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IMAGINE BELFAST 2008 CELEBRATES ONEBELFAST
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE BID

Belfast will today celebrate the official submission of the city?s bid to
become European Capital of Culture 2008. Entitled oneBelfast ? ?where hope
and history rhyme?, the bid document sets out a framework for the
transformation of the city through cultural activity.

Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive of Imagine Belfast 2008 said:

?The European Capital of Culture is not just about a colourful sideshow
which will come to Belfast for one year, and then move on. The lead up to
2008 will demonstrate that culture has the capacity to effect real and
positive change. With creative thinking and vision 2008 will be a
spectacular year and the legacy will be a Belfast transformed both in our
own eyes and in the eyes of the world.

The themes and ideas in oneBelfast have been drawn from people throughout
the city. The bid offers a framework to develop an exceptional cultural
programme. We have six years to get it right ? the opportunity to be a part
of this process starts now.?

Singer Brian Kennedy will join the Lord Mayor Cllr Jim Rodgers, Councillors
and members of the Imagine Belfast 2008 board at a reception in Belfast City
Hall to celebrate the bid?s submission.

The Lord Mayor of Belfast will present the bid to a group of young Belfast
people ? Melanie Lyttle, Cliona Branney and Edmond Yao - who contributed
ideas to Imagine Belfast 2008 and who are pictured in the bid document.

The group will leave Belfast in an Imagine Belfast 2008 branded taxi and
travel to Belfast City Airport from where they will continue their journey
in a branded British European plane, the official carrier of the bid, to
deliver oneBelfast to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in London.

The bid document is divided into four themes - One Belfast, Through the Eyes
of a Child, Made in Belfast and To Live Without Walls ? and a series of
major projects which are detailed below.

One Belfast

Central to this theme is Come Back Baby Come Back, a call home to the
millions of Northern Ireland diaspora and an open invitation to citizens all
over the world to come to Belfast. Part of this project will be the
inauguration of a One Belfast Day, a major reconnection project and an
international call to action to friends of Belfast across the world to see
the city anew.

The bid will elevate the influence of our artists to unprecedented levels,
bringing them in from the margins and in to the centre of society. The
Biennale be a major Derry-Belfast partnership which will bring together
hundreds of visual artists and international curators, who will engage with
the city at a scale never before imagined by making art in collaboration and
in response to a wealth of unused, hidden and forgotten locations all over
Northern Ireland.

The Month of Film in 2008 will bring together the existing film festivals
and projects in Belfast and throughout Northern Ireland to create an
exceptional celebration of film and animation, with major film premieres and
events happening in Belfast, Derry and other towns. There will also be a
national and international documentary film festival and a competition for
digital film-making to be screened and judged on the internet.

Continuing the emphasis on the visual image, Source Magazine will commission
new photographic work examining key issues affecting the development of
cities in general and Belfast in particular.

Theatrical organisations of international standing will be approached to
commission Northern Irish writers to premiere new work and to discuss the
state of theatre with practitioners in Northern Ireland.


Through the Eyes of a Child

In addition to Jack?s House, a children?s centre for myths and legends
inspired by C.S. Lewis, and The Giant?s House, a creativity centre for the
under-fives, this theme also features Speak for Yourself, a city-wide dance
project for children of all physical abilities.

Kahootz is a multimedia development tool used to create internet-based
storytelling for four to fourteen-year olds. The Australian Children?s
Television Foundation will offer young people the opportunity to develop a
project using Kahootz that is specifically about their experience.

Da Capo is a ground-breaking programme of music for schools and nursery
schools which will enable every child, regardless of musical ability, to be
music literate by P4. This feat which has not been achieved anywhere in
Western Europe and a pilot project is currently taking place in ten schools
across Northern Ireland.

The International Summer School for Young People will bring together young
people from cities which have experienced conflict to collaborate, perform,
write and learn from each other. They will produce a publication which
reflects their experience and includes their ideas about how children can
help in the process towards mutual understanding.

A sister project, Making Space, will take the form of a bi-annual conference
that addresses issues that arise from the summer school and will feature
world leaders in education and arts provision for young people.

Made in Belfast

Made in Belfast will bring together Legendary Belfast, which will explore
the people and places of this city, through oral, visual and musical
histories and the redevelopment of the Cathedral Quarter area of the city
with a host of other projects.

