For information...

TOC: The CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES, vol. 26, no. 1

Mary Helen Thuente, ?Development of the Exile Motif in Songs of Emigration
and Nationalism?

Kathleen O?Brien and Sylvie Gauthier, ?Photo Essay: Montreal: Re-Imagining
the Traces?

Wolfgang Zach, ?Jonathan Swift and Colonialism?

Kevin James, ?Dynamics of Ethnic Associational Culture in a 19th Century
City: St. Patrick?s Society of Montreal, 1834-56?

Bernard O?Donoghue, ?Poems?

Michael Dartnell, ?The Belfast Agreement: Peace Process, Europeanization and
Identity?

Carole Zucker, ?An Interview with Stephen Rea?

Dominic Manganiello, ?The Language of Exile: Heaney and Dante?

Kevin James, ?Profiles of Irish-Canadians: Timothy Easton of Canada and Co.
Antrim?

Plus 23 book reviews.

For further information about the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES,
(subscriptions, submission of articles, etc.) contact:

CJIS
Centre for Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University
1590 Doctor Penfield Ave.
Montreal, QC
H3G 1C5
Canada
Email: cdnirish[at]alcor.concordia.ca


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From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Fw: "The People with No Name", PUP

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Haenisch"
To:
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:48 AM
Subject: "The People with No Name", PUP


Below you will find a brief description of a new title published
by
Princeton University Press. We hope that you will find this title
of
interest to your members and will post our message to your
discussion list.

Please visit:
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7173.html

The People with No Name
Ireland¹s Ulster Scots, America¹s Scots Irish, and the Creation
of a British
Atlantic World, 1689-1764
Patrick Griffin

More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin
migrated to the
American colonies in the six decades prior to the American
Revolution, the
largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British
North
America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of
archival
materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this
fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores
how these
people spurious race of mortals known by the appellation
Scotch-Irish² both Old and New World experiences to adapt to
staggering religious,
economic, and cultural change. In remarkably crisp, lucid prose,
Patrick
Griffin uncovers the ways in which migrants from Ulster them
community.

Paperback $19.95 ISBN: 0-691-07462-3
264 pages. 2 maps. 2001.

To read more, click here:
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7173.html

Thank you for your time.
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Text Promotion Manager
Princeton University Press
http://pup.princeton.edu

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: Conference announcement

Dear all
The 3rd annual MeCCSA-Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Conference
will take place on January 11th-13th at the University of Westminster,
Regent Street, London. It addresses many topics which are of interest to
Diaspora list members and 'Race and Diaspora' is one suggested theme. I am
administering the conference and anyone who is interested in either giving a
paper or attending should contact me off-list. If anyone wants a poster to
put up in their institution or even on their bedroom wall I will send them
one. Those who would wish to give a paper should send me a 200 word abstract
as soon as possible, we have already chosen the bulk of the papers but there
is still some room. Reply to my ludicrous email address

anthonymcnicholas[at]uwmin.freeserve.co.uk

Topics suggested
Media and Politics; Reality TV; Cinema and Film Studies; Non-linearity;
Pedagogy: Theory and Practise; News and Journalism; Race and Diaspora;
Reading Writing Cultures; New Social Movements; Memory/Trauma/Fantasy;
Ethnography;
Digital Media and Convergence; Affect; The Network Society; History-Theory;
Media Practise; Gender Studies;
Workshops on
Teaching and Learning; Radio Studies Network; AHRB; Getting Published


Anthony McNicholas

-----

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information - please distribute widely...

Forwarded on behalf of British Association for Irish Studies...

British Association for Irish Studies Biennial Conference, Staffordshire
University,
6th- 8th September 2002.

Call for Papers

Disruptions & Continuities in Irish Politics, Society & Culture

Plenary speakers: Declan Kiberd and Maria Luddy.

