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Subject: Re: Ir-D Alcohol and Temperance 2
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Elizabeth

You saved me much time with your notice on Fr Mathew for the Enc.

I am reading all about him at the moment.


Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Director
The Irish Educational Association, Inc. Tel # (352) 332
3690
6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail :
eolas1[at]juno.com
Gainesville, FL 32653

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com

?Hannah Sheehy Skeffington: Life of a Revolutionary?
A lecture by Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
October 18th, 2001, 7:00-8:30 p.m
New College Cultural Center
San Francisco USA


Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, Professor of Ecology at NUI, Galway and
granddaughter of Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, will lecture about her
grandmother?s legendary contributions to the struggles for justice both
within Ireland and in a global context. As a Feminist who was Republican in
her Irish politics and Socialist in her economic politics, Hannah Sheehy
Skeffington was a trailblazer at a time when espousing any one of these
causes was revolutionary. She was jailed in Ireland and the U.S. for her
actions in support of both Irish women?s suffrage and Tom Mooney, falsely
accused of a San Francisco parade bombing. As the first Irish nationalist
woman to go on a successful lecture tour of the U.S., Hannah Sheehy
Skeffington is an essential link in understanding the means by which Ireland
?s struggles for equality and justice became connected to those in the
United States.


?Hannah Sheehy Skeffington: Life of a Revolutionary?
A lecture by Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
October 18th, 2001, 7:00-8:30 p.m
New College Cultural Center
San Francisco USA

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Fw: Wegge on Wokeck, _Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass
Migration to North America_


Marianne S. Wokeck, _Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass
Migration to North America_. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1999. xxx + 319 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN:
0-271-01832-1; $21.50 (paper), ISBN: 0-271-01833-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Simone A. Wegge, College of StatenIsland -
City University of New York.


_Trade in Strangers_ presents an in-depth account of two prominent
migration movements to the British colonies in the eighteenth
century, one from the southwest area of Germany and another from
Ireland. Most of the book discusses the larger emigration of Germans
from the Palatinate region to Philadelphia. A whole chapter, however,
is devoted to the smaller emigration of Irish from the Ulster ports
and from the southern area of Ireland, who also landed and presumably
settled in the Delaware Valley region. This work contributes to our
understanding of the nature of transactions in the business of
overseas transportation of these emigrant groups.

Wokeck's historiographical approach is a valuable one. Emigrants
leaving from southwest Germany through Holland to the American
colonies ventured through three distinct regions with three distinct
languages. To tell this story, Wokeck has gathered evidence from
primary sources scattered among various British, Canadian, Dutch,
German, and American archives and libraries. Only a historian versed
in the Dutch, English and German languages and armed with tenacity
could accomplish such a carefully researched chronicle. Particularly
in the case of the German emigrants, her account makes use of
archival documents from the emigrants' homelands, the places through
which they journeyed and finally the places in which they settled.

Germans who made the audacious decision to leave their homeland were
successful largely because of a transportation network that arose
among ship owners and merchants in Rotterdam, London, and
Pennsylvania. Ship owners in the business of transporting goods from
the colonies to Europe were happy to find ways to charge for space on
the return voyage, space that otherwise would have been empty. Irish
emigrants seem to have had an easier time of migrating than these
Germans, because they lived close to ports and thus existing
information and trade networks between Ireland and North America --
"no new transportation system had to be invented" (p. 218). Further,
a more direct trade network between Irish merchants and
businesspeople all over the colonies provided a wider variety of
destination choices for the Irish, and resulted in an immigrant
population much more spread out than the German immigrants who
mostly ended up in Pennsylvania.

One of the main contributions of Wokeck's work is her vivid account
of exactly how migrants moved from their homelands to ports and then
to Pennsylvania. As fruit of an incredible amount of detective work,
Wokeck provides all kinds of information on the voyages of the German
and Irish emigrants bound for the colonies. Included are ship names,
ship captains, merchants, tonnage, disembarkation port, and dates of
departure and arrival. From this she estimates the likely number of
emigrants who landed at various ports and argues persuasively that
her new estimates of German and Irish immigrants to the British
colonies are the most accurate.

Even more interesting from an economic standpoint is what onelearns
about the various business incentives and perspectives of all players
involved, including passengers, ship captains, ship owners,
middlemen, merchants in Holland, England and Pennsylvania, and
established immigrants in Pennsylvania. Wokeck carefully explores the
incentives of these participants in the trans-Atlantic passenger
market. The details supplied pay off in the analysis of how contracts
and trading methods evolved over time, some of which transferred risk
from transportation providers to purchasers of indenture contracts or
improved the welfare of passengers en route.

Most immigrants arranged for travel with long-term players in the
market. Wokeck has described many of these businesses in detailand
accounted for their share of the market. There were many short-term
transportation providers, mostly businesspeople who tried it once and
who were more than happy to make off with as much money from the
emigrants as possible. Those in the business of shipping passengers
for the long term, usually businesspeople with large interests in the
business of importing and exporting goods, had reputations they
wanted to protect. Such individuals and firms tended to have a
greater incentive to make sure that the emigrants' experiences were
successful, particularly when their profits were tied to the
money from indentured servitude contracts.

Over time, more and more emigrants showed up in Rotterdam and in
Irish ports without the cash resources to pay for their passage.
Credit arrangements evolved to provide the financing such that
emigrants could arrange to pay outstanding balances upon arrival
in the British colonies. Emigrants then used various methods,
selling goods from Europe, using money from a relative or friend at the
destination or selling the rights to their labor for a specified
amount of time.

