Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:15:46 -0500
From: Andrew Schlewitz
Subject: Reading collection for immigrant course?

Two ideas for survey texts on immigrants in the US: Portes and
Rumbout, Immigrant America; and Dinnerstein and Reimers, Ethnic
Americans. The former is analytical, and engaged in sociological
debates. The latter is more a traditional historical narrative.
Students (including freshmen) found both readable and useful.

I share the interest in collections of migrant correspondence,
particularly from Mexico and Central America. Between the Lines,
edited by Larry Siems, is a wonderful collection, but too expensive
for a course text. Any cheaper suggestions? Any websites?

andy
--
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Wabash College
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Fax: 765-361-6277
email: schlewia[at]wabash.edu

Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:41:07 -0600
From: Walter Kamphoefner
Subject: Re: H-ETHNIC: Ethnic photographers


It's slightly outside your time period, and the photographer was second
generation Czech rather than an immigrant, but see Barbara McCandless, ed.,
_Equal Before the Lens: Jno. Trlica's Photographs of Granger, Texas_
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992).

Another small town example is Rudolph Goebel (1835-1923), a German
immigrant who documented St. Charles, Missouri, and also took some of the
first photographs of his home town of Buer (now part of Melle), Germany,
when he returned home for a visit. Resources on him include:
Breslow, Lori, Small town : based upon original writings and photographs
from seventy-five years ago, describing a century of life : based on the
writings of John J. Buse and the photographs of Rudolph Goebel / written
and edited by Lori Breslow. Published [St. Charles, Mo.] : John J. Buse
Historical Museum, c1977.
and some archival holdings at the State Historical Society of Missouri:
http://www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/invent/buse.htm#top

So I hope you weren't just thinking of New Yorkers.
Walter Kamphoefner
Department of History
Texas A&M University
4236 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4236 USA
Office: 979 845 7163
Home: 979 822 4792
Fax: 979 862 4314 (marked for my attention)

Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:02:30 -0800
From: Sam Thomas
Subject: Re: H-ETHNIC: Reading collection for immigrant course?

For immigration history, a good collection of both primary and secondary
sources is Jon Gjerde, Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic
History (Houghton Mifflin, 1998); as an alternative to Archdeacon, try
Roger Daniels, Coming to America (Harper, 1990).


[S.J. Thomas, Professor, Michigan State University, Dept. of History, 301
MH, E. L. MI 48824]

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:11:37 -0800
From: Melvin Holli
Subject: Re: H-ETHNIC: Reading collection for immigrant course?


B.Alexander;

You might look at Peter Kivisto's, AMERICANS ALL: RACE AND ETHNIC
RELATIONS IN HISTORICAL STRUCTURAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
(Wadsworth, 1995).

Melvin Holli


B.Alexander;

You might look at Peter Kivisto's, AMERICANS ALL: RACE AND ETHNIC
RELATIONS IN HISTORICAL STRUCTURAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
(Wadsworth, 1995).

Melvin Holli

Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:24:09 -0500
From: Dorothee Schneider
Subject: Re: H-ETHNIC: Reading collection for immigrant course?

re: Ben Alexander's query

Roger Daniels' Coming to America (about to be published in a new edition)
is a very good alternative to Archdeacon. If you'll be teaching in or near
NYC I'd use another text on recent immigration (Waldinger, N. Foner,
Binder/Reimers, All the Nations Under Heaven) to supplement. Gjerde's text
on immigration in the Major Problems Series of Houghton Mifflin is a good
source book, but I have used with great success Tom Dublin's Immigrant
Voices. , a collection of autobiographical excerpts written by immigrants
from different periods.

Good luck,

Dorothee Schneider
University o Illinois

In response to Ben Alexander's question:

The following books have each worked well in my introductory immigration
course

Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
John Gjerde, Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History
Thomas Dublin, Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America

--
Caroline Waldron Merithew
Visiting Assistant Professor
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell University
Email address: cam82[at]cornell.edu
--

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This has come through to us from the Irish Embassy in Tokyo...

It is worth sharing with the Irish-Diaspora list, since it gives more
background on the Task Force on Policy regarding Emigrants.

Delete 'Japan' and insert the name of the country where you live...

P.O'S.


