From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Érin go brách


I was helped greatly before in tracing the earliest
known use of the term Sinn Féin. Now I'm researching
Érin go brách - sometimes anglicized as Erin go bragh.
It was used on the cover of a book of ballads:'Paddy's
Resource or The Harp of Erin attuned to Freedom'in
1796. I think it was a slogan on the flags of the
Irish Regiments. Any information on Érin go brách
would be appreciated.

Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

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Go raibh tú daibhir i mí-áidh/May you be poor in ill-luck
Agus saibhir i mbeannachtaí/rich in blessings
Go mall ag déanamh namhaid/slow to make enemies
go luath a déanamh carad/quick to make friends

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Ho-hum.

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From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ghetto Kids 2

Ms. McCaffrey's post got me to check out the Ghetto kids.
The site is an interesting one, the statement of purpose is hard to
dismiss. They seem to have good intentions, trying to encourage discussions
between children and parents about serious issues. The dolls are,
unfortunately, rather heavy-handed ethnic stereotypes, it seems, not only of
the Irish -- "Confederate Tammy," for example, lives in a trailer and her
mom (there may not be a dad, I didn't read all of the possible scenarios)
drinks (getting in two or three stereotypes of working-class southerners)--
[I will have to share her with my students here in rural western Kentucky,
it will be interesting to see how they respond]. "East LA Lupe" has to deal
with gangs. I didn't look at any of the others, but from their names I
suspect it's the same pattern in each case.
I don't think I'll buy a Mary Margaret doll myself, but I think it is
very unfair to say "I can't see that it is serving any purpose other than
adding to the image of the Irish as being drunks." The site has, as I
started with, good intentions and quite another purpose from that, but the
execution certainly leaves a lot to be desired. If anything it shows how
volatile reaction can be to stereotypical presentations, even when the
presenter has a worthwhile purpose in mind and is as I suspect, completely
unaware their work is offensive.
I suspect the creators are well intentioned people, who are at least a
little naive about ethnic sensitivities and never expected anyone would not
see the good in what they are trying to do.

Bill Mulligan

From: Linda Dowling Almeida
"Almeida, Ed (Exchange)"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Ghetto Kids 2

Dear Paddy,

I too went on the website and was pretty stunned at what I found. I have
not explored the other dolls in the collection and don't know if they are as
stereotypical in their depiction as Mary Margaret and Mr. O'Malley. But what
I was really looking for is who are the originators of the collection and
what are their educational credentials. Is it a private group? All I could
determine is that their mailing address is in Illinois.
Any insights?
Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University

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Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:10 AM
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Subject: Ir-D Ghetto Kids 2



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

From: Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University

"Almeida, Ed (Exchange)"
Subject: US involvement in peace accords

Belated thanks to all who responded to my query about Australian-Irish
writers. Many of the titles suggested are out of print here, but we may try
Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, so the discussion on line
regarding that book has been quite interesting.

But I have a new call for help, this time for an undergraduate research
project, I have a student interested in looking at why the US got involved
in the Peace Process in Northern Ireland during the Clinton administration.
I can direct her to some website and newspaper archives, to Wilson's book on
US involvement, but are there any other suggestions that colleagues have
used with success that she can use?
Thank you.

Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of the BAIS...

Please distribute widely...

P.O'S.


British Association for Irish Studies

Postgraduate Bursaries Scheme 2002


The British Association for Irish Studies has established a scheme to
support postgraduate research in great Britain on topics of Irish interest.
BAIS will award bursaries of £500 - £1,000 each to postgraduate students
registered at universities in Great Britain conducting research on any
aspect of Irish Studies. Students may use the bursaries for travel
expenses, payment of fees, subsistence or other expenses related to the
completion of a research project.

Applicants will be required to submit a completed Application Form,
including completed forms from two referees sent direct to the Chair of the
Bursaries Committee. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Deadline for submission of applications is 1st March 2002

The awards will be announced in May 2002. The decision of the BAIS
Postgraduate Committee will be final.

