From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Saints days and ethnic celebrations

I've not seen mention of the observance of these saints' days in the
newspapers in the Michigan Copper Country and I've been through nearly every
surviving issue of five or six papers (weeklies for most of the period) from
the early 1860s through 1900 so far. St. Patrick's Day was celebrated from
very early in the district's history -- Irish miners were there from the
mid-1840s when the earliest mines were opened. The St. Patrick's Day
celebration was mentioned in the paper several weeks in advance as well as
one or two weeks afterwards. By the 1860s the phrases "as usual" or "as is
the custom" appear in the stories. The coverage was quite extensive and the
day's events includes all of the things you mention in your post.

Bill Mulligan

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


I would suggest that we forward this message, below, from Rudolph Vecoli, to
tv producers and directors of our acquaintance...

Their chance of immortality...

Our chance to make the study of the Irish Diaspora more connected and -
literally - more visible...

The Web site of IHRC is...

http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/

Address...

Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
College of Liberal Arts
311 Andersen Library
222-21st Avenue S.
Minneapolis MN 55455-0439
Phone: (612) 625-4800
Fax: (612) 626-0018
E-mail: ihrc[at]tc.umn.edu

P.O'S.



- -----Original Message-----

Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:25:34 -0500
From: "Rudolph J. Vecoli"

Among the documentary sources collected by the IHRC on immigrant/ethnic
groups are visual images whether photographs, film, or videos. This is a
request particularly to the directors and producers of videos to send a
copy to the IHRC for preservation and research. Thank you.
Rudy Vecoli

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Fw: Three Political Websites

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Breyman"
To:
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: Fwd: Three Political Websites Downed


>Subj: Three Political Websites
>
Office of Homeland Security forces three websites offline
Date: 9/30/2001 3:33:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>
http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212
>
> Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland
Security"
>Threat
>
iraradio.com, the web site which archives all Radio Free Eireann
broadcasts, has been taken down because the web service provider was
threatened with seizure of their assets if they continued to host
"terrorist" radio programs. Travis E. Towle, the Founder and CEO of Cosmic
Entertainment Company, which put up IRARADIO.COM, was told by their internet
service provider, Hypervine, that they had been "strongly advised" to take
the web site down.

A Hypervine representative read Mr. Towle a statement that, under an
Executive Order recently signed by President Bush, the newly created Office
of Homeland Security can seize all assets "without any notice and/or any
real un-reasonable evidence of any company or person that helps, supports,
or does anything that can be called or labeled terrorism or is found to be
connected to terrorism in any way or means possible." Hypervine is a
subsidiary of the New York based Skynet.

These threats have also caused Cosmic Entertainment to close the web sites
archiving two other WBAI radio programs, "Our Americas" and "Grandpa Al
Lewis Live." "Our Americas," hosted by Mario Murillo, is an acclaimed news
magazine covering Latin America. "Grandpa Al Lewis Live" features commentary
by the actor and political activist who starred in "The Munsters" and "Car
54 Where Are You."

Radio Free Eireann, which broadcasts Saturday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. on
WBAI 99.5 FM has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for over twenty
years. Guests have included Bernadette Sands, the sister of IRA hunger
striker Bobby Sands; Rauri O'Bradaigh, the President of Republican Sinn
Fein; Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness and Irish Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern.

update: it seems that this (mostly) is not a hoax. www.iraradio.org and
www.allewislive.com have been taken down, although www.ouramericas.org is
still running with no notice of this event.

[Note from P.O'S.: http://www.iraradio.com/ again has a web presence, now
looking at some of the background tothe above...]

From: Marion Casey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Videos for Immigration History Research Center


Except, Paddy, that the IHRC does not collect archival materials on the
Irish at all. Its focus is on ethnic groups who originated in eastern,
central, and southern Europe and the Near East -- those who came to
America between roughly 1880 and 1920.

