From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This might interest someone on the western side of the Atlantic...

On this side we think we are making headway in unpacking some of the
'medical history of the Irish...'

Watch this space...

P.O'S.



College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine
Resident Research Fellowships, 2002

The Wood Institute is pleased to announce the availability of
short-term grants of up to $1,000. Grants will be awarded to scholars
engaged in projects requiring use of the Historical Medical Library or
Mütter Museum between July 2002 and June 2003. Applicants should submit
proposals of no more than five pages, including necessary length of
residence, historical materials to be used, and a budget (with specific
information on travel, lodging, and research expenses), along with a
curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation. Application
materials must be received by March 31, 2002; the winning applicants
will be announced by April 19, 2002. Fellows will be required to submit
a report on their research.
Founded in 1787, the College of Physicians is the oldest honorary
medical academy in the United States. An organization of distinguished
health care professionals and historians of medicine, the College
encourages the study and appreciation of medicine in the broader
historical and social context in response to current health care issues
as well as public and professional interests. The Library of the College
of Physicians is one of the largest medical history collections in the
world. The Library contains more than 250,000 books and journals
published before 1966, including over 400 incunabula and more than
12,000 pre-1801 imprints. The rare book collection is augmented by
extensive archival, manuscript, print, and photograph collections. The
Mütter Museum houses an exceptional collection of medial artifacts,
instruments, pathological specimens, and anatomical models that
complements the holdings of the Library. The Francis Clark Wood
Institute for the History of Medicine was established in 1976 to make
better known to the scholarly community the rich resources of the
Library and the museum, and to encourage the study of developments in
health care using these resources. The Wood Institute especially
encourages examination of contemporary issues in historical perspective.
For further information on the College, the Wood Institute, the
Historical Medical Library, and the Mütter Museum, please consult our
website: www.collphyphil.org.
Individuals interested in applying for this program should send
pertinent materials to: Gabriela Zoller, Administrative Assistant, Wood
Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, 19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia PA 19103. Tel:
215-593-3737, ext. 305. Email: gzoller[at]collphyphil.org.
Charles B. Greifenstein
Curator of Archives & Manuscripts
College of Physicians of Philadelphia

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...
the Graduate Students of History at Concordia
and The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

IRISH STUDIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

History in the Making VIII

Organized by the Graduate Students of History at Concordia
in association with
The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies

FEATURED GUEST SPEAKERS:
Nancy J. Curtin Department of History, Fordham University
Gary L. Owens Department of History, Huron College,
University of Western Ontario

Saturday, March 2, 2002
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Montréal, Québec

On the occasion of its eighth annual conference, History in the Making
wishes to highlight the recent establishment of the Canadian Centre for
Irish Studies at Concordia University. Graduate students from throughout
North America are invited to discuss new directions in the field of
Irish historical studies.

Applicants should submit proposals of 250 words for individual papers or
panels of 2-3 papers. Proposals dealing with historical dimensions of
Ireland and the Irish diaspora are welcome, as well as papers exploring
interdisciplinary perspectives on Irish Studies. Submissions related to
other topics will also be considered. A selection of the best papers
will be published.

A limited number of travel and accommodation reimbursements will be
available to graduate student participants from outside the greater
Montreal area.

Deadline for Submissions: January 14, 2002

Please send proposals, as well as a short biographical statement, to:
History in the Making Committee
Department of History, McConnell Library Building, LB-601
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montréal, Québec
H3G 1M8 CANADA
Or email submissions to himviii[at]yahoo.ca

Visit our website: http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/history/him.html

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

With Christmas kindliness I am forwarding this on behalf of the Francis Fahy
Society. I am not sure that I understand the plans, and the strategies, of
the Francis Fahy Society, but Fahy himself is a hero of the Irish of London.
Also, you can't help wondering what Dolores will do with 'I gaily gave my
heart away...'

P.O'S.


The Ould Plaid Shawl ? Songs of Francis Fahy

An ideal Christmas gift ? Special Xmas offer:

1 CD for £15 ? post-free --- 2 CDs for £25 ? post-free

Please send your cheque, payable to the Francis Fahy Society, to:

FAF Society, Kinvara, Co Galway.

