The following book review appeared on the H-Albion list...

And I know that Ir-D list members will want to listen to Nancy Curtin...

P.O'S.

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

S.J. Connolly, ed. _Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century
Ireland_. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 256 pp. $50.00
(cloth), ISBN 1-85182-556-8.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Nancy J. Curtin
, Department of History, Fordham
University

This volume on Irish political thought is based on a series of
seminars held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,
D.C. in 1998, sponsored by the Folger Institute Center for the
History of British Political Thought. As the Center's guiding
force, J.G.A. Pocock asserts in the concluding essay, it thus
forms a part of that admittedly problematic enterprise of
constructing a "new British history," one that acknowledges the
interlocking and interacting histories of all the peoples of the
British Isles. Neither Pocock nor the editor and seminar
director, S.J. Connolly, explore how the contributions to this
volume constitute this historiographical new departure. The
essays included here represent less a consistent methodological
approach than a preliminary and rather empiricist sampling of a
range of political ideas which defy any coherent generalization.

Connolly does identify three somewhat discontinuous themes
within Irish political thought--British constitutionalism (the
"ancient constitution" and its attendant rights and liberties),
corporatism (the defense of traditional group privileges), and
civic humanism--a trio that hardly distinguishes Irish political
thinking from English thought, and which would lead us to think
that all Irish political thought is merely derivative.
Significantly, he refuses to acknowledge Ireland's political and
economic subordination to Britain as a formative part of the
mix. What distinguishes Irish political ideas is that they are
in fact pragmatic responses to real political situations and, as
such, Irish political thought adapts these three ubiquitous
political languages in opportunistic ways. Thus we should not
look to Ireland for abstract political theorizing, but rather
for the interplay between ideas and action. The fact of
Ireland's dependency (whether described as colonial or
otherwise) sits like the elephant in the living room in many of
these essays--an elemental fact of Irish political and economic
life that is either ignored or denied.

Connolly does assert an Atlantic significance to Irish political
thinking that might acknowledge the elephant, but neither he nor
any of the other contributors explore it. He and Jacqueline
Hill prefer to situate Ireland as an _ancien régime_ state in
Europe, rather than a colonial dependency. This rejection of a
colonial model certainly shapes the approach to Irish political
thought represented here. The notion of Ireland as a colony has
traditionally been integral to a teleological nationalist
meta-narrative that privileges a continuous oppositional
rhetoric and mutes the massive body of pro-establishment voices.
Much of the scholarship on Irish political thought (and it is
still a much neglected field) has sought to discredit this
anti-colonial reading by emphasizing its discontinuities and its
opportunistic appropriation of self-serving, frustrated
place-seekers. But given the obvious fact of Ireland's
dependency (however labeled) it has been a difficult task. Even
here, the two essays on political economy (one by Robert Mahony
on Swift and another by Patrick Kelly) detect a decided
anti-colonial critique that identifies the development of the
British economy with the deliberate underdevelopment of the
Irish economy.

The political ideas sampled reflect the political thought of the
Anglo-Irish, Protestant elite. While acknowledged to exist,
Catholic and Presbyterian thinking is dismissed. Indeed, Pocock
seems to imply that Protestant Ireland is very much a part of
the "new British history," while Catholic Ireland is not. The
essays included instead focus on the debate within Protestant
Ireland over the Glorious Revolution (Connolly), the resiliency
and ubiquity of old regime corporatist institutions, practices,
and ideology (Hill), Jonathan Swift and consumption (Mahony),
political economy in the 1720s and 1730s (Patrick Kelly),
critical reappraisal of the Patriot tradition (Connolly again),
an historiographical review of republican United Irish thought
(Ian McBride), and the emergence of an Irish neo-conservatism in
the 1790s (James Kelly). Each of these essays can stand alone
as excellent models of scholarship that point to areas of Irish
political thinking which should be explored further. What the
volume lacks is a framework or even a rationale that might link
these contributions together. The rather unhelpful framing
essays of Connolly and Pocock barely acknowledge the other
contributors. Is Irish political thought merely the sum of what
can be discerned from reviewing its copious pamphlet
productions, themselves responses to unique political
situations?