Linenopolis will invite international fashion designers to create a
specially designed piece in the fabric which is synonymous with Northern
Ireland. These creations will be exhibited at a showpiece fashion event in
Belfast, which will be used to stimulate arts, heritage and educational
projects.

To celebrate the diversity of languages in Northern Ireland and the rest of
Europe, Vernacular City will commission young writers from different
cultures to produce new work about the significance of European Capital of
Culture 2008. A word of the day from each language in Northern Ireland will
be displayed in public advertising space and the project will develop its
own TV and Radio station.

Rhythm in the City will celebrate music and cultural diversity through the
power of rhythm in its myriad forms and various international artists and
companies will be invited to create new theatrical, opera and visual art
works for Belfast.

Several major theatrical projects will also be commissioned, including a
major Ulster Cycle and a Christmas show for children inspired by the work of
C.S. Lewis.

To Live Without Walls

This theme contains the pivotal projects of Landscape Transformed, a series
of initiatives which aim to create the conditions where the ?peace walls? in
Belfast can come down and The Big Day Out, a multi-media project which
involves every area in Belfast connecting to another culture via the street
names of the city which were inspired by faraway and exotic places.

Pavilions in the Belfast Parks will invite seven of Europe?s leading
architects and designers to design a pavilion and enclosure in a range of
Belfast parks. These will be used by the neighbourhood communities as event
spaces and will link as a necklace of arts venues throughout the city.

To transform the derelict, neglected pockets of land that blight the inner
city neighbourhoods of Belfast, Wee Ugly Spaces will bring together
architects, landscape designers, artists and resident communities to work as
a team. All projects will be linked to housing projects and will be
designed to encourage social interaction.

In a celebration of the transformed urban landscape, a series of mass Urban
Picnics will take place in Royal Avenue and its side streets. We will lay
the streets with grass and will encourage thousands of citizens to come into
the city centre and have family and group picnics. There will be a different
musical theme and first-class entertainment for each picnic, as well as
small sporting events and traditional children?s games.

How to access copies of oneBelfast

· To download a full copy of the Belfast?s bid for European Capital of
Culture today, simply log on to the Imagine Belfast 2008 website at
www.imaginebelfast2008.com
· Text copies of the bid document will be available from the Imagine Belfast
2008 offices and in public buildings all over Belfast after 31st March, the
deadline for submission of bids.
· A summary of the contents of the bid will be distributed throughout
Belfast in early April.
· For further information, contact Imagine Belfast 2008 on telephone 028
90322008, email info[at]imaginebelfast2008.com, or at 109-113 Royal Avenue,
Belfast BT1 1FF, Northern Ireland.


ENDS.

Notes to Editors:

1. The Belfast bid to be European Capital of Culture 2008 will be submitted
to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in London on 28 March 2002.
The short-listing will take place by October and the final decision
announced in March 2003.


ENDS.

For further information or interview requests, contact the Marketing and
Communications Team at Imagine Belfast 2008 on
Telephone 028 90 322008, Fax 028 90 236558:

Sarah Hughes
mobile 07905 276399, email sarahhughes[at]imaginebelfast2008.co.uk

Matt Curry
Mobile 07714 704339, email mattcurry[at]imaginebelfast2008.co.uk

David O?Neill
Mobile 07762 820540, email oneilld[at]imaginebelfast2008.co.uk

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CELTIC CONNECTIONS Colonialism and Culture in Irish-Scottish Modernism

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1 April
2002, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 68-78(11)

Jackson E-R.; Maley W.

Abstract:
This essay maps out relations between Irish and Scottish modernism as part
of a new area of comparative criticism, Irish-Scottish studies, which has
implications not only for English literature, but for postcolonial theory,
which has tended to be anglocentric in terms of its analyses of British and
Irish paradigms. This intervention takes five major Irish and Scottish
writers ? Muir, Yeats, MacDiarmid, Joyce and Grassic Gibbon ? and looks at
how language and identity are figured, forged and fused between two
countries that are at once foreign and familiar.