Wokeck's work helps us to understand the self-selection aspects of
emigrants, how the early waves were a different subset of the general
population than the later waves. In the early decades of the
German emigration, most left in family groups and paid the
transportation costs with personal funds. Gradually, more Germans left
without
family members and also without the financial resources to pay
the transportation costs. Irish emigrant cohorts changed over time in
similar ways. Overall, however, Irish emigrants were more likely
than German emigrants were to finance the trip up front. Contract
prices differed, depending on gender, nationality and skill. Here a
reference to other work in the literature on the econometric and
multivariate analysis of indenture values would have been useful.

Interesting work typically provokes new questions and in turn
suggests new projects for future research. I describe here just
two examples. Wokeck's findings suggest that successive emigrant
cohorts relied increasingly on previous migrants in the colonies who were
family members or friends. More people moved to North America
once family and friends who could help finance the move existed at the
destination. This suggests that chain migration effects were
important in generating more migration and helping the later
arrivals to afford it. An issue for future consideration would be to show
this more specifically by demonstrating numerous links between old and
new immigrants as a percentage of all immigrants. It is important
because the explanation of financing for many immigrants, namely through
reliance on family and friends, rests on the assumption that many
family connections existed between new and old immigrants.

Secondly, and at the risk of asking that Wokeck's work be all
things to all people, I believe that the author could have incorporated
more of the recent research on eighteenth century labor contracts. In
particular, readers would have welcomed more discussion from
Wokeck about where she stands on the debate concerning the demise in the
early nineteenth century of the indentured servitude contract.
Rightly so, as Wokeck explains, the institution of prepaid
tickets was a typical way to pay for overseas migration in the nineteenth
century. Migration scholars, however, are more confident of this
for the latter part of the century, especially in regards to German
emigrant populations. It would also help readers to appreciate
more fully Wokeck's argument that nineteenth century migration
institutions were similar to those developed in the eighteenth
century.

_Trade in Strangers_ introduces many new findings on the
migration of Germans and Irish from Europe to the British colonies. In
particular, carefully researched emigration flow series are presented. From
her microeconomic analysis of the market for overseas transportation
we learn a great deal about the nature of various contracts used by
emigrants to achieve their migration goals. Wokeck's work is an
important contribution to the literature and valuable reading for
anyone doing research in similar areas.

------------------------------------------------------------------
Simone A. Wegge's research focuses on migration decisions in
nineteenth century European migration. Her recent work includes
"Chain Migration and Information Networks: Evidence from
Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel," _Journal of Economic History_,
1998); and "To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance
Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany," _Explorations in
Economic History_, 1999); as well as a chapter on female migrants
in
_Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Global
Perspectives_, edited by Pamela Sharpe (Routledge, 2001).

Published by EH.NET (October 2001)
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From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Fw: Wegge on Wokeck, _Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass
Migration to North America_


Marianne S. Wokeck, _Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass
Migration to North America_. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1999. xxx + 319 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN:
0-271-01832-1; $21.50 (paper), ISBN: 0-271-01833-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Simone A. Wegge, College of StatenIsland -
City University of New York.


_Trade in Strangers_ presents an in-depth account of twoprominent
migration movements to the British colonies in the eighteenth
century, one from the southwest area of Germany and another from
Ireland. Most of the book discusses the larger emigration ofGermans
from the Palatinate region to Philadelphia. A whole chapter,however,
is devoted to the smaller emigration of Irish from the Ulster ports
and from the southern area of Ireland, who also landed and presumably
settled in the Delaware Valley region. This work contributes to our
understanding of the nature of transactions in the business of
overseas transportation of these emigrant groups.

Wokeck's historiographical approach is a valuable one. Emigrants
leaving from southwest Germany through Holland to the American
colonies ventured through three distinct regions with three distinct
languages. To tell this story, Wokeck has gathered evidence from
primary sources scattered among various British, Canadian, Dutch,
German, and American archives and libraries. Only a historian versed
in the Dutch, English and German languages and armed with tenacity
could accomplish such a carefully researched chronicle. Particularly
in the case of the German emigrants, her account makes use of
archival documents from the emigrants' homelands, the places through
which they journeyed and finally the places in which they settled.

Germans who made the audacious decision to leave their homeland were
successful largely because of a transportation network that arose
among ship owners and merchants in Rotterdam, London, and
Pennsylvania. Ship owners in the business of transporting goods from
the colonies to Europe were happy to find ways to charge for space on
the return voyage, space that otherwise would have been empty. Irish
emigrants seem to have had an easier time of migrating than these
Germans, because they lived close to ports and thus existing
information and trade networks between Ireland and North America --
"no new transportation system had to be invented" (p. 218). Further,
a more direct trade network between Irish merchants and
businesspeople all over the colonies provided a wider variety of
destination choices for the Irish, and resulted in an immigrant
population much more spread out than the German immigrants who
mostly ended up in Pennsylvania.

One of the main contributions of Wokeck's work is her vivid account
of exactly how migrants moved from their homelands to ports and then
to Pennsylvania. As fruit of an incredible amount of detective work,
Wokeck provides all kinds of information on the voyages of the German
and Irish emigrants bound for the colonies. Included are ship names,
ship captains, merchants, tonnage, disembarkation port, and dates of
departure and arrival. From this she estimates the likely number of
emigrants who landed at various ports and argues persuasively that
her new estimates of German and Irish immigrants to the British
colonies are the most accurate.