A review of Irish political thought could deal with major Irish
political thinkers, and here the list is expanding of those who
were very much the product of an interlocking and interactive
republic of letters. To the traditional list of Molyneux,
Swift, Berkeley, and Burke, we can add John Toland, Francis
Hutcheson and his association with Presbyterian Ireland, the
Catholic Charles O'Connor, as well as engaged politicians like
Charles Lucas, Henry Grattan, Theobald Wolfe Tone, and John
Fitzgibbon. It could also deal movements and events that
provoked widespread engagement with political ideas. Both
approaches would certainly reveal a range of political ideas,
ambiguities and tensions, and yet beneath it all we would be
able to identify common concerns about questions of power,
authority, dependency, civic competence, the scope and limits of
imperial practices, all of which emerged in the specific
situation of a dependent nation where power was monopolized by a
privileged confessional minority. But while specific to Irish
circumstances, the body of this kind of Irish political thinking
(whiggish, radical, and conservative) resonated significantly
elsewhere within an Atlantic, European, and British Isles
framework, just as it imbibed so heavily from these other
traditions. Here we uncover a truly interlocking and
interacting history of Irish, British, and Atlantic political
thought.

Recent efforts to reveal the Irish Burke, for example, make
these connections between Burke's unique Irish experience and
his constructions of Britishness, his anti-colonial sympathies
with America and India, and his critical engagement with his own
Whig past. It seems that here lies a model for an authentic
"new British history," one that transcends the obvious and very
cautious and limited approach to political thought (pragmatic
responses to specific political situations) that Connolly
advocates here.

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contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Migrants to North America from the United Kingdom, 1870-1910

From: "Chris Minns"

ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2001 EH.Net
-----------------------------------------------------------

Name: Chris Minns
Email: cminns1[at]po-box.mcgill.ca
Institution: McGill University

Co-author: Alan Green, Queen's University and Mary MacKinnon, McGill
University

Title: Dominion or Republic? Migrants to North America from the
United Kingdom, 1870-1910

Internet Address of abstracted work:
http://www.mcgill.ca/economics/papers (available soon)

By mail:
Department of Economics, McGIll University
855 Sherbrooke St W
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3A 2T7

Language: English

Abstract:
Although average income per head was far lower in Canada than in the
US in the late nineteenth century, Canada attracted large numbers of
immigrants from the UK. Approximately 30% of male anglophone workers
in large Canadian cities in 1901 had been born in the UK. Using
individual-level data from the US Census of 1900 and the Canadian
Census of 1901, this paper shows that average annual real earnings by
occupation group in Canadian cities were only 10-15 per cent lower
than in the US. UK immigrants worked in broadly the same kinds of
occupations in the two countries, suggesting that the US did not
attract only the highly skilled immigrants. Minor differences in
tastes, attitudes, and information are sufficient to explain why many
UK immigrants chose to live in Canada.

Bibliography: Minns, Chris and Alan Green. "Dominion or Republic?
Migrants to North America from the United Kingdom, 1870-1910."
Working Paper, McGill University Department of Economics, 2001.

-------------------------------------------------------
Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your
abstract at: http://www.eh.net/AEH

"Padraic Finn"
has called our attention to this item in today's Irish Times...

Shameful economy of outrage
You probably don't remember Mirsad Alispahic or Hajrudin Mesanovic or Hamed
Omerovic or Azem Mujic or Ismet Ahmetovic. It is, after all, more than six
years since July 13th 1995, when Mirsad and Hajrudin were murdered just
outside the village of Nezuk. Hamed, Azem and Izmet met the same fate on the
banks of the Jadar River. I know their names only because they were among
the first. After that, as the bodies piled up, the victims became, for all
but their families and friends, anonymous, writes Fintan O'Toole.
FULL TEXT
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2001/0918/opt3.htm

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

MIME means Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions. They are now a major source
of irritation to people who run email discussion groups. For, generally,
older software does not support MIME.

If you send an email in MIME to the Irish-Diaspora list we get a big long
email, which contains your text TWICE. The first part will contain your
text in a fairly straightforward form, which we can tidy a little and send
on. The second, huge part, of the email will contain your text with all the
MIME coding garbage made visible. We have then to clean out all that
garbage that you have been sending - for no good reason - across the
internet.

I recognise that most people most probably do not know they are doing
this...

I cannot sit with each individual person and show how each individual email
system can be configured so as to NOT send MIME to the Irish-Diaspora list.