After Dinner Speaker: Terry Eagleton

From the Flight of the Earls to Partition, from the Famine to the Easter
Rising, Irish history and culture has often been presented as a sequence of
disruptions and conflicts; a situation summarised in D.P Moran?s declaration
that Ireland was the location of ?A Battle of Two Civilisations?. However,
other readings suggest that continuity has at least as significant a place
as disruption, as indicated by the longevity of folk traditions and musical
styles, the perpetuation of key literary and theatrical genres, and the
still outstanding issues of religion, gender, class, identity, and language.

Papers are invited which address these key issues of ?disruption? and
?continuity? from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. We
are particularly keen to provide a forum for postgraduate researchers.

Proposals for papers and panels (200 words) by April 30th 2002 to:
Shaun Richards, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, PO Box 661,
Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, ST4 2XW. csr1[at]staffs.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Ruth Barton/Dr. Harvey O'Brien
Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin,

Please distribute widely...


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.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words + a short bio should be sent before
December 7, 2001 to:
Dr. Ruth Barton/Dr. Harvey O'Brien
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, 7168351. Fax: 353 1 7168605
Information and updates may be found at the Film[at]ucd web site:
http://www.ucd.ie/~film


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From the BAIS Newsletter...

Forwarded for information...

SYNGE NIGHT

DISTURBING EVENTS: RE-ASSESSING J.M.SYNGE

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mary King (Visiting Professor, Goldsmith?s College
London and author of The Drama of J.M. Synge (1985)

Respondent: Dr. Clare Hutton (Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of
English Literature, Birkbeck College, London)

Chair: Professor W.J. McCormack (Professor of Literary History, Goldsmith?s
College London and author of Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M.Synge)

MONDAY 19th November 2001 at 7.45 pm in the Ballroom of the Irish Club, 82
Eaton Square SW1

Admission at door: £5 (£3 concessions). All welcome. Pay bar to follow
proceedings. Tube: 5 minutes walk from Sloane Square (District/Circle Lines)

BAIS gratefully acknowledges the support of the Cultural Relations
Committee, Department for Foreign Affairs, Dublin.


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The latest issue of the Newsletter of the the British Asociation for Irish
Studies is now being distributed to members - a packed issue, as the
Editorial of the Editor, Jerry Nolan, text below, makes clear...

BAIS Contact point
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/bais/index.html.

Mentioned in Jerry Nolan's Editorial are...

Jerry's own interview with Gerry Smyth, author of The Novel and the Nation;
Decolonisation and Criticism; and now a third book in the sequence, Space
and the Irish Cultural Imagination, Palgrave 2001; Ann Cahill on 'Is there
an Irish Gothic?'; and a report on 'Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the
Novel in the C19th' held at Cardiff in September.

We have gathered together the many conference announcements mentioned by
Jerry Nolan and will feed them out to the Irish-Diaspora list in due
course...

P.O'S.

Forwarded through the courtesy of
Jerry Nolan,
EDITOR BAIS Newsletter
Email: Jcmnolan[at]aol.com


BAIS NEWSLETTER NO. 28
October 2001

EDITORIAL

The editor has been inundated with items for the Noticeboard, all of which
indicates that much is happening and about to happen in the extremely
bustling field of Irish Studies. I have decided to include a selective list
of Calls for Conference Papers 2002.

The regular features of the newsletter ? Focus Interview 18 , Battle in the
Books 8 and a Conference Report ? have been preserved in the midst of so
much demand for inclusion. Many thanks to Gerry Smyth, Ann Cahill and Lesley
Ann Stevens for their special contributions.

As a result of the great interest generated by Focus Interview 17 on the
drama of J.M.Synge, BAIS has invited Dr. Mary King to air in person her
highly original views of Synge?s plays. I strongly recommend that, if at all
possible, you attend this 19 November evening of important debate about how
broadly one should interpret the legacy of the Irish Literary Revival.


