From: "jamesam"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Women: Canada/Ireland connections

One author who comes immediately to mind is Sr. Mariana O'Gallagher, who
has done such good work on Grosse Isle. That might be another thread you
might want to weave into your tapestry; she's Canadian, the granddaughter of
the designer of the Celtic Cross on Grosse Isle which is a monument to all
the Irish who were either quarantined or died on the Island. Her book Grosse
Isle: Gateway to Canada 1832-1937(Quebec, Carraig Press, 1984) was followed
up by Eyewitness Grosse Isle 1847(Carraig Press, 1995). Also of interest is
Jeannette Vekeman Masson's A Grandmother Remembers Grosse Isle(Carraig
Press, 1989). This is an oral history by a former resident of the island.


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From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:00 AM
Subject: Ir-D Women: Canada/Ireland connections


>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Longterm members of the Ir-D list will know that we have been trying for
> years to get the ball rolling on a cumulative bibliography on Irish Women
> and the Irish Diaspora.
>
> Helen Fallon seems to have got the shuttle weaving...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Forwarded on behalf of
> Helen Fallon
> Helen.B.Fallon[at]may.ie
> Subject: Women - Canada/Ireland connections
>
>
> Dear Patrick,
>
> I wonder if you could give me any assistance with a query.
>
> I am compiling a bibliography of materials relating to the topic of Irish
> Women in Canada and any material that might have an Ireland/Canada link
> which specifically relates to women.
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

"Faith, Ethnicity, and Social Change" - yup, that's our turf.

Might interest someone...

Always happy to help Elliott Barkan

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of

Elliott Barkan
Subject: Third presenter urgently needed

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society put together a proposal for the
November 2002 meeting of the American Studies Association meeting in
Houston, Texas, which has been accepted. It is entitled: "Faith,
Ethnicity, and Social Change: Three Case Studies of Religion and the
Immigrant Experience in North America."
Three papers were included but one presenter has dropped out and I
would very much like to find a substitute rather than cancel the session. I
HAVE ONLY 10 DAYS TO LOCATE A SUBSTITUTE AND SUBMIT THE CHANGE TO THE ASA.
Currently, the two remaining papers are: "Italianata, Italian
Americans, and the American Religious Environment: Italian Pentecostalism,
a Case Study" and "Globalization, Immigration and Religious Accommodation:
The Sikhs in Canada, a Case Study."

We need a third paper that would be another case study of a
religious group in North America, principally since the early 1900s. If you
would like to be considered, please send me an Abstract of the paper you
would present, along with a title, of course, and a resume of no more than
two pages. I NEED TO RECEIVE THIS BY MAY 10. Please send this material
preferably by email to : ebarkan[at]csusb.edu
or mail to E. Barkan, 1054 Lake Forest Dr., Claremont, CA 91711-2529.

Thanks, Elliott Barkan

_______________________________________
Elliott R. Barkan
Professor of History & Ethnic Studies
Vice-President, Immigration & Ethnic History Society
Chair, CSU Social Science Research and Instructional Council, 2001-2002
Book Review Editor, Journal of American
Ethnic History
Dept of History, California State University
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397 U.S.A.
909-880-5525 (o)// 880-7107/5985 (fax)
ebarkan[at]csusb.edu

"To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual
moral
and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the
prerogative
of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: it is the reward of self-esteem."
So, Live, Love Life.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Usually I use the word 'Housekeeping' as a metaphor for those little chores
that have to do with maintaining the Irish-Diaspora list...

But I have been doing a lot of Housekeeping, in the straightforward sense,
lately. I do not understand how it is that you can go on holiday and, when
you come back, your work room is even more untidy than it was before. Do
books and papers hold dissolute parties in the middle of the night?

Anyway... I have been rather preoccupied over the past month, getting back
on top of my own work. Bread and butter, don't you know...

I have also been doing some work in the other Housekeeping sense - tidying
up the Ir-D list. A number of email addresses have been deleted from the
Ir-D list - these addresses were simply sending back an error message to
everyone of our Ir-D messages. The recurring problem is Hotmail type
accounts, which quickly fill up unless regularly emptied. I KNOW there is a
major problem with spam - my own email addresses are currently being swamped
with spam. We do give a little leeway. But all these error messages just
add to the junk.

