and Washington.

The awful logical logic of terorism...

Our thoughts are with our friends in New York and Washington.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Personal Fax National 0709 236 9050
Fax International +44 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

Forwarded on behalf of
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington and Grainne Blair


Please find attached a call for tender for a feasibility study. I would
be grateful if you would display the advertisement and also circulate
anyone whom you think might be interested.

Many thanks


Micheline Sheehy Skeffington and Grainne Blair


The Sheehy Skeffington Family Home at Hazelbrook, Terenure, Dublin


?Hanna?s House? inspired by generations of feminist activists, is a place
for women to bring about radical change for equality and justice?.


Call for Tenders to carry out a Feasibility Study


Currently being guided into life by a steering group of women activists,
?Hanna?s House? has been inspired by the felt need for a place to facilitate
women?s greater movement into public life and the policy arena today, to
tackle gender-specific obstacles, to challenge social exclusion and
inequality in Ireland and elsewhere and to provide a space for women to
develop their leadership, social analysis and creative expression to
contribute to a more just and equal society.

The inspiration for the Centre has arisen from the Sheehy Skeffington family
history of commitment to women?s emancipation and in particular Hanna Sheehy
Skeffington, one of the women most associated with feminist activism in
Irish history. She was the mother of the late Owen Sheehy Skeffington, who
married Andrée D. Sheehy Skeffington, a strong activist in her own right
(see Appendix).

An experienced consultant is sought to carry out a study of the feasibility
of establishing a centre for feminist researchers, activists and women?s
groups at the former family home of Owen and Andrée Sheehy Skeffington, in
Terenure, Dublin. The house is currently owned by their three children.

The project provides a challenging opportunity for a suitable researcher to
work with the Committee in the political/social development of ?Hanna's
House? as a place for social change. It will require an unusual combination
of social research skills and project management/planning skills.

Project funding in the region of £25,000 has been secured to carry out the
feasibility study



Aims of the feasibility study

The feasibility study is being undertaken to evaluate the potential of the
Sheehy Skeffington house to be developed as a centre for women. The centre,
as envisioned by the steering group, will be for women and will ideally
provide:

facilities for individual resident and non-resident researchers as well as
women?s groups and organisations seeking to effect social change in
accordance with the values of feminism and social and economic justice:
a setting that values and recognises the historical and contemporary
contribution of women to social change
a setting for discussions, seminars, institutes/summer schools, and training
programmes that advance feminist thinking and practice
an informal setting for women from Ireland and abroad to meet and
communicate on common issues.



Terms of Reference of the Feasibility Study

A consultant researcher, or researchers, is/are now sought to carry out the
feasibility study and prepare a Strategic Plan. The research will consist of
two distinct but related components:

(A) A needs assessment consisting of the following tasks:
Consult with potential users: women's groups, support agencies, Women?s
Studies departments and organisations with a feminist ethos, to evaluate the
potential demand for such a Centre and identify key areas of requirements.

Evaluate the potential demand for the proposed centre. Make recommendations
about the best use of the site (including the house and outlying buildings)
i.e. the feasibility of using the premises to provide residential and/or
education facilities (including the feasibility of providing childcare
facilities) as determined initially by conclusions from the feasibility
study.

Draw up a plan for the development of the site. It may be appropriate that
this be a phased development, expanding into more intensive activities at a
later date. This will require consultation with technical experts, (e.g. an
architect, a quantity surveyor) who would be in sympathy with the project.

(B) Development of a Financial Strategy involving the following:
Identify the resource requirements to run the centre on an efficient basis
for (each of) the feasible option(s), including management implications.

Explore the options in terms of funding through EU, state and private grants
at both start-up and continuing stages and ascertain the extent of
self-generated income necessary to ensure the Centre's future sustainability
for the options suggested in the recommendations.

Make links with similar centres in other countries to identify different
possible models for partnership.


The researcher will be required to:
Compile a final report making recommendations on the most appropriate
sustainable development and use of the site.

Produce a financial costing which will lead to the implementation of the
recommendations. This will be based on research into viable options and will
include estimates for full architectural plans, building estimates and
planning procedures.

Draw up a draft long-term financial plan, pending architectural/planning
concession. It will give estimates of all costs: running expenses, staffing
salaries, insurance etc as well as income generated by users/residents,
single or as groups. Potential one-off grants must not be included in the
long-term budget.



