From: "Brian McGinn"
Subject: Re: Ir-D J.J.O'Kelly's THE MAMBI-LAND

Dear Patrick,

Have not seen this, but did note the following citation in Peadar Kirby's
_Ireland and Latin America: Links and Lessons_ (Trocaire/Gill & Macmillan,
1992), p. 182:

For James J. O'Kelly, see La Tierra del Mambi, introduction by Fernando
Ortiz (Centenario 1868, Instituto del Libro, Havana, 1968).

Brian McGinn

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Simone Augier
saugier[at]uwimona.edu.jm

The School of Continuing Studies of the University of the West Indies
(UWI)will
be holding the fourth conference in its Country Conference Series in
Montserrat,
November 13-14, 2002.

The Montserrat Conference is a multi-disciplinary conference focusing on
issues
relevant to Montserrat.

Papers are invited from persons with a research interest in Montserrat.

Please submit a cover sheet containing the title of the paper and the
author's
contact information and a short summary; a 250-word abstract and a short
biography of the author. Abstracts must be received by August 19,2002.

For further information contact Simone Augier simone.augier[at]uwimona.edu.jm

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Ir-D J.J.O'Kelly's THE MAMBI-LAND 2

From: Patrick Maume

Thank you, Brian.

This, I am afraid, looks suspiciously like the reprint mentioned
by the newspaper. I'm afraid it never occurred to me that the
reprint might be in Spanish!
Best wishes,
Patrick

On 16 May 2002 06:00 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> From: "Brian McGinn"
> Subject: Re: Ir-D J.J.O'Kelly's THE MAMBI-LAND
>
> Dear Patrick,
>
> Have not seen this, but did note the following citation in Peadar Kirby's
> _Ireland and Latin America: Links and Lessons_ (Trocaire/Gill & Macmillan,
> 1992), p. 182:
>
> For James J. O'Kelly, see La Tierra del Mambi, introduction by Fernando
> Ortiz (Centenario 1868, Instituto del Libro, Havana, 1968).
>
> Brian McGinn
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have quite a few new members, and I thought it time to remind people
about access to our databases...

For access to the RESTRICTED area of irishdiaspora.net...

Go to
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Click on Special Access, at the top of the screen.

Username irdmember
Current Password corkery

Note the changed password.

That gets you into our RESTRICTED area.

Click on RESTRICTED, and you have access to our two databases...

DIRDA - the Database of the Ir-D Archive...
DIDI - the Database of Irish-Diaspora Interests...

Log out by clicking on irishdiaspora.net at the top of the screen.

Scholars who are using the guest username need to contact me directly,
because that username's password has also changed.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

"I willingly give my life for South Carolina; Oh! that I could have died for
Ireland."

The following item has been sent to us...

Recently one of the Confederate Re-enactors societies in S.C. carried out a
ceremony at the grave of Capt John C. Mitchel at the Magnolia Cemetery at
Charleston S.C. One of the ladies involved sent the address of their
website. Click on the images for full size. You might be able to print off
the
enlarged image but perhaps not.

{http://www.scocr.org/snowden/PhotoGallery/02_03IronCross.htm}

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Andrew Schlewitz
Subject: proposed panel on migration


I'd like to put a panel together for the 2003 International Studies
Association convention (Feb 25 to Mar 1, Portland, Oregon). The
panel will be called "Local Migration in Global and Historical
Perspective." Participants will share and discuss work that 1)
includes ground level work on a particular migrant stream into a US
community or region; 2) compares that migrant stream to past ones in
the same locale; and 3) analyzes and explains these streams in both
proximate and structural/global terms.

I'm presently researching rising Mexican migration to my small town
of Crawfordsville, Indiana. Drawing on census and other data,
interviews, and observations (both here and in the sending
communities in Mexico), I will describe the extent and character of
this migration stream, the push and pull factors behind it, and then
link this account to current arguments about globalization.

If you are interested sharing your work in such a venue, please let
me know ASAP. The deadline is June 1.

