From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is an Irish-Diaspora list Housekeeping item...

I will be away on holiday until the end of the month.

Dr. Russell Murray has kindly taken over the day-to-day management of the
Irish-Diaspora list.

Messages sent to
irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk
will be picked up and distributed in the usual way.

Ir-D members should continue to send notices and notes to
irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk - remember that all messages are now stored
automatically in our archive, which has become, in itself, a research
resource.

Messages sent to me personally will have to await my return.

My personal thanks to all members of the Irish-Diaspora list for support and
encouragement.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
Colman Etchingham [Colman.Etchingham[at]may.ie]

Sixteenth Irish Conference of Medievalists

NUI Maynooth July 1-3 2002

Monday 1 July
9.45 Conference Opening
10.00 (1) Roger Stalley Architecture and kingship: some new observations on
the design and decoration of Cormac?s Chapel at Cashel
11.00 Tea / Coffee
11.30 (1) Lawrence Nees The context and evidentiary value of Aldred?s
colophon for the Lindisfarne Gospels (Did Eadfrith write the Lindisfarne
Gospels?)
(2) Anthony Candon Lebor na Cert: the Munster section revisited
12.30 Lunch Break
2.00 (1) Catherine O?Sullivan Images of hospitality in Irish bardic poetry
(2) Colmán Ó Clabaigh Medieval Irish anchorites
3.00 (1) Jürgen Zeidler Ancient and medieval Celtic myths of origin
(2) Morgyn Wagner Cassian and the Céli D
4.00 Tea / Coffee
4.30 (1) Ian Beuermann Kells / Mellifont, Nidaross and the kingdom of Man
and the Isles (short)
(2) Westley Follett Liturgy and devotion among the Céli Dé (short)

Tuesday 2 July
10.00 (1) James Fraser Looking beyond Iona: the case of the bishops of
Kingarth
(2) Katrin Thier Celtic languages and the OED (short)
Graham Isaac The early Welsh future tense: form and function of a
moribund morphological category (short)
11.00 Tea / Coffee
11.30 (1) Gerald Bonner Pelagianism in Britain and Ireland in the Early
Middle Ages
(2) Kaarina Hollo Fingal Rónáin: the medieval Irish text as argumentative
space
12.30 Lunch Break
2.00 (1) Nicholas Evans How and why were the Irish annals altered between AD
730 and 1100?
(2) Antje Frotscher The Old Irish verbal duel and its western European
analogues
3.00 (1) Ruth Johnson Thistle brooches: ?Gaudy in colour, showy in size...??
(2) Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh Translating faith: from Latin liturgy to Irish
prayer
4.00 Tea / Coffee
4.30 (1) Niamh Whitfield A fragmentary kite-brooch from Temple Bar West,
Dublin
(2) Tomás Ó Cathasaigh ?Sualtam?s long warning? in Táin Bó Cúailgne

Wednesday 3 July
10.00 (1) Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh ?But what exactly did she give?? Derbforgaill
and the Nun?s Church at Clonmacnoise
(2) Ann Trindade Gender, sanctity and nationalism: some aspects of Turgot?s
Life of St Margaret of Scotland
11.00 Tea / Coffee
11.30 (1) Thomas Finan Settlement and society in the diocese of Elphin,
1200-1400: extracting data from the fourteenth-century valuations
(2) Thomas Owen Clancy The cults of Saints Patrick and Palladius in early
medieval Scotland
12.30 Lunch Break
2.00 (1) Aidan O?Sullivan House and home: encountering and experiencing
domestic space in early medieval Ireland
(2) Mark Zumbuhl Men with a vision: the Clann Cholmáin in court and early
Irish dynastic practice
3.00 (1) Miriam Clyne Archaeological excavations at the Augustinian priory,
Kells, Co. Kilkenny
(2) Alex Woolf Ragnall ua hÍmair: the man and the myth
4.00 Tea / Coffee
4.30 (1) Clodagh Downey Another witness to Níall Noígíallach?s encounter
with Sovereignty (short)
(2) Salvador Ryan Craving the continuation of life: blood-drinking in the
secular and religious literature of late medieval Ireland (short)
5.00 AGM
Booking Form

Please forward booking form to Catherine Swift, Dept. of Modern History, NUI
Maynooth. Copies together with all details of the conference are available
on the web-page: www.geocities.com/Irishmedievalists