May I suggest that members of the Irish Diaspora list direct copies of
relevant video productions one of the following repositories:

The Archives of Irish America at New York University
The Smurfit Archives of the Irish in Britain at the University of North
London
The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park

Marion

Marion R. Casey
Department of History
New York University


- ----- Original Message -----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2001 4:43 am
Subject: Ir-D Videos for Immigration History Research Center

>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
> I would suggest that we forward this message, below, from Rudolph
> Vecoli, to
> tv producers and directors of our acquaintance...
>
> Their chance of immortality...
>
> Our chance to make the study of the Irish Diaspora more connected
> and -
> literally - more visible...
>
> The Web site of IHRC is...
>
> http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/
>
> Address...
>
> Immigration History Research Center
> University of Minnesota
> College of Liberal Arts
> 311 Andersen Library
> 222-21st Avenue S.
> Minneapolis MN 55455-0439
> Phone: (612) 625-4800
> Fax: (612) 626-0018
> E-mail: ihrc[at]tc.umn.edu
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:25:34 -0500
> From: "Rudolph J. Vecoli"
>
> Among the documentary sources collected by the IHRC on
> immigrant/ethnicgroups are visual images whether photographs,
> film, or videos. This is a
> request particularly to the directors and producers of videos to
> send a
> copy to the IHRC for preservation and research. Thank you.
> Rudy Vecoli
>
>
>

From: Marion Casey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Saints days and ethnic celebrations


My understanding is that the popular tradition of national saints and
symbols was formalized at the English Court in the eighteenth century,
first through "Collar Days" and later through Orders of Knights.

England = St. George = the rose
Scotland = St. Andrew = the thistle
Ireland = St. Patrick = the shamrock
Wales = St. David = the leek

There is a famous painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds that portrays the
four parts of the kingdom by the botanical adornments on gentlemen's
hats: "The Parody on the School of Athens" (1751). It is reproduced in
one of my favorite books, E. Charles Nelson's SHAMROCK: BOTANY AND
HISTORY OF AN IRISH MYTH (1991), page 51.

Among 18th century emigrants to New York, the ethnic societies they
established for social, benevolent and business networking all took
these saints names. At the annual March 17th dinner of the Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick (est. 1784), the presidents of the St. George and
St. Andrew Societies were always present (and by the middle of the 19th
century, the St. David Society too).

Hope this helps,
Marion

Marion R. Casey
Department of History
New York University

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ar_Dover_f=E9in?=

Hello Paddy and friends everywhere

Those with access to Ireland's best-kept secret and best television station,
TG4, may be interested to know that a documentary will be broadcast tonight
(repeat next Sunday) at 21.30, called Ar Dover fein (our own Dover). The
allusion in the title is to the tragic deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants in
Dover last year, when they suffocated in the back of a lorry. The story is
that of the Achill Island workers who died in a bothy fire in Kirkintilloch,
Scotland, in 1937. Made as a 'docu-drama' by Louis Lenten, it's a powerful
account, touching on issues such as the forced nature of Irish economic
migration to Scotland and contemporary sectarianism (Gearoid O Tuathaigh and
Tom Devine feature). It has subtitles in English.

Piaras Mac Einri

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think I must correct Marion Casey (another rare treat).

I have in the past corresponded with the IHRC about their Irish holdings -
some of which are of special interest to me - and their interest in Irish
matters.

But I am in a state at the moment where I do not trust my own memopry - it
is the start of the cold and flu season over here, and I have been in a
fever for the past week... So I checked.

This is the reply I have received from
Joel Wurl
the archivist at IHRC...

MESSAGE BEGINS>>>
Patrick,
Thanks for the message. The answer is that we would be interested in Irish
videos. It is true, as you and others on your list have noted, that we do
not specialize in Irish immigration. However, over the past several years,
we have made a conscious effort to acquire selected broad historical
studies and reference works so that we can provide access at least to basic
information on groups that are not within our core focus area. We have
also continued to acquire primary sources from service agencies, advocacy
groups, etc. that document the experiences of a wide spectrum of
immigrant/ethnic groups. Thus, as you've discovered, there is some
information here on the Irish. The genre of ethnic videos is growing but
still not so large that we would be filling our shelves beyond capacity by
being more inclusive than we can be with printed archival material. Since
Rudy's appeal was wide open in nature, we'll follow that track in terms of
what we'll accept in the way of videos, as long as they do relate
significantly to the experiences of groups in America.
Joel
MESSAGE ENDS>>>

Marion is quite right of course - that Irish Diaspora material should go to
the interested archives, especially the 3 she lists.

But copies of videos are, by their nature, not unique. There is no reason
why copies of videos should not go to all these wonderful places...