Thank you,

ajs
- --
Andrew J. Schlewitz
Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science
Wabash College
301 West Wabash Avenue
Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933
Phone: 765-361-6133
Fax: 765-361-6277
email: schlewia[at]wabash.edu

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We've had L.M. Cullen, 'Irish History without the Potato', Past and Present,
no. 40 (1968), pp. 72-83.

Anyone want to try 'Irish History without the Reformation...'?

P.O'S.


H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (May, 2002)

Norman Jones. _The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural
Adaptation_. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. xv + 253 pp. Illustrations, notes,
bibliography, and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-631-21043-1.

Lucy E.C. Wooding. _Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England_.
Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. x + 305 pp.
Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-820865-0.

Reviewed for H-Albion by William Gibson , Faculty
of Arts, Basingstoke College of Technology

Conflict and Consensus

The last decade has seen a flowering of Reformation scholarship. Susan
Brigden, Caroline Litzenberger, Patarick Collinson, Diarmaid MacCulloch,
John Bossy, Eamon Duffy, Ian Green and others have shown us that the
Reformation was a rich and complex process. Indeed there was, it seems, a
plethora of different Reformations. Reformations in church government, in
doctrine, liturgy, preaching, architecture, personal piety, and eddying
counter-trends that flowed back and forth. These different Reformations
were adopted and assimilated with more or less effectiveness according to
chance and geography. Historians grapple with the idea of when the
Reformation started and ended. And just as early modernists have come to
terms with the idea of the "long eighteenth century," so we are adjusting
to the ideas of the "long Reformation" stretching from the fourteenth to
the eighteenth centuries. Indeed historians like Jeremy Gregory suggest
that some eighteenth-century churchmen consciously saw themselves as
completing the Reformation. In spite of Tudor emphasis on uniformity, and
the relative stability of Elizabeth's reign, the religious and political
disputes of the seventeenth century from the Hampton Court to the Savoy
Conference prevented the sediment of the sixteenth century from settling
into a firm and homogenous Reformation foundation.

Norman Jones's _The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural
Adaptation_ is a study of how "a nation of habitual Catholics turned into
Protestants" (p. 2). This was both an acute and a chronic process. Loss
of the monasteries and changes in liturgy may have happened quickly, but
the impact of the Reformation on families, education, economics, and wider
culture took more time. Chapter by chapter, Jones evaluates the impact of
the Reformation. In the case of families, "the blow of the Reformation
cracked families" (p. 33): authority was challenged, opportunities to
support dead relatives with masses, etc. were gone, families turned away
from religion as hereditary occupations and preoccupations, and kinship
was strained by differing responses to the Reformation. In such
circumstances, Jones argues, people sometimes had to choose between their
family and their faith. Usually they chose the former, and thereby forced
religion into a subordinate position. In this way, the Reformation
loosened the ties that bound men and women to their church. If the
Reformation "cracked" families, it provided a balm of financial
self-interest in the form of the dissolution of the monasteries. While
there were plenty of the faithful who mourned the passing of monastic
religion, there were individuals and corporations which benefitted from
the dissolution. Some who enriched themselves also gave assets back to
the community, but such civic virtue was a product of self-interest.

The mental landscape of Reformation folk also had to change. They learned
to hate their former co-religionists, to enjoy or endure executions and
the persecutions of recusants. This was the micro-scale, of which the
macro form was institutional change. Livery companies abandoned their
copes, vestments, and corporate religious life, including care for the
souls of deceased members. Universities often benefitted from the acute
changes occasioned by the dissolution of the monasteries, but they also
absorbed the changing ideas about religion and spirituality. Some
colleges willingly abandoned singing in hall; elsewhere divisions were
rife. Inevitably closely watched for signs of heterodoxy, universities
and colleges experienced high tension and in some cases the amendment of
statutes to consolidate the new religion. The same was true of the inns
of court, though there remained a more conservative and restrained regime
in most of them.

Communities, towns, and villages, witnessed the public choice of those who
conformed, and those who did not. They had to reconcile themselves to
denouncing or ignoring recusants; often this meant allowing or preventing
other tensions--social and economic--from exploiting religious divisions.
Suddenly magistrates, jurors, churchwardens, and members of corporations
found that their decisions often had a religious dimension, or presented
the opportunity to exploit one. Even recreational activities, especially
on holy days, could carry religious overtones, and allude to conformity or
dissent. Such public circumstances seemed to open a window onto the
individual's conscience. But, as Jones shows, the Reformation did not
change the discipline that the church required should be exercised over
consciences. Catechizing and conformity were the means by which
consciences were restrained. But new educational ideas, especially
Calvinism, taught of the importance of conscience.