Even more interesting from an economic standpoint is what onelearns
about the various business incentives and perspectives of all players
involved, including passengers, ship captains, ship owners,
middlemen, merchants in Holland, England and Pennsylvania, and
established immigrants in Pennsylvania. Wokeck carefully explores the
incentives of these participants in the trans-Atlantic passenger
market. The details supplied pay off in the analysis of how contracts
and trading methods evolved over time, some of which transferred risk
from transportation providers to purchasers of indenture contracts or
improved the welfare of passengers en route.

Most immigrants arranged for travel with long-term players in the
market. Wokeck has described many of these businesses in detailand
accounted for their share of the market. There were many short-term
transportation providers, mostly businesspeople who tried it once and
who were more than happy to make off with as much money from the
emigrants as possible. Those in the business of shipping passengers
for the long term, usually businesspeople with large interests in the
business of importing and exporting goods, had reputations they
wanted to protect. Such individuals and firms tended to have a
greater incentive to make sure that the emigrants' experiences were
successful, particularly when their profits were tied to the
money from indentured servitude contracts.

Over time, more and more emigrants showed up in Rotterdam and in
Irish ports without the cash resources to pay for their passage.
Credit arrangements evolved to provide the financing such that
emigrants could arrange to pay outstanding balances upon arrival
in the British colonies. Emigrants then used various methods,
selling goods from Europe, using money from a relative or friend at the
destination or selling the rights to their labor for a specified
amount of time.

Wokeck's work helps us to understand the self-selection aspects of
emigrants, how the early waves were a different subset of the general
population than the later waves. In the early decades of the
German emigration, most left in family groups and paid the
transportation costs with personal funds. Gradually, more Germans left
without
family members and also without the financial resources to pay
the transportation costs. Irish emigrant cohorts changed over time in
similar ways. Overall, however, Irish emigrants were more likely
than German emigrants were to finance the trip up front. Contract
prices differed, depending on gender, nationality and skill. Here a
reference to other work in the literature on the econometric and
multivariate analysis of indenture values would have been useful.

Interesting work typically provokes new questions and in turn
suggests new projects for future research. I describe here just
two examples. Wokeck's findings suggest that successive emigrant
cohorts relied increasingly on previous migrants in the colonies who were
family members or friends. More people moved to North America
once family and friends who could help finance the move existed at the
destination. This suggests that chain migration effects were
important in generating more migration and helping the later
arrivals to afford it. An issue for future consideration would be to show
this more specifically by demonstrating numerous links between old and
new immigrants as a percentage of all immigrants. It is important
because the explanation of financing for many immigrants, namely through
reliance on family and friends, rests on the assumption that many
family connections existed between new and old immigrants.

Secondly, and at the risk of asking that Wokeck's work be all
things to all people, I believe that the author could have incorporated
more of the recent research on eighteenth century labor contracts. In
particular, readers would have welcomed more discussion from
Wokeck about where she stands on the debate concerning the demise in the
early nineteenth century of the indentured servitude contract.
Rightly so, as Wokeck explains, the institution of prepaid
tickets was a typical way to pay for overseas migration in the nineteenth
century. Migration scholars, however, are more confident of this
for the latter part of the century, especially in regards to German
emigrant populations. It would also help readers to appreciate
more fully Wokeck's argument that nineteenth century migration
institutions were similar to those developed in the eighteenth
century.

_Trade in Strangers_ introduces many new findings on the
migration of Germans and Irish from Europe to the British colonies. In
particular, carefully researched emigration flow series are presented. From
her microeconomic analysis of the market for overseas transportation
we learn a great deal about the nature of various contracts used by
emigrants to achieve their migration goals. Wokeck's work is an
important contribution to the literature and valuable reading for
anyone doing research in similar areas.

------------------------------------------------------------------
Simone A. Wegge's research focuses on migration decisions in
nineteenth century European migration. Her recent work includes
"Chain Migration and Information Networks: Evidence from
Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel," _Journal of Economic History_,
1998); and "To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance
Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany," _Explorations in
Economic History_, 1999); as well as a chapter on female migrants
in
_Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Global
Perspectives_, edited by Pamela Sharpe (Routledge, 2001).

Published by EH.NET (October 2001)
Copyright (c) 2001 by EH.Net. All rights reserved. This work may be
copied for non-profit educational uses if proper credit is given to
the author and the list. For other permission, please contact the
EH.Net Administrator (administrator[at]eh.net; Telephone:
513-529-2850;
Fax: 513-529-3308). Published by EH.Net (October 2001).
All EH.Net
reviews are archived at http://www.eh.net/BookReview

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Our attention has been drawn to the following item...

(I could not bear to repeat the spelling error in our own subject line.
Below is the text as it reached us - and, yes, it does seem that The Irish
Times does not know how to spell 'existent'...)

P.O'S.

THE IRISH TIMES Monday, October 08, 2001

'Ireland of the welcomes' non existant


By Patsy Mc Garry, Religious Affairs Correspondent

The president of the Irish Missionary Union, Father Tommy Murphy, has said
"Ireland of the Welcomes" no longer exists.

Speaking at the "Festival of Mission", which ended in the RDS Dublin
yesterday, he said "we are at a crucial stage in Irish history, which is
either to include all cultures into society or to continue the segregation
of different ethnic communities and therefore dismiss them to live on the
social and economic fringes of Irish society".

