From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

News has reached us of the publication of the latest book by Jill Blee

The Liberator?s Birthday

'Jill Blee is interested in the history of people who don?t usually get a
mention in the history books, the ordinary people, like her own great
grandparents who settled in Ballarat in the nineteenth century. She uses her
imagination to re-construct them in the books she writes. They are fiction,
but they are also social history. They are about events that really took
place, and conditions under which people really lived. The Liberator?s
Birthday is set in Ballarat on the centenary of the birth of Daniel O?
Connell, the Irish Liberator on August 6, 1875. It tells the story of an
Irish community dealing with change ? to status, economic fortunes, and to
church and school.'

Available now from all good bookshops or direct from the publisher at
www.indra.com.au

(Note: I cannot, as yet, find any mention of The Liberator?s Birthday on
the publisher's web site... No doubt it will appear there in due course...)

P.O'S.

From: dcrcfp[at]netscape.net (D.C. Rose)
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Ir-D Belfast bid European Capital of Culture


[before anyone else gets it in] Belfast says, On!

- --
D.C. Rose

Editor, THE OSCHOLARS
Department of English / Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London

oscholars[at]netscape.net




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

>
>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Forwarded on behalf of...
>
>Sarah Hughes
>sarahhughes[at]imaginebelfast2008.co.uk
>Subject: Belfast's bid for European Capital of Culture 2008
>
>
>Hi Patrick,
>
>I came across your site whilst doing a websearch on the Irish diaspora.
>Since I am working for the company behind Belfast's bid to be European
>Capital of Culture 2008, I thought it most unusual that there should be an
>Irish Diaspora Research Unit based in one of our competitor cities!
>
>

From: "Anne-Maree Whitaker"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D PRO Moving Here Project

Just as long as Qinuseless, who did the 1901 Census, aren't involved in this
too!


- ----Original Message Follows----

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



Dr Anne-Maree Whitaker FRHistS
P O Box 63
Edgecliff NSW 2027
Australia
ph (+61-2) 9356 4929 fax (+61-2) 9356 2065
mobile 0408 405 025
email ahcwhitaker[at]hotmail.com
website http://www.geocities.com/joseph_foveaux

From: Stephen Handsley
shandsley[at]globalnet.co.uk

At present I am conducting research into the ways that ethnic minority
groups living in the UK go about dealing with and making sense of death.
In particular, I am interested in the Irish Catholic community in
Britain --- but more specifically the City of Derby --- and how the
processes and practices of death, dying and mourning act as a "forum",
"platform", "strategy" in the formation of cultural identity, and
to what degree do these practices foster or mediate a sense of separate or
interrelated community, with respect to the dominant culture?

What role do such practices have in mediating the formation of Irish
Catholic cultural identity in an English context?

As a 'minority' group, is it indeed possible for the Irish Catholic
community to utilise it's own set of "cultural credentials" in the face of
possible social or cultural restrictions on the management of death?

In order that I may address these (and many more) questions and as a way of
contextualising and conceptualising the research, I now need to build-up
a social/demographic history of the Irish Catholic community in Derby.

I have carried out some initial inquiries which point to the establishment
of a small but significant Irish population in the town of Derby from at
least 1814. Likewise, drawing on the work of Hilary Minns (1995) and the
local census data, I have established that a number of first and second
generation Irish Catholics lived in Derby in 1841, 1851 and 1861.
However, I still need to construct/conduct a more selective social/cultural
profile of the Irish Catholic community in the City of Derby.

For example, from what part of Ireland did this migrant group originate? In
what part of the City did they first settle? Where they able to find work?
How were they received/perceived by the dominant culture?

Despite a search of a number of historical sources including local
newspapers, databases, local studies library, census records and the local
university, I seem to have ended up with very little in the way of concrete
information.

For this reason, I am seeking the help of list members in the hope that they
might be able to point me in the right direction.