If there is a theme in Jones's excellent book, it is that the Reformation
contributed to the diversity, the untidiness, and the discomforts of
English society. Hierarchies were weakened, institutions had to change,
and individuals had to reconcile themselves as much to their consciences
as to their co-religionists. The implication that lies behind the case
studies that Jones considers is that to survive the Reformation required
flexibility: Bacon had it, More did not. To push Jones beyond his own
argument, perhaps the Reformation gave English society a flexibility that
gave it long-term adaptability? By the end of the sixteenth century
England possessed a "multi-theological" culture that had narrowed its
ultramontanist loyalties into Anglican nationalism.

Jones's theme of strength through adaptability is one that also occurs in
Lucy Woodings's study, _Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England_.
Wooding suggests that Catholicism, and Catholic identity, was more
complex, mercurial, and diverse than had been considered hitherto. Moving
on from Alexandra Walsham's work on _Church Papists: Catholicism,
Conformity and Confessional Polemic in Early Modern England_ (Woodbridge,
1993), Wooding focuses as much on Catholic thought as on practice. In the
world of turbulent ideas and circumstances that Jones depicts, Wooding
shows how English Catholics could be simultaneously loyal to Henry VIII
and to their faith, and could be committed to their faith while ambivalent
about institutional Catholicism under Mary, or martyrdom under Edward or
Elizabeth. The underlying assumption of Wooding is that the Reformation
need not be regarded as a clash of Catholic and Protestant. Rather there
was a mutual syncretism that enabled Catholicism to embrace Renaissance
ideas, and for a "reformed" Catholicism to emerge by the end of the
sixteenth century. In this way, argues Wooding, Catholicism was not a
brittle die-hard recusancy, but a flexible and regenerative faith. Henry
VIII, for Wooding, encouraged a Catholic Reformation, and under Mary
Catholic writers expounded a ductile faith than translated Catholic
thought into parish practice. As a result, Wooding's view of the
Reformation is one in which Catholic or Protestant shared reformed
Humanism, and therefore in which consensus was as apparent as conflict.
This is compelling and important argument. It builds on ideas of familiar
Henricanism and advanced Edwardian and Marian liturgies keen to capture
popular Erasmian trends. And while Woodings's ideas are largely derived
from printed sources, nevertheless they have a coherence that presents a
convincing case.

Much of what Jones and Wooding consider can be compared and contrasted.
Jones's turbulent world of changing institutions and families, in which
individuals grappled with their consciences, was--for Wooding--a period in
which many of the intellectual strands of Catholicism and Protestantism
were shared. Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth made changing doctrinal and
liturgical demands, but these were demands that drew on Renaissance
Humanism and which accommodated each other. In this sense, Jones's
Protestant world, that emerged after three generations, was as diverse and
adaptable as Woodings's Catholicism. Both denominations emerged by 1600
as rich and eclectic in character, and stubbornly refused to submit to
national demands for uniformity. Perhaps therefore, in a wider
historiography, Jones and Wooding show the complexity of Christianity
after the Reformation and the breadth of the intellectual inheritance of
the seventeenth century.

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contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

Subject: NASSR conference: Placing Romanticism: Sites, Borders, Forms

The 2003 NASSR Conference Committee invites you to participate in

"Placing Romanticism: Sites, Borders, Forms"
to be held in midtown Manhattan, New York City
August 1-5, 2003
at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Marilyn Butler
Stuart Curran
Claudia Brodsky Lacour
Ian Balfour
Alan Bewell
Marshall Brown
Julie Carlson
David Clark
Jeffrey Cox
Ina Ferris
Timothy Fulford
John Guillory
Robert Kaufman William Keach
Peter Kitson
Peter Manning
Anne Mellor
Timothy Morton
Seamus Perry
Tilottama Rajan
Alan Richardson
Nicholas Roe
Nicola Trott
Susan Wolfson


