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Ghosts of the Irish Diaspora
St. Patrick's Day Competition, 2002

The Irish-Diaspora list traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition for the
year 2002 addresses an issue which has been for too long neglected by Irish
Diaspora Studies - the Irish Diaspora and the occult.

Our Competition is inspired by the work of Elliott O'Donnell, 1872-1965,
writer of ghost stories, ghost hunter, and scholar of the Irish Diaspora:

Amongst his books are Twenty years' experience as a ghost hunter, London,
Heath, Cranton, Ltd. [1917]; Strange cults and secret societies of modern
London, New York, E.P. Dutton & co., inc. [c1935]; The Irish abroad, a
record of the achievements of wanderers from Ireland, London, New York, Sir
I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1915.

Most significant for our purposes here is The Banshee, Sands & Company,
London and Edinburgh [no date, but I guess about 1915]. Note that there
seems to be some confusion about O'Donnell's first name - the British
Library and the Library of Congress give Elliott, Bruce Stewart's Eirdata
project gives Eliot, my own copy of The Banshee gives Elliot.

I found my copy of The Banshee in a junk shop in Manningham Lane, Bradford,
some years ago - the book is stamped as the property of the Convent of Notre
Dame, Leeds... It is a rare book - not listed by the British Library or the
Library of Congress. Eirdata says that there is a copy in Belfast.

The theme of O'Donnell, The Banshee, is very simple - as the Banshee-ridden
families of Ireland spread throughout the world they were accompanied by
their Banshees, continuing the familiar pattern of occult warnings and
apparitions.

Inspired by Elliott O'Donnell Competitors in the Irish-Diaspora list
traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition for the year 2002 are asked to
address ANY aspect of the relationship between the Irish Diaspora and the
occult.

Competitors may approach this theme in any fashion, serious or comic, based
on indepth research or stories grandmother told, looking at real ghosts or
apparitions, or discovering or inventing the heretofore missing or
unlookedfor ghosts of the Irish Diaspora.

Competitors should not be afraid of tackling this theme with some
seriousness, if they wish to. On the other hand the Irish-Diaspora list
traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition is usually an excuse for scholarly
levity.

Because this year's Competition might attract a variety of responses the
Committee is free to award a number of prizes, within categories of its
invention.

Entries to the Irish-Diaspora list traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition
for the year 2002 should be sent to this special Competition email
address...

comp[at]osull.co.uk

NOT to any other email address and especially NOT to the Irish-Diaspora list
email address.

The closing date for the Competition will be March 31 2002.

Or thereabouts. Whenever I get back from the Canary Islands...

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Yvonne Murphy
Librarian
Northern Ireland Political Collection
LINEN HALL LIBRARY

Let us tell you about our 'Troubled Images' project at the Northern
Ireland Political Collection, where we have digitised thousands of political
posters onto a multimedia CD-ROM:


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The Collection documents the activities of all parties to the conflict as
well as those affected by it. From the most ephemeral literature--stickers,
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Meanwhile... Another competition...

Forwarded on behalf of
Boston Irish Tourism Association


Throughout the week leading up to St. Patrick's Day the Boston Irish Tourism
Association (BITA) is giving away tickets to see Riverdance on June 4,
opening night in Boston, Massachusetts. You have two chances to win!

You can go right to our contest at

http://www.irishmassachusetts.com/RiverdanceContest.htm

You can also try your luck by going to BITA's St. Patrick's Day contest in
association with the Boston Globe's web site,
http://www.boston.com/stpatricksday/contests/ where you'll also have a
chance to win some great prizes from BITA members like Bridget's- An Irish
Tradition Gift Shop, Kara Pottery, JFK Library & Museum, Dreams of Freedom
Immigration Museum, the Gaelic Roots program at Boston College, and the
Orpheum at Foxborough.

Good luck, and have a great St. Patrick's Day.


Boston Irish Tourism Association
www.IrishMassachusetts.com
www.IrishHeritageTrail.com

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R.Varnish[at]lmu.ac.uk

Subject: Studies St. Patrick's Day Public Lecture - Thursday 14th March


Open Lecture
In celebration of
St Patrick's Day

Irish Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University invites you to an open
lecture by
Dr. Lance Pettitt, Principal Lecturer, titled:

'Situating Comedy: Father Ted and "new" Irishness?'

Thursday 14th March 2002
at
18:30 in Lecture Theatre B2 (LTB2), City Site Campus, LMU

For further information then please contact Rachael Varnish, Course
Administrator, on 0113 283 5916 or email at r.varnish[at]lmu.ac.uk

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With deep foreboding I announce that it is time to launch the Irish-Diaspora
list's annual St. Patrick's Day Competition...

(Pauses. Takes a deep breath. Puts a brave face on things...)

This year staff changes and retirement at the University of Bradford mean
that we no longer have an Attic Committee to judge our Competition. Instead
I have appointed a Snicket Committee made up of my immediate neighbours. (A
Snicket in Bradford is what they call a Ginnel in Leeds...)

As ever... Our Competition will have a theme giving Ir-D members an
opportunity to display talent and inappropriate erudition. There will be a
special email address, to which Competition entries should be sent. And
there will be prizes - selected from spare copies of books in my collection.

Further details will appear here in the near future.

