From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

Gina Mahalek, Publicity Manager, UNC Press
P.O. Box 2288, Chapel Hill NC 27515-2288 (919)966-3561 ext. 234
fax: (919)-966-3829 e-mail: Gina_Mahalek[at]unc.edu
Shop The Perfect Sale: http://uncpress.unc.edu/sale/

THE IRISH IN THE SOUTH, 1815-1877
by David T. Gleeson
296 pp., 12 illus., 0-8078-2639-1, $45.00 hardcover, 0-8078-4968-5, $19.95
paperback
Publication date: November 26, 2001
For more information see: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-5078.html

Offering the first comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the
19th-century South, David T. Gleeson adds a long-overlooked chapter to the
story of the Irish in America, which has previously focused almost entirely
on the North. In The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 (University of North
Carolina Press) Gleeson discovers that ethnicity, like class, was an
important marker of difference among southern whites.

Focusing on antebellum southern towns and cities, Gleeson challenges the
prevailing view that the Irish were an insignificant minority and that they
only performed the work that was too dangerous for slaves. He argues that
Irish immigrants were not "victims," but rather played an active role in the
economic, social, religious, and political lives of their new home.

Although they never abandoned their ethnic identity, the Irish in the Old
South integrated into southern society. They sought to prove their loyalty
by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Unlike the Irish in
other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to become
southerners as well as Americans.

Using previously untapped collections of immigrant letters and diaries,
Gleeson¹s work captures not only the Irish experience in the South, but also
explains much about the South itself.

David T. Gleeson, a native of Ireland, is assistant professor of history at
Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia.

###

Contact Gina Mahalek for review copies/author interviews (919) 966-3561,
ext. 234
Fax (919) 966-3829 E-mail: Gina_Mahalek[at]unc.edu

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

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

Again this month we have new members who will wish to be aware of this
resource...

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

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

Username irdmember
Password bolton

That gets you into our RESTRICTED area.

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

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

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

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

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

Scholars who have been using the GUEST log-in will have to contact me
directly - because that password has also changed.

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

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

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Press release from the Irish Democrat...
Forwarded for information...

I think I need to add - since these are sensitive times - that the Irish
Democrat and the Connolly Association have long held (unsurprisingly)
Connolly-ite and/or Marxist views. You knew that. So do not be surprised
if you go to their web site and find such views expressed...

P.O'S.


PRESS RELEASE
(for immediate release)
01.12.01.

The oldest campaigning journal of the Irish in Britain
enters a new era on the world-wide web

The Irish Democrat, the bi-monthly journal of the Connolly Association,
today announced the launch of its website at www.irishdemocrat.co.uk

The Irish Democrat, which has been published continually since 1939, is
supportive of the current peace process and continues to campaign for a
united and independent Ireland and for the rights of the Irish in Britain.
In addition to including all the major news, feature and most of the regular
columns found in the printed version of the paper, the website edition will
also feature:


background information and brief histories of the Irish Democrat and the
Connolly Association
book and music catalogues of material stocked by the Four Provinces Bookshop
in London
full texts of pamphlets published by Connolly publications and others
links to other relevant websites

The website will be regularly maintained and, from time to time, include
articles unavailable in the printed version.

The site has been created using MKDoc software developed by Webarchitects,
the Sheffield-based web-design company. The company has gained a
well-deserved reputation for designing accessible and easily maintainable
web sites. MKDoc software enables sites to be constructed and maintained
using any web browser and only a small range of technical skills. For the
more technically-minded, websites produced with MKDoc also comply with the
British government?s e-Gif standards for interpretability ? mandatory for
public-sector bodies.

Until the launch of the Irish Post in 1970 the Irish Democrat was the only
newspaper published in Britain to address the needs and concerns of the
Irish community ? albeit from a left-wing perspective. Since then, changing
political circumstances, the publication of commercial Irish newspapers in
Britain and the ready availability in many parts of the country of
newspapers published in Ireland, have taken their toll on sales of the
printed version ? although, in recent years, the paper has again begun to
attract a steady flow of new readers from around the world.

This new website venture is the culmination of work carried out on the paper
since 1996, when the printed version was relaunched following a thorough
redesigned by the internationally-respected graphic designer Ian Denning, a
long-standing friend of the current editor David Granville.

