From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item has been brought to our attention...

WASHINGTON POST
May 25, 2002

Rethinking Who They Are
Census Shows People are Declining to Report Their Heritage

Excerpts:

As immigrants pour into every corner of the United States, the numbers of
Americans who describe themselves as being of West Indian, sub-Saharan and
Latin American ancestry has risen dramatically while a growing number of
Americans are less likely to declare any ancestry at all, or write in
"United States" when asked.......

The U.S. Census Bureau has released data for 33 states from the 2000 Census
long form in which one in six households were asked the questions on
ancestry. The biggest decline in named ancestries has come in the nation's
oldest immigrant stocks. Nine million fewer people identify themselves
as being of German ancestry, while those identifying themselves as English
and Irish fell by 5 million each.......

"For the white population, the period of mass migration is simply receding
into history," said Phillip Kasinitz, a sociologist with the City University
of New York Graduate Center. "Irish are thoroughly Irish for five
generations in New York and they cross the Hudson River and they become
plain old white people."

Full text at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7262-2002May24.html

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of the journal Race & Class is a Jan Carew special, which I
know will interest many members of the Irish-Diaspora list...

Information pasted in, below...

P.O'S.



THE GENTLE REVOLUTIONARY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JAN CAREW
Edited By Joy Gleason Carew And Hazel Waters
The Institute of Race Relations has published a special issue of its
journal, 'Race & Class', dedicated to black novelist and anti-colonial
activist and thinker Jan Carew. Best known for his seminal novel 'Black
Midas', Carew was also a founding father of Britain's Black Power Movement,
publishing and editing the paper 'Magnet'. The 'Gentle Revolutionary'
includes articles, essays and tributes from those who have been influenced
by Carew's contribution to movements in Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, the
US and Europe. Dennis Brutus, Roy Heath, Ken Ramchand, Cecil Foster, Frank
Birbalsingh, Clinton Cox, Nancy Singham and others underline Guyanese-born
Carew's unique contributions -to creating an indigenous Caribbean
literature, in the construction of black identity in Canada and in
chronicling the history of pre-Colombian America.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=5184

A FREE ONLINE SAMPLE COPY OF A RECENT ISSUE OF THIS JOURNAL IS NOW AVAILABLE
AT
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/j0320v41i03.html


Race & Class

A Journal for Black and Third World Liberation

Volume 43 Issue 03 - Publication Date: 1 January 2002

The Gentle Revolutionary

Essays in honour of Jan Carew

Joy Gleason Carew University of Louisville, USA and Hazel Waters Institute
of Race Relations, London, UK

Essays

Jan Carew, renaissance man
A. Sivanandan Institute of Race Relations, London, UK

Jan Carew and the reconstruction of the Canadian mosaic
Cecil Foster Toronto

Race, colour and class in Black Midas
Frank Birbalsingh York University, Canada

Explorations into the feminism of Jan Carew
Joy Gleason Carew University of Louisville, USA

From Columbus to Hitler and back again
Clinton Cox Schenectady, New York, USA

Reflections

Black Midas: Anticipating Independence
Roy Heath London, UK

Jan Carew - the Chicago years
Nancy Singham Chicago, USA

Accessing the light of Prophecy
Ken Ramchand Colgate University, USA

Third World literature as revelation: a letter to Carew
Richard Sobel Harvard University, USA

Jan Carew - comrade in struggle
Dennis Brutus Pittsburgh University, USA

Tributes

Biography

Jan Carew: a biographical odyssey

Bibliography of publications by Jan Carew

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Two new issues of Irish Sword have appeared, under that energetic editor
Kenneth Ferguson.

Our thanks to Kenneth Ferguson for forwarding the contents lists to us...

The 'Bawns in Connecticut and Virginia' query is the one from James
Luccketti, archaeologist, Williamsburg - a query previously much discussed
on the Ir-D list. See our archive - search term 'bawn'. I remain
unconvinced - as to the formulation of the query. But it will be
interesting to see if the Irish Sword folk turn up more...

Book Reviews include 'K.P.F' on McCracken, MacBride's Brigade - 'McCracken
writes pleasingly, and from a mind well-stocked...' - and 'K.P.F.' on
Erskine Childers' first book, In the Ranks of the C.I.V.' Full of
ironies... And 'K.P.F.' on Doherty, Irish Men and Women in the Second World
War. Also, P. McCarthy on two of John de Courcy Ireland's books, Ireland
and the Irish in Maritime History, and The Admiral from Mayo (his life of
William Brown, 'father of the Argentine navy...')