You might wish to look at some comments from other list moderators at...

http://www.jacksonville.net/~dcass/atmfaq/mime.htm

http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mimecrap.htm

Note that in some email systems it is possible to instruct the software to
not send MIME to a specific email ADDRESS - if you can do that, then just
make irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk a non-MIME address.

But be considerate, people.

To explain my Subject line... Many years ago, when I used to do popular art
article journalism, I interviewed a wonderful mime. No, no. We spoke. In
English. Fool.

And amongst the topics we discussed was: Why do all mimes have fleas?

And then she did a wonderful mime, of a mime, with fleas...

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Ir-D members will be interested in the latest issue of
Immigrants & Minorities, 19, 3, dated November 2000
(but actually appeared in mid 2001)

I especially note the article by

Paul Michael Garrett, The Hidden History of the PFIs: The Repatriation of
Unmarried Mothers and Their Children from England to Ireland in the 1950s
and 1960s

which addresses an issue that is certainly around in Irish Diaspora Studies,
but curiously un-articulated. PFI was social worker shorthand for 'pregnant
from Ireland' in English case files. Paul Garrett makes sensitive use of
unusual source material - it is noteworthy that amongst those thanked for
help with access to material are the Secretary of State for Health in London
and the Secretary of the Child Care Agency in Dublin - and Elizabeth Malcom
and Enda Delaney.

Take this quote from a 1969 book about 'Case work with Unmarried Parents':
the Adoption Order marked 'the end of the unmarried girl's status as a
mother' and her 'restoration as a normal member of the community...'

Amongst Paul Garrett's conclusions: 'Clearly the extent of women's rights
to reproductive self-determination and their migration are related
issues...'

I have pasted in below contact information and abstract.

P.O'S.

Immigrants & Minorities, 19, 3, dated November 2000

Contact and information

http://www.frankcass.com/
http://www.frankcass.com/jnls/index.htm


The Hidden History of the PFIs: The Repatriation of Unmarried Mothers and
Their Children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s by Paul
Michael Garrett

ABSTRACT
The circumstances related to the ?repatriation?, from Britain to Ireland, of
Irish unmarried mothers and their children has still to be explored by
social historians. One reason for this omission is connected to the absence
of women and children within Irish historiography. None the less, adoption
agency records throw light on the ?repatriation? process in the 1950s and
1960s. In seeking to understand the way that Irish unmarried mothers were
responded to, it is necessary to have regard to the more encompassing and
dominant professional discourse on unmarried mothers and child adoption
during this period. Importantly, however, the treatment of these women and
the practice of ?repatriation? needs also to take into account other
historically rooted, exclusionary practices directed at Irish migrants to
Britain.

- --
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D September 11th 5

I have been preparing a poetry lecture for year 12
students and have decided to focus on war poetry as a
result of the current situation. I plan to end with
W.B.Yeats' 'The Second Coming'. I think it sums up
the horror that may be in store for us if we unleash
that 'rough beast'...

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

From: "Edmundo Murray"

Subject: Mexico's President Fox
More data on Vicente Fox Quesada?s Irish origins. My source, Alfredo Fox, is
an Argentine journalist and TV producer, who lives in Mexico and knows very
well President Fox. He has no family ties with him. My translation: "Fox is
employed by [multinational] companies and was picked by them to lead the
Mexican State because of his ties with the same family branch. The first one
of his family in Mexico was an American citizen, who was wandering through
the Mexican North and then settled down in Guanajuato, more or less in the
center region?.

Edmundo Murray
Université de Genève

From: Don MacRaild
Subject: RE: Ir-D Hidden History of the PFIs

Diasporans might also note that Paul Garrett has a piece in a recent issue
of Social History, looking at the issue from a different angle. Sorry I
don't have the precise reference. There is some very exciting work going on,
now,
in the 20th century aspects of the Irish in Britain ...

