From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information, on behalf of

Michelle Ziegler
Saint Louis University
ZieglerM[at]slu.edu...

Kalamazoo 2003 Call For Papers

The Saints 'Lives' in Northwestern Europe, 400-900.

This session, sponsored by the Heroic Age, will address the hagiography
of northwestern Europe in the Age of Conversion, 400-900. Contributions
on a specific saint's 'life', overviews of style, substance, and the
relationship between families of 'lives', and studies on the authors of
hagiography are welcome.

A sampling of saints for whom hagiography written in this period exists
includes:

Gaul: Sts. Martin, Germanus of Auxerre, Genovefa, and numerous
Merovingian and Carolingian abbesses, bishops, and nobles.

Brittany: Sts. Samson, Paul Aurelian (de Leon), Gildas, and others.

Ireland/Scotland: Sts. Brigit, Patrick, Columba, Columbanus, Fursey, and

others.

England: Sts. Cuthbert, Wilfrid, Ceolfrith, Guthlac, and Gregory the
Great.

Missionaries to the Germanic peoples: Sts. Willibrord, Boniface, Strum,
Leoba, Wulfram of Sens, Willehad, and others.


The Congress will be held on May 8-11 next year. Further information on
the Congress can be found at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

Further information about The Heroic Age can be found at
http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/homepage.html .

Please send all proposals to:

Michelle Ziegler
Saint Louis University
ZieglerM[at]slu.edu

The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2002.

From: Hilary Robinson
Subject: Re: Ir-D UK/Commonwealth university links


HI - I think NI students don't count as commonwealth but as UK, so
probably could not be included in this - unless the links are from NI
to the rest of the commonwealth. Which I think we can do! Thanks for
the information -
Hilary

>>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>The Republic of Ireland is not (currently) a member of the Commonwealth.
>But Northern Ireland is, as are the other countries of the United Kingdom.
>
>There might be something here for some of our 'more isolated' scholars,
>trying to build Irish Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies...
>
>P.O'S.
>
>
>Subject: Links that Exist between the UK and Commonwealth Universities
>for possible future funding for PhD Scholarships
>
>
>The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, whose secretariat is based at
>the Association of Commonwealth Universities, is currently seeking
>information on current links that exist between UK universities and
>those in developing Commonwealth countries which might be suitable for
>future funding by the Commission in the form of split-site PhD
>scholarship opportunities. The Commission is looking for university
>links where postgraduate students can be identified in the developing
>country partner university who have a demonstrable need for a year in
>the UK as part of a home PhD. There should be genuine contribution by
>staff in both countries to the project.
>
>Further information can be obtained from or supplied to:
>Ms Anna Gane
>Commonwealth Awards Administrator
>Association of Commonwealth Universities
>36 Gordon Square
>LONDON
>WC1H 0PF
>Tel: + 44 (0)20 7380 6734
>Fax: + 44 (0)20 7387 2655
>Email: a.gane[at]acu.ac.uk

- --
_______________________________

Dr. Hilary Robinson
School of Art and Design
University of Ulster at Belfast
York Street
Belfast BT15 1ED
Northern Ireland
UK

University business:
Personal business:
direct phone/fax: (+44) (0) 28 9026.7291

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
gonul[at]bilkent.edu.tr]
Subject: MLA 2002 "Other Than English" session


From
Gönül Pultar
Chair, Discussion Group on Literature of the United States in Languages
Other Than English, MLA

I am sending below the program of the session of the Discussion Group on
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English at the 2002
MLA convention. The panelists and I look forward to seeing at the session
all those of you attending the convention, to participate in what we hope
will be a lively discussion.

May also remind you that if you are an MLA member yet have not joined the
group, but would like to, please do not forget to mark "L2" on your MLA
membership form.

Gönül Pultar
Chair, Discussion Group on Literature of the United States in Languages
Other Than English, MLA

-----------------------
MLA Convention Program
(Note that this comes from "proofs")

Saturday, 28 December
96. New Perspectives on American Texts
8:30?9:45 a.m., Park 3, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Literature
of the United States in Languages Other Than English.