P.O'S.


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Information re Lionel Pilkington's book...

From the Routledge web page...

Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Cultivating the People
Lionel Pilkington

ISBN:
0415069394

This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of
Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s.
Impressively wide-ranging in coverage, Theatre and the State in
Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People includes discussions on:
*the politics of the Irish literary movement at the Abbey Theatre before and
after political independence;
*the role of a state-sponsored theatre for the post-1922 unionist government
in Northern Ireland;
*the convulsive effects of the Northern Ireland conflict on Irish theatre.
Lionel Pilkington draws on a combination of archival research and critical
readings of individual plays, covering works by J. M. Synge, Sean O'Casey,
Lennox Robinson, T. C. Murray, George Shiels, Brian Friel, and Frank
McGuinness. In its insistence on the details of history, this is a book
important to anyone interested in Irish culture and politics in the
twentieth century.

Contents:
Introduction. Chapter 1. Home Rule and the Irish Literary State Chapter 2.
J.M. Synge and the Collapse of Constructive Unionism, 1902-09 Chapter 3. NTS
Ltd. and the Rise of Sinn F`ein, 1910-22 Chapter 4. Cumann na nGaedheal and
the Abbey Theatre, 1922-32 Chapter 5. Fianna Fail and 'the Nation's
Prestige', 1932-48 Chapter 6. Irish Theatre and Modernization, 1948-68
Chapter 7. National Theatres in Northern Ireland, 1922-72 Chapter 8.
National Theatre and the Political Crisis in Northern Ireland, 1968-92.
Bibliography.


Author Biography:
Lionel Pilkington teaches drama and theatre studies, Irish writing, and
cultural politics in the Department of English at the National University of
Ireland, Galway.

Routledge
London ? New York
UK Head Office: 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Email: info[at]routledge.co.uk

From: "Molloy, Frank"
Subject: C.Y. O'Connor

Colleagues,

This week marks the centenary of the death of Charles Yelverton O'Connor,
chief engineer for the colony of Western Australia from 1891 to 1902.
O'Connor was born in Ireland, educated there and went to New Zealand before
settling in WA. In a short period he made a major contribution to the
economic development of what at that time was a sparsely populated and
remote colony. He carried out the excavation of the port of Fremantle, thus
providing a safe harbour for the city of Perth and thereby improving its
access to the outside world. He did much to plan and develop the railway
network. But his major achievement was the laying of a water pipeline from
the coast to the newly-opened goldfields at Kalgoorlie, 560 kilometres away.
The provision of fresh water did much to secure the establishment of the
goldfields in an hospitable environment. He was so affected by stress from
the challenges of this project which many believed would fail, that he
committed suicide.

O'Connor is far from a forgotten figure in WA. A biography of him was
launched last year in Perth by the then Labor leader Kim Beazley and there
is a statue of him overlooking the port of Fremantle. The biography,
entitled C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy, is by Tony Evans. It is
published by UWA Press in Perth.

Irish men and women did much in the formative decades of the various
Australian colonies, but in the fields of science and engineering, arguably
no one did more than O'Connor.

Frank.
Dr Frank Molloy,
Senior Lecturer in English,
School of Humanities,
Charles Sturt University,
PO Box 588,
Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
Australia
Phone: (02) 6933 2398
Fax: (02) 6933 2792

From: "Eileen Reilly"
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:00:49 -0500

Please post the following announcement.

Date & Time: Thursday, March 21st at 7pm
Venue: Glucksman Ireland House at New York University
Location: One Washington Mews (entrance on 5th Avenue between 8th St and
Washington Square Park North)

Professor Kerby Miller will speak on:
'Scotch-Guarding Ulster's Immigrants Against Celtic Contaminations: The
Making of Scotch Irish Identity in Early America'

Kerby Miller is a Visiting Professor this semester at New York University.

************
Dr. Eileen Reilly,
Associate Director,
Glucksman Ireland House,
New York University,
One Washington Mews,
New York NY 10003

Tel: (212) 998-3951
Fax: (212) 995-4373

www.nyu.edu/pages/irelandhouse
www.nyu.edu/fas/summer/dublin/index.html

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Neil Sammells
n.sammells[at]bathspa.ac.uk

Call for Papers

Contributions are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies dedicated to
Oscar Wilde and to be edited by Neil Sammells (author of Wilde Style ).

Articles should be no more than 4000 words long, submitted in our house
style and should address such issues as:

* Wilde and the Gothic novel

* Dandies and vampires

* Wilde and post-modern Gothic

* Parodying the Gothic

* Wilde and the politics of Gothic

* The Irish Gothic


Contributions should reach the editor by June 2002 for projected
publication in 2003.

Contact: Dr Neil Sammells, Dean of Academic Development, Bath Spa University
College, Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN UK. E-mail: n.sammells[at]bathspa.ac.uk

Note...
for Gothic Studies see
{http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/gothic.htm}

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Forwarded on behalf of

Danielle Couture
for the Theatre and Exile Conference Organizing
Committee

Apologies for cross-listings; please distribute.

We are still accepting registrations; registration information is
available on the web at
http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca/exile/exile.html
For further information, please email exile_conference[at]yahoo.com

PROGRAM:

THURSDAY, March 21st

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
REGISTRATION

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
WELCOMING REMARKS: Stephen Johnson, Graduate Centre for Study of
Drama,
University of Toronto

INTRODUCTION: Silvija Jestrovic

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Professor Breyten Breytenbach, New York University
and
University of Cape Town.