Tenders submitted should include the following:

A statement demonstrating a clear understanding of what is required by the
work:

Clear expected outcomes
An outline of the key challenges that the work will present and how to
approach them

A detailed research methodology for the needs assessment with explicit
references to anticipated sample size and methods of identifying sample

Key research questions
Structure of final report
A timetable for the research
A detailed breakdown of the costs including (if necessary) per diems and
other costs such as number of the days for the various elements.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Evidence of successful completion of similar work
Evidence of ability to draw out clear and achievable recommendations
Experience based on involvement in gender equality issues, community
development, women's education and development or feminist activism

Knowledge of women's sector in Ireland
Evidence of developing strategies and financial plans
Ability to work to deadlines
Evidence of/experience of participatory research methods.


Tenders submitted for consideration should be accompanied by:

A detailed Curriculum Vitae and names of referees (2/3 previous employers)
A sample of relevant previous work

Five copies of the tender document and the c.v. are required to be submitted

NB: The piece of research involves both a needs assessment (which draws a
range of conclusions/strategies) and a business and strategic plan arising
from that. The scope of the study may thus require more a collaborative
tender. In the case of a tender from an organisation or from more than one
person, the information above must be provided for all those involved.



Selection process
Deadline for receipt of tenders: Thursday 3rd October.

Date for interviews: Thursday 25th October. Those invited for interview will
be asked to prepare a presentation based on their tender.

Ideally the research will begin shortly after the successful candidate has
been notified, and must begin by, at the latest, December 2001.

Tenders to be submitted by Thursday 3rd October to:
Hanna?s House, Hazelbrook Cottage, 69 Terenure Road West, Dublin 6W; or by
e-mail to michskef[at]gofree.indigo.ie.

Potential candidates are free to make an appointment to visit the house
before submitting their tender. Please contact Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
at (01) 4906621 or at the above address.


Appendix

The Sheehy Skeffington family
Hanna Sheehy (1877-1946), born in Co. Cork and Frank Skeffington
(1878-1916), born in Co. Cavan, married in 1903. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
was a feminist, suffragist and republican, who was imprisoned many times for
her suffrage campaigns, co-founding the Irish Women?s Franchise League in
1908. In 1917-18, after her husband?s death, Hanna toured 21 of the United
States urging the US government to prevail on Britain to grant Irish
freedom. In January 1918 she met with President Wilson. On returning, she
was prominent in the fledgling state affairs, acting on the Sinn Féin
executive in 1920 with, amongst others, Michael Collins, Éamonn de Valera
and Arthur Griffith. After the War of Independence, she was elected to
Dublin County Council.

Francis Sheehy Skeffington was a pacifist, feminist and socialist. He co-
founded the feminist newspaper The Irish Citizen and wrote for numerous
Irish papers and reviews. More substantial works include a life of Michael
Davitt and a novel on the 1798 rebellion. He was arrested in 1915 for
anti-conscription activities, gave his own defence at his trial and went on
hunger and thirst strike until he was released. He later toured the US,
lecturing on the situation in war-time Ireland, on pacifism and on women?s
suffrage. He was arrested and shot without trial during the first days of
Easter Week 1916.

Their only child Owen Sheehy Skeffington (1909-1970), was a lecturer in
French at Trinity College Dublin, which he also represented in the Seanad
from 1954 to 1961 and from 1965 to 1970. He set up the Council of Action,
which gave support and free legal aid to poor tenants of Dublin and he
campaigned against corporal punishment in schools. Owen married Andrée
Sheehy Skeffington, née Denis (1910-1998) in 1935. Andrée, from Amiens in
France, was a graduate from the Sorbonne, Paris. Her life in Dublin was
equally devoted to social justice. She worked alongside Owen on Labour Party
and Civil Liberty issues as well as independently. She co-founded the Irish
Housewives? Association in 1941. In 1990 she published Skeff, a biography of
her late husband.

Andrée was fully supportive of her daughter, Micheline?s proposal to develop
the Cottage as a centre for women, run along feminist principles. It was
Andrée's belief that Hanna, Frank and Owen would also have approved of the
idea. The family thus would like to see its tradition of social justice and
women?s emancipation live on.

Grainne Blair 1 Farmhill Drive Roebuck Dublin 14 Ireland Tel:087 2073194 or
353 1 2987741 grainne.blair[at]ucd.ie =

From: Jason King
Subject: Re: Ir-D Autumn School: Literature of Irish Exile



Dear Brian and Paddy,
I am delighted to see that I am on the program, and I look forward to seeing
you again in Omagh next month.
best wishes,
Jason



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

Forwarded on behalf of...