Nollag shona dhaoibh go léir!

Email: fafsociety[at]eircom.net

Website: : www.kinvara.com/francisfahy/

REVIEWS:

?this is a terrific documentary of a brilliant songwriter. Backing is
superb, with the sax-strings stamp of musicians from At The Racket, and the
well-placed male and female voices make this exceptionally pleasant album.
Fintan Vallely Sunday Tribune, Sept 23rd 2001

This collection is a snapshot of times past, evoking memories of scratchy
78's, whistling radio signals and beachfront serenades. Dolores Keane
carries the poignancy of 'I Gave My Heart Away' with aplomb and Tony Small's
courtly reading of 'Galway Bay' is inevitably seductive. Siobhán Long,
Irish Times, Oct 31ST 2001

The Ould Plaid Shawl ? Songs of Francis Fahy

1 The Queen of Connemara Seosamh Ó Flaithearta

2 I Gaily Gave My Heart Away Dolores Keane

3 The Thief of the World Séamus O'Donnell

4 Lonesome Paul Mulligan

5 My Heart's Treasure Bríd Dooley

6 The Ould Plaid Shawl Seosamh Ó Flaithearta

7 The Bog Road, Lisdoonvarna Séamus O'Donnell

8 The Tide Full In Eleanor Shanley

9 Galway Bay (old version) Mike Naughton

10 An Old Irish Hill in the Morning Michael Brogan

11 O, The Summer is Coming Siobhán Forde

12 Haste to the Wedding Seán Tyrell

13 Little Mary Cassidy Caoilte Breatnach

14 Husheen John Faulkner & Bríd Dooley

15 Galway Bay (new version) Tony Small

From: "Bruce Stewart"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 8

Patrick Maume mentions a Young Ireland poet called Furlong in the 1840s. I'd
me most
grateful to hear more, if possible. There is a Thomas Furlong (1794-1827) of
Wexford who was the subject of an anthology-collection by Sean Mythen in
1996. He makes a juncture with nationalism in the O'Connell period but he
cannot be styled Young Ireland and I don't think he coined the phrase. It is
of
course a figure in the first poem of The Spirit of the Nation. Patrick
Rafoidi
(1980) pointed out that it has a prequel in Banim's Chaunt of the Cholera,
which
includes the lines: 'The courage to be blunt and true/And for ourselves
speak
out, boys/'. I'd love to know the actual original of a) the English phrase
in its
Irish cultural-political context and b) the Irish phrase in same - and which
came
before which. Bruce.


Subject: Ir-D Sinn Fein 8
Date sent: Wed 05 Dec 2001 06:00:00 +0000
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Send reply to: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk



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


bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk
Languages & Lit/English
University of Ulster
tel 44 (0)28 703 24355
fax 44 (0)28 703 24963

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received an email, below, from the Centre of expertise
on Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism; GEM.

The email is self-explanatory and might interest colleagues throughout
Europe who do offer courses on ethnicity and gender.

P.O'S.


From: Lulu Helder
horizons[at]iiav.nl
Subject: Do you offer courses regarding gender ánd ethnicity ?

My name is Lulu Helder and I'm a staff member at the Centre of expertise
on Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism; GEM. The centre is a division
of Utrecht University located in the Netherlands. We focus on
intercultural and gender sensitive education in a changing,
multicultural society.

In collaboration with the International Information Centre and Archives
for the Women's Movement (IIAV) we are currently developing a European
database for expertise on gender and ethnicity. Academics, researchers,
students and others interested will be able to search online for
educational methods and perspectives that use gender and ethnicity as
categories of analysis within a topic.

I wrote you to ask the following questions: Do you also offer courses
regarding gender ánd ethnicity ? If so; can we include information about
your course(s) and your expertise in the database that we have developed?

The primary objective of the database is to supply information to those
who are interested in implementing theories of gender and ethnicity in
their curriculum and who want to know about the developments in their
field of specialisation. Students can use this information to search for
courses relating to gender and ethnicity among universities.
The secondary objective is to create a platform for experts who already
examine the ways in which ethnicity and gender intersect.