Father Murphy continued: "Irish people, more than any other race, should
recognise the need to create an environment of inclusion rather than
exclusion, given the generations of Irish emigrants who have contributed
both socially and economically to countries throughout the world.
"We as a nation need to recognise the advantages of welcoming people of
various racial backgrounds who come to live, work and make their home here.
"It is time that Irish people accepted that Ireland is becoming a
multicultural society. People are choosing to come to Ireland because of
the life that it offers them, and we must give them the chance to build
that life," he said.

"One of the lessons missionaries have learned, is that there is no need to
be afraid of difference, it can benefit all of us", he said.
The festival took place over four days and highlighted the needs and
experiences of migrants and minorities in Ireland, with contributions from
the experience of Irish missionaries abroad.

The Irish Missionary Union (IMU) was established in 1970 to co-ordinate
missionary efforts at home and abroad. It represents 73 Catholic
missionary groups, religious and lay, which have personnel overseas.
At the moment there are almost 3,000 Irish Catholic missionaries working
in 93 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the
Caribbean.

The IMU provides training, research and networking for missionaries. It
works in conjunction with the Irish Bishops' Commission for Missions as
well as with the Government, APSO and Ireland Aid, on financial support
for development and justice, and in the placement of volunteers

From: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Pictures of New York, 1860s

Dear IR-D List members,

Can any of you suggest where (books, galleries/museums, websites) I should
look for pictures of New York City in the 1860s? The ideal would be
paintings, prints or photos depicting scenes representing the Irish poor
late in the decade, but other images might serve. Are there any noted
artists or photographers whose work I should look at?

Many thanks for any ideas.

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford

From: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk
Subject: Ir-D Brazil in Irish archives

Dear IR-D List members:

I'm quite far advanced in compiling a guide "Brazil in British and Irish
Archives". The bulk of the guide will be devoted to material in the Public
Record Office and the British Library, but I'm being careful to include
collections beyond the usual (in fact I'll be able to claim that coverage
will extend from Cornwall to the Shetland Islands).

I'm certainly not expecting much from archives in Ireland, but there should
be some relevant material scattered about - enough, I hope, to justify a
little trip early next year. Apart from the Casement collection at the
NLI, does anyone have any ideas? An obvious diaspora angle would be
material relating to Irish missionaries in Brazil: I've been through the
"Directory of Irish Archives" and nothing leaps out as an obvious location.
Has anyone worked on the history of Irish missionary activity in Latin
America who it might be worth approaching for advice?

Again, many thanks for possible leads.

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Re: Ir-D Alcohol and Temperance 3

Which entry, Eileen? I'm actually in the middle of writing one at the
moment. Also what books are you reading? I don't think there's any
very satisfactory one on Mathew. A lot more work could be done on him
and on his crusade, but I doubt I have the time to do it. Anyway, I
said a fair amount about him in 'Ireland Sober, Ireland Free' nearly
20 years ago. Perhaps someone new should have a go.

Elizabeth


>Subject: Re: Ir-D Alcohol and Temperance 2
>From: Eileen A Sullivan
>
>Elizabeth
>
>You saved me much time with your notice on Fr Mathew for the Enc.
>
>I am reading all about him at the moment.
>
>
>Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Director
>The Irish Educational Association, Inc. Tel # (352) 332
>3690
>6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail :
>eolas1[at]juno.com
>Gainesville, FL 32653

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

The Five Points site might have something...
http://199.75.180.203/fivept/fphome.htm

Also the Boondocks site
http://www.boondocksnet.com/index.html

(Where you will also find this Ambrose Bierce definition...
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than
another.)

Gaelic Gotham: A History of the Irish in New York
http://www.mcny.org/irish.htm

Another route is to go to a Search Engine that allows a specific search for
Images or Pictures - such as Google or Altavista, and see what comes up.
Such searches often take you into online print collections and art
galleries.

P.O'S.

- --
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

From: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Pictures of New York, 1860s

Dear IR-D List members,

Can any of you suggest where (books, galleries/museums, websites) I should
look for pictures of New York City in the 1860s? The ideal would be
paintings, prints or photos depicting scenes representing the Irish poor
late in the decade, but other images might serve. Are there any noted
artists or photographers whose work I should look at?

Many thanks for any ideas.

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford

Forwarded on behalf of

Working Class Movement Library
enquiries[at]wcml.org.uk

Subject: student Open Day at WCML


Please help us by circulating this notice to students that you think might
like to come along.

The Working Class Movement Library is holding an Open Day for students on
Sunday 4th November, 2pm to 5pm. The WCML is a unique collection on the
history of the British and Irish labour movements founded in the mid 1950s
by Ruth and Edmund Frow and based, since 1987, in a former nurses home at 51
Crescent, Salford. The collection includes books, pamphlets, newspapers,
prints, journals, photographs, banners, videos and much more. It covers the
period from the late C18th right up to today's anti-globalisation movements.
Students coming along on the day will be able to go on a tour of the library
and see some of the many thousands of items. There will be suitable
refreshments available for free. More information on 0161-736-3601.Email;
enquiries[at]wcml.org.uk. The library website is at www.wcml.org.uk.