Dr B K Lambkin
brian.lambkin[at]uafp.co.uk
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Omagh BT 78 5QY
Tel: 028 90 82 256315 Fax: 028 90 82 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms www.folkpark.com





The Second Literature of Irish Exile
Autumn School
Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

Saturday, 20 October 2001

This new autumn school is now into its second year. It aims to give members
of the public an opportunity to meet and mix with experts on some of the
less well-known aspects of 'exile' in Irish literature. The focus will be on
how emigrants from Ireland have given expression in words to feelings of
exile. The programme will take place in the stimulating settings of the
National School and the Post Office in the Ulster-American Folk Park, and in
the warmth of the library of the Centre for Migration Studies.

Speakers

Patrick O'Sullivan is Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit at the
University of Bradford and is editor of the monumental six volume series,
The Irish World-Wide. He has a particular interest in literature and is an
accomplished playwright.

Ann Brennan is a novelist from New Brunswick who has written on the theme of
Irish exile.

Professor Pat Coughlan teaches English at University College Cork. Her
research interest in the theme of exile ranges from the seventeenth century
to the present.

Dr Jason King has recently completed a doctoral thesis for Maynooth
University on ?exile? in nineteenth century Irish literature.

Piaras Mac Éinrí is Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies at
University College, Cork where the ?Breaking the Silence? oral history
project is investigating the effects of emigration on those left behind in
Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.



Saturday 21 October

10.0 Registration (CMS Library)
Coffee on arrival

10.45 Welcome (CMS Library)

11.00 'Discovering the literature of the Irish Diaspora', Patrick O?
Sullivan
Chair: Brian Lambkin

11.45 Discussion

12.00 ?Readings on the theme of exile?, Ann Brennan
Chair: Professor Pat Coughlan

12.30 Lunch, Ulster-American Folk Park Restaurant

1.30 Visit to Castletown National School, Ulster-American Folk Park
?The work of the contemporary novelist Alice McDermott and the literature of
Irish Exile?, Professor Pat Coughlan
Chair: Dr Sophie King, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen?s University,
Belfast

2.15 Visit to Mountjoy Post Office and Reilly?s Spirit Grocer
(Emigration Agent)
?The Post Office, Emigrant Letters and the Literature of Exile?
Piaras Mac Éinrí

3.00 Afternoon Tea (CMS Library)

3.15 ?The theme of exile in Irish Literature of the Nineteenth Century?, Dr
Jason King, Maynooth University
Chair: Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum

4.0 Panel Discussion (including chairs)

4.30 Reception for speakers and participants


Fee: £20.00 (50% concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)
This includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee
and drinks reception.

Contact
Tel: 028 82 256315
Fax: 028 82 242241
E mail uafp[at]iol.ie

From: "iee"
Subject: Re: Ir-D New York and Washington


Our prayers for all the people death in this horrible attack and specially,
to all the Irish descendant who were killed yesterday.

Guillermo MacLoughlin
Buenos Aires, Argentina

- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:00 PM
Subject: Ir-D New York and Washington


>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> A few hours ago my son called me downstairs to watch the television news
> unfold of the attacks on New York and Washington.
>
> The awful logical logic of terorism...
>
> Our thoughts are with our friends in New York and Washington.
>
> Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
> --
> Patrick O'Sullivan
> Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
> Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Irish-Diaspora list
> Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
> Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net
>
> Personal Fax National 0709 236 9050
> Fax International +44 709 236 9050
>
> Irish Diaspora Research Unit
> Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
> University of Bradford
> Bradford BD7 1DP
> Yorkshire
> England
>
>

From: Brian Lambkin
Subject: RE: Ir-D Literature of Irish Exile 2

Dear Jason
Delighted that you are delighted. Sorry that we had not contacted you
directly first. The announcement went out on the list sooner than I had
anticipated. Are your details on the draft programme OK as they stand?
Brian.

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: 12 September 2001 18:00
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Literature of Irish Exile 2



From: Jason King
Subject: Re: Ir-D Autumn School: Literature of Irish Exile



Dear Brian and Paddy,
I am delighted to see that I am on the program, and I look forward to seeing
you again in Omagh next month.
best wishes,
Jason



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

Forwarded on behalf of...

