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Rewriting Irish Histories

Joint Neale and Commonwealth Fund Conference

4th-6th April 2002

University College London - Gower Street - London

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/common/

Thursday 4th April 2002

4.00 p.m. Registration, South Cloisters

6.00 p.m. Neale Lecture in British History by Professor Roy Foster (Hertford
College, Oxford), Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre


Friday 5th April 2002

9.15 a.m.-11.15 a.m. Post-Lecture Panel, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Kevin Kenny (Boston College)
Ciaran Brady (Trinity College, Dublin)
Mary Hickman (University of North London)
Stephen Howe (Ruskin College, Oxford)

11.15 a.m.-11.30 a.m. Coffee, North Cloisters

11.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m. The Irish Diaspora, Haldane Room

Chair:
Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes University) 'Irish Immigrants in South Africa'
Peter Linebaugh (University of Toledo) 'Irish-Slave Conspiracies and
rebellions in the Caribbean'
David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College, Dublin) 'Patterns of Irish Migration'
Discussant: Donna Gabaccia (University of North Carolina - Charlotte)

1.30 p.m.-2.30 p.m. Buffet Lunch, Old Refectory

2.30 p.m.-4.30 p.m. Racing the Irish Panel, Haldane Room
Chair:
Catherine Eagan (University of California) '"Uncle Pat's Cabin":
Irish-American Novelists and the Sentimentalist Argument for Whiteness'
Bronwyn Walter (Anglia Polytechnic University) 'Irish Women in
Twentieth-century Britain'
David Roediger & Jim Barrett (University of Illinois) 'Irish Everywhere:The
Irish and the Americanization of the "New Immigrants" in the United States,
1890s to 1920s'
Discussant: Jeremy Krikler (University of Essex)

4.30 p.m.-5.00 p.m. Tea, North Cloisters

5.00 p.m. Commonwealth Fund Lecture in American History by Professor
Nicholas Canny (National University of Ireland, Galway); Gustave Tuck
Lecture Theatre

6.45 p.m. Reception, North Cloisters

Saturday 6th April 2002

9.15 a.m.-11.15 p.m. Post-Lecture Panel, Gustave Tuck Theatre
Alan Karras (University of California, Berkeley)
Stephen Conway (University College London)
Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool)
Philip Morgan (Johns Hopkins University)

11.15 a.m.-11.30 a.m. Coffee, North Cloisters

11.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m. Symposium on Historical Change and History, Haldane
Room
Chair:
Mary Harris (National University of Ireland, Galway) 'The Peace Process in
Ireland and History Writing'
Stephen Howe (Ruskin College, Oxford) 'Changing Historical Consciousness
Amongst Unionists and Loyalists'
Shula Marks (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) 'History
Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa'
Mary Fulbrook (University College London) 'History Writing in Post-1989
Germany'

1.30 p.m.-2.30 p.m. Buffet Lunch, Old Refectory

2.30 p.m.-4.30 p.m. The Irish and Working Class Identity Panel, Haldane Room
Chair:
Graham Walker (Queen's University, Belfast) 'Protestant and Labour
Identities'
Graham Hodges (Colgate University) 'Irish and Black Relations in Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-century New York'
Maura Cronin (University of Limerick) 'Women, Work and Class in Ireland'
Jennifer Davis (Cambridge) 'The Irish in Nineteenth-Century London'
Discussant: Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)

4.30 p.m.-4.45 p.m. Tea, North Cloisters

4.45 p.m. Summary Session, Haldane Room
Lynn Hollen Lees (University of Pennsylvania)
Paul Bew (Queens' University, Belfast)

FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: MISS N. RAZWI, DEPT. OF HISTORY,
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, GOWER STREET, LONDON, WC1E 6BT, U.K.
TEL: (0)20 7679 7125
E-MAIL: N.RAZWI[at]UCL.AC.UK

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From: "Goodby J."
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:14:19 -0000
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Let's not forget that James Larkin escaped from the RIC after addressing a
rally in O'Connell Street, also dressed as a woman -- in 1913 was it?

John Goodby
Department of English
Swansea University

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: 21 November 2001 06:00
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing'



From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Cross dressing

I have just finished reading Peter Carey's 'The True
History of Ned Kelly' in which references are made to
men dressing up as women. This is being spoken here
in the Australian Press in terms of 'cross dressing'.
I suspect it is not, more an old Irish custom. I have
a childhood recollection of the song Éamon an Chnoic
'Ned of the Hills', in which a man on the run is
dressed in women's clothes to help him escape. Then,
of course, there is the famous story of De Valera
escaping from prison in England dressed as a woman
(delightfully played by Alan Rickman in the movie
'Michael Collins').Christy Mahon in John Millington
Synge's 'The Playboy of the Western World' is also
dressed as a woman near the end.