?Unlike some websites with all-singing all-dancing graphics which take ages
to download and which cause problems for many less-sophisticated web
browsers, our site is content led, attractive, easy to navigate and highly
accessible - including to people with disabilities. We even have a facility
for translating material into Irish,? said David Granville.

?The website should not be seen as a piece of modish techno frippery but as
an essential tool for researchers, historians and all those interested in
continuing to campaign for a just and lasting settlement in Ireland. By
launching on the web we are aiming to ensure that a wider range of people
have access to the material and analysis to be found in the paper, which in
some ways, largely due to the prohibitive cost of commercial advertising for
voluntary operations such as ours, remains one of the best-kept secrets in
the field of progressive political journalism.?

For further details contact:
David Granville (editor) on tel 0114 2676156 or email
democrat[at]hardgran.demon.co.uk or visit the website at
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I thought it worth sharing this H-Albion review with the Ir-D list... Since
our past disussions have touched on the issues raised and since the 3
questions helpfully posed by the reviewer Robert Shoemaker are certainly
around in the study of Irish history and in Irish Diaspora Studies...

P.O'S.


H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (November, 2001)

Peter King. _Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England
1740-1820_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii + 383
pp. Tables, maps, figures, notes, index. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-19-822910-0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Robert Shoemaker
, Department of History, University of
Sheffield

Cracking the Case: Crime, Justice, and Class in
Eighteenth-Century England

Three debates were central to the "crime wave," the explosion of
interest in the history of crime, justice and punishment which
commenced twenty-five years ago, and primarily but not
exclusively focused on the eighteenth century. The first,
stimulated by Douglas Hay's provocative article, "Property,
authority and the criminal law" (1975), centered around the
question of whether the administration of criminal justice
served as an instrument of class rule. The second, the flip
side of the first, concerned the extent to which criminality was
a form of social protest. The third, arising out of
social-scientific as well as Marxist perspectives, concerned the
extent to which recorded patterns of indicted crime reflected
the number and types of crime actually committed. Peter King
has been researching and writing about these issues ever since,
publishing occasional articles but saving the monograph until
his careful and patient researches were completed. The result
is very much worth the wait, for even if it could be argued that
historiographically the debates have moved on, the difficulty of
the original questions posed and the impenetrability of the
sources required to answer them meant that only painstaking
analysis of the sort King has done could provide compelling
answers.

King's focus is on the most common serious crime, theft, or
"property appropriation," as it was prosecuted in the courts in
Essex (though material from other parts of the country,
particularly the Home Circuit Assizes, is also included). Essex
experienced many of the dramatic social changes of the period,
notably urbanization on its southwest border with London and an
increase in social differentiation in its increasingly
prosperous agricultural areas. The period 1740 to 1820, which
King calls "the golden age of discretionary justice in England,"
witnessed both growing concern about crime and evolutionary
changes in judicial procedures, before many aspects of
discretion were curtailed by criminal law and police reform.
King's concern is to examine how decisions were made, at every
stage of the judicial process from the moment a crime was
committed to the administration of formal penal sanctions, by
looking at the legal, social, and cultural constraints which
shaped the behaviour of all the participants. His approach is
essentially social scientific, though there is some attention to
"discursive frameworks."

The central argument, that the entire judicial system was
permeated by discretion, is not by itself surprising, though
this point has never before been so extensively documented.
Through detailed analysis of the pre-trial conduct of victims,
parish officers, and magistrates, King shows how many offences
went unprosecuted, and how many more prosecutions were dropped
before a trial could take place, in spite of the legal
prohibition on arriving at informal settlements in cases of
felony. In doing so, King provides a convincing answer to the
third of those questions posed during the "crime wave." Any
argument that the number of thefts indicted can be correlated
with levels of economic deprivation and therefore the number of
crimes actually committed will have to come to terms with King's
argument that if only one in every ten crimes committed was
actually prosecuted (and he convincingly suggests that the
proportion may well have been considerably lower), "this would
have meant that indictment levels were ten times as sensitive to
changes in the proportion of victims who chose to prosecute than
they were to changes in the absolute level of offences being
committed" (p. 12). He then goes on to provide considerable
evidence of likely changes in the propensity to prosecute
induced by "moral panics" caused by fears raised by dearth and
the demobilization of soldiers at the conclusions of wars. Most
dramatically, he shows that, induced by alarmist newspaper
reporting in 1782-83 of an expected crime wave following the
impending peace, victims began initiating formal prosecutions in
greater numbers _before_ the troops came home. In fact, careful
statistical analysis shows that only in "a handful of years of
extreme dearth or massive demobilization" (p. 166) can any
correlation be shown between the number of thefts prosecuted and
levels of economic hardship. Conversely, the argument that
wartime prosecutions were lower because fewer crimes were
committed owing to improved employment prospects is undermined
by evidence of "substantial" pre-trial enlistment of suspected
thieves into the armed forces and of the use of military courts
for offences committed by soldiers. The prospect of using
indictment levels to infer levels of actual criminality, which
has long been doubtful, has become even more remote.