I am now systematically moving down through our logs, dealing with the needs
of new members and requests from existing members and other contacts.
Anyone who feels hard-done-by should feel free to email me a curt reminder.

Paddy


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From: Jeanne Armstrong
Subject: Irish language films

After seeing your announcement for the Cornish language film, I am wondering
if someone could suggest Irish language films (perhaps with subtitles) that
might be available on video.

Jeanne Armstrong
Western Washiington University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This appeared on the H-Albion list - it will interest our language
activists. Compare and contrast. But also a potential language resource.

One of my first published poems was in Cornish... It was called An Quylkyn.

P.O'S.


Subject: First feature film made in the Cornish language

From: "Susan Hoyle"

A few months back there was a discussion about the Cornish
language and its disappearance (or not). Those who were interested in that
may also be interested to know that the first feature film made in the
Cornish language has just been released to a mainly bewildered public. The
review in our local paper (_The Cornishman_, a fine publication) is kind but
damning. A big problem is of course that not only do few of the audience
understand the dialogue: most of the actors don't either. Be that as it
may, it is a splendid thing to have done -- apparently very professional
made, if slow-moving -- and is called _Hwerow Hweg_ (Bitter Sweet). I don't
suppose that it will be at a screen near you shortly (it hasn't even made it
to our local cinema in Penzance, having been shown at the theatre instead),
but it might be available for hire. If anyone is interested, do get in
touch. I'm sure to know a man who does.

Susan Hoyle
sue-jez[at]hoyle-knight.freeserve.co.uk

From: "Ruth-Ann M. Harris"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ulster American Symposium, June, York SC

Dear Brian,
The symposium in South Carolina sounds excellent. I wish I could
go but that time of year is family time for us.
Hope you and all my friends at the UAFP are fine.
all the best,
Ruth-Ann Harris


At , you wrote:


>From: Brian Lambkin
>Brian.lambkin[at]uafp.co.uk
>
>For information...
>Subject: FW: Ulster American Heritage Symposium
>
>
>XIV Ulster-American
>Heritage Symposium
>
>A Revolutionary People:
>17th, 18th, 19th Century Emigration
>Immigration and Migration
>
>June 19 -22, 2002
>Rock Hill, SC
>
>
>Hosted by:
>York County Culture and Heritage Commission
>York Technical College
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think this Advice about the Klez computer virus is worth sharing, because
of the potential misunderstandings that might occur...

The Klez virus sends email to addresses found in the address books of victim
computers. It also forges the FROM address of these messages, often using
an email address found in the address book.

So, this forged FROM email address could be almost anyone's. It might well
be your email address. Indications are automated replies to emails that you
did not send, and irritated enquiries from irritated recipients.

There are indications that some of my email addresses have been picked up
and mis-used in this way.

Klez has a destructive behavior which is triggered on the 6th day of each
odd numbered month. Monday May 6th is such a date.

The Symantec web site provides useful information about the virus:

"E"
variant: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.e[at]mm.html
"G/H"
variant: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h[at]mm.html


This would be a good time for everyone to check their antivirus software to
ensure it is up to date, and working properly.

Just to reassure people - computer virus cannot be distributed through the
Irish-Diaspora list. We are very careful about virus protection, the
Irish-Diaspora list does not accept attachments. And, in any case, the
software which runs the list is old and clunky and simply mashes up all
attavchments, including virus.

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Book Announced...

The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland is pleased to announce
the publication of

Irish Emigration since 1921

by Enda Delaney

Studies in Irish Economic and Social History No. 8


Description

Between the early 1920s and the end of the twentieth century, two million
people left the island of Ireland. For many this continued exodus of mainly
young men and women represented damning evidence of economic and political
failure. Yet the reasons behind the decision to emigrate could be far more
complex than simple economic necessity. Moreover the meaning of emigration
for the individual was also changing radically, as Great Britain replaced
America as the destination of the majority and affordable air transport
revolutionised travel. Drawing together the results of the latest research,
Enda Delaney offers a comprehensive survey of the causes, chronology and
character of emigration from Ireland, north and south, from the troubled
aftermath of the First World War to the end of the twentieth century, when
what had long been a nation of emigrants became for the first time host to a
growing immigrant population of its own.

