From: "Edmundo Murray"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Catalina Street in Ciudad San Martín, Buenos Aires

Dear colleagues and friends,

It looks like the only difference among the 19th-century Irish emigrants
bound to Argentina was county of origin (though about 80% came from the
Midlands and Co. Wexford). They were young, Roman Catholic, and members or
the rural, sheep-farming middle-class, and most of them kept their religion
and rural life when arriving at the River Plate. However, there is evidence
of Irish presence in the Anglo-Argentine community, i.e., urban, Protestant
and merchants/professionals.

Catalina (Kathleen Milton Boyle 1869-1941), a schoolteacher in the suburban
Buenos Aires, was part of this segment. The following article is a small
account of her life and works, mainly taken from old newspapers and family
records:

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/emurray/documents/papers/irish-d/toponymy/catalina/
catalina.htm

I hope you find it interesting. Best wishes,

Edmundo Murray
Université de Genève
7, rue du Quartier Neuf
1205 Genève Suisse
+41 22 739 5049 (office)
+41 22 320 1544 (home)
edmundo_murray[at]hotmail.com
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/emurray
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A number of us have been quietly discussing these issues, about mental
health and the Irish, for a few years - and trying to move the discussion
forward and unpack the discussion.

I would particularly note here the advice that our very own Patricia Walls
has been giving this year to Dr. Sashi Sashidaran's ethnicity and mental
health task force - Sashi is the UK government's leading figure in
developing a new policy around questions of ethnicity and mental health. In
due course I hope to persuade Paddy Walls to let us have an outline of her
advice, for publication.

We are also now seeking funding for a Research Symposium here in Bradford,
which would most probably lead fairly easily to an edited book - and further
research projects.

Fieldwork for the Bradford Irish Mental Health project finished earlier this
year - this project looked at emergency psychiatric admissions. The report
is now being written - and we are quarrelling about the meaning of our
findings.

I flagged the issues in the Introduction to my 1992 volume, Patrick O?
Sullivan, ed., The Irish in the New Communities ? which mentions the work of
E. Fuller Torrey. Who is, by the way, by no means an uncontroversial
figure - when approaches to the understanding of mental distress are so much
controlled by the drug companies. And Nancy Scheper-Hughes... (see further
my Discussion Paper, mentioned below...)

In that 1992 volume I published a brave chapter by Liam Greenslade, which
neatly brought Fanon back to the study of psychiatry.

There are some basic facts on the web site of MIND, the UK's mental health
campaigning organisation - the whole web site is worth browsing, but see
especially...

http://www.mind.org.uk/mindpdfs/Understanding_schizophrenia.pdf

http://www.mind.org.uk/information/factsheets/I/irish/The_Mental_Health_of_I
rish_Born_People_in_Britain.asp

Further thinking since 1992...

It had always seemed to me that there were further issues within this issue
of the Irish and mental health that we were not getting our heads round.

The missing issues, it now seems to me ? after some thought and a world-wide
survey ? lie within discourses on eugenics and immigration control.

I have been gathering material to look at the place of the Irish in
discourses about eugenics and immigration controls, in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, in all the immigrant receiving countries. I
have looked mostly at the USA and at Canada ? and have developed some
intriguing case studies. The same discussions take place in Britain, and
similar laws are passed - but here, of course, within the United Kingdom,
the Irish are an anomaly.

I have placed on www.irishdiaspora.net - in the 'folder' marked Irish
Diaspora Studies, Projects - a Discussion Paper I wrote last year which maps
out current issues and possible future projects.

In that Discussion Paper I have suggestedthat the Irish are 'built in' -
very Foucault ? as a problem group within British psychiatric discourse and
practice from the very beginnings of psychiatry, and that this discourse is
broadly accepted in the other immigrant receiving countries. Within this
discourse the Irish are identified as a group who are peculiarly susceptible
to psychiatric illness.