P.O'S.

THE IRISH SWORD
THE JOURNAL OF THE MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND

VOL. XXII, No. 87

CONTENTS

The Military History Society of Ireland, 1949-99: a message to mark the
golden jubilee (Illustrated) Donal O'Carroll

The battle of Manning Ford, 4 June 1643 Niall Brunicardi

Niall Brunicardi (1913-1997)

A Dublin-printed Army List of 1710 Kenneth Ferguson

The last hurrah of the Irish cavalry regiment of Fitzjames (Illustrated)
Eoghan ó hAnnracháin

The Irish Ambulance Corps 1870-1871 and the Dundalk contingent (Illustrated)
Canice O'Mahony

BATONS and MAXIM GUNS: THE BELFAST dock strike of 1907 MARK RADFORD

A dubious reputation? The performance of 16th (Irish) Division, 1916 - 20
March 1918 Lynn Speer Lemisko

A CAMBRAI CHARGE. The 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons at Guislain Ridge, 1
December 1917 Gavin HUGHES

The Society's tour in SOUTH AFRICA, SEPTEMBER 1999: a personal retrospect
(Illustrated) Gordon L. Herries Davies

Notes: Irish military pilgrims in South Africa, 1999-2000; Bawns in
Connecticut and Virginia; The Ordnance Society; The health of some Irish
militia regiments at Aldershot, February 1858; Prinz Joachim

Query

Book Reviews

Honorary Editor: KENNETH FERGUSON, LL.B., PH.D.

Address: MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Newman House, University College, 86, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, 2.

Editorial Committee
Colonel Donal O'Carroll, M.A.; F. Glenn Thompson; Patrick McCarthy, Ph.D.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Note the helpful essay by Terence Denman, on Rudyard Kipling - which will be
of interest to many Ir-D members.

A 'toile' - before you ask - is a piece of fabric, usually a mixture of
linen and cotton, upon which is printed decorative scenes and motives.
Apparently there was much of this decorative printing in Ireland in the
C18th, but little has survived. The Charlemont toile shows various military
scenes, and includes a picture of the Chief Secretary's Lodge - which is
now, I think, Deerpark, the residence of the US Ambassador in Ireland.

P.O'S.

THE IRISH SWORD
THE JOURNAL OF THE MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND

VOL. XXII, No. 88

Three Castles: a sentinel in stone watching the north-west frontier of
Gaelic Leinster Kenneth Ferguson
Weston St. John Joyce - author of Ireland's Battles and Battlefields

The trend in warfare in Gaelic Leinster Emmett O'Byrne

The politics of Volunteering, 1778-93 James Kelly

The Charlemont Toile

From Soldiers Three to The Irish Guards in the Great War: Rudyard Kipling
and the Irish soldier, 1887-1922 TERENCE DENMAN

'Let Irishmen come together in the Trenches': John Redmond and Irish Party
policy in the Great War, 1914-1918 JOSEPH FINNAN

Archbishop Walsh and Mgr. Curran's opposition to the British war effort in
Dublin, 1914-1918 Jérôme aan de Wiel

Irish Aces of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, 1914-1918 PATRICK
McCARTHY

Gun running from Germany to Ireland in the early 1920s Andreas Roth

Notes: Legislation of 1495 for 'bowes and arrowes', 'ordinance', and 'meat
and drink for souldiers'; A belt plate of the 110th Cork City Militia;
Uniforms of the Cork militia, 1746; The militia in IRELAND JULY 1902:
actual strength, establishment strength, and location; LoRD FRENCH'S
PROCLAMATION, JUNE 1918

Book Reviews

Proceedings, 2000

Honorary Editor: KENNETH FERGUSON, LL.B., PH.D.

Address: MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Newman House, University College, 86, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, 2.

Editorial Committee
Colonel Donal O'Carroll, M.A.; F. Glenn Thompson; Patrick McCarthy, Ph.D.

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Liam O'Flaherty, Famine

A Chairde:

Liam Flaherty's cousin, the Irish-American film director, John Ford (Sean
Aloysius Feeney), tried to get it made. The powers that be round the blue
pools of Hollywood nixed it.