Presiding: Gönül Ayda Pultar, Bilkent Univ., Turkey

1. "Colonizing Latin American Colonial Texts: New
Anthologies of Colonial American Writings,"
Christian P. Fernandez, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

2. "O.E.Rolvaag's _Giants in the Earth_: Some Perspectives On Multilingual
America,"
John Muthyala, Univ. of Southern Maine

3. "Victor Sejour's 'Le Mulatre': Revolutionary Anti-slavery Text from an
Unlikely Source"
Daniel E. Walker, Indiana Univ.

4. "Roman Type and Hebrew Letters: Jewish American
Literature and Models of American Ethnic Writing,"
Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel-Aviv Univ.

Discussant: Dalia Kandiyoti, State Univ. of New York
------------------

NOTE:

MLA - The Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org Discussion Group on
"Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English" was
granted permanent status by the Modern Language Association Executive
Council. If you would like to join the group, please mark "L2" on your MLA
membership form. The panel at the 2002 MLA Convention is "New Perspectives
on American Texts," chaired by Gönül Pultar, Dept. of English, Bilkent
University, Ankara, Turkey, gonul[at]bilkent.edu.tr.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

On behalf of
Bruce Morrill
bmorrill[at]holycross.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~morrillb

Susan Rodgers
srodgers[at]holycross.edu
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/srodgers/srodgers.html

Joanna Ziegler
jziegler[at]holycross.edu
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/jziegler/home.htm

P.O'S.


"Practicing Catholic: Ritual, Body, and Contestation in Catholic Faith"

October 18-21, 2002
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

Catholicism, a stunningly ritualized and embodied faith, is learned as
much through practice and performance, that is, through sensory
participation, as it is through story and text. Drawing together a
distinguished group of historians, cultural anthropologists, performance
artists, and theologians working in the U.S. and abroad, "Practicing
Catholic" will address Catholicism as an at once embodied and
performative faith, a field of practices in which power-divine and
human, religious and political-is contested and shared. By pairing
presentations of papers across disciplinary lines, participating in and
theoretically reflecting upon actual ritual and artistic performances,
and concluding with interdisciplinary discussion sessions, the
conference participants will push beyond scholarly theories of
embodiment to explore the religious body in motion in such performative
experiences as mystical chant, holy dance, grassroots political activity
drawing on popular religiosity, healing ceremonies, accompaniment of the
dying, and processions. The presenting scholars will bring a wealth of
knowledge concerning such contexts as medieval Europe, sixteenth century
Latin America, and contemporary North India, Bolivia, Philippines, and
Worcester. Ritual performances will include a Ritual Mass of Anointing,
complete with a series of choreographed processions, the "Chalice of
Repose" project, a palliative, pastoral service to the dying integrating
historical scholarship, musical performance, spirituality and medical
treatment, and a musical presentation of the "sound" of Hildegaard of
Bingen's mysticism, and a sung Vespers service.

More information is available at
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/crec/website/praccath/index.htm

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Republic of Ireland is not (currently) a member of the Commonwealth.
But Northern Ireland is, as are the other countries of the United Kingdom.

There might be something here for some of our 'more isolated' scholars,
trying to build Irish Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies...

P.O'S.


Subject: Links that Exist between the UK and Commonwealth Universities
for possible future funding for PhD Scholarships


The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, whose secretariat is based at
the Association of Commonwealth Universities, is currently seeking
information on current links that exist between UK universities and
those in developing Commonwealth countries which might be suitable for
future funding by the Commission in the form of split-site PhD
scholarship opportunities. The Commission is looking for university
links where postgraduate students can be identified in the developing
country partner university who have a demonstrable need for a year in
the UK as part of a home PhD. There should be genuine contribution by
staff in both countries to the project.

Further information can be obtained from or supplied to:
Ms Anna Gane
Commonwealth Awards Administrator
Association of Commonwealth Universities
36 Gordon Square
LONDON
WC1H 0PF
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7380 6734
Fax: + 44 (0)20 7387 2655
Email: a.gane[at]acu.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Carmen Mangion
manwag[at]freeuk.com
Subject: BRIDES OF CHRIST SYMPOSIUM


We would be very grateful if you could notify any scholars you think would
be interested in this day symposium on the history of women religious.