Paddy


From: Marion Casey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Videos for Immigration History Research Center


Except, Paddy, that the IHRC does not collect archival materials on the
Irish at all. Its focus is on ethnic groups who originated in eastern,
central, and southern Europe and the Near East -- those who came to
America between roughly 1880 and 1920.

May I suggest that members of the Irish Diaspora list direct copies of
relevant video productions one of the following repositories:

The Archives of Irish America at New York University
The Smurfit Archives of the Irish in Britain at the University of North
London
The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park

Marion

Marion R. Casey
Department of History
New York University


>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I would be failing in my duty if I did not bring this item to the attention
of the Irish-Diaspora list...

But I guess that, given our earlier discussions, some members might feel
that we should leave well enough alone...

Oddly enough, Blocker and colleagues seem to be ignoring the Irish and
stereotypes of the Irish. Thus they do list the Knights of Father Mathew -
but seem to have no entry on Mathew himself...

P.O'S.

Subject: Call for Authors - Alcohol and Temperance
From: David Fahey

CALL FOR AUTHORS

The American publisher ABC-Clio plans to publish Alcohol and Temperance in
Modern History: An International Encyclopedia in two volumes of 250,000
words each in the Fall of 2003. This project represents an extraordinary
opportunity for alcohol and temperance history researchers to present the
fruits of our labours to a larger public. In addition to laying out
factual information on all aspects of drinking and temperance, the
Encylopedia aims to demonstrate the wide variety of forms that drinking,
temperance and regulation of drinking have taken around the world.
Considerable space, however, will be devoted to developments in the
English-speaking world, where scholarship on alcohol and temperance history
is most abundant at this time.

The Encyclopedia will be edited by general co-editors Jack Blocker, David
Fahey and Ian Tyrrell, assisted by an advisory board which includes leading
figures in ATHG: Charles Ambler, David Gutzke, Dwight Heath, Jon Miller,
Patricia Prestwich, Robin Room, and Cheryl Warsh.

Authors are sought for topics not yet assigned. Those whose articles are
accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia will be compensated with a
copy of the Encyclopedia or a modest stipend per page. Authors will be
given at least four months to write and submit their articles.
A full description of the project and a list of headwords not yet assigned
may be found at the Encyclopedia website:
http://publish.uwo.ca/~jblocker/encyclo.htm.

Enquiries may also be directed to Jack Blocker at Huron University College,
1349 Western Road, London, Ontario N6G 1H3 Canada, telephone
(519) 438-7224, ext. 249, fax (519) 438-3938, e-mail jblocker[at]uwo.ca.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

On the Irish-Diaspora list we have long looked for ways to to seize the
major Irish literary figures and drag them (scruff of the neck, kicking and
screaming) into a Diaspora Studies approach...

On that note, a colleague has just drawn my attention to an article in the
latest Slavic Review, which does offer some points of comparison and suggest
approaches.

Abstract and contact information pasted in below...

P.O'S.

Greta N. Slobin, "The 'Homecoming' of the First Wave Diaspora and Its
Cultural Legacy"

The return of the first wave émigrés' cultural legacy at a critical juncture
of postcommunist transformation in 1990s Russia presents a case study of a
dialogue between the diaspora and the homeland. The belated encounter of
shared national traditions reveals a history of competing cultural
monopolies, incongruous resemblances, and matching nostalgias. Contemporary
diaspora and postcolonial studies in the west have addressed such key issues
as diaspora's self-definition in relation to the homeland, its strategies of
resistance and accommodation, and transnational networks. The first part of
the article presents a brief survey of Russia Abroad, its internal discourse
concerning its legacy and the dream of return after Iosif Stalin's death.
The second part considers the emerging field of diaspora studies in Russia,
focusing on the dynamics of its reception, appropriation, and domestication.
The range of partisan responses to the ?migr? legacy is considered a
touchstone for the current debates concerning Russian national and cultural
identity.


Greta N. Slobin, "The 'Homecoming' of the first wave diaspora and its
cultural legacy". Slavic
Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 513-529.