Carey's book talks about groups of men in Ireland
dressed as women. Does anyone know if dressing in
women's clothes was part of the disguise tactics of
groups such as the Whiteboys and Terry Alts (or the
Molly Maguires)?

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia
Dymphna_1[at]Yahoo.com

From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D Peter Carey and Irish-Australia 2

this is a tangent - I'd be interested to know the article on the sile
na gig - do you have the details? The notion of a female fertility
cult has always appeared to me to be odd - if we look at the images
carefully it is clear that very few of them have breasts, and breasts
are usually, and in many cultures, a major signifier of maternity -
i.e. representing how babies are fed. Some sile na gigs have ribs
showing, but this is usually distinguishable from a representation of
breasts because there are three or four of them on each side. (It's
always irritated me when I've seen modern jewellery etc reproducing
them with breasts). None that I know of has any indication of
pregnancy. Many grimace (the only one I can think of which grins is
english, the Kilpeck one) - though this may not be any clear
indication of whether they were intended to be celebratory or not -
after all, sex can produce grimaces! Ned Kelly's book (no, not that
Ned Kelly!) on the sile na gigs in the National Museum of Ireland
suggests that there is still no evidence beyond the speculative as to
their original function and meaning. Any thoughts? (Maybe off list? as not
really diaspora related)
best,
Hilary

>From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
>Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing' 6
>
>Yes that information on folk custom and ritual rings
>true. I went back to a piece I had found on the
>derivation of SÌle na Gig. A women's fertility cult
>was mentioned as a possible origin for the term as
>well as mimicry in drama. The SÌle na Gig may have
>been a man dressed as a woman in folk ritual. The
>dressing up may then be associated with power and not
>merely as a means of disguise. Certainly Carey hints
>at a deeper meaning behind his references to the
>dresses.
>
>Dymphna Lonergan
>Flinders University of South Australia
>Dymphna_1[at]Yahoo.com


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Dr. Hilary Robinson
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster at Belfast
York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED
Northern Ireland
UK


direct phone/fax: (+44) (0) 28 9026.7291)
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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.

Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:44:17 PST
Subject: Re: Ir-D sile na gig

From: Patrick Maume
There is of course another theory - that the sile na gig is not in
fact pagan in origin but a mediaeval anti-lust device ("this is what
it amounts to..") Its modern appropriation by feminists would then be
based on a misunderstanding. I remember a newspaper article some
years ago which noted that advocates of "Celtic spirituality" claimed
that Celtic monks built monasteries & raised stone crosses in remote &
bleak locations out of love & veneration for wild and pristine nature.
THe author of the article claimed that in fact the crosses were
placed in these areas because they were believed to be the haunts of
demons and therefore in need of exorcism. (Thee reference is to sites
outside as well as inside Ireland, so I suppose that counts as a
diaspora connection.) Anyone got any ideas on this?
Best wishes,
Patrick

On Sun 25 Nov 2001 20:00:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Sun 25 Nov 2001 20:00:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D sile na gig
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
> From: Hilary Robinson
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Peter Carey and Irish-Australia 2
>
> this is a tangent - I'd be interested to know the article on the
sile
> na gig - do you have the details? The notion of a female fertility
> cult has always appeared to me to be odd - if we look at the images
> carefully it is clear that very few of them have breasts, and
breasts
> are usually, and in many cultures, a major signifier of maternity -
> i.e. representing how babies are fed. Some sile na gigs have ribs
> showing, but this is usually distinguishable from a representation
of
> breasts because there are three or four of them on each side. (It's
> always irritated me when I've seen modern jewellery etc reproducing
> them with breasts). None that I know of has any indication of
> pregnancy. Many grimace (the only one I can think of which grins is
> english, the Kilpeck one) - though this may not be any clear
> indication of whether they were intended to be celebratory or not -
> after all, sex can produce grimaces! Ned Kelly's book (no, not that
> Ned Kelly!) on the sile na gigs in the National Museum of Ireland
> suggests that there is still no evidence beyond the speculative as
to
> their original function and meaning. Any thoughts? (Maybe off list?
as not
> really diaspora related)
> best,
> Hilary
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
Toronto

Canadian premiere of Marina Carr's 1996 drama, "Portia Coughlan"

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
presents
"Portia Coughlan"
Written by Marina Carr


The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama presents the Canadian premiere of
Irish playwright Marina Carr's award winning
drama Portia Coughlan.