I suggest instead that the Irish are a group who are peculiarly vulnerable
to psychiatric intervention.

P.O'S.

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of Boston Irish Tourism Association
BOSTONIRISH[at]attbi.com
Subject: James Galway, Seamus Heaney, Christy Moore, Brian Friel, Kevin
Burke, Lord of the Dance, Irish Tenors, Boston Irish Heritage Trail


The Boston Irish Tourism Association (BITA) has a full summer/fall schedule
of great Irish cultural activities at www.IrishMassachusetts.com. Some
outstanding artists are coming to Boston and Massachusetts soon - flutist
James Galway, the Irish Tenors, the Boston Pops' Celtic Night, Lord of the
Dance, Barrage, fiddler Kevin Burke, Echos of Erin at the Irish Cultural
Centre, the Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Concert and the Uprooted Tour of Celtic
rockers.

Seamus Heaney is coming to the Robert Frost Festival in October...there's a
play about Irish singer Christy Moore from DubbelJoint Productions in
Belfast, a Turgenev play adapted by Brian Friel at the Huntington Theatre,
and the Irish Cultural Centre is presenting a play from Galway's Headford
Theatre Group.

There's great festivals: the Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival in July, Castle
Island Ceili in August, a concert on the music of Patrick S. Gilmore at the
Hatch Shell and the Newport Irish Festival over Labor Day Weekend.

And museum exhibits on "Ethnic Caricatures in America" at the Dreams of
Freedom: Boston's Immigration Museum, and an exhibit on the "Cuban Missile
Crisis" at the JFK Library & Museum.

There's a bike trip to Ireland sponsored by the Irish Immigration Center in
September and much more!

You can win concert tickets to some great upcoming performances:

Uprooted Tour at FleetBoston Pavilion/July 6

Barrage at North Shore Music Theatre/July 6

Irish Tenors at FleetBoston Pavilion/August 3

by going to the contest buttons on our home page,
www.irishmassachusetts.com.

If you'd like information sent to you by mail, you can order Irish
Massachusetts 2002, a listing of the state's best Irish events and pubs,
gift shops, hotels, travel agencies and cultural groups, plus a color map of
the Irish Heritage Trail, a walking and touring guide to 49 Irish landmarks
in Massachusetts. Please send $4.00 to cover postage/handling costs to:

Boston Irish Tourism Association
20 Buckingham Road
Milton, MA 02186

The Boston Irish Tourism Association is a membership organization formed in
2000 to promote the state's Irish activities and business year round.
Membership is just $400 per year, we'll be glad to send you more details.

We thank you for your time.

Boston Irish Tourism Association
617 696-9880
www.IrishHeritageTrail.com
www.IrishMassachusetts.com
bostonirish[at]attbi.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

D.C. Rose
d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk
Subject: THE OSCHOLARS Vol II No 7 July 2002


Dear Colleagues,

We have pleasure in informing you that the July edition of THE OSCHOLARS
has now been posted to its website at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars
with the password umney (the problems that we had last month have been, we
believe, resolved, but do please report any broken links etc., not always
detectable from here; and not always curable, either, alas!).

The process of reconfiguring the pages continues, and we have a new Search
Engine on the homepage.

Registered readership continues to rise, and our postbox receives almost
unanimous letters of support, for which we thank you.

As indicated last month, our future after October is still somewhat
insecure, but we have every expectation of being able to continue.

Do please keep your information flowing in.

Yours sincerely,

David Rose


D.C. Rose
Department of English/Centre for Irish Studies
Goldsmiths College
University of London
SE14 6NW

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Information about Jill Blee's new novel The Liberator's Birthday is now on
the web.

www.indra.com.au

Any comments to Jill Blee or the publisher Ian
Fraser.

And we now hear that Jill Blee has a commission to write the history of
Catholic education in the Ballarat Diocese... In spite of her portrayal of
Catholic personalities and tactics in the novel...

Busy, busy...