Keywords: IRISH; SCOTTISH; JOYCE; LANGUAGE; MODERNISM; YEATS; EDWIN; MUIR;
HUGH; MACDIARMID; LEWIS; GRASSIC; GIBBON

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1369-801X

SICI (online): 1369-801X(20020401)4:1L.68;1-

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A sense of Irishness

Psychodynamic Counselling, 1 February 2001, vol. 7, no. 1, pp.
83-102(20)

Gavin B.

Abstract:
This paper explores how issues of Irish identity and difference expressed
themselves in a range of group analytic settings. This Irish dimension has
been largely absent in therapy literature. Work on the impact of cultural
difference and racism, while very relevant, has not addressed itself to the
specific dynamics of the Irish experience in Britain and how this manifests
itself in therapy settings. Irishness was understood in a number of
different ways in the groups described. For the Irish members, their
cultural identity was used both to generate a genuine exploration of
difference and the interweaving of personal and cultural events, and, in
other circumstances, it was used to create division and to deny early
painful family experiences. For the non-Irish members, the Irish experience
was simultaneously acknowledged and denied. Acts of apparent inclusion led
instead to an experience of exclusion. These experiences reflect the reality
of social, political and historical power relations between cultures and how
these manifest themselves in groups. A countertransference reaction on the
part of the group therapist when identified as Irish, and the impact of this
on the group, is also considered.

Keywords: DIFFERENCE; EXCLUSION; CULTURE; IMMIGRATION

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1353-3339

SICI (online): 1353-3339(20010201)7:1L.83;1-




Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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'BLAME IT ON MAUREEN O'HARA': IRELAND AND THE TROPE OF AUTHENTICITY

Cultural Studies, 1 January 2001, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 58-75(18)

Graham C.

Abstract:
This essay examines the role of authenticity as it appears as a factor in
Irish cultural production. Taking examples from Yeats's folklore
collections, tourist marketing and beer advertisements, it suggests, using
the writings of Adorno, Baudrillard and Jacob Golomb, that the trope of
'authenticity' persists, in variant forms, as a marker of how Irish material
and textual culture 'promotes' itself in a post-colonial context.

Keywords: IRELAND; IRISH; CULTURE; AUTHENTICITY; YEATS; TOURISM;
ADVERTISING; POST-COLONIALSM; ADORNO; BAUDRILLARD

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0950-2386

SICI (online): 0950-2386(20010101)15:1L.58;1-

From: Daryl Adair
Subject: Orangeism and Temperance - thankyou

Colleagues,

a sincere thanks for your advice about the historic relationship between
Orangeism, temperance, and alcohol. I have noted the email addresses of
respondents and will be very pleased to stay in touch as the research
unfolds.

Sincerely,

Daryl Adair<

University of Canberra
Australia

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Title: Suicide and Irish migrants in Britain: identity and integration
Author(s): G. Leavey
Source: International Review of Psychiatry Volume: 11 Number: 2 Page:
p168 -- p172
DOI: 10.1080/09540269974348
Publisher:Brunner-Routledge, part of Taylor & Francis Health Sciences
Abstract: Although cross-national comparisons of suicide data may be
notoriously unreliable, the suicide rates of Irish-born people in Britain
appear to be greater than those of the Irish in Ireland.This paper provides
a review of the literature and examines evidence that migration to Britain
heightens the risk of suicide for Irish people. Other studies from North
America and Australia appear to confirm that the experience of living abroad
for many Irish people is stressful.The reasons for this stress are
complicated. In Britain, the relatively unsettled nature of Irish migration
and the inability of the Irish to create an authentic identity may play a
significant role.Irish cultural attitudes to health and the use of alcohol
as an accepted method of coping with stress may also add to the toll.
Reference Links: 23
Year: 1999 Volume: 11 Number: 2 Pages: 168-172 View

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WITH DEV IN AMERICA Sinn Féin and Recognition Politics, 1919?21

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1 April
2002, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 22-34(13)

Malouf M. G.