Portia Coughlan lives in a nether-world between this life and the next.
Haunted by the singing ghost of her twin brother, whose
death in the Belmont river at the age of fifteen has rendered her life
incomplete, Portia no longer feels able to nurture the
husband and children who rely on her. Both shockingly dark and
surprisingly humorous, Portia Coughlan tests the
boundaries between the corporeal and the spiritual, the real and the
mythical.

Marina Carr is one of the most talented of Ireland's new generation of
playwrights. Her rich lyrical dialogue mixes powerful
imagery with sudden bursts of black humour and draws on a wide range of
sources from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare to
Irish folklore. Her characters speak with a directness and honesty that
is not easily comparable to recent works seen on
Toronto stages. Carr was writer in residence at the Abbey Theatre in
1995, and at Trinity College Dublin in 1999. Portia
Coughlan is the winner of the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,
for outstanding work written by a woman for the
English-speaking theatre.

Directed by Natalie Harrower, Portia Coughlan features Lesley Dowey in
the title role, and a strong supporting cast of Louis
Adams, Razie Brownstone, Rebecca Burton, Andrew Gillis, Wayne Gwillim,
Peter Higginson, Ann Holloway, Christopher
Morris, Paula Sperdakos, and Toby Steel.

Portia Coughlan
November 28 -December 9, 2001
*Please Note: no performance Saturday December 8*
Wednesday - Saturday 8pm - $12/$10 stu/sen, Sunday 2pm PWYC
Studio Theatre
4 Glen Morris Street
Toronto
Tickets: 416-978-7986

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing' 8

I feel that I must jump in at this stage and state what is obvious to me
anyway. I guess the guys have been the makers in history and dressed as
women
in order to avoid 'detection' - after all what woman would be in charge of
anything? It was obviously a safe disguise. How depressing to confront this
reality. Maybe in the future cross dressing will see us discuss women
disguised as men in order to avoid being found out as protagonists.
In literary circles, it is nowadays applied to women in stories and novels
who
are invented by men and do not have the emotions or actions of women. You
can
throw most male writers into that category!
Carmel

From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing' 8

From: Patrick Maume
It was the DMP, not the RIC.
Larkin was not disguised as a woman,but as an elderly man (the clothes
were borrowed from COuntess Markievicz, however).
He didn't escape - he used the disguise to get to the site of a banned
meeting in O'Connell Street. Once he had addrerssed the meeting he
surrendered to the police.
Yours ever,
The Grinch


On Sun 25 Nov 2001 20:00:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Sun 25 Nov 2001 20:00:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing' 8
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
> From: "Goodby J."
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:14:19 -0000
> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by
> hydrogen.cen.brad.ac.uk id fAPKCS526665
>
> Let's not forget that James Larkin escaped from the RIC after
addressing a
> rally in O'Connell Street, also dressed as a woman -- in 1913 was
it?
>
> John Goodby
> Department of English
> Swansea University
>

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D sile na gig


My notes say the article on the Síle na Gigs was in
Féilscríbhinn Torna by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha, University
of Cork, 1947. The article is 'Stair Síle-na-Gig' pps
50-55. I hope this helps to further the search on the
origin of the Sheelas.

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
Colman Etchingham
Colman.Etchingham[at]may.ie

Morley Medieval Abroad:
Trip to Dublin, Clonmacnoise and the Boyne Valley region
June 22nd - 29th 2002

Morley College, London is organising a field-trip to Ireland led by Dr Niamh
Whitfield (FSA) with emphasis on early Middle Ages but also calling to key
sites of other periods such as Newgrange. Accommodation provided in Trinity
College Dublin, Athlone, Co. Westmeath & 18th C Bellinter House, Co. Meath.
Transport costs and 8 dinners included in price.
Costs will vary depending on whether you're flying on budget fare from
London (British Midland) or joining group in Dublin. It also will vary
depending on numbers who sign up in total. Maximum cost: £580
For further details, please contact niamh[at]whitfield.demon.co.uk TEL:
020-7603 8982

Dr Colmán Etchingham

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Hilary, I am sure that we'll find a way to see discussion of the sile na gig
as diaspora related...

This might well be another example of something that was more wide spread
becoming seen as something specifically 'Irish'.

So, we are certainly interested in negotiations of 'Irishness'...

For those not familiar with the carvings... There are many, many web sites,
developing many theories...