Studies in Irish Economic and Social History No. 8
Published by The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Publication Date: May 2002
ISBN 0-947-897-48-8
61 pp.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Book Announced

http://www.dcu.ie/news/newsletter/html/story_walsh.htm

John Walsh's book on the Irish Language

John Walsh of Fiontar has recently published a book entitled 'Díchoimisiúnú
Teanga: Coimisiún na

Gaeltachta 1926'. The book is based on his research of the Irish language
and the Gaeltacht Commission report of 1926 which covered the public
comprehension of the Irish language and the economic viability of Gealtacht
regions.
The 1926 report dealt with the geographical concentration of Irish speakers
in the country and expressed concern at the demise of Gaeltacht areas such
as in east Sligo, south Kilkenny, southwest Cork and much of Mayo.

'It aims to provide a historical context for anyone who is concerned about
the current state of the Gaeltacht, and to illustrate that the problems
still being discussed today were a cause for concern more than 75 years
ago'. John goes on to say, 'The book is topical because another Gaeltacht
Commission, set up in 2000 with similar aims, is about to publish its
findings'.

The book is bilingual; this reflects the original transcripts from the 1926
report. The original report comprised 26 meetings organised throughout the
country and over 100 Irish speakers interviewed.


The book can be order through the publisher's website
http://www.coislife.ie/eng_academic.htm


For further information
An Ghaeltacht
Irish Language


To contact the author
E: John.Walsh[at]dcu.ie
T: 8440

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Leon Litvack has brought this to our attention...

Anyone thinking of applying should remember that Worcester is pronounced
Wuster...

P.O'S.


The following might be of interest to those studying Irish
history::
----------------

FULL TIME DOCTORAL RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN HISTORY

Applications are invited for a full time doctoral research
studentship in History at University College Worcester (UK).
The studentship is for three years and includes a bursary of
#9,000 pa. Fees are paid and access to a research expenses
budget is included.

Applicants must have a good first degree in History (or related
subject).

Applicants with research interests in the following areas are
invited to apply (prospective supervisor in brackets):

Modern Russian/Soviet History (Dr Ronnie Kowalski)
Irish History, c1690-c1848 (Dr Paddy McNally)
Early Modern English History (Dr Darren Oldridge)

For further details visit
http://www.worc.ac.uk/research/gradschl/index.html or contact
the UCW Graduate School on 01905 855124 or at
gradschool[at]worc.ac.uk.

Informal enquiries may be made to Drs Kowalski, McNally or
Oldridge.
r.kowalski[at]worc.ac.uk; 01905 855303
p.mcnally[at]worc.ac.uk; 01905 855285
d.oldridge[at]worc.ac.uk 01905 855304

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 7 June 2002


(Please feel free to cross post)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...


Newberry Library Labor History Seminar
Location: Illinois, United States
Seminar Date: 2002-05-10
Date Submitted: 2002-04-26

Announcement ID: 130354

The Newberry Library Labor History Seminar, co-sponsored by the
Chicago and Urbana campuses of the University of Illinois present:

"Irish Everywhere: The Irish and the 'Americanization' of the "New
Immigrants" in the United States, 1900-1930*"

James Barrett and David Roediger,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 10, 2002
3:30-5:00 pm

The full schedule for this and other Scholl Center seminars is available at
www.newberry.org.

Contact information:
Rebekah Holmes
Scholl Center for Family and Community History
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: (312) 255-3524
Fax: (312) 255-3696
Email: scholl[at]newberry.org

Seminar website:
http://www.newberry.org

From: Jeanne Armstrong
Subject: RE: Ir-D Irish language cinema

Patrick,

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Perhaps this might be a project for
someone.

Jeanne

- -----Original Message-----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk [mailto:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:00 PM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Irish language cinema



From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I do find it odd that there is no one web site that collects what there is
to know about cinema in the Irish language. Also, no mentions of Irish
language movies I can actually recall seeing.