Abstract:
This essay borrows its title from Patrick McCartan's memoir about his
experiences as Irish Ambassador in Washington for the Provisional Dáil
Eirrean government during Eamon de Valera's fund-raising mission to the
United States from June 1919 to December 1920. Where McCartan contextualizes
de Valera's controversial trip as part of the battle for self-definition
among the different factions within Irish-America and Sinn Féin, this essay
supplements McCartan's account by situating de Valera among a different set
of international actors, particularly other anti-colonial groups, such as
the Friends of Freedom for India and Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro
Improvement Association, which were also based in New York City and shared
de Valera's desire for political recognition. During this post-war period,
when concepts of the nation-state were being reimagined, many anti-colonial
movements became acutely aware that, despite the fervour of revolutions,
states are not willed into existence as much as they are allowed into
existence through a process of recognition by a world-system of states. But
how does the context of recognition politics affect the kinds of
cross-cultural affiliations made during this period? Drawing on contemporary
theories of recognition, this essay uses de Valera's American campaign to
explore the problematic role of 'recognition' as a feature of anti-colonial
politics in the transnational context.

Keywords: RECOGNITION; SINN; FEIN; EAMON; VALERA; UNIVERSAL; NEGRO;
IMPROVEMENT; ASSOCIATION; FRIENDS; FREEDOM; INDIA; TRANSNATIONALISM

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1369-801X

SICI (online): 1369-801X(20020401)4:1L.22;1-

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Online ISSN: 1099-1220 Print ISSN: 1077-3495
International Journal of Population Geography
Volume 6, Issue 3, 2000. Pages: 229-243

Published Online: 28 Jun 2000

Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Article
Conceptualising Irish Rural Youth Migration: A Biographical Approach
Caitríona Ní Laoire *
School of Geography, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK

email: Caitríona Ní Laoire (c.nilaoire[at]qub.ac.uk)

*Correspondence to Caitríona Ní Laoire, School of Geography, Queen's
University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN

Keywords
migration; Ireland; rural youth; biography; life history


Abstract
This paper explores the usefulness of a biographical approach in studying
Irish rural youth migration. There have been calls recently for an approach
to migration study that involves conceptualising migration as part of
individual biographies as well as social structures. However, there is
little research that explicitly adopts a biographical approach. This paper
presents the theoretical underpinnings, methodological issues and findings
of a recent study that was guided by the principles of a biographical
approach to migration. The study was an exploration of life-path formation
among Irish rural youth from the 1970s to the 1990s. The paper focuses on
the three key elements of a biographical approach to migration, and relates
them to Irish rural youth migration. Firstly, migration is considered as
part of an individual's biography, and the methodological implications of
this are explored. Secondly, it is argued, drawing on the research in
Ireland, that migration decision-making is a multilayered process. In the
case of Irish rural youth migration, a biographical approach highlights the
complexity of migration decision-making, revealing the tensions and
struggles that lie behind each move, and thus raises questions over the
tendency towards simplification of the migration process. Finally, it is
argued that migration is a cultural phenomenon, but that this assertion
needs careful qualification. This paper problematises the role of culture in
migration processes by untangling the systems of competing discourses of
migration that underlie societal norms regarding migration, thereby
challenging the view of migration as normal for particular societies or
cultures. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Received: 19 January 2000; Revised: 27 March 2000; Accepted: 29 March 2000

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Interesting book review at Findarticles. I have not seen the book - but
apparently Michael Carroll argues that many of these 'Celtic' practices are
in fact post-Reformation.

P.O'S.

Irish Pilgrimage -- Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion.(Review) (book
review)

Review Author/s: Gareth Higgins

Irish Pilgrimage -- Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion, MICHAEL P.
CARROLL Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, 226pp. $38.00

Irish Pilgrimage -- Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion.(Review) (book
review)
http://www.findarticles.com/m0SOR/2_62/76759012/p1/article.jhtml

From: "J.C. Belchem"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Divided Loyalties

And some of us are engaged in supporting the Liverpool bid, not least
through celebration of the Irish contribution to its culture! John Belchem

- --On 18 June 2002 06:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
>> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> A further little diasporic moment...
>
> 'Twelve UK cities are competing to become European Capital of Culture in
> 2008. To win, they must show that they can stage a year-long programme of
> culture involving local people and visitors. The cities submitting the
> best applications will be designated as Centres of Culture. But only one
> can win the accolade of European Capital of Culture. A shortlist from
> those below will be selected in autumn. The winner will be chosen next
> spring.'
>
> Further information at...
>
> http://www.getting.ukonline.gov.uk/uko/culture-city/
>

Professor John Belchem
Dean of the Faculty of Arts
University of Liverpool
12 Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7WZ
email: j.c.belchem[at]liv.ac.uk
phone: (0)151-794-2457
fax: (0)151-794-2454

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ARTICLE

Producing Whiteness: an exploration of working-class white men in two
contexts

Discourse, 1 April 2002, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 5-25(21)

Weis L.; Lombardo S.L.

