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Subject: Royal Irish Constabulary Stations in County Dublin


Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "D.M. Leeson"

Anyone out there who knows the historical geography of County Dublin?

I am trying to draw a map showing the distribution of Royal Irish
Constabulary stations in County Dublin during the War of Independence.
Briefly, the county was divided into three disticts: Balbriggan
District in the north, Howth District in the centre, and Dundrum District
in the south. Using information I obtained at the PRO, I have
compiled a list of RIC stations (or barracks) in County Dublin in January
1920 and January 1921, with the numbers of constables at each location.

Between these two months, in response to the IRA's guerrilla campaign, the
RIC abandoned 11 of its 20 stations in the county and concentrated its
forces
in the remaining nine, along with four new stations.

Here is my problem. I have not been able to locate a few of the listed
locations on any map, or in any gazetteer. I am wondering if the place
names were unofficial, or anglicised, or nicknames of some kind. If
anyone can shed some light on this matter I would be very grateful.

In January 1920 the RIC had a barracks at "St. Lawrence" in the Howth
District. I can't find a St. Lawrence anywhere in County Dublin.

By January 1921, the Force had concentrated 95 of its 238 men in three new
barracks, one at Chapelizod, and the other two at "Bessboro'" and "North
Gate".
The only Bessboro' or Bessborough I've been able to find is in County
Kilkenny,
and I can't find a North Gate anywhere.

All of these locations should be outside of Dublin City, which was policed
by the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the Army, and the Auxiliary Division.
However, I am not entirely clear on the physical extent of Dublin City
at this time, so these three stations may have been in suburbs outside
of the metropolitan area. Chapelizod seems to have been right on the
city's edge.

Thanks,

D M Leeson
PhD candidate
McMaster University

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Re: Ir-D RIC Stations in County Dublin


RIC stations/barracks are listed in the 'RIC List and Directory',
which was published in January and July each year from the 1840s up
to, I think, 1920/1. I have several copies, the latest being July
1919. Barracks were listed both alphabetically and by counties. My
July 1919 copy lists 26 stations in Co. Dublin, organised into 3
districts, with Howth, Balbriggan and Dundrum being the HQs for the
respective districts. The alphabetical list also gives the name of
the sergeant in charge of each station.

St Lawrence station is listed as being in the Howth district; both it
and Finglas station being 13 and a half miles from the Howth
station. The district spreads northwest and southwest from Howth,
around the north of the Dublin metropolitan area. The farthest
station out is Lucan and the others are Blanchardstown, Santry,
Malahide, Raheny and Baldoyle. That's 9 in all, including Howth. My
OS map of Co. Dublin does not show a St Lawrence. But the
alphabetical list of barracks includes the nearest post office and
for St Lawrence it was in Chapelizod, only a quarter of a mile from
the barracks. That certainly narrows the location down. If a barracks
was established in Chapelizod in 1920, presumably it superceded St
Lawrence. (St Lawrence of course was the name of the Anglo-Norman
family who owned Howth Castle, so perhaps they owned land in the area
or of course the name could refer I suppose to St Lawrence O'Toole.)

As I only have a 1919 'RIC List', I can't help with new stations
established the following year, but clearly the 1920 lists should
allow exact location of them. If I remember rightly, the Garda
Siochana Museum in the Record Tower at Dublin Castle has a virtually
complete collection. The curator, Inspector John Duffy, I've always
found extremely helpful. I don't have an email address for him, but
his FAX is 01-6775325.

By the way, there's a nice map showing all the Constabulary barracks
in Ireland as the frontispiece in Francis Head's 'A Fortnight in
Ireland', published in 1852. At that stage Co. Dublin had 37 barracks.

Elizabeth Malcolm
Professor of Irish Studies
University of Melbourne


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>Subject: Royal Irish Constabulary Stations in County Dublin
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>Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "D.M. Leeson"
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>Anyone out there who knows the historical geography of County Dublin?
>

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Chair of Irish Studies FAX: +61-3-8344 7894
Department of History Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, 3010
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From:
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D RIC Stations in County Dublin

It might be that 'North Gate' refers to one of the main gates of Dublin's
Phoenix Park, 'the largest enclosed park in Europe' - perhaps the Astown
Gate, just beyond which an abortive assassination attempt was made on the
Viceroy during the War of Independence.