I kindly ask that you fill in our entry form, or that you send me your
syllabus, so that we may include your information in our database,
thereby increasing the visibility of your expertise, knowledge and
experience.

You can find the entry form by clicking on this link:
http://www.iiav.nl/eng/databases/horizons/horizons_enquete.html

Please return the form within 1 week. I will be happy to answer any
questions you may have. You
can e-mail your questions to : horizons[at]iiav.nl

Thank you very much for your time and effort,
With kind regards,

Lulu Helder

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D Sinn Fein 10

I'm grateful that someone else is interested in the
origin of the phrase Sinn Féin and I would appreciate knowing the
outcome of such research.

The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature(1996) has an
entry for Thomas Furlong: 'When James Hardiman asked
him to work up his own literal versions of Gaelic
poems and songs into verse for his Irish
Minstrelsy(1831) Furlong, after initial incredulity
that there was any poetry of value in Irish, obliged
by recasting the originals in the style of Moore'.
Apparently he went on to recast other original poetry
in various styles. He died in 1827.Then there's a
reference to a contemporary piece on him in 'Towards
the Revival: Some Translations of Irish Poetry' in
Peter Connolly (ed.), Literature and the Changing
Ireland (1982).

slán

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

From: Sarah Morgan
Subject: President's lecture

President McAleese gave the closing lecture in this year's Public Lecture
Series at the Irish Studies Centre, University of North London. The full
transcript of her lecture 'Ireland and Europe: past, present and future',
which
might be of interest to the Irish Diaspora list, is available at the
following
link:

http://webapps2.unl.ac.uk/news/ipspeach.html

Sarah.

-----------------------
Dr.Sarah Morgan
s.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I know that a number of Ir-D members will be interested in this new email
discussion group...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of

Joshua L. Miller
jlm46[at]columbia.edu
Subject: new listserv for LOTUS in LOTE


Greetings,

I am writing to inform you that a new listserv has been set up for the
MLA Discussion Group on "Literature of the United States in Languages
Other Than English."

For those of you not already inundated with listserv
messages, this is an automatic e-mail program that sends out messages to
those who have subscribed to the list. It will be a valuable way to
reach scholars across the globe who are working in the field with regard
to meetings, proposals, queries, opportunities, etc. Instructions on
how to subscribe are below.

The first announcement is that the Business Meeting at the MLA for the
Discussion Group "Literature of the United States in Languages
Other Than English" will be Saturday, 29 December, 3:00-4:45 p.m., Studio
6, Marriott. I hope that you will be able to make it.


Please save this information for future reference:

To subscribe:

***Send an e-mail to "majordomo[at]columbia.edu" with the Subject: line
blank. The text in the message should be "subscribe otherthanenglish"

To unsubscribe:

***Send an e-mail to "majordomo[at]columbia.edu" with the Subject: line
blank. The text in the message should be "unsubscribe otherthanenglish"

To post an e-mail to the list:

***Send/forward e-mail to "otherthanenglish[at]columbia.edu"

A technical detail: this will be a subscriber-only list, so any e-mail
sent from an e-mail address that is not already subscribed will be
rejected. This is designed to prevent spam. You may, however,
subscribe from more than one e-mail address.

Please pass along this information to others who may be interested. If
you have any questions about the "OtherThanEnglish" list (or creative
suggestions for a better name, acronym...), please contact me at
jlm46[at]columbia.edu.

Cheers,

Josh Miller

P.S. My apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message. I
pasted together several e-mail lists, so I may have inadvertantly
included some twice.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Editor
New Hibernia Review
TDREDSHAW[at]stthomas.edu


Subject: New Hibernia Review


Dear Folks,

December rolls by and with the end of the year comes the last issue
in the fifth volume of New Hibernia Review. I find it hard to believe, but
since 1997 we have published twenty 160-page issues for the Irish Studies
community and other discerning adults here in the United States, and Canada,
Ireland, England, France--and, no less, the Antipodes.