Abstract:
In this essay we enter the terrain of 'whiteness' studies, drawing upon data
gathered in two ethnographic investigations conducted in a large
northeastern city in the United States. In the first study we focus on the
ways in which whiteness among working-class men emerges in relation to a
constructed 'other', in this case a black/Latino other who is held to have
unpleasant characteristics. In the second, we problematize the idea that the
white European self emerges necessarily in relation to that of a constructed
'dark other' by focusing on white working-class Irish adults who frequent an
Irish community centre in the same city. We explore the ways in which the
presence of particular spaces within which ethnic identities can flourish
may blunt the effects of possible intergroup violence based on the
production of a white identity and at the same time potentially encourage a
multi-racial set of political coalitions.

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0159-6306

SICI (online): 0159-6306(20020401)23:1L.5;1-

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I have been quietly taken to task a few times about my acid remarks about
Weber's Protestant ethic thesis in my Introduction to Religion and Identity,
Volume 5 of The Irish World Wide. But it all remains an interesting example
of the ways in which one discipline loses interest in an idea, whilst in
another it chunters gaily on. And we do have an interest - after all one of
Weber's key quotes comes from Cromwell's declaration of war on the Irish.
And we continue to see pieces of research like this one, outlined below...

I have not been able to get hold of the full text of this article - for all
I know it may be a splendid piece of work.

P.O'S.

For information...

ARTICLE


The Work Ethic Values of Protestant British, Catholic Irish and Muslim
Turkish Managers

Journal of Business Ethics, June 2001, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 321-339(19)

Arslan M.[1]

[1]Department of Business Administration, Hacettepe University, Hacettepe
Universitesi Beytepe, Kumpusu, 06532 Ankara, Turkey; E-mail:
marslan[at]hacettepe.edu.tr

Abstract:

This paper examines the work ethic characteristics of particular practising
Protestant, Catholic and Muslim managers in Britain, Ireland and Turkey. Max
Weber, argued that Protestant societies had a particular work ethic which
was quite distinct from non-Protestant societies. The Protestant work ethics
(PWE) thesis of Weber was reviewed. Previous empirical and analytical
research results showed that the number of research results which support
Weberian ideas were more than those which did not support. Methodological
issues were also discussed. Results revealed that there was a considerable
difference between Muslim and other groups in terms of PWE characteristics.
The Muslim group showed the highest PWE level, while the Protestant group
was placed second and the Catholic group third. The Protestant group showed
a slightly higher of PWE level than the Catholic group. The possible reasons
for the higher level of the PWE values of Muslim managers are discussed in
the light of historical, political, social and economic developments in
Turkey.



Language: English Document Type: Regular paper ISSN: 0167-4544

SICI (online): 0167-4544314321339

http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0167-4544

From: McCaffrey
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Subject: Re: Ir-D Edward Jarvis and the Irish

Patrick,
This is very interesting. Just from memory I remember being told by a
psychiatrist a few years ago that the west of Ireland had one of the [if not
the] largest pool of schizophrenia in Europe. Somewhere among my books I
have a
study on this done here in Washington DC by NIH. Mind you, it is the west
of
Ireland and not the entire island, which is interesting.
Carmel

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

> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> This is a very interesting article - which repays close reading. I have
got
> hold of the full text. According to Vander Stoep & Link Jarvis was so
> committed to the view that he would find more of the foreign born (in this
> case the Irish) amongst the insane that he misread his own research
> material.
>
> P.O'S.
>
> Am J Public Health 1998 Sep;88(9):1396-402
>
> Social class, ethnicity, and mental illness: the importance of being
> more than earnest.
>
> Vander Stoep A, Link B
> Department of Epidemiology,
> University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. annv[at]u.washington.edu
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Last week Eibhlin Evans and I attended a meeting about the Moving Here
Project, at the Public Record Office, the National Archive of England, Wales
and the United Kingdom, at Kew (southwest London) - Eibhlin acting as
representative of the British Association for Irish Studies.