Stephen


Stephen Handsley
Dept of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
E-Mail: S.Handsley[at]warwick.ac.uk
or shandsley[at]globalnet.co.uk
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To:
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Your message to irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk


> Stephen,
>
> Your message, below, hovers on the edge of breaching our 'Fair Play'
advice
> about research questions.
>
> See the FAQ in the Irish-Diaspora list folder on irishdiaspora.net.
>
> I say 'hovers on the edge...' But the query as it stands is unlikely to
> elicit a positive response, and I wondered if it would not be best to
> re-cast the query so that it is very much within the guidelines. A number
> of people on the Ir-D list have explored the areas that you find
> problematic. You need them on board.
>
> Plus - I know this is picky, but people get picky - your language is
> imprecise, and your final questions are vague. Anglo-Irish? - what do you
> mean? Settlers? Which settlers?
>
> It reads like a query dashed off without thinking. Can I toss it back to
> you for a re-think. Much more evidence of work done and thought thought.
>
> Paddy
>

On witches...

There is The Witchcraft Bibliography Project

http://www.hist.unt.edu/witch.htm

The Irish section is at

http://www.hist.unt.edu/witch01x.htm


Patrick O'Sullivan


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Article, for information...

P.O'S.

DEVOLUTION IN BRITAIN: WILL THE UK SURVIVE?

European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics, 1
January 2001, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 53-65(13)

Robbins K.

Abstract:
The current devolution programme in the United Kingdom is viewed in a
historical context. A strong unitary state, the hub of a world-wide empire
at the beginning of the twentieth century, is contrasted with a present in
which national and regional identities within 'Britain' are reaffirmed and
asserted. The current changes in the government of Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland represent far-reaching constitutional developments. They
leave uncertain whether they herald yet further changes which will, at some
stage in the future, lead to the 'break-up of Britain' and the creation of a
series of new states within the European Union or whether they represent an
acceptable balancing of 'unity' and 'diversity' into the future. In this
respect, the 'Irish question' in the late nineteenth century, and the
failure of 'Home Rule', present an ambiguous precedent. It is, however, the
self-understanding of England itself ? in its multiethnic and multicultural
condition ? which may determine whether this 'new Britain' will survive in
the twenty-first century.

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1568-1858

SICI (online): 1568-1858(20010101)16:1L.53;1-

From: "Padraic"
To:
Subject: Fw: Press release from Kevin McNamara

Dear Patrick,

I think Kevin McNamara makes some very pertinent comments in this =
speech, which are worth circulating to the list.

Regards,

Padraic Finn

KEVIN McNAMARA MP
House of Commons=20

London SW1A 0AA

Thursday 20 June, 2002

Attention: News desk


World Refugee Day - 20 June, 2002

McNamara call for tolerance on migrants

Kevin McNamara MP, former Opposition spokesperson on Northern Ireland =
(1) is to deliver a hard-hitting speech on racism and Irish attitudes =
towards migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

His remarks, will be delivered in South Armagh on Friday 21 June at the =
annual dedication of the Emigration Stone at Mullyard, Derrynoose, Co =
Armagh.

McNamara described Ireland's departed peoples as its legacy to the =
world: "Everyone who left, left something of themselves behind in =
Ireland. Everyone who settled in a new land, brought something of =
Ireland with them."

He contrasted past migration with that in the world today when one =
person in fifty is a migrant worker (150 million live outside their =
country of origin) and the globe is ravaged by war. "People are fleeing =
poverty and persecution", he said, "just like the Irish for the past 150 =
years. He recalled signs posted in the windows of some lodging houses in =
England: "No Blacks; No Dogs; No Irish!"=20

Kevin McNamara described container lorries as the new "coffin ships" and =
said more than 3,000 lives have been lost through "Fortress Europe" =
immigration policies. (2)=20

He said modern Ireland "was born an emigrant nation and should never =
forget its past". He said today's challenge on immigration is a =
challenge of relative prosperity: "Every immigrant to the shores of =
these islands brings with them their own history, their own talent, =
culture and worth."=20

McNamara said "all Ireland felt the shame" of the racist killing of 26 =
year-old Chinese student, Zhao Liu Tao, beaten to death in Drumcondra, =
north Dublin.=20

"Economic migrants or Asylum seekers in these islands today do not =
create racism any more than Irish immigrants created racism or =
anti-Irish intolerance in New York or London. Yet our fellow human =
beings are being spat at in the streets. "

"Politicians need to show solidarity with victims of racially motivated =
attacks", he said "but we also need to champion diversity, extolling the =
virtues of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic societies. As a nation, the =
Irish understand what it is to be tired and hungry. Our generosity, =
kindness and tolerance - should not be drowned in the selfishness of a =
new prosperity."

