From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

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

Dear Colleagues,

I have pleasure in informing you that the December edition of THE OSCHOLARS
can now be found through its home page at

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

As always, criticisms and suggestions are welcome, as well as reports of
errors or links that do not function. Nor do I mind praise.

Do please continue to send me your news.

I regret that I have fallen behind in preparing a text version of the
November edition for those of you who prefer to receive THE OSCHOLARS as an
attachment. I hope that will be put right in the approaching vacation.

Material for the January edition is being assembled, but it may be
published slightly late as I cope with office closure and seasonal
over-indulgence.

Finally, may I thank all of you for your loyal support? I have only lost
two readers, and only because their e-mail addresses no longer function.

With every good wish for such festive temptations that you yourselves
combat by not resisting and for a productive oscholarly 2002,

Very sincerely yours,

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Jessica,

If you have not done so already it would be worth your browsing the web site
of
the Catholic Record Society
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/

and following up any leads through personal contact.

You will see that they list there now the Contents of back numbers of their
excellent journal

Recusant History
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/rechist.htm

Recusant History tends to me more interested in the earlier period, rather
than your C20th period. But there is the occasional item that strays into
your period.

Further, it would be worth your browsing through the actual printed copies
of Recusant History, because you get in them occasional notices and
'Newsletter' material that might suggest leads. The CRS attempts to keep
track on all research into the history of Catholics in the British
archipelago.

P.O'S.


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




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: Paddy Walls
WallsAMP[at]aol.com

SF/sf
The discussion on Sinn Fein/sinn fein seems to have veered a little off
course. Carmel is right in that sinn fein is, not just was, a common form of
'ourselves' , similar in form to me fein, tu fein, mise fein, etc
etc....this meaning of 'fein' obviously refers to self/selves, to state the
obvious....other connected meanings can reflect ownership, for example...mo
sceal fein (my own story). In the context of the original query therefore
sinn fein is still commonly used, and presumably Sinn Fein chose this as the
name for their party to reflect their desire to (self) determine their own
futures free from outside (British) interference, therefore was an apt
choosing...although common assumptions that it means 'ourselves alone'
literally in Irish are wrong....it more literally means 'us
ourselves/ourselves' but connotes a grander ideal of Irish national
self-determination. Getting into discussions of what Sinn Fein means in
relation to sinn fein are possibly not going anywhere as Sinn Fein, the
party now, means more than sinn fein, whilst leaving the everyday sinn fein
alone. Although I said that the assumption that Sinn Fein means ourselves
alone is wrong, it is only wrong in lower case. All this reminds me of some
young N Irish novelist who parodied (obviously Sinn Fein) as the Just Us
party with Jimmy Eve as their current leader......very funny indeed, but in
the context of its creation the name Sinn Fein was about going it alone,
doing it for ourselves, rather than the reading of introvertedness which
might be read today if the party were just newly created. Hence, Sinn Fein's
name has some links to language but needs linking too to the political
context of its emergence as a party name. And I presume therefore that like
pop groups, the name only emerged when the party did, not decades
before....but I could be wrong. Could I? The poetry reference sounds like a
red herring. Perhaps a change of name is in order...how popular would Linn
Fein Fein be? This means All By Our Very Selves.....no doubt have done
nothing to bring this discussion back on course....

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I thought that Sheridan Gilley's many admirers on the Ir-D list would like
to see this review, from the Reviews in History site...

And of course the review touches on many of our themes...

The Author's Response follows Sheridan's text...

P.O'S.