2:00 pm -2:10 pm
BREAK

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
PANEL: Theorizing Exile (MODERATOR: Ric Knowles)
Goran Stefanovski, University of Kent, Canterbury: Tales from The
Wild
East;
Una Chaudhuri, New York University: Exile, Extremity and Animality:
Living on the Edge with Tennessee Williams' "Fraulein";

3:30 pm - 3:40 pm
BREAK

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Is There Theatre in Exile (MODERATOR: Bruce Barton)
Daniel David Moses, Djanet Sears, Rahul Varma, Dragana Varagic,
Guillermo Verdecchia

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
BREAK

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
PANEL: Writing Exile (MODERATOR: Danièle Issa-Sayegh)
Eileen Denn Jackson, Trinity College, Dublin: Excavating Exile
Paul Malone, University of Waterloo: Odon von Horvath's Back and
Forth:
Teetering Between Exile and Return
Liam Rodrigues, York University: Shaping Grusha: Brecht's American
Years
and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

6:15 pm
RECEPTION

FRIDAY, March 22nd

10:00 am - 11:30 am
PANEL: Border Crossings (MODERATOR: Domenico Pietropaolo) Tamara
Trojanowska, University of Toronto: Making it in America: Janusz
Glowacki in New York.
Christine Jones, University of British Columbia: Nationalism and
Globalization: John B.Keane's "The Field" and the Reconfiguration of
Borders.
Jan B. Gross: Algerian Playwrights in France: From Crisis to
Creation;

11:30 am -11:40 am
BREAK

11:45 am - 1:15 pm
PANEL: Staging Exile (MODERATOR: Lary Zappia) Dragan Klaic,
University
of Amsterdam: Staging Exile for Children.Susan Haedicke, George
Washington University: Documenting Exile: "Un voyage pas comme les
autres sur les chemins de l'exil";Louise Forsyth, University of
Saskatchewan: Confronting the Condition of Exile in Abla Farhoud's
Theatre;

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
LUNCH

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
PRESENTATION: Theatre An der Ruhr (INTRODUCTION: Veronika Ambros)
Annette Heilmann, Helmut Schäfer

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
BREAK

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
PANEL: Acting in Exile (MODERATOR: Yana Meerzon) Liisa Byckling,
University of Helsinki: Michael Chekhov in Western Theatre
Rachel Perlmeter: Polyphonic Performances: Soviet Emigrés in the
United
States

6:45 pm
PLAY READING at The Idler Pub, 255 Davenport Rd.: (MODERATOR:
Danielle
Couture) Goran Stefanovski, Woon-Ping Chin, Mario Fratti, Daniel
David
Moses, Rahul Varma

SATURDAY, March 23rd

10:00 am - 11:30 am
PANEL: Performing Otherness: The Body and Exile (MODERATOR: Josette
Féral)
Woon-Ping Chin, Dartmouth College: Sycorax Revisited: Exile and
Absence
in Performance
George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto: Gynocentric Darwinism
in
the African-Canadian Drama of George Boyd and Djanet Sears
Donia Mounsef, Yale University: Corporeal Exiles in Post-modern and
Post-postmodern French Theatre.

11:30 am -11:40 am
BREAK

11:45 am - 12:30 pm
FILM: Crucero/Crossroads, By Guillermo Verdecchia and Ramiro
Puerta.(INTRODUCTION: Stephen Farrow)

12:30 pm - 1: 30 pm
LUNCH

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
PANEL: Place and Displacement (MODERATOR: Lisa Fitzpatrick)
Marcia Blumberg, York University: The Problematics of Home-Coming and
Exile in Athol Fugard's "Oeuvre"
Mary Trotter, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis: New
Images of the Diaspora in Contemporary Irish Drama
Don Rubin, York University: The Americans Are Coming, The Americans
Are
Coming: Canadian Theatre and the Viet Nam War.

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm
BREAK

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
ROUNDTABLE: PEN Canada: Politics, Nostalgia and the Future of Exile
Reza Baraheni, Breyten Breytenbach, Gail Nyoka, (INTRODUCTION: Joanne
Mackay-Bennett; MODERATOR: Erna Paris)

4:15 pm
CLOSING REMARKS: Veronika Ambros

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From the Irish Independent...

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=711473&issue_id=
7050

'Parade shunned over 'IRA' leader

IRISH-AMERICAN firemen and policemen in New York have refused to march in a
St Patrick's Day parade on Sunday because a convicted IRA bomber has been
chosen as grand marshal.

The unprecedented decision is an indication of the strong feeling against
all terrorist groups in post-September 11 America.

Those who pulled out of the parade in Rockland County, 25 miles outside New
York City, had been saddened that Brian Pearson, who served 12 years in
prison for blowing up two RUC stations, was nominated as grand marshal.

It would have been more appropriate, they said, to have selected a relative
of a victim of the World Trade Centre attacks for the job.