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have noted before the work of Chris Arthur, and his very personal revival
of the literary essay.

The second collection of essays by Chris Arthur is now being noticed.

Chris Arthur
Irish Willow
Davies Group Publishers, ISBN 1-888570-46-6, pp235, $19.95

There is a review at...
http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=49&iArticleID=3243

And there was recently a review in The Scotsman - 'like Heaney in prose...'

The first essay collection goes on being read and used...

Chris Arthur
Irish Nocturnes
Davies Group Publishers
Aurora
Colorado 2000
ISBN 1-888570-49-0

There is a Sample essay
Walking Meditation
An Essay by Chris Arthur

http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/arthur01.html

Other matter of interest...

http://www.local.ie/content/10358.shtml

REVIEW OF IRISH NOCTURNES BY CHRIS ARTHUR
by William Wall

The Charlotte Austin Review Ltd
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/202/300/charlotte/2000/07-31/pages/intervie
ws/authors/chrisarthur.htm

Contact information...
The Davies Group, PO Box 440140, Aurora, Colorado 80044-0140. Email:
daviesgroup[at]msn.com

P.O'S.


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Subject: Re: Ir-D Mental Health issues 3
From: "michael j. curran"

A Phadraig
very interested in your topic of mental health and the Irish - in Britain
particularly.
You rightly mentioned the work of Liam Greenslade, who was a pioneer albeit
with a small 'p'. I meet with him occasionally and he seems to want to
forget that whole area of study of the Irish in Britain - pity.
I have a feeling we need more 'objective' quantitative research, possibly
funded by the Irish/British Governments and/or NGOs, but NOT carried out
necessarily by Irish-linked academics or Irish agencies.
The research or papers presented by the likes of Seeromanie Harding/Prof.
Balarajan/J.Haskey/Prof. A.Furnham/Prof. P. Bebbington/ Williams and others
lend support to Dean et al, and of course to Bracken et al.
We are examining the acculturation and mental health from an initial sample
of 6oo 'Irish' in Britain, but except for descriptive work already done, we
started almost from scratch.
Anyway keep the pot boiling in the context of this very pertinent 'burning
issue'
What about a meeting of those interested and focused on methodological and
other practical aspects of empirical psychosocial research?
Slan agus beannacht
Michael


Michael J. Curran
Irish Diaspora Project
Dept. of Psychology
Aras an Phiarsaigh
Trinity College
Dublin 2 Ireland

(curranmj[at]tcd.ie)
Phone : 003531 6081886, 0044 2890 839569(home in Belfast)
FAX: 003531 6712006, 0044 2890 836042

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

P.O'S.



Online ISSN: 1099-1220 Print ISSN: 1077-3495
International Journal of Population Geography
Volume 7, Issue 6, 2001. Pages: 473-490

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


Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Article

Accumulating populations: bodies, institutions and space
Chris Philo *
Department of Geography and Topographic Science, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

email: Chris Philo (cphilo[at]geog.gla.ac.uk)

*Correspondence to Chris Philo, Department of Geography and Topographic
Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

Keywords
populations; institutions; prisons; discipline; spatial strategies


Abstract
This paper makes a contribution to the conceptual basis of population
geography by introducing ideas from the French thinker, Michel Foucault,
concerning the spatial strategies integral to how populations are managed at
the micro-scale of institutions such as prisons. These ideas derive from
Foucault's writing in Discipline and Punish ([1977]), and they are the
antecedents of his later ideas about biopolitics, biopower and
governmentality which are already beginning to interest a few population
geographers. The relevant passages from Discipline and Punish are explored,
and attention is also paid to what Foucault argued here about broader
demographic and economic trends framing the late-eighteenth century origins
of both modern prisons and, seen here as their close relation, the factories
of industrial capitalism. A route into Foucault's ideas is piloted through a
review of a book by the sociologist Nathan Kantrowitz, Close Control, which,
while never referencing Foucault, clearly demonstrates how one particular
Illinois prison entailed a definite exercise in applied micro-population
geography through which discipline was imposed on its institutionalised
population. By moving between Close Control and Discipline and Punish, the
paper sketches out materials which complement the long-standing concern of
population geographers for the techniques whereby states and other
authorities (e.g. churches) seek to manage the dynamics of national,
regional and local human populations. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd.