Ultan


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



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< Anyone out there who knows the historical geography of County Dublin?
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< I am trying to draw a map showing the distribution of Royal Irish
< Constabulary stations in County Dublin during the War of Independence.
< Briefly, the county was divided into three disticts: Balbriggan
< District in the north, Howth District in the centre, and Dundrum District
< in the south. Using information I obtained at the PRO, I have
< compiled a list of RIC stations (or barracks) in County Dublin in January
< 1920 and January 1921, with the numbers of constables at each location.
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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Re: Ir-D RIC Stations in County Dublin 3

I think Ultan may be right about this. Looking at a 1912 OS map of
Dublin, there is a police station marked at the Ashtown Gate to
Phoenix Park and that is the northernmost gate. But it's just within
the city boundary, which runs along the side of the park, and so is a
DMP station. I wonder if an RIC barracks was established outside the
gate in 1920 with a different name to distinguish it?

Further to St Lawrence, that is the name of the church in Chapelizod
and just northwest of the town is a St Lawrence Lodge and a St
Lawrence Manor. There's a 'police station' near the church and a
'constabulary barracks' near the lodge and the boundary separating
the city and the county runs between them, along the Liffey. So
that's an example of the RIC and DMP being established close to one
another on each side of the city/county boundary - the DMP station
presumably called Chapelizod and the RIC one St Lawrence to
distinguish them.

Elizabeth Malcolm


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>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Ir-D RIC Stations in County Dublin
>
>It might be that 'North Gate' refers to one of the main gates of Dublin's
>Phoenix Park, 'the largest enclosed park in Europe' - perhaps the Astown
>Gate, just beyond which an abortive assassination attempt was made on the
>Viceroy during the War of Independence.
>
>Ultan
>
>
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Chair of Irish Studies FAX: +61-3-8344 7894
Department of History Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, 3010
AUSTRALIA

From: Ruth Hegarty
Subject: RE: Ir-D RIC Stations in County Dublin

You might contact Sarah Gearty, cartographer at the Royal Irish Academy -
they're putting together an historic towns atlas of Dublin at the moment and
she may well be able to help. Her email is s.gearty[at]ria.ie

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

Switchboard: 00 353 1 6762570
Fax: 00 353 1 6762346
Direct Dial: 00 353 1 6380918
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





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> Subject: Royal Irish Constabulary Stations in County Dublin
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> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 12:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "D.M. Leeson"
>
> Anyone out there who knows the historical geography of County Dublin?
>
> I am trying to draw a map showing the distribution of Royal Irish
> Constabulary stations in County Dublin during the War of Independence.
> Briefly, the county was divided into three disticts: Balbriggan
> District in the north, Howth District in the centre, and Dundrum District
> in the south. Using information I obtained at the PRO, I have
> compiled a list of RIC stations (or barracks) in County Dublin in January
> 1920 and January 1921, with the numbers of constables at each location.
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From: D.M. Leeson
leesondm[at]mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
To: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Re: FW: Ir-D RIC Stations in County Dublin



Hi Paddy,

I think I have the missing stations located. Could you please forward my
thanks to everyone on the Irish Diaspora list for their quick and
enthusiastic responses? And thank you for forwarding my query to the
list.

Dave Leeson
PhD candidate
McMaster University

From: "Richard Jensen"
Subject: Fw: CfP: Economic and Social History Society of Ireland 2002
Conference


The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland's annual conference
will be held 8-9 November 2002, at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
Papers are invited on the theme of "Popular cultures in Ireland."

Papers should be on any aspect of the subject, and presentations will
be approximately 30 minutes in length. Proposals of no more than 300
words should be sent to:

Dr. Maura Cronin
History Department
Mary Immaculate College
South Circular Road
LIMERICK
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The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2002.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Notice of a new book about Irish-American history...

Edward T. O'Donnell
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish-American History

It is one of Broadway Books' '1001 Things' series - so it is pitched at a
specific market and niche.

There is further information, including some extracts from the book, at the
Broadway Books web site - web address and extract from the publisher's blurb
below. On the web site there are also some extracts from the book...

(The way to make the web site work seems to be to use the search facility
and find O'Donnell...)

North American readers will be familiar with the 1001 Things format - it is
a popular reference book style. The challenge for Edward O'Donnell was,
then, to stay within that style and structure - but to remain faithful to
the complexities of Irish-American and Irish history.