I will contact Kevin Rockett and see if he can help.

P.O'S.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I do find it odd that there is no one web site that collects what there is
to know about cinema in the Irish language. Also, no mentions of Irish
language movies I can actually recall seeing.

I will contact Kevin Rockett and see if he can help.

P.O'S.

Some mentions at...

http://www.ealga.ie/en/IrishLanguage/AnCoimisiunfaoinnGaeilgesaGhaeltacht/

http://www.filmboard.ie/

Boston had a few...

Irish Language Program
The Boston Irish Film Festival

http://www.irishfilmfestival.com/IrishLangProgram.htm

More mentions at...

http://www.ireland-information.com/reference/cinema.html

From IFTN - Le Dernier Mot

Le Dernier Mot Wins NY Award
22-Mar-02

The Irish language/French language feature, 'Le Dernier Mot' ('The Last
Word'), filmed in Schull in West Cork and Paris in 1999, has won Best
International Director Award at last month's New York International Film and
Video Festival. Directed by French feature film director, Sebastien Grall,
it was produced by John Kelleher and Fabienne Servan Schreiber. The
screenplay was by Marina Ní Dhubháin and Anne Valton. A coproduction between
Fastnet Films and Paris-based Cinétévé, it was funded by France 2, TG4 and
the Irish Film Board. The film, seen by seven million French viewers when
screened on France 2, will be screened by RTE later this year. Fastnet Films
and Cinétévé, with backing from the Irish Film Board, are currently
collaborating on another Marina Ní Dhubháin screenplay.
Fastnet Films 15 Albany Road, Ranelagh Dublin 6, Ireland tel +353 1 491 0461
fax +353 1 491 0469 email: CThe Irish language/French language feature, 'Le
Dernier Mot' ('The Last Word '), filmed in Schull in West Cork and Paris in
1999, has won Best International Director Award at last month's New York
International Film and Video Festival. Directed by French feature film
director, Sebastien Grall, it was produced by John Kelleher and Fabienne
Servan Schreiber. The screenplay was by Marina Ní Dhubháin and Anne Valton.
A coproduction between Fastnet Films and Paris-based Cinétévé, it was funded
by France 2, TG4 and the Irish Film Board. The film, seen by seven million
French viewers when screened on France 2, will be screened by RTE later this
year. Fastnet Films and Cinétévé, with backing from the Irish Film Board,
are currently collaborating on another Marina Ní Dhubháin screenplay.
Fastnet Films 15 Albany Road, Ranelagh Dublin 6, Ireland tel +353 1 491 0461
fax +353 1 491 0469 email: info[at]fastnetfilms.com

From: Ruth Hegarty
r.hegarty[at]ria.ie
Subject: Irish language cinema


Dear Patrick,

I was at the www.newvoices2002.tcd.ie conference recently where Ruth Lysaght
delivered a paper on short films in Irish:
Ruth Lysaght (Independent Scholar)
TÌr faoi thoinn / Framing the Waves: the Growth of Short Film-Making in the
Irish Language
It might be worth contacting her through that website, the conference
proceedings should be published within the year, but I know she is doing
further work.



Ruth Hegarty
Administrative Officer,
Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann
19 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

E-Mail: r.hegarty[at]ria.ie
Website: www.ria.ie

Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann
Promoting study in the sciences and humanities since 1785

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The CAIS Conference looks interesting - some old friends, interesting
themes, new names...

Who is this who is rethinking through archaeological enquiry?

Paddy


Forwarded on behalf of
Jean Talman
jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca
Subject: CAIS 2002 - May 22-24, 2002


To CAIS members and friends

The programme for our annual conference "Hibernicis ipsis Hibernior:"
Rethinking Irishness, to be held at the University of Toronto at
Mississauga (Erindale College) May 22-24, 2002 can now be found on the
CAIS website at:
www.erin.utoronto.ca/cais

Also on the website are directions on how to get to UTM and a link to
maps of the area and the campus.

If you have any questions, please write to: infonow[at]utm.utoronto.ca

Hope to see you all in Mississauga.