THERE IS NO BED AND BREAKFAST ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE AT THE COLLEGE THIS
YEAR. CONFERENCE-GOERS WILL, THEREFORE, HAVE TO BOOK THEIR OWN
ACCOMMODATION. FOR DETAILS OF THE AVAILABLE B X BS OR HOTELS, PLEASE TURN
OVER THIS SHEET. (WE HAVE BEEN WARNED THAT EARLY BOOKING IS ADVISIBLE.) IF
YOU TELL US WHERE YOU HAVE BOOKED YOUR ACCOMMODATION, WE WILL ENSURE THAT A
MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION IS SENT TO YOU.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

Bernadette Hyland
michael/bernadette[at]mossleybrow.demon.co.uk
Subject: Irish in Britain


The Irish in Britain Representation Group is marking St Patrick's Day by
launching its website which can be found at www.mossleybrow.demon.co.uk
The website has pages on the organisation's activities and campaigns and
also has a page which conducts a brief historical overview of the past
history of Irish organisations in Britain since the 1790s and then has a
detailed year by year account of the history of IBRG since 1981. The
organisation hope that this site will act a resource for all those
interested in the Irish in Britain. They ask that people add links from
their websites to the IBRG website. More information from Bernadette Hyland,
bernadette[at]mossleybrow.demon.co.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is a current reading item...

Recently, in connection with another project, I found myself reading the
short stories of Ella D'Arcy. Very impressive - though with a rather bleak
view of human nature. But that's short stories for you...

The standard works of reference say that her parents were Irish, settled in
London. Her place in the history of literature is assured by her work on
The Yellow Book and by her translation of Maurois, Ariel, that squelchy life
of Shelley which became Penguin No. 1 (and first editions now sought by
collectors...)

The great thing about the Web nowadays is that I can quickly find out the
state of play... Findings pasted in below... I really do not know how I
might have collected this information before the web. Very interesting and
especialy right that D'Arcy should have attracted the interest of the short
story specialists.

If anyone knows any of the scholars mentioned below - give them a friendly
wave...

OK, Irish parents - so far, so assimilated. But the Irish of London are in
her stories, and in a remarkably unremarkable way... Take this, from, 'At
Twickenham', a story about middle class wooing and marriage - Corbett's
wife's sister comes to live with them, 'which seemed to Corbett the most
natural arrangement in the world, for he was an Irishman and the Irish never
count the cost of an extra mouth. "Where there's enough for two, there's
enough for three", is a favourite saying of theirs...'

P.O'S.


[1] Monochromes. Ella D'Arcy
D'Arcy. Ella
1977
[2] Modern instances. Ella D'Arcy
D'Arcy. Ella
1984
[3] Some letters to John Lane
D'Arcy. Ella
1990
[4] The Bishop's Dilemma. [A novel.]
D'ARCY. Ella
pp. 145. John Lane: London & New York, 1898. 8o.
[5] Modern Instances. [Short stories.]
D'ARCY. Ella
pp. 222. John Lane: London & New York, 1898. 8o.
[6] Monochromes. [Short stories.]
D'ARCY. Ella
pp. 260. John Lane: London; Roberts Bros.: Boston, 1895. 8o.
[7] Ariel ... Translated by Ella D'Arcy.
MAUROIS. Andre´. K.B.E.
pp. viii. 310. John Lane: London, 1924. 8o.
[8] Ariel ... Translated by Ella D'Arcy.
MAUROIS. Andre´. K.B.E.
pp. 252. John Lane: London, 1935. 8o.

Texts online

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wwc2r/enlt226/texts.html

Photograph

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wwc2r/enlt226/ellad.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/images/darcy.gif

The Web pages of ANNE M. WINDHOLZ - very statementy...

http://www.augie.edu/dept/engl/vitawind.html

"The Woman Who Would Be Editor: Ella D'Arcy and the Yellow Book."
Victorian Periodicals Review 29 (1996): 116-30.

http://dm.olemiss.edu/archives/99/9904/990419/990419Nmeehan.HTML
University of Mississippi
Benjamin F. Fisher IV, professor of English, to complete "The Letters of
Ella D'Arcy," a book about the turn-of-the-century feminist, editor and
advancer of short story art.


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>From: Sarah Morgan
>Subject: research on the impacts of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants

This was posted on the social policy list last week. Perhaps Ir-D members in
Britain would be able to help with info on the Irish community in Britain?

Sarah.