He has really done remarkably well. I have not read the book all the way
through, of course. It is perhaps not that kind of book. But you can read
it as a bringing together of Irish-American 'stream of consciousness' - the
1001 questions that ever bubble away - with up to date scholarship and
critiques of received wisdom. A very hard thing to do. There is
simplification, but it is not over-simplification - so far, in every entry I
have read, the line that Edward O'Donnell has taken can be defended...

P.O'S.


From the Web site...

http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have pasted in below a message from Bettina Arnold, about the launch of
e-Keltoi, a free online journal of Celtic Studies.

I am very much in favour of these high-quality free-access scholarly
projects. I have asked Bettina some of the obvious questions. I was
anxious to establish that the project is properly supported - and not
another of those projects taken on by scholars in their 'spare time'...

Anyway, Bettina is very persuasive - and I think I am now on the Advisory
Board...

Paddy O'Sullivan



From: Bettina Arnold
barnold[at]uwm.edu
Subject: e-Keltoi


The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Celtic Studies is
developing an electronic journal entitled e-Keltoi: Journal of
Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies. The journal will be an integral part of
the Center?s mission to promote and disseminate research and communication
related to Celtic cultures, past and present, in the academic arena as well
as for the general public. Web resources on Celtic culture that are
content-rich, reliable and current are rare, and are very much in demand.
The mission of the journal is to provide free access to high-quality,
peer-reviewed articles solicited to address specific themes from several
different cross-disciplinary and international perspectives.

e-Keltoi is:

Thematic
Interdisciplinary
Cross-cultural
Peer-reviewed
Free


Disciplinary categories include:

Archaeology
Folklore
History
Languages/Linguistics
Literature
Performing Arts
Political Science/Economics
Visual Arts


The themes for the first five issues are:

Nationalism
Diaspora
Gender
Warfare
Cultural Survival


The goal of e-Keltoi is to present several general themes (for example,
Nationalism) within the framework of the Celtic world to which various
academic disciplines can contribute, producing a synergy and opening up an
avenue for dialogue. The electronic format of the journal will make it
possible for several media to be accessible simultaneously ? for example, a
visitor to the site could read an exegesis on Scottish nationalism and then
click on the passage to hear a recording of the Corries singing ?Come O?er
the Stream Charlie?, or an article on French nationalism could include video
clips of French politicians giving speeches on the summit of a Celtic
hillfort.

Rather than following the traditional print format of sequential issues that
appear according to a set schedule once a sufficient number of submissions
have been through the editing and review process, e-Keltoi will operate on a
more flexible and open-ended basis, with five themed issues open to
submissions simultaneously. As articles are submitted they will be sent out
for review by at least three members of the Review Board. Based on reviewer
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revision, they will go on-line in the appropriate issue in the order in
which they were received. When an issue on a particular theme contains a
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and replaced by a new theme.

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and edited by individual editors whose proposals for themed issues have been
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the papers before submitting them for review by the General Editor and
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The Web address for the journal is: http://www.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/

Bettina Arnold

Co-Director, Center for Celtic Studies

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Following review appeared on the H-Albion list...

P.O'S.


Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards, and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick. Gaelic Ireland:
Land, Lordship and Settlement, c 1250-c 1650. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
2001. 454 pp. Tables, maps index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-85182-547-9.
Reviewed by Thomas Finan, Departments of History and Religious Studies,
Webster University, St. Louis.
Published by H-Albion (July, 2001)


The Lost Gaelic Middle Ages Re-found
Gaelic Ireland is one of the most under-studied fields of all medieval
history. To be precise, though, Gaelic Ireland refers to that period after
the arrival of the Anglo-Normans at the end of the twelfth century. There is
no lack of scholarship concerning the period before the Anglo-Normans, but
the history, archaeology, and literary history of Gaelic Ireland have been
remarkably neglected. The editors and authors of this volume concerning
settlement and geography in Gaelic Ireland attempt to respond to this state
of affairs with a variety of approaches meant to fill in blanks left by
years of neglect, and in the process have produced an exceptional volume
that should attract more scholars to such a fertile field waiting to be
harvested.

