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8 March 1999 18:14  
  
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:14:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine archaeology MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.fcbbec3D117.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine archaeology
  
Bruce Stewart
  
From: "Bruce Stewart"


Paddy,

Now wait a minit - Luke Gibbons has been talking up Orser's famine
archaeology for yonks and there is an article in history Ireland, if
I remember. The whole idea of disinterring pre-famine villages has
utter validity and bigod there are enough sites for this kind of
exploration. Such forms of communal building and tilth are a big subject
of the recent Atlas of Ireland. I'd have to dig to get precise refs.,
but it strikes me that Orser's moment has well arrived. Bruce.

>>first examples I've seen of a scholar calling in aid the arguments of
Charles Orser on the importance of historical archaeology in the study
of the Irish Famine. P.O'S.
- --
bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk
Languages & Lit/English
University of Ulster
tel (44) 01265 32 4355
fax (44) 01265 32 4963
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9 March 1999 09:14  
  
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:14:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.C70BB61118.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine
  
Peter Holloran
  
From: Peter Holloran

A student stumped me with this question. During the famine, why didn't
the Irish turn to fishing, especially in areas on the seacoast? I don't
know, but hope someone on this list may provide an answer and a few
sources. Thank you,

Peter Holloran
Bentley College
Waltham, Massachusetts
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9 March 1999 11:14  
  
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:14:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Two New Books MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.EF5857c7128.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Two New Books
  
Two new books published by Macmillan will be of interest to the Irish-
Diaspora list...

Chrystel Hug, The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland, Macmillan,
Basingstoke / St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999.

Donald MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922, Macmillan,
Basingstoke / St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999.

Full reports on both books will appear on the Irish-Diaspora list in the
near future.

The Macmillan Web site is
http://www.macmillan-press.co.uk

P.O'S.
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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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9 March 1999 11:15  
  
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:15:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D The Sash MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.fEe2aED119.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D The Sash
  
Dr David Cooper
Senior Lecturer
Director of the Electronic Studio
Department of Music,
University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

has posted an interesting essay on the music of Northern Ireland at...

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/DeptInfo/Staff/DGC/twelfth.html

Cooper, D.,
'On the Twelfth of July in the Morning . . . or the Man who Mistook his
Sash for a Hat',
paper given during the conference The Ethnic in Music,
University of Leeds, July 12, 1997.

P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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9 March 1999 11:25  
  
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:25:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Coaxed from my attic... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.BAe2120.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Coaxed from my attic...
  
Patrick O'Sullivan
  
From: Patrick O'Sullivan

People who visit me here in Bradford are always surprised to find that I
spend most of my day, and my evening, sitting here in my attic,
thinking. Someone has to do it.

At the risk of seeming absurd to those of you whose working lives are
dominated by teaching, and marking, and other important tasks, I would
like to tell you - perhaps as examples of work in progress - that I have
been coaxed from my attic, and twice in one month will be giving public
papers at the University of Bradford...

1.
On Tuesday March 16 (my birthday)
to mark the 25th Anniversary of the creation of the Department of
Interdisciplinary Human Studies there will be a
Cultural History Interdisciplinary Forum
Pemberton Building (DPPC) Room 2.10
4.15 to 7 pm

Roger Ebbatson 'Trooped Apparitions: Hardy's Boer War poetry'
Patrick Eyres 'Displays of dynastic and national identity: the cultural
politics of the Georgian landscape garden'
and
Patrick O'Sullivan 'Irish blood: explorations in interdisciplinary
practices'

Further details from
Ken Smith
Lynda Prescott

[There are different approaches to the whole question of
'interdisciplinarity'. You can elect one discipline or methodology the
supremo, to which other disciplines must defer. You can list possible
over-arching theories - see
http://www.sou.edu/ENGLISH/IDTC/ALINK/INTERDS.HTM
You can whine piteously and ask for more resources (unfair, unfair) -
but see
http://cela.albany.edu/interContin/interContin.html

My paper on 'Irish blood' takes a prosaic (maybe Aristotelian) approach,
and looks again at what actually happens when one academic discipline
borrows material from another discipline. This is the first draft of my
study of the uses still made of blood group data and 'anthropological
measurements' collected in Ireland in the 1930s and 1950s - this
material surfaces, uncritically and uncriticised, in works by S. J.
Connolly (1992), A. T. Q. Stewart (1977), E. Estyn Evans (1973), and
many other places. Trying to get sense out of this data leads you in
all sorts of weird directions - to the mathematical intricacies of the
Gauss-Markov theorem, and to photographs of President George Bush
naked.]