The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), in
association with the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS),
announces a conference featuring transatlantic participation and
themes, to take place in New York City's cultural center. These
conference themes have been selected to represent a broad spectrum of
approaches to Romanticism. Our title is intended to encompass both the
diverse cultural sites of the field as well as its formal and
linguistic manifestations. To support these themes, we are planning a
wide array of theater performances, museum exhibits, musical concerts,
special tours, and other cultural events in New York City. We have
also secured a variety of housing options in the midtown Manhattan
area, including conference discounts at midtown hotels as well as
inexpensive dormitory rooms at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham
University.


Possible Session Topics

Conference Themes--Call for Papers:
"Placing Romanticism: Sites, Borders, Forms"
Possible Session Topics
Sites of Cultural Production: Museums, Theaters, Lecture Halls, the
Streets, Fleet Street, Publishers
Public Spheres
Domestic Spaces
Urban Romanticism: Romanticism and the City

Placing Romanticism: Texts, Genres, and Topoi
The Place of Form, Rhyme, and Dialect
Textual Spaces: Materiality of the Book
Spatial Poetics
Imagined Spaces
Placing Romanticism in Time
Romantic Millennia: 1803/2003

On the Borders of Romanticism
International Romanticisms:
France, Ireland, Scotland, America--Transatlantic, The East
Translation and the Cross-cultural
Nationalism and Colonialism
The East India Company
Travel
Tourism
Slavery

New Ecologies
Natural Sciences
Sensibility, Passion, and Transport
Romantic Landscapes and Painting

Cartography, Navigation
Transportation: The Mail Coach/Canals/Postal System
Land Reform
Romantic Geologies
National Law
Espionage Locations: Spying on Places
Marketplaces
Legal and Political Spaces
Political Sites: Peterloo, etc.
Foreign Publishers
The Crowd
Architecture
Suburbs
Crime and Policing/The Prison

The Place of ________________ in Romantic Studies Today
Women's Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Particular Noncanonical
Authors, "The Long Eighteenth Century," The Romantic Century
(1750-1850)

Conference Committee
Michael Macovski (Fordham) macovski[at]fordham.edu
Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham) zimmerman[at]fordham.edu
Ashley Cross (Manhattan)
William Galperin (Rutgers)
Marilyn Gaull (NYU and Temple)
Ross Hamilton (Barnard)
John Hodgson (Princeton)
Larry Kramer (Fordham)
Karl Kroeber (Columbia)
Alice Levine (Hofstra)
Greg Maertz (St. John's)
Paul Magnuson (NYU)
Peter Manning (SUNY, Stonybrook)
Esther Schor (Princeton)
Anya Taylor (John Jay)
Alan Vardy (Hunter)
Joe Wittreich (CUNY Graduate Center)
Susan Wolfson (Princeton)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I suppose I should formally report that there were NO entries for our
traditional St. Patrick's Day Irish-Diaspora list Competition. Sighs of
relief all round, eh?

Perhaps people were not in the mood.

The inspiration for the competition was the work of Irish Diaspora scholar
and ghost-hunter Elliott O'Donnell. Our attention has been drawn to a
further mention of his work in...

RED FLAME
~ A Thelemic Research Journal ~

{http://www.redflame93.com/RedFlame.html}

Thee is a section on
FRIENDS & ACQUAINTANCES
OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

http://www.redflame93.com/FriendsAcquaintances.html

which includes an essay about ELLIOTT O'DONNELL

http://www.redflame93.com/Odonnell.html

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of the CJIS arrived in time to be read over breakfast - I
have not had time to read it thoroughly. A bowl of porridge only lasts so
long...

Contact point
http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/cais/cjis/

Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 26, No2/Vol.27, no1

And see earlier Ir-D message.

A very impressive and entertaining read - with much of interest to Irish
Diaspora Studies... You look at the TOC and some items you turn to at
once...

David Wilson on Thomas D'Arcy McGee and his life (and death) decisions,
Bernice Schrank on The Silver Tassie.