We have posted to Ir-D earlier messages from Aidan Lawes, our main contact
at the project. There is some basic information about the project at...

http://www.movinghere.org.uk/

http://www.pro.gov.uk/online/moving.htm

Briefly, this is going to be a web project, funded by the New Opportunities
Fund, one of the organisations that distributes national lottery money.
Between 2 and 3 million pounds is going into this project - so over 3
million dollars or euros. (The original bid was for 6 million pounds.)
However most of this sum seems already spoken for, in grants to 'partner'
archive organisations and in technical matters.

The plan is that the PRO and its 'partner' archive organisations display on
the web selections of material from their own archives, and from other
archives, material about migrants to England, concentrating on 4 groups,
Caribbean, South Asian, Irish, Jews from Eastern Europe. I stress
'England' - so not the United Kingdom, not Wales and Scotland. There are
lists of the partners on the web sites.

At the meeting I think that Eibhlin and I took a deep breath... And decided
to be very positive about the project...

There are some problems with the project. The project seems entirely led by
archivists - I think that they have talked very little to scholars of
migration, and they have already made some decisions which might be
questioned. Some of the technical decisions do need to be questioned. I am
not even sure that the purpose of the project has really been thought
through.

But we can say that a large government organisation has acknowledged that
England is an migrant-receiving country, and has reached out, in some
fashion, to 4 migrant communities.

At the very least the PRO has been able to go to its own archivists, and to
the archivists of the 'partner' organisations, and say: 'What have you go
on, for example, the... Irish. And can you let us have some samples for
our huge web site project.' No single scholar has ever been able to do
that...

Looking at specific issues around the 'Irish' and the archives of England...
Everyone on the Irish-Diaspora list already knows what will be found there,
and indeed these patterns have already become apparent...

There is much about IRELAND in the archives of England, much about the
'Irish problem' as understood or defined by that tradition within British
historiography. Insofaras as there is anything much there about the Irish
in ENGLAND it tends to see the Irish as a problem group.

But this we are all used to, and used to working with, or against - 'against
the grain', as the saying is. The sheer size of the project means that the
project is already turning up really interesting material. Some of the
material we have seen it would take a doctoral student a year simply to go
through page by page - and there are plans to possibly place it all on the
web.

Other predictable things that you find about the 'Irish' in the archives of
England cannot simply be placed on the web, cold - they must be given a
context. But very often the context already exists - because some very fine
scholars have already struggled with this material, or sought to fill the
gaps in it.

I am still collecting my thoughts, and my notes, about this project. I have
to say that in my previous contacts with the organisers I had not really
taken in the sheer size of the project. But, given that the historiography
of the Irish in Britain is so underdeveloped, I think we must be positive
about this project.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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Whilst looking at the career of William Mulready (1786-1863) I came across
material about the Mulready envelope - I had not previously known about the
Mulready envelope. Philatelists, please do not sneer...

In 1840, at the start of the UK postal system, Mulready designed for Rowland
Hill a prepaid envelope, a lush imperialist design complete with elephants -
which was, of course, immediately ridiculed and parodied. Perhaps it all
reflects, encapsulates and heightens Mulready's immigrant insecurity... But
some of the detail of the letter - like the letter readers in the corner -
have that nice Mulready sentimental touch...

Further information at...

http://alphabetilately.com/M.html

http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk/mulready.htm

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~kathyhoward/mulready/envelopes.html

http://www.linns.com/print/archives/20020114/refresher.asp


A description of the Mulready Envelope, and of various imitations &
caricatures of its design; with an account of other illustrated envelopes of
1840 and following years
by Edward Benjamin Evans
ISBN 0854095071

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is a very interesting article - which repays close reading. I have got
hold of the full text. According to Vander Stoep & Link Jarvis was so
committed to the view that he would find more of the foreign born (in this
case the Irish) amongst the insane that he misread his own research
material.

P.O'S.


Am J Public Health 1998 Sep;88(9):1396-402

Social class, ethnicity, and mental illness: the importance of being
more than earnest.