2.
Wednesday March 17 (St. Patrick's Day)
Departments of Applied Social Studies and Social & Economic Studies
Seminar Series

Patrick O'Sullivan 'Applied Social Studies and the Irish Diaspora'

Further Information
Brid Featherstone

[The term 'Applied Social Studies' is often seen as simply academic code
for 'social work' - but it can be more than that, a way of seeing how
the social sciences and the humanities can guide action, by groups or by
individuals. Applied Social Studies thus overlaps with 'political
economy' and 'social policy' - but has, maybe, a more direct interest in
empowering the individual. This paper looks at some 'Applied Social
Studies' issues that arise through intensive reading within 'Irish
Diaspora Studies'. And asks questions like: Is there a theory of
individual psycho-pathology within the work of Kerby Miller? Whither
Weber and the Irish Diaspora? Is emigration desertion? Does being
Irish drive you mad? You know the stuff...]

P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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9 March 1999 13:44  
  
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:44:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.8E7C265121.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
Peter Gray
  
From: Peter Gray
Subject: Re: Ir-D Famine (fishing)

Peter

'Why didn't the Irish fish' is one of the most frequently asked
questions about the Famine. There are a number of answers, but by far
the most important can be summed up in one word: capital.
Sea-fishing requires capital in the form of boats, nets and the
wherewithall to maintain these. It also requires markets, as the
fisherman must sell most of his catch in normal times to renew his
capital, and in pre-Famine Ireland to purchase the cheaper and more
regular foodstuff that supplied the bulk of his and his family's
subsistence needs - the potato.

Fish was a luxury food for Irish peasants in the pre-Famine period,
and one of the first to be abandoned when the potato failed from
1845. On the west coast markets for fish (a highly perishable good)
did not extend beyond the immediate locality - and consequently the
fishing trade was small scale, using small inshore craft (curraghs)
and was highly seasonal. When fishermens' incomes collapsed from 1845
the natural reaction (their 'survival strategy') was to pawn their
equipment and abandon maintainance to maximise the money available
for purchasing grain or potatoes. No doubt public works schemes
appeared a more reliable source of income than risking their lives in
the winter storms of the north Atlantic for a catch that nobody could
buy. In addition to this, it appears that the seasonal migration of
herring in the Atlantic shifted in the later 1840s to a range beyond
the capabilities of small open boats.

A number of philanthropic groups during the Famine (including the
Quakers) did attempt to revive fishing my offering loans to unpawn
the boats and buy netting materials, but as most of them realised,
this was useless without the additional creation of markets,
transport links and fish processing - and these attempts to create a
fishing infrastructure took some time and considerable effort to
create. They had marginal impact during the Famine itself.

One way in which marine life could be harvested and consumed without
capital investment was the use of shellfish or edible seaweeds on the
shorelines. Contemporary reports speak of whole areas of the west
being stripped of this in the course of 1847 - unfortunately it was
not a sustainable resource.

The conclusion is clear, in the absence of the potato, only an
effectively distributed and price-controlled (or free) supply of
foodgrains could have stemmed the worst of the famine. Except for the
spring of 1846 and the brief soup kitchen regime of summer 1847 the
state and the private markets failed to provide this - and this
despite the widespread availability of grain on the international
markets from spring 1847. Fishing could offer only the most marginal
addition of foodstuffs during the crisis, and the structure of the
Irish economy rendered it largely irrelevant.

Peter

Peter Gray
Dept of History
University of Southampton
pg2[at]soton.ac.uk
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9 March 1999 16:44  
  
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:44:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.46b6bBA122.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
Kerby Miller
  
From: Kerby Miller


My memory of what I've read on this subject is vague. It's my recollection
that along the West coast of Ireland, fishing was primarily a source of
income, used to pay rents, and only a relatively minor part of the diet of
peasants who were only part-time fishermen, who depended primarily on
potatoes. Most of the fish caught off the Co. Galway coast was sold in the
Galway market, and when the potato crops were blighted many part-time
fishermen pawned or sold their boats, tackle, etc., for money to buy food
to replace the potatoes. When the money ran out, when the potato crops
failed a second or third time, the peasants no longer had the boats, etc.,
that would have enabled them to fish. I also remember one authority
arguing that the famine coincided with one of the periodic disappearances
of the herring from the shallow waters near the coast, and the vast
majority of the West's part-time fishermen did not have boats that were
suitable for deep-water fishing. Nevertheless, I also recall reading that
eating fish, shellfish, and seaweed prevented mortality rates among the
peasants in regions such as the Aran Islands and the west coast of Donegal
from soaring to the high levels experienced by those who did not have easy
access to the seashore. The few areas where fishing was highly
commercialized -- the coasts of counties Down, Wicklow, and Wexford -- were
much less heavily dependent on potatoes.
Kerby Miller.


