From: Steve McCabe
Subject: RE: Ir-D Greengrass, Bloody Sunday 3

The Greengrass film was very impressive. Any criticism that it has attracted
will presumably be based upon the belief that the makers must be apologists
for violent republicanism (see also comments below). Hopefully, films such
as this will convey to those who do not understand such matters that the
troubles were borne of injustice and that events such as Bloody Sunday
merely acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for those who argued that the only
solution was retribution through the barrel of a gun or a bomb. Tragically,
it took more than 3000 deaths to attempt to arrive at the conclusion that
talking must be better.

The new book sounds really interesting. As a committed advocate of
ethnography as a tool of understanding, it sounds like an excellent way of
conveying the horror of what happened when British troops shot their own
citizens with both deadly intent and apparent impunity. Unfortunately, the
events of Bloody Sunday still attract degrees of scepticism from elements of
the media and 'establishment' who suggest that what happened was somehow
their own fault.

Speaking as someone who was involved in the Birmingham Six Campaign here in
B'ham, I can testify to the fact that many still cling to the belief that
the system is somehow beyond criticism and, crucially, that those who dare
suggest anything otherwise are either dangerous enemies or deluded 'bleeding
heart liberals'. Incidentally, I write about my experiences of the B6
campaign in a new book that I am co-authoring on using exploratory research
methods in criminology. As I am happy to admit, it was the efforts of a few
individuals such as Chris Mullin and Gareth Pierce that secured their
freedom. Hwever, I distinctly remember the indifference of the Irish
government (regardless of party) in the case,until, of course, it became
fashionable and obvious to all but the most prejudiced that the six men were
innocent.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received this message below from
Aidan Lawes

This message is forwarded here, with Aidan's permission...

I am also going to forward to the Ir-D list some information from my further
contacts with Aidan Lawes, plus the existing outline of the Irish theme
within this project.

It will be seen that there may be a Web site up and running in November
2002.

Plus there is a request for further participation, contributions and
suggestions.

Scholars with their own archives, or who are working within archives, might
have suggestions to make.

Note particularly the interest in visual and audio material, including music
and song.

Anything of relevance or interest that comes in through the Ir-D list will
be forwarded to Aidan Lawes.

Or people can contact him directly.

Patrick O'Sullivan.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Lawes, Aidan
Subject: Sources for Irish immigration/migration to England


Dear Mr O'Sullivan,

Irish immigration/migration to England, c. 1800 - c. 2000

You may be interested to learn that the Public Record Office has become the
lead
organization in a project (Moving Here) to make digital images relating to
immigration into the UK available over the web. The project, funded by the
New Opportunity Fund (NOF), is designed to identify and digitize records
relating to immigration from the Caribbean, South Asia, Ireland and Jewish
immigration from Eastern Europe from the early 19th century to the late
20th. We will be working with records, museum objects, publications, sound
recordings and film. We will be creating a catalogue to the images and
contextual information - educational material and descriptive stories. Our
consortium consists of 30 partners, including major museums and libraries,
as well as regional and local bodies.

Each main theme has four strands - Sources, places or origin and context for
leaving; Travelling and arriving; Settlement and Re-connecting with the
country of origin. An initial listing, at various levels of detail, has been
prepared and we are hoping to obtain some feedback from a number of
potential users on the selection that has been made and as to which source
materials would be of most use to academic users, although the project is
intended more for the ordinary citizen and "life-long learner". If there are
other sources you might care to suggest, which are held by the partner
institutions we would be interested to learn of them. All the contributing
institutions are English repositories, with the exception of the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland. Personal accounts, letters and
photographs of immigrants would be of particular use and there might be a
number of place studies looking at a group of streets in an area if
immigrant settlement through the 1841-1901 censuses.

If you were interested in the project, I would be happy to send you the
provisional listing. Mary Doran at the British Library suggested that I
contact you.

Yours sincerely,


Aidan Lawes

Research Services Department

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Further from
Aidan Lawes

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Lawes, Aidan
To: 'Patrick O'Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Sources for Irish immigration/migration to England


Dear Patrick,

I was most encouraged by your enthusiastic response to my e-mail.

There is no web-site established as yet although it should be up and running
in November 2002. Most of the content will not have been digitized by then.

I would delighted if you would transmit my message to the Irish-Diaspora
group, together with the enclosed overview of proposed materials if you
thought that appropriate. Any suggestions that the members might have for
good source materials that they are aware of in the PRO or partner
institutions that have not been included would be useful, if possible by
mid-February. I can be mailed on aidan.lawes[at]pro.gov.uk.

...only PRONI (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland) is involved outside
English institutions.

The Irish theme is, at present, very short on film or music clips
which we really need to enliven the site but the terms of the NOF contract
prevent us from paying copyright fees - something of a handicap in these
areas.

We need to establish a user group for the project, including representatives
of the Irish community in Britain - any suggestions of possible names would
be appreciated. We hope that private individuals will contribute their own
stories and lend us source materials to digitise.

Best wishes,

Aidan Lawes

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Here is the PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME of the Constructions of Irishness
Conference, Salford, March 22 to 24 2002.

A nice mix, of established scholars, and newer and/or younger folk.
Heartwarming.

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Centre for Irish Studies
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester UK

Further information from
Wendy Dodgson, Conference Administrator, European Studies Research
Institute,
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK
Telephone: + 44 (0) 161 295 4862 Fax: + 44 (0) 161 295 5223 Email:
w.a.dodgson[at]salford.ac.uk

Web site...
www.esri.salford.ac.uk/irishness

Constructions of Irishness:

The Irish in Ireland, Britain and Beyond.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 22 MARCH
3.30pm ? 5pm Registration and Coffee (Reception Foyer)
5pm ? 5.15pm Rayleigh Room
Welcome by Professor M Harloe, Vice Chancellor.
5.30pm ? 6.30pm Rayleigh Room

Keynote Speaker
Professor Cormac O?Grada (University College Dublin) ?Ireland?s Recent
Economic Performance: A Historical and Comparative Perspective?

6.30pm Close
7.30pm Italian Meal in Manchester City Centre


SATURDAY 23 MARCH

9.30am ? 10.30am Rayleigh Room

Keynote Speaker
Professor David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College Dublin)
?Harry Boland and the Orange Order: Emigrant Networks and the Irish
Revolution?

10.30am ? 11.00am Coffee (Reception Foyer)
11.00am -12.30pm Rayleigh Room

KS Bohman (Princeton USA) ?Debatable Degrees of Irishness: Authenticity at
Home and Abroad?

K Corfield (Berkley Carrol College, USA) ?Teaching Irish History from
Primary Sources?

S Ward (Bradford) ?The Cult of Respectability?




Gaskell Room

T Connolly (University College, Cork) ?The Irish in Post Second World War
Britain 1945 ? 1960?

Fr. B Jagoe (Dominican Friary, USA) ?From Celtic Cult to Celtic Culture?

A Knox (Northumberland) ?Women of the Wild Geese: Irish Women, Exile and
Identity in Spain, 1596 ? 1670?

Pankhurst Room

M Llewellyn-Jones (Wales) ?Football, Film and Flexibility: Contemporary
Irish Drama and Postnationalist Identities?

J McAuley (Huddersfield) ?Reconstructing the Ulster Loyalist Identity?

12.30pm ? 2.00pm Buffet Lunch (Reception Foyer)

2.00pm ? 3.30pm Rayleigh Room

M Power (London) ?In Pursuit of Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Through
Understanding: The Evangelical Contribution in Northern Ireland: 1987 ? 1999
?

C. Norris (Pennsylvania, USA) ?Place, Space and Identity in Irish Fiction?

Y McKenna (Warwick) ?Forgotten Migrants: Irish Women Religious in England in
the 20th Century?

Gaskell Room

D MacRaild (Northumberland) ?Fraternity and Faith: Irish Protestant
Migration and the Orange Order in Northern England, 1865 ? 1920?

K Blair (Oxford) ?The Death of Cuchullain?: Commemmorating a (Northern)
Irish Hero?

R G Moore (London) and A D Sanders (Ulster) ?Formations of Culture: Loyalist
Nationalism and Conspiracy Ideology?

Pankhurst Room

W Streit (Germany) ?The Irish Uncanny House?

A Younger (Sunderland) ?Would the Real Hibernia Please Stand Up? Post
Colonial Performativities and ?Possible Worlds? in the Dramatic Works of
Brian Friel?

S Brewster (Central Lancashire) ?The Other Side: Proximity, Partition, and
Poetry in Northern Ireland?

3.30pm ? 4.30pm Rayleigh Room

Keynote Speaker
Professor George Boyce (Swansea)
?Anthony Trollope?s Irish Novels and Their Insights into Irish Society and
the English in Ireland?