Copy and/or discs (Word 97) with articles, reports, notices, letters etc. to
be included in No. 29 should be sent to Jerry Nolan, 8 Antrobus Road,
Chiswick , London W4 5HY by 6 January 2002 at the very latest.
Email: Jcmnolan[at]aol.com

From: "Jonathan Curry-Machado"
Subject: CFP: British in Cuba conference, Havana, April 2002

Los ingleses en Cuba

Conferencia Internacional en el marco del
240 aniversario de la Toma de La Habana por los ingleses

La Habana, Cuba
4-5 abril 2002


Convocatoria


The British in Cuba

International Conference to mark the
240th Anniversary of the British Occupation of Havana

Havana, Cuba
4-5 April 2002


Call for Papers


The British occupation of Havana in 1762, long seen as a turning point in
Cuban history and a landmark event in the wider Caribbean, signalled a
long-term shift from Britain?s military to economic involvement in Cuba. The
Conference is designed to explore the occupation, its antecedents and its
consequences. Panels and papers are invited on 18th, 19th and 20th century
military, economic, social and political history, covering both overarching
themes and specific aspects and events, from Anglo-Spanish and
Anglo-American rivalry in Cuba and the Caribbean; piracy, invasion and
military reforms; trade and investment; migration and settlement; to links
with antislavery, independence and revolution.

The conference is organised by the Instituto de Historia in Havana, in
collaboration with Professor Jean Stubbs (University of North London).
Proposals for panels and papers should be received by December 21st, 2001;
and should be sent, along with any enquiries for further information, to
Jonathan Curry-Machado (University of North London):
j.currymachado[at]unl.ac.uk

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

DIRDA - the Database of the Ir-D Archive...

It is the last Thursday of the month, and (as is our tradition) the DIRDA
password has changed.

(Actually, I am getting a bit weary of this tradition, and might abandon
it - and change the password only when we have become concerned about
possible mis-use...)

Anyway, again this month we have new members who will wish to be aware of
this resource...

Go to
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Click on Special Access, at the top of the screen.

Username irdmember
Password morash

That gets you into our RESTRICTED area.

Click on RESTRICTED, and you have access to EFORUM: DIRDA.

Click on that and you are in the first page of the database/archive.

You will see that we have nearly 3 full years of Ir-D messages, November
1998 onwards, in a searchable database. Most recent first.

Log out by clicking on irishdiaspora.net at the top of the screen.

The database is currently restricted to Irish-Diaspora list members, and
maybe the occasional bona fide scholar or researcher.

Note that there are still a few untidynesses to sort out. Ir-D members may
occasionally find that the DIRDA database is offline and not available, as
the software is re-designed and fine-tuned.

As ever we are grateful to Stephen Sobol, of SobolStones,
http://www.sobolstones.com
for his support and the development of this facility.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Ir-D members looking for images and illustrations miight like to be reminded
of the online Marchand Collection

http://marchand.ucdavis.edu/

Slide Archive at

http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapplication/MarchandMajors.cfm

It is worth browsing the collection. There is an 'Irish' section under
'Immigration', but this lists only 3 items, and misses other relevant
material. For example in 'Immigrants Unfavourable...'

P.O'S.



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From: Sarah Morgan
Subject: Reviews of Roy Foster's new book

Have other list members had seen these reviews of Roy Foster's
latest book, in the Observer and The Guardian (web addresses
below)? I've pasted in an extract from the article in The Guardian
yesterday. I'd be interested in what the response of list
members is to the idea that "some emigrants [need] to preserve
Ireland in aspic" and what implications this approach to
emigrants' and their descendants' connections to Ireland which
may be preserved in part through story-telling and remembrance (NB
Foster's book is titled 'The Irish Story'). I should add that I
haven't read the book (yet!).

Sarah Morgan.

Extract:

Foster blames the global trend for Disney-style history and, more
particularly, the longings of those Irish Americans. "There is a
need for some emigrants to preserve Ireland in aspic, because if
the country's changed it raises a doubt: should we have left?"
The events in the north have played their part, too. During the
Troubles, says Foster, historians were forced to train a bright
light on the roots of the conflict. Old myths only got in the
way; they needed to discover the truth. In the last decade, as
the political temperature has cooled, that vigilance has
receded: the old, bad habits have returned.