The introduction of the volume, written by Duffy, Edwards, and Fitzpatrick,
is valuable if only because of the extensive references found in the
footnotes. No book on Gaelic Ireland provides such information. Often other
monographs concerning Gaelic Ireland (particularly Gaelic Ireland by Kenneth
Nicholls) attempt to inform a general audience and hence have not provided
any references; few books on Gaelic Ireland lead new scholars into the
discipline by showing the reader where to turn for sources. Nor do many
books provide the level of interpretation that explains why the subject of
medieval Gaelic Ireland is in the state that it is in. Irish historians have
generally blamed the catastrophic fire in the Public Record House in Dublin
during the Irish Civil War for the supposed lack of documents comparable to
those of Ireland's nearest neighbor, England. But Duffy, et al., rightly
point out that the records held in the Public Record Office (while valuable)
rarely dealt with Gaelic Ireland, and that most of the materials of Gaelic
Ireland had been deposited at the libraries of Trinity College, the Royal
Irish Academy, and other learned societies in Ireland. As well, the
linguistic difficulties of Middle and Early Modern Irish (which still has no
usable grammar) have led some scholars to declare that until more documents
are translated by the linguists, we will not be able to piece together
medieval Gaelic society. Again, Duffy, et al., show that large bodies of
material (including massive collections of bardic poetry) already exist in
translation, but few have considered these materials as historic source
material. And, finally, following a recent work by Kieran O'Conor, the
editors posit that Gaelic Ireland is so understudied because the nation that
evolved from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw itself in
terms of a non-English identity.[1] As a result, the greater part of the
twentieth century was spent investigating the archaeology and history of
Early Christian or Early Medieval period in Ireland, as this period was seen
as somehow "purely" Irish.

The seventeen essays in the volume address these supposed limitations and do
so successfully. I must point out that I would like to summarize all of the
essays for this review, as all are vital studies, but I will instead discuss
several notable essays as exemplary of the volume itself.

Kenneth Nicholls treats the question of the extent to which Ireland was
wooded in the late medieval period, and does so with his usual style,
clarity and ability to draw the most out of seemingly disparate sources.
Rather than accepting either the commonly held idea that the primeval
forests of Ireland lasted the Anglo-Normans and were only destroyed in the
Early Modern period as a result of the growing need for wood in the
production of iron, or the newer position that Ireland's primeval forests
were already consumed by the arrival of the Anglo-Normans, Nicholls
describes a complicated system of destruction and re-growth over time, in
which the size of the forests was at least modestly related to the stability
within Irish society. As a result, for instance, reforestation occurred
during the fourteenth century, while by the time of the Tudor reconquest,
the forests were exploited in an unsustainable way.

Valerie Hall and Lynda Bunting have successfully used the study of Icelandic
volcanic ash in the peat bogs of Northern Ireland to date layers within the
bogs with great accuracy. As a result, the pollen found in the layers can
also be dated with the same accuracy, such that Hall and Bunting can show
what species of plants, grains and trees existed around the bog. Their
conclusion, that "...the rural landscape of medieval Ireland was at least as
diverse as its modern counterpart...," (pp. 221-2) of course leads to more
questions than answers, but hopefully this method can give us a much better
picture of the landscape of historic Ireland that has too often been
described as simply a wild forested land.

Katharine Simms has spent the better part of three decades describing Gaelic
Ireland by analyzing the massive corpus of bardic poetry that is still
relatively underutilized by historians. The use of bardic poetry has its
difficulties, to be sure, as does the use of any type of literature as
historic source. But Simms has a unique gift for extracting meanings from
these poems that are often more concerned with flattering a patron than with
providing the modern scholar with information. In her article on "the House
Poems," she analyzes the vocabulary used by the bardic poets in describing
the houses, forts, and "castles" of Gaelic lords. Simms reminds the reader
that taking the descriptions of houses at face value is dangerous indeed;
the houses are often compared to supernatural places, in which case the
analogy is clearly symbolic, while in other cases the vocabulary is simply
ambiguous. On the other hand, she surmises that the language used by the
bards suggests rather complicated structures within the forts of the Gaelic
lords. Her list of bardic vocabulary words analyzed in the article is a very
useful tool for archaeologists and historians not acquainted with the
intricacies of bardic poetry.