4.30pm ? 5.00pm Coffee (Reception Foyer)
5.00pm ? 6.30pm Rayleigh Room (Postgraduate Session)

E Keown (Trinity College Dublin) ?Elizabeth Bowen and Louis MacNeice; 1929
39?

J Turton (Chester) ? ?Peasant Genius? and ?Bewildering Nondescript?:
Critical Divergences in the Perceptions of the Work of William Carleton?

S Matthews (Southampton) ?Varieties of Irishness in the Wellington Pamphlet
Collection?

Gaskell Room (Postgraduate Session)

A Waha (Germany) ?Football and Identity in Contemporary Irish Drama?

F Bovone (Trinity College Dublin) ?Belfast and Beyond: Glenn Patterson,
Robert M Wilson and Ciaron Carson?

A M Pierce (North Carolina USA) ? ?The Gael Must be the Element That
Absorbs?; DP Morgan, The Leader and the Encouragement of an Irish ? Ireland
Nationalism?

Pankhurst Room (Postgraduate Session)

P Pardoe (Salford) ?Modern Northern Irish Nationalism: Defining the Margins?

K Bean (Liverpool) ?Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New
Nationalism and Post- Republicanism?

C Bailey (London) ?Middle Class Irish in London: Varieties of Irishness- A
Middle Class Perspective?
7.00pm Cash bar (University House)
7.30pm Conference Dinner (University House)

Keynote Speaker
Professor Paul Arthur (Ulster)


SUNDAY 24 MARCH
9.30am ? 11.30am Rayleigh Room

K Howard (University College Dublin) ?Multiculturalism and the Construction
of an Ethnic Minority: The Irish Campaign for Ethnic Status in Great Britain
?

N Danaher (Leicester) ?Emigration: Irish Settlement in an East Midland Town?

R J Grace (Canada) ?the Irish in Mid 19th Century Canada: The Case of Quebec
?

A Newby (Helsinki) ?Highlanders and the Irish in Victorian Liverpool: An
Aspect of Urban Celtic Co- operation?

Gaskell Room

A Wonneberger (Hamburg) ?Shamrock or Shamrockery? Notions of Irishness in
the Irish ? American Diaspora?

M Campbell (University of Auckland) ?Immigrants, Nations and Nationalisms:
The Irish in Australasia and the USA, 1866 ? 1883?

J M Regan (Exeter) ?Language and Legitimacy: the Historiography of Irish
Independence?

M Cronin & D. Adair (Leicester & Canberra) ?St Patrick?s Day in Ireland,
1945-2000: Changing Meanings, Changing Country?

Pankhurst Room

P Hadaway (Belfast) ?Shaping the New Belfast: Protestants and the New
Politics of Exclusion?

J Smith (Chester) ?The Relationship Between Ulster Unionism and British
Conservatism During the Period of the Troubles?
G Peatling (Cornell USA) ?Many Racisms: Irish Identities and the Conundrum
of Discrimination?

11.30am ? 12 noon Coffee and Snacks (Reception Foyer)
12 noon ?12.30pm Plenary Session (Pankhurst Room)

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

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From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Charles O'Conor: Irish American lawyer

American National Biography Online


O'Conor, Charles (22 Jan. 1804-12 May 1884), lawyer and politician,
was born in New York City, the son of Thomas O'Connor and Margaret
O'Connor. O'Conor dropped the second n in his surname after a
trip to Ireland led him to discover that this was the historic
family spelling. His father had been involved in the Irish rebellion
of 1798 and immigrated to New York, where he wrote editorials
for the local papers. After his mother's death in 1816, O'Conor
served as an apprentice to a tar and lampblack manufacturer.
In 1817 he became an errand boy in a law office and later served
as a clerk and law student in the office of Joseph D. Fay. He
was admitted to the practice of law in 1824.

O'Conor's primary recognition came from the practice of law.
In addition to his success in a number of highly publicized cases,
O'Conor was an expert in wills, trusts, commercial law, and
corporation
law. In 1851 and 1852 he represented Catherine Sinclair Forrest
against the tragedian Edwin Forrest in the New York courts when
the two sued each other for divorce. The court granted the divorce,
with alimony, to Catherine Sinclair Forrest. Benjamin R. Curtis,
later a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said that O'Conor's
representation was "the most remarkable exhibition of professional
skill ever witnessed in this country."

In contrast to his success at the bar, O'Conor's political career
brought him few honors. In 1846 he was elected to the New York
Constitutional Convention, where he was prominent in opposing
property rights for women. He was an unsuccessful candidate for
lieutenant governor of New York in 1848. In 1853 President Franklin
Pierce appointed him U.S. attorney for New York.

Before the Civil War O'Conor participated in two controversial
cases in which he represented the interest of slaveholders maintaining
that they could temporarily hold slaves in New York, Jack v.
Martin (1834 and 1835) and Lemmon v. the People (1860). His opponents
in the Lemmon case were William M. Evarts and Chester A. Arthur.
Lemmon was thought by many to be a test case by which Dred Scott
could be extended to protect the right of slaveholders to take
slaves into free states.

In 1854 O'Conor married Cornelia Livingston McCracken, the widow
of L. H. McCracken. They eventually separated.

On 19 December 1859, shortly after the hanging of John Brown,
O'Conor gave a public speech at a "Union Meeting" of conservative
men that was intended to assure the South of their repudiation
of Brown's action. In that speech O'Conor defended slavery: "I
insist that Negro slavery is not unjust. It is not only not unjust,
it is just, wise, and beneficent." He represented Jefferson Davis
after he was indicted for treason and, along with Horace Greeley
and others, helped Davis obtain release on bail in 1867 by posting
his bond. Davis was never brought to trial. O'Conor represented
Georgia in its unsuccessful attempt to have the Supreme Court
declare congressional reconstruction unconstitutional in Georgia
v. Stanton (1868), and he was one of the counsel representing
Governor Samuel Tilden in the Tilden-Hayes electoral contest
before the electoral commission in 1877. In the latter case,
the commissioners decided to award disputed votes to Rutherford
B. Hayes, thereby electing him president.

Late in his life O'Conor also served a four-year term (1871-1875)
as a special deputy attorney general for the state of New York.
During that time he prosecuted the case against William M. Tweed.
The successful prosecution resulted in the demise of the "Tweed
Ring." In 1867 the bar of New York presented a bust of O'Conor
to the Supreme Court (trial court) of New York City, calling
him "one of the greatest living advocates." After Chief Justice
Salmon Chase's death some proposed O'Conor for chief justice,
but legal historian Charles Fairman labeled that effort "a hopeless
fantasy." In 1880 former Republican congressman and leading D.C.
lawyer Albert Riddle described O'Conor as "the leader and Nestor
of the New York Bar." In 1885 the Court of Claims referred to
O'Conor as one of the "illustrious members of this bar" in Carroll
v. United States (1885).

O'Conor was a leader of the Friends of Ireland. He was treasurer
of the New York Law Institute for ten years and its president
in 1869. He was an opponent of the codification movement (c.
1847-1882) led by David Dudley Field, which advocated reducing
the common law writ system to a comprehensive code of procedure.

In 1872 O'Conor repudiated Horace Greeley, who had been nominated
by the Liberal Republicans and the Democratic party, saying that
the reelection of Ulysses S. Grant would harm the Democrats less
than compromising their principles by supporting longtime Republican
Greeley. After repeated refusals to be a candidate, he ultimately
accepted the nomination of the Straight-Out Democrats at their
Louisville convention. With John W. Adams of Massachusetts as
his vice presidential candidate, he ran unsuccessfully for president
against Greeley and Grant in 1872. In an election with almost
6.5 million votes cast, O'Conor received fewer than 20,000 votes.
O'Conor retired from the practice of law in 1881 and moved to
Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he died.


Bibliography

Some of O'Conor's legal papers are held by the New York Law
Institute Library. Some of his correspondence is in the James
Kent Collection and the Franklin Pierce Collection at the Library
of Congress. A sketch of his life is John Bigelow, "Some Recollections
of Charles O'Conor," Century Magazine, Mar. 1888, p. 725. The
best analysis of the Lemmon case and its significance is in Paul
Finkelman, An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity
(1981). See also Finkelman, Slavery in the Courtroom (1985).
The leading account of the electoral commission is Charles Fairman,
Five Justices and the Electoral Commission (1988). O'Conor's
representation of Jefferson Davis is [Jefferson] Davis, 7 Fed.
Cas. 63, no. 3, 621a (C.C.D. Va. 1867-1871). Contemporary accounts
of O'Conor's repudiation of Greeley, the Louisville convention,
and O'Conor's own nomination are in the New York Times, 14, 25,
and 29 Aug. and 11, 13, 21, and 27 Sept. 1872. An obituary is
in the New York Times, 17 May 1884.