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Received: 20 September 2000; Revised: 27 June 2001; Accepted: 13 July 2001

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Forwarded for information...

P.O'S.



Title: Irish descent, religion and food consumption in the west of Scotland
Author(s): K. Mullen; R. Williams; K. Hunt
Source: Appetite Volume: 34 Number: 1 Page: p47 -- p54
Publisher:Academic Press
Abstract: Mortality and morbidity of people of Irish descent in Britain is
high, including from cardiovascular causes potentially linked with diet. The
west of Scotland has long had a pattern of Irish migration, where migrants
were poorer than the host population, and their different religious
background gave rise to prolonged discrimination. This paper uses data
collected in 1987/88 from the west of Scotland Twenty-07 study to test
whether dietary differences due to poverty or to other factors have
persisted among the descendents of these migrants. Being born of Catholic
parents was the index of Irish descent used, these respondents consumed less
of a factor represented by fruit, yoghurt and vegetables, and more of one
represented by snacks and processed foods than the rest of the sample. The
picture for those reporting current Catholic affiliation in adulthood was
similar. Differences are largely associated with social class and mediated
not by low income but by educational disadvantage. The findings suggest the
continuation of a diet affected by limited opportunities for social
mobility, and thus by obstacles to sustained educational advancement, among
the descendants of Irish migrants even after several generations.




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P.O'S.


Original Article

?Merit in distress?: The Troubled Success of Mary Barber

Review of English Studies, May 2002, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 204-227(24)

Budd A.

Abstract:

This article discusses the brief but illuminating literary career of Mary
Barber (c. 1685?1755), a friend and protégée of Jonathan Swift, who
published her expensive subscription volume, Poems on Several Occasions, in
1735. Her subscription list was, excepting Matthew Prior's 1718 folio,
without precedent for its resplendent length and illustrious contents, and
it was moreover remarkable given Barber's otherwise pedestrian social
standing as an ailing Irish housewife. By examining the list of its eminent
subscribers and their likely ambivalent relationship to Barber's means of
attracting and maintaining literary patronage, the article suggests that the
eighteenth-century book trade allowed subscribers to sign for the book (and
so list themselves in its pages) without paying for or collecting their
copies. By discussing contemporary correspondence, publication costs,
drawing-room politics, and Mary Barber's remarkable ability to maintain the
favour of important poets such as Gay, Pope, and Swift?despite notable
social faux pas and her arrest and imprisonment for seditious conduct
shortly before her quarto's anticipated release?the article argues that Mary
Barber, ?the Citizen's-Housewife Poet?, employed a means of attracting
subscribers which would itself enforce her subsequent financial collapse and
long-standing obscurity.



Language: English Document Type: Original article ISSN: 0034-6551

SICI (online): 0034-6551532204227

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Forwarded for information...

P.O'S.


Online ISSN: 1099-1220 Print ISSN: 1077-3495
International Journal of Population Geography
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2000. Pages: 45-59

Published Online: 7 Feb 2000


Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Research Article

The invisibility of skilled female migrants and gender relations in studies
of skilled migration in Europe
Eleonore Kofman *
Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton
Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK

email: Eleonore Kofman (eleonore.kofman[at]ntu.ac.uk)

*Correspondence to Eleonore Kofman, Department of International Studies,
Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS

Abstract
This paper examines the reasons for the invisibility of skilled female
migrants in studies of skilled migration in Europe. The choice of research
agendas has played a major part in rendering women invisible. The emphasis
has generally been on transnational corporations, which, especially in their
higher ranks, remain resolutely male-dominated. The presence of migrants in
welfare sectors (i.e. education, health and social services), which are
strongly feminised, has been ignored. Feminist research has also tended to
obscure the role of skilled migrants in its emphasis on the unskilled.
Theoretical and methodological developments in studies of migration have
also made few inroads into our understanding of skilled migration. Copyright
© 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.