To apply send your request for an Application Pack to
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Joan Navarre and Marilyn Bisch...

Announcing the foundation of
The Oscar Wilde Society in America,

a new society organized to promote the study, understanding, and
dissemination of research
about Oscar Wilde and his times.

The Society will be especially engaged in fostering a wider awareness
of Wilde's 1882 American lecture tour
and of the artists, educators, and other individuals he encountered.

Inaugural events will be held in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota,
on the weekend of St. Patrick's Day 2002,
in commemoration of the 120th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's visit to the Twin
Cities.

All interested persons are welcome to join.

For more details, please contact Joan Navarre and Marilyn Bisch,
by post at The Oscar Wilde Society in
America House, Half Moon Park, 332 Eleventh Street East, Menomonie WI, 54751
USA,
or via e-mail to

hubisch[at]scifac.indstate.edu

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: RE: Ir-D US involvement in peace process

Dear Linda
You could tell her to try Conor Clery's book on the subject.
The greening of the White House: the inside story of how America tried to
bring peace to Ireland.
Conor O'Clery Dublin. Gill & Macmillan. c1996

Anthony McNicholas


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Sent: 02 January 2002 06:10
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D US involvement in peace process


From: Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University

"Almeida, Ed (Exchange)"
Subject: US involvement in peace accords

Belated thanks to all who responded to my query about Australian-Irish
writers. Many of the titles suggested are out of print here, but we may try
Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, so the discussion on line
regarding that book has been quite interesting.

But I have a new call for help, this time for an undergraduate research
project, I have a student interested in looking at why the US got involved
in the Peace Process in Northern Ireland during the Clinton administration.
I can direct her to some website and newspaper archives, to Wilson's book on
US involvement, but are there any other suggestions that colleagues have
used with success that she can use?
Thank you.

Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Irish Studies Centre, University of North London...

From: HXEZHICKMAM[at]unl.ac.uk
Subject: Away on a trip

Professor Mary Hickman will be away from the University of
North London from 1st February 2002 - 19 August 2002.

During that time she will be taking up a temporary
appointment as Visiting Professor at the Europe-Australia
Institute, Victoria University, 13th Floor, 300 Flinders
St, Melbourne 3000, Australia.

For enquiries or any other business relating to the Irish Studies Centre
during that period please contact either
the Deputy Director of the Centre, Dr Sarah Morgan:

020-7607 2789 ext. 2914, email: s.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk; or the
administrator of the Centre, Tony Murray: 020-7753 5018,
email: t.murray[at]unl.ac.uk

thank you
Mary

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Mooney the Indian Man

American National Biography Online


Mooney, James (10 Feb. 1861-22 Dec. 1921), anthropologist, was
born in Richmond, Indiana, the son of James Mooney and Ellen
Devlin, Irish immigrants. His father died soon after his birth.
His mother, who made her living as a housekeeper, supplemented
her son's public school education with the legends of her native
County Meath, stories about the former grandeur of Irish culture,
and memories of alien British rule. She also raised him to be
an ardent Catholic. After graduating from high school in 1878,
Mooney taught public school for one year and then joined the
staff of the Richmond Palladium. Charles Stewart Parnell, who
toured the United States in late 1879 on behalf of the newly
formed National Land League of Ireland, stirred Mooney's passion
and idealism. Mooney helped organize a local Richmond chapter
of the Land League and served as its first secretary. When the
English Parliament passed land reform measures shortly thereafter,
much of the original enthusiasm for the league dissipated. Mooney
late in 1884 tried to gain employment at the Smithsonian Institution's
Bureau of Ethnology (later renamed the Bureau of American Ethnology),
which had been founded in 1879 to organize anthropological knowledge
in the United States and thereby provide the national government
with solutions to the vexing "Indian problem." A former mayor
of Richmond introduced Mooney by letter to Major John Wesley
Powell, the director, as "the young and devoted anthropological
Irishman." Powell had no position to offer. Mooney visited Washington,
D.C., in April 1885 ostensibly on his way to explore the upper
Amazon River. When Powell viewed the work Mooney had begun as
a hobby ten years before, principally a tribal "synonymy" (a
dictionary of tribal names and their synonyms; this eventually
grew into the multiauthored Handbook of American Indians North
of Mexico [1907]) and a very large and detailed map locating
current and former homelands of North American Indians, he hired
Mooney on the spot. Mooney became a resident of Washington, D.C.,
where he made his home and eventually married Ione Lee Gaut in
1897; they had six children.