Don MacRaild
Northumbria

> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:00 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D Hidden History of the PFIs
>
>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Ir-D members will be interested in the latest issue of
> Immigrants & Minorities, 19, 3, dated November 2000
> (but actually appeared in mid 2001)
>
> I especially note the article by
>
> Paul Michael Garrett, The Hidden History of the PFIs: The Repatriation of
> Unmarried Mothers and Their Children from England to Ireland in the 1950s
> and 1960s
>
> which addresses an issue that is certainly around in Irish Diaspora
> Studies,
> but curiously un-articulated. PFI was social worker shorthand for
> 'pregnant
> from Ireland' in English case files. Paul Garrett makes sensitive use of
> unusual source material - it is noteworthy that amongst those thanked for
> help with access to material are the Secretary of State for Health in
> London
> and the Secretary of the Child Care Agency in Dublin - and Elizabeth
> Malcom
> and Enda Delaney.
>
> Take this quote from a 1969 book about 'Case work with Unmarried Parents':
> the Adoption Order marked 'the end of the unmarried girl's status as a
> mother' and her 'restoration as a normal member of the community...'
>
> Amongst Paul Garrett's conclusions: 'Clearly the extent of women's rights
> to reproductive self-determination and their migration are related
> issues...'
>
> I have pasted in below contact information and abstract.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> Immigrants & Minorities, 19, 3, dated November 2000
>
> Contact and information
>
> http://www.frankcass.com/
> http://www.frankcass.com/jnls/index.htm
>
>
> The Hidden History of the PFIs: The Repatriation of Unmarried Mothers and
> Their Children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s by Paul
> Michael Garrett
>
> ABSTRACT
> The circumstances related to the repatriation, from Britain to Ireland,
> of
> Irish unmarried mothers and their children has still to be explored by
> social historians. One reason for this omission is connected to the
> absence
> of women and children within Irish historiography. None the less, adoption
> agency records throw light on the repatriation process in the 1950s and
> 1960s. In seeking to understand the way that Irish unmarried mothers were
> responded to, it is necessary to have regard to the more encompassing and
> dominant professional discourse on unmarried mothers and child adoption
> during this period. Importantly, however, the treatment of these women and
> the practice of repatriation needs also to take into account other
> historically rooted, exclusionary practices directed at Irish migrants to
> Britain.
>

From: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk
Subject: Ir-D Mexico's President Fox


I would like to thank all those who responded to my query concerning the US
and/or Irish origins of President Fox of Mexico. I'll put a similar query
to the H-LatAm discussion group in the hope that Mexican or Borderlands
historians can provide further information. I will, of course, pass on any
useful replies to Ir-D.

Oliver Marshall

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Life goes on, and so does death...

I'd like to spare a moment to acknowledge the death of Stelios Kazantzidis,
the wonderful Greek singer, songwriter and poet. If only, perhaps, also to
acknowledge our friends and colleagues who study the Greek Diaspora, and to
acknowledge another way of 'doing Diaspora'.

The Greeks have, to a certain extent, embraced the word 'diaspora' - the
Greek govcernment has a General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad, and a web
site which makes extensive use of the word. English version...
http://www.hri.org/ggae/indexen.html

But generally the word used, by the Greeks abroad, and in the songs of
Kazantzidis, is xerizoma, 'uprooting'. The children of the uprooting, the
xenitia, the foreigh-born, took his songs with them everywhere. He became
the emblematic voice of the Greek Diaspora. The Greeks of Argentina called
him 'gardeliakis' - suggesting that he was as important to them as the king
of tango, Carlos Gardel.

The obituaries are now appearing on the web, mostly in Greek. But see...
LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000074597sep16.story?coll=la%2Dnew
s%2Dobituaries
Guardian, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4259201,00.html

Constantine Buhayer in The Guardian says
'Countless Greek DJs, at Greek weddings or festivals from Toronto to
Melbourne, can vouch that, as soon as a Stelios track comes on, cigarettes
light up to the accompaniment of lengthy sighs about the patrida, the
homeland...'

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Can I ask Ir-D members to think carefully about the messages they send to
the Irish-Diaspora list?

Is the Irish-Diaspora list your ONLY way of bringing your queries or
comments to the attention of the world?

Is the Irish-Diaspora list an APPROPRIATE way of bringing your queries or
comments to the attention of the world?

Remember that the Irish-Diaspora list is a semi-public forum, and -
increasingly - in itself a research resource.

I note too that some Ir-D members have simply added the Irish-Diaspora list
email address to a list of addresses to which they are circulating a variety
of messages. Those of you who do this, would you please check your email
lists? - and make sure that you are not sending messages to Ir-D by
accident?

I am now going to say something very terrible.

