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For information...

P.O'S.


Archives of Surgery (Chicago, Ill.: 1960)
Volume 137, Issue 8, August 2002, Pages 882-887
ISSN: 0004-0010

The irish american contribution to surgery
O'Connell, Theodore X

Department of Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 4747 Sunset Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027; e-mail Theodore.X.O'Connell[at]kp.org

[Journal Article; In English; United States]

Citation Subset Indicators: Core clinical journal; Index Medicus

From: WallsAMP[at]aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:48:41 EDT
Subject: Re: Ir-D Searching for papers

The first one is by M J Hickman in 1996, the second by Mary Kells in 1995,
both part of occasional papers series at Irish Studies Centre, UNL

PaddyW

From: "Nuala Killeen"
To:
Subject: Searching for papers

Dear All,
Can anyone help me locate two papers (or books)? I wrote down the titles, no
doubt convinced that I would remember the source, and of course, now that I
need them, I have absolutely no recollection of where I came across them.
They are:
"Irish Community: Myth or Reality?"
and
"Ethnic identity among young Irish middle-class migrants in London".
With thanks,

Nuala Killeen
(The late) Dept. of Cultural Studies and Sociology
University of Birmingham

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Gary Owens has just brought this item to the attention of the irishstudies
list.

It chimes with recent discussion on Ir-D.

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----

From: Gary Owens
gowens[at]iol.ie
Subject: Schama on the NYC Famine memorial



Simon Schama has a reflective piece in the current New Yorker magazine on
the NYC memorial to the Great Famine. It's at:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020819ta_talk_schama.

Gary Owens

From: Helen Fallon
Subject: Re: Ir-D Searching for papers


Nuala,

I've taken a look at COPAC which is the combined library catalogues of a
large number of UK libraries.
It's at www.copac.ac.uk

The book The Irish community in Britain : myth or reality? / Hickman, Mary
J.. 1996 is
held by Warwick, Newcastle and the British Library.
Full details - publisher, place of publication etc. can be viewed on the
COPAC entry.

Ethnic identity amongst young Irish middle class migrants in london / Mary
Kells, 1995
is held in Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Oxford and the British
Library.

Again the full details of the book are in the record on COPAC so could be
used if you are going to order it rather than get it on inter-library loan.

Users of the list may be interested to know that an endeavour somewhat
similar to COPAC is ongoing in the Irish universities. IRIS the Consortium
of Irish University and Research Libraries has produced a web based
catalogue that allows users to execute a search across mjultiple library
catalogues - NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City Univeristy,
Enterprise Ireland, University College Cork, University College Dublin and
the University of Limerick.

IRIS is available at http://www.iris.ie/index.htm

Regards,

Helen Fallon.



Helen Fallon,
Deputy Librarian,
N.U.I. Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.

Tel: +353 1 7083880
Fax: +353 1 6286008
http//www.may.ie/library/

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This item is being distributed. It will be of interest to Ir-D members,
since it covers Irish history too. What is especially helpful is that the
Bibliography often goes down into the Table of Contents of published
collections.

For information...

P.O'S.

From: "Ian Archer"

Dear all,

I would like to announce that the Royal Historical Society
Bibliography on British and Irish History is now freely available
over the internet at http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl. A brief account of the
features of the bibliography follows; it would be helpful if you
could bring it to the attention of students, and place links to it
on departmental web-sites.

We hope in the next phase of the project to develop cross-searching
facilities with the National Register of Archives and the New
Dictionary of National Biography.

The on-line database will be updated with a further 8,500 records
covering the publications of 2001 in the autumn.

Features of the Bibliography:

· a database of 300,000 records, by far the most complete online
bibliographical resource on British and Irish history, including
relations with the empire and Commonwealth;

· an essential resource for those drawing up bibliographies in
British and Irish history for any purpose from writing undergraduate
essays to preparation of course syllabi and advanced research;

· includes books, articles in journals, articles in collective
volumes, and review articles;

· covers British and Irish history from the earliest periods for
which written evidence survives to the present;

· near-comprehensive coverage of works published since 1900, and
select earlier works;

· includes works published in 2000, and will be up-dated regularly;

· searching by author, title, and date of publication for all
records;

· for post-1945 publications, searching by subject can be combined
with searches by period covered, by place, or by personal name to
create bibliographies on any subject large or small ;

· use of standardised hierarchical subject and place indexes for post-

1992 records.