To Irish citizens living in Japan;

The Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Brian Cowan T.D., has established
a task force on Policy regarding Emigrants.

The aim of this task force is to to provide a coherent base for a government
policy on emigration which would address the needs of Irish emigrants
effectively and long term. The terms of reference cover all aspects of
emigration including pre-departure services for emigrants, services
overseas, and services for returning emigrants.

As a base for their recommendations they would like to gather information
from a wide variety of sources and have asked for input from Irish citizens
abroad or relevant organisations.

If you have views on this matter or know of organisations or individuals in
Japan whose opinions and experience could contribute to such a project, the
task force and Department of Foreign Affairs would welcome your response.

Written submissions should be addressed to

Mr John Neville
Secretariat- Task Force on Policy regarding Emigrants
Department of Foreign Affairs
69 - 71 St. Stephen's Green
Dublin 2

Email+ john.neville[at]irlgov.iveagh.ie

Submissions should arrive by the end of February 2002.


Aisling Braiden.
Press Attache


The role of the task force is explained in detail below


Terms of Reference
To recommend a coherent long-term policy approach to emigration and meeting
the needs of emigrants and, in that connection:

to examine the adequacy of existing pre-departure services, Government and
voluntary, for intending emigrants and make recommendations if appropriate;

to consider whether the needs of emigrants in different countries,
especially of young vulnerable people, can be identified better and
regularly, and addressed in the context of changing social and economic
conditions;

to recommend a medium-term plan of assistance to emigrants for the relevant
Government Departments and agencies at home and Embassies and Consulates
abroad, clearly defining their responsibilities and functions within such a
plan;

to consider the roles of voluntary organisations at home and abroad as
partners with Government in meeting the needs of emigrants in the context of
such a plan;

to examine further measures to encourage and facilitate the return to
Ireland and reintegration of emigrants and their families, especially the
vulnerable and the elderly;

to recommend such changes of structures or practices or allocation of
resources as may be necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the
recommended policy;

if possible, to estimate the cost of its recommendations; and to report to
the Minister for Foreign Affairs within 6 months.

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of THE GLOBAL REVIEW OF ETHNOPOLITICS: December 2001 is now
available on the Web.

It continues to be a most impressive and useful free resource - remember you
have to use Adobe Acrobat to get the texts.

All of the latest issue is of interest. But I especially recommend Andrew
Finlay's thoughtful 'Defeatism and Northern [Ireland] Protestant 'Identity',
which includes a helpful summary of the ways in which that 'identity' has
been conceptualised and criticised - and which analyses texts as diverse as
a poem by Kipling and a sermon by Ian Paisley.

And Stephen Hopkins' review article 'History with a Divided and Complicated
Heart? The Uses of Political Memoir,
Biography and Autobiography in Contemporary Northern Ireland'.

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of Stefan Wolff

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

THE GLOBAL REVIEW OF ETHNOPOLITICS
Vol. I, no. 2, December 2001

You can either read, download, or print each contribution for FREE
individually by following the links at our website (www.ethnopolitics.org).
Alternatively, you can do the same with the entire issue. (N.B.: This is
quite a large file and may take some time to download.)

Through our archive, you also have FREE access to the previous issue of the
journal.

Contents

ARTICLES
Andrew Finlay
Defeatism and Northern Protestant 'Identity'
Julie Mertus
The Impact of Intervention on Local Human Rights Culture: A Kosovo Case
Study
Rossen V. Vassilev
Post-Communist Bulgaria's Ethnopolitics

PRACTITIONER'S CORNER
Chris O'Sullivan
The News Media and the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict: Ready for the Next
Steps?

REVIEW ESSAYS
Camille C. O'Reilly
The Politics of Language and Ethnicity

Stephen Hopkins
History with a Divided and Complicated Heart? The Uses of Political Memoir,
Biography and Autobiography in Contemporary Northern Ireland

WEBSITE REVIEW
Ailsa Henderson
Regions and Nations in the United Kingdom: Constitution Unit

REVIEWS

P.S.: We are also interested in receiving submissions of articles,
practitioners' observations and research notes. For submission guidlines,
please take a look at the relevant section of the website. Submissions
should be emailed as attachments to Stefan Wolff (s.wolff[at]bath.ac.uk) or
Karl Cordell (k.cordell[at]plymouth.ac.uk). If you are interested in reviewing
books for the journal, please contact our review editor, Chris Gilligan
(c.gilligan[at]ulst.ac.uk).