>
>
>Reviews in History
>
>The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding secularisation 1800-2000
>
>Callum G. Brown
>
>Routledge, London and New York, 2001, ISBN 0-415-24184-7
>
>Reviewed by: Sheridan Gilley
>University of Durham
>
>Despite a certain academic heaviness, with no fewer than fifty-seven pages
>of notes, bibliography and index, and despite an occasionally disagreeable
>academic vocabulary, of which more anon, this book has a pleasantly simple
>knock-down argument, that Christianity in Britain enjoyed a long
>nineteenth century of prosperity, between 1800 and 1960, and only began to
>go into terminal decline in the early 1960s. Indeed the first page
>declares that this happened `really quite suddenly in 1963', irresistibly
>suggesting the famous verse by Philip Larkin: Sexual intercourse began In
>nineteen sixty-three . Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the
>Beatles' first LP.
>
>Brown's thesis is directed partly against Christian optimists, especially
>of the liberal kind, who consider recent social and religious change as
>being for the good of Christianity. It also, however, has as its target
>the historians and sociologists who believe that the decay of Christianity
>in Britain has a much longer history, going back to the eighteenth or
>nineteenth century, and that the recent movement towards secularity has
>merely been its acceleration. Brown conceives the nineteenth and the
>first half of the twentieth century, 1800-1960, as the era of an ascendant
>puritan Protestant Evangelicalism, stronger among women than among men.
>Secularisation consists in good part in the abandonment by women of these
>religious values, but it is a secularisation that is no older than the
>contraceptive pill.
>
>Brown derives the idea of secularisation from the collection and study of
>religious statistics by Evangelical movements and individuals like the
>early Methodists and Thomas Chalmers. The figures which they assembled of
>converts and church members created `the myth of the unholy city' which
>was taken up by Marxists, sociologists and historians as the history of
>secularisation. Statistical enquiry, however, dispenses with large areas
>of religion which are not simply quantifiable. Brown sets out instead the
>idea of a `discursive Christianity' or `Christian discourse' which defined
>the `protocols' of ordinary personal belief and behaviour in terms of the
>Protestant conversionism of Evangelical Christianity, and which determined
>the ordinary Briton's definition of the self and its history. This makes
>much of Brown's work read as an account of the rise and decline of
>Evangelicalism, not as an ecclesiastical movement but as a body of
>opinions and attitudes, which were reflected and expressed in popular
>literature and oral testimony about the detail of ordinary lives and about
>how religion helped or failed to make sense of them.
>
>This is the great delight of the book, its pleasure in the riches of the
>literature of propaganda and personal testimony about the role of
>religion. The chief characteristic of this literature was that women were
>regarded as innately pious, and men as naturally irreligious. Men were
>inclined to drunkenness, smoking, gambling, lust and sport on Sundays, so
>that religion itself was a profoundly gendered thing, recommending the
>female values and virtues of chastity, modesty, temperance, sobriety,
>thrift, Sabbath observance and good house keeping to a partly or mostly
>anarchic male population. Even in its decline between the wars, when an
>explicitly female religiosity was transformed into a more secular
>domesticity as a `cult of contentment', there was still a Christian
>discipline required of women. In the era before 1960, this `discourse' was
>dominant far beyond the world of militant or conventional churchgoers.
>Brown's conclusion is that the term secularisation should be ditched to
>describe the period until 1960, because the general `discourse' of
>Britain, the ideological system in terms of which women made sense of
>themselves, and through them, the `discourse' of a great many men, was
>still a Christian one.
>
>It is one of the artless elements of the book that Brown sets out the
>materials for an older, alternative view, which saw secularisation in
>terms of urbanisation or social class. Yet the easy judgement that
>religious behaviour was a bourgeois rather than a proletarian matter, or a
>rural rather than a city one, breaks down upon a closer analysis of
>ecclesiastical statistics. Recent study indicates a much higher level of
>urban working class participation in religious institutions than has
>hitherto been suspected, a majority of churchgoers being working class
>between 1800 and the 1960s, even if these were mostly from the skilled
>working class or were women. Statistics for church membership in Britain
>peaked in 1904-1905, but those for the later high level of 1959 were not
>far below them, and the 1940s and early 1950s actually witnessed a major
>church revival.
>
>Church attendance fell more sharply than church membership or affiliation
>in the first half of the twentieth century, but Brown is striving to show
>that in the end, the hegemony of an idea is not simply demonstrable by
>statistics, but exists in the form of a more intangible ethos and
>atmosphere, and is no less real for all that. In his view, secularisation
>is chiefly a matter of the transformation of the mores of women, and that
>suggests that the changes of the 1960s were more of degree than of kind;
>or perhaps, were of so great a degree that they constituted a degree of
>kind.
>
>I would subscribe to the latter version of Brown's thesis. This sort of
>change had been seen before, but it was on a new scale, and it happened
>now to the female population who had been most affected by religion in
>general and who constituted the mass of churchgoers.
>
>There is a nice paradox about Brown's argument. A conventional feminist
>might regard the Churches, which were nearly all led and conducted by men,
>as an instrument of control of passive and virtuous women. There are some
>hints of this in what Brown writes about feminine domesticity, but
>generally, he regards the Evangelical ethic as the means by which women
>feminised the general culture and tried to curb male vice. There is,
>however, a considerable lacuna in his work, in that Catholics are treated
>simply as a species of conversionist Protestants, which would have
>astonished both Protestants and Catholics. In fact, practising Catholics
>rather better exemplify some of Brown's themes than practising
>Protestants: they were predominantly working class and female, and their
>Church continued to grow until the late 1950s. Again, there seems to me
>to be little attempt to relate these changes to the wider breakdown in the
>stable communities which had been gradually civilised and christianised
>after the Industrial Revolution, and which began to disappear with the
>Blitz and the post-war reconstruction and dispersal of working class
>neighbourhoods, and then the marginalisation and decline of heavy
>industry, while in a work which depends so much upon understanding women,
>there is no entry in the Index for contraception.
>
>In spite of my irritation with Brown's highfalutin' language of
>`discourses' and `discursiveness', which could be put in simpler English,
>this is one of the most entertaining, moving and stimulating works which I
>have read upon its subject, modern British Christianity. It has the ring
>of authenticity to me, coinciding, as its author also says about himself,
>with my own memories of the world I knew when I was young.
>
>December 2001
>
>
>Anne Shepherd - Deputy Editor
>"Reviews in History"
>Institute of Historical Research
>Senate House
>Malet Street
>London WC1E 7HU
>
>Tel (Direct): 020-7862-8787
>email: ashepher[at]ihr.sas.ac.uk
>
>
>SEE "Reviews in History":
>http://www.history.ac.uk
>