Later, Ford makes his "Irish Famine" film: "The Grapes of Wrath,". See Joe
McBride's new book "In Search of John Ford."

Daniel Cassidy
New College
San Francisco

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I came across this article...

Very useful, well sourced, nicely argued...

P.O'S.


Political Geography

Volume 21, Issue 3
March 2002
Pages 373-392

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DOI: 10.1016/S0962-6298(01)00051-8
PII: S0962-6298(01)00051-8
Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Making difference: conflict over Irish identity in the New York City St.
Patrick's Day parade

Sallie A. Marston,

Department of Geography and Regional Development, Harvill Box 2, University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Available online 1 May 2002.

Abstract
The controversy surrounding the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade
suggests that Irish ethnicity in the United States is still an important
site of identity formation and fragmentation. In this paper I examine the
New York City parades between 1990 and 2001 where a conflict has developed
between the organizers of the parade, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and
the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, who want a place in the parade but
have been denied entrance. The identity politics that surround the St.
Patrick's Day parade controversy suggest that for diasporic communities,
ethnic and national identities are highly contested and that
boundaries¯¯some hard and fast, others more permeable¯¯are constructed along
any number of axes. For the construction of Irish identity in New York City
within-group identity is disputed across a number of these axes with the
most important difference being sexual identity, particularly when it is
being performed in a public space.

Author Keywords: Nationalism; Ethnicity; Sexuality; Irish; Irish-American;
Identity


Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. A brief history of the conflict
3. Thinking about difference
4. Conclusion: on St. Patrick's Day everyone isn't Irish
Acknowledgements
References


Table 1. Chronology of the AOH-ILGO conflicts over the St. Patrick's Day
Parade (75K)

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From: Kevin Kenny
Subject: Ir-D Web Resource: Eire-Ireland, free


from kennyka[at]bc.edu
Kevin Kenny
Boston College

On 24 May 2002 06:00 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
> >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.
>
> http://www.findarticles.com

Patrick, I was intrigued to read this, being unaware of
it. As far as I can tell, though, the website contains
only my introduction, not the articles. The Irish American
Cultural Institute, which publishes Eire-Ireland, is (I
believe) considering archiving back issues in some way
(along the lines of J-Stor). In the meantime, here's a
t.o.c. for each of the two special issues:

EIRE-IRELAND
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies
Vol XXXVI:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2001)
SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
Part One: To 1900

Guest Editor: Kevin Kenny
Guest Assistant Editor: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

Editor's Introduction, by Kevin Kenny

Ireland and America: The Economy of an Emigration,
1783-1800, by Maurice Bric

'We Will Dirk Every Mother's Son of You': Five Points and
the Irish Conquest of New York Politics, by Tyler Anbinder

"The Republic of Letters": Frederick Douglass, Ireland and
the Irish Narratives, by Fionnghuala Sweeney

'White,' if 'Not Quite': Irish Whiteness in the
Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Novel, by Catherine M.
Eagan

Dancing Between Decks: Choreographies of Departure and
Transition During Irish Migrations to America, by J'aime
Morrison

The Famine's Scars: William Murphy's Ulster and American
Odyssey, by Kerby A. Miller and Bruce D. Boling, with Líam
Kennedy

Miners in Migration: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Irish
and Irish-American Copper Miners, by Timothy M. O'Neil

Young Irish Workers: Class Implications of Men's and
Women's Experiences in Gilded Age Chicago, by Patricia
Kelleher

Come you all Courageously': Irish Women in America Write
Home, by Ruth-Ann M. Harris

Relinquishing and Reclaiming Independence: Irish Domestic
Servants, American Middle-Class Mistresses, and
Assimilation, 1850-1920, by Diane Hotten-Somers


EIRE-IRELAND
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies
Vol. XXXVII:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2002)
SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
Part Two: Since 1900

Editor: Kevin Kenny
Guest Assistant Editor: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

Editor's Introduction, by Kevin Kenny

Poems, by Linda McCarriston

In the Shadow of a Grain Elevator: A Portrait of an Irish
Neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries, by William Jenkins

Transatlantic Connections and the Sharp Edge of the Great
Depression, by Matthew J. O'Brien