Richard L. Aynes
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Suggest citation: Richard L. Aynes. "O'Conor, Charles";
http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00634.html
American National Biography Online Nov 2001

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From
Aidan Lawes

This document will give some idea of the scope and approach of this project.

It will also be of interest, I think, to Ir-D members throughout the world
who are developing or planning similar projects.

P.O'S.


Moving Here Project ? List of Partners


Senior partners
NMABHC/BCA (Black Cultural Archive)
British Library
Jewish Museum, London
London Metropolitan Archives
Museum of London
National Maritime Museum
Public Record Office
Royal Geographical Society
Victoria & Albert Museum
West Yorkshire Archives Service

Supporting Partners
Birmingham City Archives
Bradford Heritage Unit
Croydon Clocktower Museum
Hackney Museum
Haringey Museum and Archive Service
Hull City Archives
Imperial War Museum
Lancashire Record Office
Leeds Museums & Galleries
Liverpool Record Office
London School of Economics
Luton Museum Service
Manchester Central Library
Manchester Jewish Museum
North West Film Archive
Oxfordshire Museums
PRO of Northern Ireland
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and A
Walsall Local History Centre
Wandsworth Museum
Westminster Archives


Irish Theme


Theme 1. Sources, places of origin, context for leaving

Text Images Film/Tape 3-D
PRO

Maps 19th c. 3
MPF 1/166, Ireland map showing counties and
family territories , early 19th c
MPH 1/254, Ireland map showing barracks and
troop numbers , 1830
MFQ 1/925, Ireland map showing poor law
unions and numbers of people in distress ,
late 19th c.

Photographs of Ireland (COPY 1) 19th c. 12

Potato Famine ? HO 45, WO 63, T 64 mid.19th 1650
T 64/362a-370, Trevelyan papers
WO 63/121-124, Irish famine letter books: Sligo
HO 45/1080 A-F, Distress and famine in Ireland on failure
of potato crop, police reports etc., 1840s
HO 45/1793, Disturbances and violence, Dec 1847
HO 45/2416
HO 45/3969, Report on Poor Law Unions in County Clare
CO 762, 1920s, 201, , 201

CO 762 , Irish Distress Committee and Irish Grants
Committee files (unionists/loyalists) 1920s 200

British Library

Irish Newspapers (20) 1840s 2500
Kerry Evening Post 1840 -1850
Tralee Chronicle 1843-1857
Connaught Telegraph 1840-1855
Limerick Reporter 1839-1849
Kilkenny Moderator 1840-1850
Meath Herald 1845-1850
Fermanagh Mail 1849-50
Farmer's Gazette 1845-6
Nation 1842-50
Christian Social Economist (Dublin) 1851 ?

Irish Newspapers (10) 1880s 1000
Celt (Waterford) 1876-1877
Anglo-Celt (Cavan) 1870-1885
Kerry Evening Post (Tralee) 1870-1890
Tuam News 1884-1896
Northern Whig 1873-1887
Connaught Telegraph 1876-1890
Limerick Reporter 1872-1890
Roscommon Herald (Boyle) 1880-1890

Printed books on Ireland (10) 19th c. 1000
Thackeray 'Irish Sketch Book' (1843) extracts relating to towns represented
in (17) above, plus illustrations
S.G. Osborne 'Gleanings from the West of Ireland' (1850)
'Little Tour of Ireland'(1859) illustrated by Leech 220 p
Trench 'Realities of Irish Life' (1868) (process of emigration)
Mitchel 'Last conquest of Ireland' (1873/6)


Text Images Film/Tape 3-D

English newspaper accounts of Potato Famine e.g.
Illustrated London News (10) 1840-50 500
Illustrated London News 1846-50 (extracts)
Pictorial Times 1846
Times 1846-50 extracts
Morning Chronicle 1840-50 extracts ?microfilm
Economist 1847 extracts (?microfilm)

West Yorkshire Archives Service

Life in Ireland (county Galway) ? estate papers
Of Marquis of Clanricarde 1831-88 2200

Luton Museum Service

Reminiscences about home life in Ireland 1930s-50s X
Photographs of Ireland 1950s 10


Theme 2. Leaving, travelling, arriving

PRO

HO 45/2428 Rioting aboard passenger ship 1848 31
Londonderry
RAIL 253/293 Irish railway companies steamship
Routes 1906-22 21
RG 23/299 Air and sea routes and numbers of
Passengers (Enquiry Report) 1962-63 48
HO 344/64 Passenger traffic between UK and
Eire: statistics 1960s 500
HO 344/85 Immigration from Eire, including Irish
Travel survey 1962-63 300

British Library

Local English newspapers (10 ? Salford, Liverpool) 19th c. 500
Manchester Chronicle and Salford Advertiser 1839-1843
Manchester Times 1841-1844
Liverpool Courier 1875-1897
Irish Programme (Liverpool) 1884-5
Catholic Fireside (Liverpool) 1879-1916

Luton Museum Service

Impressions of England on arrival X


Theme 3. Settlement

PRO

Maps, , , , ,
MH 12/5968 Liverpool Poor law unions ? no. of paupers 1851 1
(census link ?)
Photographs
COPY 1 ? Irish groups in England late 19th/
early 20th 12
Control/Crime
HO 44/20 ? Deportation of Murphy family (pre- Famine
presence) 1820 12




Text Images Film/Tape 3-D

MH 12, Correspondence with Poor Law Unions and
other Local Authorities. Select items relating to areas of heavy
Irish settlement e.g. Liverpool 19th c. 30
HO 45 ? select items from files such as -
HO 45/1816, Fever owing to influx of Irish paupers into Britain 1840s 500
HO 45/901, Poor law: removal of Irish and paupers 1848 150
HO 45/1734, Pauper emigrant problem in Liverpool 1847 22
HO 45/2793, Riots,Irish immigrant labour, Cholera 1849 74
HO 45/3038, Irish pauper lunatics 1850 15
HO 45/3040, Removal of Irish paupers 1850 37
HO 45/3472, Poor law: riots in workhouse 1851 75
HO 45/4085A-V, Disturbances in different English towns,
electoral unrest 1852 300
HO 45/5224, Coast defences 1854 204
HO 45/7253, Removal to Ireland of Irish paupers 1861-1862 87
HO 45/7326, Birkenhead riots: Catholic demonstrations 1862 155
HO 45/7522, Extension of Irish law to England not advisable 1863 36
HO 45/7855, Disturbance between English and Irish mine
sinkers at Millom, Cumberland 1866 4
HO 45/7799 Fenians 1860 500
HO 45/7991, Mr Murphy's anti-Popery lectures/disturbances 1860s 234
HO 45/11138, Religious disturbances in Liverpool 1909 86
HO 45/25068, Brendan Behan 1941-1954 50
HO 144/2/5526 Industrial School Band in Fenian procession
at Manchester 1891 10
HO 144/97/A15859, Colliery riots at Camborne 1852 39
HO 144/138/A36317, Cleator Moor Riots. Clash between
Catholics and Orangemen 1884 126
HO 144/194/ A46664C(1-100) - treatment of Irish treason
felony convicts in Chatham Prison 1890-1893 100
PL 27/13, Palatinate of Lancaster: Court depositions 1851-1855 100
PL 27/18, Palatinate of Lancaster: Court depositions: Fenians 1867 150
CUST 40/30 Patrick O'Connor, Ganger -includes "Times" letter
from Charles Dickens re execution of O'Connor's murderers 1842-1849

Recruitment/Immigration
WO 97, Selection of Irish soldiers? attestation records late 18th
early 20th c. 200
HO 45/14634, Inmigration from Irish Free State 1936-1928 100
HO 45/14635, Inmigration from Irish Free State 1929-1932 500
LAB 8/16, Irish Free State: enquiry on immigration to Britain 1937-1939 220
CAB 102/398, Irish Labour in Great Britain (unpublished
narrative - war production) 1939-1945 87
AVIA 15/1853-1856, Recruitment of labour from Eire for
aircraft industry 1941-1944 100
AVIA 15/1187, Aircraft storage? statement of policy 1941-1945 20
AVIA 22/1185, Recruitment from Eire and Northern Ireland 1941-1946 200
DO 35/1229, Passports, travel permits, military personnel, etc. 1943-1946
100
DO 35/721/1, Immigration from Eire 1939-1940 300
DO 35/3974 Ireland Bill 1949 130
DO 35/3980, Status and privileges of UK rep to Ireland 1949-1950 143
LAB 8/512, Negotiations with Eire government re.: labour
Recruitment 1941-1943 150
LAB 8/533, Movement of workers from Eire to GB 1941-1944 150
LAB 8/535, Recruitment arrangements for building and civil
Engineering 1941-1944 50
LAB 8/671, Terms and conditions of employement 1942-1944 150
LAB 8/966, Recruitment of domestic workers 1944-1948 30
LAB 8/1301, Recruitment of nurses. Eire emigration policy 1946 30
LAB 9/98, Centralised scheme of recruitment from Eire 1944-1951 400
LAB 12/284, Nursing in Eire: recruitment of nurses 1944-1947 30