>Reviews in History
>
>The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding secularisation 1800-2000
>
>Callum G. Brown
>
>Routledge, London and New York, 2001, ISBN 0-415-24184-7
>
>Reviewed by: Sheridan Gilley
>University of Durham
>
>Author's Response: Callum Brown
>
>Sheridan Gilley is generous to a fault in reviewing a book, which many
>Christians find contentious. At the same time, I have been nervous of
>historians' reactions to my proposal to change the ways in which we should
>"see" religion in the recent past. I am gratified beyond measure that he
>sees what I think he is describing as the humanity in it, as so much
>postmodern history is being treated by the historical establishment as
>amoral relativism. I tried to show that good postmodern history should
>pivot representation around experience - the oral and autobiographical
>material lying at the book's heart. I am so glad he found it "moving".
>
>But he is also mostly right on a number of criticisms. First, I really
>should have made mention of the contraceptive pill. There were two
>paragraphs on this in my penultimate draft which got unaccountably cut
>from the final version when I was reworking order and cutting words. That
>was a big mistake.
>
>Second, it is probably fair game to criticise me "in that Catholics are
>treated simply as a species of conversionist Protestants", and he is not
>the first Catholic-responsive reviewer to have a go on these grounds.
>However, in my defence I call firstly upon Mary Heimann's well-received
>Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (1995) that has emphasised the
>parallels rather than the contrasts between Catholic and Protestant (and
>which I suspect can be taken further), and secondly upon the experience
>recounted by oral respondents and autobiographers between the 1880s and
>1940s (some quoted in the book) that shows they attended services of both
>Catholic and Protestant churches with regularity and "without
>discrimination" (the words of one woman from Glasgow). This was something
>perhaps lost in the 1950s and 1960s. I believe profoundly that "official"
>history over-emphasises ecclesiastical separation, whilst the people's
>history posits a common Christian experience underlying the period of
>Christian cultural dominance from 1800 to 1950. There is a different
>narrative of religious history still to be written down. Sarah William's
>work on folk religion in mid-twentieth century London is one element of
>that, whilst Elizabeth Robert's extensive interview work on women's
>churching rituals is another. Such things crossed church boundaries. I
>tried also to contribute to this "other" narrative.
>
>And thirdly, Sheridan is right to criticise highfalutin language. But this
>is a real corker of a problem that postmodernist history has still to
>crack. A discourse is a discourse, and there is really no substitute word
>for it. However, we probably forget how the same criticisms were levelled
>at left-wing social historians a couple of generations ago. Theirs is the
>language we all still use now, and the one we are trying to become
>reflexive about. Perhaps a discourse will not be highfalutin for much
>longer. Just give it time and it'll trip off the tongue and be a baby's
>first words.
>
>Where I disagree with Sheridan is in his criticism that I should have
>considered wider breakdown of stable communities, the Blitz, decline of
>heavy industry and so on in relation to secularisation. My reason for
>disagreement is that these are the items of the traditional narrative of
>religious social history, and I tried to show in the book (as Sheridan
>explains) that this narrative is the product of secularisation theory and
>is essentially useless for explaining the timing or causes of
>secularisation (just as gender historians have shown that this narrative
>of events does not explain fundamental change in gender history). I seek
>to place the category of gender at the forefront of understanding
>religious change in the last 200 years (and very probably for the last
>millennium). Certainly I think that for over 50 years the category of
>social class (and the physical environment which strongly underlies much
>conceptualising of it) has been a red herring in historical analysis of
>religious change in Britain (and probably Europe and the USA). My book is
>an attempt, whether successful or not, to fundamentally move the social
>history of religion into a postmodernist framework of understanding and a
>postmodernist system of analysis. In this, gender is not just an
>interesting add-on, but the root for understanding both long- and
>short-term change to Christian religion. The fact that "the unconverted"
>may find the book has stimulation and a ring of authenticity is highly
>satisfying. However, I will continue to strive harder.
>
>December 2001
>
>
>
>Anne Shepherd - Deputy Editor
>"Reviews in History"
>Institute of Historical Research
>Senate House
>Malet Street
>London WC1E 7HU
>
>Tel (Direct): 020-7862-8787
>email: ashepher[at]ihr.sas.ac.uk
>
>
>SEE "Reviews in History":
>http://www.history.ac.uk
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:48:15 +0000
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Dear friend,
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The advantage of the new system is that it will allow you to send messages
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From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 5