Contact information...
http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~slavrev/

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

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Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Thomas Nast as monkey

Richard Jensen rjensen[at]uic.edu

Thomas Nast was famous for his nasty cartoons depicting the hated
Irish Democrats as simians. In 1884 times had changed and Nast
was supporting the Democratic candidate Cleveland alongside the
Irish. Frank Beard, a witty rival cartoonist for JUDGE drew Nast
shaking hands with old Tweed (now dead), with Nast himself as a
monkey!
(July 12, 1884). (The cartoon also shows Curtis, editor of
Harper's Weekly, shaking with his old enemy Kelly, boss of
Tammany Hall)

a copy is online for a few days at
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1013081985

for a good taste of Nast see
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nast_intro.html

Nast by the way borrowed the simian/monkey image of the Irish
from the London PUNCH; other Americans certainly did not consider
the Irish "simians" (contrary to the myth invented by Dale T.
Knobel, Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in
Antebellum America (1986).

Richard Jensen rjensen[at]uic.edu

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Alcohol and Temperance

For information: I've agreed to write articles on Fr Mathew and on
Ireland generally for this encyclopedia. My third encyclopedia this
year I think!

ELM



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
Parkville, Victoria, 3010
AUSTRALIA

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is a very interesting use of the web, and a useful resource for those
interested in the history of London in the late C19th, or in all those
trends and practices that the name 'Charles Booth' brings to mind... As
ever, you have to use a little ingenuity to make the archive reveal material
of specific interest to Irish Diaspora Studies - but it can be done...

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>
The Charles Booth Online Archive is a searchable resource giving access to
archive material from the Booth collections of the British Library of
Political and Economic Science (the Library of the London School of
Economics and Political Science) and the University of London Library.

The archives of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
contain the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in
London, dating from 1886-1903. The archives of the University of London
Library contain Booth family papers from 1799 to 1967.

Introduction and guides to the archives
Poverty maps of London: Browse or Search
Inquiry into life and labour in London
Search the catalogue of original survey notebooks
Browse the digitised police notebooks
Booth family papers
Contacts
The Charles Booth Online Archive has been funded by the Research Support
Libraries Programme
EXTRACT ENDS>>>


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have been approached by a researcher in the office of the President of a
certain country in the southern hemisphere (see, I CAN be discreet), a
country which is trying to develop a peace process after decades of guerilla
activity and civil war...

Our researcher knows, albeit at an anecdotal level, that the Irish Diaspora
was involved in the development of the peace process in Northern Ireland.
And as well as practical advice, about beginning a process and a project,
and about assessing the merits of various organisations, he wants some help
in, as he puts it, 'theorising' the relationship between diasporas and peace
processes.

So, something like a route map for involving your diaspora in your peace
process...

I have taken the obvious steps, of putting him in touch with specialists in
INCORE and in the Department of Peace Studies, here in Bradford...

Department of Peace Studies, at the University of Bradford
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/

INCORE, the joint project of the University of Ulster and the United Nations
University
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/

But, in the meantime, could we suggest further reading to our researcher -
some books or articles... Off the top of my head I can think of Conor
O'Cleary, Daring Diplomacy: Clinton's Secret Search for Peace in Ireland.
See
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/march97/ireland_3-17.html

Though I know that that book has been much criticised in 'Irish-America'.
Has the work of the Ireland Funds been studied? Any more ideas?

P.O'S.

- --
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
Subject: On-line archives - views appreciated


Dear Colleagues

Some of you will know that we are developing a series of on-line oral
archives here in Cork. We have a number of related projects in train at
present:

*Breaking the Silence: Staying 'at home' in an Emigrant Society (about fifty
interviews already on-line)
*Voices and Choices: the On-Line Archive of the Irish World-Wide (very small
number of interviews, not yet on-line)
*Immigrant Lives: Asylum-seekers, refugees and immigrants in Ireland
(interviews completed, not yet on-line)

In all cases the approach is similar - interviews are recorded
(semi-structured format) using mini-disk recorders and ultimately made
available on-line on our website. The only one which has had a substantial
amount of work done on it to date is the first one - see
http://migration.ucc.ie/oralarchive for more details as well as examples of
the material which we have already deployed.

We archive all material in .wav format. A copy of the original interview,
without any editing or other changes, is made for reference purposes and we
then send a copy to the subject. S/he does have the right to ask that
material be edited before it is placed in the public domain, or that, say,
an embargo be placed on it for a period. Editing is done using SoundForge or
Cooledit Pro and the soundfiles are deployed to the website in streaming
audio format (RealAudio) so that anyone with access to the Net and a
soundcard can listen. We also collect, to the extent that is possible,
associated material - family memorabilia, photographs etc. These are all
scanned or photographed but the originals are then returned - we do not have
the training or resources to host a physical archive.