ENDS

Notes

(1) Kevin McNamara was born in Liverpool and elected as Member of =
Parliament for Hull North in 1966. His grandparents originated from Co =
Down, Co Louth, Co Meath and Co Mayo.=20


He is presently a Member of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body =
and chair of the Parliamentary All-Party Irish in Britain Group.

(2) Two years ago (19 June 2000) customs officers at Dover opened a =
container to find corpses of 58 men and women originating from the =
southern Chinese province of Fujian on the Taiwan Strait. On 9 December =
2001, 13 Turkish migrants were discovered in a container in Wexford =
Business Park. Among the eight dead were boys aged 4, 9 & 12 and a girl =
aged ten.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Article, for information...

P.O'S.

The British?Irish Council: Progress Frustrated

Regional Studies: The Journal of the Regional Studies Association, 1
November 2001, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 753-758(6)

Lynch P. [1]; Hopkins S. [2]

[1] Department of Politics, University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester LE1 7HH, U K. Email: PLL3[at]leicester.ac.uk [2] Department of
Politics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7HH, U K.
Email: SH15[at]leicester.ac.uk

Abstract:
The British?Irish Council (BIC), established by the 1998 Belfast Agreement,
includes representatives from the British and Irish governments, the
devolved administrations, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It aims
to promote the sharing of ideas and practical co-operation on matters of
mutual interest across a range of policy areas. The Council may agree
'common policies and actions', but members are free to opt-out and can
pursue further bilateral and multilateral co-operation. By summer 2001,
though, the BIC had held just one summit and two sectoral meetings. The fate
of the Agreement, the changing dynamics of post-devolution British?Irish
relations, the Council's working practices, and the political will and
resources of BIC members will dictate its future effectiveness.

Keywords: BELFAST AGREEMENT; DEVOLUTION BRITISH-IRISH; RELATIONS POLICY;
CO-OPERATION GOVERNANCE; NETWORKS

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0034-3404

SICI (online): 0034-3404(20011101)35:8L.753;1-

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have noted before the work of Barry Coldrey, and its importance.

I am now in touch with Barry by email.

He has a web site at
http://www.geocities.com/brett_usher/index.html

and his latest article has been published in the journal, Children and
Society. Citation information below...

P.O'S.


Subject: The extreme end of a spectrum of violence

Online ISSN: 1099-0860 Print ISSN: 0951-0605
Children & Society
Volume 15, Issue 2, 2001. Pages: 95-106

Published Online: 23 Apr 2001

Research Article
The extreme end of a spectrum of violence: physical abuse, hegemony and
resistance in British residential care
Barry Coldrey *
7/67 Collins Street, Thornbury, Vic. 3071, Australia

email: Barry Coldrey (busherw[at]bigpond.com)

*Correspondence to Barry Coldrey, 7/67 Collins Street, Thornbury, Vic. 3071,
Australia.

Abstract
While researching the history of traditional child care institutions -
children's homes, orphanages, industrial schools and reformatories - the
author was impressed by the similarities of regimen across the spectrum of
traditional care. Underpinning all forms of care was a severe discipline
which often became abusive. Sexual abuse was also reasonably common. There
were differences but it is the similarities which are stressed in this
article, which seeks reasons for the perceived sameness. Children in care
came mostly from the same deprived social background, and no matter what the
intentions of the carers, traditional care involved a confrontation with
cherished working class values which many of the children were bound to
resist. Resistance was met by severe staff reaction; hence the violent
undercurrent. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Edward Jarvis and the Irish

Paddy,

Thanks for the details of the 1998 article on Edward Jarvis's survey
of mental illness among immigrants in Massachusetts during the early
1850s. I haven't seen this, but will certainly chase it up. I
understood that Jarvis didn't find hugely elevated rates of insanity
among immigrants as a community, but rather that immigrants and
especially the Irish were far more likely to be institutionalised for
mental disorders. For my information on his work I largely relied on:

J.W. Fox, 'Irish immigrants, pauperism and insanity in 1854
Massachusetts', 'Social Science History', xv, 3 (Fall 1991), 315-36.