Culture, Commodity, and Céad Mile Fáilte: U.S. and Irish
Tourist Films as a Vision of Ireland, by Harvey
O'Brien

Nationalism, Sentiment, and Economics: Relations
between Ireland and Irish-America in the Postwar Years
by Mary Daly

"Suitable Accommodations": A Selection of J. F. Powers's
Letters from Ireland, 1951-1963, by Katherine Powers

New York State's "Great Irish Famine Curriculum": A Report
by Maureen Murphy and Alan Singer

The New Jersey Famine Curriculum: A Report, by James V.
Mullin

The Irish Famine in American School Curricula, by Thomas
Archdeacon

Contemporary Catholic and Protestant Irish America: Social
Identities, Forgiveness and Attitudes toward The Troubles
of Northern Ireland, by Mícheál D. Roe

The Process of Migration and the Reinvention of Self: The
Experiences of Returning Irish Emigrants, by Mary P.
Corcoran

----------------------
Kevin Kenny
Associate Professor of History
Department of History, Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone(617)552-1196; Fax(617)552-3714; kennyka[at]bc.edu
www2.bc.edu/~kennyka/

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

On a train of thought... Digging in my archives... I don't think I have
mentioned this article by Clara Claibourne Park, which offers a nice careful
comparative reading of Huck Finn and Kim...

We have commented before on Huck's and Kim's 'Irishness'. And Clara Park
says of Kim, 'He, like Huck, is fatherless and motherless, socially
marginal, even Irish. Yet he is the ultimate insider, at home everywhere and
with everyone, the "Little Friend of All the World."'

P.O'S.

Title: The river and the road: Fashions in forgiveness

Summary: Park compares Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" to Kipling's
"Kim." Far from being studied together, the novels have only rarely and
fleetingly been associated so far.

Source: The American Scholar
Date: Winter/1997

Citation Information: ISSN: 0003-0937; Vol. 66 No. 1; p. 43
Author(s): Clara Claiborne Park
Document Type: Article

OPENING PARAGRAPHS>>>>

WHEN LIONEL TRILLING COLLECTED THE ESSAYS that became The Liberal
Imagination, was it chance or subliminal recognition of affinity that caused
him to place his discussions of Huckleberry Finn and of Kipling side by
side? Five years separated the essays-that on Kipling written in 1943, in
response to the then recent essays by Edmund Wilson and T. S. Eliot
("critical attention . . . friendlier and more interesting than any he has
received for a long time"), that on Huckleberry Finn in 1948. No interior
references united them. If Trilling remembered Kim (Kipling's "best book"
he'd called it in a long and appreciative paragraph) when he identified Huck
Finn as a "picaresque novel, or novel of the road" and quoted Pascal's
"rivers are roads that move," he did not say so.

Kim, of course, is also about a road, a road that one of its own characters
compares to a river. And on that road journey a boy and a man, separated by
race and culture, bonded by love. The end of that journey, too, is
problematic, a betrayal, Wilson had called it, of the complex relationship
that made the book so much more than a boy's adventure story. No wonder that
Christopher Clausen, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, remarks
that "a persuasive case can be made for studying" the two novels "together,
rather than as the products of two presumably discrete traditions."

Yet far from being studied together, the novels have only rarely and
fleetingly been associated

EXTRACT ENDS>>>


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From: "jamesam"
Subject: Liam O'Flaherty's Famine

Does anyone know if Liam O'Flaherty's novel Famine, first published in 1937,
was ever made into a motion picture, or if anyone, director or actor, ever
considered it? Thanks for the information!

Slan,

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

This is from the flyleaf of the first edition:


FROM THE FLYLEAF
"Liam O'Flaherty's powerful novels and stories of Irish life have been
appreciated for many years by critics and discriminating readers, but it
took a prize-winning motion-picture version of his last book, The Informer,
to make his name known to the masses. That picture established many a
reputation in Hollywood besides that of Liam O'Flaherty, and now an imposing
array of producers and stars is bidding for the privilege of screening
Famine in the hope that it may duplicate The Informer's success. The
publishers are delighted to report that Mr. O'Flaherty has
made no compromises in Famine for the sake of pleasing either the film
magnates or his newly won public. His new novel is a searing story of the
1845 famine that wiped out a large part of Ireland's population, and
resulted in the great wave of Irish immigration to these shores in the two
years that followed. The forces of nature played their part in the tragedy,
of course, but the author does not mince words in blaming English misrule
for the extent of the devastation. His book will go far to explain to
American
readers the underlying causes of all that has happened in Ireland in the
pasthundred years."