By using a variety of different sources, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick has
identified the inauguration sites of two Anglo-Norman lordships, the two
factions of the Connacht Burkes, who, during the course of the fourteenth
century, adopted Gaelic titles, culture, and language. In frontier regions
Anglo-Norman lords adopted Gaelic ways despite the attempts of the
Anglo-Norman colonial government to legislate otherwise (as with the
Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366). In her article Fitzpatrick argues that the
inaugurations of the Mayo Burkes took place at "Ratsecer," and that this
site is also identified as the ringfort of Raheenagooagh. While Gaelic lords
were prone to using hilltops for their inauguration, it seems that
Gaelicized Anglo-Norman lords may have favored ringforts that had gone into
disuse. As she admits, Fitzpatrick is on shakier ground when she argues that
the inauguration of the Clanrickard Burkes took place at Dunkellin, since in
the main the source for this theory is place-name analysis and eighteenth
and nineteenth century folklore. Nevertheless, her argument is strong, and
leads the reader to question the whole process of associating particular
settlement types with particular ethnic identities, or, for that matter, the
use of those ethnic identities to begin with!

Kieran O'Conor examines the morphology of Gaelic high-status habitation
sites in north Roscommon, a region that was controlled by the MacDermot and
O'Conor Gaelic lords of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. These lords
used a wide variety of types of fortification and settlement, including
crannogs, moated enclosures, and natural islands. No one type of site was
used more than the other, but in some cases, such as the MacDermot island
fortress at Lough Key and the possible moated site on the shore at Lough
Key, these settlement types are often found in very close proximity.
Ultimately, his article is a prelude and call for future work; the
geographic area that he has researched should yield important information
about medieval Gaelic Ireland. The strength of O'Conor's work lies in his
ability to weave a narrative between archaeological survey and in-depth
analysis of literary sources. Cross-disciplinary analysis can fill gaps in
both fields, as O'Conor has shown in this article.

Aidan O'Sullivan surveys the evidence for later medieval occupation of
crannogs, or defensive island lake settlements, in Gaelic Ireland. If one
considers crannogs from the perspective of the Irish Annals, they seem to be
described uniquely as royal residences or defensive refuges. However, based
upon recent survey and archaeological analysis, O'Sullivan argues that the
crannog is even more enigmatic than we have presumed. Some crannogs were
clearly used in manners described in the Annals, but others were used by
peasants, or for holding cattle, or as seasonal settlements. He concludes by
stating that the most extensive occupation periods of crannogs lie in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and again in the sixteenth centuries.
Both were periods of stress and social disorder in Ireland, so perhaps these
is more to consider in terms of the crannog's use as a defensive refuge than
normative settlement feature.

This volume is a vital contribution to the study of Gaelic Ireland, and must
be considered by any scholar of medieval history in the British Isles. It is
not without a noticeable fault, however. While the title suggests that the
essays cover the period 1250-1650, only four of the essays are even
moderately concerned with the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
Robin Frame and Sean Duffy have considered the history of medieval Ireland
in the thirteenth century in several monographs and articles, but their
perspectives generally result from using the administrative records of the
Anglo-Norman colony. Both of these scholars have contributed greatly to our
understanding of the political history of thirteenth century Ireland, but,
as shown in this volume, thirteenth century Gaelic Ireland is often
forgotten in terms of culture history or in terms of settlement. One
nevertheless gets the feeling from the present volume that "real" Gaelic
Ireland began in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. While Ireland
was technically divided into English lordships by the end of the thirteenth
century, the West and North were never inhabited to the extent of regions
like Leinster, eastern Ulster and Munster. Certainly the Gaelic lords in the
West and North were not simply dormant from the late twelfth century until
the late fourteenth century? Or could there be a tacit assumption that in
the thirteenth century the Gaelic lords who employed Anglo-Norman
mercenaries and formed political alliances with Anglo-Normans were somehow
not Gaelic? Such a question is outside the purview of a book on settlement;
but it is nevertheless a question that needs to be answered in light of the
fine introduction of Duffy, et al., in this volume.

Four Courts Press has been producing a large number of important new and
reprint volumes in Irish medieval history over the last few years, and the
Press is to be commended for such a fine book. The editors and authors of
this volume, as well, are to be commended for providing starving scholars of
medieval Ireland with plenty of food for thought.

[1]. Kieran O'Connor, The Archaeology Medieval Rural Settlement in Ireland
(Dublin, Discovery Programme Monographs: 1998); 10.