Best wishes,
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>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Read Ireland has issued a special edition of its email newsletter - Best
Books of 2001
Further information at Read Ireland Web Site Home Page:
http://www.readireland.com

A number of the Best Books will interest Ir-D list members...

But here are a few Read Ireland reviews from the Non-Fiction section...

Forwarded for information, with acknowledgement to Read Ireland...

P.O'S.

The Men Who Built Britain: A History of the Irish Navvy by Ultan Cowley
(Hardback; 20.00 IEP / 24.50 USD / 17.50 UK / 25.40 EURO; Wolfhound Press,
272 pages, black-and-white photos throughout)

The term 'navvy' originated with the building of the 18th-century canals,
the 'inland navigation system' in Britain. The diggers became known as
'Navigators', later shortened to 'navvies'. The construction methods
pioneered by the canal-builders were adapted by the railway engineers of the
19th century, and the elite excavators on these projects continued to be
known as 'Navvies'. By the middle of the 20th century, men who worked on
hydroelectric schemes, motorways and other civil engineering works still
retained the name. But it had become synonymous with Irish migrant
labourers, 'the heavy diggers', who by this time dominated the groundworks
aspects of British construction.

This book examines how the Irish attained that dominance and the price they
paid for it. High earnings were often offset by rough conditions,
alienation and ill-health, while potential savings went towards maintaining
generations of dependents back home in rural Ireland. It does so against
the well-documented contexts of Irish emigration, and British civil
engineering, over 250 years. This book is a proud and fitting tribute to
the endeavors of countless Irish emigrants who 'built Britain'!


The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly, Jr.
(Hardback; 28.00 IEP / 35.50 USD / 23.99 UK / 37.60 EURO; Sutton; 292 pages)

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive account of the Irish famine,
combining narrative, analysis, historiography, and scores of contemporary
illustrations. It furnishes vivid insights into the misery of the famine
and the additional nightmare of the mass evictions that followed. Professor
Donnelly aims to answer the numerous vexed questions which have surrounded
the subject ever since. Was Britain guilty of genocide against the Irish
people, or was British culpability more complex? Could the disaster have
been considerably reduced in its dimensions, even if not averted altogether?
Scholarly and up-to-date, this book is required reading for anyone with an
interest in Ireland or in the way natural disasters and government responses
to them can lead to the destiny of nations.


Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances
Finnegan
(Hardback; 25.00 IEP / 30.00 USD / 20.00 UK / 31.80 EURO; Congrave Press,
256 pages)

This book is a history of four of Ireland's Convent Magdalen Asylums,
established in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes
undergoing reform. It traces the development of the Female Penitentiary
Movement in Britain and examines how, following the arrival of the Good
Shepherd Sisters in 1848, 'Rescue Work' in Ireland underwent a change.
Short-term lay refuges became long-term Magdalen institutions, many of whose
inmates were discouraged from leaving and were sometimes detained for life.
Labouring in the adjoining laundries, unpaid workers were subjected to
penance, harsh discipline, silence and prayer. As prostitute numbers
dwindled other 'fallen' women were targeted including unmarried mothers and
wayward or abused girls - many being incarcerated by their families or
priests. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material, this book contains
case-histories of individual women and insights into how the Homes were run.
Though concentrating largely on the Victorian period, the study explores the
survival of these institutions into the late twentieth-century. It
discusses far-reaching consequences of such a system, especially for the
poor - many of whose children were housed in the Order's adjacent Industrial
Schools; and it examines some of the misconceptions surrounding this
significant episode in Irish women's history.


Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul 1500-2000 by Marcus
Tanner
(Hardback; 25.00 IEP / 30.50 USD / 21.00 UK / 31.80 EURO; Yale University
Press, 498 pages)

For much of the 20th century, Ireland has been synonymous with conflict, the
painful struggle for its national soul part of the regular fabric of life.
And because the Irish have emigrated to all parts of the world - while
always remaining Irish - ' the troubles' have become part of a common
heritage, well beyond their own borders. Within the immense literature on
the Irish 'problem', the most usual focus is the political rivalry between
Unionism and Republicanism. But the roots of the Irish conflict are
profoundly and inescapably religious. As the author shows in this vivid,
engaging and perceptive book, only by understanding the history - played out
over five centuries - of the failed attempts by the English to make Ireland
into a Protestant state can the pervasive tribal hatreds of today be seen in
context. Tanner traces the emergence of a modern Irish national identity in
the popular resistance to this imposed Protestantism and the common defense
of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale, who
settled in Ireland after its twelfth-century conquest. In addition to a
thorough study of the written sources, the book is enriched by a personal
encounter with today's Ireland, from Belfast to Dublin and Cork.

>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

This book review appeared on the H-Albion list...

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
To: H-ALBION[at]H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: REV: Reeve on O'Connor, _The Irish in Europe 1580-1815_

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (January 2002)

Thomas O'Connor, ed. _The Irish in Europe 1580-1815_. Dublin:
Four Courts Press, 2001. 219 pp. Index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN
1-85182-579-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by John Reeve ,
School of History, University of New South Wales, Australian
Defence Force Academy

The Irish--like the English, the Jews, and others--are a
diasporic people. Their identity consists and exists very
largely within their wider international influence and presence.
Obviously this has been, in modern times, within the far-flung
English-speaking colonial and neo-colonial world, particularly
North America. But in the early modern era the Irish diaspora
was European. The Irish have distinguished themselves, _inter
alia_, as priests, scholars, and warriors. Ecclesiastical,
academic, and military professional groups are, traditionally,
truly functional international communities. It is therefore
unsurprising to find the Irish abroad in any era. In early
modern Europe confessional divisions created rival international
worlds which were part of a continent at war. Hence there were
pan-European, as well as British, incentives for emigration and
exile. The established historiography of the early modern Irish
abroad concentrates on clerical and military life.[1] This
collection of essays seeks to explore new
frontiers--socio-economic and cultural--in early modern Irish
international history. The approach is interdisciplinary and
the contributors come from a range of Irish, American, and
continental European academic backgrounds. The general standard
is high, and the book coheres in a way conference-germinated
volumes do not always achieve. It succeeds in suggesting new
approaches to the Irish in Europe, and in making a case for a
biographical database project as a vehicle through which to
exploit them.

International history is a challenging, although potentially
rewarding, approach to the past. It involves parallel and
intersecting stories and requires respect for their complexity
and many variables. The Irish experience in Europe, as an
exercise in international history, needs sophistication,
flexibility, openness, careful targeting, and teamwork. True
transnational history is probably beyond the individual scholar
and is predicated on the pooling of resources and expertise. The
contributors to this book would seem to appreciate these needs.
They have in part a negative spur: to escape the intellectual
prism of nineteenth century nationalism and its teleological
superimposition upon a largely pre-nationalistic world. In
particular, an "obsession with England" (p. 18) can obstruct
understanding of Irish history in its own terms. A renewed
attempt to transcend Anglo-driven Irish history is also
appropriate when some English historians are locating early
modern English history within its wider international
context.[2] The theme of the Irish in Europe is a useful
dimension for Anglo-European historians to recognize, since
early modern Ireland was a living British link to an alternative
and Catholic Europe.

Together the twelve essays (one introductory and eleven topical)
provide a balanced and integrated treatment. Their
chronological sweep is logical, encompassing the era from the
Reformation to the French Revolution. Their geographical
emphasis is on the Irish within the great Catholic societies of
Spain and France. They generally afford a breadth of thematic
treatment, ranging over ecclesiastical and academic,
intellectual and literary, commercial and economic, royal and
patronal, and (to a limited extent) political, naval-maritime,
and military history. Intellectual and literary history,
comparative literature, and socio-economic analysis are the
dominant conceptual approaches. Traditional high politics and
operational military history barely have walk-on roles. There
is a handsome level of documentation from archival, printed, and
secondary sources. The overriding theme is religion. Early
modern Irish society was a casualty of a religiously divided
Europe, and its exiled sons and daughters lived out their Roman
Catholic identity in its various refractions. Religious life
and doctrine, being forms of ideas, were essentially immune to
political quarantine and together were one of the dominant
internationalizing forces of the age.