From: Patrick Maume
The implication of Davis's poem "Ourselves Alone" is to argue that
nationalists should not ally with British parties in the hope of
achieving their aims (as O'Connell did in the 1830s) but should defy
the whole British political system and rely on the threat of force.
Griffith's Sinn Fein adopted the title at least in part for the same
reason - as a criticism of the Irish Parliamentary party's belief that
self-government could be gained through co-operation with the
Liberals.
I believe that a Wexford Young Ireland poet called Furlong was the
first to use the Irish version of the slogan, "Sinn Fein" in the
1840s. There is a recent Furlong biography - unfortunately I can't
remember the author's name. The Australian example cited may derive
from Furlong.
In his recent book THE RESURRECTION OF IRELAND Michael Laffan
mentions a nationalist pantomime called "Sinn Fein" being published
in Dublin in the early 1880s in conjunction with a National Industrial
Exhibition.
Douglas Hyde published an Irish-language poem in 1896 rebuking those
who hoped that an Anglo-American war would liberate Ireland, declaring
that those who looked for foreign aid had never got anywhere and the
only recourse lay in "sinn fein amhain". I believe the slogan "sinn
fein amhain" was used by the Gaelic League in its early years.
Incidentally this is the source of the constant argument about whther
"Sinn Fein" means "ourselves alone" or "ourselves". The title was
devised at a time when "ourselves alone" was already a popular slogan,
and it continued to be used as the English-language equivalent of
"Sinn fein" even when "amhain" had been dropped from the
Irish-language version.
As for our present electoral contest between Sinn Feiners and Me
Feiners, I seem to remember that some years ago there was an electoral
contest in Louisiana between a notoriously corrupt politician and a
neo-nazi. A popular bumper sticker read "Vote for the crook - it's
important".
Best wishes,
Patrick