Text Images Film/Tape 3-D

MAF 47/11-14, Agriculture: recruitment from Eire 1941-1949 200
HO 213/1320-1330, HO amendments: recruitment leaflet 1944-1945 30
HO 213/153, Eire citizenship and British nationality 1944 9
HO 213/319, Review of immigration from Eire 1939 45
HO 213/421, Procedure for Irish citizens wishing to remain
British subjects 1948 45
HO 213/1329, Return to Eire: workers no longer required for
work of national importance 1945-1947 74
HO 213/1870, Workers and dependants: landing conditions 1942-1948 143
HO 213/1871, Entry of female workers 1946 52
CSC 5/825, Discussions on civil service recruitment from Eire 1959 37

Education
ED 11/9, RC Poor School Committee correspondence
with Education Dept. re inspection of RC schools, etc. 1906-1907 200
ED 3/19 , St Patrick's School Tottenham Court Road,
examination schedule showing many Irish names 1871
ED 9/14, HMI Reports on standard of efficiency in RC schools 1875
ED 16/792, 796, Overcrowding in Liverpool RC schools 1933-1939


Registration and Settlement
RG 4 ? sample extracts from RC/Nonconformist birth, marriage
and death registers e.g. Catholic, Unitarian and Methodist registers
for Alnwick contain entries for people from Monaghan, Armagh,
Louth, Malahide and Carlow early/mid 19th c. 10
RG/HO Census returns illustrating Irish migration 1841-91 800

Community Groups

FS 5 - Friendly Societies e.g. mid 19th c.
Catholic Benefit Society, Irish National Foresters' Benefit early 20th c.
425
Society, Wirral Catholic Benevolent Society, Wirral Catholic
Benefit Society, Irish National Foresters' Benefit Society, Preston
and District Catholic Association

BT 31- Dissolved Companies eg.
BT 31/823/646C, No. of Company: 646C; Irish Liberator Newspaper Company
Ltd., 1863
BT 31/4179/27009, No. of Company: 27009; Irish Exhibition in London., 1888
BT 31/6942/48847, No. of Company: 48847; Anglo-Irish Club Ltd., 1896
BT 31/7997/57483, No. of Company: 57483; Liverpool Irish National Club Ltd.,
1898


British Library

Local English newspapers (10 ? Salford, Liverpool) 19th c. 10
Autobiographies
Barclay 'Memoirs and Medleys; Autobiography of a Bottle Washer' (1934)
Pat O'Mara 'Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy' (1934)
National Sound Archive Recordings 20th c. X
Scibberean (interview)
Paddy Boyle (interview)
Veronica McMahon (interview)
Paddy in the Smoke (interview)
? Clare Short - Ladywood Life interview)


Text Images Film/Tape 3-D

London Metropolitan Archives

Maps and plans, publications, policy files on
legislation, education, housing and places of
entertainment. Includes buildings like synagogues,
adjustments to shop opening hours and school
curricula, race relations and the formation of
communities 1855-1992
Quarter sessions cases about individual people
(Middlesex Sessions archive) 1840-1889
Poor Law archives: name registers from
workhouses and children's homes. Show
communities settling in different parts of
London e.g., Irish in St Giles in the Field 1840-1930
Print collection reflecting life of people from
all communities 1860-1990
Photograph collection showing streets and their
inhabitants, schools and schoolchildren,
London events such as evacuation, coronations,
etc. 1860-1990
Posters, ephemera etc. 1889-92

Croydon

Objects, sound recordings and photographs
illustrating the lives of Irish immigrants in Croydon 1860-1990 26 7 7

Hackney

Oral history interview transcripts describing settlement
available as background info on the images
Communion dress as used by Irish family 20th c

Lancashire Record Office

Most of the information relates to the settlement
(and repatriation).Moving into jobs ( e.g. the police),
criminal elements ( prison records) and also the
problems of industrial and political integration
(e.g Plug Riots in Oldham 1840-early 20th c.
Preston Lock-out 1854: 5 cartoons, which give
graphic insight into the anti-Irish sentiment locally
against the strike breakers 1854
From wills, poor law material and school teachers?
registers, we can show the social range of Irish
immigrants, and the continuing flow of migrants
through to the 1920s (school admissions) 1840-1930
NW Sound Archive on growing up in Trafford 1950s.

Liverpool Record Office

352 EDU 1/36 Liverpool Hibernian Schools - reports 1820 5


Luton

Articles from the Luton News Collection, relating to minority
communities in Luton 1930s-1960s 25

Recordings of members of Luton's Irish community talking a
bout their arrival in England and their subsequent lives 1930s-1990s

Photographs of the exhibition East West Home's Best held at
Luton Museum, featuring recreations of a Caribbean home,
an Irish kitchen and 1950s Luton bedsit 1990s
Text Images Film/Tape 3-D

North-West Film Archive
Culture and traditions such as Whit Walks and carnival
processions in all decades 1900-1990
Family film collections illustrating everyday life and
special occasions in all decades 1900-1990

PRONI

Text and images (10) illustrating settlement and
living conditions of those arriving. 1860-1960


Wandsworth

Various photographs and prints of early railways in
Wandsworth and housing for railway workers Early 19th c 6
Children from the Ryan School of Irish Dancing 1960 1
Interior of sufragette Charlotte Despard?s House in Currie
Street, Battersea in area known as ?Irish island? showing a
group of Mrs Despard?s working men visitors. Daily Graphic 23/11/06 1


Theme 4: Re-connecting

PRO

HO 100/263, Home Office: Ireland correspondence 1840 16
T 80/10, Irish deportees compensation tribunal 1923-1924 200

Luton

Photographs of the exhibition East West Home's Best held at
Luton Museum, featuring recreations of a Caribbean home,
an Irish kitchen and 1950s Luton bedsit 1990s

Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am back at my desk, with brain and limbs working again - after 6 or so
days of flu. First the children were ill, then I was ill, and then I
collapsed...

I am informed that my last coherent words were...

'But... who... will look after... the Irish-Diaspora list...?

But I have no memory of that.

Sorry about the gap in Ir-D messages. Usually I know when I am going to be
unavailable, and we can make plans... But in this case, I did not know.

I will be going through the nets and logs, and no doubt much of interest
will be passed on to the Ir-D list...

This flu is a stinker...

Paddy O'Sullivan


Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Victorian Ireland

For a forthcoming Editor?s Topic section on Victorian Ireland, the Journal,
Victorian Literature and Culture, seeks papers dealing with any aspect of
the literature and culture of the period, including diasporic Irish
literature and culture.

Send papers by December 1, 2002:

Abigail Burnham Bloom
54 Riverside Drive, 15D
New York, NY 10024

abigail.bloom[at]nyu.edu

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: 'Latitudes of Melt': Unmoored From Ancestry: NYT Book review