The introductory chapter by Thomas O'Connor sets the
historiographical and thematic scene. There is a valuable
discussion of the nature and development of historical writing
on the Irish abroad and its links to foreign historiography.
O'Connor states the need to balance the modern (i.e., post-1800)
history of Irish emigration with the early modern, and to go
beyond the customary clerical and military themes. He argues
that there were dual triggers to early modern Irish emigration:
religious confessionalism and (British) state building. He
sketches the multifactorial nature of changing migration
patterns.

Two essays deal with the Irish in Spain. Ciaran O'Scea explores
the devotional world of the Irish in seventeenth-century
Galicia, where Spanish notarial records suggest racial and
gender differences. Patricia O'Connell writes of the Irish
college network in Iberia, seeing it _inter alia_ as a cultural
branch of Spanish foreign policy. She elucidates a theme which
could serve as a motto for much of the book: the Irish
experience of exile was partly the development of an alternative
national vision independent of the forces for Anglicization at
home.

Six essays deal with the Irish in France. Eamon O Ciosain
discusses seventeenth century Irish migration to France,
providing a corrective to the view that the major exodus
occurred at the beginning of the Williamite wars. The
estimation that in mid-century there were approximately 40,000
Irish people in France suggests the importance of diasporic
history. Mary Ann Lyons investigates the Irish community in St.
Malo up to 1710. The critical factor was the prominence of St.
Malo as a port, political and religious migration following
commercial links. David Bracken writes of the Irish Jacobites
in France from 1691 to 1720. He illuminates the social depth of
the exile experience in discussing the destitution which
followed French military force reductions after 1697. Many
Irishmen resorted to violent crime including piracy. Priscilla
O'Connor studies the role of the Irish clergy in early
eighteenth century Paris. In administering the affairs of
Jacobites in Ireland and France the clergy played a role in
maintaining kinship networks. Edward Corp tests the claim of
the Irish at the Jacobite court in France to have been poorly
treated, concluding that their grievances were mostly unfounded.
Liam Swords writes of the Irish in Paris at the end of the
ancien regime, showing how the coming of revolution meant both
loss and gain for the exiles: some suffered execution or
massacre; others prospered in the Napoleonic armies. The regime
of the Committee of Public Safety saw the Irish (ironically in
retrospect) as enemies of republicanism.

Three essays trace cultural themes. Tadhg O Dushlaine discusses
the influence of Sir Thomas More on Irish literature in the form
of Seathrun Ceitinn, suggesting the need for a European context
in studying seventeenth-century Irish literature. Clare Carroll
relates concepts of custom and law in Suarez to the views of
some Irish intellectuals. Irish writers rationalized war
against the Anglo-Irish regime, asserting cultural as well as
political and property rights. There is an interesting
comparison with Las Casas's defense of native Indian rights.
Liam Chambers examines Irish Catholic thought in ancien regime
France, suggesting the flourishing nature of Irish intellectual
life in exile. Irish scholars modernized the Irish Catholic
church and presented an Irish cultural identity to Europe.

Despite the admirable desire to explore new approaches, there is
a missing chapter in this book. Irish soldiers and sailors
abroad warrant an essay beyond their fragmentary appearances in
other chapters. As an intrinsic, even critical dimension of the
Irish exile experience, they can potentially be treated
contextually in the spirit of the "new military history": as
socio-political subjects in themselves and as human beings
caiught up in the drama of war. Maps are also a missing element
in a book dealing with international affairs and movements. Maps
would greatly facilitate discussion of religious
confessionalism, political conflict, commercial linkages, and
geographical factors. Finally, there is an area of potential
discussion which is a partial opportunity missed, and which
might be addressed in the future. O'Connor calls for
comparative study of different phases of Irish migration (p.
26), but there is here no sign of the interesting possible
comparisons between different peoples' overseas experiences.
English, Scottish, Dutch, French, and Spanish migrants, exiles,
and travellers are immediately obvious possible comparisons with
the Irish. Even tentative and speculative initiatives along
these lines might throw Irish experience into sharper relief.