Patrick Frawley, of the Orangetown Patrolman's Benevolent Association, said
Pearson was a "controversial" choice. ( Daily Telegraph, London)'

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: Oh, the Pipes Are Calling, and Calling Still- NYC St. Pat's
Parade- NYT


Oh, the Pipes Are Calling, and Calling Still

March 17, 2002=20

By DAN BARRY

Perhaps no one person could have embodied the many emotions
of yesterday's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Midtown,
emotions that reached beyond ethnic pride to include the
stab of remembered terror, the ache of fresh absence, the
affirming joy of life. Still, consider Christopher Walsh:
firefighter and bagpiper.=20

Before the collapse of everything on Sept. 11, Firefighter
Walsh and the other members of the Fire Department Emerald
Society's Pipes and Drums band mostly summoned happiness -
at parades, promotion ceremonies, and, especially, "last
tour" parties, where they would surround a retiring
firefighter for a personalized and proper farewell. If the
band played at three funerals a year, it was a lot.=20

But after 343 firefighters died with about 2,500 other
people in the attack on the World Trade Center, Firefighter
Walsh performed at so many funerals and memorial services
that he lost track; maybe 100, he says. They have all
blurred into one continuous service of sorrow, dotted here
and there with freeze-frame moments. Like the time he
mistakenly made eye contact with a grieving friend while
performing an "Amazing Grace" solo, and his knees nearly
buckled.=20

Six months have passed now, and here, finally, was the St.
Patrick's Day Parade. Finally, he and his buddies could
play to the beat of a march, not a dirge: "A Nation Once
Again," instead of "Going Home."=20

And so, on a mild and overcast morning, Christopher Walsh -
son of a mother from County Cork and a father from County
Mayo, may they rest in peace - put on his uniform, the one
with the kilt, and joined his band mates on East 44th
Street, just off Fifth Avenue. Behind them stood 343
probationary firefighters, all carrying American flags. He
adjusted the strap of his busby, the distinctive hat that
adds a foot to his 6-foot-3 frame. He placed his lips on
the worn mouthpiece of that ancient instrument and filled
its green felt bag with his hot breath.=20

It was time to march, time to play.=20

Around the corner and
three miles up Fifth Avenue throngs waited. At 50th Street,
they cheered the New York Police Department. At 62nd Street
they chanted, "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy," when former Mayor Rudolph
W. Giuliani appeared. At 12:30, the crowds turned south and
observed a minute of silence for the dead of Sept. 11, the
flapping of flags making the only sound. But whenever the
bloc of members of the Fire Department came into view,
marching behind its pipes and drums band, they roared.=20

A few days ago, in anticipation of yesterday's march,
Firefighter Walsh, 42, remembered the night when he went to
the Elks Club on Queens Boulevard to watch one of the
band's weekly practice sessions. It was more than a decade
ago, and he was a probationary firefighter from Woodside,
Queens, with no musical background, and still they asked
him to consider joining. "They were awesome," he said. "I
thought to myself, `I can't do that.' "=20

But after a year of practice, Firefighter Walsh proved good
enough to be given his busby, his red tunic, and his kilt,
with its tartan of blue for firefighters, white for
officers, green for the Irish, and black for firefighters
who had died in the line of duty. And life fell into place:
he was a bagpipe-playing firefighter assigned to a
firehouse in Harlem, Engine Company 80/Ladder Company 23,
with a wife named Mary, a son named Danny, and a nickname,
Kippy, that suggested eternal youthfulness.=20

At what point after the Sept. 11 attack did Firefighter
Walsh truly understand that life had changed? Maybe when he
was digging through the rubble on the second day, obeying
the commands of superiors to "find our people," and he
found a severed leg in a firefighter's protective gear. Or
maybe when rumors that Firefighter Durrell V. Pearsall, a
beloved band member known as Bronko, had been found, alive,
in a New Jersey hospital deflated like a hope-filled
balloon.=20

Then again, it could have been that Saturday, at the
funeral Mass for the Rev. Mychal F. Judge, chaplain to the
band as well as to the department. This was the first
funeral of the many to follow, and the one that Firefighter
Walsh remembers the most vividly. "We kept it together for
the most part, but at the end. . . . " he said, his voice
trailing off. "Then after the funeral we put our band stuff
in the back of a Suburban and went back down to the pile."=20

After that, he said, "To be honest with you, I don't
remember when the next funeral was."=20

It was at the start of a rush of funerals and memorial
services that lasted until Christmas - seven days a week,
sometimes several a day, 24 on one Saturday - all requiring
the presence of the band. Now, instead of encircling a
30-year veteran to honor him upon his retirement, the
circles were often empty, with nothing more than a hat in
the hands of a stunned child to remember a life.=20

For the first few weeks, Firefighter Walsh and his band
mates worked virtually around the clock, slipping out of
their blue uniforms and into their kilts, and then back
into their blues. The retired firefighters in the band
helped out a lot, and the band was split into groups, but
still. It was 80 miles to his home in Orange County, which
meant that Firefighter Walsh slept many nights at the
firehouse.=20

Finally, the pipers and drummers were assigned full time to
the ceremonial unit, which meant that their job now was to
suppress their own feelings and perform, again and again,
to honor the dead.=20

Tradition made room for self-preservation. Band members
began wearing blue sweaters to save time, as well as
wear-and-tear on the uniforms. Some, including Firefighter
Walsh, lost their taste for beer. They made a point of
disappearing after they piped the coffin into the church
and before they piped it out. "We couldn't bear all the
eulogies," he said. "We had to get away from it."=20