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Pictures of New York, 1860s 2

don't miss
Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives (1890)
= great pictures from 1880s NYC:
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/illustrations.html


numerous full text book and magazines -- with
illustrations--online at Cornell and Michigan MOA stites:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
and
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/moa_adv.html
these can be searched and are an amazing resource

also see very rich textual (no pictures) detail in NY Times:
online complete for the 1860-65 period at
http://nyt.ulib.org/read.cgi?type=contents

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Ronan Kelly and Fionnuala Dillane
New Voices Conference 2002
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2 Ireland
newvoices2002[at]tcd.ie



CALL FOR PAPERS

Since its inception in 1999 the New Voices Conference has
established
itself as an important international forum for emerging Irish Studies
critics.
The conference is aimed at scholars at an advanced stage of their doctoral
research.

In 2002 it will be held at Trinity College, Dublin. The New Voices
Conference is intended to be inter-disciplinary. Papers are invited in the
areas of literature, history, film, theatre, visual arts, anthropology,
music,
cultural studies, and new media. Cuirfear fáilte freisin roimh pháipéir trí
Ghaeilge. Comparative papers from those working in areas outside of Irish
studies are particularly encouraged.

Subjects for debate will include the following:

Ireland and Europe
Biography and Historiography
Emblems and Iconographies
Publishers, Reviewers, and the 'Little Magazine'

Suggestions for other panels are most welcome.

The Conference will take place in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, 1-3
February 2002. Papers should be 15 - 20 mins. Proposals are due by Monday,
19
November 2001 Max: 300 words.

Please send your proposals and any queries to:

Ronan Kelly and Fionnuala Dillane
New Voices Conference 2002
School of English
Trinity College
Dublin 2 Ireland
newvoices2002[at]tcd.ie

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There is basic information about
The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
at
http://eh.net/eshsi/

The theme of the Society's Conference this year is
People on the Move
and, of course, the Conference is of special interest to Irish-Diaspora
studies.

As ever we will try to obtain a conference report for the Ir-D membership.

I have pasted in below full information about the Conference, kindly
forwarded to us by Mary E. Daly, the Conference Organiser.

Please circulate widely...

P.O'S.


Mary E. Daly
Subject: People on the Move

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Annual Conference Friday 23/24 November 2001
Hosted by the Royal Irish Academy at Academy House, 19 Dawson St. Dublin.

People on the Move

Friday 23 November :12.30-2 p.m. Registration

2-3.45 p.m The Wild Geese:
Dr. Ciaran Brady Dr, Declan Downey & Dr Colm O Conaill, (Trinity College
Dublin, and University College Dublin), ?Irish Mercenary Movement
1600-1775: The TCD/CISS Database?
Dr. Marion Lyons, St Patrick?s College, Drumcondra, 'Irish migrant cultures
in late sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe'
3.45 p.m. coffee.
4.15 p.m. The Connell Lecture.
Professor Bob Allen, Nuffield College Oxford, ?Progress and Poverty in
Early-Modern Europe?.

5.30 p.m. Reception.
7.30 p.m. Conference Dinner. Kildare St and University Club.

Saturday 20 November: 9.30 ?11 a.m. Emigration
Dr. Enda Delany, Queen?s University Belfast,? Emigration, Networks and
Social Structure in Postwar Ireland?. ?
Dr. Lindsey Earner-Byrne, University College Dublin, ?Pregnant from Ireland?
: Church and state and Irish unmarried mothers in Britain.
11.00-11.15 Coffee.

11.15 Research Students Panel.
Deirdre Bryan Boston College, ?Irish women missionaries in British West
Africa?.
Catherine Cox, University College Dublin, ?'Matters Mad: The Mission to
Create an Asylum
System in 19th century Carlow'.
Jason Begley, University of Limerick: the response of Limerick businesses
to the economic conditions in the 1930s.
12.30 AGM

2.p.m. Tourism:
Prof. Alastair Durie, Glasgow University, 'A country as absolutely
unknown...as if it were in the backwoods of America' Ireland as a tourist
destination in the nineteenth century
Mary Davies, ??The Brighton of Ireland? ? Bray, Co. Wicklow, 1770-1970.
Irene Furlong, 'Céad Míle Fáilte? State promotion of tourism in independent
Ireland 1925-1955'.
Michael Kennedy, RIA: Documents in Irish Foreign Policy, ?Aer Lingus, Pan-Am
and the Dublin Rights Issue: tourism, aviation and Irish-American relations:
1966 ? 1973?

Conference Organiser:
Professor Mary E. Daly, Dept. Modern Irish History, University College
Dublin 4. Tel 01-7168117 Fax 01- 7168602
e-mail maryed[at]indigo.ie

Registration: Ir£25, (students and unwaged Ir £5); Conference Dinner Ir £32.

Please make cheques payable to ESHSI Conference

Accommodation
A brief list of B and Bs and hotels is given below...

List of Hotels and B and B?s

Jury?s Christchurch Inn, Christchurch Place, Tel (01) 454000. Fax
01-454000. Email: info[at]jurys.com

Holiday Inn, 99-107 Pearse St. Dublin 2. Tel (01) 6703666; Tax (01) 6703636
Email: info[at]holidayinndublin.ie

Mount Herbert Hotel, Herbert Road, Lansdowne Road. Dublin 4. Tel (01)
6684321 Fax (01) 6607077
Email: info[at]mountherberthotel.ie

Linaveagh House 73 Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Tel (01) 6608867
Fax (01) 6671047

Lansdowne Manor, 46-48 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4. Tel (01) 6688848;
Fax (01) 6688873.