>From: Peter Holloran
>
>A student stumped me with this question. During the famine, why didn't
>the Irish turn to fishing, especially in areas on the seacoast? I don't
>know, but hope someone on this list may provide an answer and a few
>sources. Thank you,
>
>Peter Holloran
>Bentley College
>Waltham, Massachusetts
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10 March 1999 08:44  
  
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:44:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.cfCAE4FB129.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
Eileen A Sullivan
  
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Peter,

They did not have the boats.




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6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail : eolas1[at]juno.com
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10 March 1999 08:45  
  
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:45:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.Ab0b130.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
Patrick O'Sullivan
  
From Patrick O'Sullivan

Peter,

You can add a little detail to what has been said already by looking at
the work of Cormac O Grada, the economic historian...

See, for example, O Grada, Ireland, A New Economic History, 1780-1939,
Clarendon Press, Oxford, especially pp 146-152, plus references. He
says, p 148, 'Curiously, the history of the Irish fishing industry has
been little studied...' - directing attention however to John de Courcy
Ireland, Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1981, and to some thesis work. (John
de Courcy Ireland is the man who has done so much to awaken interest in
Ireland's maritime history.)

But the whole history of fishing in pre-Famine Ireland is the whole
history in miniature. Government support to fisheries ceased in 1829 -
as British governments became committed to 'non-interference' in
economic affairs. The 1841 census counted 9142 fishermen, and 69
fisherwomen. This means, of course, that the 'part-time' fishers,
supplementing a small farm livelihood, were not counted. A revised
enumeration in 1836 had found 54119 fishermen and 10761 boats - still
not that many.

'Nevertheless, the failure of the seas around a land-hungry, poverty-
stricken island to provide their main livelihood to fewer than 10,000
men has puzzled generations of commentators...' So your student was
asking a very sensible question.

O Grada lists the possible explanations. There are the usual 'cultural'
explanations - Irish 'fecklessness and superstition...', etc. Before
putting some meat on explanations already given - lack of capital, lack
of markets. The Famine crisis led to the effects already described -
the selling or pawning of boats, the harvesting of the sea-shore but not
the sea.

These things change as technologies change - refrigeration replaces
smoking, and so on. The migrant Irish were very active, as seasonal
workers, in the smoked fish industries of Scotland and England, and the
Isle of Man. Once again, labour follows capital.

Paddy O'Sullivan
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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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10 March 1999 15:44  
  
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:44:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.5aB37B131.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
don.macraild@sunderland.ac.uk (MACRAILD Don)
  
From: don.macraild[at]sunderland.ac.uk (MACRAILD Don)


I wrote this before reading the much more erudite offerings that followed:

That's a good question. Why weren't displaced Scots Highlanders, driven as
they were towards that rugged coastline, also content to fish? (They too
rummage for shell fish and seaweed, and kelp was an important backbreaking,
but declining trade). And why did fishing only delay, but not prevent, the
out-migration of similarly dispossessed husmenn in Norway? I don't know the
answer(s) but would predict (a) the cost of setting up in fishing - a
vessel, nets etc; (b) lack of the skills; and (c) the dangers and
difficulties associated with making a living from small boat fishing in
coastal waters. I doubt there would have been a labour relations problem
with existing fishing communities - but there might have been. I could, of
course, be wrong on all points. So, please treat this as the
externalisation of a few wild thoughts.

Good wishes


Don MacRaild
Sunderland
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11 March 1999 09:44  
  
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:44:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.baB8DaE7133.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
Peter Holloran
  
From: Peter Holloran


Thanks to all who offered answers or sources for the questions why the
Irish did not turn to fishing during the famine years. It reminded me
that the Pilgrims starving in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 also
ignored the ocean as a rich and available food source.

Peter Holloran
New England Historical Association
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11 March 1999 09:45  
  
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:45:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.B30a132.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Famine (fishing)
  
Elizabeth Creely
  
From: "Elizabeth Creely"


I'm very interested in this. So what your saying, is that where fishing was
commercialized, the local economy was made stronger so that they did not
have to depend on one food source, because they could purchase what they
needed? Also, I think it's worth noting that in order to fish, you gotta be
strong- it's an arduous pastime.