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES
Programme for Annual Conference 2002
University of Toronto at Mississauga
(subject to change)

"Hibernicis ipsis Hibernior:" Rethinking Irishness


Tuesday, May 21st

Arrivals and Welcomes
Evening reception, 7:00pm in Colman Lounge

Wednesday, May 22nd
All Sessions for the conference take place in Colman Lounge

8:45 to 9:00 - Opening Ceremony

9 to 10:30 - Rethinking Irish History

Chair: Willie Jenkins

Brad Kent (U of Guelph) Pluckin' Shamrocks: Problematizing the Irish Nation
in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry
Katherine Hull (U of Toronto) Rethinking Pre-Famine Ireland Through
Archaeological Inquiry: the Case of the Irish Tenant Farmer
Ronald Rudin (Concordia) Telling the Truth about '98

10:30 to 11:00 - coffee

11:00 to 12:00 - Government of Ireland Cultural Relations Lecture

Introduction: Jerry White

Louis de Paor (Director: Centre for Irish Studies, NUI, Galway) 'Tangled in
Syntax Unsuited to Your Thoughts': Modern Poetry in Irish

12:00 to 1:30 - lunch; Meeting of the Executive (Colman House, CCIT Meeting
Room)

1:30 to 2:45 - Northern Exposures

Chair: Don MacRaild

John Burnett (U of Sunderland) Aspects of Scottish and Irish Migration to
the North East of England, 1845-1945
David Wilson (U of Toronto) Witchcraft in Islandmagee, 1710-11
Kevin James (U of Guelph) The Ballymena Hand-loom Weavers: Persistence,
Prosperity and Impoverishment

2:45- 3:00 - coffee

3:00 - 4:30 - Ireland at Independence

Chair: Kevin James

Peter Hart (Memorial U) Northern Catholics and Southern Protestants in the
Irish Revolution
Philip Ollerenshaw (U of the West of England) Business, Politics and the
Partition of Ireland, 1918-25
Yvonne Whelan (U of Ulster) Landscape, Memory and the Politics of Identity:
Interpreting Public Statues in Dublin, Before and After Independence
Padraig O Siadhail (Saint Mary's) Piaras Beaslai: Another Damned Englishman
in Ireland

4:30 to 5:30 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Lecture

Introduction: Kevin James

Maria Luddy (Warwick) Becoming Irish: Purity and Sexual Morality in Ireland
1900-1925.

8:00pm - An Evening of Storytelling

Host: Norita Fleming
Featuring: Sam McAughtry, Louis de Paor, Jonathan Lynn and a special guest
to be announced
Reception to follow

Thursday, May 23rd

9 to 10:30 - Irish Cultural Influences/Texts in Canada

Chair: Marianna O'Gallagher

Mary Haslam (NUI, Galway) In Search of The Irish Advocate, 1835-36
Rosemary O'Flaherty (Concordia) Mourning Community: the Scattered Irish of
Sainte-Marthe
Thelma Ann Brennan (of Johnville, NB) The Ties that Bind
Willie Jenkins (U of Toronto) Reconstructing the Social Worlds of Irish
Protestants in Late Victorian Toronto

10:30 to 11:00 - coffee

11:00 to 12:00 - The Ireland Fund of Canada Lecture

Introduction: Jim Russell

Sam McAughtry: On The Outside, Looking In

12:00 to 1:30 - lunch

1:30 to 2:45 - Contemporary Perspectives

Chair: Dermot McCarthy

Christine St. Peter (U of Victoria) Trevor, Egoyan and the Felicia Transfer:
Eating the Text
Danine Farquharson (St. Jerome's) Ice Hockey and Harrison Ford: Popular
Culture Definitions of Northern Ireland
Jerry White (U of Alberta) Ireland's Jeune Cinema and the Next Step for
Irish Film

2:45- 3:00 - coffee

3:00 - 4:30 - Staging Ireland

Chair: TBA

Lisa Fitzpatrick (U of Toronto) Performing Ireland Abroad: 3 Irish Plays in
Toronto
Len Falkenstein (UNB) "Ireland mustn't be a bad place so if sharks want to
come": McDonagh, Cultural Tourism and the Cultural "Authentic"
Maureen Hawkins (U of Lethbridge) Robert Emmet on the American Stage,
1806-1985