Dr B K Lambkin
brian.lambkin[at]uafp.co.uk
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Omagh BT 78 5QY
Tel: 028 90 82 256315 Fax: 028 90 82 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms www.folkpark.com





The Second Literature of Irish Exile
Autumn School
Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

Saturday, 20 October 2001

This new autumn school is now into its second year. It aims to give members
of the public an opportunity to meet and mix with experts on some of the
less well-known aspects of 'exile' in Irish literature. The focus will be on
how emigrants from Ireland have given expression in words to feelings of
exile. The programme will take place in the stimulating settings of the
National School and the Post Office in the Ulster-American Folk Park, and in
the warmth of the library of the Centre for Migration Studies.

Speakers

Patrick O'Sullivan is Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit at the
University of Bradford and is editor of the monumental six volume series,
The Irish World-Wide. He has a particular interest in literature and is an
accomplished playwright.

Ann Brennan is a novelist from New Brunswick who has written on the theme of
Irish exile.

Professor Pat Coughlan teaches English at University College Cork. Her
research interest in the theme of exile ranges from the seventeenth century
to the present.

Dr Jason King has recently completed a doctoral thesis for Maynooth
University on exile in nineteenth century Irish literature.

Piaras Mac Iinrm is Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies at
University College, Cork where the Breaking the Silence oral history
project is investigating the effects of emigration on those left behind in
Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.



Saturday 21 October

10.0 Registration (CMS Library)
Coffee on arrival

10.45 Welcome (CMS Library)

11.00 'Discovering the literature of the Irish Diaspora', Patrick O
Sullivan
Chair: Brian Lambkin

11.45 Discussion

12.00 Readings on the theme of exile, Ann Brennan
Chair: Professor Pat Coughlan

12.30 Lunch, Ulster-American Folk Park Restaurant

1.30 Visit to Castletown National School, Ulster-American Folk Park
The work of the contemporary novelist Alice McDermott and the literature of
Irish Exile, Professor Pat Coughlan
Chair: Dr Sophie King, Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University,
Belfast

2.15 Visit to Mountjoy Post Office and Reillys Spirit Grocer
(Emigration Agent)
The Post Office, Emigrant Letters and the Literature of Exile
Piaras Mac Iinrm

3.00 Afternoon Tea (CMS Library)

3.15 The theme of exile in Irish Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Dr
Jason King, Maynooth University
Chair: Trevor Parkhill, Ulster Museum

4.0 Panel Discussion (including chairs)

4.30 Reception for speakers and participants


Fee: #20.00 (50% concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)
This includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee
and drinks reception.

Contact
Tel: 028 82 256315
Fax: 028 82 242241
E mail uafp[at]iol.ie

From: Jason King
Subject: Re: Ir-D Literature of Irish Exile 3

Dear Brian,

Not to worry, everything looks great as it is. I'll
be out of town for the next couple of weeks, as I'm
off to Cardiff tonight for another conference on the
19th century Irish novel (albeit, one that is severely
disrupted by events in New York), but I'll be back
around Sept. 25th.
looking forward to seeing you,
Jason
- --- irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
>
> From: Brian Lambkin
> Subject: RE: Ir-D Literature of Irish Exile 2
>
> Dear Jason
> Delighted that you are delighted. Sorry that we had
> not contacted you
> directly first. The announcement went out on the
> list sooner than I had
> anticipated. Are your details on the draft programme
> OK as they stand?
> Brian.
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

One of the weird, and horrible, things about living in the late twentieth
century was that we all had to learn how to think like terrorists. We had
to try to understand the meaning of acts against which our own simple
humanity rebelled - what was the message, what was the rationale, what was
the logic?

So, into the twenty-first century...

Members of the Irish-Diaspora list are entitled to know that I have put on
hold - and I have sought advice about - a number of messages to Ir-D that
concern the attacks on New York and Washington.

Some of these messages are simple expressions of grief, sympathy and
concern.

Others raise more complex issues. I do wonder if an Irish Diaspora Studies
email discussion group is the right place to explore these more complex
issues.

It might help - it would certainly help me - if we could identify what might
be the Irish Diaspora Studies elements to these discussions...

Ownership of the word 'terrorism'. Yes, oppressive regimes like nothing
better than an all encompassing definition of 'terrorism', and, yes, the USA
seems bent on a series of alliances with oppressive anti-democratic regimes
in its attack on terrorism and its defence of democracy... Yes, one
person's terrorist is another person's founding father...

Yes, in the current crisis, already the Prevention of Terrorism Act is being
used here in Britain. And it would seem that the Muslims of America are now
going to find themselves in a position similar to that held by the Irish in
Britain (or Irish Catholics in Britain), for some centuries, in different
crises. They are going to be, in Paddy Hillyard's phrase, 'a suspect
community'. And Paddy Hillyard's book - changing what needs to be changed -
is a good outline of what they can expect.