Mooney remained deskbound at the Smithsonian his first two years
in Washington. Under the tutelage of Dr. Washington Matthews,
curator of the Army Medical Museum, contributor to bureau
publications,
and an Irish expatriate, Mooney learned that to be a successful
ethnologist one must first gain the complete confidence of the
informant. To achieve this confidence, one must respect the
informant's
culture in all its particulars. When stationed among the Sioux
and later among the Navajos, Matthews had learned their languages.
Under Matthews's influence, Mooney was meticulous in his research
and would learn Cherokee, Kiowa, and some Comanche. He began
his field studies during the summer of 1887 among the Eastern
Cherokees of the Great Smoky Mountains. Years of research that
followed among the Cherokees of eastern Tennessee and western
North Carolina who had escaped forced removal in the 1840s led
to the publication of the monographs "Sacred Formulas of the
Cherokees" (Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
[1891]), "Myths of the Cherokee" (Nineteenth Annual Report of
the Bureau of American Ethnology [1900]), and the posthumous
The Swimmer Manuscript: Cherokee Sacred Formulas and Medicinal
Prescriptions (1932), named for one of the shamans and traditional
healers who resisted forced assimilation and preserved Cherokee
traditions. As Mooney's biographer George Ellison has suggested,
no greater testimonial can be offered to Mooney than the reliance
placed on his work by anthropologists, general readers, and especially
the various North American Indians he so diligently chronicled.
In the 1970s Richard Mack Bettis, President of the Tulsa (Oklahoma)
Cherokee Community stated that he and his contemporaries grew
up holding the writings of James Mooney on the Cherokees in a
reverence that is usually reserved for scripture.

Mooney is, however, best remembered for his research and writing
on the Ghost Dance Religion. When he visited the Indian Territory
in late 1890 to complete research among the western division
of the Cherokees, he witnessed the ghost dance in full performance
at the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation. He spent the next three
years conducting research throughout the West and writing on
one of the greatest social and religious movements to affect
American Indians in the nineteenth century. Mooney's "The Ghost
Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890" (Fourteenth Annual
Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2 [1896]), is generally
considered his greatest work and has earned him an enduring reputation
among anthropologists and historians. It was the first accurate
history of the religion, and it has served generations of
ethnohistorians
as a major source of evidence about the religion and the Sioux
rebellion. In the book Mooney came very close to articulating
a theory of revitalization expounded by anthropologists during
the second half of the twentieth century. In lyrical prose he
compared the religion of the Paiute prophet Wovoka to other religions,
including Christianity.

While in the Indian Territory in 1890-1891, Mooney also encountered
the burgeoning Peyote Religion at the Kiowa and Comanche reservation,
detected what he believed to be a heraldic system among plains
Indians borne out by designs that appeared on tipis and warrior
shields, and found pictographic calendars of the Kiowas. A Kiowa
storyteller would use the pictographs on his calendar as a sort
of mnemonic device to recall the memories of that particular
year or "winter." The Kiowa calendars (and those found among
the Sioux about the same time) exposed the falsity of the assertion
that American Indians were people without a "written" history.

Following completion of his manuscript on the Ghost Dance, he
finished his "Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians" (Seventeenth
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part 2 [1898]).
Along with his other research interests, he would continually
return to his heraldry studies and the Peyote Religion during
the next thirty years, though he never finished books on either
subject. Indeed, his sympathetic treatment of the peyote ritual
led to his being barred from conducting research on Indian
reservations.
In 1918 he assisted in the chartering of the Native American
Church of Oklahoma, an act that defied federal policy aimed to
outlaw the use of peyote. For that reason, the Secretary of the
Interior issued the ban of his research. He tried unsuccessfully
for the remaining three years of his life to get the ban lifted.
He died at his home in Washington, D.C., from the cumulative
effects of heart disease that had first appeared in the early
1890s. A member of the first generation of professional
anthropologists,
he left behind a wealth of ethnographical and historical data.