January 20, 2002


'Latitudes of Melt': Unmoored From Ancestry


By ANNETTE KOBAK
>he sinking of the Titanic after a collision with an iceberg off the coast
of
Newfoundland is an event so etched in our collective psyche that it creates
a
charged space of foreknowledge in any novel that even drifts into its
vicinity. Knowing what we do, we watch prospective passengers with the same
feeling we have when we watch a figure like Oedipus behaving as if he had
free will. Despite all evidence to the contrary, doom is in the air.
Part of the slowly mesmerizing story that Joan Clark tells in her third
novel, 'Latitudes of Melt,' loops back to deal with events that took place
before 'the queen of wrecks' made headlines around the world. But the
novel
opens in the spring of 1912 with a mystery: how did a baby, miraculously
discovered by a fisherman whose dory has been lost in the fog, come to be
cocooned in a basket floating on a slab of ice? After an abortive attempt to
trace the little girl's provenance, Francis St. Croix and his family adopt
this quiet, white-haired and slightly otherworldly foundling, calling her
Aurora because Francis found her 'in a gleaming dawn.' The book follows
Aurora's long life as she constructs an existence unmoored from her ancestry
and then is drawn back to her previously unknown origins.
There is a loss of self for anyone after a disaster, the adult Aurora
concludes. 'When we are overcome by misfortune,' she tells herself, 'we
lose all sense of who we are, the knowledge of ourselves deserting us when
we
need it most, disappearing from our world like exploding stars.' All the
same, for most of her life she exists seemingly untouched by the uncertainty
of her past. As a young woman, she contentedly marries a lighthouse keeper
and aspiring poet named Tom Mulloy and in due course has two children, Nancy
and Stan.
Yet, in a kind of displacement activity, Aurora spends a lot of time
sticking
objects from the fields and flotsam from the sea into what Tom takes to
calling her 'Book of Wander.' But it's left to her children -- and
eventually to her grandchild -- to fill the gaps in her history. Nancy
gravitates toward academia, recording oral accounts of immigration 'to
establish a pattern of settlement from Ireland to Newfoundland,' and
embarks
on an unsatisfactory marriage to an Englishman. Stan, fascinated from an
early age by the sea as well as by diving and by ice, will end up tracking
icebergs and joining a team of Russian and Canadian scientists as they
survey
the wreck of the Titanic. But it is Nancy's daughter, Sheila, an artist who
paints icebergs, who finally uncovers the story of how little Aurora came to
be bobbing alone on the sea. Thus both the obvious trauma and the hidden
beginnings of Aurora's history work their way through to the conscious lives
of her descendants.
Clark roots this underlying narrative pattern in earthy specifics about the
everyday lives of her characters, exploring the small incidents and hitches
in relationships from which fissures may later grow. As in Annie Proulx's
'Shipping News,' Newfoundland itself is almost a central character. Formed
'when God was practicing creation and had not yet moved on to greener
Edens,' the island ages and changes, transformed from Britain's oldest
colony, built around fishing, to the 10th province of the independent nation
of Canada, part of a diverse modern economy. But even today the coast of
Newfoundland is studded all around with shipwrecks, testimony to the
region's
harsh weather and to the optimism of waves of immigrants who came seeking a
better life, only to founder on these treacherous shores. That's because
Newfoundland, as Stan quickly learns, is 'smack in the middle of the
latitudes of melt,' between 46 and 51 degrees north, a region where
icebergs
formed in Greenland drift down the Labrador Current to dwindle in the coves
before disappearing altogether below the 43rd parallel.
Just as Aurora, the newfound baby, has a poetic link with Newfoundland, so
the latitudes of melt are mirrored in the characters' ability (or inability)
to be transformed by the power of love. Stan remains a virgin until he meets
his future wife in the warmth of Italy at the age of 35; after the failure
of
her marriage, Nancy never quite makes it out of the icebox of
overindependence. Sheila, like Aurora, has a strong, encompassing feel for
the physical world, a bond that makes her susceptible to romance.
The novel casts a cumulative spell of ancestral continuity that is deeply
and
subtly true to life. Aurora, as her granddaughter puts it, 'has been wise
to
allow life to unfold in its own good time,' and the book itself follows
suit, with themes and epiphanies revealing themselves slowly as the chapters
shuttle back and forth from past to present. As one of Nancy's interviewees,
101-year-old Alma, says: 'I'll tell you something important, girl. It's
this: If we live long enough, we circle around to what we were.' Nancy
herself recognizes ruefully that she has 'missed out on the spontaneous
gifts of joy and wonder that were the early casualties of structured time.'
The few faults of the book are in Clark's occasional overindulgence of its
virtues: the clear authorial approval of Aurora's quasi-magical leanings,
for
example, can occasionally seem complacently fey. ('The rabbit isn't the
least bit afraid of Gran,' the young Sheila writes in an essay. 'Neither
is
the fox. There is something magical about my Gran which is why I love her
and
her place.') This is not helped by the fact that the narrative point of
view
meanders from first- to third-person accounts from each of the main
characters, with all of them somehow retaining elements of Aurora's voice.
And Clark strains our credulity by having Aurora tell of her life as a fetus
- -- and even of her unknown parents' intimate thoughts and actions before and
soon after she was born. The device could be thought to be legitimized by
Aurora's question at the age of 81 -- Do you believe in the company of
souls?' -- but in practice these viewpoints jar.
Fortunately, such interludes only rarely break an otherwise strong spell. At
its core, the story Clark tells in 'Latitudes of Melt' proves a powerful
metaphor for what much of North America is built on: the willful amnesia of
immigrants and the gradual imaginative engagement of the following
generations with their lost ancestry abroad.

Annette Kobak is the author of 'Isabelle,' a biography of the 19th-century
traveler Isabelle Eberhardt.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of the Nordic Irish Studies Network:

WELCOME TO NISN 2002
THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN, NORWAY, 15 - 16 (17) MAY:
?IRISH WRITING TODAY?

It is a great pleasure to invite you all to the third biannual NISN
(Nordic Irish Studies Network) conference in Bergen 15-16 (17) May 2002.
NISN2002 will be hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway, with the
possible support of other academic institutions and take place at Rica
Travel Hotel. The conference takes place on 15-16 May and all guests are
encouraged to enjoy the felicitous celebrations of the Norwegian
National Day on 17 May. We wish all delegates welcome. If you would like
to give a paper, the conference will focus on literature and poetics,
but papers from all fields of Irish studies are welcome. The conference
will be organised into plenary addresses, poetry readings and (parallel)
panels of 20 minutes papers according to the number and interests of the
delegates.

Guest Speakers:
Edna Longley, Professor, Queen's University Belfast.
Michael Longley, Whitbread Poetry Prize Winner.
Paul Muldoon, Oxford Professor of Poetry, Howard G.B. Clark Professor in
Humanities at Princeton University,
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~angl/muldoon/muldoon.htm

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2001

Fees: 1000 Nok (approx. £80) include 2 lunches, conference dinner on
15th May, coffee breaks, conference facilities, etc. Please deposit 1000
Nok in Den Norske Bank (DnB)
Acc. no.: 54700501666 by 30 March.
State NISN2002 + your name as reference.

Conference banquet on 16 May: 400 Nok (£35)

Accommodation:
We recommend Rica Travel Hotel where the conference will be hosted.
Special NISN price for single room and breakfast pr. night is 620 Nok
(£55), double room and breakfast 770 Nok (£65).
Please make reservations at an early stage, it is a busy time in Bergen.
Reference: EO 352
Rica Travel Hotel http://www.bergen-guide.com/296.htm
Christies gate 5-7
Tel. + 47 55 31 54 00
Fax: + 47 55 31 32 50

Other alternatives:
Crowded House http://www.crowded-house.com
Hotel Park Pension http://www.parkhotel.no/
Marken Gjestehus http://www.bergen-guide.com/17.htm

General information on Bergen: http://www.bergen-guide.com/

For further information please contact:
Papers and conference agenda: Ruben Moi Ruben.Moi[at]eng.uib.no
Tel. + 47 55 58 23 69
Accommodation and general information: Bianca Ross bianca[at]fi.uib.no
Tel. + 47 55 32 92 18

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think this is our first item from Ireland priced in Euros...

Forwarded on behalf of...

St Patrick's College
Irish Research Seminar

Subject: St Patrick's College Irish Research Seminar


Dear colleagues,

You are all very welcome to attend the St Patrick's College Irish Research
Seminar. The programme and registration forms are below. Best,

Nicholas Allen



St Patrick's College
Irish Research Seminar
12-13 April 2002
www.spd.dcu.ie
A college of Dublin City University

IRISH RESEARCH SEMINAR
12-13 April 2002
St Patrick's College Inaugural Irish Research Seminar will host discussion
on
new directions in Irish Studies before graduate students, faculty and the
interested public. Supported by the Research Committee, St Patrick's College
and the University of Notre Dame-Keough Centre, Newman House, Dublin, in
association with the Students' Union, St Patrick's College. Contact seminar
organisers

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

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


FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2002
6.30 pm Opening Reception - All Welcome

7.30 pm St Patrick's College Inaugural Lecture
'Current cultural debate in Ireland'
Professor Declan Kiberd (University College Dublin)
Chair Dr Pauric Travers, (President, St Patrick's College)

SATURDAY 13 APRIL 2002
10.00 am 'The dual tradition?'
Professor Máirín ní Dhonnchadha (NUI Galway)

11.30 am 'Social and economic aspects of education'
Dr Garret Fitzgerald

1.00 pm Lunch

2.00 pm University of Notre Dame Inaugural Lecture
'History and national identity: a cautionary tale'
Professor Margaret Jacob (UCLA)

3.30 pm 'Irish colonial/postcolonial studies'
Dr Joe Clery (NUI Maynooth)

5.00 pm Closing Address
Dr Nicholas Allen
Dr Mary Shine Thompson

7.00 pm Seminar Dinner
Numbers are strictly limited. Please indicate your interest to attend on
the
registration form.


St Patrick's College
Irish Research Seminar
12-13 April 2002
Registration Form

Name

Institution (if any)

Address


E-mail

Do you wish to attend the Seminar Dinner? (Cost 25 euros, student 15 euros;
please remember places are limited and we do not guarantee attendance)

Y / N

Free Registration. All welcome. Return registration form to seminar
organisers

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

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




:

From: "lryan"
Subject: Women on Ireland Research Network Conference

The Women on Ireland Research Network are holding their second conference on
15-17 March, 2002
at the Irish Studies Institute, Liverpool University. As well as the four
excellent plenary speakers: Ronit Lentin, Maria Luddy, Gerardine Meaney and
Bronwen Walter, there are many interesting sessions on a wide range of
themes including migrations, history, cultural studies, literature,
sociology and geography.
The draft programme and booking details are below:

Re:Searching Irish Women: cultural, geographical, historical, literary and
social experiences.