Yes, here in the British Isles we are used to - but not inured to - 'the
politics of the latest atrocity', whereby the terrorists' own actions
prevent discussion of grievances. This may be part of the logic, of
course - the violence is intended to provoke more violence. I do not speak
of 'the last atrocity' - but 'the latest atrocity...'

Yes, the logic which led to the attacks on the New York financial district
is most probably the same logic that led to the IRA attacks on the City of
London.

Yes, elements of 'Irish-America' have long displayed - yes, self-indulgent -
support for acts of political violence. I should say, maybe, elements of
the Irish Diaspora. But, yes, see above, 'one person's terrorist...'

The attack on New York will, it seems, in some ways be an Irish-American
tragedy - as the names of the dead firefighters and police officers are made
known. Already it is clear that more British people died in this attack
than in any previous terrorist event. The first known Irish victims were in
the hi-jacked planes, but there were certainly more in the destroyed
buildings. New York is, of course, a city of the Irish Diaspora.

Have I left anything out?

I think it would be odd if we, on the Irish-Diaspora list, did not discuss
at least some of these issues. But I think we should first let America, and
all the people and countries who lost loved ones, collect and bury the dead.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Personal Fax National 0709 236 9050
Fax International +44 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

Subject: Re:Irish harps
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk

I'd appreciate any help with this. I'm looking at the
picture of an emblem of a harp that was used on the
banner of a newspaper in 1850. There is a naked woman
attached to it - much like those ladies who used to
front the prow of a boat. Does anyone know if this
picture had a name? Also does anyone know if there is
a name for the part of a harp that faces out to the
audience?

Dymphna Lonergan
The Flinders University of South Australia
Dymphna_1[at]Yahoo.com

From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Issues in the study of the Irish Diaspora

Dear Paddy,
Obviously I won't, unfortunately, be able to attend this seminar. Will
there be a paper or papers available?
Best,
John

John Hickey

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A reminder to those attending the Peoples and Migration Conference in
Durham - original Ir-D message below - that they should now be thinking
about setting out...

With our good wishes for a successful and thoughtful conference...

And a reminder that they should spare the time to visit Durham's beautiful
cathedral, for its beauty - but also perhap[s an appropriate place for
reflection...

P.O'S.


Subject: Ir-D Peoples and Migrations Conference, Durham

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

On behalf of Margaret McAllister
m.a.mcallister[at]durham.ac.uk
Research & Outreach Officer for the AHRB Centre for North-East England
History.

Conference

FRIDAY 14 - SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2001

"Peoples and Migrations: England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales in Comparative Perspective"

offers the opportunity for lively academic papers and debate on the
experiences of
migrants to the North East of England both through direct study and by
comparative studies. Further details are available on the web site at
www.durham.ac.uk/neehi.history/homepage.htm


AHRB CENTRE FOR NORTH EAST ENGLAND HISTORY
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2001

Hosted by The University of Sunderland

PEOPLES AND MIGRATIONS
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in Comparative Perspective

PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2001

3 pm Registration and Tea

4.00-5.30 SESSION 1: ASPECTS OF POPULATION MOVEMENT

Prof. A.C.Hepburn (University of Sunderland)
The Impact of Population Movement on Contested Cities

Dr Malcolm Smith (University of Durham)
Local Population Movement on the North Yorkshire Coast in the 19th Century

Discussion

6.30-8.00 pm Dinner

8 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Prof. Colin Holmes (University of Northumbria)
Reflections on Recent Immigration to Britain

SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER

9.00-10.45 SESSION 2: IRISH AND SCOTS MIGRANTS

Dr John A. Burnett (University of Sunderland)
Scots Migration to North East England, c.1881-1951

Dr Jeanette Brock (University of Strathclyde)
Scottish Migration to England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries

Dr D.M. MacRaild (University of Northumbria)
Irish Protestant Immigrants in Late 19th Century England

10.45-11.15 TEA/COFFEE

11.15 -12.45 SESSION 3: THE IMMIGRANT PRESS

Dr Anthony McNicholas (University of Westminster)
Brother Journalists: the National Brotherhood of Saint Patrick and the Irish
Press in mid-Victorian Britain

Dr Joan Hugman (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Clash of the Titans: The Irish Tribune and the Cowen Press, 1884-1898

Dr Alexander Peach (De Montfort University)
William Murphy and the Birmingham riots of 1867

12.45-1.30 Lunch

1.30 pm EVENT 1

Depart by coach for visit to St Peter?s Church (674 AD, associations with
Bede), The National Glass Centre, and a display of the Sidney Pollard
Collection (1924-98) followed by tea.