Given that there were so many opportunities for discretion in
the operation of the judicial system, not only in the pre-trial
phase but also in the conduct of trials and in sentencing and
pardoning procedures, the question of whether this allowed the
judicial system to be used as a method of class rule becomes
increasingly important, and here King's response is more
complicated. On the one hand, in a hierarchical society marked
by extreme inequalities, it is hardly surprising that the poor
faced considerable obstacles both in initiating prosecutions,
and in achieving justice if they were accused. The costs
involved in detecting offenders, initiating prosecutions and
defending against them, as well as social preconceptions about
the nature of criminality, worked against the unpropertied. On
the other hand, the fact that judicial decisions were shaped by
the idea that it was young, mobile men who constituted the
greatest criminal threat meant that "those most likely to be
prosecuted were not necessarily those who were experiencing the
most acute poverty or distress" (p. 217). Moreover, King
provides compelling evidence that the judicial system placed "a
tremendous breadth of discretionary power in the hands of
non-elite groups" (p. 357), including the laboring poor, who,
helped by the low cost of summary justice and considerable
provision for reimbursing expenses, initiated a surprising
number of prosecutions. If the interests of any class were
particularly furthered by the judicial system, it was those
recent favorites of eighteenth-century historians, the middle
class. It was farmers, artisans, and tradesmen who exercised
the most discretionary power in their roles as potential
prosecutors, parish officers, character witnesses, jurors, and
petitioners who sought to influence pardoning decisions.
Although, on the few occasions when they pulled their weight,
the aristocracy usually got their way, the gentry were no more
likely to succeed than their middling inferiors. But, King
argues, the fact that almost everyone could use the courts for
their own instrumental purposes does not mean that there was
widespread belief in the legitimacy of the law, nor that the
judicial system can be seen as a key force which reinforced the
cultural hegemony of the elite. As a brief but insightful
analysis of the impact of courtroom rituals and public
punishments on their audiences suggests, the way the law was
conducted did not necessarily increase popular respect for it.

With his extensive research and carefully calibrated
conclusions, I would argue that King has taken this debate, and
the debate over counting crime, just about as far as it can go.
Where do we go from here? Arguably historians, alerted by new
sources and methodologies and by more sophisticated
understandings of social relations, need to return to the study
of crime itself. The question of whether crime was a form of
social protest was perhaps too simplistically posed, but, as
King's work on gleaning suggests, judicial records provide
valuable evidence about day-to-day lives and conflicts which has
not yet been adequately exploited. One type of crime that is
highlighted, but insufficiently analyzed, in this book (owing to
the fact it requires analysis of very different types of
evidence), is the whole range of illegal fraudulent practices
that could be termed the property appropriations of the rich.
Not only do such offences provide valuable evidence concerning
trading practices, but their prosecution in the civil courts
provides further evidence of uses of discretion within the legal
system. Finally, building on the evidence provided here
concerning the role played by ideas about criminality in shaping
discretionary decision-making, we need to examine
eighteenth-century writings about crime more closely, in order
to resolve the apparent contradiction between widespread popular
sympathy for the accused and the periodic "moral panics" which
resulted in prosecutions by similar sorts of people. This
impressive book thus raises as many significant questions as it
answers.

Copyright 2001 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits the
redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From P.OSullivan[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Book Announced: Gleeson, Irish in the South

Note that I have displayed the University of North Carolina Press press
release about David Gleeson's book on my subsidiary web site...
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net
under Notices.

P.O'S.