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

Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 8:44 AM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Famine (fishing)



From: Kerby Miller


My memory of what I've read on this subject is vague. It's my recollection
that along the West coast of Ireland, fishing was primarily a source of
income, used to pay rents, and only a relatively minor part of the diet of
peasants who were only part-time fishermen, who depended primarily on
potatoes. Most of the fish caught off the Co. Galway coast was sold in the
Galway market, and when the potato crops were blighted many part-time
fishermen pawned or sold their boats, tackle, etc., for money to buy food
to replace the potatoes. When the money ran out, when the potato crops
failed a second or third time, the peasants no longer had the boats, etc.,
that would have enabled them to fish. I also remember one authority
arguing that the famine coincided with one of the periodic disappearances
of the herring from the shallow waters near the coast, and the vast
majority of the West's part-time fishermen did not have boats that were
suitable for deep-water fishing. Nevertheless, I also recall reading that
eating fish, shellfish, and seaweed prevented mortality rates among the
peasants in regions such as the Aran Islands and the west coast of Donegal
from soaring to the high levels experienced by those who did not have easy
access to the seashore. The few areas where fishing was highly
commercialized -- the coasts of counties Down, Wicklow, and Wexford -- were
much less heavily dependent on potatoes.
Kerby Miller.


>From: Peter Holloran
>
>A student stumped me with this question. During the famine, why didn't
>the Irish turn to fishing, especially in areas on the seacoast? I don't
>know, but hope someone on this list may provide an answer and a few
>sources. Thank you,
>
>Peter Holloran
>Bentley College
>Waltham, Massachusetts
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11 March 1999 11:45  
  
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:45:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Gender and Rural Transformations MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.675cF134.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Gender and Rural Transformations
  
Forwarded on behalf of
Margreet van der Burg
Gender.Conf[at]alg.vsl.wau.nl



------- Forwarded message follows -------
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Conference on Gender and Rural Transformations in Europe:
Past, Present and Future Prospects
14-17 October, 1999
Wageningen, The Netherlands

Profound transformations are occurring in rural Europe - Western,
Central and Eastern. New policies around the environment, social
security and equal opportunity are provoking profound economic, social
and environmental adjustment in rural areas. They are deeply affecting
the identities as well as working and living conditions of rural
people. At the same time, these changes are stimulating important
initiatives resulting in new forms of pluri-activity, means to protect
nature, food supplies, and the landscape, and changing social relations.

Considering existing gender inequalities in rural communities and
households, it is certain that past and current developments are
gender-differentiated. Rural women throughout Europe continue to have
limited access to all kinds of resources - economic, political and
cultural. The risks of increasing gender inequalities is great, and
rural women may have relatively less chance to benefit from the
opportunities and to influence these processes according to their own
visions.

At the Conference, scholars and special invites throughout Western and
Central and Eastern Europe will present and discuss gender research
from various disciplinary and regional perspectives. They will exchange
views among themselves and with others who will be invited to hear,
discuss and critique the findings as well as their practical and
political implications.

The conference will be structured around two major themes, with three
sub-themes each. Theme I: Gender in rural households, livelihoods and
economies Theme II: Gender and rural environments, cultures and living
spaces

Abstracts for papers should be about 300 words in length. Proposals for
other types of contributions are also encouraged. The deadline for
abstracts and other proposals is extended to 1 April, 1999, (was 15
February) but please pre-register and mention your preliminary paper
title as soon as possible! Visit the conference website and
pre-register at:
http://www.sls.wau.nl/crds/congr_gs.htm

For circulars and further information:
Margreet van der Burg, Conference Coordinator
Gender Studies in Agriculture
Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands
Email: Gender.Conf[at]alg.vsl.wau.nl
Fax: 31 317 485477, Tel. 31 317 483374
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11 March 1999 11:46  
  
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:46:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Professorship in Irish Studies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.44ED135.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Professorship in Irish Studies
  
Forwarded on behalf of...
University of Missouri - St Louis (MO)



Jefferson Smurfit Corporation Professorship in Irish Studies


The University of Missouri-St. Louis is pleased to announce the
establishment of and a search to fill the Jefferson Smurfit Corporation
Professorship in Irish Studies. The scholar will be expected to play a
leadership role in the development of Irish Studies at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis. The professor will be expected to take an
interdisciplinary approach and exhibit, in his or her scholarship, both
intellectual rigor and accessibility to a wide audience. The professor
will teach courses and conduct research in his/her academic discipline.
Preference will be given to a scholar in the arts, humanities or
history.
Working with the Center for International Studies, the Irish-American
community and the community at large, the professor will develop
programs for campus and community audiences about Ireland and the Irish
expatriate experience. The professor will also collaborate with holders
of other international professorships and Center programs to develop a
comprehensive international program highlighting the diversity of St.
Louis' ethnic heritage.