Bibliography

There are no James Mooney papers. The majority of his correspondence
and all of his unfinished manuscripts and research notes may
be found in the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum
of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Mooney's other major writings include "The Cheyenne Indians,"
Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, 1905-1906
(1908), and "The Aboriginal Population of America North of Mexico,"
Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections, no. 52 (1928).
A splendid, short biographical introduction by George Ellison
is in James Mooney, History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the
Cherokees (1992). Two biographies of Mooney exist, one by William
Munn Colby, "Routes to Rainey Mountain: A Biography of James
Mooney, Ethnologist" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Wisconsin, 1977),
and L. G. Moses, The Indian Man: A Biography of James Mooney
(1984). See also Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr., Savages and Scientists:
The Smithsonian Institution and the Development of American
Anthropology,
1846-1910 (1981). An obituary is in American Anthropologist 24
(1922): 209-14.

L. G. Moses

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Citation:
L. G. Moses . "Mooney, James";
http://www.anb.org/articles/14/14-00419.html
American National Biography Online Feb. 2002.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Linda,

On anything to do with the Northern Ireland conflicts/peace processes the
best places to start are...

CAIN
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/index.html

INCORE
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/

I note that most of the key N. Ireland politicians are currently in New
York, at the World Economic Forum, Waldorf Astoria...

On a tangent... There is much about US involvement in the N. Ireland peace
process in Raymond Seitz, Over Here, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, which I
happen to be reading... Seitz was US Ambassador in London from 1991 to
1994. He is frank about his run-ins with Joan Kennedy Smith, when she was
nominated by President Clinton as US Ambassador in Dublin. Explaining
firmly that N. Ireland was his turf...

Some of Seitz on Ireland is frankly weird - for example, a footnote on p 286
says that of Paul Hill that his 'convictions in two cases of murder had been
overturned on appeal because of police mishandling...' And that is all.
Nothing about the Birmingham 6.

On British/US relations/contrasts Seitz is an entertaining and educational
read... But it does go some way to show how hard it was for Irish issues to
get on the White House agenda - until Mr. Clinton came along owing favours
to Senator Kennedy...

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


News of the death of Seán Ó hEochaidh reached us last month - folklorist,
born February 9 1913, died January 18 2002

At last we have found an obituary we can share - his death was noted in the
Guardian yesterday...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,644452,00.html

The Irish Diaspora connection is that Ó hEochaidh played a major part in the
publication of an account of emigrant life by his father-in-law, Mici Mac
Gowan. Ó hEochaidh transcribed MacGowan's memories as the basis of the
book, Micí Mac Gabhann, Rotha Mór an tSaoil, which became in English Michael
Mac Gowan, The Hard Road to Klondike, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London,
1962, Trans. Valentin Iremonger.

Has anything appeared in the Irish papers?

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Here is the item that appeared in the (Irish) Sunday Mirror on the Ghetto
Kids dolls...

In the end, for one reason or another, I did not give our journalist friend
any quotes, and he went with some quotes from a social worker in Chicago...

P.O'S.

Sunday Mirror used....
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 34

LENGTH: 586 words

HEADLINE: GHETTO KIDS.. BLOTTO DADS;
DOLL MAKERS ACCUSED OF RACISM

BYLINE: Eamonn O'Hanlon

HIGHLIGHT:
SITUATION: Windy City Mary encounters an alcoholic on the street; ... and is
immediately reminded of her alcoholic father. Critics have accused the
makers of racial stereotyping; CUTE: Windy City Mary has won the hearts of
children, but has run into criticism

BODY:


A RACE row has blown up around a new toy range headed by an Irish doll whose
dad is depicted as a hopeless drunk.