Before I forget: Nollaig Shona Daoibh Uilig!

This year's winter issue (5: 4) contains the usual book reviews and
notes, but also some articles that many of you will find of interest, some
compelling ly so. Let me offer a version of the contents page:

Joan FitzPatrick Dean
on the demonstrations in Westport over George A. Birmingham's farce General
John Regan.

The French scholar Chrystel Hug analyzing the decriminalization of
contraceptives and homosexuality in the Republic.

A suite of new poems from Moya Cannon, winner of the 2001 Lawrence
A. O'Shaughnessy Award.

Joseph Kelly
offers a Stracheyan view of the career of Bishop John Ireland in Charleston,
South Carolina, in the 1830s.

A novel view of Edgeworth's classic novel Castle Rackrent as slave
narrative by Kate Cochran.

Joseph P. O'Grady,
writing from retirement, gives a clarifying narrative of the failed
Brooke-Mayhew talks (1990--92) on the future of Northern Ireland.

An excavataion of the influence of Washington Irving's Sketch Book (1820) on
Joyce's "The Dead" by Jack Morgan.

William H. Mulligan, Jr.,
explores the assimilation of Gaelic-speaking, Irish miners on the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan in the 1860s.

The poet and critic David Wheatley explores the uses to which Princeton's
Paul Muldoon has put the Irish language.

This issue's "Exhibitions" piece by Patrick O'Donnell anatomizes the
controversy over plans to move Ireland's National Theatre from the corner of
Marlborough and LOwer Abbey Streets in Dublin.

Our "Backward Look" at Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn was
orchestrated by Ray Cashman, who contributes an essay himself to go along
with one Bernadette Cunnigham and a vignette by Henry Glassie.


Hoping that all of you find something here to fill a quite few
minutes during the holidays, I remain

Yours,
Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Editor

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Daniel Casidy
DanCas1[at]aol.com



The United Irish Societies
of San Francisco
&
The Irish Studies Program
New College of California

present

GATES OF GOLD
AN AMERICAN IRISH
LITERARY & CULTURAL FESTIVAL
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
MARCH 2002

Honorary Chairmen
Hon. Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco
Hon. Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland

Co-Chairs
Bob Callahan
Daniel Cassidy
Dr. Eileen Mahoney
Dr. Margaret Mc Peake
Joseph O'Donohue


for information:
415-346-4200
415-437-3402, ext. 427
e-mail: ciorcal[at]aol.com

Mailing address:
The Irish Studies Program
New College of California
777 Valencia Street
San Francisco, California, 94131
Att: GG

From: "michael j. curran"


Michael J. Curran
Irish Diaspora Project
Dept. of Psychology
Aras an Phiarsaigh
Trinity College
Dublin 2 Ireland

(curranmj[at]tcd.ie)




Greetings Patrick, from across the water. I watched with interest last
Wednesday when the Cantle report on ethnic minorities in Britain was
published. There was little or no response from the Irish community or from
the Irish academics over there!
The media, if not the report itself, adopted a dichotomous approach,
referring to the majority as "white" and the immigrants as "coloured" or
"black". Likewise the The Observer newspaper had a special supplement
recently on "Race in Britain" with the Irish being highlighted by their
absence. Maybe it is now time to ask:

- -How do the Irish agencies and other pressure groups feel about being
excluded in this debate?

- -More important, how do Irish-born and second generation Irish individuals,
residing in Britain feel about the the report?

- - Are the "faith schools" still important for Irish families?

- - Which is more important for Irish people in the U.K. -integration into the
scene there, or segregation/parallelism, or is that possible?

- - What about the Irish being treated as an ethnic minority in Britain, - or
is the concept valid any longer? This also raises questions in the "be Irish
be counted" census campaign.

- -The English language is obviously not the barrier for the Irish that it can
be for other migrants, but are there issues around accents?

The definitions of terms like: culture, ethnicity, race, nationality are
important as also is the term "discrimination" whether perceived or
otherwise!

Is mise le meas.