End extract.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4281527,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4282939,00.html
-----------------------
Dr.Sarah morgan
s.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of...
Vincent Salafia
uatuathal[at]yahoo.com

Subject: Brehon Law Review - January 2002 Symposium


Hello everyone,

This year's January Symposium went so well we are
going ahead with another in 2002. While plans are
still in preliminary stages, I can go ahead and
announce that it will take place in King's Inns, 11th
- - 13th January. The Hon. Mrs Susan Denham, of the
Irish Supreme Court, will give a revised version of
her paper, "Irish Courts ; Brehon to Twenty First
Century - Paperless to Paperless." Daibhi O'Croinin
and Neil McLeod have also agreed to speak. If anyone
else is interested in presenting a paper (20 mins),
please let me know.

We are aiming to present the Brehon Law Review at this
time, in electronic version. The following is a rough
outline of the contents of the first issue. I have
left names of authors out for the moment.

Here are the details for the Review

INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON BREHON LAW GENERALLY

1 Introductory paper on Brehon law and its sources.

2 Paper on Brehon Law/Crith Gablach.

TANISTRY IN THE EARLY PERIOD

3 Neil McLeod: 'An Introduction to Tanistry'

4 'Some further thoughts on Irish Regnal Succession'
(which is about the theory of tanistry)

5 'The alternation of the kingship of Tara between 734
and 944' (which tests the theory against actual
practice with regard to the kingship of Tara').

6. Another Tanistry paper, getting into the later
period.

THE CASE OF TANISTRY

7 New translation.

8 'Recognition or refusal of indigenous property
rights following conquest: some modern uses of The
Case of Tanistry'

Managing Editor: Vincent Salafia
Editor: Neil McLeod

BOARD OF CONSULTANTS: Colmán Etchingham, Colin
Ireland, Marilyn Gerriets, Bart Jaski, Fergus Kelly,
Robin Stacey, Jonathan M Wooding.

Again, we are hoping to get sponsorship of this from
one of the major law firms, as well as Jameson 1780,
who were kind enough to come down and treat us to a
few bottles last year. There will be activities around
the city in the evenings. I hope to be able to keep
the price down to about 30 pounds for the week-end/ 20
a day, so that it is not prohibitive.

Please pass this along to anyone you think might be
interested.

See you there,

Vincent

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Sarah,

Thank you for this...

I too saw this interview in the Guardian, and laughed out loud - Roy had
really got up the nose of the reviewer, hadn't he? (This is, perhaps, more
clear in the version in the print newspaper...)

Terry Eagleton's review is now on the Guardian web site - it appeared in the
newspaper yesterday....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4285847,00.html

It will be seen that he takes some of Roy's remarks personally - and
cheerfully...
'...By the end of the volume, his liberal inclusiveness has managed to
exclude journalists, republicans, post-colonialists, post-structuralists,
left-wingers, theorists, polemicists, "born-again newly Irish Eng Lit
academics" (that's me)...'

Without having seen the book - and it is certainly not on my must-have
list - a number of things strike me about what I have read already... The
fashion for 'Irish' theme pubs in Britain is on the decline - the more
ersatz ones are closing down and the pub chains have no plans to build more.
Where is the comparative context? - the Irish are not the only group having
to negotiate these diasporic dilemmas. And some of us are stuck with being
Irish whether it is fashionable or not...

P.O'S.



Sent: 25 Oct 2001 06:00
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Reviews of Roy Foster



From: Sarah Morgan
Subject: Reviews of Roy Foster's new book

Have other list members had seen these reviews of Roy Foster's
latest book, in the Observer and The Guardian (web addresses
below)? I've pasted in an extract from the article in The Guardian
yesterday. I'd be interested in what the response of list
members is to the idea that "some emigrants [need] to preserve
Ireland in aspic" and what implications this approach to
emigrants' and their descendants' connections to Ireland which
may be preserved in part through story-telling and remembrance (NB
Foster's book is titled 'The Irish Story'). I should add that I
haven't read the book (yet!).