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Received: 2 March 1999; Revised: 13 October 1999; Accepted: 29 October 1999

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A review of ethnicity, health and nutrition-related diseases in relation to
migration in the United Kingdom

Public Health Nutrition, April 2001, vol. 4, no. Special Issue 2B, pp.
647-657(11)

Landman J.[1]*; Cruickshank J.[2]

[1]Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh [2]Clinical Epidemiology
Group, Manchester University Medical School, Manchester 2, UK
[*]j.landman[at]nutsoc.org.uk

Abstract:

Objectives: To identify lessons from and gaps in research on diet?disease
links among former migrants in the United Kingdom (UK).

Results: Migrant status and self-identified ethnicity do not match so these
terms mask differences in social, nutritional and health status within and
between population groups. Some former migrants differ in causes of death
from the general population, e.g.: fewer coronary heart disease deaths among
Caribbean-born; fewer cancer deaths among Caribbean, South Asian- and East
African-born adults. Irish- and Scottish-born have higher mortality from all
causes. Experience of risk factors differ also, e.g.: higher prevalences of
hypertension and diabetes in Caribbean- and South Asian-born adults than
representative samples of the general population; obesity and raised
waist-hip circumference ratios in South Asian, African-Caribbean and some
Irish-born adults. Former migrants experience long-term disadvantage,
associated with more self-defined illness and lower reported physical
activity. Nutrient intake data from the few, recent, small-scale studies
must be interpreted with caution due to methodological diversity. However,
second generation offspring of former migrants appear to adopt British
dietary patterns, increasing fat and reducing vegetable, fruit and pulse
consumption compared with first generation migrants.

Conclusions: There is insufficient evidence on why some former migrants but
not others experience lower specific mortality than the general population.
Dietary intake variations provide important clues particularly when examined
by age and migration status. Majority ethnic and younger migrant groups
could raise and sustain high fruit and vegetable intakes but lower
proportions of fat, by adopting many dietary practices from older migrants.
Objective measures of physical activity and longitudinal studies of diets
among different ethnic groups are needed to explain diversity in health
outcomes and provide for evidence-based action.



Keywords: Ethnicity; Migrants; Nutrition-related diseases; Obesity; Diet;
United Kingdom

Language: English Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1368-9800

SICI (online): 1368-98004Special




Publisher: CABI Publishing on behalf of the Nutrition Society

Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish descent and food consumption

From: Patrick Maume
Surely there is a problem with this definition of "Irish" -
there must be quite a lot of people in the West of Scotland who
are of Irish descent through Protestant (especially Ulster
Protestant) immigrant ancestry - there has always been a lot of
toing and froing across the North Channel.
THe author should call this a study of Irish Catholic
migrants, or adopt some other methodology.
Best wishes,
Patrick
On 30 June 2002 06:00 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Forwarded for information...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
>
> Title: Irish descent, religion and food consumption in the west of
Scotland
> Author(s): K. Mullen; R. Williams; K. Hunt
> Source: Appetite Volume: 34 Number: 1 Page: p47 -- p54
> Publisher:Academic Press
> Abstract: Mortality and morbidity of people of Irish descent in Britain is
> high, including from cardiovascular causes potentially linked with diet.
The
> west of Scotland has long had a pattern of Irish migration, where migrants
> were poorer than the host population, and their different religious
> background gave rise to prolonged discrimination. This paper uses data
> collected in 1987/88 from the west of Scotland Twenty-07 study to test
> whether dietary differences due to poverty or to other factors have
> persisted among the descendents of these migrants. Being born of Catholic
> parents was the index of Irish descent used, these respondents consumed
less
> of a factor represented by fruit, yoghurt and vegetables, and more of one
> represented by snacks and processed foods than the rest of the sample. The
> picture for those reporting current Catholic affiliation in adulthood was
> similar. Differences are largely associated with social class and mediated
> not by low income but by educational disadvantage. The findings suggest
the
> continuation of a diet affected by limited opportunities for social
> mobility, and thus by obstacles to sustained educational advancement,
among
> the descendants of Irish migrants even after several generations.
>
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patrick maume

