From: "Sean Byrne"
Subject: RE: MS & DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION AT DCAR, SHSS

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Last fall, the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR)
> changed its name from Department of Dispute Resolution. Please share the
> attached information with your undergraduate and/or masters' students who
> may wish to pursue their master's or doctorate degrees in conflict
> resolution in DCAR, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova
> Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida www.nova.edu/shss/DCAR
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sean
>

Subject: John Doherty School

Forwarded on behalf of Francis Devine, the Irish in Britain Representation
Group and the 2002 John Doherty School...

John was born in Buncrana, County Donegal and moved to Manchester as a young
man where he became leader of
the cotton spinners in the 1830s as well engaging in a number of other
radical
activities including running a bookshop and publishing newspapers. He also
supported the Repeal movement.

More information about the weekend from Francis Devine email;
fdevine[at]siptu.ie

John Doherty School

12-14 April, 2002, Buncrana, County Donegal

all events to be held in the Inishowen Gateway Hotel

Friday, 12 April

8pm Opening by Uachtarain na hEireann, Mary McAleese

The Voice Of The People: John Doherty, 1798-1854,
Radical, Factory Reformer, Working Class Advocate
Francis Devine, Irish Labour History Society
Chair: Seamus Doherty, Buncrana
Sean Reilly, SIPTU

Saturday, 13 April

10am John Doherty, The Irish & English Radicalism
Dr Emmet O'Connor, Magee College, Derry
Professor John Belchem, Liverpool University Of
Chair: Dr. Jack McGinley, ILHS

11.15 Tea/Coffee

11.45 Donegal Men Who Built Britain- Multi Media Presentation
Ultan Cowley, Waterford
Remembering Their History: Memory & Representation Of Irish Migratory
Seasonal Agricultural Workers In Twentieth Century Scotland
Dr Heather Holmes, Scottish Executive, Department Of Environment & Rural
Affairs, Edinburgh
Chair: Liam Bergin, Buncrana Library

1.15 Lunch

2.15 Patterns Of The Past: Donegal Women Out-workers - Multi Media
Presentation
Caroline Carr & Judith McCarthy, Donegal County Museum
The Exploitation Of Donegal Textile Workers
Professor Desmond Greer, Queen's University Belfast
Chair: Inez McCormack, Irish Congress Of Trade Unions

3.45 Tea/Coffee

4.15 Who Is The Voice Of The People Today? - Panel Discussion
David Begg, Irish Congress Of Trade Unions
Marian Harkin, Sligo-Leitrim
Gerry Murray, Derry Journal
Eamonn McCann, Derry Trades Council
Chair: Fionnuala McGeever, Inishowen Partnership Company

9pm Social & Session with the Liffey Banks (Des Geraghty & Friends)

Sunday, 14 April
11am Meeting at the John Doherty Monument, Buncrana Pier
Tullyarvan & Buncrana Industry In John Doherty's Time
John Farren (Buncrana)
Chair: Seamus Doherty (Buncrana)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Here's an interesting item - a sort of Weber revisited, though the authors
do not say that...

Go to...

http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/

And in Publications you have access to the full text of a report
- - Young People's Lives: a map of Europe, Maria Iacovou and Richard
Berthoud -
in Adobe Acrobat.

It is based on survey work within the European Union - and the authors
comment on Catholic/Protestant contrasts and patterns often found within
such surveys. For example, that Austria and Ireland tend to be more like
the Mediterranean countries, and the Netherlands more like the Scandinavian.
As to the subject matter of the report - it seems that young people in the
Protestant countries are more likely to be living in poverty...

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We seem to be approaching a number of Anniveraries in Northern Ireland -
some of them constructed with great ingenuity. One commentator has noted
that February 2002 is exactly one third of a century after October 1968, the
civil rights demonstration and Gerry Fitt with blood pouring from his head
after an RUC baton charge. More to the point, we are about to reach the
30th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday... The 30 year rule is releasing
interesting material from British Government archives - I will let the
specialists comment on that if, they will... And of course the Saville
inquiry continues - see...
http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/

There are now two movies about Bloody Sunday in the offing - both have had
some cinema showings in Ireland.

1.
Paul Greengrass's television film, Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt.
Much on the Web about that. See for example...

http://www.observer.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,625678,00.html

The film will be shown on ITV (LWT) on Sunday 20 January at 10.00 pm. This
is a drama documentary - that is, it uses all the technigues of film drama
to tell its story. There are always objections to this practice, and of
course, with such subject matter, objections can be expected - and
apparently there was some sort of fracas at the London press showing.