Ashley Lodge, Herbert Park, Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Tel (01) 6684405;
Fax (01) 6672675

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Eileen Reilly
eileen.reilly[at]nyu.edu

> Subject: Irish Language Symposium
>
>
>
> IRISH LANGUAGE SYMPOSIUM AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY?S
> GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE
>
>
> The Irish studies program at New York University will be hosting a one-day
> symposium on the Irish language, entitled ?Éigse Nua Eabhrac?An Teanga
> Bheo,? (?The New York Conference on the Living Language?) on Saturday,
> November 3rd, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a theatrical performance and
> reception to follow in the evening.
> The symposium is organized by Pádraig Ó Cearúill, Irish language
> lecturer at
> New York University, and will feature a plenary address by Lillis
> Ó Laoire,
> award-winning sean nós singer and renowned scholar from the Department of
> Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, entitled, ??The
> People Are Not as Warm to Each Other as They Were?: Aspects of the
> Metaphorical World View of Irish.? Panelists include Barra Ó Donnabháin,
> Máire ní Bhaoill, Hillary Bn mhic Suibhne, Jen Dewan, Éilís Bn uí
> Rathaile,
> and Veve Lelé, who will present papers exploring the contemporary state of
> the Irish language and the rich, cross-cultural linguistic ties between
> Ireland and the United States. The papers will be delivered in Irish with
> accompanying English translations provided. The symposium will conclude
> with a one-man play by Mac Dara Mac Uibh Aille and a reception featuring a
> sean nós session by Lillis Ó Laoire.
> All of the events will take place at Glucksman Ireland House,
> located at One
> Washington Mews, with an entrance on Fifth Avenue, just a half
> block up from
> Washington Square Park. Admission is free. For more information, contact
> Glucksman Ireland House at (212) 627-3451 or ireland.house[at]nyu.edu.
> ************
> Dr. Eileen Reilly
> Associate Director
> Glucksman Ireland House
> New York University
>
> Tel: 212 998-3951
> Fax: 212 995-4373
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There is basic information about
The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
at
http://eh.net/eshsi/
and about the Society's journal - Irish Economic and Social History

The latest issue is now being distributed.

We have scanned and pasted in below the full list of Contents, including the
list of book reviews.

We thought this worth the effort, because there is so much here of interest
to the Irish-Diaspora list - including many reviews of books written by
members of the Ir-D list, and many reviews written by members...

We do try to coax or capture such reviews for further distribution via the
Ir-D list - the journals do not usually mind because it is free advertising.
Is anyone going to volunteer their review for further distribution? - or
must I coax?

Of special interest, of course, is Enda Delaney's presentation of the
reports of historian A. V. Judges on the recruitment and the work of Irish
labourers in Britain, written for the Ministry of Labour in the late 1940s
and looking back at the war years.

As to the reviews... I think there are few members of the Irish-Diaspora
list who will not note something of interest... For example, has Charles
Orser noticed the review of Peter Francis's book on Irish Delftware?...

P.O'S.


IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY
VOL. XXVIII 2001

ARTICLES

L. A. Clarkson: Irish Social History 1974-2000 and Beyond
Neal Garnham: Football and National Identity in pre-Great
War Ireland
Raymond Ryan: The Butter Industry in Ireland 1922-1939

DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES
Enda Delaney: Irish Migration to Britain, 1939-1945

ARCHIVES REPORT
Brian Donnelly: National Archives: Survey of Business Records Public Record
Office of Nord1ern Irdand: Recent Accessions of
Interest to the Social and Economic Historian

THESIS ABSTRACTS
J.M. Monlliey: Encountering Colonialism: Gaelic-Irish Responses to New
English Expansion in Early Modern West Tipperary, c. 1541-1641
Daniel M. Beaumont The Gentry of ilie King's and Q!.1een's Counties:
Protestant Landed Society, 1690-1760
CharlesF1ynn: Dundalk 1900-1960: an Oral History
Paul Rouse: Government and Agriculture in Irdand, 1945-65

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie: Select Bibliography of Writings
on Irish Economic and Social History published in 2000