Hundreds of the multi-racial dolls - known as Ghetto Kids - have been
snapped up since they went on sale in America before Christmas.

Each doll is accompanied by a letter spelling out their tragic family
problems, with their stories also played out in comic strips on the Ghetto
Kids website. The biographies feature families who are struggling with
alcoholism and drug addiction to those who are involved in organised crime
and murder.

The makers claim the dolls - with names such as East LA Lupe and Starlet
Stephanie - are designed to help children cope with these "typical" problems
in real life.

But critics insist they pander to negative racial stereotypes, with the
Spanish doll's father portrayed as a gangster who is killed in a drive-by
shooting and the Puerto Rican's mum and dad as crack addicts.

The Irish doll - dubbed Windy City Mary - is supposedly abandoned by her
Belfast-born mother and left to fend for herself in an Irish "ghetto" of
Chicago. In her comic strip story, intended for the under 10s, red-headed
Mary finds a "dirty, unshaven" drunk, named O'Malley, asleep in an alleyway
as she is out riding her bike one afternoon.

The story tells how Mary is immediately struck by similarities between
O'Malley and her hard-drinking Irish dad. The story says: "Mary Margaret
hears a low grumbling sound and smells something bad: liquor.

"Mary steps away. The odour brings back vivid images of her father. She
tries hard to erase those images. She wants to forget those sad times when
her father would come home drunk.

"She feels sorry for the man. Maybe he is like her father; maybe he needs a
drink to forget his problems. He doesn't know that drinking causes more
problems. This man needs help. What can she do? She has never been able to
help her father."

Mary's story, which also touches on possible child abuse, has proved a
winner with American youngsters.

Ghetto Kids boss Tommy Perez said of all the dolls, which sell for $ 39.99,
Windy City Mary was the most popular.

Mr Perez said: "The dolls are there to open the doors on all sorts of
subjects before society closes the doors on children who live like this.

"We hope, through our products, to provide a source of enjoyment for
children as well as information for their parents to help develop healthy
discussions about serious issues.

"The information provided will hopefully prepare children and answer
questions they might have regarding issues like homelessness, peer pressure,
crime, gangs, drugs, cigarettes and alcohol."

The dolls, which are available in Ireland by mail order from the Ghetto Kids
website - www.ghettokidshood.com - have been slammed in the US for
presenting a distorted picture of so-called ghetto life.

Chicago social worker Deborah Constance said: "These dolls represent the
worst sort of negative stereotypes.

"These children who live below the poverty line just do not live the sort of
lives that these dolls are supposed to.

"We see the kids from the Irish area of Chicago where the doll Mary is
supposed to come from and they are little stars. They are angels.

"Their parents are doing their best. Of Course there are alcholics and crack
addicts out there, but you get those things everywhere.

"It is very unfair to portray one racial group as drug addicts or alcoholics
and it sends a very bad message to the children."

LOAD-DATE: February 3, 2002

Project Ref: xx

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ghetto Kids 5

Paddy,
Thanks for sharing this. I agree with the report wholeheartedly. It really
is
sad when someone with 'educational' intent comes up with a tool like this -
the
educator needs education. Being so incredibly insensitive to the issue of
stereotyping makes me wonder where the checks and balances were in this.
Tommy
Perez should take a class on awareness.
Carmel

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

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Here is the item that appeared in the (Irish) Sunday Mirror on the Ghetto
> Kids dolls...
>
> In the end, for one reason or another, I did not give our journalist
friend
> any quotes, and he went with some quotes from a social worker in
Chicago...
>
> P.O'S.
>
> Sunday Mirror used....
> SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 34
>
> LENGTH: 586 words
>
> HEADLINE: GHETTO KIDS.. BLOTTO DADS;
> DOLL MAKERS ACCUSED OF RACISM
>
> BYLINE: Eamonn O'Hanlon
>

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D Erin go brach

May I put in a 'repeat' for my query on Erin go brách?
I fear that my original request may have been buried
by the enthusiasm over the 'ghetto kids' topic.