Citation: Thomas Finan . "Review of Patrick J. Duffy, David Edwards, and
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Gaelic Ireland: Land, Lordship and Settlement, c
1250-c 1650," H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, July, 2001.
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staff at hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From: Dean_Holt[at]att.net
Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Resource: Launch of e-Keltoi

Thanks for the information on e-keltoi...could someone
give us a good link for it? the one given to the list
does not seem to work. Thanks.
Patrick Holt
Fordham University

>
>
> The Web address for the journal is: http://www.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/
>
> Bettina Arnold
>
> Co-Director, Center for Celtic Studies
>
> http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
John McCourt
mccourt[at]univ.trieste.it

Please distribute...

P.O'S.

INITIAL PRESS RELEASE for the
EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM,
TRIESTE, 16-22 JUNE 2002.

What do award-winning Austrian scientist and inventor of the contraception
pill Carl Djerassi, renowned Welsh travel writer and author Jan Morris,
celebrated Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon, world famous literary
critics Edward Said, Hugh Kenner, Margot Norris, J. Hillis Miller, Fritz
Senn, and Denis Donoghue, all have in common?

They, along with more than 300 other illustrious speakers, will be taking
part in the biggest Joyce bash since the 1982 Centenary Joyce Celebrations
in Dublin, that is, in

the Eighteenth International James Joyce Symposium,
entitled Mediterranean Joyce,

which is being held from 16-22 June 2002 in the city Joyce called "my second
country", the cosmopolitan Italy seaport city of Trieste, where the writer
lived for over ten years at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Trieste event, organised by John McCourt and Renzo Crivelli of the
University of Trieste and by Sebastian Knowles of the Ohio State University
and Geert Lernout of the University of Antwerp for the International James
Joyce Foundation, promises to throw up many new insights into Joyce's life
and works and will see critics discussing the newly discovered Eumaeus and
Circe chapters from Ulysses as well as salient new details of Joyce's own
life which have been emerging from the archives of America and Europe. In
addition to up to 11 hours per day of academic sessions on topics ranging
from smut in Joyce to
Joyce in Trieste, in Italy, in Austro-Hungary, to Joyce and Exodus, Joyce
and religion, Joyce and Latin America, Joyce and Ground Zero, there will be
a rich and rewarding evening social programme.

The Irish Ambassador to Italy, Mr Frank Cogan, will host a reception in the
magnificent Prefettura on Trieste?s Piazza Unità in the presence of the
Mayor of Trieste and the British Ambassador to Italy; there will be a
sumptuous Mediterranean Bloomsday dinner; American Actor, Adam Harvey's
stunning solo performance of Finnegans Wake, a concert of the music loved by
Joyce in the Teatro Cristallo featuring the Orchestra, choir, and soloists
from Trieste's renowned Opera Giacosa under the baton of Maestro Severino
Zannerini, as well as countless readings, walking tours, book launches and
two important artistic exhibits featuring the works of Swiss artist, Aldo
Bachmayer and the Triestine painter, Bruno Chersicla.

For further information please contact
John McCourt
Co-Organizer
Trieste Joyce Symposium
Mcourt[at]univ.trieste.it
Or call 0039040272161/00390405587238

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Web Resource: Launch of e-Keltoi 2


http://www.uwm.edu/People/pfister/e_keltoi/e-keltoi2.html

This web address seems to work

Regards

Piaras

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There is a new issue of Jouvert, the Web journal of postcolonial studies -
always an interesting comparative read. And, of course, freely available to
those with full web access.

P.O'S.


From: "Elizabeth DeLoughrey"
Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies, Volume 6, Issue 3

http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert

Table of Contents:
- --Editor's Introduction, "All the World is Global, But Some Places are More
Global than Others"

- --Manjul, Susan Simone, M. M. Thakur, Richard Whisnant, "The People Who Live
In
Shangri-La: Photographs, Poems, Video"

- --Joy Mahabir, "Rhythm and Class Struggle: The Calypsoes of David
Rudder"

- --Andrew Armstrong, "BLOODY HISTORY! Exploring a Capacity for Revision.