4:30 to 5:30 - Celtic Arts of Canada Lecture

Introduction: Danine Farquharson

Lionel Pilkington (NUI, Galway via Simon Fraser) Rethinking Ireland's
Cultural History: Theatricality and Politics in Post-Colonial Ireland

7:30 - Grosse Ile Photo Exhibit and Lectures

Introduction: Ronald Rudin

Colin McMahon (Concordia) History Lessons in Relief: Famine Commemoration as
Social Activism on Grosse Ile
Cecil Houston (U of Toronto) The Legacy of 1847 in the Canadas
Viewing of Photo Exhibit at Kaneff Centre
Reception to follow: Colman Lounge

Friday, May 24th

9 to 10:30 - The Erindale College Lecture

Introduction: Willie Jenkins

Donald MacRaild (University of Northumbria) If There Was a Protestant Irish
Diaspora: The Orange Order and Irish Migration in the 19th and early 20th
Centuries

10:30 to 11:00 - coffee

11:00 to 12:45 - Negotiating Irish Literature

Chair: Danine Farquharson

Gearoid Denvir : From Inis Fraoigh to Inisfree ... and back again? Place and
Identity in 20th Century Poetry in Irish
Tom Herron (Leeds Metropolitan U) To Ireland in the Present Times: Poetry's
Address to the Nation
Kim Allen Gleed (Binghampton U) Of Mammys and Das: the Construction of the
Family in Modern Irish Literature
Brian Rainey (U of Regina) Going Home to Ireland: 3 Contemporary Novels of
Return

12:45 to 2:00 - lunch

2:00 to 3:00 - Convergences

Chair: Cecil Houston

Maurice Elliot (York) "Aloof with hermit-eye I scan/The present works of
present man --": A brief introduction to the work of the Irish sage, John
Moriarty
Dudley Hillier (of Belleville, ON) Celtic Tiger by the Tail

3:15 to 5:00 AGM

7:00pm Closing Banquet at the Faculty Club
Guest speaker: Kildare Dobbs

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have been asked for publication/publisher information about...

Irish Emigration since 1921

by Enda Delaney

Studies in Irish Economic and Social History No. 8
Published by The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
Publication Date: May 2002
ISBN 0-947-897-48-8
61 pp.

So, it is published by The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland -
it is one of that series of useful pamphlets. And that ISBN should be
enough to order it through normal bookshops.

However... The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland does have a
web site
http://www.eh.net/eshsi/

where you can click on publications
http://www.eh.net/eshsi/publications/

and see some details of the series, including - which I think people will
find interesting - the texts of the brief Introductions
to
Irish Emigration 1801 - 1921
by David Fitzpatrick

and
The Interwar Economy in Ireland
by David Johnson

There is also a little form, now a bit out of date (pounds? pounds? what
are pounds?), that you can print out and send to the printer
Dundalgan Press Ltd
Francis Street
DUNDALK
Co Louth
Republic of Ireland

But really you should support your local bookshop, I think.

Presumably the web site will be updated in due course, and give some
information about Enda Delaney's pamphlet...

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Current reading items seem to amuse and interest - and provide clues about
forthcoming changes of password at irishdiaspora.net. So, from my notes...

Holidays - a chance to read without interruption. What I read on my
holidays...

Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield, eds, Migration Theory - of
which more at a later date...

Mark Charles Fissel, English Warfare, 1511-1642. It might be objected that
Irish history is too much seen as a sub-department of English, but the newer
English history is full of insights into the 'totality of relationships'
within these isles. In this important period, when wars decided so much,
England's aggressive defence policy in had effect a hierarchy of military
concerns - first mainland Europe, then Scotland, last Ireland. For the
Irish the problem was to wage their own war of defence, and find allies,
without moving up the agenda. And so... Kinsale. Fissel's use of archives
is impressive and he, in turn, makes good use of the recent Irish military
history - especially John McGurk, 'the pre-eminent authority on Elizabethan
impressment...' (p322).