Three items especially stand out - Jason King bravely writing on an absence,
on the absence of emigration in Carleton's novels. (One writer missing from
Jason King's bibliography is David Lodge - remember the lecture in Nice
Work, with its summary of resolutions in Victorian novels. Marriage, an
inheritance, emigration...)

Robert Mellin on the material culture of Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Which
is simply beautiful on the page. The Editor's dangerous decision to go for
high quality design is here justified - there are very few scholarly
journals in the world that could handle so well a piece like this.

Kevin James on Isabella Valancy Crawford. On a train of thought... I
wonder if Helen Fallon in her search for Women/Irish/Canadian connections
has searched through the back issues of the CJIS? It is the sort of
connection CJIS has always tried to make.

Amongst the book reviews, a rumbustious, bad-tempered but ultimately
important review by Donald Harman Akenson of Daniel Murphy, A History of
Irish Emigrant and Missionary Education...

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Nancy Fix Anderson

Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: Feasts and Famine

Call for Papers for the 23rd Annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Conference
³ Feasts and Famine²
New Orleans, March 6-9, 2003


What theme could be more appropriate for a conference in New Orleans,
the city inextricably linked with Mardi Gras and fine food? Dickens is
but one of many 19th century writers who created both heartrending
stories of poverty and hunger and convivial scenes of eating,
drinking, and making merry. Much of the century¹s real feasting took
place under huge still lives of luscious fruits or dead game. Dances,
music, and theatrical entertainments were as relevant to feasts as
dress, manners, and fêtes for travelers abroad. The technological
revolution in the 19th century changed the production, availability,
preparation, and consumption of food, as well as affecting where and
when one could eat. The railroad promoted cheap day excursions to the
beach and into the countryside, while the steamship and the spreading
power of the British Empire made tea from China, India, and Ceylon a
staple of British society, creating a market for other commodities
like tea gowns, tea sets, and cucumber sandwiches. Barons of industry
on either side of the Atlantic adopted a life of opulence that
dramatized the link between class and conspicuous consumption.
Disraeli¹s famous reference to Queen Victoria¹s sovereignty over
³Two Nations² characterized a world truth. The new wealth
generated by industrialization depended upon cheap labor, workers
whose bodies and souls were ³eaten² by greedy capitalists and
voracious machinery. Philosophers, economists, moralists, and popular
writers debated the merits and effects of public versus private
agencies for social relief and philanthropy. The tropes of excess and
scarcity are found in such contrasting topics as the century¹s music
criticism and the enduring fascination with vampirism from James
Malcolm Rymer¹s early Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood, to
Bram Stoker¹s Dracula (1897). Real starvation marked ³The Hungry
Forties,² most famously with the Irish famine, while anorexia
nervosa was first labeled in 1873 as a recognizable phenomenon by
French and British doctors. The hunger for education created a market
for self-help manuals, inspired the establishment of Mechanics¹
Institutes, and fueled the Women¹s Movement.

³Feasts and Famine² invites conference papers from all disciplines.

One-page proposals, single-spaced, for 20-minute papers should be
accompanied by a 1-2 page c.v. Proposals for a 90-minute panel should
include (1) a cover letter from the panel organizer, indicating format
and title of proposed session; (2) one-page proposal; and (3) 1-2 page
c.v. from each participant. Email or mail proposals simultaneously to
the Conference Program Co-Chairs: Dr. Marilyn Kurata
Dept. of English, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
35294-1260 and Dr. Elizabeth Winston Dept. of
English, The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL 33606-1490. Proposals and
required accompanying materials must be postmarked by October 15,
2002. Decisions will be announced by December 2002.

The conference site will be The Pontchartrain Hotel
.

Specific information on reservations and
rates will be sent later. Local Arrangements Director is Dr. Nancy Fix
Anderson Dept. of History, Loyola University New
Orleans, Campus Box 65, 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA
70118-6195.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am tending, more and more, to assume that folk who want to closely follow
current events in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Republic, can now make
use of the many Irish newspaper and news sites. Also, there is the
excellent free weekly newsletter from Liam and Pauline Ferrie in Galway...
THE IRISH EMIGRANT
further information at
http://www.emigrant.ie

As to the Irish election, Bertie Aherne and Fianna Fáil won a majority of
seats - but maybe not an overall majority. Some gains, to which
significance is being attached, for the Green Party and for Sinn Fein...