5.00-6.45 SESSION 4: ITINERANT MINORITIES IN BRITAIN

Dr Colin Clark (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
(Re)constructing Romani History: a Response to Recent Debates on the Origins
of the Roma

Helen Carter (University of Northumbria)
"The Time is Ripe for an Attempt at Economic Absorption": Conflicting
Attitudes to the Assimilation of Itinerant Minorities in Early 20th
Century Britain

Dr David Mayall (Sheffield Hallam University)
The Rom Reconsidered: constructing the ethnic Gypsy.

7 pm Dinner

SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER

9.00-11.00 SESSION 5: IRISH WOMEN AND MIGRATION

Dr Lyndon Fraser (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
"No one but Black Strangers to Spake to, God Help me": Irish Women's
Migration to the West Coast, New Zealand, 1864-1922

Dr Louise Ryan (University of North London)
Aliens, Migrants and Maids: An Analysis of the Inter-Departmental
Committee on Migration to Britain from the Irish Free State, 1937

Prof. Frank Neal (University of Salford)
A demographic and socio-economic profile of Irish-born women in the
North East and North West of England: the evidence of the 1851 census.

11.00-11.30 TEA/COFFEE

11.00-5.00 EVENT 2

Guided tour of Hadrian's Wall (subject to sufficient participants).
Those attending this tour will miss Session 6

11.30-1.00 SESSION 6: COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS

Dr Richard Allen (University of Northumbria)
In Search of a New Jerusalem: the Welsh Quaker Emigrés to America,
c1660-1750

Dr Per-Olof Gronberg (Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden)
International Migration and Return Migration of Swedish Engineers, 1890-1940

Dr Nigel Copsey (University of Teesside)
Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Community in Newcastle upon Tyne

1.00-2.00 Lunch/Conference Ends

2.00 EVENT 3

Guided tour of the peninsula at Durham.

5.30 Sunday EVENT 4

5.30 Opening Reception of the NEHRN Conference :
REGIONS AND BORDERS OF NORTHERN EUROPE

An introduction to the work of the International Boundaries Research Unit
(IBRU)
Buffet Dinner with wine, followed by:
8.00: Dr Andrew Wilson (University College, London):
LECTURE ON UKRAINE


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From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Harps

From: Patrick Maume
This type of harp is called a "Brian Boru harp". Trinity College
has a mediaeval harp of this description which was traditionally
believed to have belonged to Brian Boru, though it has now been dated
to some centuries after him.
The picture may also reflect Thomas Moore's early
nineteenth-century song THE ORIGIN OF THE HARP in which the harp is
presented as a mermaid who pined away for unrequited love and whose
songs are thus imbued with sorrow. Daniel Maclise did a painting
illustrating this ballad in which the sea-maiden is shown
standing around knee-depth in the sea,leaning away from a rocky pillar
(the back of the harp) and holding onto its top by one arm. The arm
forms the top of the harp, the frame is completed by her body, and the
strings are either her long hair or strands of seaweed (I forget
which) which hang over the arm and descend to the surface of the
water. The picture was reproduced on the cover of the Penguin
Classics translation of EARLY IRISH SAGAS some years ago.
We might have material here for a discussion on
nineteenth-century representations of femininity and in particular of
music and Ireland as feminine. A criticism of the Moore tradition of
Irish songs, voiced in the nineteenth century by the rival Young
Ireland tradition deriving from Davis, was that it was "feminine",
delighting in passive suffering, whereas the YIs wanted "masculine"
music which would inspire martial resistance.
I'm afraid I don't know the name of the relevant part of the harp -
perhaps someone else on the Irish-diaspora list can help. I am
forwarding a copy of this message to the Nineteenth-Century Ireland
list in case anyone there knows, and if they do I will forward the
information to Irish-diaspora.
Best wishes,
Patrick


On Fri 14 Sep 2001 06:00:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Fri 14 Sep 2001 06:00:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D Irish Harps
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
>
> Subject: Re:Irish harps
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
> I'd appreciate any help with this. I'm looking at the
> picture of an emblem of a harp that was used on the
> banner of a newspaper in 1850. There is a naked woman
> attached to it - much like those ladies who used to
> front the prow of a boat. Does anyone know if this
> picture had a name? Also does anyone know if there is
> a name for the part of a harp that faces out to the
> audience?
>
> Dymphna Lonergan
> The Flinders University of South Australia
> Dymphna_1[at]Yahoo.com
>
>

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am going to have to correct Patrick Maume...