This book succeeds in its own terms as a learned sketch map and
an academic agenda. Such exercises in transnational history are
not tangential but essential, for the migration of people and
ideas marked the countries of their origin and destination as
well as the individuals involved. The history of exile is
richly human, touching on faith, love and war, the making and
breaking of personal bonds, the testing of loyalties, the
intertwining of cultures, and the gaining and losing of
livelihoods and fortunes. As this book occasionally suggests,
there is much such history to be written, alongside and as part
of social and intellectual analysis.

Notes

[1]. See for example the synthetic essays by J.J. Silke, "The
Irish Abroad 1534-1691," in _A New History of Ireland_, 3,
_Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691_, ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin,
and F.J. Byrne (Oxford, 1976); and H. Murtagh, "Irish Soldiers
Abroad, 1600-1800," in _A Military History of Ireland_, ed. T.
Bartlett and K. Jeffery (Cambridge, 1996).

[2]. See in particular J. Scott, _England's Troubles:
Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European
Context_ (Cambridge, 2000); the essays by S. Adams, "England and
the World Under the Tudors, 1485-1603" and J. Reeve, "Britain
and the World Under the Stuarts, 1603-1689," in J.S. Morrill,
ed., _The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart
Britain_ (Oxford, 1996); and J. Reeve, "Britain or Europe? The
Context of Early Modern English History: Political and
Cultural, Economic and Social, Naval and Military," in G.
Burgess, ed., _The New British History: Founding a Modern State
1603-1715_ (London, 1999).

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>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I had delayed this message, worried about obvious problems and for fear of
making things worse...

Anyway, the UK Public Record Office's plan to make the entire 1901 census
record for England and Wales available on line was completed and launched at
the beginning of the year. And collapsed, under the weight of interest.
Over 1 million visits in the first day, and over 7 million in the first few
days.

For the record, the Web address is
www.census.pro.gov.uk

But I'd wait till things calm down.

Note that it is now clear that this is a resource covering only England and
Wales, not including other parts of the then United Kingdom, Scotland or
Ireland, and not including Northern Ireland. I have not really seen much
discussion of the potential as a scholarly resource - most of the discussion
seems to be about family history and genealogy...
www.sog.org.uk
www.familyrecords.gov.uk

Certainly, there you have a measure of the interest... And, from what I
have heard, the way the facility is set up - and priced - might make it
difficult to use as a Diaspora Studies resource. But perhaps someone like
John Herson, with his micro study of Stafford, could use the online 1901
census to track further his families of Irish heritage. There are plans to
put more of the C19th census material online... We will watch - and
eventually we might be able to use...

P.O'S.

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>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think that this resource will interest many Ir-D members. It is certainly
an example of what can be done with an archive, when properly resourced.
And it is intriguing, and perhaps salutary, to enter words like 'Ireland' or
'Irish' as search terms, or the names of prominent C19th and C20th Irish
political figures. Yes, those who create the archives shape the history...

P.O'S.

Forwartded on behalf of
Natalie Adams
Natalie.Adams[at]CHU.CAM.AC.UK

> Subject: Churchill Papers catalogue
>
>
> Churchill Archives Centre is delighted to announce that a
> pilot version of
> the electronic catalogue of the Churchill Papers is now
> available online at:
> http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/churchill_papers/
>
> The Churchill Papers:
> The Churchill Papers consist of the original documents sent,
> received or
> composed by Sir Winston Churchill during the course of his
> long and active
> life. The papers contain everything from Churchill's
> childhood letters and
> school reports to his final writings. They include his personal
> correspondence with friends and family, and his official
> exchanges with
> kings, presidents, politicians and military leaders. Some of the most
> memorable phrases of the twentieth century are preserved in
> his own drafts
> and speaking notes for the famous wartime speeches. The
> Churchill Papers
> comprise an estimated 1 million individual documents. In
> April 1995 grants
> from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the John Paul Getty
> Foundation purchased
> the Churchill Papers for the nation.
>
> The catalogue:
> The Churchill Papers have been catalogued in a project
> lasting over 6 years.
> The catalogue now contains over 70,000 entries and the pilot Internet
> version allows you to search for catalogue descriptions using
> free text,
> keyword and date range searching. Searching methods will be
> improved and
> refined over the forthcoming months but we'd be interested to receive
> comments and suggestions in the meantime. If you would like
> to comment on
> searching the catalogue, please let us know.
>
> The catalogue data has been migrated from STATUS IQ (a text retrieval
> system) to a Structured Query Language (SQL) database which
> will enable
> powerful and effective searching. It will also ensure that
> the data can be
> exported into Encoded Archival Description (EAD) format.
>
> Part of the migration programme has included the updating of the index
> terms. The local thesaurus terms used to catalogue the papers
> have been
> mapped to UNESCO thesaurus subject terms and to name authority terms
> constructed according to the National Council on Archives
> Rules for the
> Construction of Personal, Corporate and Place Names.
>
> Further information/contact details:
> Natalie Adams
> Archivist/ Information Services Manager
> Churchill Archives Centre
> Churchill College
> Cambridge
> CB3 0DS
> Telephone (01223) 336222
> Fax (01223) 336135
> Website http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/churchill_papers/
>