We do try to keep an eye open for material of specific Irish Diaspora
Studies interest... On which train of thought...

Regular readers of The Irish Emigrant newsletter will be familiar with
Cormac MacConnell's regular item - a teaser in the email newsletter links to
the web page, where the poor man must strive to be humourous every week...
This week's teaser...

Cormac MacConnell doubts the benefits of new technology for a
traditional Irish card game. See our web pages
http://www.emigrant.ie/summary.asp?iCategoryID=22

You can now get a computer programme to play the card game 45s. Which leads
on to this site...
www.the45scardgame.com

And thus to a number of other sites... The card game seems to survive in
the Merrimack Valley and in Nova Scotia, and there are many anecdotes of
card-playing grannies...

There is a section on this family of games in David Parlett, A History of
Card Games (1991). Which gives some of the historical references missing
from the web sites - including a quote from 'Dermot O'Byrne' (Arnold Bax),
and a note that the Irish word cuig, five, also means trick in the card game
sense. 25s is described as the 'Irish national game', and its cousin 45s as
Nova Scotia's 'national card game'.

I once put a 25s card game scene into a play... One of the card players is
the Devil - the gag being the ever more elaborate rules, with regional
variations, baffle even Himself. I am not sure the scene worked - but it
amused me.

There is most probably an interesting essay to be written about card games
and the Irish Diaspora - linking, of course, to games and diaspora
generally. A portable identity - the title of my paper on John Denvir.
Ethnic identity and leisure activity...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Ruth Hegarty
r.hegarty[at]ria.ie

Subject: Call for papers - Please circulate as widely as possible



REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES: LITERATURE, THEATRE, FILM, TV DRAMA

In the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland experienced thirty
years in which the political status of Northern Ireland was challenged by
numerous acts of violence. Since the signing of the Good Friday/Belfast
Agreement in 1998 it has been widely sensed that an era has passed in Irish
history and that violence of the kind which marked the period 1969-94 is
unlikely to recur on the same scale in the foreseeable future. Five years
after the signing of the Good Friday agreement seems accordingly an
auspicious time to begin an assessment of how the period of the Troubles was
represented in literature, theatre, film and television drama.

It is therefore proposed to hold a conference on the above theme in the
Royal Irish Academy on 10 & 11 April 2003.

Proposals are invited for twenty minute papers on relevant subjects. Among
topics we hope participants will address in presented papers are:
'The Troubles and the Family'; 'The View from the South'; 'The Urban Rural
Divide'; 'Sexuality'; 'Religion'; 'Language Choice'; 'Anthologising the
Troubles'; (though this list should not be considered restrictively
exhaustive).

Papers will be welcomed that cover more than one genre.

Please send abstracts of not more than 500 words to:

Symposium Secretary,
Committee for Anglo-Irish Literature,
Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2

or by email to r.hegarty[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

From: "hilary robinson"
Subject: Re: Ir-D CFP REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES, Dublin, 2003

no visual art? shame it so often seems to be overlooked - and especially for
this subject.....
Hilary


>From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Reply-To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Subject: Ir-D CFP REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES, Dublin, 2003
>Date: 21 May 2002 06:00
>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Forwarded on behalf of...
>
>Ruth Hegarty
>r.hegarty[at]ria.ie
>
>Subject: Call for papers - Please circulate as widely as possible
>
>
>
>REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES: LITERATURE, THEATRE, FILM, TV DRAMA
>
>In the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland experienced thirty
>years in which the political status of Northern Ireland was challenged by
>numerous acts of violence. Since the signing of the Good Friday/Belfast
>Agreement in 1998 it has been widely sensed that an era has passed in Irish
>history and that violence of the kind which marked the period 1969-94 is
>unlikely to recur on the same scale in the foreseeable future. Five years
>after the signing of the Good Friday agreement seems accordingly an
>auspicious time to begin an assessment of how the period of the Troubles
>was
>represented in literature, theatre, film and television drama.
>
>It is therefore proposed to hold a conference on the above theme in the
>Royal Irish Academy on 10 & 11 April 2003.
>
>Proposals are invited for twenty minute papers on relevant subjects. Among
>topics we hope participants will address in presented papers are:
>'The Troubles and the Family'; 'The View from the South'; 'The Urban Rural
>Divide'; 'Sexuality'; 'Religion'; 'Language Choice'; 'Anthologising the
>Troubles'; (though this list should not be considered restrictively
>exhaustive).
>
>Papers will be welcomed that cover more than one genre.
>
>Please send abstracts of not more than 500 words to:
>
>Symposium Secretary,
>Committee for Anglo-Irish Literature,
>Royal Irish Academy
>19 Dawson Street,
>Dublin 2
>
>or by email to r.hegarty[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
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Notice of forthcoming book... This is, in effect, the book of the
conference in Aberdeen - which many of us remember as a fun thing. Oonagh
has done very well to get the book pushed forward at such a rate...