From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"

There is an edited version of Television and the trouble with history, Simon
Schama's BBC history lecture - shown last month on BBC4 - at...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4435733,00.html

The lecture marks the completion of his televised History of Britain, which
has been full of oddities - not least, as Paul O'Leary has remarked, the
sympathetic treatment of the Irish Famine.

This lecture has its own oddities... What are we to make of this piece of
comedy?

"Now Mr Cromwell, or 'Protector' as you seem, for some reason, to think of
yourself, I PUT IT TO YOU, that you behaved very VERY badly in Ireland. No,
no, I won't take ifs and buts; did you or did you not say these RUDE things
about the Catholics? YES OR NO???"

But the lecture does praise a previous piece of television history, Peter
Watkins' Culloden (1964) - a film which, in one telling little cameo,
captures the dogged professionalism of the Irish volunteers, who hurried
from Fontenoy and arrived just in time for the debacle of Culloden.

P.O'S.


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Subject: Re: Ir-D CFP Feasts and Famine, New Orleans, 2003
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Is the conference on Dickens, Victoria and opulence?
There is no mention of famine,emigration, and Ireland's
woes during that horrendous period.
Nineteenth century Ireland has little feasting , fun, and frolicking.
Much, much needs to be developed from an historical, literary, and
political perspective.
Would love to return to New Orleans but not interested in festive British
culture during "An Gorta Mor, Ireland's Great Hunger."

Eileen

Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Director
The Irish Educational Association, Inc. Tel # (352) 332
3690
6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail :
eolas1[at]juno.com
Gainesville, FL 32653

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Just to explain... The Feast and Famine Conference announcement was one that
fell into our nets - and we thought might interest...

There was a train of thought... In the latest History Ireland 10/2 (Summer
2002) there is an interesting essay...

L.A. Clarkson and E. Margaret Crawford, 'A non-famine history of Ireland?',
pp. 31-5, which builds on their book, Feast and Famine, Oxford, 2001, to
argue that the Great Famine has coloured Irish historiography and that
Ireland was not more hunger-prone than other European countries.

Book Information...

Feast and Famine - Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500-1920

Leslie Clarkson, Professor Emeritus of Social History, The Queen's
University of Belfast, and Margaret Crawford, Senior Research Fellow, The
Queen's University of Belfast

Price: £25.00 (Hardback )
0-19-822751-5
Publication date: 15 November 2001
336 pages, numerous graphs and tables, 234mm x 156mm

http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-822751-5

gets you to a sample of the book in PDF format.

P.O'S.



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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"

On Sundays my morning cup of tea often coincides with the broadcast, on BBC
Radio 4, of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America.

Last Sunday I nearly choked on my tea...

The return of NINA... The last time the Irish-Diaspora list discussed the
'No Irish Need Apply' signs and songs we had, I think, a goal-less draw
which had to be settled by penalties...

So, I know this is risky, but...

The full text of Alistair Cooke's latest Letter from America can be found
at...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/letter_from_america/newsid_2078000/20
78183.stm

It can also to be listened to there on web audio.

Cooke recalls having to explain to a visiting friend what the word
'Restricted' meant outside apartment houses. It meant No Jews.

EXTRACT BEGINS>>>

That was in 1937.

When I was at college here four years earlier I'd seen another sign
frequently pasted in shop windows and employment agencies.