From: Ultan Cowley
Subject: Re: Ir-D 1901 UK Census

Apropos of the above, in my short study of the Irish input into the
construction of the Manchester Ship Canal (1887-1893), 'the greatest
engineering feat of the Victorian Age' (Rolt, 1970), I consulted the 1891
Returns from various districts adjacent to the canal works looking for
Irish labourers identified with the project. Despite utilising powered
plant on an unprecedented scale, 16,000 men were employed on the project
and, extrapolating from my findings, I estimate that perhaps one quarter
were Irish.

An exhaustive search was not possible with the limited temporal and
financial resources then available to me but some of these findings appear
in 'The Men Who built Britain'.

The 1901 Returns provide an opportunity to check if any of these
individuals remained in the same locations a decade later. This might tell
us something about the itinerancy or otherwise of Irish manual labour in
the region at this time.

Perhaps this might be of interest to someone in Irish Studies burdened with
suggesting a viable project/dissertation for a history/sociology/geography
undergraduate? If so, I would be happy to make my original notes available
for consultation.

Ultan Cowley









At 06:00 10/01/02 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>I had delayed this message, worried about obvious problems and for fear of
>making things worse...
>
>Anyway, the UK Public Record Office's plan to make the entire 1901 census
>record for England and Wales available on line was completed and launched
at
>the beginning of the year. And collapsed, under the weight of interest.
>Over 1 million visits in the first day, and over 7 million in the first few
>days.
>
>For the record, the Web address is
>www.census.pro.gov.uk
>
>But I'd wait till things calm down.
>
>Note that it is now clear that this is a resource covering only England and
>Wales, not including other parts of the then United Kingdom, Scotland or
>Ireland, and not including Northern Ireland. I have not really seen much
>discussion of the potential as a scholarly resource - most of the
discussion
>seems to be about family history and genealogy...
>www.sog.org.uk
>www.familyrecords.gov.uk
>
>Certainly, there you have a measure of the interest... And, from what I
>have heard, the way the facility is set up - and priced - might make it
>difficult to use as a Diaspora Studies resource. But perhaps someone like
>John Herson, with his micro study of Stafford, could use the online 1901
>census to track further his families of Irish heritage. There are plans to
>put more of the C19th census material online... We will watch - and
>eventually we might be able to use...
>
>P.O'S.
>

From: Devin G Harner
devo[at]UDel.Edu]
Subject: Bloody Sunday Anniversary in Derry?


Hello Paddy,

I've been lurking on the listserv for the last couple of years. Now I'll
step into the foreground with a question. Could anyone direct me to a
list of peace events planned in Derry at the end of January? I'm in
London now and my notes are in the States.

Thanks,
Devin

From: "Maureen E Mulvihill"
Subject: Bloody Sunday - Commemorative Events, New York City

11 January 2002

Re: Bloody Sunday -- Commemorative Events

Devin Harner also may be interested to know of commemorative Bloody Sunday
events planned here in New York City.

If he consults today's New York Times (11 January 2002, Weekend section, pp.
E41, E43, with three dramatic photographs), he'll see an extended review by
Holland Cotter of the current exhibition, "Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday
1972," at the International Center of Photography, 1114 Avenue of the
Americas [at] 43d Street, New York, New York, through 17 March 2002; telephone
+ 212.860.1777.

I intend to view the show (possibly review it for an Irish publication); and
I look forward to seeing there many of my Irish Studies colleagues and
others.