(A rare treat...)

As I recall the 'Brian Boru' harp is NOT carved in the manner Dympna
describes...

See...
http://www.haverford.edu/engl/faculty/sherman/Irish/harp.htm

http://www.konzak.com/harps/brianb.html

Oddly enough I had been chasing up this image myself. Dympna's query
connects with my own work on John Denvir, the Liverpool and London Irish
writer and publisher of the C19th.

We often find in Irish - and 'Irish' - publications of that period a
picture, a woodcut or some other kind of print, of a harp, a specific type
of harp, where the curved upright of the harp is carved in the shape of a
woman, clothed or unclothed. Like, as Dympna says, the figurehead of a
sailing ship.

I have searched but I cannot find... I have not been able to find a picture
of a real harp carved in this fashion. I would like to know if there is any
special technical term for such a harp - so that I can use the right word to
talk about it.

I suspect we may be simply seeing an image repeated and copied by printers -
what we would nowadays call 'clip art'. Maybe something for the art
historians rather than the harp historians?

P.O'S.

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From: "Ruth-Ann M. Harris"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Harps

Dear Dymphna,
A colleague and I are working together on an Irish harper, Patrick
Byrne. I can't answer your question but I've posted your query on to
her. Ruth-Ann Harris


At 06:00 AM 9/14/01 +0000, you wrote:


>Subject: Re:Irish harps
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>I'd appreciate any help with this. I'm looking at the
>picture of an emblem of a harp that was used on the
>banner of a newspaper in 1850. There is a naked woman
>attached to it - much like those ladies who used to
>front the prow of a boat. Does anyone know if this
>picture had a name? Also does anyone know if there is
>a name for the part of a harp that faces out to the
>audience?
>
>Dymphna Lonergan
>The Flinders University of South Australia
>Dymphna_1[at]Yahoo.com
>

Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Adjunct Prof of History and Irish Studies, Boston
College
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Home Phone: (617)522-4361; FAX:(617)983-0328; Office Phone:(617)552-1571
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>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I searched again...

All the usual stuff...

But here...

A better picture of the harp at TCD
http://www2.shore.net/~laura/Ulysses/Sirens/harp.htm

At last, a picture of a harp with carved lady - a picture of a carved harp,
of rather roccoco appearance...
http://www.connect.ie/users/morley/uacht_e.htm
but, in the irritating manner of the Web, all we learn is that this is a
picture of 'the shield that used to hang above the speaker's chair in the
Irish parliament until the Act of Union...'

I suppose that if this was generally known then there is a route here
through which Dympna's carved lady harp becomes a specific Irish
nationalist, Repeal of the Act of Union, anti-Unionist symbol?

P.O'S.

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From: Patrick Maume
Subject: William Melville, the Irish "M"

From: Patrick Maume
After the recent unmasking of Zorro as an Irishman, I can now reveal
another hitherto unsuspected member of the Irish diaspora - James
Bond's boss "M".
I should explain that I came across this material as a byproduct of
my work on late nineteenth and early twentieth-century separatists -
if you are interested in Irish physical-force revolutionaries you will
sooner or later develop an interest in the police services which
tracked them - especially since many of these were also recruited from
Irish (or Indian-based) policemen an administrators who were
accustomed to the techniques of political policing and had fewer
scruples about their use than were felt among the late Victorian
British public. My sources are the contemporary Press and Bernard
Porter's books on the development of British political policing.
Sadly, the issues surrounding counterterrorism are in the news again
just now, and this material has a relevance I didn't expect when I
first took it up.