>
> THE IRISH IN THE SOUTH, 1815-1877
> by David T. Gleeson
> 296 pp., 12 illus., 0-8078-2639-1, $45.00 hardcover, 0-8078-4968-5, $19.95
> paperback
> Publication date: November 26, 2001
> For more information see: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-5078.html
>
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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England

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Book Announced: Gleeson, Irish in the South

Thanks so much for this Paddy. This sounds like a very interesting study
and
will fit into nineteenth century Irish history very well. Even a reading of
Faulkner always suggested that there was more to the Irish influence in the
south that previously credited. I am sending for a copy of this and will
let
you know how it reads to me.
Carmel

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

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> THE IRISH IN THE SOUTH, 1815-1877
> by David T. Gleeson
> 296 pp., 12 illus., 0-8078-2639-1, $45.00 hardcover, 0-8078-4968-5, $19.95
> paperback
> Publication date: November 26, 2001
> For more information see: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-5078.html
>

From: "Padraic"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Site: Irish Democrat

Dear Patrick,

I was interested to see your "PG" guidance for the Connolly Association
site.

Two things come to mind: firstly, many of the leading figures in the
Diaspora have been socialists, as indeed have the "ordinary" people - Fergus
O'Brien, James Connolly and Brendan Behan to name but 3: secondly, many of
the post war emigrants left not just for economic reasons but also because
of the narrow, red-baiting, clerical reaction which blanketed the whole
island from the 1930's to the 1970's, and for which Roy Foster and his
revisionist colleagues blame the narrow, reactionary nationalism of Fianna
Fail.

It would be a shame if the "Disapora" were to preserve electronically
exactly that intolerance.

Cordially,

Padraic Finn


- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:00 AM
Subject: Ir-D Web Site: Irish Democrat


>
>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Press release from the Irish Democrat...
> Forwarded for information...
>
> I think I need to add - since these are sensitive times - that the Irish
> Democrat and the Connolly Association have long held (unsurprisingly)
> Connolly-ite and/or Marxist views. You knew that. So do not be surprised
> if you go to their web site and find such views expressed...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> (for immediate release)
> 01.12.01.
>
> The oldest campaigning journal of the Irish in Britain
> enters a new era on the world-wide web
>
> The Irish Democrat, the bi-monthly journal of the Connolly Association,
> today announced the launch of its website at www.irishdemocrat.co.uk
>

From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Nuns and Priests in Britain 1900-1999

Dear Jessica

you may be interested in the following:

Elizabeth Prout,1820-1864:A religious life in
industrial England
author is Edna Hamer also known as Sister Dominic
Savio, OP
The publisher is Downside Press,1994,Sr Dominic is a
member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion.The ISBN
No. is 1-8998663-01-7
Best wishes

Frank Neal

From: Don MacRaild
Subject: RE: Ir-D Nuns and Priests in Britain 1900-1999



Just a quick aside on priests ... will failed priest-trainees do? Peter
Donnelly, Yellow Rock, is a superb autobiography of a young man of Irish
extraction who fails to stay the course at Ushaw College, Durham (a priest
training seminary, for those who don't know). Might be worth a look.

Don MacRaild

> -----Original Message-----
> From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 6:00 AM
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> Subject: Ir-D Nuns and Priests in Britain 1900-1999
>
>
>
> From: Jessica March
> Subject: Nuns and Priests in Britain 1900-1999
>
> Hello Paddy,
>
> I hope this finds you well. As you know, I am in the very early stages of
> my DPhil, the focus of which is broadly defined as the writings of the
> Irish in Britain - 1900-1999. I am particularly keen to identify
> published and unpublished journals, autobiographies, novels and short
> stories by Irish Nuns and Priests living and writing in Britain during
> this
> period. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be very
> grateful.
>
> I would also be delighted to make contact with any fellow research
> students
> on the Ir-D list who are working in this field.
>
> Yours ever,
>
> Jessica March
>
>
> St John's College
> Oxford
> OX1 3JP
>
> jessicamarch[at]sjc.ox.ac.uk

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 3

'Mise' is the emphatic form of 'me'. I just wrote 'mise fein' but could
also
have written 'me fein.' My mother in law from the Mayo Gaeltacht usually
used
the emphatic!
Carmel

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

> From: Ultan Cowley
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 2
> I
>
> I seem to recall the term, 'myself', being represented in Irish as 'me
> fein' (with a fada over the e) when I was learning Irish in school - but
> that phase ended in 1964, so I'm more than a little rusty...
>
> Ultan
>

From: Ultan Cowley
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 2
I



I seem to recall the term, 'myself', being represented in Irish as 'me
fein' (with a fada over the e) when I was learning Irish in school - but
that phase ended in 1964, so I'm more than a little rusty...