My colleague Dr. Breda Gray, who runs the Breaking the Silence project, has
developed an extensive set of methodological notes on the procedures and
also on such related matters as intellectual property issues. We have
trained about a dozen interviewers (and the same number again in the North,
in conjunction with QUB) and material is coming in on an ongoing basis.

On the technical side, we have spent a lot of time working on ways of making
the material easily accessible, searchable and retrievable. We think the
people who will want to make use of this are not just the scholarly
community but also a cross-section of individuals in the wider community.
They will want user-friendly ways of searching and listening and may not
wish to wade through two and a half hours of an interview before finding the
passages they want. At the same time, we don't currently have the money for
full transcripts (and if you can read the text you lose, of course, much
other affective and related dimensions that are only conveyed by the sound).

Our solution has been to develop (a) a short logging system for each
interview, with time-tags (b) a 'controlled vocabulary' of terms which
should make it possible to describe any part of an interview in terms of a
particular type of event (this follows work being done on the Survivors of
the Shoah project in Los Angeles www.vhf.org). The software to do the
searching has been written in-house by multimedia consultant Steve Miller in
XML and Javascript and is client-side, so it's very fast. It allows us to
link the results of any search directly to the relevant time-tag, so that
you can search for a particular passage and listen from that precise point
instead of starting at the beginning of an interview.
http://migration.ucc.ie/xmlservices/demo/migration/xmlsearch.html has a demo
version of this (it needs Microsoft IE Explorer 5.0 or better, doesn't
currently work with Netscape). As far as we know there is no other product
out there (at an affordable price anyway) which enables this type of search
and retrieval to be done. One could of course divide interviews into small
segments and give each a separate filename, but this would be inflexible and
extremely labour intensive.

The pilot version is based on just six of the fifty or so interviews we have
already placed on-line. We also have one example of an interview log at
http://migration.ucc.ie/oralarchive/Interviews/019.html where it is possible
to view the log and go to any part of the interview by clicking on the
time-tags provided, or (at the bottom of the page) by entering the time in
hours, minutes and seconds and clicking.

We would very much appreciate the views of Irish Diaspora list members as to
how useful you find it, and any suggestions, criticisms or improvements you
would like to propose.

Thanks in advance.

Piaras Mac Éinrí
Irish Centre for Migration Studies/Ionad na hImirce
National University of Ireland, Cork/Coláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh
email/post leictreonach migration[at]ucc.ie
web/idirlíon http://migration.ucc.ie

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Stefan Wolff
Subject: THE GLOBAL REVIEW OF ETHNOPOLITICS, vol. I, no. 1, September 2001
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:41:22 +0100

You can either read, download, or print each contribution for FREE from
www.ethnopolitics.org.

THE GLOBAL REVIEW OF ETHNOPOLITICS
Vol. I, no. 1, September 2001

EDITORIAL

ARTICLES
I William Zartman
The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments

Farimah Daftary
Insular Autonomy: A Framework for Conflict Resolution? A Comparative Study
of Corsica and the land Islands

Kristin Henrard
The Interrelationship between Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and
the Right to Self-Determination and Its Importance for the Adequate
Protection of Linguistic Minorities

PRACTITIONER'S CORNER
Colin Irwin
How Public Opinion Polls Were Used in Support of the Northern Ireland Peace
Process

REVIEW ESSAY
Valerie Morgan
Gender, Conflict and Nationalism

RESEARCH NOTE
Joost Jongerden
Resettlement and Reconstruction of Identity: The Case of the Kurds in
Turkey

REVIEWS

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Diasporas and Peace Processes

The New Irish-Americans by Ray O'Hanlon, senior editor with the Irish Echo,
is excellent on this topic.
Published by Roberts Rinehart Pub
ISBN : 1570982120

Piaras Mac Einri

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Diasporas and Peace Processes

Dear Paddy,

When I read it some years ago, I was impressed by Brendan O' Brien's
THE LONG WAR: THE IRA AND SINN FEIN FROM ARMED STRUGGLE TO PEACE
TALKS (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1993) for background to the process.