His wife could see the stress lines in the face of her
broad-shouldered husband. He kept a lot of what he was
going through to himself, Mary Walsh recalled. "He was
aging before my eyes. Friends were saying, `Oh, Kippy looks
old.' "=20

Many times band members knew the dead firefighter and
needed to join the grieving. Sometimes, though, the band
was spread so thin that the message came down: We know you
know this guy, but we've got to take care of business.=20

That day in September took more than a dozen of Firefighter
Walsh's close friends in the department. Gerald Atwood ("I
played at his wedding"); Lawrence J. Virgilio ("He was from
the neighborhood, Woodside"); Robert McMahon ("Good friend
of my wife's and mine"); Bronko.=20

Yesterday's St. Patrick's Day Parade, the 241st over all
and Firefighter Walsh's 10th as a bagpiper, was dedicated
to the "heroes of Sept. 11." That included the living and
the dead: Christians, Jews and Muslims; blacks, whites and
Asians; police officers, bond traders and busboys. It
included many Irish-Americans, and many firefighters.=20

There would be a lot of tears and a lot of ghosts along the
march up Fifth Avenue; Firefighter Walsh knew it. People
everywhere wore buttons with pictures of the dead. Sally
Regenhard held a large photograph of her dead firefighter
son across her chest. A firefighter who did not give his
name brandished a photograph of another lost firefighter
and would say only, "Mike Quilty, Ladder 11."=20

On the band's drums were pinned small portraits of Bronko.
Firefighter Walsh even kept a picture of Bronko tucked
inside his busby.=20

"I didn't even have 100 percent enthusiasm about coming
today," he said. "I woke up thinking maybe I won't go
today, which was crazy."=20

But time can be a salve and music a salvation. Firefighter
Walsh was recently promoted to lieutenant - because so many
died, he readily admits - his wife is five months pregnant,
and he is not looking so old anymore.=20

It was 11:55 a.m.; the signal came.=20

Christopher "Kippy"
Walsh and the five dozen other members of the Fire
Department Emerald Society's Pipes and Drums band waded as
one into that head-bobbing stream moving up Fifth Avenue.
Their collected breath flowed through the bagpipes' reeds,
making sad yet euphoric sounds that echoed so true off the
skyscrapers of the city.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/nyregion/17PATS.html?ex=3D1017347636&ei=
=3D1&
en=3Df8db897dab6ee569

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


St Patrick's Greetings from President Mary McAleese

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ar chlann mhór dhomhanda na nGael, sa bhaile
agus ar fud na cruinne, ar an lá náisiúnta ceiliúrtha seo.

Warmest St Patrick's Day greetings to every member of our global Irish
family and to our many friends around the world. On this famous day of
celebration we gather together drawn by the deep affection and pride which
the name of Ireland evokes. It is a day of fun, of music, laughter and joy
and it is a day to bring to mind memories some of which lift our hearts and
others that weigh us down with grief and sadness.

The tragic memory of September 11th still haunts our minds and thinking
back to that dreadful day we can see clearly how much we needed the
strength and comfort of friends, how much we depended on each other for
reassurance that we would and could transcend this darkness and find again
the light of hope.

On that day the thoughts of Irish people everywhere turned to their loved
ones far away. We were grateful for those who were safe and our hearts
broke for those who suffered loss and injury. Today, as on every St.
Patrick's Day we turn our hearts and minds again to each other across seas
and continents and we affirm our deep bonds of affection and care for one
another, bonds which time and tides cannot weaken.

Irish men and women have brought the name of Ireland to countless lands.
They brought with them our culture and our unique history and they
introduced many strangers to St Patrick and his people. They earned respect
and admiration for the way in which they enriched their new homelands,
often overcoming huge obstacles and difficulties. Today Ireland, the land
that people once routinely left to seek opportunity is itself a land of
opportunity and we too are being enriched by the cultural diversity brought
by immigrants to our shores.

On this day we remind ourselves again of the many gifts brought to Ireland
by our most famous immigrant, St Patrick. Although he first arrived among
us over fifteen hundred years ago there is still a remarkable timeless
integrity about his message of love, patience, forgiveness and tolerance.
He believed these virtues could work miracles in transforming human
relationships from conflict to harmony.

May his generous spirit inspire us today and every day and may you all
enjoy a celebration on this day.

MARY MCALEESE

PRESIDENT OF IRELAND
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TEACHTAIREACHT ÓN UACHTARÁN MÁIRE MHIC GHIOLLA ÍOSA LÁ 'LE PADRAIG 2002

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ar mhuintir na hÉireann agus ar ár gcairde
uilig ar fud na cruinne. Mórtas cine agus grá d'Éirinn a thugann muid le
chéile mar theaghlach Gaelach domhanda chun an lá speisialta seo a
cheiliúradh. Lá spraoi atá ann, lá ceoil, lá gealgháirí agus aoibhnis. Lá
cuimhneacháin atá ann fosta, cuimhneamh ar na rudaí a gheal ár gcroí agus
ar na nithe eile ar chúis caointe againn iad.