As for the supposedly high rates of schizophrenia in the west of
Ireland during the 20th century, these were given much publicity -
not welcomed in Ireland at least - by Nancy Scheper-Hughes' famous
study 'Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural
Ireland', first published in 1979. It's a very controversial issue.
I've re-visited it to some extent in a new survey article: 'The
Institutional Confinement of the Insane in 19th- and 20th-Century
Ireland: an "Unstable Equilibrium"'. This was due to appear later
this year in a book titled 'The Confinement of the Insane, 1800-1965:
International Perspectives', published by Cambridge UP and edited by
Roy Porter and David Wright. But as Roy Porter died suddenly in
March, I suspect publication may be delayed.

Elizabeth


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

Forwarded with a deep sense of foreboding...

Book information...

P.O'S.


PATHOLOGIES OF TRAVEL.

WRIGLEY, Richard and George REVILL (Eds.)
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 2000, XI,338 pp.

Hb: 90-420-0608-0 EUR 73 / US$ 68

Pb: 90-420-0598-X EUR 23 / US$ 22


Series:
Clio Medica/The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine 56


The essays in this volume, which range across Europe, America and Africa,
and from the 18th to the 20th centuries, argue that the experience of
travel, and the business of representing that experience, involved an
obligatory engagement with the disturbing perception that travel's pleasures
were inseparable from its dangers and ennuis. Despite the confidence of some
medical authorities in their recommendations of the therapeutic benefits to
be derived from ?change of air' as a way of restoring a state of health,
such opinions failed to establish a consensus, either amongst those who
followed such peripatetic prescriptions, or amongst the medical professions
in general. Mad doctors and climatologists alike were forced to adopt an
essentially partisan stance in arguing their case for such recommendations,
and were confronted by rival practitioners who could marshal counter-case
histories which demonstrated diametrically opposed conclusions concerning
the advisability of travel. To this extent, the history of travel and its
pathologies is a particularly revealing instance of the way medical thinking
was dependent on localised studies which might do more to challenge the
universal applicability of generally accepted theories than they did to
confirm their diagnostic reliability. The essays collected here not only
contribute to our understanding of the conception and application of a
variety of medical ideas, showing how they depended on beliefs about climate
and corporeal constitution as well as often inconsistent data or récits
culled from travellers and geographically dispersed case histories, but also
open up illuminatingly complex perspectives on the uncertainties and dangers
of the phenomenon of modern travel.

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Contents: Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
George REVILL and Richard WRIGLEY: Introduction.
Jonathan ANDREWS: Letting Madness Range: travel and mental disorder c.
1700-1900
Malcolm NICOLSON: The Continental Journeys of Andrew Duncan Junior: a
physician's education and the international culture of eighteenth-century
medicine
Matthew CRASKE: Richard Jago's Edge-Hill Revisited: a traveller's prospect
of the health and disease of a succession of national landscapes
Jonathan LAMB: ?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': a ballad of the scurvy
Chloe CHARD: Lassitude and Revival in the Warm South: relaxing and exciting
travel (1750-1830)
Richard WRIGLEY: Pathological Topographies and Cultural Itineraries: mapping
?mal'aria' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rome
Ralph HARRINGTON: The Railway Journey and the Neuroses of Modernity
Tim CRESSWELL: Mobility, Syphilis, and Democracy: pathologizing the mobile
body
Harriet DEACON: The Politics of Medical Topography: seeking healthiness at
the Cape during the nineteenth century
Russell WEST: Sleepers Wake: André Gide and disease in Travels in the Congo
Index

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Article, for information...

P.O'S.

Sexual Transgression and Scapegoats: A Case Study from Modern Ireland

Sexualities, February 2002, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 5-24(20)

Inglis T.[1]

[1] University College Dublin

Abstract:

The Republic of Ireland has become known as the Celtic Tiger. For the last
five years of the 20th century it has had the fastest growing economy in
Europe. There have also been dramatic changes in Irish culture: the monopoly
which the Catholic Church held over Irish morality has been broken; there is
increased tolerance and acceptance of alternative sexuality. But it was not
long ago that things were very different.