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Ultan Cowley has kindly made available to us his Sources paper, which
appeared in the Newsletter of the British Asociation for Irish Studies.

Ultan's paper is now displayed at www.irishdiaspora.net, in the Irish in
Britain 'folder'.

I have given it the title
Sources for the Study of the Irish In British Construction Industries
by Ultan Cowley

Short title
The Irish In British Construction Industries

(The system cannot cope with long titles...)

Because I thought the BAIS Newsletter title just plain silly.

Our thanks to Ultan.

Paddy


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From: Kevin Kenny

Subject: Re: Ir-D Eire-Ireland

From Kevin Kenny
kennyka[at]bc.edu

Paddy,

Your're quite right. All of the articles from the first
special issue on Irish America (Spring/Summer) are there, as are
those from the intervening issue (Fall/Winter 2001), i.e.
the one between my first special issue and my second
(Spring/Summer 2002).

That second issue, which covers Irish America (broadly
construed) from ca. 1900 to the present, has just come off
the presses, will soon be mailed out by the institute, and
evidently has not yet made its way onto the web.

Kevin

On 28 May 2002 06:00 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Kevin, thank you for this...
>
> Begging to differ, Professor Kenny, sir...
>
> It looks to me as if 2 issues of Eire-Ireland can be found at
findarticles,
>
> Issue: Fall-Winter, 2001
>
> Issue: Spring-Summer, 2001
>
> So, that is the first of Kevin Kenny's Special Issues
> Vol XXXVI:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2001)
> SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
> Part One: To 1900
>
> But NOT the second...
>
> Vol. XXXVII:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2002)
> SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
> Part Two: Since 1900
>
> But we can hope.
----------------------
Kevin Kenny
Associate Professor of History
Department of History, Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone(617)552-1196; Fax(617)552-3714; kennyka[at]bc.edu
www2.bc.edu/~kennyka/

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Brendan Carroll is a helpful dealer in books of Irish interest. He operates
out of Birkenhead, near Liverpool.

Brendan Carroll
Croaghgorm Books
Birkenhead, UK
Also of St John?s Point, Donegal

Email Address
Brendan Carroll
{croaghgorm[at]yahoo.com}

If you contact him by email Brendan Carroll will send you his book lists,
usually as a Microsoft Excel attachment.

His latest list includes a number of rare items of Irish Diaspora Studies
interest. But you will have to be quick - for, at this very minute, I am
looking at Brendan Carroll's book lists, and looking at my bank balance, and
looking at the book lists...

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Heroic Age is interesting and readable online journal...

See...

http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/homepage.html

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of...
MichelleZi[at]aol.com

Subject: CFP: The Sea in Early Medieval Northwestern Europe

Please forgive duplicate postings

Call for Papers: The Heroic Age
Traders, Saints, and Pirates: The Sea in Early Medieval Northwestern Europe

The Heroic Age, an electronic peer-reviewed journal, is soliciting
articles that address issues of maritime culture in Late Antiquity and the
Early Middle Ages to accompany the papers presented at the journal's
sponsored session at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies in
a
forthcoming issue. Contributions are welcome from the fields of
archaeology,
history, literature, linguistics, art history, religion, and folklore.
Current research and dissertation reports are encouraged. Topics may
include
but are by no means limited to:

* sea monsters
* fishing and other maritime subsistence activities
* water transport, either of passengers or goods
* the voyages of early Christian saints
* Viking and other seaborne raiding activities
* naval power; for instance, the ship muster in the Senchus fer nAlban
* the types and capabilities of vessels of the period

For more information or to submit a manuscript, please contact:

Elizabeth A. Ragan, Ph.D.
Salisbury University; Salisbury, MD
earagan[at]salisbury.edu

The deadline for the submission of manuscripts is September 15, 2002.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Kevin, thank you for this...

Begging to differ, Professor Kenny, sir...

It looks to me as if 2 issues of Eire-Ireland can be found at findarticles,

Issue: Fall-Winter, 2001

Issue: Spring-Summer, 2001

So, that is the first of Kevin Kenny's Special Issues
Vol XXXVI:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2001)
SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
Part One: To 1900

But NOT the second...