Agus muid ag smaoineamh siar ar an bhliain idir dhá Mhárta cuimhníonn muid
ar lá sin an uafáis, 11 Meán Fómhair, agus tugann muid chun cuimhne an
tábhacht a bhaineann le cairdeas agus leis an neart a eascraíonn ón
chairdeas. Tuigeann muid gur ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann muid agus gur
fríd an mhuintearas a éiríonn linn teacht arís ar lóchrann an dóchais.

Ba mhór an briseadh é lá sin na tubaiste do mhuintir na hÉireann. Ba mhór
an sólás sin a cailleadh agus a gortaíodh. Inniu, ar Lá 'le Pádraig,
smaoiníonn muid ar ár gcairde agus ár ngaolta thar na farraigí i gcéin,
agus déanann muid ár gcumann agus ár gcomhaltacht leo a athnuachan agus a
threisiú.

Tá ainm na hÉireann in airde in iliomad tíortha ar chlár na cruinne, a
bhuíochas sin do na fir agus na mná a thug leo ár gcultúr agus iad ar an
imirce. Thug siad leo fosta eolas ar Phádraig Naofa. Thuill na himircigh
sin meas phobal na dtíortha nua agus iad ag streachailt leis an chruatan
agus níorbh fhada gur chuir siad le maoin agus le saibhreas cultúrtha na
dtíortha sin. Ach tá rotha móra an tsaoil casta agus anois tá daoine ag
teacht go hÉirinn chun muidne a shaibhriú le héagsúlacht a gcultúr.

Bhí Pádraig Naofa ar an inimirceach ba chlúití dar leag cos riamh ar
thalamh na hÉireann, agus ar an lá speisialta seo is cóir dúinn cuimhneamh
ar na bronntanais a thug sé leis. Breis agus míle go leith bliain ó shin a
thug sé leis a chuid buanna: grá, foighne, caoinfhulaingt agus maiteanas.
Tá na buanna sin chomh húr agus chomh heifeachtach anois agus a bhí riamh.
Chreid Pádraig gurbh iad ba thábhachtaí i gcothú na síochána agus an
athmhuintearais.

Go dtreoraí flaithiúlacht agus fiúntas Phádraig muid agus go mbaine muid ar
fad sú agus sult as a lá fhéile.

MÁIRE MHIC GHIOLLA ÍOSA

UACHTARÁN NA hÉIREANN

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This Call for Papers has been bouncing around the usual places, and has been
nagging at my mind - which means I should forward it to the Ir-D list.
Since it suggests a different way of thinking about our work...

I recall some recent work by John Lynch (Belfast and UAFP) on the late C19th
Irish Sea as an industrial unit...

P.O'S.

Forwarded for information...


Subject: CFP: Seascapes, Littoral Cultures and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges


CALL FOR PAPERS

Seascapes, Littoral Cultures and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges

Conference at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Thursday February 13 to Saturday February 15, 2003

Organized by the American Historical Association, the World History
Association, the Middle East Studies Association, the African Studies
Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Conference on Latin
American History, the Association for Asian Studies, the Institute of
European Studies at Columbia University, the Harriman Institute of Russian
Studies at Columbia University, the Community College Humanities
Association,
and the Library of Congress, this conference aims to go beyond area studies
and to cross the usual national, geographical, and cultural boundary lines
of scholarship by examining the role of oceans and sea basins as highways of
exchanges between world areas as well as social and cultural sites in their
own right. National historiographies are challenged by seascapes that wash
the shores of multiple global areas and that create littoral social
relations
with dynamics of their own. Studying the historiography of trans-oceanic
exchanges promises to break new ground in the study of human linkages along
several lines.

Each of the three conference days will focus on a particular rubric:

Day 1: Social and political organization.
Day 2: Economic implications.
Day 3: Cultural, environmental, and scientific issues.


More specifically, but not exclusively, papers might consider some of the
following themes and their possible combinations:

Social and political organization: Littoral societies versus national
authority over seas; the relationship of ports to one another as well as to
their hinterlands; informal maritime communities and demographic flows; the
gender division of labor in trans-oceanic exchanges; the emergence of a
politically conscious Black Diaspora.

Economic implications: Evolution of regulation of trade, currency, and
migration, as well as the transgression of such regulations; capital,
resource and technology flows; origins of "globalization" in trans-imperial
networking of colonizers and colonized beyond traditional nationally based
metropole-colony relations.

Cultural, environmental, and scientific issues: Seaside sites of
hybridization: ports, beaches, tourism; religions as sponsors of trade;
hybridization of rituals; effects of climate and weather patterns on trans-
oceanic exchange; ecology; biological exchanges.

Please consult www.theaha.org for application information. Deadline: April
30, 2002.

Renate Bridenthal, Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, the City University
of New York and Jerry Bentley, University of Hawaii, Co-Chairs

This CFP may be found at http://www.theaha.org/Conferences/Seascapes and an
on-line proposal entry form is also available at
http://www.theaha.org/Conferences/Seascapes/ProposalEntryForm.cfm.