Ultan


At 06:00 03/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
>From: McCaffrey
>Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein
>
>I am not sure if you are aware that sinn fein as it occurs in the Irish
>language is a fairly common expression as is mise fein [myself]. So seeing
>it used in older documents would not mean that it necessarily had any
>heavyweight political connotation. However, used with capital letters it
>becomes the political party formed in the early twentieth century. So is
>the
>reference you are referring to a capitalised version of the words or simply
>the use of these words? If the latter it could mean very little at all and
>would be found with some frequency prior to the formation of the political
>party.
>Carmel
>

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein

I am not sure if you are aware that sinn fein as it occurs in the Irish
language is a fairly common expression as is mise fein [myself]. So seeing
it used in older documents would not mean that it necessarily had any
heavyweight political connotation. However, used with capital letters it
becomes the political party formed in the early twentieth century. So is
the
reference you are referring to a capitalised version of the words or simply
the use of these words? If the latter it could mean very little at all and
would be found with some frequency prior to the formation of the political
party.
Carmel

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

> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
> Subject: Re: Sinn Féin
>
> Once more I turn to the Diaspora for some help in my
> research. I'm dealing with the term Sinn Féin at the
> moment (its occurrence in Australian poetry in 1848).
> I believe that it first occurred in 'The Spirit of the
> Nation'(1843 in a poem by Thomas Davis entitled
> 'Ourselves Alone'. My questions are: did the Irish
> words Sinn Féin occur in that poem? and was this the
> first printed use of the term?
>
> Dymphna Lonergan
> Flinders University of South Australia
>

From: Jessica March
Subject: Nuns and Priests in Britain 1900-1999

Hello Paddy,

I hope this finds you well. As you know, I am in the very early stages of
my DPhil, the focus of which is broadly defined as ?the writings of the
Irish in Britain - 1900-1999?. I am particularly keen to identify
published and unpublished journals, autobiographies, novels and short
stories by Irish Nuns and Priests living and writing in Britain during this
period. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be very
grateful.

I would also be delighted to make contact with any fellow research students
on the Ir-D list who are working in this field.

Yours ever,

Jessica March


St John's College
Oxford
OX1 3JP

jessicamarch[at]sjc.ox.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

St Patrick's College
Drumcondra
Dublin
Irish Research Seminar
12-13 April 2002

St Patrick's College inaugural Irish Research Seminar will host discussion
on
new directions in Irish Studies before graduate students, faculty and the
interested public. The Seminar organisers are pleased to announce the
following outstanding programme.

Dr Garret Fitzgerald - Social and economic aspects of education
Professor Margaret Jacob (UCLA) - History and national identity
Professor Declan Kiberd (UCD) - Current cultural debate in Ireland
Professor Máirín ní Dhonnchadha (NUIG) - The Irish tradition and English
literature
Dr Joe Clery (NUIM) - Irish colonial/postcolonial studies


Free Registration. Full programme to follow. Supported by the Research
Committee, St Patrick's College and the University of Notre Dame-Keough
Centre, Newman House, Dublin, in association with the Students' Union, St
Patrick's College. Contact Seminar organisers

Dr Nicholas Allen, English Department, Trinity College Dublin,
allenn[at]tcd.ie

Dr Mary Shine Thompson, English Department, St Patrick's College,
mary.thompson[at]spd.ie

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From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Site: Irish Democrat 2

This raises the question of the extent to which the Diaspora, at large,
has been consistently (or even inconsistently) socialist in its collective
politics or has it always been more "liberal democratic" within a decidedly
capitalist context? At least in the US the Diaspora is best described, I
think, in this latter way and has been-- increasingly -- conservative on
social policy issues for the last few decades, quite independent of Irish
political leanings?

William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Associate Professor of History
Murray State University


- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk
Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk


From: "Padraic"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Site: Irish Democrat

Dear Patrick,

I was interested to see your "PG" guidance for the Connolly Association
site.

