From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D Varieties and Vectors

re: this (and aspic): a relevant article, in the context of
decommissioning, in the Independent, 27th october:

Fergal Keane: Ireland has paid a high price for its dishonest myth-making

'The people of Ulster must come to terms with the history they want their
children to learn'

can be found at

best,
Hilary
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate
begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall
be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

- -- Martin Luther King Jn.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Web site of the National Portrait Gallery, London, is worth a visit...
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp

There is now a section in the
GROUPS AND GROUPINGS list

Sitters from the island of Ireland
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/peirelan.asp

P.O'S.

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From: TGLynch[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Varieties and Vectors

On this theme, I strongly suggest Reginald Byron's Irish America. A
social scientist, Byron investigates the maintenance of irish identity among
Americans who are geographically and temporally removed from their
"homeland". Despite never having visited Ireland, despite a familt
tradition of marrying individuals from other ethnic groups, and despite
admitting that their only manifestations of Irish identity was wearing a
green tie to work on March 17, many of Byron's subjects (the "Irish American
community" of Albany, NY), continue to call themselves Irish Americans.
Why?
Byron argues that there are certain positive traits which we in the States
associate with the Irish - religiosity, hard work, family , etc.- which make
it worthwhile for certaiin individuals to claim an Irish (or Irish American)
identity. A review of this book appears inthe Spring 2001 issue of the
Michigan Historical Review.

Timothy G. Lynch
Lecturer in History and Social Sciences
California Maritime Academy, CSU
(707) 654-1154
tlynch[at]csum.edu

We have been contacted by...

Liam Irwin
History Department,
Mary Immaculate College,
University of Limerick

OfficeTel. [353 61] 204987
Fax [353 61] 313632
E-mail Liam.Irwin[at]mic.ul.ie

Liam Irwin tells us that the 2002 Merriman Summer School, which will be held
17-24 August in
Ennistymon, Co. Clare, has as its theme Immigration and the Irish...

[They are still searching for a more catchy title].

The idea, Liam tells us, is to explore both the history of Irish
emigration/immigration elsewhere in the world and the more recent phenomenon
of immigration into Ireland.

I have introduced them to the notion of 'diaspora'...

I thought this information would be of interest to Irish-Diaspora list
members. I know that many of our members are in Ireland during the
(northern hemisphere's) summer. The Merriman Summer School is well
organised, and gathers much publicity. There might be an opportunity here
to give a paper - to an appreciative summer school audience.

Contact Liam Irwin directly...

I have pasted in below web addresses that give basic background information
about the Merriman Summer School...

P.O'S.

This is the web page of the Merriman Summer School...

http://www.merriman.ie/school/

See also
http://www.merriman.ie/scoileanS.html

In 2002 it will be in Ennistymon. It is all little seaside towns...

See also
http://www.iol.ie/~hopkins/press/controversy.html

On Merriman himself see
http://www.merriman.ie/BrianMerriman.html

http://www.homesteader.com/merriman/merriman.html

http://irishculture.about.com/cs/brianmerriman/

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If you happen to be in San Francisco...

This came in...

- -----Original Message-----
From: George Shea
george[at]ccewest.org

great Feile San Francisco

But if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, please come to the Plough &
Stars this weekend in San Francisco to support proprietor Sean Heaney's
effort to bring the best of Irish traditional music to our ears (and a
little bluegrass). For more than 25 years he has dedicated himself to
giving us the opportunity to hear the best in an intimate and not phony
atmosphere.

He has put on a line-up that you will never hear anywhere at one time.

Please come out. During these times (with the National Guard on alert) I am
very worried the turnout will be light.

I have no financial interest whatsoever. Thank you so much, and sorry if
anyone is offended.

George Shea
Marin County Public Defender

Plough & Stars
116 Clement & 2nd Avenue, San Francisco
415/751-1122
http://pweb.jps.net/~jgilder/25.html


Ellery Klein & Thri Nua
Jerry O'Sullivan & Brian Conway
Oisin MacDiarmada & John Blake
Andrew MacNamara & Gerry O'Connor
Tommy Peoples
Eoin O'Riabhaigh, Kevin Glackin & Conal O Grada
Josephine Marsh & Declan Cory
SF Ceili Band
Waybacks
Ellery Klein & Thri Nua
Jerry O'Sullivan & Brian Conway
Oisin MacDiarmada & John Blake
Cathie Ryan
The Patricia Kennelly Dancers
Chulrua
Orla & The Gasmen
Cronan

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

If you happen to be in Amsterdam...

There is a lot of interesting material at the RIIM Web site, though very
little that specifically mentions the Irish...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of...
"Jan Rath"

PLEASE COME HEAR

JOCK COLLINS, School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology
Sydney, Australia
and
DAN HIEBERT, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada

speaking on:

THE POLITICS OF ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA

Tuesday, November 20, 15:00pm in room 4.09
at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of
Amsterdam,
Rokin 84, Amsterdam

Open to the Public

Jock Collins is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, where he has taught for 24 years. Jock
Collins has been writing on issues related to Australian immigration,
multiculturalism and racism and the Australian labor market since 1973. He
is the author of Migrant Hands in a Distant Land: Australia's Post-war
Immigration (1988, 1991) and co-author of A Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic
Small Business in Australia (1995), Cosmopolitan Sydney: Explore the world
in one city (1998) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and
Crime ( 2000). Pluto Press, Sydney, published all these books. He is also
co-editor (with Scott Poynting) of The Other Sydney: Communities, Identities
and Inequalities in Western Sydney (Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne,
2000). Jock Collins has held consultancies with the NSW Department of
Treasury, the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Office of Multicultural
Affairs, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and the
Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia. He has been a Visiting
Fellow at universities in the UK, Canada and the USA.

Daniel Hiebert is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of
British Columbia and a research coordinator at the Centre for Excellence for
Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM) in
Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on several aspects of immigrant
settlement in Canada, including: the emerging social geography of immigrant
neighbourhoods in Canadian cities; immigrant integration in the Canadian
labour market; and the rise of immigrant entrepreneurship. Papers on all
these topics can be found at the RIIM Internet site
(www.riim.metropolis.net), as well as in more traditional academic
publications, such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
The Canadian Geographer, The Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Economic
Geography, and Progress in Planning. In his presentation, prof Hiebert will
pay special attention to the failure of the business immigration program in
Canada.

For up-to-date information on this lecture, please call Jan Rath 020
525-3627 or mail to rath[at]pscw.uva.nl

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This might interest research teams based in the UK - which includes, of
course, Northern Ireland...

P.O'S.

The Movement of Peoples in the Modern World

A grant would support a major research programme typically designed to last
for 5 years at a total cost of no more than £1.25m Such a programme would
consist of a number of inter-linked projects, undertaken by a team of
established researchers.

The Movement of Peoples in the Modern World
This theme is concerned with the causes, character, consequences and
implications of the large-scale migrations and movements of populations in
the modern world. Proposals may relate to any aspect of the political,
economic, legal, social and geographic implications of such movements. It is
assumed that the approach will be interdisciplinary. Although the bulk of
research might be concerned with a single case study, that would have to be
of singular significance, and it is more likely that the programme as a
whole would be comparative in nature, taking advantage of the preferred form
of a research programme - that it be composed of inter-related projects.
Modern historical studies are encouraged, provided that general and
contemporary implications would be prominent outcomes of the research.

Applications should be made only by groups of senior researchers, or by
existing research centres of teams with an established record of publication
and scholarly achievement in relevant fields.

Applicants should consult the Trust's "Policies and Procedures" brochure
(copies available from the Research Office Tel: 3170 or 5182). In the first
instance only brief submissions are necessary and the deadline for outline
applications is 15th November 2001.

Further information is available on the Leverhulme website at:
http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/programmes.html



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We have mentioned before, on the Ir-D list, David Rose's electronic journal.

The message, below has now come in from David Rose himself - and is so
delicately written that it would be a solecism not to distribute it...

Please pass on to anyone you think might be interested...

P.O'S.

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

From: David Rose
d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk
Subject: Oscar Wilde research

New Journal

I write as editor of THE OSCHOLARS, an electronic Journal for the exchange
of information on current research, publications and productions concerning
Oscar Wilde and his circle. It is free, monthly and available only through
e-mail.

Launched at the end of May 2001, THE OSCHOLARS has reached a circulation of
over 360, the overwhelming majority based in one or other of more than 160
universities or university colleges in 29 countries, and now extending into
professional theatre circles.

Apart from the two journals (one defunct) published by Oscar Wilde
societies, THE OSCHOLARS is the first systematic attempt to embed the study
of Wilde into all contemporary discourses, from theatre review to queer
theory. It has been widely welcomed as a significant contribution to the
study and teaching of Wilde and the 1890s.

It was originally transmitted as an e-mail attachment, but a website is now
under construction, and each month we send news of the posting of the new
edition rather than the edition itself.

Meanwhile all issues are posted at

http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars/

I hope this may of interest to you, and that you may wish to contribute
from time to time.

Should you wish to receive the notification of new issues, please e-mail me
to that effect at oscholars[at]netscape.net

If I do not hear from you, I shall not trouble you again. Wanted e-mails
can be troublesome enough; unwanted ones are the deuce (as this one may
exemplify!).

Yours sincerely,

D.C. Rose
Editor, THE OSCHOLARS
Department of English / Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London

d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk

From From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Might interest...

Whiteboys, Rockites, Mollies, Orange Order...

P.O'S.




Secrecy: Histories and Publics
Sweet Briar College
March 15-17

Location: Virginia, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-12-20
Date Submitted: 2001-10-29

Announcement ID: 128868

This interdisciplinary conference will focus on uses and ramifications of
secrecy and its place in the fashioning of private and public histories.
Topics will include but not be limited to magic and mysticism, secret
societies, mystery cults, concealment and colonialism, and the anxiety
surrounding the potential secrets of others. This conference is a joint
endeavor among the disciplines of Classical Studies, History, and Religion.
Invited speakers include Christopher Faraone, Margaret Jacob, and Moshe
Idel. One-page abstracts are welcome on these and related topics. Please
send three copies of the abstract and a one page CV by December 20 to
Professor Kate Chavigny, History Department, Sweet Briar College, Sweet
Briar, VA, 24595. E-mail submissions are welcome. Send to
kchavigny[at]sbc.edu. Notification of acceptance by January 5.


Contact information:
Katherine Chavigny
Department of History
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
Phone: 434-381-6234
Fax:434-381-6494
Email: kchavigny[at]sbc.edu

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Australian literature and newspapers

A major database of Australian literature has just gone on line and
access is free until 31 December. The database, supported by Monash
University, Melbourne, contains entries on 60,000 writers and
organisations and 370,000 works from 1780 to the present. Doubtless
there is a lot of Irish-related information in there.

The site is: www.austlit.edu.au

I've been contacted by Dr Simon Potter of University College, Galway,
who is organising a conference on 'Ireland and the Imperial Press' to
be held on 15/16 March 2002. He's especially looking for a speaker on
Australian press reactions to Home Rule, the War of Independence or
the establishment of the Free State. Anyone who is working on this
topic or is aware of work being done could contact Simon directly.

His email address is: simon.potter[at]nuigalway.ie

Elizabeth Malcolm


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 week on television here the latest BBC period blockbuster begins - a
version of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now...

The story hinges - it will be recalled - on the appearance and downfall of
the mysterious financier, Melmotte. What might be the sufficiently
despicable secret origins of this despicable character? The name hints at
Maturin's novel, Melmoth the Wanderer. And, yes, you've guessed it - this
is another of the secret Irishmen of English literature...

John Sutherland the literary critic tells us that Trollope first thought
that Melmotte might be Jewish - Emmanuel Treegrene or Grunbaum. Then
perhaps a French swindler, Auguste Melmotte. In the end Trollope makes
Melmotte a New York Irish crook - born Archie Melmody...

Not Jewish, not French - but New York Irish...

Background information at

http://65.107.211.206/victorian/trollope/wwlnov.html

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/oct2001/wayWeLive.sht
ml

But no doubt more will appear as the BBC series gets underway...

P.O'S.

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Just published...

Sharon Lambert
Irish Women in Lancashire 1922-1960: Their Story
Published by the Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of
Lancaster
ISBN: 1-86220-110-2 (2001)
Occasional Paper No. 43. Price. £9.95

FROM the Web site
EXTRACT BEGINS>>>
The experience of Irish Immigrants in Britain has been
explored through various publications in recent
years. However, these studies have
primarily focused on the public arena where
men were dominant and there is little to tell
us of the experience of Irish women in
Britain. Irish Women in Lancashire explores
this subject through the words of 40 ?ordinary?
Irish women who moved to Britain between
1922 and 1960. Importantly, Sharon Lambert
has ensured that the memories of these women
are set in the changing social, economic and
political context of the period and throughout the
book her findings are compared to those of other
studies of Irish emigration. Her sensitive approach
allows the voices of these women to be heard,
perhaps for the first time.
EXTRACT ENDS>>>

Contact information...
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/cnwrs/

Book details
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/cnwrs/irish_01.htm

You can click on J. J. Lee's Foreword and the text of the Introduction.

At first sight Sharon Lambert's book might seem to be another that - to use
Bronwen Walter's word - 'privileges' personal narrative at the expense of
analysis. But the analysis is there - the narratives are carefully placed
within the existing literature. And Chapter 5, Personal Relationships,
bravely unpacks some secrets.

The key quote is most probably this one, on p 20, from 'Maura', born 1927,
Roscommon...
'They taught us to hate England and then they sent us here...'

P.O'S.


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Please circulate...

Forwarded on behalf of...

Keough Institute for Irish Studies
University of Notre Dame

NEH KEOUGH FELLOWSHIPS IN IRISH STUDIES
Eligibility: all fields of Irish Studies

Closing date: 4 Jan. 2002

NEH Keough Fellowship in Irish Studies University of Notre Dame

With the major support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge
Grant, the Keough Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre
Dame announces the availability of a new faculty Fellowship program. The new
NEH fellowship will permit an outstanding scholar to continue his or her
research while in residence at Notre Dame's Keough Institute during the
academic year 2002-2003. The stipend is $37,500.

Further information and application procedures at...

http://www.nd.edu/~irishstu/nehfellowship.shtml


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A few weeks ago, I dragged myself out of the first of the winter colds and
flus - paracetamol and will power - and crossed the majestic Pennines to
Manchester, to give the latest version, a very fevered version, of my
illustrated talk, Monuments of the Irish in Britain...

The theme of my talk is that the Irish in Britain have a 2000 year
documented history, and that the monuments and documentation are all around
us in Britain, if we have but eyes to see... Much of this will be familiar
to members of the Ir-D list...

(There is a sub-text - that this 2000 year history of the Irish in Britain
is ignored or, yes, invisible... that you have to work quite hard to make
it a 2000 year continuous history... Since it is not a history of interest
to any specific nation state, and maybe not of interest to any specific
emigrant cohort... But... Totality of relationships within these
islands... Etc.)

The talk can, of course, be tailored to any venue in Britain. For example,
in Manchester it seemed to make sense to look at Ford Madox Brown's painting
Work, with its 'Irish Problem'/Irish Famine sub texts - because the painting
is in the Manchester City Art Galleries.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/brown/brown_work.jpg.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brown_ford_madox.html

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/Art_Gallery/work/navvy.htm

This section of my talk is based on the article by Joel Hollander in NEW
HIBERNIA REVIEW
Earrach/Spring 1997
http://www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies/v1n1.htm

And it is instructive to compare Joel's understanding of the painting with
the standard material listed above...

The illustrated talk can include veritable monuments - like this one very
near my home in Yorkshire
http://www.boltonabbey.com/estate/fountaindetails.htm

And, after consultation with Ultan Cowley, our Grave of the Unknown Navvy at
Kinlochleven...
http://www.walkscotland.com/walk50.htm

And of course I use Frank Neal's Black 47 to make visible stories of the
famine refugees in Britain.

The venue was the Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester...
http://www.iwhc.com/
There are very grand plans for the IWHC, but at the moment, in its old
building, it is like every other Irish centre you ever went into...

I found myself sharing the bill with Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal and Brendan
Mac Lua (former proprietor and editor of The Irish Post, the main Irish in
Britain newspaper...) Always a treat...

And I met at last Sharon Lambert, whose book on Irish Women in Lancashire is
now published - of which more later. Sharon gave what can only be described
as a guilty start when I introduced myself - it seems her supervisors had
insisted that she defend her use of the words 'emigration' and 'emigrants'.
Which she had done by attacking O'Sullivan...

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Bernadette Hyland.
email:
bernadette[at]mossleybrow.demon.co.uk

Subject: A Political History of the Irish in Manchester

The Irish in Britain Representation Group is pleased to announce the
publication of its first book, The Wearing of the Green: A Political
History of the Irish in Manchester. (ISBN 0-954-378-0-9) This has been
researched and written by Michael Herbert who is a labour historian,
well-known in Manchester for his work on the history of the Irish community.
It will be published on 26th November and has 224 pages.

The book covers 200 years from the late eighteen century through to the end
of the twentieth century. It focuses principally on the Manchester Irish
involvement in the nationalist movement including the United Irishmen,
Fenianism, the campaign for Home Rule, Republicanism and the IRA, the Irish
Self Determination League and Irish Freedom League of Great Britain, the
Connolly Association, Irish Civil Rights Association, Anti-Internment
League, BWNIC, Labour Commiteee on Ireland and Irish in Britain
Representation Group. It also looks at some of the Manchester Irish involved
in Chartism, the local trade union movement and the suffrage movement.

The Wearing of The Green is aimed at the interested reader rather than the
specialist academic and thus has no footnotes, but it does list its sources.
It can be ordered directly from the publishers and the address to write is
IBRG, PO Box 22790, London, N22 8AE. The UK price is £12.95 (including p&p)
while the overseas price is £13.95. Cheques/drafts must be in sterling and
payable to Irish in Britain Representation Group(M)

IBRG is a national Irish community organisation founded in 1981 to campaign
on civil, political, social, welfare, cultural and equality issues. It has
been active on hundreds of issues over 20 years and possesses extensive
archives on its work which could with some safegurds be made available to
researchers. For more information about IBRG or The Wearing of the Green,
please contact national officer
Bernadette Hyland.
email:
bernadette[at]mossleybrow.demon.co.uk

It would be very helpful if you could forward this email to anybody else
that you think might be interested in buying this book.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item has been brought to our attention...


THE IRISH TIMES Tuesday, November 6, 2001

The Irish who settled in Cadiz

Everyone knows about the Wild Geese, but who were the Irish of Cadiz?
Prof
Patrick O'Flanagan, a historical biographer, and Mr Julian Walton, a
genealogist, both of UCC, are in the process of finding out. It seems
there is quite a story to be told.
In 1717, a monopoly of trade between Spain and her huge American
empire
was granted to Cadiz, switching the seat of commerce from Seville to
that
town and nearby ports. Within 50 years, the population of Cadiz
exploded
from 10,000 to 70,000 and the relatively sleepy port town became a
cosmopolitan magnet for merchant adventurers. The opportunity was not
lost
on the Irish.
Those who emigrated to Cadiz and its environs were nearly all Catholic
city-dwellers, according to Prof O'Flanagan. At home, they were barred
by
the Penal Laws from land ownership or professional advancement, but
dynamic Cadiz posed no such restrictions.
The Irish made their mark but were subsequently forgotten by history,
until Prof O'Flanagan and Mr Walton began their collaboration last
year.
Since then, painstaking research, using Spanish archives and parish
records, has unearthed a neglected story.
The Irish came mainly from the south-east, principally Waterford,
Wexford,
New Ross, Kilkenny and Clonmel. They formed close family ties and
helped
each other to prosper. In modern Cadiz, the remnants of the
18th-century
town may still be seen and while there is now little visible evidence
of
the Irish who made their lives there, there are hints.
The researchers found a street named Calle del Conde O'Reilly, and
above
the door of an art collector's home named Pedro Alonso O'Crowley, cut
in
stone, was the O'Crowley coat of arms.
The records offered up other tantalising clues. Irish surnames may be
found unchanged in the records, but they may also be heavily
disguised.
The Langtons and Leys from Kilkenny and the Goughs from Waterford leap
off
the page unchanged. But Walsh becomes Valois (a form borrowed from
French)
and Tomás Nunez turns out to be Thomas Nugent from Waterford (the
Christian name was a vital clue).
At the Hospital de Mujeres, established in 1749, the tombs of two
Irish
benefactors were located, Lorenzo Ley of Kilkenny and Lorenzo Carew of
Waterford. In the nave, a slab commemorated a bishop whose grandmother
was
O'Brien from Pellick in Co Cork.
Mná na hÉireann made their presence felt too, Prof O'Flanagan says.
Maria
Gertrudis Hore, who wrote poetry, was born in Cadiz in 1742, the only
child of Miguel Hore from Dungarvan, and Maria Ana Ley. Her beauty and
social sophistication were so renowned that she was nicknamed la hija
de
sol (daughter of the sun.)
A wealthy heiress, she married Esteban Fleming whose father came from
Clonmel, but in 1779 she renounced her wealth, left him abruptly and
became a nun. She died in the convent in 1801.
Much work remains to be done on the settlers but the UCC team will
press
ahead. The book will be available in Ireland and in Spain.

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

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

In the light of recent discussion on the Ir-D list the following seems worth
passing on. Also, we know that some of the new material listed here and now
available for search will be of interest to Ir-D members.

P.O'S.

Subject: Access to Archives update

> From: Flynn, Sarah
sarah.flynn[at]pro.gov.uk

> Subject: another A2A update
> ~~~~~
> A2A Update, October 2001 #2
> A2A site updated
>
> The A2A website at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was updated on Friday 26
> October and now contains almost 1.3 million records (catalogue entries)
> describing archives held in 100 record offices and other institutions
across
> England - catalogue entries which may now be searched and browsed together
> via A2A's single database.

> Information added on 26 October includes catalogues to the papers of the
> British Prime Ministers Andrew Bonar Law and David Lloyd George, and to
> those of other political figures, provided by the *Political Archives
> Consortium*; the extensive archive of original Acts of Parliament dating
> from 1497 to the 1990s, held at the House of Lords Record Office; and
> further catalogues from the *London Archives on the Wider World* project:
> including sources for the history of medicine held at the Wellcome Library
> for the History and Understanding of Medicine, papers of military figures
at
> the Imperial War Museum, and archives of exploration held by the Royal
> Geographical Society.

> Further finding aids relating to family and estate
> archives held in the South East of England have also been added by the
*From
> Landlord to Labourer* project, as have catalogues relating to the archives
> of Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions courts and a range of other
records,
> held by local archives services including those of
> Cambridgeshire, Cumbria,
> Devon, Liverpool, Norfolk, Suffolk and Somerset.

> These finding aids further enhance A2A's value as a research resource for
> the academic community, and their presence on A2A's site will also open up
> the archives they describe to other researchers, including local and
family
> historians, school children and students, and to the public at large. The
> site includes contact details for the archives institutions involved, so
> that users can easily arrange to see or obtain copies of relevant source
> material.

> Preparation for Phase 2 of the A2A programme is continuing, and further
> projects are in the pipeline, planned by archivists and archives users
> across England, to start in April 2002.

> A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 8
million
> catalogue entries for archives dating from the twelfth to the twentieth
> centuries and held in national, local and specialist archives available on
> the www by March 2002 at .
>
> * * * * * *
> Sarah J A Flynn
> Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
> Public Record Office
> Email: sarah.flynn[at]pro.gov.uk
> www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
>
> * * * * * *
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Reminder...

Forwarded on behalf of
David A Gerber
Subject: Saloutos Memorial Book Award,2001 (fwd)



The Immigration and Ethnic History Society announces the annual Theodore
Saloutos Memorial Book Award Competition for 2001. The 2001 award will be
presented for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration
history of the United States. "Immigration history" is defined as the
history of the movement of peoples from other countries to the United
States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the
consequences of such migrations, whether for the United States or for the
countries of origin. To be eligible for the award, a book must be
copyrighted "2001," must be based on substantial research in primary
sources, and must present a major new scholarly interpretation. A book may
be nominated by its author, the publisher, a member of the prize
committee, or a member of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

Authors and publishers are responsible for getting nominated works to the
members of the committee.

Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to the chair of the 2001
Saloutos Prize Committee: Professor David A. Gerber, Department of
History, State University at Buffalo, Amherst, New York, 14260-4130, or
.

Copies of the book must be received by the three members of the committee
by December 31, 2001. Send books to Professor Gerber at the above
departmental address as well as to: Professor Erika Lee, Department of
History, University of Minnesota, 614 Social Sciences, Minneapolis, MN
55455; and Professor Camille Guerin-Gonzales, (before 1 September)
Department of History, 204 Hellums, CB234, Boulder, CO 80309-0234, or
(after 1 September) Reader Services, The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford
Road, San Marino, CA 91108.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This will interest some Ir-D members...

Forwarded on behalf of...
Kathleen Comerford

Subject: ANN: Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Last weekend, at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, we made the
decision to incorporate the two-year-old Society for Early Modern Catholic
Studies (SEMCS).

The Society is committed to furthering an understanding of Catholic issues
in the early modern world [approximately 1450-1750] and the cities,
regions, and countries that remained predominantly Catholic or were divided
between Catholics and Protestants or Catholics and non-Christian peoples.
The research focus of the Society is neither limited to Europe, nor to a
particular academic discipline. Further, the Society itself is not
confessionally based. The Society was created in response to a need for
more coherence and intellectual sharing among scholars who work on
Catholic-related subjects in the early modern world.

Membership is open to scholars in all fields of early modern studies and to
all levels of post-bachelor's degree academic standing. Dues, in the
amount of $10.00 per year, cover an annual reception and administrative
costs. In addition, portions will be set aside to provide financial aid to
graduate students who wish to attend the Sixteenth Century Conference. In
advance of the conference, the board will announce application procedures.

The Society has a listserv discussion list, which is generally low-volume.
To subscribe to the list, send an email message to:
lyris[at]lyris.unc.edu

Do not fill in the subject line.
In the message box, write:
subscribe emcathstudies (yourfirstname) (yourlastname)

For further questions, write to:
Tom Mayer (himayer[at]augustana.edu) [President]
Kathleen M. Comerford (kcomerfo[at]gasou.edu) [Secretary/Treasurer]
For questions regarding the listserv, write to:
Lance Lazar (lazar[at]email.unc.edu) [listowner]



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Assistant Professor of History
Georgia Southern University
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From: Guillermo MacLoughlin
"iee"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish in Cadiz

Dear Paddy,

It is nice to see the news of this forthcoming new study. Indeed, among the
Irish
and Spanish-Irish who came to South America, we can recall the French and
the Lynch families, who were settled in Cádiz and were involved in trade.

Best regards,
Guillermo MacLoughlin

Buenos Aires, Argentina
iee[at]ruralarg.org.ar

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From:
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 3:00 AM
Subject: Ir-D Irish in Cadiz


>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> The following item has been brought to our attention...
>
>
> THE IRISH TIMES Tuesday, November 6, 2001
>
> The Irish who settled in Cadiz
>
> Everyone knows about the Wild Geese, but who were the Irish of
Cadiz? Prof
> Patrick O'Flanagan, a historical biographer, and Mr Julian Walton, a
> genealogist, both of UCC, are in the process of finding out. It
seems
> there is quite a story to be told....

> ... Much work remains to be done on the settlers but the UCC team
will press
> ahead. The book will be available in Ireland and in Spain.
>
>
>