From: Edmundo Murray
edmundo_murray[at]hotmail.com
Subject: Interesting for the I-D List


From yesterday's Buenos Aires Herald, an article written by Michael John
Geraghty with yet another case of Irish escaping disguised as a woman...
(excerpts - if someone wants the complete article, I can send a copy)...
Best wishes, Edmundo


Hail Glorious St. Patrick
by Michael John Geraghty

Today, St. Patrick?s Day, is the day for the wearing of the green the world
over as the Irish and their descendants commemorate their saint and their
soil in prayer, parades and partying, but on St. Patrick?s Day 1957
Guillermo Patricio ?Rambo? Kelly, Argentina?s best known and most colorful
Irishman was wearing nothing green as he broke out of the maximum security
penitentiary in Río Gallegos humming ?Adiós Muchachos?, his favorite tango,
and led to freedom a group of Peronist bigwigs who would write for better or
for worse several chapters in the convoluted history of modern Argentina
[...].

A strange chain of events was unfolding as Blanca Luz Blum, the beautiful
Uruguayan poetess and Peronist sympathizer, started visiting ?Bebe? Cooke in
prison. She met Kelly and fell head over heels for the handsome, flamboyant
Irish-Argentine with the impish grin. Blum always wore the same sunglasses
and wig on her visits and smuggled an identical outfit as well as a gun into
Kelly. In his cell he rehearsed dressing and walking in women?s clothes and
on 28 September 1957, he painted a dimple onto his face and bold-as-brass
walked out of prison among the departing visitors in Blum?s attire. ?I even
wore panties?, he remembers with his impish grin, ?for the psychological
effect?. He escaped just in time, the Chilean Supreme Court granted
Argentina?s extradition request and an Argentine Air Force plane was waiting
on the tarmac at Santiago to take him into custody and back to prison. [...]

A master of disguises, he lay low in and around Santiago. ?When you?re on
the run?, he explains, ?you?ve got to hole up where no one will ever look
for you?, and legend has it he hid out in a tomb in a cemetery, in a lions?
cage in the zoo and in a room three blocks from Santiago?s central police
station. ?He turned up as a chimney-sweeper at the front door of the
residence of the judge in charge of his extradition?, wrote Gabriel García
Márquez in a short story about the escape, ?and said he?d been sent to clean
the chimney?. Inside the house he recovered personal belongings which had
remained in the judge?s possession, did the chimneys, bid the housekeeper
good-bye and left humming ?Adiós Muchachos?. [...]

?Although I descend from Celts?, says Kelly of Galician and Irish parentage,
?I?m Argentine to the marrow of my bones. This is the land I love and live
for?. One of two children, he was born in Buenos Aires in 1922. His
paternal grandparents owned ?Farmacia Kelly? on the corner of Santa Fé and
Rodríguez Peña streets. ?My father was a doctor in Ushuaia until he
denounced inhumane treatment of prisoners in the local penitentiary. He
died suddenly one night after a banquet in his honor?I think he was poisoned
for having gone against the tide?He was only 35?. Guillermo got into
politics in the 1940s when he founded the extreme right-wing,
anti-communist, anti-semitic ALN which was a front line paramilitary group
all through the Perón years and was said - Kelly denies it - to be in on the
1955 desecration and burning of churches. When Perón fell the army
dispatched Sherman tanks up Corrientes Avenue to ANL headquarters, blew the
building to smithereens and imprisoned Kelly.





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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish-Diaspora list members who find what follows incomprensible should go
now and find a kindly, computerate friend...

Ir-D members using the Special Access area of
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

do need to know that those clever people at Sobolstones have added a new
dimension of cleverness.

When you log in to Special Access...

Username irdmember
Current Password madden

the system will now place a Cookie in the memory of your computer. This is
NOT a permanent Cookie written to your hard disk - it is in the memory and
will last only as long as your current visit to the Special Access area.

The system responds thus to any genuine username and password. So that
Folder Editors and other folk can continue to use other names and passwords.

Basically, Special Access now remembers that you are one of the good guys,
and for that one session lets you move freely around - solving some of the
navigation problems that users have reported.

Note that for this system to work you must have Cookies enabled in your web
browser - on Microsoft Internet Explorer go to Tools, Internet Options,
Privacy. One option, for those who fear Cookies, is to set your system up
so that it rejects all Cookies except those at www.irishdiaspora.net.

I have to say that I am a bit Cookie-averse myself, and when this solution
to the problem was suggested to me I was not keen. But I do not know enough
about the technicalities to reject this solution, or propose others. And -
do you know - I do not want to know...

Paddy

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is always one of the nicest conferences, cosy, and I do try to attend -
if time and wallet allow...

Note this year much to interest the Irish-Diaspora list...

Including - look, look - Mary Helen Thuente on the 'angel harp'. Mary
Helen's approach suggests that Dymphna Lonergan's instinct is correct and
there is something complex and interesting going on here. (I have to say I
was not very impressed by the reply from the Herald's office...)

Note also Don McRaild on the Orange Order in England, and A. C. Hepburnm on
contested cities...

P.O'S.



Please distribute...