The Irish-Diaspora list has long had policy in place. The policy is clearly
set out in our introductory 'Announcement' and in our 'NewInfo' file - both
now displayed at http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Yes, we are having to apply that policy in a terrible new circumstances and
a terrible new crisis, and we are having to decide our practice as we go
along.

Amongst the messages that I am NOT re-distributing via the Irish-Diaspora
list are political comments or descriptions that can easily be found
elsewhere, petitions taking up one view or another, critiques of the wording
of petitions, all linguistic analysis of words used by any politician in any
country, and critiques of the political views or the word usage of
individuals who are known to us. That list is not exhaustive.

I can - if Ir-D members want - occasionally summarise some of the views and
some of the material that is around, or is sometimes presented to us.

The membership of the Irish-Diaspora list is very widely spread - we have
members spread over five continents. The political views and aspirations of
our members have always differed widely. We share an interest in Irish
Diaspora Studies. In my 'Bad-tempered Guide To Majordomo' I speak of 'the
inherent contumaciousness of texts' - and, my goodness, are we not seeing
that?

Of course I have my own views about events and comments. As everyone knows,
I am a mild-mannered person - but two days ago, listening to one
politician's remarks, I swore aloud. Last night, for the first time in
years, I wrote a poem...

But I see no reason to impose all that on the Irish-Diaspora list.

We are now hearing from our friends and colleagues in New York, Washington,
Boston and the US east coast. Which is some comfort.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

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Subject: Race & Class Volume 43 Issue 02


A FREE ONLINE SAMPLE COPY OF A RECENT ISSUE OF THIS JOURNAL IS NOW AVAILABLE
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Race & Class
A Journal for Black and Third World Liberation

Volume 43 Issue 02 - Publication Date: October 2001

The Three Faces of British Racism A special issue of Race & Class
The Macpherson report (1999) and the Parekh report on the Future of
Multi-ethnic Britain (2000) have begun a debate about the nature of British
racism and the possible way forward. Now the Institute of Race Relations, a
leading think-tank in the race relations field, has produced its own
authoritative 'counter-report'. The Three Faces of British Racism will be a
key text for academics, policy-makers, politicians, students and others.

Contents
Poverty is the new black by A Sivanandan
A hard-hitting, new analysis of the nature of racism today and how it is
changing, situating The Three Faces of British Racism, this special issue of
Race & Class. Globalism has predicated a new form of racism - xeno-racism -
based not on culture or colour but on poverty.

The life and times of institutional racism by Jenny Bourne
Jenny Bourne locates the Macpherson report's unprecedented official
recognition of institutional racism in British society within the history of
race thinking and the analysis of race relations. She goes on to question
the ways in which such racism is now being redefined as indirect
discrimination and offers a more radical interpretation of institutional
racism in the interplay between an organisation and the larger culture of
state racism in which it operates.

The emergence of xeno-racism by Liz Fekete
Liz Fekete analyses the nature of the UK government's deterrent policies
towards asylum seekers within the wider context of 'global migration
management'. She argues that the ensuing creation of a separate system of
state control for asylum seekers is the end result of a new, globalised
racism which demonises the people that the rich, developed world seeks to
exclude in the name of preserving economic prosperity and national identity.

In a foreign land: the new popular racism by Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani looks at the particular form popular racism is taking in
Britain today. The tabloids act as a surrogate nationalist party, drawing
sustenance from state racism against asylum seekers, to foment a consensus
of suspicion and hostility against them. And thinkers and columnists on the
Right have bolstered such hostility by their emphasis on 'kith and kin'
relationships and their attacks on the 'liberal elite'. The end result is
racial violence, and abuse and humiliation of the most vulnerable members of
society, and an upsurge of racism not only against newcomers but also
against the poorest of the settled black communities.

Race, law and the state by Lee Bridges
Lee Bridges examines the planned 'reforms' of the criminal justice system in
the light of the Macpherson report's findings of widespread institutional
racism throughout that system. He argues that the planned restrictions on
the right to jury trial, the proposals in New Labour's crime plan to target
'persistent offenders', the new justifications for the 'stop and search' and
the ways in which it will be used in future, will, taken together, amount to
a further entrenchment of institutionalised racism within the criminal
justice system. All such new government strategies should be subjected to a
'race audit', regularly measuring and assessing their effect in terms of
their differential impacts on black communities.