I'm looking for any information on the use of the
phrase Erin go brách, usually anglicized as Erin go
bragh, earlier than 1796, or any comment on the use of
the phrase as a rallying cry.

thank you
Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

=====
Go raibh tú daibhir i mí-áidh/May you be poor in ill-luck
Agus saibhir i mbeannachtaí/rich in blessings
Go mall ag déanamh namhaid/slow to make enemies
go luath a déanamh carad/quick to make friends

I thought this worth sharing, knowing our members' inteests.

You have to scroll to the very end to find the Irish Diaspora section - but
it's there...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of...
Michael J Cronin

Attached is the programme and a booking form for the 20th annual conference
of the British Society of Sports Historians. If there are any questions,
please e-mail me direct at: mjcronin[at]dmu.ac.uk
Thanks,
Mike Cronin
International Centre for Sports History and Culture
De Montfort University Leicester


BRITISH SOCIETY OF SPORTS HISTORY

20th Annual Conference

Leicester, 13 & 14 April 2002

Hosted by the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De
Montfort University

Saturday 13 April

9.30 - 10.00: Coffee and registration

10.00 - 11.30: The Mysterious Professor Jokl: An Awkward Exploration in
Sports Biography
John Bale, Aarhus University and Keele University.
What Manner of Morph are You? Somatotyping and the Influence of William
Sheldon
Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia.
Jews, Anti-Semitism and Sport in Britain
Tony Collins, De Montfort University Leicester.

11.30 - 12.30: Session A
Cricket: the early laws and control of violence
Dominic Malcolm, Leicester University.
The Changing nature of popular recreation to rational recreation: the early
stages of cricket in West Cornwall
Ian Clarke, De Montfort University.

Session B
Shareholders in Victorian football clubs: evidence from north-east England
Neal Garnham, University of Ulster.
The Origins of Football: A Review of Adrian Harvey
Graham Curry.

12.30 - 13.30: Lunch

13.30 - 15.00: Session A
Ludism, learning and laughter: the social construction of Victorian sporting
competence
Mike Huggins, St Martin's College.
Thomas Kincaid and the Golf Swing, circa 1688
Thomas Hamill, University of Delaware.
An Imperial Playground: Sport, Empire and British Army Officers, 1860-1914
Shawn Arabian, University of Houston.
Session B
Sports Goods Retailing, Buisness History and Sports History: manufacturers,
retailers and price fixing in the 1930s
Dilwyn Porter, University College Worcester.
US Soccer: Momentary Passion or Future National Sport?
Steven S Apostolov, University of Paris 8.
Nostalgia, Rural Mythology and New Zealand Rugby in the Professional Era
Greg Ryan, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.

15.00 - 15.30: Tea

15.30 - 17.00: Now is the Winter of our Discontent: the Impact of Weather on
British Sport in 1963
Joyce Kay, Open University.
Bascombe, Machin and Logan: explorations in sport literature
Jeff Hill, De Montfort University Leicester.
Yours in Sport
Charles Korr, University of St Loius.

17.00 - 18.00: BSSH Annual General Meeting

18.30 - 19.30: Drinks

19.30: Dinner


Sunday 14 April

8.00 - 9.00: Breakfast for residents

9.30 - 11.00: Session A
A Sporting Chance? Extra time for England's historic sports venues
Jason Wood, Heritage Consultancy Services.
Cuckoo in the Nest? The Use and Abuse of Racecourses by other Sports and
Pastimes
John Tolson.
Trelawny's Army - more Cornish than the pasty?
Andy Seward.

Session B
'A new link in the chain of society': the great archery revival of the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Martin Johnes, St Martin's College, Lancaster.
Masculinity, grace and early British figure skating
Mary Louise Adams, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontairo.
'This graceful and healthy outdoor game cannot fail to be beneficial to
growing girls': Sporting provision for female employees at the Boots Company
Simon Phillips, Nottingham Trent University.