This article tells the story of what happened to Joanne Hayes, an 'unmarried
mother', who in 1984 was at the centre of what came to be known as the Case
of the Kerry Babies. The story is placed within the context of the social
and cultural changes that took place in Ireland during the last half of the
20th century, but to explain what happened the article relies on Foucault's
theory of disciplinary power, Girard's concept of the scapegoat and Said's
notion of how 'others' come to be constituted as exotic.

From: "Sarah Morgan"
To:
Subject: Belfast 2008

Paddy,

I wonder if anyone else has looked at the website advertised in the =
email you posted? It's very flash but I guess there's still a lot of =
work to be done on it.

A more specific thought though, I wonder if anyone else was also vaguely =
troubled by the reference to 'Northern Irish diaspora'? I wouldn't =
dispute that lots of people have emigrated from Northern Ireland and =
that they have a strong affiliation to Northern Ireland; but a term like =
that seems to me to be very time specific and not as inclusive as Irish =
diaspora.

Sarah.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The notions of Malthus are certainly there in Irish historiography, though
sometimes perhaps covertly. 'We can't all live on a small island...'

This volume seems to take the discussion in new, relevant directions.

Kathleen Gallagher-Kamper's home page is at
http://www.lasalle.edu/academ/history/kamper.htm

P.O'S.

MALTHUS, MEDICINE, & MORALITY:
'MALTHUSIANISM' AFTER 1798.
DOLAN, Brian (Ed.)
RODOPI Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 2000, XI,232 pp.

Hb: 90-420-0851-2 EUR 57 / US$ 53
Pb: 90-420-0841-5 EUR 18 / US$ 17

http://www.rodopi.nl/


Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine
"Malthus, Medicine, & Morality", edited by Brian Dolan Volume 59

Acknowledgements i

Notes on Contributors iii

Introduction

Introduction: Malthusian Selections 1
Brian Dolan

Chapters

Malthus's Political Economy of Health: The Critique of Scandinavia in the
Essay on Population 9
Brian Dolan


Boys to Men: Moral Restraint at Haileybury College 33
Timothy L. Alborn


The Malthusian Moment 57
Roy Porter


'Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint' 73
Robert M. Young


Malthus Among the Theologians 93
Brian Young


Malthus and the Doctors: Political Economy, Medicine, and the State in
England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800 - 1840 115
Christopher Hamlin; Kathleen Gallagher-Kamper


Malthusian Mutations: The changing politics and moral meanings of birth
control in Britain 141
Lesley A. Hall


Reproduction and Revolution: Paul Robin and Neo-Malthusianism in France
165
Angus McLaren


Biology and Sociology of Fertility. Reactions to the Malthusian Threat,
1798 - 1933 189
Antonello La Vergata

From: McCaffrey

Now I am curious. The report I was referring to was done by Dr. R. Fuller
Torrey of NIMH who spent some time [ a year?] in the west of Ireland. As
the purpose of the research was to determine whether the disease was
hereditary and not to prove that it was an Irish disease - other countries
mentioned in the report are Sweden, Mexico, Puerto Rico [I am just scanning
the pages here] it does seem to have a point of validity. I would be
interested in knowing what the rebuttal to this is as these figures have
also been used in Joyce studies re Nora and their daughter.
Carmel

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

> From: Elizabeth Malcolm
>
> As for the supposedly high rates of schizophrenia in the west of
> Ireland during the 20th century, these were given much publicity -
> not welcomed in Ireland at least - by Nancy Scheper-Hughes' famous
> study 'Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural
> Ireland', first published in 1979. It's a very controversial issue.
> I've re-visited it to some extent in a new survey article: 'The
> Institutional Confinement of the Insane in 19th- and 20th-Century
> Ireland: an "Unstable Equilibrium"'. This was due to appear later
> this year in a book titled 'The Confinement of the Insane, 1800-1965:
> International Perspectives', published by Cambridge UP and edited by
> Roy Porter and David Wright. But as Roy Porter died suddenly in
> March, I suspect publication may be delayed.
>

From: D.J.Featherstone[at]open.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Ir-D CFP Cultural and Political Spaces of the Atlantic

Hi,

Any contributions to this session stressing Irish context/ dimension would
be welcome.