The Human Rights Act: a weapon against racism? by Frances Webber
Frances Webber looks at the background to the passage of the Human Rights
Act, incorporating the European Convention of Human Rights into UK law and
discusses important precedents that have been set by the ECHR in relation
particularly to immigration and asylum. She shows, however, that there is a
fundamental contradiction between the HRA and other aspects of UK
legislation and New Labour policy - and that, in any contest, the Human
Rights Act is likely to lose.

The Terrorism Act 2000: an interview with Gareth Peirce by Liz Fekete
Gareth Peirce, one of the best-known civil rights lawyers, who has defended
many caught up in the toils of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, here gives a
chilling analysis of the draconian and all-encompassing nature of the
Terrorism Act which makes actions committed or planned for overseas illegal
under British jurisdiction. She describes the climate of fear among those
refugee communities, campaigning against repressive regimes, that the Act
targets, shows its fundamental contradiction with the Human Rights Act, and
links it, in its current application, to Islamophobia.

Commentary
>From Oldham to Bradford: the violence of the violated by Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani analyses the underlying factors behind the riots in northern
England, linking them to economic and social deprivation, police practices
and apparent indifference from national government to the plight of the most
disaffected of youth. Widely condemned, with no recognised outlet or
spokesman for their grievances, their voices need to be heard.

The racism that kills by Harmit Athwal
Harmit Athwal examines certain crucial recommendations over policing made by
the Macpherson report and looks at a number of recent major cases to see
what, if any difference, these have made to the way that such cases are
investigated and prosecuted. She also looks more widely at the deaths,
attributable to racism - whether in custody, on the streets, or through the
dangers of seeking asylum - that took place between the publication of the
report (February 1999) and April 2001.

Glasgow: a dossier of hate by Vicky Grandon
Vicky Grandon documents the terrifying and violent racism that has been
inflicted on asylum seekers 'dispersed' under government regulations to
certain inner-city districts of Glasgow. Many have had to flee for safety,
and the problem of racism in Scotland has received little official
recognition,

A right to life: the story of Ramin Khaleghi by Monica Hingorani
Monica Hingorani recounts the terrible circumstances - culminating in the
rejection of his asylum claim - that led a young Iranian, 'dispersed' to
Leicester, away from other members of his family, to take his life. His is
not the only such story.

Black British writing: a review article by Tamara Sivanandan
Tamara Sivanandan analyses the recent plethora of anthologies of black
writing, relating it to the history of black struggles in Britain. Racism is
a constant theme, and though the publication of such anthologies might seem
a recognition of black culture, many of the ongoing issues that black
communities have to deal with still remain.

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Re: Ir-D Hidden History of the PFIs 2

Don,

The article you're thinking of is:
P.M. Garratt, 'The Abnormal Flight: the Migration and Repatriation of
Irish Unmarried Mothers', Social History, 25:3 (2000), 330-44.

Paul did an MA thesis with me in Liverpool a couple of years ago. He
was able to get access to the 1950s and 1960s records of an adoption
society in England that specialised in dealing with Irish women and
their babies. He does not give the names of the society or of the
women, but it is a fascinating archive. Paul was a social worker in
Liverpool, but now is a lecturer in social work in the School of
Sociology at the University of Nottingham.

I am looking forward to seeing more of his important work in print.

Elizabeth Malcolm



>From: Don MacRaild
>Subject: RE: Ir-D Hidden History of the PFIs
>
>Diasporans might also note that Paul Garrett has a piece in a recent issue
>of Social History, looking at the issue from a different angle. Sorry I
>don't have the precise reference. There is some very exciting work going
on,
>now,
>in the 20th century aspects of the Irish in Britain ...
>
>Don MacRaild
>Northumbria
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>[SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:00 AM
> > To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> > Subject: Ir-D Hidden History of the PFIs
> >
> >

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Chair of Irish Studies FAX: +61-3-8344 7894
Department of History Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
University of Melbourne
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AUSTRALIA

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New at http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Juan José Delaney
Irish Diasporic Literary Voices in South American Border Narratives
by
Laura P.Z. de Izarra
University of São Paulo, Brazil

At last an opportunity to examine a copy of ABEI JOURNAL, THE BRAZILIAN
JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES, Nº3, June 2001. The journal continues its pattern
of reaching out to the, perhaps, more established Irish Studies courses,
authors and themes of the northern hemisphere - whilst, at the same time
offering some new perspectives on those themes...