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:03:42 +0000
>From: "G.Craig"
>Subject: research on local impacts of refugees and asylum
>seekers and migrants
>Sender: Social-Policy is run by SPA for all social policy
>specialists
>To: SOCIAL-POLICY[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>Reply-To: "G.Craig"
>Message-ID:
>
>
>
>I am leading a team exploring this issue with a commission
>from DTLR. I am writing to ask if anyone has any
>information/research/data on the impacts of refugees/asylum
>seekers/migrants on local communities. The notion of impact
>can be very broad: social, economic, financial, in terms of
>community relations or local atitutdes. Please contact me
>with any infomration, however marginal it may appear to be.
>I am happy to pay any costs of copying or for payment for
>reports. Please send hard copy to me at the address below.
>If anyone has done any related work, for example on the
>cost of providing services to specific groups such as
>minority ethnic comunities, I would also be very happy to
>see it. Thanks for any help in advance. Gary Craig
>
>----------------------
>G.Craig[at]hull.ac.uk
>
>Professor Gary Craig
>Professor of Social Justice
>University of Hull
>Hull, HU6 7RX
>UK
>direct line 44 (0) 1482 465780
>office fax 44 (0) 1482 466088
>
>email: G.Craig[at]hull.ac.uk
>
>-----------------------
Dr Sarah Morgan,
Irish Studies Centre,
University of North London.
s.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk

Dear Colleagues,

May I refer you to http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/casement

Yours fraternally,

David Rose

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D.C. Rose

Editor, THE OSCHOLARS
Department of English / Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London

oscholars[at]netscape.net

Dear Colleagues,

May I refer you to http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/casement

Yours fraternally,

David Rose

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D.C. Rose

Editor, THE OSCHOLARS
Department of English / Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London

oscholars[at]netscape.net

>From: "Richard Jensen"
>To: " h-ethnic"
>Cc:
>Subject: The Blood Lust of Identity
>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 06:15:40 -0500

>
>The New York Review of Books
>April 11, 2002
>
>Review
>
>The Blood Lust of Identity
>
>By Ian Buruma
>
>In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
>by Amin Maalouf, translated from the French by Barbara Bray
>Arcade, 164 pp., $22.95
>
>Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America
>by Tom Hayden
>Verso, 312 pp., $25.00
>
>1.
>
>Identity is a bloody business. Religion, nationality, or race may not
>be the primary causes of war and mass murder. These are more likely to
>be tyranny, or greed for territory, wealth, and power. But "identity"
>is what gets the blood boiling, what makes people do unspeakable
>things to their neighbors. It is the fuel used by agitators to set
>whole countries on fire. When the world is reduced to a battle between
>"us and them," Germans and Jews, Hindus and Muslims, Catholics and
>Protestants, Hutus and Tutsis, only mass murder will do, for "we" can
>only survive if "they" are slaughtered. Before we kill them, "they"
>must be stripped of our common humanity, by humiliating them,
>degrading them, and giving them numbers instead of names.
>
>The novelist Amin Maalouf begins his humane and eloquent essay[1] with
>the question of "why so many people commit crimes nowadays in the name
>of religious, ethnic, national or some other kind of identity." Was it
>always so? Or is there something new going on? What is new, I think,
>is not the phenomenon itself so much as the scale of the damage. There
>is no easy or single answer to Maalouf's question. He mentions various
>reasons why people fear for their sense of belonging: globalization,
>the erosion of national sovereignty, Western domination over the last
>three hundred years, the collapse of failed secular regimes.
>full text online at
>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15241

>From: Sara Brady
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk

>
>Dear Paddy and Irish Diaspora listmembers,
>
>Foilsiú is getting ready for its third volume and is welcoming new
>submissions. We're eager to add performance and art reviews, see below
>if anyone is interested.
>
>-Sara Brady
>
>
>******************************************************
>
>AN INVITATION TO SUBMIT TO Foilsiú:
>
>Foilsiú, an interdisciplinary journal of Irish studies published by the
>GRIAN Association, is currently accepting submissions for our third
>volume to be published in spring 2003. In addition to publishing
>selected proceedings from our annual conference, Foilsiú is dedicated
>to new interdisciplinary work focused on Irish and Irish diasporic
>culture.
>
>**Deadline for submissions is *JUNE 1, 2002.* See specific submission
>guidelines below.**
>
>Foilsiú welcomes scholarly articles from all disciplines, fiction,
>poetry, art, photo essays, and more.
>
>If you are interested in writing a book review, performance or art
>review, please contact Managing Editor Sara Brady at the below address.
>
>********SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*********
>To be considered for publication in Foilsiú, please send to the below
>address:
>* a hard copy of your submission
>* a PC-format disk with your submission, preferably in MS Word
>* if possible, please format your submission in Chicago style,
>otherwise MLA
>* if you would like us to include images to accompany your article, you
>must send us *xeroxes* of these images, and you must be sure that you
>can get permission to reprint images.
>
>SEND ALL MATERIALS TO:
>Sara Brady
>Managing Editor, Foilsiú
>30-47 Hobart St. #6O
>Woodside, NY 11377
>QUESTIONS?? Feel free to email me:
>sara.brady[at]att.net OR
>sara.brady[at]grian.org
>www.grian.org