Begin with (remembering that your own line breaks will fracture that long
web address...)

http://www.x-mp3.com/cgi-bin/od/od.pl/plebius/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/His
tory/Sheela_na_Gigs/

http://www.bandia.net/sheela/SheelaFront.html
http://members.tripod.com/~taramc/myths.html
http://members.tripod.com/~taramc/links.html
http://jlschubert.tripod.com/herstory.htm

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Colman Etchingham
Colman.Etchingham[at]may.ie


SIXTEENTH IRISH CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVALISTS
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Monday to Wednesday 1-3 July 2002
Chairman: Máire Herbert
Organising Secretary: Catherine Swift
Programme Secretary: Colmán Etchingham
Committee: Anders Ahlqvist, Caoimhín Breatnach, Liam Breatnach, Tomás Ó
Cathasaigh, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Ruairi Ó hUiginn, Thomas O'Loughlin, Katherine
Simms

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Papers are invited on medieval archaeology, art, history, language and
literature (Latin and the vernaculars). Length of papers: 45 minutes (15
minutes discussion) or 20 minutes (10 minutes discussion).

Send details by e-mail - at the latest by 28 February 2002 - to Dr Colmán
Etchingham, Dept. of History, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. TEL: (353
1) 7083481 or 7083816 (direct line); FAX: (353 1) 7083314; e-mail:
colman.etchingham [at]may.ie. A programme will be circulated in March 2002.

Details of fees for registration, meals and accommodation will be
circulated, together with the Conference programme, in March 2002. Those
needing such information in advance in order to apply to their institutions
for funding should contact the Organising Secretary, Dr Catherine Swift,
National University of Ireland Maynooth TEL: (353 1) 508 71040; FAX (353 1)
7083314; e-mail:Catherine.Swift[at]may.ie for a provisional estimate of costs.

PLEASE POST A COPY OF THIS NOTICE IN YOUR INSTITUTION

Best wishes

Dr Colmán Etchingham

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

Bernadette Hyland
michael/bernadette[at]mossleybrow.demon.co.uk
Subject: launch of new book on Irish in Manchester

The Irish in Britain Representation Group recently announced 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.

The Wearing of the Green was successsfuly launched at a gathering in a
Manchester
pub at the weekend. Those attending heard Pat Reynolds - national chair of
the Irish in Britain Representation Group - speak about the importance of
history to the Irish community. He also laid stress on the fact that in the
past the Irish had travelled as economic migrants and political refugees to
many lands - including Britain - and should therefore offer solidarity and
support to today's refugees and asylum seekers.

After a contribution from the book's author Michael Herbert the audience
enjoyed a variety of music - Irish, English, cajun and blues - from some
fine singers and musicians.

The Wearing of the Green covers 200 years of Irish political activity in
Manchester. It is the first book to be published by the Irish in Britain
Representation Group, a national Irish community organisation. For more
information about IBRG or how to buy the book contact Bernadette Hyland
bernadette[at]mossleybrow.demon.co.uk

From: Chad Habel
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing' 9


Carmel's response is absolutely valid, but I must reiterate that
"cross-dressing" can refer to the transgression of ALL identity boundaries,
not just those of gender. So the 1850s escape of John Mitchel (a Protestant
nationalist) in the guise of a Catholic priest signifies a fundamental
transgression of the sectarian divide in Van Diemen's Land. Now the
implications of this are up for debate, but it is clear that this is a
significant example of "cross-dressing" which really has nothing to do with
gender. One can cross cultures through dress.

Also, I think it is important to acknowledge the positive potential of
things like this, rather than seeing it all as an inevitable re-inscription
of imperialist patriarchy. For my part, I'd love to hear about women
dressing as men ("Twelfth Night" is the only example which comes to mind),
and the significant role played by women in Irish nationalism makes this
kind of discussion possible. In the context of Australian nationalism,
Peter Carey is more iconoclastic and subversive than Carmel's comments give
him credit for.

Furthermore, I doubt that throwing "most male writers" into a single
category is very useful or productive at all....

Chad

At 06:00 AM 11/26/01 +0000, Ir-D wrote:
>
>From: McCaffrey
>Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Cross Dressing' 8
>
>I feel that I must jump in at this stage and state what is obvious to me
>anyway. I guess the guys have been the makers in history and dressed as
>women
>in order to avoid 'detection' - after all what woman would be in charge of
>anything? It was obviously a safe disguise. How depressing to confront
this
>reality. Maybe in the future cross dressing will see us discuss women
>disguised as men in order to avoid being found out as protagonists.
>In literary circles, it is nowadays applied to women in stories and novels
>who
>are invented by men and do not have the emotions or actions of women. You
>can
>throw most male writers into that category!
>Carmel
>
>
>

From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D sile na gig 2

Many thanks, Paddy for the websites & Dymphna for the reference.
best,
Hilary
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_______________________________