Two things come to mind: firstly, many of the leading figures in the
Diaspora have been socialists, as indeed have the "ordinary" people - Fergus
O'Brien, James Connolly and Brendan Behan to name but 3: secondly, many of
the post war emigrants left not just for economic reasons but also because
of the narrow, red-baiting, clerical reaction which blanketed the whole
island from the 1930's to the 1970's, and for which Roy Foster and his
revisionist colleagues blame the narrow, reactionary nationalism of Fianna
Fail.

It would be a shame if the "Disapora" were to preserve electronically
exactly that intolerance.

Cordially,

Padraic Finn

From: Peter Gray
Subject: EPPI project

I'm pleased to say that the AHRB (Arts and Humanities
Research Board, the UK's main source of Arts research
grants) has been particularly generous to Irish studies in
its 2001 resource enhancement competition.

A team at Southampton University have been awarded a large
3-year grant to develop EPPI: Enhanced British
Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801-1922. Over the next
three years we will be digitizing the entire run of
Ireland-related 'Blue Books' for this period (some 13,700
documents), creating an electronic catalogue, and making
the full texts (searchable with OCR software) available
over the web. Additional materials (including
some emigration reports) will also be digitized under the
parallel BOPCRIS project. We hope that making this massive
resource for the study of Irish history and culture
universally available and searchable, further and
innovative research (and teaching) projects will be
promoted.

There are more details at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pg2/EPPI.htm

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Dr Peter Gray
Senior Lecturer
Department of History
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
Email: pg2[at]soton.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pg2/index.html

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Sinn Féin

Once more I turn to the Diaspora for some help in my
research. I'm dealing with the term Sinn Féin at the
moment (its occurrence in Australian poetry in 1848).
I believe that it first occurred in 'The Spirit of the
Nation'(1843 in a poem by Thomas Davis entitled
'Ourselves Alone'. My questions are: did the Irish
words Sinn Féin occur in that poem? and was this the
first printed use of the term?

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

[Moderator's Note:
Of course, if I pass this on with Dymphna's Subject line, Sinn Féin, that
would mean that no one in Boston College would receive it - because BC's
email system rejects non-ASCII characters. Boston exceptionalism...
P.O'S.]

From: Ultan Cowley
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 4

Apropos of the original query regarding the historical usage and symbolism
of the term, 'sinn fein', it is interesting that both Fianna Fail and Sinn
Fein claim to represent the Republican political tradition in modern
Ireland.

One could argue the merits of these claims, but this is not the place; I
cannot however resist the temptation presented by these linguistic IR-D
List exhanges to suggest that, in the spectrum of contemporary Irish
politics, 'Sinn Feiners' are campaigning against 'me feiners' for the
hearts and minds of the people!

Ultan

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: prints

http://shop.auctionwatch.com/picturebnk/store.html

is an art dealer selling prints re Irish politics; his catalog is
online and the JPG illustrations are very good
and are out of copyright (click twice on picture to enlarge;
right click on mouse to save)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

Subject: Inro[at]ds call for submissions

December 2, 2001

Dear friends and colleagues,
Please pass the following call for submissions along to faculty and
students who might be interested. This may also be posted in departmental
newsletters, listserves, and other places of interest to those involved
with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and migration.

Thank You,
Kara Meade and Heather Akou
co-editor, Inro[at]ds
www.inroads.umn.edu

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The on-line journal Inro[at]ds: graduate journal of gender, race, ethnicity,
and migration is accepting submissions for review for publication in its
Spring 2002 issue. This exciting new journal welcomes creative scholarly
work that examines issues of migration in concert with gender, race,
ethnicity, and other social and historical forces. We encourage a variety
of disciplinary approaches and communicative mediums, including projects
that use visual and/or audio material, incorporating the capabilities of
online publication. Written articles should be no more than 10,000 words in
length. In addition, we welcome short pieces of 1000-2000 words: book and
film reviews, reflections on fieldwork, teaching ideas and exercises. All
submissions must include an abstract of no more than 200 words.

Deadline for all submissions for the Spring 2002 issue is January 31, 2002.
Visit the journal at www.inroads.umn.edu to send your submission, or send
as an attachment to inroads[at]umn.edu. Electronic submissions are preferred
in MSWord for written pieces. Please contact Inro[at]ds for submission
criteria for audio or visual materials.
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