Forwarded on behalf of Professor Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford)

Thirteenth Conference
of
Irish Historians in Britain

Inclusion and Exclusion in Irish History

University of Stirling

14-16 June, 2002

Convenors:
Professor Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool)
Professor Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford)
Dr Michael Hopkinson (University of Stirling)


With the generous sponsorship of The British Academy,
Allied Irish Bank, (G.B.), The Bank of Ireland, and
The Ireland Fund of Great Britain


THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE OF IRISH HISTORIANS IN BRITAIN

University of Stirling

14-16 June, 2002


Inclusion and Exclusion in Irish History


Friday, 14 June

3.30 - 4.30 p.m. Registration and Tea

5.00 p.m. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Aberdeen University):
Aristocratic marriages in C17th Ireland
Dr Mary O?Dowd (Queen?s University, Belfast):
On the margins, women, patriotism and the public sphere in C18th Ireland


6.30 p.m. Drinks reception, hosted by University of Stirling

7.30 p.m. Dinner

Saturday, 15 June

8.00 - 9.00 a.m. Breakfast

9.30 a.m. Dr Michael Huggins (Warrington College):
A case of historiographic exclusion ? The politics of Whiteboyism

Professor Mary Helen Thuente (University of N.Carolina):
The visual iconography of the angel harp as an inclusive/exclusive symbol

11.00 a.m. Coffee

11.30 a.m. Dr Diane Urquhart (University of Liverpool):
Peeresses, patronage and power: the politics of Ladies Frances Anne,
Theresa and Edith Londonderry, 1800-1959

Professor D. McRaild (University of Northumbria):
A marginal and sectarian club: the Orange Order and Irish Migrants in
England c. 1860-1920

1.00 p.m. Lunch - Afternoon free

4.30 p.m. Tea

4.45 p.m. Matt Kelly (Balliol College, Oxford):
Putting the separatism back into Irish nationalist history, 1885-1914 ? an
argument

Professor A.C. Hepburn (University of Sunderland):
Economy and ethnicity: a comparative study of minorities in contested
cities

6.00 p.m. Reception hosted by the Irish Embassy

7.30 p.m. Conference Dinner

Guest Speaker: Professor Charles Townshend

Sunday, 16 June

8.00 - 9.00 a.m. Breakfast

9.30 a.m. Dr Maria Luddy Warwick University): Configuring the Native:
Sexual morality and nationalism in Ireland, 1890-1918

Dr Lindsey Earner (University College, Dublin): The Unspeakable Crime:
Irishwomen and moral transgression in the twentieth century

11.00 a.m. Coffee

11.30 a.m. Robert Lynch (University of Stirling): The Northern IRA,
1920-23: old attitudes and new approaches

Professor Philip Bull (La Trobe University): Reinstating the losers:
looking back on Irish history from the Good Friday Agreement

1.00 p.m. Lunch

________________________________________________________________________


REGISTRATION: As early as possible, and in any case by
17 May, 2002

Conference fee:
incl. full board, accommodation, conference dinner and reception: £110.
Bookings to Dr M. Hopkinson, Department of History, University of Stirling,
FK9 4LA, Scotland; cheques made out to Conference of Irish Historians in
Britain. Every effort will be made to arrange partial rebates for students
and unwaged, as on previous occasions. Please indicate special dietary
requirements. Non-residential terms available on request.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Those who have been following the progress of
HISTORY OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT 1692-1800
Edited by Professor Edith Johnston-Liik

will find up to date information at

http://www.ancestryireland.com/

There has been one Book Launch in Belfast, and others are planned for Dublin
and London.

The London launch is at the House of Lords in the afternoon of Tuesday 26
March 2002, hosted by the Lord Laird of Artigarvan.

Unfortunately I cannot be there - I must be another archipelago, the Canary
Islands. My apologies.

Historians of this archipelago, the British Isles, now have in effect,
companion volumes to the other HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT project

http://www.history.ac.uk/hop/welcome.html

the history of the English Parliament, and the Parliament of the various
versions of the United Kingdom.

P.O'S.


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From: "Richard Jensen"


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "H-War Editor Mark Parillo"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:34 PM
Subject: REPLY: British Citizen Soldiers

From: "G.Phillips"
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:26:23 +0100
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:31:50 -0500 (EST), Dave Leeson wrote:
> Can anyone point me to any recent work on the social image of the
> British Army in the early twentieth century? I would be especially
> interested in information on Irish attitudes toward soldiers. I've
> come across numerous references to the attitude that Buckingham
> describes in more general works, but I'm not aware of any
> scholarship devoted specifically to this subject.
On Ireland:
T.Denman, "'The Red Livery of Shame': The Campaign against army
recruiting in Ireland, 1899-1914", Irish Historical Studies, Vol.XXIV,
No.114. November. 1994
T.Denman, Ireland's Unknown Soldiers
T.Dooley, Irishmen or English Soldiers?
G.Boyce, The Sure Confusing Drum: Ireland and the First World War
A.Babbington The Devil To Pay The Mutiny of the Connaught Rangers
in 1920
Jane Leonard, "The Reaction of Irish Officers in the British Army
to the
Easter Rising of 1916", in Cecil & Liddle (eds), Facing Armageddon,
pp256-268.
Cheers,
Gervase Phillips
Course Leader, History
Department of History & Economic History
The Manchester Metropolitan University
G.Phillips[at]mmu.ac.uk

>From: Laura

>Subject: Re:Narcisa Emilia O'Leary
>
>Dear colleagues,
>I'm looking for any information on Narcisa Emilia O'Leary. She was Jos
>Bonifacio's wife, the patriarch of the Brazilian Independence.
>Many thanks,
>Laura Izarra
>lizarra[at]usp.br