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Peter,

My congratulations to you and the team at Southampton - these AHRB
applications are difficult to manage. This is a great achievement and will
be a wonderful resource...

I speak here as someone who has spent another miserable day at the
University of Leeds - the nearest full run of Hansard to my home. A
miserable day waiting to use the Index volumes, hunting down the individual
volumes, and queuing for the one photocopier that was not broken...

Why I am NOT an archive researcher...

P.O'S.

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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

----------------------
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: Ir-D Sinn Fein 3

My reference is an Australian poem written in 1848
with the title 'Saint Patrick's Day' and the sub-title
(Fean Shin-Fean). Because the phrase sinn féin is used
in the title I believe it to be of significance rather
than meaning 'little'. The phrase is also used in the
refrain. Neither do I believe that it is simply a
plural equivalent to mé féin. The use of Irish
language words and phrases in English texts is always
significant. It is a deliberate choice by the author.
What I am trying to establish is whether the phrase
sinn féin had political currency before it became the
name of a political party. The uses I have seen appear
to be that of a rallying cry.

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Advance Notice: Forthcoming Book...

Forwarded on behalf of Cork University Press...
Contact Point
http://www.ucc.ie/corkunip/

[Note: There is as yet no mention of Roger Swift's new book on the Cork
University Press web site - though it is listed in the new Cork University
Press printed catalogue...]


Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815?1914:
A Documentary History

By Roger Swift

An edited collection of documents relating to the Irish experience in
Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Published April 2002
1 85918 236 4 ?57.25/£45.09
1 85918 237 2 ?22.95/£18.07
234 x 156mm, 360pp

Market: Academic and Undergraduate

Subject Classification: Irish History

Key Features:

· Reproduces critical documents relating to Irish people in Britain
· Provides a useful tool for the burgeoning British Irish studies market
· A invaluable source for students of Irish History in general

Description:

The past twenty years have witnessed notable developments in the scholarly
study of Irish migration and settlement in nineteenth-century Britain, as a
burgeoning historiography and the emergence of specialist courses in British
colleges and universities serve to illustrate. The first of its kind, this
documentary history seeks to support the study and teaching of the subject
by using a range of contemporary documents, including extracts from
parliamentary papers, social surveys, newspapers, letters and reminiscences
to explore the experiences of Irish people in urban and rural Britain
between 1815 and 1914. By reference to themes of migration, settlement,
employment, social conditions, religion and politics, the sources contained
in this collection not only provide insights into the causes, features and
consequences of Irish migration. The book also demonstrates that while the
experiences of Irish migrants were complex and diverse, varying in time and
place, so too were contemporary attitudes towards them.

Each chapter comprises a contextual commentary, a selection of primary
sources and notes pointing to further reading. This unique anthology, which
also includes a comprehensive bibliography, will be of particular interest
to students and teachers of modern British and Irish social history. It is
also relevant to the study of immigrants and minorities in modern British
Society.

Professor Roger Swift is Director of the Centre for Victorian Studies at
Chester College and a Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies at the
University of Liverpool.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

P.O'S.