Best

Dave Featherstone

Call for Papers

99th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
March 4-8, 2003, New Orleans.

Cultural and Political Spaces of the Atlantic

The circuits and networks that make up the Atlantic world have acquired
renewed prominence in debates in geography, history and social and cultural
theory (Gilroy, 1993, Linebaugh and Rediker, 2000, Roach, 1996). This
session aims to bring together researchers working on the historical and
contemporary geographies of the Atlantic in situated contexts and from a
diversity of disciplinary perspectives. The Atlantic world has provided a
framework for thinking about the mobility of political and cultural
practices. The session seeks contributions addressing the ways in which
different spaces and times are constituted through cultural and political
flows and interrelations. The session aims to encourage critical discussion
of the use of the Atlantic as a theoretical framework. It seeks
contributions on the Atlantic networks and routes of activity including
discussion of subaltern resistances, artistic practices, identity formation
and sub-cultural forms. The session also aims to stimulate discussion of the
role of geographies of power in articulating and reconfiguring cultural and
political practices.

Those interested in submitting a paper should send a title and an abstract
of up to 300 words by 31st July, 2002 to:

Dave Featherstone or Andy Morris, Department of Geography, Open University.

Dave Featherstone
D.J.Featherstone[at]open.ac.uk
0(0 44)1908 654507

Andy Morris
A.C.Morris[at]open.ac.uk
0(0 44)1908 654505

Department of Geography, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK MK7
6AA.

Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk

From: Patrick Maume

Listmembers may be interested in a very hostile critique of
"whiteness studies" , which has several references to
Ignatiev's HOW THE RISH BECAME WHITE, on the NEW REPUBLIC
website,

Best wishes,
Patrick
----------------------
patrick maume

From: Enda Delaney
To: irish-diaspora
Subject: RE: Ir-D Belfast 2008

Following on from recent comments about the 'Northern Irish Diaspora', a
piece by Colin Pooley is excellent on this very point. He uses a diary and
interviews to explore this issue of the identity of a female migrant from
Northern Ireland. In a course I teach on the Irish in Britain here in
Belfast, I ask students to read this piece and the discussion is always very
interesting, given that it is a mixed student body in terms of political
identity/religious background. The reference is:

Colin Pooley, 'From Londonderry to London: Identity and Sense of Place for a
Protestant Northern Irish Woman in the 1930s', in Donald M. MacRaild (ed),
The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000), pp. 189-213.

Enda Delaney

From: Jessica March
Subject: Re: Ir-D Belfast 2008

Sarah, I'm not sure that all northern migrants would necessarily want to be
included under the umbrella of "Irish Diaspora", so I think the term
?Northern Irish Diaspora? could be considered extremely inclusive because it
does not privilege one community or identity.

Furthermore, I think the term is a useful one because it acknowledges the
possibility of northern and southern migrant experiences being distinct.
Anything that sparks such a debate must surely be a good thing.

Signing off, but pondering on?

Jessica March




In message
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk writes:
>
> From: "Sarah Morgan"
> To:
> Subject: Belfast 2008
>
> Paddy,
>
> I wonder if anyone else has looked at the website advertised in the =
> email you posted? It's very flash but I guess there's still a lot of =
> work to be done on it.
>
> A more specific thought though, I wonder if anyone else was also vaguely =
> troubled by the reference to 'Northern Irish diaspora'? I wouldn't =
> dispute that lots of people have emigrated from Northern Ireland and =
> that they have a strong affiliation to Northern Ireland; but a term like =
> that seems to me to be very time specific and not as inclusive as Irish =
> diaspora.
>
> Sarah.
>
>
>

From
Padraic[at]sheppard-finn.demon.co.uk
Subject: Kevin McNamara's speech.


Text of Kevin McNamara speech....

THE EMIGRATION STONE
Mullyard, Derrynoose, County Armagh
Remarks of Kevin McNamara MP on 21 June 2002


My sincere thanks to those who have organised this 2002 Dedication and those
who conceived, nourished and gave birth to a dream in establishing this
unique memorial for Ireland's legacy to the world - its departed peoples.