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
D.C. Rose
d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk

Subject: THE OSCHOLARS Vol.II no.5 May 2002


Dear Colleagues,

May Day greetings! I have great pleasure in announcing the publication of
the twelfth issue of THE OSCHOLARS, posted as usual to
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars/

With your loyal and ever kind support we have completed our first year of
publication. Dozens of you have written to say how interesting or valuable
you have found the journal, and as ever we will try and respond with new
features, more easily navigated layout and greater coverage. More about
this is in the editorial note; more innovations will be introduced in June,
our first birthday.

D.C. Rose
Department of English/Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London
SE14 6NW

From: Brian Lambkin
Subject: RE: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote

Hello Paddy
thanks for this. Intriguing. I wonder if they could be interested in joining
the Association of European Migration Institutions.
Glad the holiday went well. We had a great time in New Zealand but only just
over the effects of the long journey home.
Regards
Brian


>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Subject: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote
>
>>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>What I did on my holidays...
>
>
>
>The Irish Diaspora Studies part of the holiday involved a visit to the
>Museum of Emigration in the Castle of Santa Barbara...
>
>http://www.teguise.com/teguise-ME-in.html
>
>http://www.lanzaroteisland.com/english/places_of_interest/castle_of_santa_b
a
>rbara/
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

What I did on my holidays...

Through the charming lottery that is the Late Booking we found ourselves on
the island of Lanzarote, which I found delightful and restful. I do like to
be part of a culture that takes wine seriously... And the people of
Lanzarote, with great ingenuity, produce lovely fresh wines in a black,
volcanic landscape...

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/2973/Canarias/Geria.html

http://www.canaryforum.com/geria.html

You just have to marvel at human ingenuity and patience.

The Irish Diaspora Studies part of the holiday involved a visit to the
Museum of Emigration in the Castle of Santa Barbara...

http://www.teguise.com/teguise-ME-in.html

http://www.lanzaroteisland.com/english/places_of_interest/castle_of_santa_ba
rbara/

I took some notes and photographs, which I am happy to share with anyone
considering similar projects. Not really very much in the actual displays -
the basic problem of a Museum of Emigration, what do you display? But much
food for thought, as we consider the patterns of emigration and the islands
of the Atlantic. The familiar patterns easily visible, the importance of
chains and of knowledge, of government action within empires. Each island
of the Canarias had its own preferred destination. Migrants from Lanzarote
tended to go to Cuba - but there were specific groups that went to Spanish
Florida and to San Antonio de Bexar in Texas. I have not as yet been able
to establish what academic or scholarly group is responsible for the Museum.

Paddy


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From: "Murray, Edmundo"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote

Paddy,

You may even find some Cullen family members. Quoting from E. Coghlan's _Los
Irlandeses en Argentina: su Actuación y Descendencia_ (Buenos Aires, 1987):

>qq
>Domingo Cullen y Ferraz de la Guardia. Hijo de Guillermo Cullen y de Angela
>Isidra Ferraz de la Guardia, tercer nieto de Thomas Cullen, nacido en
>Irlanda circa 1650, nació en la isla de Tenerife, en las Canarias, y pasó
al
>Río de la Plata a principios del siglo XIX, radicándose en Montevideo hasta
>1820, en que pasó a la provincia de Santa Fe, donde fue Consejero de
Estado,
>Ministro de Gobierno, Convencional en 1830, Gobernador Delegado, y Titular
>en 1838. Al haberse pronunciado contra el Gobernador Rosas, fue fusilado
por
>orden de éste en Arroyo del Medio el 22.6.1839.
>unqq
>
Bon vacances!