Michael J. Curran

Irish Diaspora Project
Dept. of Psychology
Aras an Phiarsaigh
Trinity College, Dublin 2,

(curranmj[at]tcd.ie)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Yes, things have been quiet on the Irish-Diaspora list...

But we have also had an Interruption of Service. A crashing computer - and
in the end the solution was to re-format the hard disk and re-install
everything. Our back-up procedures worked, and we have lost nothing - but
time...

My apologies, and I will be working through the backlog over the next day or
so...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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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

The following items appeared on the H-Net December Newsletter...

Forwarded for information...

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>

- --H-Net Networks and 11 September
H-Net's many online communities are offering diverse and informed
perspectives on the meaning of the events of 11 September:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/teaching/journals/sept11/

- --"Addressing Tragedy in the Classroom" edited by Steve Mintz, VP of
Teaching, H-Net
An expansive collection of resources for teachers and scholars
regarding 11 September. From Steve Mintz's introduction: "One of our
greatest challenges as teachers is to help our students come to terms
with these horrific events. Our students must cope with fear, anger,
despair, uncertainty, and a sense of helplessness. We cannot wipe away
the horror of these events-nor do we want to. But we can help our
students better understand what they witnessed, and therefore help them
recover from this time of sorrow?."
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/teaching/journals/sept11

EXTRACT ENDS>>>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Michael G. Cornelius
Department of English
Independence Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881, USA

mcor7215[at]postoffice.uri.edu

[Jargon Note: GLBTQ = Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer]

Sponsor University of Rhode Island
Location University of Rhode Island, Upper College Rd., Kingston, Rhode
Island, USA
Dates 4-6 April 2002
Theme Identity, Ideology, and Terrorism
Periods All
Language(s) English
Proposals and Papers?

Submission Deadline 10 January 2002
Proposal Details Faculty, graduate and advanced undergraduate students,
scholars, activists, and community leaders are all invited to submit
proposals. Please send an abstract of up to 500 words. Please include your
name, e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address, affiliation, and
media needs with your abstract. Your abstract should address the length and
type of your presentation. If you are interested in being considered for
creative readings, please submit a brief sample of your work and the
information above.
Submissions to Michael G. Cornelius Department of English Independence
Hall University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881, USA; or electronically
to: mcor7215[at]postoffice.uri.edu
Enquiries As above
Additional Details?
? As the events of September 11 replay themselves over and over in our
minds, we are all forced to examine the fact that terrorism now plays a very
palpable and very significant role in American lives. For GLBTQ individuals,
terrorism is nothing new; in forms both subtle and overt, GLBTQ people have
been facing and living with forms of terrorism for centuries. The goal of
this interdisciplinary symposium is to examine how terrorism--whether overt
homophobia, culturally sanctioned censure, religious oppression, internal
fears, or other representations--has shaped the identities and ideologies,
past, present, and future, of GLBTQ individuals and communities. While the
immediate focus on current events seems obvious, papers and presentations
could examine the role of terrorism in shaping GLBTQ history, art, and
literature; how terrorism affects the current GLBTQ rights movement; the
role and reactions of GLBTQ individuals or communities to both local and
global terrorism; the ways in which terrorism affects or afflicts queer
theories and queer academia; and et cetera. All papers/presentations
focusing on the central theme will gladly be considered. Additionally, we
welcome papers, discussions, artistic presentations, etc., which address
other topics/issues of interest to GLBTQ people
? We invite the following submission types: Standard academic conference
presentations (up to twenty minutes in length, either singularly or as an
entire panel) -Lengthier multimedia presentations; Roundtables; Poster
sessions; We will also consider that which is not listed here; We may also
be arranging readings of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.?

SYMPOSIUM PLACE AND DATES: Seventh Annual Rhode Island Symposium on Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer Studies University of Rhode
Island, Kingston, RI Thursday-Saturday April 4-6; Symposium keynote address
to be delivered by Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) Keynote address: Friday
evening, April 5. Please direct all inquiries to Michael G. Cornelius at the
e-mail or mailing address above.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded in a spirit of comradeship and collegiality...