Also, there's a new book on the Peace Process by Thomas Hennessey,
The Northern Ireland Peace Process : Ending the Troubles (St.
Martin's Press in the U.S., March 2001).

Hope this helps.

By the way--What "peace process"? (I won't expand!)

Kerby







>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>We have been approached by a researcher in the office of the President of a
>certain country in the southern hemisphere (see, I CAN be discreet), a
>country which is trying to develop a peace process after decades of
guerilla
>activity and civil war...
>
>Our researcher knows, albeit at an anecdotal level, that the Irish Diaspora
>was involved in the development of the peace process in Northern Ireland.
>And as well as practical advice, about beginning a process and a project,
>and about assessing the merits of various organisations, he wants some help
>in, as he puts it, 'theorising' the relationship between diasporas and
peace
>processes.
>
>So, something like a route map for involving your diaspora in your peace
>process...
>
>I have taken the obvious steps, of putting him in touch with specialists in
>INCORE and in the Department of Peace Studies, here in Bradford...
>
>Department of Peace Studies, at the University of Bradford
>http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/
>
>INCORE, the joint project of the University of Ulster and the United
Nations
>University
>http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/
>
>But, in the meantime, could we suggest further reading to our researcher -
>some books or articles... Off the top of my head I can think of Conor
>O'Cleary, Daring Diplomacy: Clinton's Secret Search for Peace in Ireland.
>See
>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/march97/ireland_3-17.html
>
>Though I know that that book has been much criticised in 'Irish-America'.
>Has the work of the Ireland Funds been studied? Any more ideas?
>
>P.O'S.
>
>--
>Patrick O'Sullivan
>Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
>
>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Ruth Barton/Dr Harvey O¹Brien
Centre for Film Studies, Arts Annexe, University College Dublin, Belfield,
Dublin 4, Rep. of Ireland. email: ruth.barton[at]ucd.ie harvey.obrien[at]ucd.ie
Phone: 353 1 7168634/8351; fax: 353 1 716 8605

Subject: Call for Papers - UCD Film Conference


Call for Papers
Keeping it Real:
The Fictions and Non-Fictions of Film and Television in Modern Ireland
An international conference to be held at
UCD School of Film/Centre for Film Studies
University College Dublin and the Irish Film Centre
April 19 to 21, 2002

Keynotes and Panelists confirmed to date:
Elizabeth Butler-Cullingford, Lance Pettitt, John Hill, Kevin Rockett,
Martin McLoone




This conference will interrogate cinematic and televisual fictional and
non-fictional representations of contemporary Ireland. In the light of the
supposed emergence of an affluent, multicultural, educated, and
liberal-minded society, have things really changed? Has the Celtic Tiger
made a difference to the film and television industries and to the kinds of
images of Ireland that they continue to create? Is there such a thing as the
new Ireland, or is it a case of dressing up old arguments and ideas in new
clothing? What kinds of film and television programmes have made a
difference to how we see the country today? Have more disparate and more
radical voices been heard at last, or are the Irish still living in the
shadow of the past?

One of the aims of this conference is to encourage the emergence of new
voices in Irish film and television scholarship. It will provide a forum for
dialogue between those eager to express new ideas on the subject and more
established academics whose work has helped to define the field to date.
It is expected that the conference will lead to a publication.
Submissions for papers of 20 mins duration are invited from graduates,
academics and industry practitioners.

Suggested topics might include:
_ Cool Ireland on screen: marketing ploy or a voice for change?
_ Diasporic visions of the motherland: is the auld country still green?
_ Digital Technology and 21st century media: the shape of things to come and
the shadow of the past.
_ Gender in Irish film and television.
_ Is Ireland in Europe? Irish movies, European Cinema. The Peace Process
films: making a difference or playing the same tunes?
_ TV comedy: the land of idiots and iconoclasts?
_ Documentary and public television: is there any other way to change the
world?
_ Censorship: is the Irish past its precedent?
_ The fall of the church and the ascension of the media (who holds the moral
high ground?)
_ Amoral Ireland: are they just kidding themselves?
_ Policy, political economy, and representation: getting your voice heard in
Ireland today
_ The state of research and film scholarship.
_ Film journalism and film writing in Ireland: the third generation.
_ Archiving: holding the past, shaping the future.
_ Race and racism: multiculturalism? don't make me laugh!
_ Queer Visions.
_ Postcoloniality.
_ Sporting Ireland: coverage, reportage, mythmaking: Boxers and Bikers in
Irish Film.
_ Tourism and the selling of 21st century Ireland.
_ Ireland and postmodernism.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words + a short bio should be sent before
December 7, 2001 to:
Dr Ruth Barton/Dr Harvey O¹Brien
Centre for Film Studies, Arts Annexe, University College Dublin, Belfield,
Dublin 4, Rep. of Ireland. email: ruth.barton[at]ucd.ie harvey.obrien[at]ucd.ie
Phone: 353 1 7168634/8351; fax: 353 1 716 8605
Information and updates may be found at the Film[at]ucd web site:
http://www.ucd.ie/~film