If you would like further details please contact either of the organisers

Caroline Bowden, Centre for Religious
History, St Mary's College at bowdenc[at]smuc.ac.uk

or Carmen Mangion, Birkbeck College at carmenmangion[at]freeuk.com.

Brides of Christ: Towards a History of Women Religious in Britain.
One-day Symposium to be held at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill,
Twickenham, London
Saturday 12 October 2002.

Academics, postgraduate students, teachers, archivists, and others are
invited to a one-day, interdisciplinary symposium on the subject of women
religious with particular emphasis on Britain and Ireland. Topics will
range from late medieval to twenty-first century women religious and
encompass a variety of themes including patterns of vocations, the business
of running convents, subjectivities of self, texts, and issues of class.

Thank you,

Dr. Caroline Bowden
Carmen Mangion

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item appeared on the H-Albion list...

P.O'S.

Subject: Panel members wanted (Irish War of Independence panel proposal)
From: "D.M. Leeson"

Hello,

Two grad students are thinking of submitting a panel proposal for next
year's Society of Military History conference in Knoxville, Tennessee (1-4
May 2003). The theme of this conference is "Military and Society During
Domestic Crisis." We want to submit a panel proposal on the United
Kingdom security forces in the Irish War of Independence.

"We" are William Kautt and David Leeson. Mr. Kautt is the author of _The
Anglo-Irish War 1916-1921: A People's War_. He will be talking about the
militarization of the Royal Irish Constabulary. I will be talking about
the Auxiliary Division of this force. Ideally, we are looking for someone
who could deliver a paper on either the British Army in Ireland or
the Ulster Special Constabulary. But anyone doing any research on the
security forces is welcome to join us. We are also looking for a chair
and commentator.

If you are interested (or know anyone who would be interested), please
contact me directly at leesondm[at]mcmaster.ca. The deadline for panel
proposals
is October 1st, so please get in touch with us as quickly as possible.

Thanks,

Dave Leeson
McMaster University

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Helen Fallon
Helen.B.Fallon[at]may.ie
Subject: Women - Irish/Canadian connections


Colleagues,

Earlier this year I sent a message to the list asking for details of
articles, book chapter, theses etc. which related to links between Ireland
and Canada and had a specific focus on women.

The bibliography I compiled is now available at
http://www.ucd.ie/~werrc/bibliography.htm
I hope you find it useful.

If you are aware of any further items on this topic please send me details.
I am not interested in information relating to general emigration from
Ireland to Candada nor to items which are about women in Canada or women in
Ireland which do not have a link between the two countries.

Many thanks to everyone who corresponded with me on this topic.

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: J.C. Belchem
J.C.Belchem[at]liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Book search


Paddy

In pursuit of my Liverpool Fenians I am trying to track down J.A. O'Shea's
biography of 'Stephen Joseph Meany, Fenian convict "3496"'. Unfortunately
the copy in the National Library of Ireland is missing, and I cannot find
it on COPAC. Does anybody on the Ir-D list know where I can locate a copy?
Meany was a distinguished journalist on both sides of the Atlantic. Many
thanks

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

From: "Anthony McNicholas"
To:
Subject: RE: Ir-D Book Search, O'Shea on Meany

John
I don't know where you can get a copy of the book or pamphlet you want ( I
remember searching for it myself some time ago) but I do have a short
biography of Meany which was published in a journal called the Newspaper
Press 1/2/1867. This was a trade paper & the article was written under the
pseudonym Bourgeois. It was highly critical of him as, and you will know
this yourself, was much of the copy at the time. He seems to have led a
picaresque life as journalist & fenian & was in jail a couple of times. He
also had his defenders. I found the article in St Bride's Printing library
in London. If you give me an address I'll send you a copy. It's only a page
but every little helps. If what you want is a pamphlet it might have been
published in a paper such as the Irishman. I've seen a reference to it
somewhere & I'll try to dig it out.
Anthony