From the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo, Japan

Six Irish short films, featuring prize-winning work from leading
contemporary Irish film-makers will be screened on Saturday next, December
8th, from 6pm, at the Goethe
Institute, 7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Subway~Aoyama
1-chome exit 4, tel: 3584-3201.

The event is open to the public free of admission and takes place as part of
the week-long
"Film Criticism in Japan and Europe Seminar" organised by Embassies of the
European Union member states in Japan.

The film titles are as follows (the programme is about 90 minutes).:

The Case of Majella McGinty ~1999 Dir. Kirsten Sheridan
Patterns ~1998 Dir Kirsten Sheridan
Guy's Dog ~1998 Dir Rory Bresnihan
81 ~1996 Dir Stephen Burke
Ulys ~1998 Dir Tim Booth
The Freesia of Eden ~1998 Dir Alastair McKwain

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 8

My heartfelt thanks to Patrick Maume for those
references. It means that I can move on now in my
writing.

slán

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

Subject: Re: Ir-D Book Announced: Gleeson, Irish in the South
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Paddy,

You all will enjoy Gleeson's book on the Southern Irish. He has lectured
on the topic many times at our local ACIS meetings. When living in St
Augustine, his letter to the St Aug Historical library was passed on to
me for a reply. At the time I was writing and lecturing on the Hibernian
Regiment in St Aug during the second Spanish period. Three Spanish
governors in St Aug were of Irish descent; Gov Enrique was born in
Dublin. My recent article on the subject appeared in THE IRISH SWORD.

David covers a wide range of Irish characters in his book. He's teaching
History now Armstrong State Atlantic Univ, Savannah, Georgia. The city
with the second largest St Patrick's Day Parade, many of which I have
enjoyed.

You will be surprised at the number of Irish Studies Program in Fla and
Ga.

I'll get a copy of my review of the book off to you.




Eileen A. Sullivan , Director
The Irish Educational Association, Inc. Tel # (352) 332
3690
6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail :
eolas1[at]juno.com
Gainesville, FL 32653

From: Jessica March
Subject: Re: Ir-D Nuns and Priests in Britain


Paddy, Thanks for the Catholic-history links and advice. I'm also very
grateful to Don MacRaild, Frank Neal and Yvonne McKenna who all responded to
my request with some really useful leads. Where would I be without Ir-D?

Many thanks Paddy,

All the best,
Jessica


In message
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk writes:
>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Jessica,
>
> If you have not done so already it would be worth your browsing the web
site
> of
> the Catholic Record Society
> http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/
>
> and following up any leads through personal contact.
>
> You will see that they list there now the Contents of back numbers of
their
> excellent journal
>
> Recusant History
> http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/rechist.htm
>
> Recusant History tends to me more interested in the earlier period, rather
> than your C20th period. But there is the occasional item that strays into
> your period.
>
> Further, it would be worth your browsing through the actual printed copies
> of Recusant History, because you get in them occasional notices and
> 'Newsletter' material that might suggest leads. The CRS attempts to keep
> track on all research into the history of Catholics in the British
> archipelago.
>
> P.O'S.
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of...
Rosa Gonzalez
rosag[at]fil.ub.es

Dear Irish Studies colleagues,

I hope your engagement book for 2002 is not too tight and that before our
annual IASIL meeting in São Paulo (Brazil) you will be both keen and able to
come to Barcelona to the II International Conference of the Spanish
Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) that will take place at the end of May
2002. I attach the Call for Papers.

With best wishes for the coming year,

Rosa González



Call for Papers

THE REPRESENTATION OF IRELAND/S
Images from Outside and from Within

II International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies

Universitat de Barcelona
30-31 May & 1 June 2002


This conference aims at providing a forum for the discussion of the
discursive formations that underlie the imagined communities of Ireland, and
their representation in literature, the media, cinema and the visual arts.