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee

11.30 - 13.00: Drinking, Fighting, Gambling and Rebellion in Gaelic Games
Paul Rouse, University College Dublin.
Sport, Leisure and Irish identities in England: The Gaelic Athletic
Association and the Migrant experience
Ian Gavin, Salford University.
From Kings to Giants - A History of Ice Hockey in Belfast, 1930-2002
David Hassan, University of Ulster.

13.00: Lunch

Depart

n.b. all papers are twenty minutes in length, with ten minutes allowed for
discussion

For further details, or a copy of the registration form:
e-mail: mjcronin[at]dmu.ac.uk
phone: 0116-2577315
write: Mike Cronin, International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De
Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH.

From: "Molloy, Frank"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Erin go brach 2

Dymphna and everyone,

I'm not sure about uses earlier than 1796 but I am familiar with the phrase
used in a (once) well-known Thomas Campbell poem, 'The Exile of Erin',
composed in 1800. Campbell was a Scot and on a visit to Germany met some
exiles from 1798 in Hamburg. One of these he befriended, and the poem was
the result. It was published in London and the poem's use of the phrase
'Erin go bragh' as well as other elements got Campbell into hot water. Some
people suspected he was a sympathiser with the rebel cause. The poem was
set to an Irish air (Savourneen Deelish) and became very popular throughout
Ireland, far more popular than Campbell could ever have imagined. It was
even sung in his native Scotland.

If you would like more information on this, contact me directly and I'll
send you a paper I wrote on the poem.

Frank

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2002 17:10
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Erin go brach 2




From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dymphna=20Lonergan?=
Subject: Re: Ir-D Erin go brach

May I put in a 'repeat' for my query on Erin go brách?
I fear that my original request may have been buried
by the enthusiasm over the 'ghetto kids' topic.

I'm looking for any information on the use of the
phrase Erin go brách, usually anglicized as Erin go
bragh, earlier than 1796, or any comment on the use of
the phrase as a rallying cry.

thank you
Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

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Go raibh tú daibhir i mí-áidh/May you be poor in ill-luck
Agus saibhir i mbeannachtaí/rich in blessings
Go mall ag déanamh namhaid/slow to make enemies
go luath a déanamh carad/quick to make friends

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The phrase 'Erin go bragh' occurs in "The Exiled Irishman's Lamentation", in
the United Irishmen anthology Paddy's Resource (Belfast, 1795)

For a study of Paddy's Resource, etc., see Mary H. Thuente, The harp
re-strung: the United Irishmen and the rise of Irish literary nationalism
(Syracuse UP, 1994).

Many of these items UI are available on the web, from the Linen Hall
Library - if you are prepared to pay/can afford the fee...
http://www.linenhall.com/Home/home.html
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/linenhall/Home__Welcome_/home__welcome_.ht
ml

Frank, I'd like to read your paper...

In Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., Religion and Identity - full bibliographic
information on www.irishdiaspora.net - I drew attention to the anomaly
that...

...the standard lives of Campbell tell the story of the meeting with United
Irishman Anthony MacCann, and the publication of the song 'Exile of Erin' in
The Morning Chronicle of 28 January 1801...

but...

...all the historians of Irish Australia have the convict priest, Father
James Harald, singing the song on the beach in Australia in January 1800.
The original source for that story seems to be a memoir written for R. R.
Madden by Richard Sheil in the 184os.

However, John Moulden - the compiler of Thousands Are Sailing: a brief song
history of Irish emigration, Ulstersongs, 1994, ISBN 1 898437 01 7 - has
since drawn my attention to an item in the British Library...

British Library Catalogue...
Title: Literary Remains of the United Irishmen of 1798, and selections from
other popular lyrics of their times, with an essay on the authorship of ?The
Exile of Erin? [of Thomas Campbell]. Collected and edited by R. R. Madden.
Main heading: MADDEN. Richard Robert
Additional headings: CAMPBELL. Thomas. the Poet. Single Works. Gertrud von
Wyoming ... Im Versmass des Originals u¨bersetzt von Dr. J. Finck. Eng. &
Ger.
Additional headings: ERIN
Additional headings: REYNOLDS. George Nugent
Publication details: pp. xix. 360. J. Duffy & Sons: Dublin, 1887. 8o.
Shelfmark: 11621.aaa.63.