P.O'S.

From: John Ellis


The North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
and the Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature
Present

The Fourth
North American
Conference on Welsh Studies

June 20-22, 2002

Le Moyne College
Syracuse, New York

Paper Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2002

Papers and presentations are invited on all aspects of Welsh culture,
including topics related to history, literature, language, art, music,
economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, folklore and
religion. The conference invites participation from both sides of the
Atlantic and across many academic disciplines. In addition to a diverse
program of presentations and social events, the conference will feature
invited keynote speakers of international standing. Authors of selected
papers presented at the conference will be invited to consider publication
of their work in the North American Journal of Welsh Studies.

Those wishing to present papers suitable for a 20 minute reading may submit
an abstract to the Program Chair at the address below. Proposals for full
panels, discussions, or other formats are also welcome. Please include a
brief curriculum vitae with your submission.

Please send abstracts by January 15, 2002 to:

Dr. John S. Ellis
Green Mountain College
One College Circle
Poultney VT 05764
USA
ellisj[at]greenmtn.edu (proposals via email ok)

For further information on the association and its journal, see:

The North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
(NAASWCH): http://www2.bc.edu/~ellisjg/naaswch.html

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Further on the Annual Conference of the International Association for the
Study of Irish Literatures which will be held at the Universidade de Sao
Paulo, Brazil, July 28-August 1, 2002...

Information is now available on the website at www.fflch.usp.br Click on
Eventos and you will find a link to IASIL 2002.

P.O'S.

From: Edmundo Murray
edmundo_murray[at]hotmail.com
Subject: The Irish in Argentina

THE IRISH IN ARGENTINA REFERENCE LIBRARY

The following website is a collection of bibliography, documents and
websites related to the Irish in Argentina:

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/emurray/documents/papers/irish-d/bibliography.htm

The list is not complete, especially for the Irish place names in the River
Plate. However, it is a first try to classify and sort the several and
diverse references about the Irish in Argentina. Should you have any
question or comment regarding this reference library, do not hesitate to
contact me. Happy Holidays,

Edmundo Murray
Université de Genève
7, rue du Quartier Neuf
1205 Genève
Suisse
+41 22 739 5049 (office)
+41 22 320 1544 (home)
edmundo_murray[at]hotmail.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information, on behalf of...

Van Gosse
vangosse[at]mindspring.com

TERROR AND HISTORY:A special issue of the Radical History Review

How do we distinguish ?terror? from other forms of political violence? Can
we,
or should we?
*Is ?state terror? a useful category, or an obfuscation?
* How has terror or terrorism been justified, and when, and by whom?
*Can terrorism of one or any sort be justified, from a left or radical
perspective?
* What does it mean to refer to ?terrorism? and ?terrorists? as something
other
than a polemical term for a particular group in a particular situation?
*Does terrorism as a political strategy have an affinity for, or historic
relationship to, certain types of movements?
*Conversely, are there categories of political struggle where terrorism is
rarely or never used, and if so, why?
* Can we distinguish between terrorisms of right and left, or do they affect
societies, cultures, peoples and governments in the same way?
* Is ?terrorism? a recognizably modern or postmodern phenomenon, linked to
the
creation of ?the nation? or other universalistic categories?
* What is the relationship of ?terror? (the Terror) to the various
international lett traditions (Jacobin, anti-colonial, anarchist, communist
and
so on)?
The Radical History Review is planning a thematic issue that will seek a
range
of answers to these and other questions provoked by the historical
phenomenon of
terrorism, in both its most recent guise (the September 11 events), and over
the
past two or more centuries. We seek monographic articles, debates,
exchanges,
essays, reviews (of books, films, exhibits, and more) and personal/political
reflections that address one or more of these questions, or pose new ones
related to this large category of
political action.

Like our journal, this issue has an explicitly political purpose, and all
submissions or proposals should embody some perspective, worldview or
critique
that is more than merely scholarly. Our purpose is to provoke thought, and
de-mystify a highly charged and reified discourse by embedding it in a
larger
historical context.