On this, the longest day of the year, we are gathered on this beautiful hill
with its fine view stretching over several counties.

Co Down, Co Louth and Co Meath were the lands of my grandparents' birth. It
is a little far to see Co Mayo, but the vision of Adergoole where my father'
s father was born is forever etched in my memory.

We are gathered at the centre of historic Ireland to remember...
to remember those that have passed this way before,
those who left these shores fleeing hunger, poverty, oppression and loss;
those who had choice and those who had none;
those who hoped for better and those who just hoped the pain would end.

Everyone who left, left something of themselves behind in Ireland;
everyone who settled in a new land, brought something of Ireland with them.

For some - my grandparents included - the passage was perhaps a day away -
the ferry to Liverpool and the welcoming arms of the Liverpool Irish;
but for many the passage was long and dangerous.
Many were lost before they arrived.

And what of the arrival? That first footstep on foreign soil... For some
there were those who came before; for others the outlook was more uncertain.

In 1838 when Archbishop Hughes, himself a County Tyrone man, set about
building a Cathedral to St Patrick on farmland outside the then boundaries
of New York - now mid-town Manhattan; the social elite saw the poor Irish as
a 'scourge' upon their city. I believe Ireland was once described by a
popular newspaper columnist as "the greatest sewer of the world". Orange
Parades were held in City until 1872 and the new Catholic schools and
churches were the subject of arson attacks.

When I was first elected as a Member of Parliament in 1966, it was in our
collective memory of signs posted in the windows of some cheap lodging
houses: "No Blacks; No Dogs; No Irish!" . Fortunately, that notice is also
posted on the Gates of Hell!

How different it seems today.

In Britain, America, Canada, Australia and throughout the world the
contribution of the Irish is recognised and praised.

In 1997, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, spoke of the 'scars' left
by the Irish famine and ackowledged that those who governed from London at
the time failed the people. He paid tribute to the ways in which the Irish
people triumphed in the face of this catastrophe.

The Prime Minister highlighted the Irish gift to the English: Irish
builders, Irish nurses; The great Irish genius - writers, musicians, players
and comedians. Irish computer programmers; Irish fashion designers. And let'
s not forget Irish footballers and Irish football fans!

What is our mental picture of past emigration? The tearful farewell at the
railway station or ferry terminal. It might be the last time the family
would ever be together. Hopefully the remitance would arrive through the
post.
Today, the Irish emigrant can get on a plane in Dublin in the afternoon and
be in New Jersey that night. They can draw a fist full of dollars from an
ATM. For the price of a pint, they can pick up a phone and talk to the whole
family back home. They can sit in an internet cafe and read the local
papers; they can order Irish products directly on-line. They can back a
horse in the 2.30 at any hour of the day or night. And they may have a Green
Card or not, economic illegal migrants.

So have things changed?

Today in this world of riches, 20% of the human population - 1.2 billion
people are living in abject poverty. 2.8 billion survive on less than 2
Euros a day.

2 billion people have no access to low cost medication;
2.4 billion lack basic sanitation;
11 million children under-5s die every year from a preventable disease.
It is thought that up to 826 million are starving.

For millions and millions, expectations have dried up.
Many seek hope elsewhere.

Today, one person in fifty is a migrant worker;
150 million people live outside their country of origin.

Wars and violent unrest ravage the planet: Rwanda - up to a million dead;
Iraq - 200,000 killed in the Gulf War, perhaps a million more dying as a
result of sanctions; in the Former Yugoslavia - 170,000 dead.

Kashmir - where one million Pakistani and Indian soldiers face each other
off across the border, already 28,000 killed since 1990.

... Palestine, Afghanistan, Somalia, Burundi, Sierra Leone - the list goes
on...

It's no wonder people are seeking refuge. People are fleeing poverty.
People are fleeing persecution.
People just like the Irish over the past 150 years.

In Ireland we have our own divisions, our own intolerance, our own hatred -
as the people of Short Strand and surrounding areas will testify. But since
20 June was proclaimed World Refugee Day by the United Nations General
Assembly, I am going to talk about refugees, asylum seekers and economic
migrants.