Dr. Hilary Robinson
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster at Belfast
York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED
Northern Ireland
UK


direct phone/fax: (+44) (0) 28 9026.7291)
________________________________

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies

The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies

?Hibernicis ipsis Hibernior:? Rethinking Irishness

21-24 May 2002
University of Toronto at Mississauga

Call for Papers

This year?s conference will explore a range of interpretations and
reinterpretations being made of Irish culture, institutions and
identities in the context of recent changes which have not only affected
Ireland?s society and economy, but also re-positioned Ireland in the
world. The Conference Committee invites papers that explore new
perspectives on Irish literature, history, politics, language and
culture and contribute to the debate over the ?rethinking? of
Irishness. These contributions may include papers that examine:

* What Irishness means in a global economy;
* Recent media constructions of Irish identity: contradictions and
continuations;
* Political developments in Ireland and their impact on the formulation
of Irish cultural and political identities;
* Representations of the rethinking of Ireland and Irishness in
literature;
* The role and position of the diaspora in changing views of the Irish
community worldwide;
* The role of immigrants to Ireland in formulations of nationality and
identity;
* Gender, class, race, language and religion in Irish history and
contemporary Ireland;
* Reassessments of Irish history and new directions in Irish
historiography.

Presenters must be members of the Canadian Association for Irish
Studies.
Abstracts, accompanied by one-page curricula vitaes, are requested
before
18 January 2002. E-mail submissions are particularly invited.
Please forward them to:
Dr. Danine Farquharson
Programme Committee
CAIS Conference 2002
St. Jerome's University
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G3
efarquha[at]watarts.uwaterloo.ca

Le Congrès annuel de l'Association canadienne pour les Études
irlandaises

?Hibernicis ipsis Hibernior:? L'Identité Irlandaise Revue

du 21 au 24 mai 2002
University of Toronto, Mississauga

Appel de communications

Cette année le congrès examiner a un éventail d'interprétations et de
rénterprétations actuelles de la culture, des institutions et des
identités irlandaises, et ceci à la lumière de changements récents qui
ont affecté non seulement la société et l'économie de l'Irlande, mais
aussi sa position dans le monde. Le comité invite toutes communications
qui étudient de nouvelles perspectives sur la littérature, l'histoire,
la politique, la langue et la culture irlandaises, et qui contribuent à
la réexamination de l'identité irlandaise. Ces communications pourraient
aborder les sujets suivants:

* L'importance de l'identité irlandaise dans une économie de
mondialisation;
* De récentes interprétations de l'identité irlandaise par les médias;
* Les évènements politiques en Irlande et leur effet sur les identités
culturelles et politiques irlandaises;
* Les représentations de l'Irlande et de l'identité irlandaise dans la
littérature;
* Le rôle de la diaspora dans la modification des attitudes de la
communauté irlandaise partout dans le monde;
* Le rôle des immigrants en Irlande dans des expressions de nationalit
et d'identité;
* Le sexe, la classe sociale, la race, la langue et la religion dans
l'histoire irlandaise et dans l'Irlande contemporaine;
* La réexamination de l'histoire irlandaise et de nouvelles orientations
dans l'historiographie irlandaise.

Les conférenciers doivent être membres de l'Association canadienne pour
les Études irlandaises. Prière de soumettre vos résumés, avec CV d'une
page
ci-joint, avant le 18 janvier 2002. (Nous encourageons des envois par
courriel.) Veuillez les faire parvenir à l'adresse suivante:

Dr. Danine Farquharson
Programme Committee
CAIS Conference 2002
St. Jerome's University
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G3
efarquha[at]watarts.uwaterloo.ca

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"

Subject: FW: Workshop - Migration and Location: Visual Media Research
(7 - 9 December 2001)

Paddy,

I don't know if you have already received notice of this from other
sources

Regards

Piaras


Migration and Location: Visual Media Research


Workshop 7 - 9 December 2001

New Research Project=20
Faculty of Applied Arts
Dublin Institute of Technology
Venue: Project Theatre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2


PROJECT HISTORY

'Visual images, in their transcultural properties, may have a =
particular
capacity to represent continuities across apparently radically =
dissimilar
global settings.'

- - David MacDougall

Audio and Visual Transcultural Research: New Modes of Citizenship is a
production-based comparative research project exploring everyday migrant
identities and practices. It offers a timely intervention into the cultural
politics of media representation in an increasingly multiracial public
sphere, both in and outside Ireland. From digital video to photography,
radio and interactive media, the project asserts that the audio-visual study
of migration and (dis)located identities provides new and innovative
approaches to questions of home and belonging, to the changing conditions of
place, locality and globalisation.