P.O'S.

http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=IrlAbroad.xml

Ireland abroad
politics and professions
in the nineteenth century
Oonagh Walsh editor

ISBN:
1-85812-606-8
Price:
hbk ?45/£32.50/$45

From the publisher's web site...

Irish migration has attracted considerable attention in recent years, with
many studies examining the impact - physical, psychological and cultural -
on emigrants' lives. The history of the Irish diaspora, however, requires an
evaluation of the fuller experience, in particular the effects of migration
on the host culture. This volume addresses the subject from the perspective
of the contribution made by Irish migrants in Britain, Australia, Canada,
France, China and the Orient. This essay collection, which brings together
scholars from the disciplines of historical geography as well as literature
and history, is a welcome addition to the growing subject of Irish Diaspora
Studies. This sixth volume in the series mentioned in the next column.

Contents: Louise Miskell (U. Wales, Swansea): Irish immigrants in the
medical profession in Wales; Mairtin O'Cathain (UU, Magee): Dissident Irish
Republicans in Scotland; Liam Harte (St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill):
Autobiographies of the Irish in Britain; Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (Boston
College): Rudyard Kipling and the colonial imagination; Lindsay Proudfoot
(QUB): Geography of Irish identities in colonial Australia; Jason Kling
(NUIM): From Famine migrants to asylum-applicants and refugees in Ireland;
Declan Kiberd (UCD): The journal of Wolfe Tone; Ian McClelland (QUB): The
Anglo-Irish gentry migrant experience in Australia; Elizabeth Malcolm (U.
Melbourne): The Irish policeman abroad; Oonagh Walsh (U. Aberdeen): R.A.
Crawford in Manchuria; David Fitzpatrick (TCD): Orangeism abroad; Peter
Denman (NUIM): Charles Wolfe and William Maginn; Martin Mitchell (U.
Aberdeen): Irish priests in Scotland; Cliona Ó Gallchoir (UCC): Mme de
Genlis and Ireland; Diane Hotten Somers (Boston U.): The relationship
between Irish domestic servants and their American mistresses.

224pp August 2002

From: "Hollander, Joel"
Subject: RE: Ir-D CFP REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES 2

Amen, to that! I could contribute a paper about the graphic arts, c.
1985-95.

Joel Hollander, Ph.D.

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From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Sent: 5/21/2002 2:00 AM
Subject: Ir-D CFP REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES 2


From: "hilary robinson"
Subject: Re: Ir-D CFP REPRESENTING THE TROUBLES, Dublin, 2003

no visual art? shame it so often seems to be overlooked - and especially
for
this subject.....
Hilary


>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

News of this Forthcoming book has reached us...

P.O'S.

Louise Ryan
Gender, Identity and the Irish Press, 1922-37: Embodying the Nation
2002, Edwin Mellen Press, New York
ISBN: 0-7737-72-98-7
£59.95

Publisher's Web site - www.mellenpress.com

In analysing gendered symbols of Irish identity in the 1920s-1930s, this
book looks at national and provincial newspapers in this defining period in
the southern Irish Free State. In 6 chapters that examine an array of
female archetypes and symbols from Republican 'furies', to modern 'flappers'
of the jazz age, to the flighty 'emigrant girl', to the icon of national
mother (mother Ireland), Louise Ryan explores the ways in which female
images embodied many of the key debates and controversies of the period.
However, the newspapers do not simply present a homogenous, one-dimensional
view of
the newly established nation-state. A close reading of the press suggests
the many complex and competing perspectives that helped to shape and form
modern Ireland. The contradictory images of womanhood in the newspapers
suggest many of the underlying tensions between competing interest groups in
the nation-building project.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I came across this information about an article by Mark Boyle. Looks
interesting...