Vol. XXXVII:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2002)
SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
Part Two: Since 1900

But we can hope.

So, I have now got the whole of Part One here on my computer, and reading at
leisure. Good Stuff.

The findarticles site is a bit tricksy. But Eire-Ireland is listed on
findarticles as one of its journals. And you can do searches for the
specific authors Kevin has listed. Remember the trick is to click on Print
This Article - that gets you the entire article on one page, which you can
then Print, or Save to your computer, or Copy & Paste. Whichever works best
for you...

I am a stalwart defender of copyright. But the last time I expressed
delight at finding a scholarly journal on the web it led to a copyright
battle in the US, and the loss of that specific web resource. So, can we
keep quiet about this, please - at least until Kevin Kenny's Special Issue,
Part 2, appears?

Paddy

- -----Original Message-----
Subject: Ir-D Eire-Ireland



From: Kevin Kenny
Subject: Ir-D Web Resource: Eire-Ireland, free


On 24 May 2002 06:00 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
> >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.
>
> http://www.findarticles.com

Patrick, I was intrigued to read this, being unaware of
it. As far as I can tell, though, the website contains
only my introduction, not the articles. The Irish American
Cultural Institute, which publishes Eire-Ireland, is (I
believe) considering archiving back issues in some way
(along the lines of J-Stor). In the meantime, here's a
t.o.c. for each of the two special issues:

EIRE-IRELAND
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies
Vol XXXVI:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2001)
SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
Part One: To 1900


EIRE-IRELAND
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies
Vol. XXXVII:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2002)
SPECIAL ISSUE: IRISH AMERICA
Part Two: Since 1900

Editor: Kevin Kenny
Guest Assistant Editor: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

From:
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Cowley, Irish In British Construction Industries

I agree with Paddy's verdict on the BAIS title of my piece on the navvies,
which did not originate with me, but to be fair the piece itself was not
what I had been commissioned to write so something had to be done to
reconcile the two.

Paddy's compromise is more intelligible although I myself would opt for the
singular of 'industries' to describe the entity within which the Irish navvy
operated.

I welcome any comments on the piece and, more broadly, any observations on
the merits or demerits of the book itself in terms of its relevance or
otherwise to the field of Irish Diaspora Studies. Thank you.

Ultan Cowley


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


<
< Ultan Cowley has kindly made available to us his Sources paper, which
< appeared in the Newsletter of the British Asociation for Irish Studies.
<
< Ultan's paper is now displayed at www.irishdiaspora.net, in the Irish in
< Britain 'folder'.
<
< I have given it the title
< Sources for the Study of the Irish In British Construction Industries
< by Ultan Cowley
<
< Short title
< The Irish In British Construction Industries
<
< (The system cannot cope with long titles...)
<
< Because I thought the BAIS Newsletter title just plain silly.
<
< Our thanks to Ultan.
<
< Paddy
<
<
<

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Mark Phelan
m.phelan[at]qub.ac.uk

Please could you pass this call for papers on to any interested parties.
Many thanks,
Mark Phelan

CALL FOR PAPERS.

12TH ANNUAL CENTRAL NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

27-29 OCTOBER 2002

'Performing Ulster': Theatre, Politics and Performance in Northern Ireland'
This panel of the Annual Central New York Conference on Language and
Literature is looking for proposals addressing political / cultural identity
in Ulster and its construction, representation and performance both on and
off the stage.

Abstracts addressing any of the following areas are welcome:

- - the relationship between politics and theatre in Northern Ireland, in
terms of the former's performativity and the latter's political agency.

- - performances of political/cultural identity in the wider public sphere:
demonstrations, parades, strikes, riots, religious pageants, commemorations,
etc.

- - how history is selectively remembered, interpreted and celebrated in the
commemorative cultures of either community to construct and perform distinct
identities, and/or, how history is re-enacted in Northern Irish drama to
resist/reify these identities.

- - how cultural identities are constructed/deconstructed through class and
gender.

- - the effects of social, economic and cultural policy on institutional,
independent and community-based theatrical practice.