REVIEWS
Terry Barry, A History of Settlement in Ireland. By Toby Barnard
Mary Ann Lyons, Church and Society in County Kildare, c. 1470-1547.
By Adrian Empey
M. Pollard, A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800. By
Maire Kennedy
Alan J. Fletcher, Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland.
By Raymond Gillespie
Thomas O'Connor (ed.), The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815. By Patrick Fitzgerald
Bernadette Cunningham, The World of Geoffrey Keating. By Tadhg
O Dushlaine
Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: the Politics of Reading in Early Modern
England. By Raymond Gillespie
John Silke, The Spanish Interventi1m in Ireland, Aidan Clarke, The Old
English in Ireland, 1625-42,. J.G. Simms, Jacobite Ireland. By Padraig
Lenihan
Jane H. Ohlmeyer (ed.), Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland:
Kingdom or Colony and SJ. Connolly (ed.), Political Ideas in
Eighteenth-Century Ireland. By D. George Boyce
Bernadette Cunningham and Maire Kennedy ( eds ), The Experience of Reading:
Irish historical perspectives. By Alan Titley
Philip O'Regan, Archbishop William King of Dublin (1650-1729) and the
Constitution in Church and State; Charles Ivar McGrath, The Making of the
Eighteenth-century Irish Constitution: government, parliament and the
revenue, 1692-1714. By James Kelly
T.O. McLoughlin, Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the
Eighteenth Century. By Ian McBride
Donald M. MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922; Roger Swift
and Sheridan Gilley ( eds ), The Irish in Vldorian Britain: the Local
Dimension. By David Fitzpatrick
Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Lord Kildare's Grand Tour; 1766-1769. By CJ. Woods
Jim Smith (ed.), Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the
1790s; Allan Blackstock, Double traitors?: the Belfast volunteers and
yeoman 1778-1828. By James Kelly
Andy Bielenberg (ed.), The Irish Diaspora. By Kevin Kenny
Lyndon Fraser (ed.), A Distant Shore: Irish Migration and New Zea1o:nd
Settlement. By Breda Gray
Bernadette Whelan (ed.), Women and Paid Work in Ireland, 1500-1930.
By Caitriona Clear
Robert Sloan, William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.
By Alan O'Day
Peter Gray, Famine, Land and RJlitics. British Government and Irish Society;
Cormac 6 Gcida, Black '47 and Beyond. The Great Irish Famine.
By Mary E. Daly
Liam Kennedy, Paul S. Ell, E. M. Crawford, L. A. Clarkson, Mapping
the Great Irish Famine : A Survey of the Famine Decades. By David
Fitzpatrick
Hugh Dorian, The Outer Edge of Ulster; Brian Dornan, Mayo's Lost Islands:
The Inishkeas. By Angela Bourke
Richard Doherty and David Truesdale, Irish Wmners of the Victoria Cross.
By P.F. Nowlan
Bill Power, White Knights, Dark Earls: the Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish
Dynasty. By Terence Dooley
Thomas J. Morrissey S J , William J. Walsh: Archbishop of Dublin, 1841-1921.
By Diarmaid Ferriter
Bill McCamley, The Third James - JamesFearon, 1874-1925 -An Unsung Hero of
Our Struggle; Anton McCabe, 'The Stormy Petrel of the Transport Workers':
Peadar O'Donnell, Trade Unionist, 1917-1920 and Francis Devine, Navigating a
Lone Channel: Stephen McGonagie, Trade Unionism and Labour Politics in
Derry; Francis Devine (ed.), An Index to Saothar, Journal if the Irish
Labour History Society and other ILHS Publicaiions, 1973-2000.
By Padraig Lane
Joanna Bourke, The Misfgit Soldier. Edward Casey's War Story, 1914-1918;
Keith Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War. By Anne Dolan
Michael Kennedy and Joseph Morrison Skelly (eds), Irish Foreign policy
1919-1966. From independence to Internationalism By Denise Dunne
Michael Farry, Aftermath of Revolution: Sligo, 1921-23. By Marie Coleman
Michael Kennedy, Division and Consensus: The Politics of Cross-Border
Relations in Ireland, 1925-1969; Joseph Johnston, Civil War in Ulster: its
objects and probable results, edited by Roy Johnston. By John Doyle
Catriona Clear, Women of the House . Women's household work in Ireland,
1926-1961; Hdga Woggon, Silent Radical- Winifred Carney, 1887-1943: a
reconstruction of her biography; Helga Woggon, Ellen Grimley (Nellie
Gordon) - Reminiscences of her work with James Connolly in Belfast. By
Brenda Collins
Brian Girvin and Geoffrey Roberts (eds), Ireland and the Second World
War: Politcs, Society and Remembrance. By Enda Delaney
Bernadette Whelan, Ireland and the Marshall Plan, 1947-1957. By
Denise Dunne
Tomas O Crohan, The Islandman; Tomas O Crohan, Island Cross-Talk; Micheal O
Guiheen, A Pity Youth Does Not Last; Robin Flower, The Western Island; Sean
0 Crohan, A Day in Our Life; Maurice O'Sullivan, Twenty Years A-Growing,
Peig Sayers, An Old Woman's Reflections. By Diarmaid Ferriter
Colin Rynne, The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs. By
Fintan Lane
Brian Austen, Irish Furniture; Peter Francis, Irish Delftware: an
illustrated history; Johnston Antiques, An exhibition o Irish Georgin
Furniture.
By Toby Barnard
Ian Maxwell, Researching Aragh Ancestors: a Practical Guide for the Family
and Local Histrian; ohn Dooher and Michael Kennedy (eds),
The Fair River Valley: Strahane through the Ages. By Raymond Gillespie



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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...
"Erin Pipkin"
Subject: "An Irish Diaspora?" Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar


Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar


An Irish Diaspora?

Kevin Kenny, Boston College


The next session of our 2001?2002 season will take place at the
Massachusetts Historical Society on Thursday, October 25, at 5:15 P.M. As
usual, our session will revolve around the discussion of a precirculated
paper. This month, we will discuss Kevin Kenny?s ?An Irish Diaspora?? Nathan
Glazer of Harvard University will comment on the paper.

Abstract:
?Almost ten million Irish people have emigrated to destinations around the
world from 1700 to the present. How does one write their history? The most
popular conceptual framework in recent years has been that of ?diaspora.?
This paper will examine the various and sometimes contradictory meanings of
?diaspora? along with its usefulness or otherwise in writing Irish global
history.?

The Society will serve a light buffet supper following the session. Those
wishing to stay and eat must contact Erin Pipkin by telephone at
617.646.0505 or by e-mail at epipkin[at]masshist.org before Wednesday, October
24, to make a reservation.