We are particularly interested in short essays or articles, not in
conventional monographic form, which directly address and assess the
politics of
states and societies where terrorist violence has been a significant factor
over
time, e.g. Ireland, India, the American South, South Africa, the Soviet
Union,
the Central American republics, Sri Lanka, Peru, and so on. We also invite
submissions on the lineages of terror from 1789 (or before) through the
present,
ideological critiques or defenses of
terrorism (e.g. Sorel, Trotsky, Weil, Fanon, Gandhi), and discussions over
its
representation (for example, The Battle of Algiers).

The final deadline for submission to this issue is March1, 2002.
Potential authors should contact the issue coordinator, Van Gosse at
[vangosse[at]mindspring.com] well in advance of that date to discuss their
proposals.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

[NOTE: A more full version of this announcement has now reached us...]

Forwarded on behalf of...

Daniel Cassidy
DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: GATES OF GOLD: American Irish Literary & Cultural Festival -March
2002


The United Irish Societies of San Francisco & The Irish Studies Program, New
College of California
present the first annual
GATES OF GOLD
American Irish Literary & Cultural Festival
San Francisco Bay Area
March 2002

Honorary Chairmen
Hon. Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco
Hon. Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland

Co-chairpersons
Bob Callahan
Daniel Cassidy
Eileen Mahoney, Ph.D.
Margaret Mc Peake, Ph.D.
Joseph O'Donohue


Come to the Crossroads at the Gates of Gold

To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in San
Francisco, the United Irish Societies of San Francisco and the Irish Studies
Program, New College of California, will present the first annual American
Irish Literary and Cultural Festival at the "Gates of Gold" in the
crossroads
of the San Francisco Bay Area.

For ten days in March, this festival will highlight the culture of the Irish
worldwide through a variety of events focused on prominent novelists, poets,
journalists, critics and scholars. At the "Gates of Gold," we propose a
figurative rebirth of the discourse surrounding Irish America in a gathering
of writers from the global Irish community. The one-million strong American
Irish community of the greater San Francisco Bay Area will be centrally
located in this telling of the story of Irish journeys which stretch from
Cork to San Francisco to the pampas of Argentina, and from the old New York
East River Gaeltacht to the eastern isles of Canada.

The names of the writers and scholars who have already responded to the call
to the Gates of Gold Festival ensures that it will be one of the most
groundbreaking American Irish literary and cultural festivals in the 500
year
history of the Gael in the old New World.

The "Great Scattering" of the Irish has seeded a diverse and complex
cultural
inheritance reflected in the dazzling creativity of a new generation of
writers. The festival will focus on the language which lives in the works of
these writers and in the many aspects of culture in which that language has
manifested itself. Whether in slang or in an accent, the living language is
a
lost chord which can be rediscovered in our own throats. Through this focus
on the literature, language and culture of the Irish in America, the
Festival
aims to enrich our understanding of the American Irish, as well as to
refocus
a discourse on the Irish in the Americas and beyond.

As a means of welcoming as many as possible from throughout the Bay Area,
events during the Festival will be located in a variety of venues: from San
Francisco's Mission District to Jack London Square in Oakland, and from the
Marin headlands to Silicon Valley.

We look forward to joining with you at the "Gates of Gold" in March 2002!

Happy New Year! Blian nua faoi mhaise dhuit!

Delivered-To: H-ETHNIC[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU
From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: birds of passage
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 02:17:22 -0500

"birds of passage" was a common term applied to migratory
birds -- temporary visitors in a locale, but ones
who repeatedly returned.

There is a good 1900 discussion in Kate Holladay Claghorn, "Our
Immigrants and Ourselves"
Atlantic Monthly (Oct 1900) pp. 535-548
(online at
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK293
4-0086-88

p 541 >

the article on the whole is quite favorable to immigration--they
are forming a new frontier in the cities, she argues
just like the western frontiersmen of a century earlier

for an interesting 1843 usage online at
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ757
8-0056-4

this was an editorial entitled "The English Abroad" in North
American Review

p 27-28 >
the reference is to upper and middle class English settlers in
the British Empire