Restaging History in Wilson Harris's Jonestown and Caryl Phillips' The
Nature of
Blood"

- --Kevin Cryderman, "Ghosts in the Palimpsest of Cultural Memory: An
Archaeology
of Faizal Deen's Poetic Memoir Land Without Chocolate (a.k.a. 'the art of
writing about authors before they are famous')"

- --Mohammed Ben Jelloun, "Agonistic Islam"

- --Rawi Hage, "Ahmad"

- --Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, "Private Woes in a Public Story: A Study of
Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost"

- --John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett, "Reporting a New Delhi Bias? A
Content Analysis of AP Wire Stories on the Conflicts in Sri Lanka and
Kashmir"

- --Ibrahima Ndiaye, "Space, Time and Empowerment in Ama Ata Aidoo's
Changes"
- --Rick Talbot, "Total Bull and The Buffalo: A Tale from the
Pastureland"

Reviews:
- --Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Petrarchism in the New World" (Review of
Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland
Greene.)
- --Pramod K. Nayar, "Colonial Ideology and the 'Science' of Medicine"
(Review of Romanticism and Colonial Disease. By Alan Bewell.)
--Tapati Bharadwaj, "Politics of Position" (Review of Going Global.
The Transnational Reception of Third World Women
Writers. Edited by Amal Amireh and Losa Suhair Majaj.)
- --Chimalum Nwankwo, "Celebrating Ghanaian Creativity" (Review of
FonTomFrom : Contemporary Ghanaian Literature,
Theatre and Film. Edited by Kofi Anyidoho and James Gibbs.)
- --David Buuck, "Henry Gamboa and the Contemporary Avant-Garde" (Review of
Urban
Exile: The Collected Writings of Henry Gamboa Jr. Edited by Chon A.
Noriega.)
- --Champa Patel, "Black Gay / Gay Black" (Review of The Greatest
Taboo:Homosexuality in Black Communities. By Delroy Constantine Simms.)
- --Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, National Mythology (Review of Myths and
Nationhood.
Edited by Geoffrey Hosking and George Schöpflin.)

From: "Bryan P. McGovern"
Subject: Young Ireland program on RTE

Does anyone know how/where I could get a copy of the recent RTE program
on Young Ireland?
Any info would be greatly appreciated. You can email me directly at
bpm8d2[at]mizzou.edu

Best wishes,

Bryan McGovern
PhD Candidate
Dept. of History
University of Missouri

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A number of people in recent months seem to have had difficulty in getting
hold of a copy of Paul O'Leary's book on the Irish in Wales.

Apparently the hardback version had sold out.

University of Wales Press has now brought out a paperback edition -
details...

Paul O'Leary
Immigration and Integration:
The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922
pp xvi340 paperback April 2002 £14.99
0-7083-1767-7
University of Wales Press, Cardiff

Contact point...

http://www.uwp.co.uk/

I find this site quite hard to navigate...

A search for 'O'Leary' does not seem to find the book - but a search for
'Irish' does...

Remember that its title is Immigration and Integration - which gives the
game away, I thought...

I do recommend this book to the Irish-Diaspora list...

Paddy

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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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England

From: Dean_Holt[at]att.net
Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Resource: Launch of e-Keltoi 3

Thanks for the corrected E-Keltoi Address, the first one
for the journal was a dead link.

Patrick Holt


> From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
> To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
> Subject: RE: Ir-D Web Resource: Launch of e-Keltoi 2
>
>
> http://www.uwm.edu/People/pfister/e_keltoi/e-keltoi2.html
>
> This web address seems to work
>
> Regards
>
> Piaras

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The programme for

EIGHTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM,
TRIESTE, 16-22 JUNE 2002

is displayed at...

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf/trieste_conferen
ce.htm

(I have checked this web address - it works... Honest.)

P.O'S.

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

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

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

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Cork University Press...

P.O'S.

From: Hawkes, Nancy
N.Hawkes[at]ucc.ie


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Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
Subject: J.J. O'Kelly's THE MAMBI-LAND

From: Patrick Maume
Some time ago I saw a newspaper story which stated that
THE MAMBI-LAND, J.J. O'Kelly's account of his experiences as a
journalist with Cuban insurgents in the 1870s, had been
republished in Cuba and that it was one of Castro's favourite
books. I tried looking it up on Amazon.com a few weeks ago and
there was no sign of it. Can anyone shed light on this?
{O'Kelly was a Fenian activist who became a Home Rule MP for
Roscommon 1880-92 and 1895-1917; his brother Aloysius was an
artist whose career has been researched by Niamh O'Sullivan.
I've recently come across some articles J.J. wrote about the
Spanish-American war and I would like to find out how much of
the material in them was simply lifted from the book.)
Best wishes,
Patrick





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