Qualifications: Candidates must have a distinguished record of research/
creative activity, teaching, and service. Experience working with the
community is desired.

Rank and Salary: Rank is open for this tenured appointment, but
preference will be given to applicants who can be appointed at the full
or associate level. Salary will be commensurate with the qualifications
of the candidate; endowment funds will be used to support the activities
of the professor.

Applications: The appointment will be made for Fall 1999 or as soon
thereafter as possible. Review of materials will begin on April 1, 1999,
though nominations and applications will be accepted until the position
is filled. Applicants should include a letter describing how their
background and experience prepares them for this important position.
Applications should also include a curriculum vitae and names, addresses
and telephone numbers of four references. (Candidates will be notified
before references are contacted).

Please address application materials to: Jefferson Smurfit Professorship
in Irish Studies Search Committee, Dr. Joel Glassman, Committee Chair,
Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St.
Louis, MO 63121-4499. Applications may also be submitted electronically
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:36:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Update on British Library closure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.acA07137.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Update on British Library closure
  
Mary.Doran@mail.bl.uk (Mary Doran)
  
From: Mary.Doran[at]mail.bl.uk (Mary Doran)


Dear All

I have just learnt that due to the continuing industrial action the
Library's reading rooms at St Pancras will be closed next week (Monday
15th to Saturday 20th inclusive).

Mary Doran
Modern Irish Collections
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
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12 March 1999 10:46  
  
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:46:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Long awaited... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.ED84F136.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Long awaited...
  
Many books have been described as 'long awaited' - not least by their
authors...

At last we have a publication date for Peter Gray's long awaited,
eagerly awaited, study of the British Government's response to the Irish
Famine crisis, 1845-50. Judging my articles published and papers heard,
it will approach the study of the Irish Famine from within the study of
British economic history - filling that huge gap in Irish Famine
historiography.

The book is
Peter Gray
Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society,
1843-50
Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1999
ISBN 0 7165 2564 X

The book is to be launched by Cormac O Grada, at Waterstones, Dawson
Street, Dublin 2, on Tuesday March 30, 1999, 6.00 - 7.30.

If anyone in Ireland is able to attend that book launch, please give my
good wishes to Cormac and Peter.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:06:13 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Website on immigration into Ireland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.1eEc138.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Website on immigration into Ireland
  
stgg8005
  
From: stgg8005


Hello friends and colleagues

It's not strictly Irish diaspora studies, but you may be interested to know
that we have established a pilot website to provide background information,
facts and figures about immigration into Ireland. Visit us at
http://www.ucc.ie/icms/immigration/

All criticism, comments, amendments and suggestions for additional material
will be most welcome. We'd be grateful as well if you could link to us from
your various sites.

Regards

Piaras Mac Einri


Piaras Mac Einri, Director/Stirthir
Irish Centre for Migration Studies/Ionad na hImirce
National University of Ireland, Cork
Fax 353 21 903326 Phone 353 21 902889 http://www.ucc.ie/icms
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:33:39 +0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Ballykilcline archaeology MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.15820C7139.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Ballykilcline archaeology
  
Charles E. Orser
  
From: "Charles E. Orser"


I'm gratified that people are interested in my on-going archaeological
efforts in Co. Roscommon. The research at Ballykilcline is going
beautifully, and it is clear that we will be able to make a new
interpretation of the townland, and its politics, based on the material
culture. Current plans are that we will be in the field this coming summer
from July 5 to August 7, and I'd like to invite all of you who are
interested to pay us a visit. I'll be happy to provide directions. Thanks
for your support!
Charles Orser
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Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Distinguished Professor and
Editor, International Journal of Historical Archaeology

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Campus Box 4660
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4660

Phone: 309.438.2271
Fax: 309.438.7177
e-mail: ceorser[at]ilstu.edu
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:55:50 -0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Sexuality MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.5013F143.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Sexuality
  
For the past month or so news has been circulating round the Irish
discussion groups of the attack, in his Sligo home, on American author
and gay activist Robert Drake. We have been following those
discussions.