In war, those who flee, flee to the nearest safe place.

Around the world today there are some 22 million refugees.

Iraqi refugees fled to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria; 3.5 million Palestinians
are scattered around the middle east;
the Ivory Coast is host to a quarter of a million refugees.

Most will return to their own country, their own home, their own land as
soon as they are able. On Monday, the UN High Commission on Refugees
announced that a million had already returned to Afghanistan.

Only a minority of refugees seek asylum in Europe or North America.
And yet those that do arrive - often find the door slammed in their face.

Not everyone is rich in Europe; many people are poor.

But the people of Ireland - of all the nations of the world - should
understand the desperation that forces poor people to emigrate.

On 19 June, two years ago this week, customs officers at Dover opened a an
18-metre long sealed container to find two men gasping for breath and the
ghastly corpses of 58 men and women. They came from the southern Chinese
province of Fujian on the Taiwan Strait. Their escape from grinding poverty
and oppression ended in suffocation and death.

Wexford Business Park on 9 December 2001. Guarda, acting on a tip off broke
open a container. Inside they found 13 Turkish asylum seekers. Five were
barely alive. Eight were already dead. Among them boys aged 4, 9 & 12. A
girl aged ten.

Container lorries are the new "coffin ships".

On World Refugee Day 2001, the European anti-racist network documented 3,026
lives lost directly through "Fortress Europe" immigration policies. This
year, the figure will have been even higher.

A traditional "cead mille failte"? I think not.

Ireland must never deny its past. We are an emigrant nation. It is a badge
we wear with pride. We know we have brought joy to the world!

We confronted challenges then. We confront challenges now. Today's challenge
on immigration is a challenge of relative prosperity. Every immigrant to the
shores of these islands brings with them their own history, their own
talent, culture and worth.

We hear alot about tolerance and multi-culturalism. But real
multi-culturalism is founded on the certain knowledge that immigrants bring
economic and social value.

In 1956, Ireland opened its doors and its heart to refugees fleeing
Stalinism in Hungary. In the 1970s, this country was a haven for victims of
repression in Chile and war in Vietnam.

So what changed? Are the victims of wars today somehow less deserving?

Leave aside the mass emigration of the famine years. In the 1950s, 40,000
people left Ireland each and every year. As late as 1986, the Irish Post in
London reported that net emigration the previous year was 64,000.

Economic migrants or Asylum seekers in these islands today do not create
racism anymore than Irish immigrants created racism or anti-Irish
intolerance in New York or London.

Yet our fellow human beings are being spat at in the streets.

On 25 January this year Ireland got its own Stephen Lawrence - a 26 year-old
Chinese student, Zhao Liu Tao was beaten to death by an a gang of racists
who smashed his skull with an iron bar on the side of the road in
Drumcondra, north Dublin. This is our shame.

The horror of his death echoed the length and breath of Ireland. To
politicians who say the country is being held to ransom by "spongers,
wasters and con men", I ask them to think some more about what it means to
be Irish. What is our common history? What is our common understanding?
What were Irish people called when we arrived? And how many of them came
from Cork?

In October 2000, Mary Robinson told the European Conference against Racism
and Intolerance in Strasbourg: "Politicians should lead by example. This is
an issue which calls for a strong stance and a transparent approach. Some
leaders have had the courage to speak out clearly and show solidarity with
victims of racially motivated attacks. We need more of that - and not only
after outrages are committed. We need to hear our political leaders
championing diversity, extolling the virtues of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic
societies, defending the vulnerable."

As President of Ireland, Mary Robinson pledged to keep a light in her window
for Ireland's sons and daughters dispersed throughout the world. She
promised they would not be forgotten. As UN Commissioner for Human Rights,
I believe she has kept that flame alight by challenging the roots of racism
and offering hope to its victims.

As a Nation, we understand what it is to be tired and hungry.The
generosity, kindness and tolerance of the Irish - an outgoing and forgiving
people - should not be drowned in the selfishness of a new prosperity. Once
we were the dispossessed.
Let us now identify with and take to our hearts the new dispossessed. Treat
their needs not as a problem to be faced but a challenge to be overcome.

Go raibh maith agat!