I was particularly struck by Laura Izarra's essay on Juan José Delaney, the
Argentinean writer who has made an exploration of his Irish heritage a
central part of his own writing. It is, as we might expect from a 'Diaspora
Studies' approach, an exploration of an 'Irishness' that has little directly
to do with Ireland - it is an 'Irishness' that has already been shaped,
fragmented, distorted through a variety of arts and mediums before it
reaches the writer who wants to explore the heritage. The writer's project
thus - as Laura Izarra makes clear - makes legitimate use of a 'postmodern
fragmentary style'.

I am pleased to be able to report that Laura Izarra has agreed to let us
display the text of her essay on
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

With Brian McGinn's agreement we have placed the essay in Brian McGinn's
Irish in South America 'folder' - whilst recognising that that may not be
the right way to think about Laura's essay.

In many ways the essay reminds me of the work of Frank Molloy - Charles
Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia - though Frank looks at writers
writing in English and mostly in an earlier period. The theoretical
backgrounds differ, but do overlap. For an example of Frank Molloy's
approach see ?The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o?er the deep?: the
influence of Thomas Moore in Australia, by Frank Molloy, in Patrick O?
Sullivan, ed., The Creative Migrant, Volume 3 of The Irish World Wide.

Perhaps we should be thinking about an irishdiaspora.net 'folder' on 'The
Literature of the Irish Diaspora', in order to more easily make these
juxtapositions and discoveries.

I have pasted in below Laura Izarra's introductory paragraph. At
irishdiaspora.net I have given the essay the short title 'Juan Jos
Delaney' - because the system requires a short title. In the Journal the
essay is titled simply 'Irish Diasporic Literary Voices in South American
Border Narratives'.

P.O'S.

Juan José Delaney
Irish Diasporic Literary Voices in South American Border Narratives
by
Laura P.Z. de Izarra
University of São Paulo, Brazil


This paper is part of a larger project that maps the Irish literary diaspora
space in Argentina and Brazil. It is a reflection upon the recurring
constitutive elements in the process of construction of an Irish-Argentine
identity represented by the Irish diasporic voices of Juan José Delaney's
narratives. The Irish immigration is one of the main concerns of the
Irish-Argentine writer. Some of his short stories from Tréboles del Sur
(1994) (Southern Shamrocks) and his first novel Moira Sullivan (1999) are
analysed here from a transcultural perspective.


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

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Subject: New Hibernia Review autumn issue


New Hibernia Review's autumn issue (volume 5, number 3) is - after some
delays owing to the disruption in air transportation- now on its way to
subscribers, and I am send along this list of the nine feature articles for
the information of the list.

The issue opens by pausing with the American weaver and writer Meghan
Nuttall Sayres amid the hills of Donegal, to listen to the reflections of
textile artists Mary McNelis and Con O'Gara, mentors of Glencolmcille's
Taipéis Gael artists group.

Next, Gillian McIntosh's examines the controversies that dogged Northern
Ireland's Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), later
the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, during the years following World War
II when the Stormont government quite literally insisted on calling the tune
by mandating that the British national anthem be played at all events.

The Filíocht Nua/ New Poetry sections offers a selection of new work from
Ethna McKiernan , most of which will appear in The One Who Swears She Can't
Start Over, forthcoming this autumn from Ireland's Salmon Press.

John Merchant opens a window on a rarely considered affinity between
Irish-Ireland and Young Poland in his examination of how Polish audiences
and intellectuals warmed to the efforts of such translators as Jan
Kasprowicz and Stanislaw Wyspianski, who adapted many of the poems and
peasant dramas of Yeats and Synge.

Dr. Carolyn Conley's comparison of Irish and Scottish homicide in the late
Victorian period tabulates data from more than 2,000 homicide trials in the
two Celtic lands, Conley finds that the raw numbers indicate that the Scots
were, in fact, less likely to kill one another than were the Irish, but that
underlying cultural assumptions weighed heavily in the responses of the
police and judicial systems of the two countries.

Una Ní Bhroiméil's study of American Gaelic societies from 1870 to 1915
looks at the extensive, earnest, but sometimes quixotic, efforts to preserve
and revive the Irish language in the immigrant Irish communities of America.