Tom McNeill, Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World. A
delightful exploration of 'castle theory' connected with what remains on the
ground in Ireland. But, in the end, we reflect on the remarks in McNeill's
Introduction - 'Ireland is remarkable among countries of western Europe for
its scholarly neglect of its castles...' Because, of course, the castles
are not part of a specific 'Irish' agenda. No mention of Yeats - and
'ownership' of castles. Maybe a good thing.

Patrick Maume, 'Life that is Exile': Daniel Corkery and the Search for
Irish Ireland. I'd long wanted to give this book a considered reading, and
much enjoyed it. Patrick Maume chides Corkery, like a dear friend whose
faults are all too well known to us. I quarrelled with Patrick Maume a bit
about 'provincialism' - this is a core/periphery analysis. There is nowhere
more provincial than London. I recall a boisterous paper by Edward
McParland, 'Eclecticism: The Provincial's Advantage' - it's in Irish Arts
Review, 1991-92 - about architecture. Patrick Maume - I've said before -
very helpful on un-Irish origins of Corkery's thought. Chapter 2 is 'a City
Ruskin...' That telling moment when O'Faolain calls on Corkery, and is not
invited past the front door (p91). Gasp! A very necessary book...

Also, London: the biography by Peter Ackroyd, and The London Rich by Peter
Thorold, and a few other odds and ends...

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest isue of the British Association for Irish Studies Newsletter,
April 2002, has been distributed to members.

Editor Jerry Nolan interviews Mike Ashley on Algernon Blackwood's Irish
connections - Celtic 'feyness', theosophy, influence on James Stephens...

Bob Bell responds to a previous Newsletter item, Tim Forest on the Irish
Border.

Ultan Cowley on the historiography of Irish navvies in Britain. This is a
very interesting piece of writing - part of the intellectual background to
Ultan Cowley's book The Men Who built Britain...

I will contact Ultan and ask if we can have the text of this excellent
article - it is a bit long for the Irish-Diaspora list. But maybe we can
display it at irishdiaspora.net.

Note: BAIS Newsletter Editor Jerry Nolan tells us that he has told the BAIS
committee that very soon someone else must 'take the tiller...' Jerry has
created over 20 issues of the Newsletter over the past 5 years, and has
always conducted matters with charm and energy. A special feature of his
Newsletters has been his own interviews with scholars, where he has
sensitively helped them to display and develop their ideas. The BAIS
membership have cause to be grateful.

BAIS Contact point
{http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/bais/index.html}

More on Ultan Cowley, The Men Who built Britain
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0121/2303705426HMWEST2.html

http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/reviews/navvies/

http://www.bookviewireland.ie/results.asp?P_Key=819

Publisher at
http://www.wolfhound.ie/spring.htm

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Cork University Press...

Even with special offers this is still a lot of money...

P.O'S.

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Subject: New Book -Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and
V: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions


Cork University Press is delighted to offer you a saving of EUR50 or £30 off
the list price of Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and V:
Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (Publication October 2002). Press
coverage was given today by the Irish Times on the release of the full
contents pages on www.corkuniversitypress.com. Also coverage on Field Day
appeared in the LA Times on Tuesday April 24th.

Eleven years in the making, featuring the work of over 750 individual
writers and harnessing the skills and expertise of dozens of scholars, The
Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and V is without doubt one
the most important publishing events in Ireland for many years. Some of the
key features and benefits you will enjoy include:

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· Biographies and bibliographies of writers facilitate further reading
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· Fully indexed and cross-referenced with earlier volumes, including
index to first lines of poetry.

· Spans a period from 600 to the end of the end of the Twentieth
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Many Irish texts appear in translation for the first time allowing
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We have received some advanced comments on these Field Day volumes:


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"I have never seen an anthology which has so drastically extended one's
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The web address for the British Association for Irish Studies Newsletter
contact point has changed to
{http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/bais/}

Sorry about that - but no one told me...

Also at that web address you can find information about Irish Studies Review

http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/school-of-historical-and-cultural-studies/irish-stu
dies-review/

and BSUC Irish Studies Centre
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/school-of-historical-and-cultural-studies/irish-stu
dies/

including issues of their Newsletter in Adobe Acrobat...

P.O'S.


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