The Royal Historical Society is grateful to the following
organisations for financial support for this project: the Arts and
Humanities Research Board, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust,
the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Trust, the Newton
Trust, and the University of Cambridge. The project is now hosted by
the Institute of Historical Research. Free on-line access to the data
is made possible by the kind permission of Oxford University Press.

Best Wishes,


Ian Archer
General Editor, Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British and
Irish History

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D RHS online bibliography

This sounds wonderful.

However, I just tried to access this site and found nothing but a
blank page. I know that I reproduced the internet address
correctly, because I pasted it (rather
than retyped it) myself.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Kerby Miller.


>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>This item is being distributed. It will be of interest to Ir-D members,
>since it covers Irish history too. What is especially helpful is that the
>Bibliography often goes down into the Table of Contents of published
>collections.
>
>For information...
>
>P.O'S.
>
>From: "Ian Archer"
>
>Dear all,
>
>I would like to announce that the Royal Historical Society
>Bibliography on British and Irish History is now freely available
>over the internet at http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl. A brief account of the
>features of the bibliography follows; it would be helpful if you
>could bring it to the attention of students, and place links to it
>on departmental web-sites.
>

From: Dennis W McNulty
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk

If typing in, type http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/ - if cutting and pasting,
make sure when pasting that there is no period (".") after the "..bibl" of
the address.

Dennis W. Mc Nulty
Dept. of History
New York University
212.998.8647

- ----- Original Message -----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Date: Friday, August 9, 2002 12:04 pm
Subject: Ir-D RHS online bibliography 2

>
> From: Kerby Miller
> Subject: Re: Ir-D RHS online bibliography
>
> This sounds wonderful.
>
> However, I just tried to access this site and found nothing but a
> blank page. I know that I reproduced the internet address
> http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl> correctly, because I
> pasted it (rather
> than retyped it) myself.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kerby Miller.
>

From: "Nieciecki, Daniel"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: Gay poetry/literature in Irish

In order to supplement an informal course of Irish Gaelic
that I'm in the beginning stages of planning, I am looking for poetry or
short stories/novels in Irish, either by gay authors, or dealing with gay
issues, or both. So far, all that my dim knowledge so far on this subject
has yield are Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Patrick Pearse. I believe that Mícheál
Mac Liammóir wrote plays in Irish, but I've not been able to track these
down. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd greatly appreciate them!

Thanks,
Daniel Oisín Nieciecki
Graduate Student
New York University

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Gay poetry/literature in Irish

There is a fairly complete entry on Mac Liammoir in the Eirdata database at
the Princess Grace Irish Library
http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/index.htm. Although he wrote a considerable
number of plays and poems I don't recall that they address gay issues (maybe
they didn't tell us about those in school, although Hilton and Micheal were
the best known gays in Ireland before the term had even been invented and
were the subject of one or two ribald jokes from the pre-pc days which it
would probably be wisest not to repeat here).

I am not sure that traditional nationalists would agree that Patrick Pearse
was gay!! Ruth Dudley Edwards discusses the topic in her biography on Pearse
_The Triumph of Failure_ (1977), still well worth reading. It would be
difficult to read some of his work without drawing an inference that he was
gay but I think Edwards argues that Pearse was something of an innocent and
that his sexuality, whatever form it may have taken, was undeveloped.

Cathal O Searcaigh is a fine poet and probably the first modern writer in
Irish to be completely 'out' but I am open to correction here.

Piaras Mac Einri

From: "Nieciecki, Daniel"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Gay poetry/literature in Irish 2

Thank you for the recommendation of the Eirdata database.