Next, Patrick Hicks considers Brian Moore's 1958 novel The Feast of
Lupercal, which drew heavily on Moore's own secondary school education at
St. Malachy's College in Belfast. He argues that the catharthis Moore
underwent in writing The Feast of Lupercal put to rest the sexual
repression of the Belfast in which he was raised.

Thomas Shea nvestigates the development of Patrick McGinley's intertextual
weaving of the Ulster cycle and the Cúchullain myth into his 1985 novel The
Trick of the Ga Bolga.

Finally, James J. Blake leads readers on a genial survey of contemporary
fiction in the Irish language - an overview that places novelist Alan Titley
at the center of an energetic pantheon of writers.

Readers wishing to know more about subscribing to New Hibernia Review may
send me an E-mail off-list, or visit the Web site given below. Prospective
contributors may also note that submission guidelines are found there as
well. And we take pride in reminding readers of our new online subscription
partnership offering institutions full-text access to the journal through
Project Muse.

Happy reading!

Jim Rogers
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Managing Editor, NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Roles of Visual Tropes in 17th and 18th-Century Engravings of
Colonial Subjects

Session at the 28th Association of Art Historians Annual Conference
(University of Liverpool, 5-8 April 2002)


The twentieth century was overwhelmed with pronouncements on the epochal
cultural transformations to be expected from the advent of photography.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the rapidly expanding and
increasingly efficient printmaking industry developed countless
stylisations directed at satisfying the collective desires of the
aristocracy, nouveaux riches, and ?contemporary masses.? That this
coincided with global European expansionism meant that there was not
only a broader and wealthier purchasing public, but one embroiled in an
intellectual reformation eager to bring ?things ?closer? spatially and
humanly.? The commercialism of engraving affected its image: the
authority of the object was in direct proportion to its marketability.
What visual tropes can be exhumed from this economy? How were social
modes of perception satisfied? How are these images diachronic?

In the familiar words of Walter Benjamin, ?the instant the criterion of
authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total
function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins
to be based on another practice?politics.? Yet for centuries, colonial
historians have relied on visual images as evidence in literary
investigations. How could they have overlooked the system of economy on
which mechanical reproduction depended? Branding the doyens of literary
historicism as guilty of having their ?eyes wide shut? to the image?s
economic, political and thus visual gamesmanship has two purposes. It
forces a general reassessment of established dogma, and it promotes the
revision of colonial history by visual means. What are the
historiographical effects of recognising the visual tropes in
seventeenth and eighteenth-century engravings of colonial subjects? How
do they impact our perceptions of colonialism?s agenda?

Proposals for this session will be accepted until November 25, 2001.

Please send a one-page abstract, including your full name, institutional
affiliation, address, title of your proposed paper, and a short
curriculum vitae to:

Christopher Pierce
The University of Liverpool
School of Architecture and Building Engineering
Leverhulme Building
Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 3BX
United Kingdom
Fax: +44/(0)151-794-2605
c.pierce[at]liverpool.ac.uk


For further details, visit the AAH website:
http://www.aah.org.uk

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XIITH BI-ANNUAL SOUTHERN LABOR STUDIES CONFERENCE

THE MAKING OF THE ATLANTIC WORKING CLASSES

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
APRIL 26-28, 2002


In conjunction with the programs in Atlantic Civilization, African-New
World Studies, and the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida
International University, the Southern Labor Studies Conference invites
paper submissions for its bi-annual conference. As in the past, we welcome
submissions on southern labor history, politics, and contemporary affairs,
but the program committee is especially interested in papers and panels
that speak to the theme of international working-class history in the
Atlantic world, broadly defined. Drawing on US, Canadian, European,
Caribbean, Latin American, or African history this might include work on
labor migration, transnational labor movements, and/or international
solidarity, labor and international trade and commerce, or labor and
foreign policy in the Americas. The keynote address will be given by
Marcus Rediker, co-author of The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves,
Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, and
pioneer in the field of Atlantic working-class studies.

Please submit proposals for panels (2-3 papers and a commentator) or
individual papers by December 15, 2001 to:

Program Committee--SLSC
c/o Alex Lichtenstein
Department of History
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
Fax: 305/348-3561

e-mail inquiries to: lichtens[at]fiu.edu