Please send your 250-word abstract, preferably by email, to the below
address:

Chair: Mark Phelan, Drama Department, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast
BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Email : M.Phelan[at]qub.ac.uk

Deadline for abstracts: July 15th 2002


_______________________
Mark Phelan
Lecturer in Drama
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
N. Ireland

Ph. (028) 90335 107
email M.Phelan[at]qub.ac.uk

For info...

Paddy


Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health)
American Journal of Public Health; Washington; Nov 2000; Alan H Goodman;

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Abstract:
Using race as a proxy for genetic differences limits understandings of the
complex interactions among political-economic processes, lived experiences,
and human biologies. By moving beyond studies of racialized genetics, one
can clarify the processes by which varied and interwoven forms of
racialization and racism affect individuals "under the skin."

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


CoSEI is the Computer Science and English Initiative at University College
Dublin...

http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei/index.html

As a demonstration of possibilities they have created the Thomas MacGreevy
Hypertext Chronology, 'an electronic archive about the life, work and
relationships of Thomas MacGreevy'.

Thee is an entry point to this useful and interesting web resource at the
CoSEI web site.

'MacGreevy (1893-1967), poet, critic, translator, art historian and Director
of the National Gallery of Ireland (1950-1963), is one of the pivotal
figures of Irish Modernism. His links with Irish, British, American and
European writers, artists, art historians, and politicians was so extensive
that an examination of his life provides a unique window onto cultural and
artistic interconnections for the first three quarters of this century.'
That is to say, the previous cenury.

P.O'S.


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

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of the Parnell Summer School...
P.O'S.


Members of the list might be interested to know that this year's Parnell
Summer School will take the 'Irish Cultural Revival' as its broad theme.
Lectures,seminars and excursions will take place 11th-16th August at
Avondale--the Parnell ancestral home in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.

Major Themes: The Revival inheritance; women and Irish history; recent
trends in Irish theatre; Joyce, Yeats and Parnell; The Field Day Anthology
vols IV and V; Pearse and Irish Education; an alternative history of Irish
cinema; Children?s Literature in Ireland; Northern Ireland; journalism and
the Revival; the GAA in the twenty-first century; issues in community arts;
television and Irish identity; Thomas Moore remembered; political cartoons.

Participants will include: Declan Kiberd (UCD), Elaine Sisson (DLIADT)
Margaret Ward (Democratic Dialogue), Siobhan Kilfeather (Univ. of Sussex),
Eddie Holt (DCU/Irish Times), Derek Hand (Dun Laoghaire Institute), Ali
Curran (Director, Peacock Theatre) George Boyce (Univ. of Wales), Maeve O?
Regan (NCAD), Nick Daly (TCD), Sean Corcoran (Millbank Theatre), Ronan Kelly
(Boston University), Pádhraic Ó Ciaradh (TG4), Margaret MacCurtain (Field
Day Anthology), Peter Quinn (GAA), Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame)

Further Information: dlarkin[at]parnellsociety.com
www.parnellsociety.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
Richard Lebrun
Editor, CCHA Historical Studies
Email: lebrun[at]cc.UManitoba.CA

Volume 68 (2002) of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association?s journal
Historical Studies is now available. In addition to featuring the articles
listed below, the volume contains a ?Current Bibliography of Canadian Church
History? covering the years 2001-2002, and the current issue of the Etudes d
?histoire religieuse (from the French section of our association), which
contains six articles and sixteen book reviews.

Sheila Andrew
Gender and Nationalism: Acadians, Québecois, and Irish in New
Brunswick Nineteenth-Century Colleges and Convent Schools
1854-1888

Terence J. Fay
Catholic Piety or Ecumenical Spirituality?
The Canadian Messenger in the 1960s

John Edward FitzGerald
The ?Year of Joy? and Centenary Renovations to the Cathedral,
St. John?s, Newfoundland, 1953-55

Frederick J. McEvoy
The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between Canada
and the Vatican, 1969

Mark McGowan
What did Michael Power Really Want? Questions Regarding the
Origins of Catholic Separate Schools in Canada West

Peter Meehan
The East Hastings By-Election of 1936 and the Ontario
Separate School Tax Question

Copies of this issue may be obtained through the Secretary, Canadian
Catholic Historical Association, 1155 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, M4T 1W2,
Canada. For mailing addresses in Canada, the price is $35 Canadian; for U.S.
mailing addresses, the amount is $40, for European addresses, the amount is
$45.