What distinguishes this project from related research on the topic of
migration is its privileging of practice-based scholarship as both a
research tool for critical inquiry and an outlet for public exhibition.
Committed to establishing close ties with several transnational
institutions, resulting in the creation of research clusters across the
fields of visual media and the performing arts, visual/cultural anthropology
and cultural studies, the project addresses the following research areas
amongst others:

* Race and the City: The Politics of Urban Space
* Migrant Narratives: Old and New
* Mediated Identities: New Technologies/Ethnoscapes
* Home-Making: Material Practice and Cultural=20
Performance
* Music and Migration: Acoustic Narratives
* Linguistic Borderlands: Polyphony in the Global City

The 'Transcultural' project is structured as a series of short and long-term
public events. The first of these is an inaugural workshop, comprising the
presentation of an interdisciplinary range of work in a transnational
context; it will include film screenings, a photographic/video
and informal discussion panels introducing visual anthropological studies
already completed, in progress and in the initial development stage.
The underlying aim of the workshop is both the formation of visual media
research clusters surrounding the topic of migration, together with the
subsequent initiation of collaborative institutional networks.

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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

SESSIONS 7 - 9 DECEMBER 2001

Installation: Moving Image, Photography and Anthropological Narrative
Tunnel Kids - US/Mexican Border
Maeve Hickey and Professor Larry Taylor, Department of Anthropology,
National University of Maynooth

Keynote Presentation

Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking - Professor Hamid
Naficy,
Rice University, USA

Film Screenings and Presentations

Mali Film Project - Mali, Professor Awam Amkpa, Tisch School of the
Arts,
NYU; La Memoire Dure - Paris, Rosella Ragassi, University of Troms
Nigerian Video Film - Lagos, Professor Onookome Okome, University of
Calibar; Injustice - London, Ken Fero, Migrant Media; Migrant Show Reel
from Bologna Archive - Guilia Grassilli, Bologna Cineteca

Photography/Film: Work in Progress=20


Migration, Photography and the Archive - Scotland, Roberta McGrath, Napier
University;
Disputed Territory - Northern Ireland/Bosnia/Kosovo, Anthony Haughey,
DIT;
Chain Camera: Migrant Diaries - Edinburgh/Dublin, Joel Venet, Pilton
Video;
Prams and Yams - Ireland, =C1ine O'Brien and Alan Grossman, DIT


Interactive and Sound Technologies

Immigrant Vehicle - Ireland, Mick O'Kelly, National College of Art &
Design,
Dublin;
Immigrants in Europe - Ireland, Iroh Anaele Adis, Dundalk;
Testimony, Migration & The Digital Archive - Ireland, Centre for
Migration Studies, UCC


Film Festival Planning Forum

Migration and the City Film Festival
(scheduled for December 2002)

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schedule of events

Friday 7 December:
5:30 - 7: 30 Opening of 'Tunnel Kids' Exhibit
Reception hosted by Mexican Embassy

Venue: Gallery, Project


Saturday 8 December:
9:30 Delegate Registration

10:00 - 11: 00 Moving Image, Photography and Anthropological Narrative
Venue: Gallery

Introduction and Panel:

Anthony Haughey - Photography and Digital Imaging, Dublin Institute of
Technology
Maeve Hickey - Artist
=C1ine O'Brien - Media Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology
Larry Taylor - Department of Anthropology, National University of
Ireland, Maynooth
Alan Grossman - School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 1:00 Mali Film Project
Venue: Gallery

Awam Amkpa, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University, USA

Chair: Victor Merriman, Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin
Institute of Technology

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 Mixed Media Research Projects

'Immigrants in Europe' - Iroh Anaele Adis,
Venue: Mezzanine

'Selection from Oral Archive Project' - Centre for Migration Studies,
University College Cork
Venue: Foyer

'Film Selection from Bologna Cineteca' - Guilia Grassilli, Bologna Film
Archive
Venue: Gallery

'Immigrant Vehicle' - Mick O=B9Kelly, National College of Art and
Design
Venue: Mezzanine

3:30 - 4:45 Transnational Films with Accent
Venue: Gallery=20

Hamid Naficy - Department of Art and Art History, Rice University, USA

Chair: C1ine O'Brien, Media Arts, DIT

5:00 - 7:00 Screening of 'Injustice' (Ken Fero, UK 2001, 98 minutes)
Followed by Q & A
Venue: Irish Film Centre, Eustace Street


Sunday 9 December:


10:00 - 11:15 Migrant Media - Ken Fero, Independent Production Company,
London
Venue: Cube

Chair: Alan Grossman, School of Media, DIT

11:15- 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 - 1:00 Testimony, Migration and the Digital Archive - Centre for
Migration Studies, University College Cork
Venue: Gallery

Chair: Anthony Haughey, School of Media, DIT

Piaras MacEinri - Director
Winnie Li - Interviewer
Augusta McDermott - Administrator/Researcher
Steve Miller - Information Technology

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 4:00 Parallel Sessions

Session I

Ethnographic Film Practice - Department of Visual Anthropology,
University
of Troms=F8, Norway
Venue: Cube

Screening of 'La Memoire Dure', (Rossella Ragassi, Paris 2001, 80 mins)

Discussion with Director
Chair: Hamid Naficy

Session 11

Work in Progress: Digital Video, Photography and the Archive
Venue: Gallery
Chair: Martin McCabe, School of Media, DIT

'Migration, Photography and the Archive', Roberta McGrath, Department
of Photography and Television, Napier University, Edinburgh
'Disputed Territory - Northern Ireland/Bosnia/Kosovo', Anthony Haughey,
School of Media, DIT
'Chain Camera: Migrant Diaries' - Joel Venet, Pilton Video, Edinburgh

4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break

4:30 - 5:30 Nigerian Video Films - Department of Theatre Arts, Onookome
Okome, University of Calibar, Nigeria
Venue: Cube

Chair: Victor Merriman

5:45 - 6:30 Plenary Session

6:30 - Drinks at Clarence Hotel, Essex Street, Temple Bar


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tunnel kids: installation 7 - 21 december

'This world was less a creation of nature than the awful artifact of
national and global forces that combined and collided to create the
border in all its power and ambiguity. That line emphatically divided,
locked,
frustrated - even as it connected, drew, seduced. A flow of goods and people
passed across and under it: the inexorable tides of international capital
and human hunger for a better life or the chemical means to escape this
one....In such a world, survival required two crucial ingredients:
possessing knowledge and being part of a group that could be trusted.'

Tunnel Kids, Lawrence Taylor & Maeve Hickey

Tunnel Kids: Installation explores the visual ethnographic research
underlying the book Tunnel Kids. Documentary photography, the moving =
image
and soundscape combine, offering a critical reflection on the =
dialectical
space of the border-zone of Nogales, Mexico/USA and the research
methodologies practiced by both writer/cultural anthropologist Lawrence
Taylor and artist/photographer Maeve Hickey.

Curated by: =C1ine O'Brien, Anthony Haughey, Martin McCabe and Alan =
Grossman -
School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology.

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REGISTRATION

o register for 'Migration and Location: Visual Media Research'workshop,
send an e-mail or print out and send by post with the following details to
ion[at]indigo.ie by 5th December 2001 and please send payment to Ion
Entertainment, Event Management, 26 Eustace Street, Dublin 2

registration fee: IR=A330 or IR=A310 (students/unemployed)

name:

institution:

address:


telephone

fax

e-mail


I have sent a cheque for =A330 or =A310

or

my credit card details are as follows:

card type: visa mastercard

card number:

expiry date:

Places limited to 80. Early booking advised.


For further information about workshop, please contact Dr. Aine
O'Brien, School of Media at ainemobrien[at]hotmail.com
or Dr. Alan Grossman, School of Media at 353-1-4737721.

From: McCaffrey


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

I doubt that throwing "most male writers" into a single
category is very useful or productive at all....
Chad


Chad,
Thank you for your comments. I agree that my throwaway line was a little
misleading and perhaps iconoclastic in itself. I was conscious that it was
not
really a Diaspora subject but wanted to add it to the discussion on hand. I
hoped that it would be read in the way it was meant - with tongue in cheek.
'Most' is not a valid quantitative word. However having said it I ought to
explain it. I believe that in literary circles male authors have a
'tradition'
of depicting females as they see them, from a male perspective, and not as
valid entities themselves with a perspective all of their own. Very few male
authors I believe, deal effectively with their women characters.
Even in literary analysis this has been true. Male interpretation has been
the accepted word for years. 'Jane Eyre' is a classic example. Written by a
woman, Charlotte Bronte [of Irish Diaspora] it can be argued that she was
misunderstood for years. The popular movie is a case on hand of this male
point of view. Rochester is the 'prize' and thwarted in his goodness only by
extraordinary circumstances. But the older wife in the attic who has gone
mad
and is hidden away can be 'reinterpreted' from a female perspective as
abandoned and then emotionally abused by the 'hero' who actually has to be
blinded in the end to become a decent man for Jane.
Shakespeare is full of 'cross dressing' but this has much to do with the
male
gender of all actors of the period and allowed the audience to giggle at the
confusion of having males playing females and then 'cross dressing; as
males.
It could also have something to do with Shakespeare's own bi-sexuality.
Hope this is not too long winded or off topic but I felt I had to respond.
Carmel

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Members of the Ir-D list will know that we prefer not to add to computer
virus hysteria by spreading alarm about computer viruses.