Please forward this document to friends and colleagues.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Forwarded on behalf of

Mary Burgess

Partition and Memory
Ireland, India, Palestine
An international, interdisciplinary conference
The Keough Institute for Irish Studies University of Notre Dame
December 6-9, 2001

Partition and Memory: Ireland, India, Palestine is supported by the
University of Notre Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace
Studies; Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies; Nanovic
Institute
for European Studies; Graduate School; Institute for Scholarship in the
Liberal Arts; departments of History, Anthropology, English, and
Government; and the programs of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies. It is
further supported by a major grant from the United States Institute for
Peace
in Washington, D.C.

The Keough Institute for Irish Studies and the University of Notre Dame will
host a major international and interdisciplinary conference this December
titled "Partiton and Memory: Ireland, India, Palestine." To be held
December 6-9, the conference will bring together some of the world's
leading scholars to debate the complex afterlives of partition in these
troubled regions. Historians, anthropologists, literary critics, biblical
scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and novelists will meet on
this unique
occasion.

Speakers include:

AMMIEL ALCALAY, Queen's College, New York
JONATHAN BOYARIN, independent scholar, New York
URVASHI BUTALIA, Kali for Women, Delhi
JOE CLEARY, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
VEENA DAS, Johns Hopkins University
SEAMUS DEANE, University of Notre Dame
RASHID KHALIDI, University of Chicago
RADHA KUMAR, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
David Lloyd, Scripps College, California
CHANDANA MATHUR, New School, New York
RITU MENON, Kali For Women, Delhi
BENNY MORRIS, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
AAMIR MUFTI, University of California at Los Angeles
MARGARET O'CALLAGHAN, Queen's University, Belfast
LIAM O'DOWD, Queen's University, Belfast
BRENDAN O'LEARY, London School of Economics
GYANENDRA PANDEY, Johns Hopkins University
ANTON SHAMMAS, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
SUSAN SLYOMOVICS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GAURI VISWANATHAN, Columbia University
KEITH WHITELAM, University of Sheffield, England
VAZIRA ZAMINDAR, Columbia University


Further conference details may be
obtained from the conference Web site: www.nd.edu/~partitio. Requests for
more information or to be added to the conference mailing list should be
addressed to the conference director:

Mary Burgess
Keough Institute for Irish Studies
Flanner Hall, University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (219) 63-3419
E-mail: smyth.12[at]nd.edu

Questions regarding conference
registration and accommodations should be addressed to:
Center for Continuing Education
P.O. Box 1008
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (219) 631-6691
E-mail: cce.1[at]nd.edu

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

In the NY Times for September 30, 2001 you will find...

'Five Points': The First Slum in America
By KEVIN BAKER

a review of...

FIVE POINTS
The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole
Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum.
By Tyler Anbinder.
Illustrated. 532 pp. New York: The Free Press. $30.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/books/review/30BAKERTW.html

The review, and all the text of nytimes.com, is freely available - but you
do have to 'Register' to gain access...

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>
No other plot of land would so fire the national imagination in the 19th
century. The Five Points would not only define our idea of an urban ghetto,
but fix the very terms of how we argue about the poor. Yet such is the rush
of American history that it is barely remembered today. As Tyler Anbinder
asserts near the beginning of his valuable new history, 'Five Points,'
'The two most important works on the history of New York published in the
1990's -- The Encyclopedia of New York City and 'Gotham' -- both misidentify
something as simple as the streets whose confluence created the
five-cornered intersection that gave the neighborhood its name.'
EXTRACT ENDS>>>

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