Advance copies of Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar papers for
the year are available for $25.00 (total). If you would like to subscribe,
please make your check payable to the Massachusetts Historical Society and
send it to the attention of Erin Pipkin at the MHS, 1154 Boylston Street,
Boston, MA, 02215. Participants may also find copies at several area
institutions; contact Erin at the Society for details.

Aside from the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, the MHS also
hosts the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, and the Boston
Environmental History Seminar. If you would like to be added to the mailing
list for any of these seminars, please send your mailing address, along with
your e-mail address, to Jean Powers at jpowers[at]masshist.org. Please specify
which seminars you are interested in.

The Massachusetts Historical Society is located in the Back Bay at the
corner of Boylston Street and the Fenway. The nearest subway stop is Hynes
Convention Center/I.C.A. on the Green Line, two blocks from the Society near
the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street. The #1 Dudley bus
from Harvard Square also stops at Hynes Convention Center/I.C.A. Public
parking is available at the Prudential Center on Boylston Street, a few
blocks from the Society, and in garages located off Boylston Street, on
Haviland Street, and on Westland Avenue.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item appeared on the H-Ethnic list, and will interest those
looking for research material - including illustrations...

P.O'S.

From: Brian Gratton

title: "Im/migration Web Page"

Im/migration is a web page supported by Arizona State University dedicated
to
immigration and ethnic studies. Formerly a web site for H-Ethnic, it is now
an independent site at the following url:

www.asu.edu/clas/history/asu-imm

The page provides rich resources for both teaching and research. H-Ethnic
members are encouraged to make suggestions for further improvement to the
webmaster, MaryEllen Smith (mes3477[at]imap3.asu.edu) or to Brian Gratton
(brian[at]asu.edu). H-Ethnic message logs and other generated list material
can
be found at H-Net's server: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~ethnic/.


Brian Gratton Department of History Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2501 480-965-4463 or -5778 FAX -0310

Im/Migration Web Page: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/asu-imm/

Emily Skop, Joe Hirman, Will McArthur & Brian
Mexican-American Family Project 480-727-6118 (and messages)
http://www.prc.utexas.edu/hispanic/

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is the reply I have received from
Fergus Gillespie
Deputy Chief Herald of Ireland


P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
To: 'Patrick O'Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Azure, a harp or, stringed argent


Dear Mr O'Sullivan,

The figure sometimes seen on the pillar of the harp is Nike = Victory.

For heraldic purposes any recognisable harp is a harp, so the arms of
Ireland may have Nike, lovely or otherwise, or not.

The harp with which you are most familiar as the emblem of the State is
based on the Brian Boru harp (so called) which is in Trinity College. This
representation of the harp is one of those reserved to the use of the State
by international agreement. As to how it should be represented: you are
aware of the tinctures but for State purposes it has a minimum of eleven
strings, vertically disposed.

Although the arms of Ireland are registered in this Office the use of the
harp (separated from its shield) within Ireland is controlled by the
Department of Trade and Industry as it is the Trademarks Act which (if I
remember correctly) forbids 'the use of the harp or anything resembling the
harp'.

The earliest known recording of the harp as pertaining to le roi d'Irlande
appears in the Armorial Wijnbergen, a document in the French language of
about 1275 now in Holland, in which it is blazoned: Azure a harp or. In its
present form it dates from the reign of Henry VIII who used it to replace
the previously used Azure three ancient crowns or.

Has it ever been studied? Well, above you have, I think, most of what is to
be known.

Kind regards,

Fergus Gillespie
Deputy Chief Herald of Ireland

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


I have pasted in, below, the text of an email I sent to the Chief Herald of
Ireland at the beginning of this month.

I hope it is an adequate summary of our earlier discussions.

A further email follows this one, as
Azure, a harp or, stringed argent 2

giving the reply I have received from
Fergus Gillespie
Deputy Chief Herald of Ireland


P.O'S.


Azure, a harp or, stringed argent

Dear Chief Herald,

A discussion has begun on the Irish-Diaspora list - this is our email
discussion forum for Irish Diaspora scholars throughout the world.

A number of scholars have noted, in a variety of nineteenth century Irish
nationalist publications in Britain and Australia, an image of a harp, in
which the forepillar of the harp is seemingly carved into the image of an
(attractive) woman, often with back-swept wings.

We have discussed this image with the harp experts, and it seems clear that
we are not dealing with a picture of any real harp. What we seem to have is
a version of the harp of heraldry.

And what we are seeing in these nineteenth century publications is a version
of the arms of Ireland, Azure, a harp or, stringed argent. (Though we never
seem to see the image placed within the shape of a heraldic shield...)

There is 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...'

Looking at this, and other pictures of heraldic harps - where the harp lady
is frankly ugly - suggests another line of thought. Is this one of those
heraldic visual puns, where the harp is also a harpy?

The image of the attractive harp lady (certainly not a harpy) that we see in
those nineteenth century Irish nationalist publications would then seem to
be a sanitising of the harp/harpy image. Linking with other visions of
Ireland-as-woman.

The Arms of Ireland, as dictated by Azure, a harp or, stringed argent, do
not specify the actual shape or image of the harp - and we note the more
simple harp shape used by the modern Irish state.

I wondered if you could add anything to clarify this discussion, about the
decisions, over time, as to how the harp of Ireland should be represented?
Has this theme been studied?

Patrick O'Sullivan


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