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
D.C. Rose
d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk

Subject: THE OSCHOLARS vol. II no 4 April 2002


Dear Colleagues,

I have pleasure in drawing your attention to the new (eleventh) issue of
THE OSCHOLARS, posted on its website at
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars.

I apologise for the lateness, caused by the lengthy closure of my College
over Easter.

This month, with the regular sections, has Adrian Frazier on Melissa Knox,
Melissa Knox on Adrian Frazier, Penny Gay on Moises Kauffman, Eva Thienpont
on Tim Bellens and Regenia Gagnier on Patience; as well as a bibliography
of recent German publications on Wilde by Andreas Huther, and a catalogue
of Wilde items offered for sale by R.A. Gekoski. There is also news of
Roger Casement in London, Vera in Seattle,
Oscar in St Paul, Salome in St Petersburg and Gerard Manley Hopkins in
cyberspace.

This month also sees the launch of our JISCmail correspondence page to
facilitate contact between readers, to offer reminders and notices of
events and to advertise points not quite germane to the journal itself.

JISCMail is a British academic mail service, similar to Listserv in the
United States.

Only registered readers will be able to place material on the JISCmail
page, so we
should be spared either the 'Can somebody tell me all about Oscar Wilde?'
sort
of question or the 'I think I remember that I may have read somewhere that.
. .'
sort of answer.

Access to JISCmail is through links on the home page and in the journal; in
the event of difficulty, it is possible to go via
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/oscholarship.html/

We are also very pleased to inform you that the young Belgian scholar Eva
Thienpont has been appointed an Assistant Editor, and we hope that this
will lead to an increase in both our coverage and readership in the Low
Countries.

As always, we thank you for your continued support, and especially for your
recommendations to colleagues. THE OSCHOLARS is a remarkably co-operative
effort.

David Rose


D.C. Rose
Department of English/Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London
SE14 6NW

From: "Brian McGinn"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote

Paddy,

Welcome back from another outpost of Irish empire and enterprise. I copy
below the Library of Congress catalog entry for a relevant work. My memory
tells me that the Cullen family figures prominently.

>-------------------------------
>Guimerá Ravina, Agustín 1953-
>Burguesía extranjera y comercio atlántico : la empresa comercial irlandesa
>en Canarias (1703-1771) / Agustín Guimerá Ravina.
>Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Islas Canarias : Consejería de Cultura y Deportes,
>Gobierno de Canarias ; [Madrid] : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
>Científicas, [1985]
>478 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
>------------------------------

Brian McGinn

>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:15:46 -0500
>From: dcrcfp[at]netscape.net (D.C. Rose)
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Message-ID:
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>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>The Goldsmiths Conference on Roger Casement seems to have come into its
>final form, which may be found at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/casement.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>David Rose
>
>
>
>--
>
>
>
>
>
>D.C. Rose
>
>Editor, THE OSCHOLARS
>Department of English / Centre for Irish Studies
>Goldsmiths College
>University of London
>
>oscholars[at]netscape.net

>From: "Murray, Edmundo"
>To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
>Subject: RE: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote 5
>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:10:14 +0200
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>
>Another Irish-Canarian, first arrival to the River Plate on E. Coghlan's _El
>Aporte de los Irlandeses a la Formación de la Nación Argentina_ (Buenos
>Aires: 1981), p. 100:
>
>1558 Shanahan José Joaquín 24-Jan-1822 Canarias
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Edmundo Murray
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [SMTP:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 04 April 2002 08:00
> > To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
> > Subject: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote 4
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "Brian McGinn"
> > Subject: Re: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote
> >
> > Paddy,
> >
> > Welcome back from another outpost of Irish empire and enterprise. I copy
> > below the Library of Congress catalog entry for a relevant work. My memory
> > tells me that the Cullen family figures prominently.
> >
> > >-------------------------------
> > >Guimerá Ravina, Agustín 1953-
> > >Burguesía extranjera y comercio atlántico : la empresa comercial
> > irlandesa
> > >en Canarias (1703-1771) / Agustín Guimerá Ravina.
> > >Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Islas Canarias : Consejería de Cultura y
> > Deportes,
> > >Gobierno de Canarias ; [Madrid] : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
> > >Científicas, [1985]
> > >478 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
> > >------------------------------
> >
> > Brian McGinn

From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Museum of Emigration, Lanzarote


>Not really very much in the actual displays -
> > the basic problem of a Museum of Emigration, what do you display?