Papers are welcome from a broad range of disciplines including:

* Literary Studies
* Media and Film Studies
* Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
* Postcolonial Studies
* Gender Studies
* Critical Theory


Proposals for papers, with a 150-word abstract should be sent as e-mail
attachment to the conference coordinator before February 1st 2002. Final
papers, which should not exceed 10 pages (20 minutes delivery) are due by
May 1st 2002 in triplicate. Please include a copy on diskette (Word or Word
Perfect). A selection of papers will be published according to their
thematic relevance to the publication.

Conference coordinator:
Dra. Rosa González Casademont
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona SPAIN
Tel. + 34 3 4035585/6 Fax. + 34 3 3171249
e-mail: rosag[at]fil.ub.es

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Newsletter of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Vol 15, No. 2,
Autumn/Winter 2001, is now being distributed to CAIS members.

I won't report on it at length - most important items appear on the CAIs web
site...
http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/cais/

Interesting to note that it has been decided to end the connection between
the Annual Conference of CAIS and the umbrella annual Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada. This is one of those debates that
small organisations must ever go through - to shelter under the (expensive)
umbrella or go it alone. Apparently there was a wish for 'a stronger mix of
conviviality and fellowship...'

The CAIS Conference 2002 will be at Erindale, the University of Toronto at
Mississauga, 21-24 May...

Plans are being put in place to hold CAIS 2003 in Halifax (which Halifax is
unfortunately not the town just a few miles down the road from my home in
Yorkshire...)
CAIS 2004 in London, Ontario
CAIS 2005 in Montreal...

If I read the Web site correctly there is an offer to send future editions
of the CAIS Newsletter as an email to anyone in the world who wants to read
it, not just CAIS members... A good way to eavesdrop...

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded through the courtesy of Peter Gray...

Subject: TOC: History Ireland 9/4
From: Peter Gray

TOC: HISTORY IRELAND 9/4 (Winter 2001)

Maria Kelly, '"Unheard-of mortality": the Black Death in
Ireland, 12-17
John Moore, 'The Leviathan of Parsonstown' [Lord Rosse's
telescope, 1843], 18-22
Tomas O'Riordan, 'Theft of the Irish crown jewels, 1907',
23-28
Adrian Smith, 'Major Robert Gregory and the Irish air aces
of 1917-18', 29-33
Marilyn Taylor, 'Millisle, County Down: haven from Nazi
terror' [Jewish refugees in Northern Ireland], 34-37
Eileen Morgan, 'Question Time: radio and the liberalisation
of Irish public discourse after World War II', 38-41
Interview: Professor Kevin Whelan, 42-45

Reviews:
N. Canny, Making Ireland British 1580-1650 (by Hiram Morgan)
J. Kelly, Gallows speeches from Eighteenth century Ireland
(by Eamonn O Ciardha)
N. McMillan (ed), Prometheus's fire: a history of
scientific and technological education in Ireland (by Roy
Johnston)
T. Carey, Mountjoy: the story of a prison (by Johnny
Connolly)
M. Foy and B. Barton, The Easter Rising (by Fearghal
McGarry)

http://www.historyireland.com

----------------------
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 Email Patrick O'Sullivan

President Mary McAleese visited the Centre for Migrations Studies at
the Ulster American Folk Park on Friday, last week. The
full text of her speech can be seen at the Irish Emigrant newsletter web
site...
http://www.emigrant.ie/folkpark.htm

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of...
Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ
___________________

10 December 2001

Dear Irish Studies Colleagues & Others:

Re: Call for Papers

Proposed Special Session:
"Irish Women Writers before The Great Hunger, c. 1700-1845:
Purpose & Politics"

Modern Language Association (MLA)
Annual Conference: New York City, December, 2002
(This posting published in the MLA Newsletter, Winter, 2001)

Convened & Chaired by:
Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ

Session Goal:
Addressing a relatively unmined field in Irish Studies, this proposed
Special Session at the upcoming MLA Conference in New York City, December,
2002, seeks to shed new light on the identity, politics, and goals of Irish
women writers at work in Ireland (or in England), c. 1700-1845, before The
Great Hunger. This Special Session engages with women writing politically
(not prettily), in response to conditions and forces about them, conditions
which would fundamentally compromise the production, publication, and
consumption of 'indigenously' Irish writing for some years.