2.
Sunday, Written By Jimmy McGovern, Directed by Charles McDougal, will be
shown on Channel 4 television on January 28. Again there is material to be
found on the Web... For example...

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/today/jan12/News/sunday.shtml

P.O'S.

- --
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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University of Bradford
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Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Trying to think of some Irish Diaspora Studies anniversaries in the near
future... All we have come up with so far is the defence of Cremona,
January/Febuary 1702 -to which O'Callaghan, Irish Brigades in the Service of
France (1870), gives 10 proud pages. Burke's and Dillon's Regiments held
the gate against a surprise attack by Prince Eugene's Imperialist forces.

I think Galmoy was also there, but O'Callaghan does not mention them. And
on the Imperialist side was a McDonnell and a Taffe. Perhaps this item
should be called 'Half-Remember Cremona...' Military historians?

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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University of Bradford
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Yorkshire
England

From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D Remember Cremona

From: Patrick Maume
Ronald Reagan's birthday on 6 February? (I know because it happens to
be my birthday as well).


On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:00:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:00:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D Remember Cremona
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Trying to think of some Irish Diaspora Studies anniversaries in the
near
> future... All we have come up with so far is the defence of
Cremona,
> January/Febuary 1702 -to which O'Callaghan, Irish Brigades in the
Service of
> France (1870), gives 10 proud pages.

- -
From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Fw: Visit Bristol as a Fellow?

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Nichols Clark"
To:
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:57 AM
Subject: Visit Bristol as a Fellow?


Details below of a visiting International Fellowship in the University
of Bristol, UK. For those of you who so not know the School for
Policy Studies, we have a major interest in urban research in the form
of the School's Centre for Urban Studies, plus interests in poverty
and social exclusion, health and social care etc.

New International Visiting Fellowship
at the School for Policy Studies --

The School for Policy Studies is pleased to announce a new
International Visiting Fellowship to start in 2002. The aim of the
Fellowship is to facilitate visits from overseas academics working in
areas of interest to SPS to engage in collaborative research projects
within the school. Up to £3,000 is available to the Fellow, who will
be
offered the opportunity to participate in this vibrant research
culture,
working alongside SPS staff with shared research interests.
Applicants are invited from scholars working outside the UK in
academic or related research institutes who seek to carry out
research in the UK and who would like the opportunity to develop
collaborative work with a colleague from SPS.

The closing date for applications is March 1st 2002 with award
announcements being made in late April 2002.

Further details and application form are available from:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/SPS/news/visi_det.html
----------------------
Professor Martin Boddy
martin.boddy[at]bristol.ac.uk

Tel +44 (0)117 954 5568 (direct line)
Tel +44 (0)117 954 6755 (switchboard)
Fax +44 (0)117 954 6756
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 1TZ

Visit: SPS Web Page: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/SPS/
ESRC Cities Project: http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/bcp/home.htm

From: "noel gilzean"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Anniversaries 2

noel gilzean
rosslare51[at]hotmail.com

Not quite an anniversary but the universe was recently declared by American
Astronomers to be Green in colour, actually turqouise. Is this the finest
achievement of the Irish Diaspora? Beats the Holloway Road.
Noel

Forwarded for information...

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,
University of Glasgow

Research Associate: Irish Cancer Project

We seek a researcher for a fixed term of 18 months to join a
multidisciplinary team examining cancer-related knowledge and
beliefs, and means of raising awareness, amongst Irish people living
in the UK. This project is funded by The Cancer Research
Campaign. The main purpose will be to conduct a qualitative study
of Irish people and comparison group.

Applicants should have an honours degree (2.1 or above) in an
appropriate social science and have, or be about to submit, a PhD
(or equivalent experience); and have experience of undertaking and
analysing qualitative fieldwork. Knowledge of cancer and ethnic
issues in Britain is desirable.

This is a Band 4 post in the MRC pay and grading scheme (starting
salary in the range £21,539 - £25,847). Starting date April 1st,
2002 or negotiable. Application forms and further particulars (ref.
SH) are available from MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,
4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, and on
www.msoc-mrc.gla.ac.uk. Closing date 15th February, 2002.

From: Russell Murray
Subject: Re: Ir-D Remember Cremona

Paddy's Half-Remember Cremona item, with additions...

> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Trying to think of some Irish Diaspora Studies anniversaries in the near
>future... All we have come up with so far is the defence of Cremona,
>January/Febuary 1702 -to which O'Callaghan, Irish Brigades in the Service
of
>France (1870), gives 10 proud pages. Burke's and Dillon's Regiments


commanded, at the time, by Major Daniel O'Mahoney, Dillon's Regt. (both
colonels being absent!)

> held
>the gate

the Po gate

>against a surprise attack by Prince Eugene's Imperialist forces.
>
>I think Galmoy was also there, but O'Callaghan does not mention them. And
>on the Imperialist side was a McDonnell

Captain Francis MacDonnell, Imperial Infantry Regiment Bagni

>and a Taffe.

Lambert Taafe, serving in the Austrian Cuirassiers Regt. whose colonel was
his uncle Francis, 4th Viscount Taafe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford

>Perhaps this item
>should be called 'Half-Remember Cremona...' Military historians?
>
>P.O'S.
>
Russell Murray

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The review mentioned by Peter David Hart was

Black Sabbath
by
Gareth McLean
Monday January 21, 2002
The Guardian

This Guardian review of the Greengrass Bloody Sunday film can be found at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bloodysunday/article/0,2763,636796,00.html

(Note that your own email line breaks might fracture that long web address.)

P.O'S.

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From: Peter David Hart
Subject: Re: Ir-D Anniversaries

A quick response re. last night's Bloody Sunday film, which is certainly
worthy of comment. I did not see all of it but what I did see was
extraordinarily good: immediate, moving, exciting, believable. The period
detail and atmosphere was near perfect, whether among the march organizers
or British officers. I thought it rose above the particular and could
stand as a illuminating study of how such tragedies happen in general. If
released on video it would be a great resource for teaching - if only to
communicate the sense of the times, it would want heavy contextualization.
It should really be released in theatres, at least in Ireland. I would
love to see it on the big screen.

A caveat: I may have missed more damning scenes betraying a bias or
inaccuracies, and Im not an expert in the events, but I didn't see
anything really worthy of protest. As I've said, quite the opposite - I'd
say the makers did us a real favour.

For an excellent review (i.e. one I agree with!) see today's Guardian.


On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> We seem to be approaching a number of Anniveraries in Northern Ireland -
> some of them constructed with great ingenuity. One commentator has noted
> that February 2002 is exactly one third of a century after October 1968,
the
> civil rights demonstration and Gerry Fitt with blood pouring from his head
> after an RUC baton charge. More to the point, we are about to reach the
> 30th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday... The 30 year rule is releasing
> interesting material from British Government archives - I will let the
> specialists comment on that if, they will... And of course the Saville
> inquiry continues - see...
> http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/
>
> There are now two movies about Bloody Sunday in the offing - both have had
> some cinema showings in Ireland.
>
> 1.
> Paul Greengrass's television film, Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt.
> Much on the Web about that. See for example...
>
> http://www.observer.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,625678,00.html
>
> The film will be shown on ITV (LWT) on Sunday 20 January at 10.00 pm.
This
> is a drama documentary - that is, it uses all the technigues of film drama
> to tell its story. There are always objections to this practice, and of
> course, with such subject matter, objections can be expected - and
> apparently there was some sort of fracas at the London press showing.
>
> 2.
> Sunday, Written By Jimmy McGovern, Directed by Charles McDougal, will be
> shown on Channel 4 television on January 28. Again there is material to
be
> found on the Web... For example...
>
> http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/today/jan12/News/sunday.shtml
>
> P.O'S.
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

IASIL 2002 - Extended deadline

Invitation and Call for Papers

Extended deadline for proposals for papers (aprox. 300 words) and previously
organized panels:
15 February 2002.

IASIL 2002
São Paulo, July 28 - August 1

INTERRELATIONS
Irish Literatures and other forms of knowledge

This conference aims at developing an interdisciplinary approach to the
study of Irish Literatures. It looks at literary connections with History,
Psychology, Philosophy, Science, other Arts (such as music, dance, cinema,
painting), Critical Theory and Translation.
Papers and panels may also address the following issues:
- - intertextuality
- - cultural encounters
- - Irish images abroad
- - Irish culture

All proposals and c.v. (one paragraph) must be submitted to the organizers
electronically:
Munira H. Mutran & Laura Izarra
Universidade de São Paulo- DLM
Av. Luciano Gualberto 403
05508-900 São Paulo ? SP / Brasil
Fax: 0055-11-3032 2325
iasil[at]usp.br
Programme and further information at:
http://www.fflch.usp.br; then click on EVENTOS and IASIL 2002

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I now have an advance copy of

The Wearing of the Green
A History of St Patrick's Day
Mike Cronin, Daryl Adair

ISBN:
041518004X

(I did some work for the publisher - and they have paid me in books... How
to build a library...)