Sarah Morgan.

Extract:

Foster blames the global trend for Disney-style history and, more
particularly, the longings of those Irish Americans. "There is a
need for some emigrants to preserve Ireland in aspic, because if
the country's changed it raises a doubt: should we have left?"
The events in the north have played their part, too. During the
Troubles, says Foster, historians were forced to train a bright
light on the roots of the conflict. Old myths only got in the
way; they needed to discover the truth. In the last decade, as
the political temperature has cooled, that vigilance has
receded: the old, bad habits have returned.

End extract.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4281527,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4282939,00.html
-----------------------
Dr.Sarah morgan
s.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

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From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Reviews of Roy Foster

Dear Paddy,
My knowledge of Roy Foster's book is, so far, restricted to the brief
comment that was excerpted from the Guardian. On the basis of my field work
in Chicago I can say that many Irish immigrants from the second generation
onward do indeed 'preserve Ireland in aspic' so that the old images are not
disturbed. With some this is a quite deliberate decision, as of those
respondents who informed me that they'd never visited Ireland because they
did not want their illusions threatened. The editor of the major Irish
newspaper in Chicago informed me that he excluded all news about Northern
Ireland except for the occasional advert for NorAid - so that he could keep
a
small minority of his readers happy. No books about Northern Ireland were
reviewed in his paper.
There is a 'dreamworld' quality about much of the 'Irishness' of
immigrants
here which sometimes takes absurd forms. For instance, the 'Programme' ( it
is too elaborate to be called an 'Order of Service') for the commemorative
mass for the Famine victims held in Chicago two years ago contains a demand
that all the three-quarters of a million victims should be canonised, now.
It
also makes the claim that the canonisation process for Oliver Plunkett was
started in Chicago, by the Irish, in the 1920's, ignoring, thereby, certain
events in Rome at the end of the 17th century.
I could continue but won't. Addressing the issue of what meaning the
overarching myths have for the American Irish is one of the central points
of
focus for sociologists in this area and a discussion on this list would be
most welcome.
Best,
John Hickey,
Professor Emeritus,
Dominican University,
Illinois,
USA.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

NOTE: The latest issue of National Identities includes Tricia Cusack's
article on...
A 'Countryside Bright with Cosy Homesteads': Irish Nationalism and the
Cottage Landscape.

And colleagues will be interested to see The National Identity of the
'Natives' of Poland's
'Recovered Lands' by John J. Kulczycki.

P.O'S.



Forwarded on behalf of

Elfie Rembold

Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to announce Volume 3, Number 3 (dated
November 2001) of NATIONAL IDENTITIES.

This issue contains the following articles:

The National Identity of the 'Natives' of Poland's
'Recovered Lands' 205 - 219
John J. Kulczycki

A 'Countryside Bright with Cosy Homesteads': Irish
Nationalism and the Cottage Landscape 221 -
238 Tricia Cusack

Between Neo-liberalism and Neo-indigenismo:
Reconstructing National Identity in Mexico 239 -
255 Stephen D. Morris

Malta: Language, Literacy and Identity in a
Mediterranean Island Society 257 - 275
Carmel Cassar

Book Reviews 277 - 297

======================================================================

Subscribers can view this issue at:
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contp1.htm

Non-subscribers can download individual articles from
the same location, but a document delivery fee will
apply.