But in the last few days there has been a real increase in the number of
emails reaching us with computer virus attachments.

All of these have been spotted and destroyed by our systems here.

But there seems now to be sufficient evidence that some members of the
Irish-Diaspora list do have a computer virus in their computers - this is is
one of those viruses that send emails randomly to email addresses in your
address list, often with a copy of itself hidden in an email attachment.
So, we have received such emails at and at
my own personal email addresses.

No email attachment can get through the Irish-Diaspora list's gateways. And
the services we run mean that we must invest in computer virus protection.
We use Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/

There are a number of free virus checker programmes - see for example
http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Software/Anti_virus_freeware/

This one has been recommended
http://www.vcatch.com/

We would suggest that Ir-D members prevent annoyance and difficulty to
colleagues and check their computers for computer viruses.

P.O'S.

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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list
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Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Personal Fax National 0709 236 9050
Fax International +44 709 236 9050

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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University of Bradford
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Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following message has been forwarded to us...

"It is with deep regret that I must advise you that The World of Hibernia
has ceased publishing this week. This decision has been taken with great
reluctance and is primarily due to the economic downturn in Ireland and the
US, exacerbated by the terrorist attacks of 11 September.

I would like to thank you for your contributions and support during the term
of my editorship, in particular.

Best wishes

Sonya Perkins
Editor-in-Chief
The World of Hibernia"


NOTE

The World of Hibernia is/was the glossy, ad-filled publication - web site...
http://www.twoh.com/index.cfm

which always did have to tread a fine line between glossy ads and sensible
content. But there was sometimes good content - I recall, for example, an
intriguing article, WoH, Spring 1999 by Peter Quinn, 'Looking for Jimmy', on
the Irish-American male...

To be clear... This is NOT the fine scholarly, quarterly journal, New
Hibernia Review, edited by Thomas Dillon REdshaw
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nhr/

which is in good shape.

P.O'S.

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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Personal Fax National 0709 236 9050
Fax International +44 709 236 9050

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For Judy Yung see...
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/jaas/1.1br_yung.html

http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/97-98/03-16/yung.htm

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~ethnic/archives/logs/jan96/0108.html

If I happened to be in San Francisco, the eclairs might just lure me
there...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of Immigration & Ethnic History Society
From: Alan Kraut
Subject: IEHS Luncheon

Dear Colleagues,

The IEHS will hold its second annual American Historical Association
(AHA) meeting luncheon on Saturday, January 5, 2002, from 12:15 to 1:45
p.m. in the Union Square Rooms of the San Francisco Hilton Hotel.
There are still some places left. However, we must have your response by
December 5.

The luncheon speaker will be Professor Judy Yung, Professor of the
University of California, Santa Cruz well known for her volume, Unbound
Feet, A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco (1995). Her
topic will be "Unbound Voices: Chinese-American Women in San
Francisco." Professor Yung is an engaging speaker and I know you will
enjoy her presentation.

The luncheon menu includes a hot soup, salad, and a main course of cold
meats and cheeses, with breads, and a nice dessert of assorted eclairs,
fruit tarts, and brownies with plenty of coffee and tea. The cost is
$39.00, enabling us to meet within the main convention hotel. Details
about the luncheon also are posted on our IEHS website:
http://www.iehs.org

I ask that you respond electronically to this invitation as soon as
possible, to let us know if you are planning to attend. You may either
reply to me or forward your response to Diane Vecchio at
diane.vecchio[at]furman.edu. Next, please send Diane a check for $39.00 at
the address at the bottom of the message. This two-part process is the
fastest, most efficient way for us to have a head count as early as
possible for the hotel catering department. Again, we must have your
response by December 5th.

I look forward to your positive response, but I also will greatly
appreciate your letting me know if you are unable to attend and your
ideas for future IEHS meetings.


Alan Kraut
President














____________________________________________________________________

___ Yes, I will be able to attend the January 5 IEHS Luncheon
Please reserve ___ places

____ my check for $39.00 per person payable to IEHS will be mailed to:

Diane C. Vecchio, IEHS Treasurer

Department of History
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC 29613-0444
___ I will bring my check to the luncheon