15th -17th March 2002 Conference


Plenary speakers: Ronit Lentin, Bronwen Walter Maria Luddy
and Gerardine Meaney


Draft Programme.


Friday 15th March

5.30-6.30 Registration: Institute of Irish Studies, 1 Abercromby Sq.
Liverpool

6.30-7.00 Coaches leave for Liverpool Town Hall

7.00 Reception at Liverpool Town Hall


Saturday 16th March

9.00-10.00 Registration (and conference): Rendall Building, Bedford St,
Liverpool

10.00-11.00 Plenary session: plenary speaker Ronit Lentin
Strangers and Strollers: Engendering migratory spaces in Dublin
Chair: Tracey Holsgrove

11.00-12.30 Panel sessions

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 Panel sessions

3.00-4.30 Panel sessions

4.30 Tea and coffee

4.45(30mins) Annual General Meeting of the WORIN

5.30-6.00 Coaches leave for Museum of Liverpool Life, Pier Head, Liverpool

6.15 Plenary session (in museum): plenary speaker Bronwen Walter Chair:
Yvonne McKenna

7.00 Reception in Museum

8.00 Leave for Liverpool City centre for dinner


Sunday 17th March

9.00-10.00 Registration

10.00-11.30 Panel sessions

11.30-12.00 Tea and coffee

12.00-1.30 Plenary session: plenary speakers Maria Luddy and Gerardine
Meaney Chair: Louise Ryan





Panels WOIRN Conference 2002
Saturday 16th

Session A: 11.00-12.30

Historical Biographies Chair: Margaret Morse
Betsy Taylor FitzSimon 'The Lady Governs Absolutely': An introduction to
the life and letters of Lady Katherine Ranelagh
Rachel Finley-Bowman "She was Clear-headed, Witty and Large-hearted": the
Political Career of Theresa, the Marchioness of Londonderry, 1911-1919
Carmel Quinlan 'The Middle and Upper Classes know what to do!' Anna and
Thomas Haslam and Marie Stopes

Travellers Chair: to be confirmed
Aoife Breatnach Travellers in Irish Society: A Question of Gender?
Kim Bendheim Three generations of violence among women travellers
Winnie Lawlor Irish Travellers in Liverpool - A Front-Line perspective

Evolving Lives of Women Chair: Margaret Llewelyn Jones
Elaine Cheasley Paterson Enterprising Women Crafting an Irish Identity
Gráinne Hiney A Comparative Look at Women's Lives at the turn of the
twentieth century

Session B: 1.30-3.00

Women, Religion and Empowerment Chair: Yvonne McKenna
Carmen Mangion The Irish Contribution: A Demographic Profile of Active
Women Religious in Nineteenth-century England
Barbara Walsh Lifting the veil on entrepreneurial Irishwomen: The business
of running convents in England and Wales, 1850-1930
Ann Wickham 'Another sphere for educated ladies': The Early Development of
Nurse Training in Ireland 1860-1990
Moira Egan awaiting title

Margaret Cousins Chair: Louise Ryan
Catherine Candy Disciplinarity, Nationhood and Sex: Margaret Cousin and
Virginia Woolf in the Same Room
Michelle Elizabeth Tusan An Irish Radical in India: The Journalism of
Margaret Cousins

Women as Agents of Nationalism Chair: Margaret Ward
Andrea Knox "Women of the Wild Geese" Irish Women, Exile and Identity in
Spain, 1569-1670
Rhiannon Talbot The Emancipation or Befuddlement of Irish Republican Women
Paramilitaries
Mary Corcoran Talking about resistance: narratives of agency and identity
by female political prisoners, Northern Ireland


Session C: 3.00-4.30

Representations of Gendered Identities Chair: to be confirmed
Suzanne Chan Representing Gender and "Race" in Contemporary Irish Visual
Art: An Illustrated Talk
Elizabeth Frances Martin Women in the West
Orla Egan Cork Lesbian Community History

Irish Women in the US Chair: to be confirmed
Erin Miller Challenge, Continuity and Change: Irish Born Women on the Kern
County Frontier, 1860-1880
Ruth Ann Harris 'Come you all courageously: Irish Women in America Write
Home

Writing Literature Chair: to be confirmed
Rebecca Pelan Whose Reality? The Use of Narrative/History in Contemporary
Irish Women's Writing
Siobhan Holland The Death of the Mother: Ideals, Pathologies and Resistance
in Maeve Binchy's 'The Glass Lake'
Margaret Llewelyn Jones Transforming Tragedy to Triumph?


Sunday 17th March

Session D: 10.00-11.30

Contemporary Irish Women Chair: Rhiannon Talbot
Jane Harris The Northern Ireland Women's Coalition - a 'New Politics'
party?
Jacqui O'Riordan Employment and Daily Life in an Irish Tourist Town:
Gendered Interactions of Employment, Motherhood and Long-term Relationships



Interviewing Women about Migration Chair: Bronwen Walter
Breda Gray Journeys, archives and the research process
Louise Ryan Meaningful Encounters: Interviewing older Irish women migrants
Yvonne McKenna ?Sisterhood1, privileging connections and exploring power
relations in the interviewing process
Clare Roche Interviews and focus groups with young women in England and
Ireland

Historiography Chair: Tracey Holsgrove
Nadia Smith The Careers of Helena Concannon, Rosamond Jacob, and Dorothy
Macardle
Sandra Holton Gender Difference, National Identity and Professing History:
the Case of Alice Stopford Green
James McConnel The Wives of Irish Members of Parliament, c. 1885-1914





Enquiries concerning booking to be made to:
Margaret Morse Secretary, WOIRN, Schooner House,
Broad Road, Hambrook, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 8RE.
ajmorse[at]messages.co.uk



Enquiries concerning the programme to be made to:
Rhiannon Talbot
School of Law
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
21-24 Windsor Terrace
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
NE1 7RU
rhiannon.talbot[at]ncl.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Call for papers and announcement of conference:

British Island Stories: History, Identity and Nationhood

King's Manor, University of York

April 17th -19th 2002



This three day invited conference is the first major event within an
important research project entitled British Island Stories: History,
Identity and Nationhood (BRISHIN), funded under the ESRC's Devolution
and Constitutional Change Programme. The central aim of BRISHIN is to
explore empirically and theoretically the conceptual relationship
between history, nationhood and state-formation, and to consider the
implications for the re-configuration of British national identity.

Conference key speakers confirmed so far include:



Professor Linda Colley (author of Britons: Forging the Nation

Professor David Eastwood (joint-editor of A Union of Multiple
Identities)

Professor Norman Davies (author of The Isles: A History )

Dr Robert Phillips (author of History Teaching, Nationhood & the State)

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (author of Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the
New Britain & columnist with The Independent)

Professor Tariq Modood, (Founding Editor of Ethnicities)



We wish to invite scholars from a wide range of disciplines (such as
history, cultural/media studies, education, archaeology, anthropology,
politics, sociology and other social sciences) from across the United
Kingdom & Ireland and abroad, to contribute papers to the conference. We
are particularly interested in papers which explore:

· Theoretical perspectives on nationhood, culture and identity

· Historiography and national identity

· Museums and nation building

· Education, textbooks and nationhood

· The politics of heritage

· Media and the construction of nationhood

· Film and nationhood

· 'Street' history and popular discourse

· Archaeology and nationhood

· Politicians, history and identity

Historical literature and nationhood
Further details of these themes are listed at the end:

It is intended that conference papers will be used as the basis of a
major book series on the theme of Re-Imagining Britain: History,
Identity & Nationhood. About 80 academics from a range of disciplines
will be coming together to discuss the central themes of the project
(see below).