This journal is available in RealPage or Adobe Acrobat
formats. You can download the latest version of the
RealPage browser free from:
http://www.catchword.com/download.htm

You can read more about this journal at:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/14608944.html

Elfie Rembold
(Co-editor of National Identities)
__________________________
Universitaet Hannover
Historisches Seminar
Im Moore 21
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Phone : ++49+511 762 19839
Fax : ++49+511 762 4479
Office : rembold[at]mbox.hist-sem.uni-hannover.de
Home : elfrem[at]transmedia.de

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The HISTORY web site of the Institute of Historical Research is becoming
more useful...

http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/welcome.html

For example, the History in Focus section is now being added to
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/

The Victorian Era guide
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/

has a section on Ireland, with links to book reviews - including a revealing
and bad-tempered exchange between L. A. Clarkson and Christine Kinealy,
about the Irish Famine...

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I was in Northern Ireland last week, where people were awaiting the
announcement of the IRA's New Departure... Some weapons put 'beyond use'.
Since announced and much analysed in the media...

We, on the Irish-Diaspora list, tend not to follow events in Northern
Ireland very closely - assuming that those who do follow events have their
own sources.

In any case it is now much easier to follow events in Ireland - North and
South - because all the newspapers have their web sites.

Most recently brought to our attention is
www.unison.ie

However, for those who do not have access to such web sites, or who dislike
peering, let me recommend again the Irish Emigrant email newsletters,
produced by Liam and Pauline Ferrie. Information and archives at
http://www.emigrant.ie/index.html

You can have a weekly newsletter sent to your email address, and further
occasional email newsletters on the professions, books, the arts, and sport.
After a few weeks you get a feeling for the - yes, sometimes maybe trivial -
pre-occupations of the citizens of a small country. And for the
pre-occupations of the Editors - thus, Liam Ferrie is defintely against
litter. You do get occasional, rather random, mentions of The Irish
Abroad - but that is not the main purpose of the newsletter.

Most impressive over the years has been the work of the team's Northern
Ireland specialist Aileen McGurk who, every week, succinctly summarises key
events in Northern Ireland. An almost impossible task - as anyone who has
ever tried to do this will know. Aileen McGurk's account of events in
Northern Ireland and reactions over the past week are in this morning's
edition of the newsletter.

P.O'S.

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From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Reviews of Roy Foster 3

Might I just add to the discussion of the 'preserving in aspic' tendency of
Irish Americans. I agree wholeheartedly with John Hickey that this is
indeed
the case and many do it on a conscious level. Many Irish Americans are
quite
upset at the notion of the Celtic Tiger economy destroying 'their' Ireland
of
little cottages and enchanting but backward people who, God bless them, were
so
unsophisticated as to welcome everyone into their homes at the drop of a
hat.
I think also there has to be a distinction drawn between the popular social
notion of Ireland and the accompanying popular history versus the scholarly
one, even here in the States. Some of the best work on Ireland has come
from
American scholars like Emmet Larkin yet some of the worst nightmarish
popular
imagery has also found a secure home here. By definition the popular one is
the best known one and makes the most money and appeals to the cock-eyed
romantic view of victimhood. Frank McCourt might himself be put forward to
canonization for his contribution to this image. It is far easier to fall
off a
bar-stool in drunkenness at the shock of hearing about another 'English
atrocity' than it is to try and do a scholarly exploration of the subject.
This victimization thesis also, significantly, appeals to the American
notion
of success and survival. The lower and more victimized your ancestors the
greater your own achievement in rising socially and monetarily above it. It
also helps explain why they were broke while others were quite obviously
rich -
never mind the fact, for one, that the richest man in Ireland during the so
called lamentable Eighteenth century started out life as a poor Catholic in
Donegal.
I feel however, that this discussion is not over and the Post-Colonialsim
question of
the whole truth of Irish history and indeed the very notion of Irishness is
still not answered.
Carmel McC