Vander Stoep A, Link B
Department of Epidemiology,
University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. annv[at]u.washington.edu

This paper revisits a landmark study of the prevalence of mental illness
in the state of Massachusetts conducted by Edward Jarvis in the 19th
century. Jarvis drew an improper conclusion about the relationship
between social class, ethnicity, and insanity, asserting that the Irish
foreign-born had a higher prevalence of insanity in each social stratum.
A reanalysis of Jarvis' data shows that in both the pauper and
independent social classes in Massachusetts, the prevalence of insanity
was significantly lower among foreign-born persons than among
native-born persons. On the basis of his misperception, Jarvis
constructed elaborate etiological theories. These theories made a strong
impact on the mental health service policies of his day. The effects of
incomplete examination of data on etiological theories and mental health
policy in current times are highlighted in this article.

Publication Types:


Biography
Historical article

Personal Name as Subject:
Jarvis E

PMID: 9736887, UI: 98408094

From: Russell Murray
Subject: Re: Ir-D Divided Loyalties

Ditto - I've been asked to contribute a chapter to a book that will form
part of the Belfast bid, but live in Bradford!

Russell


> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>A further little diasporic moment...
>
>'Twelve UK cities are competing to become European Capital of Culture in
>2008. To win, they must show that they can stage a year-long programme of
>culture involving local people and visitors. The cities submitting the best
>applications will be designated as Centres of Culture. But only one can win
>the accolade of European Capital of Culture. A shortlist from those below
>will be selected in autumn. The winner will be chosen next spring.'
>
>Further information at...
>
>http://www.getting.ukonline.gov.uk/uko/culture-city/
>
>Which leads on to the web sites of the individual cities.
>
>The European Capital of Culture programme has proved very successful - in
>changing the image of a city and thus bringing in investment. The example
>of Glasgow is always given.
>
>We have been approached by Belfast, one of the competitor cities. They
wish
>to harness the power opf the Irish Diaspora.
>
>But I live in Bradford, another of the competitors. Belfast may have its
>problems, but so does Bradford. I am all too aware of Bradford's
problems -
>my wife, Alison, is Director of Social Services for the City of Bradford.
>My children go to school here. Bradford desperately needs a boost -
>something that is not simply all about problems...
>
>So, where do my loyalties lie?
>
>I have forwarded to the Irish-Diaspora list, as separate emails, the
>material I have received from Belfast...
>
>Paddy
>
>

I have a question for the historians on the list. Were there witch hunts
in Ireland in the same way and on the same scale as throughout the rest of
western Europe during the Middle Ages? I am wondering if the Catholic
church's effort to assimilate more ancient religions was more successful,
or different, in Ireland than in some other countries.

Claire

Online ISSN: 1099-176X Print ISSN: 1091-4358
The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Volume 2, Issue 4, 1999. Pages: 177-182

Published Online: 31 May 2000

Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Article
Identifying factors affecting the placement of mentally ill patients
Eamon O'Shea *, Jenny Hughes, Siobhán O'Reilly
National University of Ireland, Galway

email: Eamon O'Shea (eamon.oshea[at]nuigalway.ie)

*Correspondence to Eamon O'Shea, Department of Economics, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Abstract
Background: There is now general agreement that a comprehensive psychiatric
service can operate with the minimum use of in-patient facilities.
Consequently, the emphasis in most European countries is on reducing the
number of inpatient beds and expanding the range of community care
facilities, including day hospital services, available to mentally ill
patients. Decision-making with respect to placement is now even more
important given the changes currently taking place on the supply
side.Method: The study examines the factors that influence placement
decision-making between inpatient care and day hospital care in one Health
Board in Ireland. Placement was examined over a 9 month period for all
patients presenting for treatment in one particular area with a population
of 39000 people. Patients were not randomized between the two settings due
to ethical concerns about the randomization process. The issue of placement
is analysed using a logit estimation procedure.Results: The results suggest
that two variables have a significant affect on placement for the population
under review: whether the patient is accompanied at the time of admission
and the domicile of the patient.Conclusions: Greater flexibility with
respect to the opening hours of day hospital facilities, linked to improved
transport facilities, together with further analysis on the process of
admission to hospital, particularly the dynamics of the interaction between
providers, patients, and accompanying persons, may improve placement
decision-making for mentally ill patients. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd.



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Received: 20 February 1999; Accepted: 9 November 1999

Claire -- check out "Irish Immunity to Witch-Hunting, 1534-1711," by Elwyn
Lapoint in EIRE-IRELAND, 27:2, Summer, 1992.

Jim Rogers