Slan agus beannacht,

Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ
Residence: One Plaza West, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com

From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D Bloody Sunday Anniversary 2

Is this the exhibition that has been touring for a few years now? (I
saw it on a visit to Washing ton a couple of years ago). If so,
people might like to know that there is a catalogue of the the same
name edited by Trica Ziff who lives in Mexico, published by Smart Art
Press, LA, seems to have no date, though ziffs acknowledgements
statement is dated 1998.

best,
Hilary

>From: "Maureen E Mulvihill"
>Subject: Bloody Sunday - Commemorative Events, New York City
>
>11 January 2002
>
>Re: Bloody Sunday -- Commemorative Events
>
>Devin Harner also may be interested to know of commemorative Bloody Sunday
>events planned here in New York City.
>
>If he consults today's New York Times (11 January 2002, Weekend section,
pp.
>E41, E43, with three dramatic photographs), he'll see an extended review by
>Holland Cotter of the current exhibition, "Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday
>1972," at the International Center of Photography, 1114 Avenue of the
>Americas [at] 43d Street, New York, New York, through 17 March 2002; telephone
>+ 212.860.1777.
>
>I intend to view the show (possibly review it for an Irish publication);
and
>I look forward to seeing there many of my Irish Studies colleagues and
>others.
>
>Slan agus beannacht,
>
>Maureen E. Mulvihill
>Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ
>Residence: One Plaza West, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
>mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com

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_______________________________

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


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

From: "Anne-Maree Whitaker"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Bloody Sunday Anniversary in Derry

The Pat Finucane Centre's website says that the annual Bloody Sunday
commemoration march will take place on Sunday 3 February, 2002, with the
full programme of events taking place during the preceding week.


>From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Subject: Ir-D Bloody Sunday Anniversary in Derry
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:00:00 +0000
>
>From: Devin G Harner
>devo[at]UDel.Edu]
>Subject: Bloody Sunday Anniversary in Derry?
>
>
>Hello Paddy,
>
>I've been lurking on the listserv for the last couple of years. Now I'll
>step into the foreground with a question. Could anyone direct me to a
>list of peace events planned in Derry at the end of January? I'm in
>London now and my notes are in the States.
>
>Thanks,
>Devin
>


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So, step by step, here are the DIDI instructions...

1.
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2.
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3.
The Subject: line of your email MUST take the form
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Thus
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4.
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5.
Put that piece of text about yourself into the body of your email.

6.
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8.
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i.
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email addresses need to be careful, as do people based in large
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ii.
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Do ensure that the material between the curly brackets is a full, working
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This means, of course, that you cannot use curly brackets for any other
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iii.
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within your DIDI text you can make your email address clickable there by
using the curly bracket system. Example?
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Click on Special Access, at the top of the screen.

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As I said earlier, we went for a system that works entirely through email,
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lot of issues - amongst them: our own workloads, Ir-D members' control of
the database, the weight of interest in the different options, and of course
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Instructions for using DIDI will follow, as a separate email.

My thanks to the Irish-Diaspora list members who have been testing the
system for us, over the past week.

We can report that the DIDI system works.

Our tests of the system suggest that the things to watch out for are Points
3 and 4 in the instructions - get your Subject line right and get your own
email address right. See also Note i. And Note ii - if you are going to
use 'Hotlinks' make sure you give a good web site address.

Feel free to contact me if there are any problems.

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spam merchant can get at the email addresses in the DIDI database - but we
cannot put it any stronger than that. The system is as secure as we can
make it. And we will monitor use of the system. Each individual Ir-D
member must make her or his own choice about participating in the DIDI
system.

I have to say that it would be a great help to us who run the Irish-Diaspora
list if the majority of Irish-diaspora list members did send entries to
DIDI. There seems to be some sort of weakness in my brain that makes it
difficult for me to keep track of the research interests of more than 150
people...

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From: "Padraic"
Subject: Re: someone looking to interview building workers

Hello.

I seem to remember someone wishing to interview building workers. One of my
uncles might fit the bill. He came over in 1945 and for most of his life was
a building worker in London, including on the motorways and a UCATT steward
as well.

If you contact me I will put you in contact with him.

Regards,

Padraic Finn.