There is more information and contact point at...
http://www.routledge.com/

On the theme of publisher's blurb... Some of my contacts have been
irritated by this publisher's blurb making excessive claims. The authors
themselves are more circumspect - 'We make no claim about having produced a
conclusive or even comprehensive historical analysis of St. Patrick's Day'
(p xxiii)

It is in fact an Irish Diaspora Study, one of the few that we possess -
looking at the different ways that St. Patrick's Day has been owned and
used, for the most part over the past 200 years, throughout the Irish
Diaspora. There are some little gaps that specialists might notice, but a
mass of material has been digested, and is thoroughly referenced. Patrick
O'Farrell is in there, as one of the people who has previously considered
the question of 'ownership' of the Day.

So, I think the book works. As an intriguing Irish Diaspora Study. There
are always tensions within a diaspora, between the diaspora and the
homeland, and between the different arms of the diaspora. The Irish
tradition has been to disguise, or at least not to study or give prominence
to, such tensions. Cronin and Adair have found a way to explore and make
visible tensions within one diaspora.

Highly recommended.

(Note: There is a possibility of confusion - another recent book with a
similar title is Michael Herbert, The Wearing of the Green: A Political
History of the Irish in Manchester, ISBN 0-954-378-0-9, published by The
Irish in Britain Representation Group.)

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
John Tully
tully.9[at]osu.edu.

Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:52:01 -0500
Subject: MWCBS Panel Proposal

I hope to put together a panel for the Midwest Conference on British Studies
to be held in Columbus, Ohio this October.

My research examines the interplay among Irish Americans and U.S., British,
and Irish policymakers between 1932 and 1945. I can envision creating a
panel around themes of neutrality, security issues, or Anglo-American
wartime relations.

If you are interested in presenting, or if you are interested in serving as
chair or commentator, please contact me off the list at tully.9[at]osu.edu.

Thank you.

John Tully

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


On its way to the winner of our traditional New Year contest, Anne-Maree
Whitaker, in New South Wales, is a prize, my spare copy of...

Judith Walzer Leavitt
Typhoid Mary
Captive to the Public's Health
Beacon Press, Boston, 1996

I thought that this book might be Anne-Maree's cup of tea, combining public
health, social history and biography. Judith Walzer Leavitt has done an
extraordinary amount of work, bringing together and analysing the material
to re-construct the life of Mary Mallon. And then analysing the discourses
about the woman, the Irish person and the health risk.

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health,
is still on sale on the Beacon Press web site
http://www.beacon.org/backlist/history.html

where the publisher's blurb - as ever - manages to get the detail wrong...

Judith Walzer Leavitt is
Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women?
s Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

See...

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/histsci/f_leavit.html

http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/prevmed/leavitt.htm

Congratulations to Anne-Maree. Promptness pays...

P.O'S.

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From: Tony Murray
Subject: Re: Ir-D Greengrass, Blood Sunday

I agree with your assessment of Paul Greengrass's film
Peter - I thought it was an exemplary piece of
drama-documentary and has done Don Mullan's book and all
of us who struggle to convey the reality of what happened
that day a great service. List members may be interested
in the following new book...


FIRST EVER BOOK TO TELL SURVIVORS' STORIES OF BLOODY SUNDAY IN THEIR OWN
WORDS

A Matter of Minutes - The Enduring Legacy of Bloody Sunday - by Joanne
O'Brien

Launch Date: 29 January 2002


?I told the Army that I needed ambulances for the injured. One of the
soldiers laughed and said, ?Why do you need ambulances? The Paras shoot to
kill not maim.' (Alice Long, 18-year old First Aider on Bloody Sunday)

The events of Bloody Sunday were over in 23 minutes but they left an
enduring scar on the lives of thousands of people. A Matter of Minutes is
the first ever book to tell the personal stories of 33 individuals whose
lives were forever changed on that fateful day in January 1972, when the
people of Derry were gunned down whilst taking part in a civil rights march.
Each individual has also returned to be photographed in the spot where their
loved ones died or where they themselves were injured on that day.