(Mark Boyle is one of the contributors to
Celtic Geographies
Old Cultures, New Times
Edited by: David C Harvey, Rhys Jones, Neil McInroy, Christine Milligan )


Online ISSN: 1099-1220 Print ISSN: 1077-3495
International Journal of Population Geography
Volume 7, Issue 6, 2001. Pages: 429-446

(Special Issue: (Re)theorising Population Geography . Issue Edited by
Elspeth Graham, Paul Boyle
.) Published Online: 28 Jan 2002

Research Article
Towards a (re)theorisation of the historical geography of nationalism in
diasporas: the Irish diaspora as an exemplar
Mark Boyle *
Department of Geography, University of Strathclyde, 50 Richmond Street,
Glasgow G11XN, UK

email: Mark Boyle (mark.boyle[at]strath.ac.uk)

*Correspondence to Mark Boyle, Department of Geography, University of
Strathclyde, 50 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XN

Funded by:
The British Academy
University of Strathclyde Research and Development Fund

Keywords
diaspora; Irish diaspora; nationalism; assimilation model; emergence; time;
space; space-time


Abstract
The strength of diasporic nationalism is characterised by an uneven
historical geography, with different diasporic communities functioning as
hotbeds of nationalism at different times. Mapping and explaining these
historical geographies is of importance if the cultural and political
experiences of diasporic existence are to be understood. It is towards a
critical interrogation of the conceptual tools available to accomplish this
task that this paper is dedicated. Based upon a reading of social scientific
literature on the intensity of national affiliation among the nineteenth and
early twentieth century Irish diaspora, and using Doreen Massey's recent
advocacy of a new concept of space-time, the paper advances a case for a
(re)theorisation of the phenomenon of diasporic nationalism. In so doing, it
is hoped that it will contribute to ongoing efforts to (re)theorise
migration in four main ways: firstly, by identifying a subject area that
provides a forum for population geography researchers to continue their
growing dialogue with social and cultural geographers on the one hand and
political geographers on the other; secondly, by reviewing the contribution
of migration research to work in this area to date; thirdly, by offering a
(re)theorisation of diasporic nationalism that places some traditional
concerns of population geography at its core; and finally, by calling upon
migration researchers to engage (once again) with contemporary debates
within human geography about time and space, and to reflect upon how the
conceptions of time and space which inhere within their work, condition the
way they define and understand the settlement experiences of migrant groups.
Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.



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Received: 15 October 2000; Revised: 18 July 2001; Accepted: 10 August 2001
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1002/ijpg.240 About DOI

From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Oliver MacDonagh

I think Irish historians everywhere will be very saddened by the news
that Oliver MacDonagh died yesterday, 22 May, in Sydney. Beginning in
the 1940s, he has been a giant, not only of Irish history, but of
English and Australian history as well. Following the death of
D.B.Quinn in Liverpool in March - another Irish historian who made
major contributions to the history of several countries - it's
turning into a year of significant losses in the field of Irish
history.

Elizabeth Malcolm




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 Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have just discovered that the important Irish Studies journal,
Eire-Ireland, has become one of the journals freely available at
FindArticles.

The simplest way to see what is available is to go to

http://www.findarticles.com

and put Eire-Ireland into the Search box.

And you will find that one of the first issues to be made available is...

Eire-Ireland, Spring-Summer, 2001, the special issue on Irish-America edited
by Kevin Kenny...

And there it all is, beginning with the Editor's Introduction.

Remember that the trick with FindArticles is to click on 'Print this
Article', at the bottom of the first page. That then gives you the entire
article on one screen. You can then either print it, or Copy & Paste the
text into a word processor.

P.O'S.


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