It said "Nina" - N.I.N.A. More often it was spelled out - "No Irish Need
Apply".

But by the early 1940s that Irish sign had vanished. By then the Irish and
the Italians ran the Democratic Party in New York, and we were soon to have
a couple of Jewish mayors.

EXTRACT ENDS>>>

P.O'S.


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From: Elizabeth Malcolm
Subject: Conference: Irish-Scottish Studies Down Under, Oct. 2002

CELTIC CONNECTIONS
IRISH-SCOTTISH STUDIES DOWN UNDER

24-26 October 2002

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui

A conference to:

* enlist community support for the study of Irish and Scottish
experiences in Australia (OZ) and New Zealand (NZ)
* showcase current NZ research
* strengthen links with OZ-based scholars
* forge new links with Irish and Scottish Studies institutes worldwide

Topics to be covered include:

* migration patterns
* religious history
* indigenous relations
* gender issues
* questions of identity
* aspects of social and political history
* the way forward for Irish and Scottish Studies Down Under

Contributors include, among others:

NZ: Malcolm Campbell; Rory Sweetman;
OZ: Daryl Adair; Stewart Gill; Elizabeth Malcolm; Stuart McIntyre;
Val Noone; Eric Richards;
Scotland: Tom Devine; Angela McCarthy;
Ireland: Brian Graham; Dianne Hall;
Canada: Don Akenson

Sponsored by the Stout Research Centre for NZ Studies, Victoria
University of Wellington, NZ, and the Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish
Studies, University of Melbourne, OZ; and supported by Guinness

For further information, please contact:

Conference Organiser/Celtic Connections
Stout Research Centre
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington, NZ

Phone: 04 463 6436
Fax: 04 463 5439
Email: brad.patterson[at]vuw.ac.nz
Website: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/stout-centre/index.html



Professor Elizabeth Malcolm Tel: +61-3-8344 3924
Department of History Fax: +61-3-8344 7894
University of Melbourne email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
Parkville, Victoria
Australia 3010

From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"

Our attention has been drawn to the following item, in the latest issue of
BJSW...

British Journal of Social Work, (2002) Vol 32, pp 477-494.

No Irish Need Apply: Social work in Britain and the history and politics of
exclusionary paradigms and practices

Paul Michael Garrett

Abstract

In Britain, Irish people have continually been excluded from the discourse
of anti-discriminatory social work theory. The main reason for this centres
on the dominant tendency to exclusively focus on 'race' and visible
difference. Recent policy documents in relation to social work with children
and families illustrate the fact that Irish people are omitted in
discussions seeking to promote culturally appropriate services. Conceptually
this approach is founded on implicit ideas about British identity and
erroneously suggests that white ethnicities are homogeneous, unified and
clearly demarcated from a (new) black presence. Historically, ideas
associated with 'the problem family' can be related to the racialisation of
Irish people. Archival research examining responses to unmarried mothers
travelling to Britain to have 'illegitimate' babies adopted also highlights
how Irish women have been subject to exclusionary social care practices.
Whilst rejecting an essentialist conceptualisation of 'Irishness', the
article goes onto suggest that the mainstream and hegemonic discourse on
'race' needs to take specific account of Irish people and other minority
ethnicities not identifying as 'black', particularly during a period of
globalisation and new migration into Britain by refugees and asylum seekers.

[The BJSW has a web site at...

http://bjsw.oupjournals.org/

But the very latest issue is not yet listed there.]

P.O'S.

From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"

Forwarded for information...

This is often a nice way of keeping in touch with colleagues in African
Diaspora Studies - and often scholars there develop a comparative
perspective. For example, in the latest Newsletter, Denise Challenger on
'criminals' and 'undesirables', including Irish, in C19th Canada.

P.O'S.

The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre for Research on the African Diaspora,
Department of History, York University, Canada, is pleased to announce that
its
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWSLETTER no. 7 is now available on-line at