One-sheet abstract , with CV, to me by 1 March 2002.
New E-mail Address: mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com
Or by post, to my NYC residence:
One Plaza St. West, Apt 5D
Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York 11217
Home Phone: 718 789 6669

Please note my new e-mail address, above.

I shall look forward to hearing from some of you.

Slan agus beannacht,

Maureen E. Mulvihill

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of Irish Studies Review is now being distributed...

This journal is one of the perks of membership of the British Association
for Irish Studies
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/bais/

Further information about the journal can be found at
http://www.tandf.co.uk/
including, after jumping through hoops, an online specimen copy...

I have pasted in below the Table of Contents of the December 2001 ISR, as it
has reached me. There are many Book Reviews. Book Reviews of special
interest to us include...

Grainne Henry on O'Connor, ed., The Irish in Europe 1580-1815 -
'ground-breaking' - this is the book of the 1999 Conference at Maynooth.

Barbara Tanzler on Lyndon Fraser, ed, Distant Shore - the Irish in New
Zealand, previously mentioned on the Ir-D list. 'Eight convincing voices',
'helps to map out a new direction in Irish diaspora studies...'

Fintan Cullen on Peter Murray, ed., 0044-Irish Artists in Britain -
previously mentioned on the Ir-D list. The book is the 'beautifully
produced' catalogue of the exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
'Lack of focus' '...prevents the book from actually saying much...'

Paul Delaney on Jane Helleiner, Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics
of Culture. Favourable review. My own recent work has forced me to review
and summarise the literature on Irish Travellers - recently, and oddly, I
found myself giving advice to Khachig Tololyan, the Editor of Diaspora
journal. I have been following the progress of Jane Helleiner's work - so
that in due course I will be reading her book with interest.

P.O'S.

Irish Studies Review

Volume 9 Number 3
Issue Dec 2001


ARTICLES
Theorising Ireland
301 - 315
Claire Connolly

Sir James Caldwell, c.1720-84: An Anglo-Irish Landlord in the Age of
Improvement
317 - 329
Mervyn Busteed

A Postcolonial View of Ireland and the Irish Conflict in Anglo-Irish Utopian
Literature since the Nineteenth Century
331 - 346
Ralph Pordzik

James Craig, Lord Charlemont and the 'Battle of Stranmillis', 1928-33
347 - 359
Stewart Roulston; John Dallat

The Traveller's Experience of Famine Ireland
361 - 371
Melissa Fegan

Mapping the Trenches: Gyres, Switchbacks and Zig-zag Circles in W. B. Yeats
and Ciaran Carson
373 - 386
Fran Brearton

Reviews
387 - 428

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From: Brian Lambkin
Subject: RE: Ir-D President McAleese at UAFP

Our thanks to Paddy O'S, eagle-eyed and efficient as ever, for highlighting
the remarks made by President McAleese on her visit last Thursday.
http://www.emigrant.ie/folkpark.htm

May we take this opportunity to draw your attention to the Fourteenth
Ulster-American Heritage Symposium which will be hosted next year by the
University of South Carolina at Aiken and York County History Commission, 19
- - 21 June, 2001 (for details see: http://www.yorkcounty.org/historycenter/ .

Please also watch out for Transatlantic Crossroads: Proceedings of the
Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, vol 2, edited by Paddy Fitzgerald and
Steve Ickringill, Colourpoint Press, which we are still hoping will be
published before Christmas.

Finally, may we remind you that the Art of European Migration Virtual
Exhibition www.qub.ac.uk/cms is an on-going project and we welcome further
suggestions, contributions of images and information.
With compliments of the season
Brian Lambkin


Dr B K Lambkin
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Omagh BT 78 5QY
Tel: 028 90 82 256315 Fax: 028 90 82 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms www.folkpark.com


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