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

> From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Reviews of Roy Foster
>
> Dear Paddy,
> My knowledge of Roy Foster's book is, so far, restricted to the brief
> comment that was excerpted from the Guardian. On the basis of my field
work
> in Chicago I can say that many Irish immigrants from the second generation
> onward do indeed 'preserve Ireland in aspic' so that the old images are
not
> disturbed. With some this is a quite deliberate decision, as of those
> respondents who informed me that they'd never visited Ireland because they
> did not want their illusions threatened. The editor of the major Irish
> newspaper in Chicago informed me that he excluded all news about Northern
> Ireland except for the occasional advert for NorAid - so that he could
keep
> a
> small minority of his readers happy. No books about Northern Ireland were
> reviewed in his paper.
> There is a 'dreamworld' quality about much of the 'Irishness' of
> immigrants
> here which sometimes takes absurd forms. For instance, the 'Programme' (
it
> is too elaborate to be called an 'Order of Service') for the commemorative
> mass for the Famine victims held in Chicago two years ago contains a
demand
> that all the three-quarters of a million victims should be canonised, now.
> It
> also makes the claim that the canonisation process for Oliver Plunkett was
> started in Chicago, by the Irish, in the 1920's, ignoring, thereby,
certain
> events in Rome at the end of the 17th century.
> I could continue but won't. Addressing the issue of what meaning the
> overarching myths have for the American Irish is one of the central points
> of
> focus for sociologists in this area and a discussion on this list would be
> most welcome.
> Best,
> John Hickey,
> Professor Emeritus,
> Dominican University,
> Illinois,
> USA.

From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D Keeping in Touch with Ireland

An extremely useful web resource on Northern Ireland, for those of
you who haven't seen it already, is the NEWSHOUND website,
which links to stories in various newspapers,
(mostly Irish, British and American). Its main focus is on Northern
Ireland but it also covers historical articles and book reviews, many
of which are of diaspora interest.
I think it's run out of North Carolina, but I'm not sure.
IRA decommissioning is a great step forward. Let's hope the
pipebombing loyalists in North Belfast are "decommissioned" into jail
soon.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Mon 29 Oct 2001 06:00:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Mon 29 Sep 2001 06:00:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D Keeping in Touch with Ireland
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> I was in Northern Ireland last week, where people were awaiting the
> announcement of the IRA's New Departure... Some weapons put 'beyond
use'.
> Since announced and much analysed in the media...
>
> We, on the Irish-Diaspora list, tend not to follow events in
Northern
> Ireland very closely - assuming that those who do follow events have
their
> own sources.
>
> In any case it is now much easier to follow events in Ireland -
North and
> South - because all the newspapers have their web sites.
>
> Most recently brought to our attention is
> www.unison.ie
>
> However, for those who do not have access to such web sites, or who
dislike
> peering, let me recommend again the Irish Emigrant email
newsletters,
> produced by Liam and Pauline Ferrie. Information and archives at
> http://www.emigrant.ie/index.html
>
> You can have a weekly newsletter sent to your email address, and
further
> occasional email newsletters on the professions, books, the arts,
and sport.
> After a few weeks you get a feeling for the - yes, sometimes maybe
trivial -
> pre-occupations of the citizens of a small country. And for the
> pre-occupations of the Editors - thus, Liam Ferrie is defintely
against
> litter. You do get occasional, rather random, mentions of The Irish
> Abroad - but that is not the main purpose of the newsletter.
>
> Most impressive over the years has been the work of the team's
Northern
> Ireland specialist Aileen McGurk who, every week, succinctly
summarises key
> events in Northern Ireland. An almost impossible task - as anyone
who has
> ever tried to do this will know. Aileen McGurk's account of events
in
> Northern Ireland and reactions over the past week are in this
morning's
> edition of the newsletter.
>
> P.O'S.
>

Linda Dowling Almeida
From: "Almeida, Ed (Exchange)"
Subject: emigrants are not the only ones

I have not read Roy Foster's book either, but I would point out that
migrants are not the only ones who have kept Ireland in aspic (if that is
indeed the case). The Irish tourist board has done a fair job for a fair
penny of preserving and promoting the quaint countryside and charming
villagers of romantic Ireland themselves.
Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University