Compiled over an intensive five-year period by photojournalist, Joanne
O'Brien, this incredible book provides a graphic insight into the lives of
relatives of the dead, people injured during the march, and the inhabitants
of Derry who live daily with the legacy of this terrible event. As each
story unfolds in the individual's own words, and as they stare out
unblinkingly from the spot where for many of them their lives were so
tragically altered, readers will become aware of their shared determination
that the truth of Bloody Sunday must finally be uncovered.

Stories include:

? 18-years old at the time, Alice Long was a First Aider and a volunteer for
the Knight of Malta. Running from place to place under constant fire, she
met nothing but hostility from the Army as she tried to get ambulances for
the injured. She also witnessed a paratrooper firing a bullet into the body
of a man she believed to be still alive. Alice was awarded a medal of
bravery by the Pope for her work on Bloody Sunday.


? Bernard McGuigan went out to comfort an injured stranger crying out in
pain. He was waving a white handkerchief. Part of his face was shot away by
a dum-dum bullet. His story is told by his daughter Margaret McGuigan, who
says ?Anywhere else in the world, someone that went out to help someone
would have been a hero but Widgery called my father a gunman.' (The Widgery
Inquiry of 1972)

? Maura Young recalls the trauma of searching for her 17-year old brother
who failed to return from the civil rights march - and had been shot in the
head. She recalls the stylish young man who never wore jeans, sellotaped his
hair down to appeal to the girls, and loved to dance. ?I remember the priest
who came from Creggan chapel asking my mother and father if they forgave the
soldier. My mother without batting an eyelid said ??I do, that soldier is
some mother's son too,'... she was a strong wee woman but it took part of
her life away,' Maura says.

? Raymond Rogan is a well-known ?pillar of the community'. He was driving
Gerard Donaghey, an injured 16-year old to hospital when the army stopped
and detained him. The young boy was left to die in the back of the car. The
police later showed photographs of Gerard's body with nailbombs in the
pocket. Raymond vividly recalls how the lad's unconscious body had
previously been checked for identification by a doctor. ?A medal around his
neck was the only thing we could find. If there had been nailbombs on him I
wouldn't have let him be carried into my house, because that was putting my
family at risk,' Raymond says.

Author Joanne O'Brien says:
?Recording the stories of these people was probably the most harrowing
experience of my life. After interviewing and photographing people I was
able to return to London and take a break from the intensity of their grief,
but these people live with the aftermath of Bloody Sunday every day. I was
particular struck by the compassion and lack of hatred of so many of them.
The dignity of the people involved is amazing, and I just hope my book can
do their stories justice.'

A Matter of Minutes is being launched by Northern Ireland Human Rights
Commissioner Inez McCormack at 7.30pm on Tuesday 29 January at The Gasyard
Arts and Community Centre, 128 Lecky Road Derry. The book is published on
30th January by Wolfhound Press. The book will shortly be available in
England, Wales and Scotland.

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:00:00 +0000
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> From: Peter David Hart
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Anniversaries
>
> A quick response re. last night's Bloody Sunday film, which is certainly
> worthy of comment. I did not see all of it but what I did see was
> extraordinarily good: immediate, moving, exciting, believable. The period
> detail and atmosphere was near perfect, whether among the march organizers
> or British officers. I thought it rose above the particular and could
> stand as a illuminating study of how such tragedies happen in general. If
> released on video it would be a great resource for teaching - if only to
> communicate the sense of the times, it would want heavy contextualization.
> It should really be released in theatres, at least in Ireland. I would
> love to see it on the big screen.
>
> A caveat: I may have missed more damning scenes betraying a bias or
> inaccuracies, and Im not an expert in the events, but I didn't see
> anything really worthy of protest. As I've said, quite the opposite - I'd
> say the makers did us a real favour.
>
> For an excellent review (i.e. one I agree with!) see today's Guardian.
>
>


----------------------
Tony Murray
t.murray[at]unl.ac.uk

From: Steve McCabe
Subject: RE: Ir-D Interviews with building workers

Hello Padraic

Thanks, this would be of interest; particularly his union activities. You
can contact me on 0121 331 5178 or by sending details on return email.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:00 AM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Interviews with building workers



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.

From: CacoaH[at]netscape.net
Subject: writing ireland

Hello,

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if they've heard if Cairns and
Richards' Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Culture is due to
be reprinted, or where I could get a copy from?

Thanks a lot.

Carmel L. Haynes

Subject: Re: Ir-D IASIL 2002 - Extended deadline
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Laura

Any news on a 19th century panel:history and literature, crossing the
boundaries?

Eileen
Dr. 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