Provisional and accepted participants include:

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Arthur Aughey (Ulster), Sarah Barber (Lancaster),
Gordon Barclay (Stirling), Keith Barton (Cincinnati), Belinda Beaton
(Oxford), Stefan Berger (Glamorgan), Gill Branston (Cardiff), Helen
Brocklehurst (Swansea), George Boyce (Swansea), Ewan Campbell (Glasgow),
Timothy Champion (Southampton), Linda Colley (LSE), Martin Conboy
(Surrey), Elizabeth Crooke (Ulster), Cedric Cullingford (Huddersfield),
Norman Davies (Oxford), Margarita Diaz-Andreux (Durham), Bella Dicks
(Cardiff), Simon Ditchfield (York), David Eastwood (AHRB), Eric Evans
(Lancaster), Hugo Frey (Chichester), Brian Graham (Ulster), Stephen
Haseler (L' Guildhall), David Hendy (Westminster), Eilean
Hooper-Greenhill (Leicester), Atsuko Ichijo (LSE), Charlie Jeffery
(ESRC), Keith Jenkins (Chichester), Sian Jones (Manchester), Hugh
Kearney, Ann Low-Beer, David Lowenthal (UCL), Ken Lunn (Portsmouth),
Matthew McCormack (Manchester), David McCrone (Edinburgh), Alan McCully
(Ulster), Sharon McDonald (Sheffield), Tariq Modood, (Bristol), Alun
Morgan (HMI), Alexander Murdoch (Edinburgh), Alan O' Day (Queen's), John
Oakland (NTNU, Norway), Kevin Passmore (Cardiff), Rob Phillips
(Swansea), Murray Pittock (Edinburgh), Keith Robbins (Lampeter), Amir
Saeed (Sunderland), Bill Schwarz (Goldsmiths), Adam Smith (Cambridge),
Alan Smith (Ulster), James Thomas (Bangor), Andrew Thompson (Glamorgan),
Brian Walker (Queen's), Paul Ward (Huddersfield), Fiona Watson
(Stirling), Chris Williams (Cardiff), Sydney Wood (Dundee), Peter
Yeandle (Lancaster).



If you are interested in contributing a paper please could please send
the title of your paper and a short abstract (no more than 200 words)
to Helen Brocklehurst either via e-mail (h.brocklehurst[at]swansea.ac.uk)
or by post to the address below by January 31st.



We look forward to hearing from you. Please do not hesitate to contact
us should you require any additional information at this stage.


Dr Helen Brocklehurst, Project Officer, h.brocklehurst[at]swansea.ac.uk


Or Dr Robert Phillips, Project Director, r.h.phillips[at]swansea.ac.uk



BRISHIN Project

Department of Education,

University of Wales Swansea,

Swansea, SA2 7NB

Tel: (01792) 518605 / 518632, Fax: (01792) 290219



King's Manor is an excellent venue and the BRISHIN Conference follows
previous successful conferences held at York which have also explored
issues relating to history, identity and nationhood (see Cubbitt, 1998,
Arnold et al, 1999). We hope to take this work forward. The detailed
programme will be made available following expression of interest. The
cost of the conference will be £70.00, which covers the cost of the
conference itself, as well as all food and hospitality. Accommodation is
not included: as York is well served by excellent guest houses and
hotels, the usual procedure for delegates at King's Manor is for them to
arrange their own accommodation.. This works very well indeed, as most
accommodation is very reasonably priced and located within close
proximity to King's Manor, which is centred in the very heart of the
city.



Conference Themes

· Theoretical perspectives on history, nationhood
and identity: in many ways, this relationship has been under-theorised.
More work is needed which explores the relationship between the past and
the present (Fowler, 1992; Furedi, 1992). In particular the complex ways
in which visions of the past impact upon national identities in Britain
(Hobsbawm & Granger, 1983; Arnold et al, 1999, Lunn, 1996). In what ways
has history contributed to the formation of 'multiple' identities?
(Brockliss & Eastwood, 1997) and to debates over devolution? (Aughey,
2001).

· Historiography and national identity: the last 25
years or so have witnessed the growth of a 'new' British history,
associated with the work of historians such as Kearney (1989), Colley
(1996), Samuel (1998) and Davies (1999). How can this work be
conceptualised? What impact has it had upon historiographical
interpretations of Britain? Has there been a shift away, in Samuel's
words, from the 'centre' (England) to the 'periphery'? And what have
been the major historiographical developments in Wales, Scotland and
Ireland? To what extent has historiography in Britain been influenced by
post-colonialism? (Alibhai Brown, 2000; Schwarz, 1996). Have these
developments contributed to, or been influenced by, devolved government
and changing notions of national identity?

· Museums and nation building: it has long been
recognised that museums play an important symbolic role in the
construction of knowledge and nation (Hooper-Greenhill, 1992). What is
the precise role that museums play in national life today? Do they
express new forms of identity or reinforce more traditional visions of
identity and 'the nation'? (Crooke 2001)

· Education, history textbooks and nationhood:
school history was fiercely contested during the last quarter of the
twentieth century, and reflected wider debates over nation, culture and
identity (Phillips, 1998). School history curricula and textbooks
reflected traditional notions of British national identity (Berghahn &
Schissler, 1987). To what extent have these visions changed? Is it
possible to talk in terms of 'four nation' school history? (Phillips et
al, 1999) And how can school history contribute to citizenship and to
undermining racism? (Runnymede, 2000).

· The politics of heritage and commemoration:
heritage plays a massive role in contemporary national and cultural life
(Lowenthal, 1997). What visions of Britishness are portrayed by the
heritage industry? Are these visions nostalgic or reflexive? In what
ways is commemoration expressed in Britain and what does this tell us
about national identity? (Gillis, 1994).

· Media and the construction of nationhood: the
media play a vital role in the construction of nationhood and identity,
for example in the portrayal of 'the other' (Allan, 1999). History has
permeated the media in a number of ways, for example, via 'history
debates' in the press (Phillips & Brocklehurst, 2002) and in the
explosion of interest in history programmes on television, most notably
reflected in Schama's History of Britain (Schama, 2000). What visions of
British nationhood are portrayed in these images?

· Film and nationhood: similarly, films have been
heavily implicated in contributing to traditional images of Britain, as
well as the emergence of 'new' forms of identity (Morgan, 1999). To what
extent have film industries overseas impacted here? More work needs to
be done to explore the ways in which film has contributed to debates
over identity and nationhood.

· 'Street' history and popular discourse: it may be
that 'street' or 'popular' history plays a far more direct and
influential role than more conventional portrayals of history (Walker,
1996). Do we need to look again at the ways in which popular myths,
stories and local histories influence identity?

· Archaeology and nationhood: there has been an
exciting growth in recent years of theoretical work which explores the
ways in which archaeology has been implicated in debates over nationhood
in Europe and in other parts of the world (Marguerita & Champion, 1996;
Kohl & Fawcett, 1995). What role does archaeology play in debates of
national identity in Britain?

· Politicians, history and identity: politicians
often use historical references points when contributing to debates over
devolution, nationhood and sensitive issues such as immigration (Breese,
1998). Work needs to be done to analyse these discourses in a more
systematic way.

· Historical literature and nationhood: How does
literature contribute to historical reimaginings and nationhood.

References:

Alibhai-Brown, Y (2000) Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New
Britain. London, Penguin.

Allan, S. (1999) News Culture; Issues in Cultural and Media Studies,
Open University Press, Buckingham.

Arnold, J, Davies K & Ditchfield S, eds. (1998) History & Heritage:
Consuming the Past in Contemporary Culture, Shaftsbury, Donhead.

Aughey, A (2001) Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the
United Kingdom State, London, Pluto.

Berghahn, V. & Schissler, H, eds. (1987) Perceptions of History - an
analysis of school textbooks, Oxford, Berg.

Breese, S (1998) 'In Search of Englishness, In Search of Votes', in
Arnold, J, Davies, K & Ditchfield, S. eds. History and Heritage:
Consuming the Past in Contemporary Culture, Shaftesbury, Donhead.

Brockliss, L. & Eastwood, D (1997) A Union of Multiple Identities: The
British Isles 1750-1850. Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Colley, L (1992) Britons: forging the nation, Yale University Press

Crooke, E (2001) Confronting a troubled history: which past in Northern
Ireland's museums? International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7 (2).

Cubitt, G, (1998) Imagining Nations, Manchester, Manchester University
Press.

Davies, N (1999) The Isles: A History, London, Macmillan.

Marguerita D. & Champion T (1996) eds. Nationalism and Archaeology in
Europe, London: University College.

Fowler, P (1992) The Past in Contemporary Society: Then, Now, London,
Routledge.

Furedi, F (1992) Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in
an Anxious Age, London, Pluto Press.

Gillis, J, ed. (1994) Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity,
Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Hobsbawm, E. & Ranger, T. (Eds) (1983) The Invention of Tradition,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Hooper-Greenhill, E (1992) Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, London,
Routledge.

Kearney, Hugh (1995) The British Isles: a History of Four Nations,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Kohl, P. L. & Fawcett C, ed. (1995) Nationalism, Politics and the
practice of Archaeology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Lowenthal, D (1997) The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History,
Cambridge, Viking

Lunn, K (1996) 'Reconsidering 'Britishness': The construction and
significance of national identity in twentieth century Britain', in B.
Jenkins & S. Sofos eds. National and Identity in Contemporary Europe.
London, Routledge.

Morgan, S (1999) The ghost in the luggage: Wallace and Braveheart:
post-colonial 'pioneer' identities. European Journal of Cultural
Studies, 2 (3): 375-392.