Just a note on Pearse:
I have read Edwards' biography, as well as Sean Farrell
Moran's excellent psycho-biography Patrick Pearse and the Politics of
Redeption: The Mind of the Easter Rising. I am more of a Connellyite
internationalist than a nationalist in the traditional sense, but I've
always had a great affinity for Pearse. That having been said, I think we
should also make a distinction between being "gay" and being "homosexual":
the a generally socially constructed identity consciously adopted by the
individual, the other the inherent sexual orientation of which the
individual may or may not be conscious--that is, all gay men are homosexual,
but not all homosexuals are gay. On that note, it seems fairly obvious that
Pearse was homosexual, but for a variety of reasons--cultural and personal
which Moran analyses--he was not conscious of that orientation and certainly
did not act on it. However it is readily apparent in his work, especially
the poem "A Mhic Bhig na gCleas" and the short narrative "Lá fá'n Tuath."
So, whereas he himself was not "gay" or "queer" or whatever the proper
designation is nowadays, some of his Irish writing can be classed as such.
It's not as if his sexuality (or perhaps lack thereof) in any way detracts
from his linguistic and political influence.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
David Nally
dpnally[at]interchange.ubc.ca

Subject: CFP: Overlapping Territories: Geographies Of Irish
(Post)Modernity, AAG 2003

CFP
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans,
4-8 March 2003.
Organiser: David Nally (University of British Columbia)

"Overlapping Territories": Geographies Of Irish (Post)Modernity

The title takes its cue from Edward Said who so eloquently insists on
the importance of interrogating the geographical dimensions to
'Culture'. A critical examination of the production of culture becomes
all the more pressing when one considers a recent symposium dedicated to
what is now widely called Irish Cultural Studies announced that this
emerging sub-discipline now issues "cultural cache." No doubt this has
much to do with the emergence of postcolonial studies - along with the
body of poststructuralist theory associated with it - and its
application in an Irish context. Such (re)formations call for critical
reflection and I see this session as creating a space for dialogue on
Irish Cultural Studies within a broad geographical framework. Papers for
the session might include some of the following themes:

Colonial and postcolonial geographies
Literature and territoriality
Travel and travel writing
Producing national geographies
Sexuality and space
The relationship between Irish culture and politics
Locating Ireland in the Atlantic World


Those interested in participating should please let me know as soon as
possible and no later than August 30. Please provide the following
details:

(1) Name, institutional affiliation and contact information
(2) A few lines on your proposed topic (50 words or thereabouts)

Later I will need your registration number from the AAG website
otherwise I cannot register you in this session. It is best to
familiarise yourself with registration procedures as soon as possible
(www.aag.org).


If you have any queries or suggestions regarding the session please feel
free to get in touch.

Best wishes,

David Nally
PhD Programme
Department of Geography,
University of British Columbia,

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have placed at
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net
a summary of the research that Russell Murray and I completed last year for
the Dion Committee, Irish Embassy, London.

It is in a new irishdiaspora.net folder, called Dion Committee.

This document does not represent my own summary of the research. When the
Dion Committee needed a summary for its own purposes I was simply too ill to
take on the task - a kind person at the Irish Embassy wrote the summary, and
passed it to me for comment.

The main observation of the research was that the research agenda was being
shaped by the funding needs and the funding bids of a small number of
organisations. This is the same problem that faces many community groups
and regions. Inevitably this creates a research record that is skewed
towards problems and needs.

Historians will be aware how curiously this links with a general trend
within the historiography of the Irish in Britain - the curious place that
the Irish were allotted in the C19th 'condition of England' question.

In their negotiations with possible funders Irish community organisations
repeatedly found themselves involved in what we call 'methodology wrangles'.
In negotiations it would be argued that research on the needs of the Irish
was in some way inadequate, and did not present a case that would justify
funding. Our reading of these 'methodology wrangles' (at which no veritable
methodologist would be present) was that they were simply a first hurdle, a
way of denying the Irish a place on the British 'ethnic minorities' agenda.

The British 'ethnic minorities' agenda is led by two things: by what the
older books call 'colour prejudice', and by crisis. The agenda is in fact
shaped by the ability of the prejudiced to create a crisis.

Where do the Irish fit in to all trhis? Various pieces of recent
legislation might change the way this agenda is constructed. But I am
doubtful.

I suppose that one of my tasks for the summer should be to write up this
piece of research as a standard scholarly article...

Paddy O'Sullivan

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am going to be based in Ireland, at the house in Castletownroche, County
Cork, from now until the beginning of
September.

Russell Murray has kindly agreed to take over the running of the
Irish-Diaspora list until my return. Our thanks to Russell.

My address in Ireland is...