...which I have not yet had a chance to see. But apparently it questions
Campbell's authorship of the song.

It may be that Campbell took something that already existed, and tidied it?

P.O'S.

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

From: "Molloy, Frank"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Erin go brach 2

Dymphna and everyone,

I'm not sure about uses earlier than 1796 but I am familiar with the phrase
used in a (once) well-known Thomas Campbell poem, 'The Exile of Erin',
composed in 1800. Campbell was a Scot and on a visit to Germany met some
exiles from 1798 in Hamburg. One of these he befriended, and the poem was
the result. It was published in London and the poem's use of the phrase
'Erin go bragh' as well as other elements got Campbell into hot water. Some
people suspected he was a sympathiser with the rebel cause. The poem was
set to an Irish air (Savourneen Deelish) and became very popular throughout
Ireland, far more popular than Campbell could ever have imagined. It was
even sung in his native Scotland.

If you would like more information on this, contact me directly and I'll
send you a paper I wrote on the poem.

Frank

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I came across these two items, which I know will interest some of our
literary history folk. I was struck by the juxtaposition of Huck Finn and
Kim, two (literary) orphans of the Irish Diaspora...

P.O'S.

1.
Title: The river and the road: Fashions in forgiveness

Summary: Park compares Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" to Kipling's
"Kim." Far from being studied together, the novels have only rarely and
fleetingly been associated so far.

Source: The American Scholar
Date: Winter/1997

Citation Information: ISSN: 0003-0937; Vol. 66 No. 1; p. 43
Author(s): Clara Claiborne Park
Document Type: Article

2.
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin vs. Huckleberry Finn: The historians and the
critics

Summary: For years, historians and critics have argued the merits and
problems with "Huckleberry Finn" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The question of
whether the works are propaganda or art is examined.

Source: Boundary 2
Date: 07/01/1997
Citation Information: ISSN: 0190-3659; Vol. 24 No. 2; p. 79
Author(s): Jonathan Arac
Copyright Holder: 1997, Duke University Press Summer
Document Type: Article


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>

Stings like a bee, talks like an Irishman
Tania Branigan
Guardian

Saturday February 9, 2002

Researchers say they have the explanation for legendary boxer Muhammad Ali's
gift of the gab - he is Irish.

Genealogists have unearthed documents which prove his great grandfather came
from Ennis, in south west Ireland.

Abe Grady, born 160 years ago in County Clare, emigrated to the US in the
1860s and settled in Kentucky, where he married an African-American. Ali's
mother, Odessa Lee Grady, was their granddaughter.

She married Cassius Clay, senior, and their son took his father's name on
his birth in 1942. He changed it to Muhammad Ali when he converted to Islam
after becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

EXTRACT ENDS>>>

Full story at....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4352852,00.html

P.O'S.

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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Music of/and/in the Irish Diaspora...

We have had an interesting request from Kenan Foley, who teaches and plays
music in Pittsburgh, USA.

MESSAGE BEGINS>>>

Dear Mr. O'Sullivan,

I ran across your site while looking for information on Irish music. I am in
the early stages of developing a course syllabus for a class I plan to teach
possibly titled: Irish Music in the Diaspora. At this point I am still
trying to define what a diasporic study of Irish music could encompass;
Traditional, Irish Rock, Celtic-Jazz, etc. Can you suggest any readings or
direct me to anyone who can help?

Sincerely yours,

Kenan Foley
Lecturer, Music
Humanities
Carlow College
Pittsburgh, USA

MESSAGE ENDS>>>

This is the kind of query that the Irish-Diaspora list is traditionally good
at. If we all quickly pool knowledge we will very soon have a useful
bibliography and list of contact points - which will be in our archive for
everyone to use.

Let me stress again that Modesty is NOT an Irish Diaspora virtue. If your
work is interesting and relevant let us hear about it.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England