I can think of quite a few things, but will definitely use this --with
attribution -- in my museum studies coursed in the fall.

The mission of San Antonio de Bexar is better known as The Alamo, and the
city now as just San Antonio -- a great place to visit in Texas, BTW. It's
not far from San Patricio -- another outpost of the Diaspora.

Bill Mulligan

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received the following query from

Helen Heffernan, a novelist...

Can the Orange Order specialists help?

P.O'S.

Hello

I am a fiction writer working on a novel that involves a character who was
involved in the Spottiswood Association, a group of Orangemen in Dublin in
the early 1830's. He fled to Canada when this illegal organization was faced
with a government investigation in 1835. Do you have any information, or
know where I could find out more about the Spottiswood Association?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Helen

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For Information...

New York Review of Books, 25 April 2002

On Thomas Flanagan (1923?2002)

By Seamus Heaney

On March 16 this year Thomas Flanagan reviewed a history of St. Patrick's
Day for The Irish Times and was identified by the paper's literary editor as
"a novelist and scholar...currently working on a book about Irish-American
writers." When he died in Berkeley from a heart attack five days later, he
had submitted to this magazine his piece on William Kennedy and with that
had completed a first draft of the work in progress.

But Tom had completed more than a manuscript. As his recent essays on Scott
Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, John Ford, and others continued to appear in The
New York Review there was a sense of a life's work being rounded off. His
1959 study, The Irish Novelists 1800?1850, not only rescued the work of
Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, John Banim, Gerard Griffin, and William
Carleton from critical neglect, it turned the novelists themselves into
vividly imagined figures and created a country of the mind as well as a
field of study. Here was somebody whose narrative gifts and feel for the
historical conditions in Ireland made him an artistic heir of the writers in
question, a role that he would fulfill ever more copiously in the ensuing
years with the publication of The Year of the French (1979), The Tenants of
Time (1988), and The End of the Hunt (1994). These novels, covering the
history of Ireland from the 1798 Rebellion to the War of Independence and
Civil War, have earned Flanagan a place in Irish literature alongside the
writer friends he knew and loved: Frank O'Connor, Benedict Kiely, and many
others.


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Tom Flanagan amazed literary Dublin in the early Sixties by his encyclopedic
knowledge of the history and topography of the country (the story goes that
on his first taxi ride from the airport he was so immersed in Joyce he could
name the streets and the buildings) but in the end he was reckoning with the
American side of his heritage and the recent essays sound a definite
valedictory note. He had spent the St. Patrick's weekend in New York where
he met his agent, linked up with old friends from earlier days in Manhattan,
with poets and diplomats in town from Dublin, and watched the parade from
the balcony of the American Irish Historical Society's premises on Fifth
Avenue. It was a lap of honor, and probably understood as such by all
concerned, since he had grown frailer in the past year, after the death of
his wife, Jean, and in the words of Hopkins, "a heavenlier heart began."

Not that he had lost any of his earthly powers. Mind and tongue were as
sharp as ever, slovenliness of style or banality of judgment still made him
wince, and he continued to enjoy himself and exceed himself as he had always
done, by reading, writing, and recounting his stories. Nobody I knew got
more pleasure from the sheer doing of a piece of prose: he relished every
cogency and cadence, every feint and cut, and was eager for you to relish
them as well. But at the same time you knew that the reader over his
shoulder would always be Joyce, or Proust, or F. Scott F.

He taught at Columbia, at Berkeley and Stony Brook, he lived at various
times in Manhattan, on Long Island and the Bay Area, but for the past forty
years he and Jean came to Dublin every summer, accompanied in the beginning
by their two daughters. During those migrant weeks, he took to the country
and the country took to him as if he were a bard on his circuits. In fact,
when The Irish Times called him a scholar, they could well have been using
the word in the older Irish vernacular sense, meaning somebody not only
learned but ringed around with a certain draoicht, or aura, of distinction,
at once a man of the people and a solitary spirit, a little separate but
much beloved.

Since our first meeting in 1970, he was like a father to me and like a
typical Irish son I felt closest at our times of greatest silence and
remoteness: walking the fields of County Leitrim where the 1798 insurgents
were cut down at the Battle of Ballinamuck, climbing down a cliff path on
the Antrim coast where Roger Casement would have wished to be buried, gazing
out along the stony pier at Portland Bill on the south coast of England
where the Fenian prisoners had done hard labor a century before. "And there
was nothing between us there/ That might not still be happily ever after."