The Patterson House
1 Old Doneraile Road
Castletownroche
Co. Cork

Phone (00 353) 22 260 47

The house is in the centre of the town, opposite Battersby's pub.

I am going to be at the Merriman Summer School for a few days around around
August 20, 21...

http://www.merriman.ie/school/index.html

Otherwise mostly in Castletownroche. We are always happy to see friends and
colleagues in Castletownroche for a convivial gossip.

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The publishers of The Irish World Wide series, editor Patrick O'Sullivan,
have informed me that the series has now been officially 'remaindered', and
that purchasers will no longer be able to buy the volumes from the
publisher.

There is full information about The Irish World Wide series at
www.irishdiaspora.net. The publisher was Leicester University Press, an
imprint now owned by the Continuum publishing group.

I have bought up the remaining stock of The Irish World Wide from the
publisher's British warehouse. Some volumes are in short supply. I think
there are still some odd volumes in the warehouse in the USA.

I will be passing on my own stock of the volumes of The Irish World Wide to
my usual friends and contacts in the book trade. And hopefully at last
putting them into the hands of the intended readership, and at last at a
reasonable price.

I hope this is not misusing the Irish-Diaspora list... But... If any
member of the Irish-Diaspora list, or any friend or relative of a member of
the Irish-Diaspora list, wants to buy any of the volumes of The Irish
World-Wide - to complete a set or as a Christmas present for Grandad -
contact me directly at...
Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We will have to haggle about price - postage is always a problem. But I
want these books to be out there, being read. We have some paperback and
some hardback - but, as I say, some volumes are in short supply.

I think I will pause, whilst in Ireland, and raise a black glass to The
Irish World Wide. The project nearly killed me. But I think it was worth
doing.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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From: "Nuala Killeen"
To:
Subject: Irish Media in Britain
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:19:28 +0100


Can anyone direct me to a book, article or website which gives an overview
of contemporary Irish media in Britain?
Many thanks.
Nuala Killeen

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish in Canada

Quite a lot has been done. Here's a short list of books and articles
on the Irish in Canada. I've asterisked the items that pertain
definitely (in whole or in part) to the Irish in the Maritimes or in
Newfoundland, but some of the other works (e.g., Stortz's book on
Canadian Catholics) may also be relevant. For some reason, my
computer won't let me paste this list on the message (must be some
error in the list), so I've attached it as a Word file. If you can't
open this, or if the error prevents you from receiving the entire
list (it begins with Adams and ends with Wilson), let me know and
I'll try something else.
Also, I'd advise you to contact Prof. Peter Toner at the U. of NB, as
he's an expert in this field. His email address is: TONER[at]unbsj.ca
Good luck,
Kerby Miller
U. of Missouri-Columbia

From: "jamesam"
To:

Hello,
I recently spent time in St. John, New Brunswick and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Can anybody point me towards any research being done on the Irish in the
Atlantic Provinces, focusing on the period of the Great Hunger?
I could find nothing on Partridge Island, with the exception of a book on
Irish orphans.
Many thanks.
Best,
Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

From: Peter Gray
Reply-To: P.Gray[at]soton.ac.uk

Specifically on the Atlantic Provinces, see:
T.P. Power, 'The emigrant ship: the transportation,
regulation and reception of Irish immigrants in New
Brunswick, 1815-55', in C.J. Byrne et al (eds), Celtic
languages and Celtic peoples (1992),
and Tyler Anbinder, 'Lord Palmerston and the Irish famine
emigration', Historical Journal, 44/2 (2001)
Tom Power at the University Library, University of Toronto,
is probably the best person to guide you further.
Best wishes
Peter Gray
University of Southampton

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We are back from Ireland - and perhaps I can share some scholarly comment on
the trip with the Ir-D list at a later date. It was very pleasant to renew
friendships and make new friends.

But, for the moment - safely home - my main feeling is that I have been
doing too much driving. Which, in 'celtic tiger' Ireland, has become
something of an extreme sport... My main task today is to stay awake until
bed time...

I'll be going through messages over the next few days, and looking at the
Ir-D problems that Russell Murray has saved for me.

Meanwhile, our thanks to Russell for looking after the Irish-Diaspora lidst
in my absence.

Paddy


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