William Melville (1852-1918) was born in Sneem, Co. Kerry. In 1872
he joined the London Metropolitan Police.
Melville was one of the original members of the Irish Bureau
formed in March 1883, which evolved into Special Branch. He was
involved in the defeat of a Fenian plot to bomb Westminster Abbey
during Queen Victoria?s 1887 Jubilee service.
As Chief Inspector of Special Branch in April 1893 he supervised
counter-intelligence work against immigrant revolutionaries in Britain
in the 1890s. His operations against anarchists were widely
publicised, even by Irish nationalist papers lauded the achievements
of this Catholic Irishman in what was seen as a battle for
civilisation) marking an inmportant decline in traditional British
hostility to political policing, though political radicals accused him
of employing provocateurs to entrap dupes into conspiracies used to
stir up prejudice against political refugees. The character of
Chief Inspector Heat in Joseph Conrad?s novel THE SECRET AGENT is
partially derived from Melville.
As a result of his role in co-ordinating anti-anarchist action
with other police forces, culminating in his attendance at the
International Anti-Anarchist conference in Rome in 1898, Melville
accumulated awards from several European countries, including France,
Spain, Portugal, Austria, and Denmark. (The Metropolitan Police
Museum has a Faberge cigarette case and fob watches presented to
Melville protecting Nicholas II on a visit to London.) His
co-operation with the Tsarist secret police against political exiles
in London would certainly have caused controversy if generally known;
he even advised them on how to handle his own government .
Melville resigned from Special Branch and the Metropolitan Police on
1 December 1903, when he was awarded the MVO [Member of the Victorian
Order]. He then engaged in counterespionage for the War Office and
in 1909 became second-in-command of Vernon Kell?s newly-formed Secret
Service Bureau (the nucleus of MI5) which engaged in counterespionage
activities within the British Isles. Kell oversaw operations from
London, while Melville travelled around Britain checking out suspected
German agents. (Melville also maintained agents on the Continent,
presumably acquired during his earlier career, to the annoyance of
Mansfield Cumming of the foreign-intelligence agency MI6.)
In 1912 Melville delivered a pro-Home Rule speech at a nationalist
meeting in Kerry, where he was introduced as one of the detectives who
stalked the Fenians. This was unfavourably commented on by the
radical nationalist press, and when in November 1912 he gave evidence
against an accused German agent, Arthur Griffith suggested that his
apparent zeal for Home Rule might have been assumed for professional
reasons. (It may, perhaps, have been genuine; he was a member of the
National Liberal Club, which may suggest Home Rule sympathies.)
During the First World War Melville allegedly trained agents in
housebreaking and other useful skills. He died in London on 1
February 1918. Two of his sons served in the British Army during the
First World War; one, Sir James Benjamin Melville KC(1885-1931), was
Labour MP for Gateshead 1929-31 and Solicitor-General 1929-30. Sir
James Melville's daughter Mary was involved in the 1940s with
right-wing organisations which publicised Soviet misdeeds in Eastern
Europe.

Here's the connection. The GUARDIAN published extracts from the
memoirs of Stella Rimington this week. On Tuesday she wrote about the
origins of MI5, and after outlining Melville's role (without mentioing
his Irish origins or earlier career) she recalled (as is widely known)
that in official documents Cumming was referred to as "C" (as indeed
were his successors as head of MI6) and Kell as "K". What I hadn't
known was her next statement - that Melville was also known by his
initial, as "M", and that it was from this that Ian Fleming derived
the idea of calling James Bond's boss "M". So the original "M" was an
Irishman. A cameo for Sean Connery, perhaps...

I'm doing the entry on Melville for the DICTIONARY OF IRISH
BIOGRAPHY. While a text has already been submitted, there is plenty
of time for revision, so if anyone out there has further information
about him I would be grateful (but please give sources).

Best wishes,
Patrick.

Patrick Maume has forwarded to us the following item which appeared on
Thomas Archdeacon's Irish Studies 'list...

Forwarded message...


There's an excellent 330 page book called, "Harps and Harpists" by Roslyn
Rensch published in paperback in 1998 by Indiana University Press, ISBN
0-25321209-X. It provides excellent information (and illustrations) on the
origin/history of the Harp including extensive information on Irish harps
and descriptions on the parts/construction of the Harp which should help.

Basil Walsh
Delray Beach
Florida
basilwalsh[at]msn.com
www.britishandirishworld.com

From: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk
Subject: President Fox of Mexico

I've just been reading Jürgen Buchenau's article 'Small numbers, great
impact: Mexico and its immigrants, 1821-1973' in the _Journal of American
Ethnic History_, vol. 20, no. 3, 2001, pp. 23-49.

The article begins:

"On 2 July 2000, the son of Irish and Spanish immigrants stunned the world
by winning election to the presidency of Mexico."

Can someone please provide some information on Presidente Vicente Fox's
Irish background? In reality, I wonder how real is Fox's "Irish"
antecedence? Or is it basically a matter that it is more politically
acceptable to refer to supposed Irish (rather than British or US) origins
is you're making a run for a Latin American presidency with a thoroughly
"gringo" surname?

Thanks,

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford