From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Access to Archives update

Dear Patrick

We have a Czech student in our department who has to do a dissertation
involving the use of some primary material.Her chosen topic is 'the origins
of the situation in northern Ireland'.Her tutor has asked me to check out
what primary sources are available!She is from the University of Palacky
where they are developing Irish Studies.I have not met the student but my
reaction is that the topic as described to me is too large.However,she has a
particular interest in the Plantation period.Has anyone got any advice to
offer re records for this period?

Frank Neal

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Charles Stewart Parnell, anyone? Anna Parnell? Katherine O'Shea? William
O'Shea? - now there's a personality...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of
"julie.gottlieb"
Subject: CFP: Personality in British politics since 1867

POWER, PERSONALITY AND PERSUASION:
THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL ON BRITISH POLITICS SINCE 1867
A CONFERENCE, University of Manchester (UK), June 26, 2002*

>From Gladstone to Lloyd George, from Disraeli to Iain Duncan-Smith
via Winston Churchill, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair, from Joseph
Chamberlain to Oswald Mosley, from Harry Pollitt to Tony Benn, and
from the Pankhursts to Margaret Thatcher, personality has played a
key role in the iconography and historiography of modern British
politics. The tendency of contemporary political propaganda and
reportage to focus on individual political figures, matched by the
continued popularity today of political biography as an historical
genre, has given the role of personality an assumed importance in
mainstream historical narratives. But do individuals really make a
difference, and, if so, how? In what ways have politicians
constructed their own personalities (or had them constructed for
them) on the platform, in the media, through scandal, and during the
processes of political action? Is it possible to arrive at an account
of the role of personality in politics which does not merely descend
into 'the lives of great men and women'?

We welcome proposals from the disciplines of political and cultural
history, political science, sociology, media studies and gender
studies, covering mainstream and fringe parties in Britain, as well
as politicians outside the traditional party structure. We invite
conference participants to reassess the biographical narratives of
political figures and to apply fresh theoretical and methodological
perspectives to the study of the individual in politics. Papers
should consider some of the following themes: How politicians have
shaped their images, or how such images have been integrated into
political and cultural discourse. · Historical events where the
impact of personality proved decisive. · The future of biography. ·
The gendering of political personality and the influence of popular
discourses of sexuality on perceptions of political leaders. ·
Historical and contemporary party media strategies and the
construction of 'leadership.'

This conference has been made possible by a grant from the
University of Manchester.

We would also like to remind conference participants that a visit to
Manchester would provide an opportunity to make use of the excellent
research resources in 19th and 20th century political history held at
the John Rylands Library, the National Museum of Labour History, the
Salford Working-Class Movements Library, and an array of local record
offices in the North West.

Please email or post proposals to:
Dr Julie V. Gottlieb and Dr Richard Toye
Department of History
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
julie.gottlieb[at]man.ac.uk AND richard.toye[at]man.ac.uk

* Depending on the response to the call for papers, this conference
might become a two-day event, to be held on the 26 and 27 June.

From: "Willie Jenkins"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Query: Sources, Northern Ireland

I don't really have any advice on records as such (though I guess the Civil
Survey and the 1659 Census come to mind) but with regard to the Plantation
period (and with a heavy emphasis on historical geography, given my
training), I would think that:

Raymond Gillespie, Colonial Ulster (Cork 1985) which focuses on east Ulster
1600-1641 and Philip S. Robinson, The Plantation of Ulster (New York 1984)
which deals with 1600-1670, would be useful reading.

I also recall an article;J.G. Simms in Irish Geography in the 1960s about
the plantation of Ulster, and another article by William J. Smyth in Irish
Geography in 1976 (I think) about the idea of settler plantations in Ireland
and the American colonies, these being "England's first frontiers."

There are probably also relevant articles in William Nolan (ed.) The Shaping
of Ireland (Dublin 1988); Brian J. Graham and Lindsay Proudfoot (eds.) An
Historical Geography of Ireland (Academic Press, 1992 I think); and William
J. Smyth and Kevin Whelan (eds.) Common Ground: Essays on the Historical
Geography of Ireland (Cork 1990?).

Good luck with the research on an always-fascinating topic.

Dr. William Jenkins, Room 608
Department of Geography
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 3G3
Phone: (416) 946-7882

From: "Ruth-Ann M. Harris"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Query: Sources, Northern Ireland

Frank,
Our John J. Burns Library (special collections) at Boston College
has been collecting source materials on Northern Ireland. I suggest the
student contact John B. Atteberry, Senior Reference Library, at:
john.atteberry[at]bc.edu. I have also placed a request with John.
all the best, Ruth-Ann Harris



At , you wrote:


>From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
>Subject: Re: Ir-D Access to Archives update
>
>Dear Patrick
>
>We have a Czech student in our department who has to do a dissertation
>involving the use of some primary material.Her chosen topic is 'the origins
>of the situation in northern Ireland'.Her tutor has asked me to check out
>what primary sources are available!She is from the University of Palacky
>where they are developing Irish Studies.I have not met the student but my
>reaction is that the topic as described to me is too large.However,she has
a
>particular interest in the Plantation period.Has anyone got any advice to
>offer re records for this period?
>
>Frank Neal

Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Adjunct Prof of History and Irish Studies, Boston
College
Note new e-mail address: harrisrd[at]bc.edu
Home Phone: (617)522-4361; FAX:(617)983-0328; Office Phone:(617)552-1571
Summer and Weekend Number: (Phone) (603) 938-2660

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Here we have been discussing the following article...

Institutional racism in British psychiatry
S. P. Sashidharan
Psychiatric Bulletin
Volume 25, July 2001, pp 244-247

There is a contact point
http://pb.rcpsych.org/

And I understand that, by negotiating various hurdles, it is possible to buy
the text of the article for 8 dollars.

Sashidharan is the lead person on the British Government's advisory
committee on mental health and ethnicity. Mary Tilki and Pat Bracken -
whose names will be known to Irish specialists in Britain - have just been
asked to join the committee.

Dr. Sashidharan's article begins...

'How racist is British psychiatry? Why does psychiatric practice in this
country continue to discriminate against Irish, Black and Asian people?....'

Later, p. 245, '...minority ethnic groups continue to be deemed as deviant
from the White norms one way or another, either as requiring or receiving
too much or too little psychiatry...'

P.O'S.

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From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Launch of Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies


Paddy,
This could be very interesting. My research focus has changed so I will
not
be following-up the references to sites but many years ago I was involved in
the study of recusant history in England and Wales and there is a small body
of very high quality research available to serious scholars. I will be happy
to supply what references I have.
John Hickey

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

on behalf of...

Michael P. Quinlin
Boston Irish Tourism Association
www.irishmassachusetts.com
617 696-9880

Please call with any questions. Thanks'


PRESS ADVISORY

November 9, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Paddy Dwyer / 617 542-7654

BOSTON IRISH TO HONOR BILL CLINTON

(Boston) -- The Irish Immigration Center (ICC) of Boston is giving its
annual Solas* Award to former President William Clinton for his leadership
in promoting peace and democracy in Northern Ireland. The ceremony takes
place on Tuesday, November 20 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, 110
Huntington Avenue, at 1:00 p.m., with registration and a reception starting
at noon. Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy is presenting the award to
President Clinton according to Lena Deevy, executive director of the Center.

From 1993-2000, President Clinton fulfilled his early campaign pledge to
Irish-Americans to help broker a resolution to the conflict in Northern
Ireland. In 1994 he appointed George Mitchell as a special economic envoy to
Northern Ireland and played a key role in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998,
which created a framework for the people of Northern Ireland to govern
themselves in a democratic fashion.

Funds raised at the awards ceremony help program the Irish Immigration
Center, a non-profit organization formed in 1991 to help new Irish and other
immigrants by providing advice on jobs, housing, health care and citizenship
procedures. The Center oversees the Irish Peace Process Cultural and
Training Program (The Walsh Visa program) set up by Congress as a result of
the Good Friday Agreement. It works closely with other immigrant communities
in greater Boston, including Haitian, Cape Verdean and Vietnamese to promote
friendship and harmony among immigrants. The Center is located at 59 Temple
Place in downtown Boston.

John and Diddy Cullinane are chairing the award ceremony. Boston Mayor
Thomas Menino is honorary chairman and William M. Bulger, president of the
University of Massachusetts, is the master of ceremonies. Comhaltas
Ceoltoiri Eireann is providing music. Tickets to the ceremony are $100. For
additional information please call 617 542-7654 or visit www.iicenter.org.

* Solas is the Irish word for light.

From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sources, Northern Ireland

Dear Ruth Ann

Many thanks for your prompt reply to my query.I will be seeing the girl on
Monday and will pass on the info.I hope you and yours are well and enjoying
life.

Best wishes

Frank

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Next Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 7pm onwards, I will have the great
pleasure of attending the north of England launch at the Irish World
Heritage Centre
http://www.iwhc.com/
of Ultan Cowley's The Men Who built Britain, A Celebration of the Irish
Navvy.

After the successful launches in Dublin and London, Ultan Cowley returns to
the city that has been his base throughout his years of research.

I understand there was a lengthy review of the book in The Irish Post, the
main newspaper of the Irish in Britain. I am trying to chase this up - but
the Irish Post web site is a complete mess at the moment.

There is information about the book at...

http://www.wolfhound.ie/homepg.htm

http://www.wolfhound.ie/books/menwho.htm

The Men Who built Britain, A Celebration of the Irish Navvy - by Ultan
Cowley
HB £19.70 250 x 210mm, 200pp ISBN 0 86327 829 9 illustrated throughout b/w

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>
In the popular mind the archetypal navvy is a ragged, shovel-bearing
Irishman, a footsoldier in McAlpine?s Fusiliers who laboured on the
motorways, and construction sites of Britain. By 1960 when the term ?navvy?
was dropped from official British statistical data it had become a term of
derision and abuse, shorthand for the useless drunken Irishman routinely
portrayed in the media of the day.
This book is a history of, and a tribute to, an entire underclass of people
who left Ireland from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century to
help build the infrastructure of a country that was booming on the back of
colonial riches.
EXTRACT ENDS>>>

P.O'S.


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From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sources, Northern Ireland 2

Dear Dr Jenkins

Many thanks for your suggestions.I will pass them on to the student

Best wishes
Frank Neal

From: harrisrd
Subject: RE: Ir-D Sources, Northern Ireland 3

Dear Frank,
Good to be in touch with you again. I may be in Liverpool in March. How
far do you live from there? Ruth-Ann

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have been approached by Anne O'Connor, who is conducting a study of
elderly Irish people living in Britain, but who wish to return to live in
Ireland.

This study is being run in conjunction with the Irish Episcopal Commission
for Emigrants and the Social Science Research Centre, in University College
Dublin. The primary focus is on the extent to which Irish elders wish to
return to Ireland and their specific health and social needs should they
return.

As the Irish-Diaspora list knows I have just done a review of the research
on Irish elders in Britain - such as it is.

And I cannot recall any research specifically along these lines, the wish to
return.

This does not mean that there is no such research - it simply means that, if
there is, I have not been able to find it.

There is a charity started up, to help and support return. Some material
at...
http://www.rural-health.net/Article2.htm

There is something of a tradition of charities starting up because someone
has a feeling that a problem exists - without much prior research. Not just
Irish charities.

Also, elders in Britain - again, not just Irish - can flex political muscle,
especially at the local level, simply through the power of the 'grey vote'.

I have sent Anne O'Connor my recent book review, which does touch on the
issues, of the Gaffney and colleagues FIS Bibliography and Clare
Barrington's Shades of Green, Clare's guide to Irish organisations in
Britain - review previously distributed via the Ir-d list.

There is, in effect, a simple way forward. I have suggested to Anne
O'Connor that she get hold of the FIS Bibliography, which shows how little
there is on Irish Elders. And get hold of Clare Barrington's guide and
contact the - not very many - Irish organisations in Britain who have an
interest in Irish Elders and might be able to answer her queries.

In the meantime I wondered if Ir-D members were aware of any research on
Irish Elders and 'The Wish to Return' - not just in Britain, but elsewhere
throughout the Diaspora. It sounds like something we should be getting our
heads around...

P.O'S.

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Subject: Re: Ir-D The Way We Live Now
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Read Trollope's CASTLE RICHMOND for a vindication of trhe Irish. He'll
be mentioned in my Carleton Bio.

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: Marion Casey
Subject: Another Grim Monday

In a clear blue sky...whatever happened this morning to American
Airlines flight 587, it dealt another terrible blow to New York. The
plane crashed in Belle Harbor on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, a
neighborhood that has been solidly middle class and Irish since the
1960s. The local parish, St. Francis de Sales, buried about 100 people
as a consequence of September 11th including nearly 20 firemen.

Marion R. Casey
Department of History
New York University

Subject: Re: Ir-D Query: Sources, Northern Ireland
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Frank

Get in touch with Brian Walker, Director of Irish Studies at Queens Univ,
Belfast for info on N Ireland. He is a noted Historian and familiar with
the history of N Ireland. Narrowing the topic to the Plantation period
is good advise.

Good Luck!

Eileen
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 Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of The Ireland Fund of Canada...

Please do whatever you can to publicize the following:

THE IRELAND FUND OF CANADA

In 1999 The Ireland Fund of Canada announced the establishment of a
scholarship for graduate study in Ireland. The winner of the 2001/02
scholarship was Sean McCall, a graduate of Concordia University,
Montreal, who is now pursuing his studies towards a Master of Philosophy
at the School of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin.

The scholarship is being offered on an annual basis and applications are
once again being accepted. A grant of up to Cdn.$10,000 will be offered
to a suitable applicant to study at a recognized academic institution in
Ireland in the field of Irish Studies. An academic panel from the
University of Toronto and York University will vet the applications.

Applications for the academic year of 2002/03 should be sent by March
31, 2002, to Melanie Hurley, Executive Director, The Ireland Fund of
Canada, 67 Yonge Street, Suite 401, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1A7.

Interested applicants should forward a letter of proposal including:
(1) Current curriculum vitae
(2) Personal biographic letter including an explanation of the chosen
field of study and the schools applied to
(3) Budget and a description of any other funding
(4) Letters of academic reference from two professors (no more than two)

(5) Your recent transcript from university
* Please do not submit any publications or articles

Further information can be obtained from The Ireland Fund of Canada,
National Office, address as above. Phone: (416) 367-8311. Fax: (416)
367-5931. Email: irelandfund[at]irelandfund.ca

This scholarship is one of the initiatives The Ireland Fund of Canada is
taking to broaden its scope of grant-giving within Canada.

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Flag slogan

I have received a request on my memoryireland
Irish language translation site
http://www.memoryireland.com/
for a translation of a slogan used on
an Irish Regimental flag from the US Civil War. The
flag is owned privately. I do not recognise some of
the words and others are spelt differently to modern
Irish spelling. The slogan is:

Riam nar or uio o sbarin lann

I have asked for the spelling to be checked and the
reply was that there is a fada or accent over the o.
I'm not sure if there has been any study on flags of
the US Civil War but I would appreciate any help with
this.

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
Subject: Re: Ir-D US Civil War flag

It might help to know what regiment the flag is from -- this is the kind
of information usually in a regimental history.

Knickerbocker Press recently reprinted in one volume a series on Union
army flags --
(1997) originally issued by the Quartermaster General in 1887, but this only
goes to the Brigade level, the flag sounds like a regimental -- and there
were Irish units in the Confederate army as well.

Bill Mulligan
Murray State University
Murray, KY USA

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information, and for purposes of comparison...

Macaronics, anyone?

P.O'S.


Subject: CFP: "New Literatures in English"

From: Jochen Petzold

GNEL / ASNEL
Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen
Association for the Study of New English Literatures
- Schatzmeister -

Tel.: 0761/4767237 (priv.)
Tel.: 0761/203-3331 (Uni)
Fax.: 0761/203-3340 (Uni)


CALL FOR PAPERS

GESELLSCHAFT FÜR DIE NEUEN ENGLISCHSPRACHIGEN LITERATUREN (GNEL) e.V.

14th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New
Literatures in English (ASNEL), University of Erfurt, May 8-11, 2002

"Embracing the Other:
Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English"

CALL FOR PAPERS

Human beings have devised a great variety of strategies for dealing with the
phenomenon of otherness or alterity in all its different guises. While the
Other is often considered a valuable and necessary challenge to the all too
familiar and to old and entrenched positions, a fertile alternative engaging
us in a fruitful dialogue that takes us beyond the borders of our limited
knowledge and practices, it is also conceived by some as a threat from
outside, a menace that is out to destroy what has grown to be dear to us.
Such anxieties also find their expression in xenophobic attitudes and in an
aggressive mental provincialism which can unfortunately still be observed
today. The New Literatures in English, with their far-ranging engagements
with hybrid situations of multiculturalism, migration, diaspora, etc. in
(post-)colonial and global contexts, provide us with a rich field for the
study of how the Other can be embraced and how xenophobia can be addressed.
We welcome papers providing both theoretical analyses of the issues raised
by the conference topic and/or individual case studies based on readings of
anglophone texts from around the world. There will be a panel devoted to the
teaching of the New Literatures in English in the EFL classroom. Selected
papers will be published in the Cross/Cultural series (Amsterdam: Rodopi).
Proposals (preferably as e-mail) with abstracts (up to 300 words) should be
sent to

Prof. Dr. Heinz Antor
Universität zu Köln
Englisches Seminar
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
D-50923 Köln
e-mail: H.Antor[at]uni-koeln.de

Deadline for the submission of proposals: January 15, 2002

From: "Perry McIntyre"
Subject: Re: Ir-D US Civil War flag

This from an Irish friend of mine in Nenagh, Co Tipperary

The flag is the regimental
flag of the 69th New York Volunteers, a core regiment of Thomas Francis
Meagher's Irish Brigade. The insciption reads;
"who never retreated from the clash of spears" This refers to the spear of
Fionn MacCool, which was called Mac an Loin of whom it was said " they never
retreated from the clash of spears even when storming the gates of hell"
Hope this helps

Perry McIntyre
- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:00 PM
Subject: Ir-D US Civil War flag


>
>
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
> Subject: Re: Flag slogan
>
> I have received a request on my memoryireland
> Irish language translation site
> http://www.memoryireland.com/
> for a translation of a slogan used on
> an Irish Regimental flag from the US Civil War. The
> flag is owned privately. I do not recognise some of
> the words and others are spelt differently to modern
> Irish spelling. The slogan is:
>
> Riam nar or uio o sbarin lann
>
> I have asked for the spelling to be checked and the
> reply was that there is a fada or accent over the o.
> I'm not sure if there has been any study on flags of
> the US Civil War but I would appreciate any help with
> this.
>
> Dymphna Lonergan
> Flinders University of South Australia
>
>
>