Dr Anthony McNicholas
Research Fellow
University of Westminster
0118 948 6164 (w)
020 8995 6625 (h)
07751 062 735 (m)
anthony.mcnicholas[at]bbc.co.uk

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Sent: 13 January 2002 05:00
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Book Search, O'Shea on Meany


From: J.C. Belchem
J.C.Belchem[at]liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Book search


Paddy

In pursuit of my Liverpool Fenians I am trying to track down J.A. O'Shea's
biography of 'Stephen Joseph Meany, Fenian convict "3496"'. Unfortunately
the copy in the National Library of Ireland is missing, and I cannot find
it on COPAC. Does anybody on the Ir-D list know where I can locate a copy?
Meany was a distinguished journalist on both sides of the Atlantic. Many
thanks

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Note the New York 'Taste of the Yeats Summer School', at end of message...

P.O'S.


44th Yeats International Summer School
Sunday July 27 - Friday August 8, 2003, in Sligo, Ireland

· Students of all ages - come to the famous 'Yeats Country' in Sligo!
· Lectures, seminars & workshops on many aspects of Yeats's work
· There are no writing requirements at this school; it's a reading party
· A full social program, including trips to country houses, scenic
lakes, wild hilltops, archaeological sites, and other places of interest

Plans are still in progress, but already confirmed to lecture at the
school are:

Helen Vendler (Harvard University)
Robert Tracy (University of California, Berkeley)
Ann Saddlemyer (University of Toronto)
James Pethica (Williams College, Massachusetts)
Riana O'Dwyer (University College, Galway)
K.P.S. Jochum (Universitat Bamberg, Germany)
Richard Haslam (St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia)
Margaret Mills Harper (Georgia State University, & Institute of Irish
Studies, Queen's University, Belfast; Associate Director of YISS)
Maurice Harmon (University College Dublin)
Richard J. Finneran (University of Tennessee)
Anne Margaret Daniel (Princeton University, & The New School)
Kevin Barry (University College, Galway)
Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky; Director of YISS)

· The ever-popular Sam McCready will conduct the Drama Workshop
· Readings - a leading poet will conduct a two-day Poetry Workshop
· Many musical and dramatic performances staged at Sligo's famous Hawk's
Well Theatre
· If you cannot come for two weeks, one-week registration is possible
· Tuition fees are kept low, and comfortable lodgings are available
· Each student will receive an official certificate of attendance
· Academic credit from your home institution may be available
· Substantial financial support for needy students is available

Watch our website - www.yeats-sligo.com-- for further information

To receive a brochure, please write to:

The Secretary of the Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland.
Tel: +353 (0)71 42693 Fax: +353 (0)71 42780 Email:
info[at]yeats-sligo.com
or
Dr. Jonathan Allison, Department of English, University of Kentucky,
Lexington KY 40506, USA Telephone 859-269-5024. Fax: 859-323-1072.
jalliso[at]uky.edu

Special Announcement - 'Taste of the Yeats Summer School' -
The W.B. Yeats Society of New York will present an all-day festival,
'Taste of the Yeats Summer School' on a Saturday next April, in NYC.
Representatives of the school will be present. Everyone is welcome. Why
not check out their website? www.YeatsSociety.org

Subject: Traditional music conference
From: Fintan Vallely
(Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster,


Crosbhealach an Cheoil - The Crossroads Conference 2003
Theme: Education and Traditional music

Post-Easter weekend April 25-27, 2003, Location to be decided

Organised by an independent committee, most of whom are Traditional
players, all concerned with a variety of levels of teaching Traditional
music:

Colette Moloney, Department of Applied Arts, Waterford Institute of
Technology;
Eithne Vallely, Armagh Pipers Club / St. Patrick Teacher
Training College, Dublin;
Desi Wilkinson (musician and researcher) Limerick
Liz Doherty (musician, lecturer, researcher) Buncrana;
Fintan Vallely
(Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, );
Therese Smith, Music Dept., University College Dublin.