Quite independently a number of people have brought this news to our
attention, suggesting that the Irish-Diaspora list should be aware of
the news and the discussions which have taken place. There was a
helpful summary of events in the Baltimore Alternative in February - I
have posted this account to the Irish-Diaspora list, as a separate
message, so that everyone will be aware of events.

We now hear that Robert Drake is to be flown home to the US by the North
Western Health Board, Ireland - I gather, at Irish government expense.
A benefit concert for Mr Drake, who remains in a critical condition, was
staged in Sligo last Thursday.

What is the Irish Diaspora Studies content and context?

In Ireland, and throughout the Diaspora, discussion of the attack on
Robert Drake has focussed as much on a failure of hospitality and the
general increase in violence in Irish society as on questions of
sexuality and homophobia.

But questions of sexuality, sexual expression and sexual safety are
important in all diasporas, though the Irish Diaspora has recently
chosen to make these issues more visible than have other diasporic
groups.

I recall the flak I took for publishing a chapter by Ide O'Carroll,
which suggested that flight from sexual abuse (often WITHIN families)
was certainly one cause of Irish emigration. This had long been evident
to anyone who ever really listened to Irish people abroad - all we were
doing was making the issue visible, putting the issue on the agenda.

Two recent books continue that discussion...

Ide O'Carroll and Eoin Collins, eds, Lesbian and Gay Visions of Ireland,
Cassell, London,1995, which is a collection of personal accounts and
experiences, has a section on and by 'Emigrants'. There is also the
full text of Senator David Norris's speech in the Irish Senate, 29 June
1993, on the passing of the bill which decriminalised the gays of
Ireland. And - since everything interconnects - I note that an article
by Brendi McClenaghan, 'Letter from a Gay Republican: H-Block 5',
printed here, was not allowed into copies of the Republican newsletter
sent to supporters in the United States.

David Norris also appears as hero in Chrystel Hug, The Politics of
Sexual Morality in Ireland, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1999. Chrystel
tracks the change in attitude - and the change in law - in Ireland to
questions of divorce, contraception, abortion and homosexuality. I see
two themes there. One is the state's duty to all its citizens. The
other is the awareness that existing laws persecuted our own daughters
and sons, sisters and brothers - another argument for visibility.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:56:50 -0000 Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk Sender: From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk Subject: Ir-D Robert Drake MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1312884590.7D5a8142.5704[at]bradford.ac.uk> [IR-DLOG9903.txt]
  
Ir-D Robert Drake
  
PRESS RELEASE, February 15, 1999
Baltimore Alternative
P.O. Box 2351, Baltimore, MD 21203
Fax: 410/889-5665 E-Mail: baltalt[at]aol.com
www.baltalt.com

BALTIMORE - American writer Robert Drake, author of The Gay
Canon and editor of the award-winning Hers and His anthologies of
gay and lesbian fiction, remains in critical condition today in a
Western Ireland hospital, two weeks after being viciously beaten
in his Sligo home on January 31, 1999.

According to Scott Pretorius, Drake's longtime partner, Drake
had spent the evening out at a local Irish pub, the Silver Swan,
where he was seen leaving with two men. Drake's home showed no
signs of forced entry. The front door was left unlocked and
nothing was stolen from the house, indicating that this was a
premeditated hate crime.

Last week, when it appeared that Drake would survive the
beating, two individuals turned themselves in to the Sligo police.
The assailants pled guilty, and expressed remorse at their
actions. Irish newspapers are reporting that the two were victims
of a "homosexual pass." The names of the assailants have not been
released to the press. As Pretorius said, "Now the real question
is whether or not they'll be charged with murder, which is up to
Robert...if he can survive."

Arrangements with Aer Lingus to medevac Drake back to his
Philadelphia home were placed on hold indefinitely when his
conditioned worsened this weekend and he was put back on a
ventilator. Drake's injuries include severe head trauma, a
subdural hematoma, bleeding into the brain, and swelling of the
brain tissues. He remains unconscious and essentially
unresponsive. He is currently experiencing kidney failure and may
have pneumonia.

Robert's elderly parents are too frail to travel to Ireland.
Donations to offset the cost of Robert's return to the United
States are being accepted. Please make checks payable to The
Robert Drake Fund, c/o The Baltimore Alternative, P.O. Box 2351,
Baltimore, MD 21203.

A former Los Angeles literary agent, Robert Drake served as
the book review editor for the Baltimore Alternative from
1991-1998. He stepped down from this post when he relocated to
Ireland in this past summer, to pursue his own literary dreams.



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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England
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