Phillips, R. & Brocklehurst, H (2002, forthcoming) 'You're History!':
Culture, Nationhood and the Media

Phillips, R (1998) History Teaching, Nationhood and the State: a study
in educational politics London, Cassell.

Phillips, R., Goalen, P., McCulley, A. & Wood, S. (1999) Four Histories,
One Nation ? History teaching, nationhood and a British identity,
Compare, Vol.29, No.2.

Runnymede Trust (2000) The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: Report of the
Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (The Parekh Report),
London, Profile Books.

Samuel, R. (1998) Island Stories: Unravelling Britain, London, Verso.

Schama, S. (2000) A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World?
London, BBC Worldwide.

Schwarz, B. (1996) The expansion of England: race, ethnicity & cultural
history, London, Routledge.

Walker, B (1996) Dancing to History's Tune: History, Myth and Politics
in Ireland, Belfast, Queen's/ Institute of Irish Studies.

British Island Stories: History, Nationhood and Identity (BRISHIN)
By examining the ways in which history is portrayed and debated in
Britain, BRISHIN will reveal much about the dynamics of contemporary
national re-configuration. It will shed light upon the important
intellectual factors that account for changing national identities
within Britain, and for the shifting relationship between England and
the rest of the British Isles. The research may also tell us about
British national identity in the future.

Go back to BRISHIN Home Page

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of The Heroic Age...

The Heroic Age is one of the more tasty of the scholarly online journals.
Issue 5 is a Beowulf special, a must for all of those who, like me, think
that Heaney's version is wonderful...

P.O'S.



The Heroic Age Issue 5 is now Available!

Anthropological and Cultural Approaches to Beowulf

http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/5/toc.html

Featuring the following articles:

"Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism?" by Stephen O. Glosecki

"Wicked Queens and Cousin Strategies in Beowulf and Elsewhere" by Tom
Shippey

""The Wealth They Left Us": Two Women Author Themselves through Others'
Lives
In Beowulf" by Marijane Osborn

"An Education in the Mead-Hall: Beowulf's Lessons for Young Warriors"by
Alexander Bruce

"The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf" by Dorothy Carr Porter

"Hwanan si faehth aras: Defining the Feud in Beowulf" by David Day

"Gast, Gender, and Kin in Beowulf: Consumption of Boundaries" by Carolyn
Anderson

"Redundant Ethnogensis in Beowulf" by Craig R. Davis

Plus our usual columns, reviews, and the Archaeology Digest. On behalf of
the
issue editor John Hill and the Heroic Age staff, I hope you all enjoy the
issue.


Michelle Ziegler

Editor-In-Chief
The Heroic Age
http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/homepage.html

From: Peter David Hart


I am devoutly hoping that the flu avoids me.

I also just wanted to add to my previous comment on Paul Greengrass's
superb film `Bloody Sunday'. First, it has been released theatrically, at
least in London, so it is to be hoped that a video version will become
available. Second, it should not be confused with Jimmy McGovern's really
quite bad film `Sunday', which was shown last night. This was full of
stereotypes and really irritating bias and has no educational value I
would suggest.

Peter Hart

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have been asked, by a journalist of course, if we have any comments to
make on this...

Ghetto Kids Dolls...

http://www.ghettokidshood.com/

Click on 'Windy City Margaret'
who is called Mary Margaret in the accompanying stories...

P.O'S.

Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A2A Update, January 2002 - online English archives catalogues

Forwarded on behalf of
"Flynn, Sarah"

*A2A Update, January 2002*

The A2A website at was updated once more on
Friday 25 January. The equivalent of over 34,000 original catalogue pages
was added to the site, which now contains over 1.9 million catalogue
entries from 119 record offices and other institutions across England.
The new catalogues include the first finding aids from the *Yorkshire
Signpost* regional project. The collection-level finding aids submitted
to A2A by this project will, as stated in *A2A Update* in April last year,
form an online guide giving summary information on *all* the archives in
the region accessible by the public. The finding aids included in this
month's site update describe archives held by West Yorkshire Archive
Service at Bradford - such as Church of England and Catholic parish
records, Nonconformist church archives, the archives of local government,
businesses, trades unions and schools, and the papers of families and
individuals.
Also of note are the catalogues added this month from the South West
Region's *[at] the Heart of the Community* project, which include finding
aids for Church of England parish records held by the local authority
record offices of Bristol, Cornwall, and Wiltshire and Swindon, as well as
school archives held at Gloucestershire Record Office. And historians of
politics will be particularly pleased to know that the site update
included the 3 final catalogues of the papers of politicians (Henry
Brougham, Hugh Gaitskell and Lord Randolph Churchill) submitted to A2A by
the *Political Archives Consortium* (PAC) and thus that all the PAC
catalogues may now be searched online.
More catalogues have also been added from the following consortium
projects: *Access to Somerset Archives*; *From Landlord to Labourer* in
the South East Region; *Governing London*; *Landscape and Archives* in the
Eastern Region; *London Archives on the Wider World*; *Muck and Brass* in
the West Midlands; *Our Mutual Friends in the North* in the North West
Region; and the *Tracking Railway Archives Project (TRAP)*. Other new A2A
catalogues include those of the records of the Quarter Sessions courts of
Hereford and Leominster, and finding aids to various archives held in the
record offices of Suffolk and Norfolk.
Lastly, preparation work on projects for Phase 2 of the A2A programme,
which starts in April this year, is gathering pace: one project's
application for additional funding has already been submitted to the
Heritage Lottery Fund and two more bids are likely to be submitted in the
near future.
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 400,000
catalogue pages for archives dating from the 12th to the 20th centuries
and held in national, local and specialist archives available on the www
by March 2002 at .


* * * * * *
Sarah J A Flynn
Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU

Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
Fax: 020 8392 5281
Email: sarah.flynn[at]pro.gov.uk
www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

* * * * * *

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk

This request appeared on the H-Albion list...

Forwarded on behalf of...

Cara Delay
Department of Comparative History
Brandeis University

Subject: AHA 2003 panelists needed - Women, religion and culture in
Ireland

From: Cara M Delay

I am looking for two panelists, a chair, and a commentator for a panel on
Irish women at the 2003 AHA in Chicago. The panel is tentatively titled
"Women, Religion, and Culture in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora." My own
paper will be on women, Catholicism, and community life in the
post-famine south and west of Ireland. If anyone would like to give a
paper on a similar topic (or serve as chair or commentator), please email
me at delay[at]brandeis.edu

Thanks,
Cara Delay
Department of Comparative History
Brandeis University

This message appeared on the H-Ethnic list. It will interest a number of
Ir-D members, I think.

Forwarded for information.

P.O'S.


- ----- Original Message -----
From:
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: SSHA panel on migration/ethnicity in museums



The migration/ immigration network of the Social Science History
Association is putting together panels for this year's conference in
St. Louis. Right now, we have a special need for panelists to
participate in a roundtable on portrayals of migration and ethnicity
in museums. Anyone interested in participationg in this panel, please
contact the organizer Nora Faires, nora.faires[at]wmich.edu ASAP. Anyone
wanting to form other panels or to participate in existing ones,
please contact one of the migration/ immigration network chairs:
Lauren Ann Kattner, LaKattNt[at]netscape.net, or Dorothee Schneider,
schndr[at]uiuc.edu. The deadline for submissions is February 15.

Lauren Ann Kattner,Ph.D.
Clintonville Academy
Columbus, Ohio
LaKattNt[at]netscape.net
- --

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ghetto Kids

Paddy,
It is early morning here and I just came on line to check my -email when
this
message popped in. I looked up Mary Margaret and I can't tell you how upset
I am at this 'educational' tool. It is the worse form of stereotyping that
I
can imagine. I can't see that it is serving any purpose other than adding
to
the image of the Irish as being drunks. I was reminded a few weeks ago of
discussion on this list when I attended my daughter's school for a medieval
banquet put on by the kids. I was at a table with one of the teachers and
her husband, neither of whom had even been to Ireland or had any connection
with Ireland. When they heard my Irish accent they asked me about it and
knew that I came from Ireland.. During the course of the conversation the
husband said 'Of course that's the Irish curse, alcohol, they don't seem to
be able to get away from it." The discussion had been about medieval drinks
and what they were and nothing to do with the Irish. I was outraged and
flabbergasted but kept my cool and pointed out that is was not an uniquely
Irish problem But you get the point. This powerful image of alcohol being
the major problem of the Irish is very endemic to American [and others]
thinking on Ireland that it is virtually impossible to dislodge. I find
this
doll site just feeds the stereotype and not educational or helpful at all.
It is insulting.
Carmel

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

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> We have been asked, by a journalist of course, if we have any comments to
> make on this...
>
> Ghetto Kids Dolls...
>
> http://www.ghettokidshood.com/
>
> Click on 'Windy City Margaret'
> who is called Mary Margaret in the accompanying stories...
>
> P.O'S.
>