Topics to be addressed:
1/ The variety of teaching contexts: past to present, learning from
neighbours, parents, peers, organisations, summer schools, aurality/orality,
travelling musicians, the written note, recordings, video, digital
technology and the Internet negatives and positives.

2/ Goals of teaching in music: artistic and creative purpose, aesthetics,
fleadh cheoil standards, the professional as role model, contradictions,
indoctrination or open mind, examinations, grades.

3/ Teaching for the future: methodology that has been successful, failures,
satisfaction, where the jobs are, why do we teach music, problems in
teaching singing, training the teachers.

Call for papers from those interested in or involved in traditional music
education at all levels. In order to have maximum constructive awareness all
sessions will run consecutively. This demands careful selection of papers.

To facilitate this we ask for a clear, 200 word resume AND a concise 30-word
summary of prospective contribution, on a topic relating to one of the
thematic guidelines 1,2 or 3 above. These should be sent on either disk or
by email, to reach us by December 31st, 2002. Papers given will be
published.

Call for poster presentations
We intend also to have a display of poster style presentations to offer
visible summations of activity by the full range of private, public and
summer schools, colleges, etc. involved in the music. No verbal presentation
is required. These should be laid out on A1 paper, and can utilise photos,
text or graphics. Posters will be on display for the duration of the
weekend. Please submit offers of posters by December 31st, 2002 also.
Enquiries, full brochure, and paper or poster r=E9sum=E9s, please send to:
Cros2003, Killybush, Clogherhead, Co. Louth, OR email =AD info[at]cros2003.com
Website from 1st October: www.cros2003.com

This conference is facilitated by the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages,
University of Ulster, the Department of Music at University College Dublin,
and the Department of Applied Arts, Waterford Institute of Technology

From: "William H. Mulligan, Jr"
Subject: FW: Schedule

This conference being held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin may be of interest to
members of the list. For further information contact Andrew Kinkaid
(akincaid[at]csd.uwm.edu )

October 12 Conference, Celtic Popular Culture.

Friday, October 11

Screening of The Last of the Storytellers at Irish Cultural and
Heritage Center (ICHC). 7:30 PM

Saturday, October 12

8:30-9:00 AM

Registration

9:00-10:15. Panel One.

Natasha Casey, McGill University: A Plotless Amalgam: The
Importance of Being Irish-American.

William Mulligan, Murray State University: A Day to Wear Green: The
Observance of St. Patricks Day in Michigans Copper County,
1860-1900.

Mary Ann Ryan, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Tainting the Tiara
or Mayor Daley and "Dago": The Media's Maligning of a Mixedblood Queen
of Chicago's St. Patrick's Day Parade.


10:30-11:45. Panel Two.

Timothy White, Xavier University: Irelands Changing Celtic
Identity:
From Historic to Modern Conceptions of Celticness.

John Ellis, University of Michigan, Flint: Celt versus Teuton:
Race, Character and British National Identity.

Chrisiellen White, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: The
Celtisity of Modern Wicca.


12:00-1:45.

Lunch and Keynote Address.

Keynote Speaker, Larry McCaffrey: The Image of Irish in American
Film.

1:45-3:00. Panel Three.

Celeste Ray, University of the South: Regionalism and Hybridity in
Scottish-American Heritage Celebration.

Thomas Cairney, Dogus University: Tracing the History and Culture of
Clan Societies.

Christine Myers, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater: Scottish
Devolution and Nationalism: Was there ever such a thing as Great
Britain?=

3:15-4:45. Panel Four.

Selection of Readings

James Liddy

Ruth Schwartfeger

Patricia Monaghan

Jam Hazard

5:30-7:00

Dinner at the Co. Clare

7:30 =96

Music and entertainment at the ICHC

From Patrick O'Sullivan

An article in today's Guardian about Peter Mullan's film, The Magadelene
Sisters...

There is already much on the web about this film...

P.O'S.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,792975,00.html

Sins of the sisters

Even before Peter Mullan won a Golden Lion at Venice for his film about
sadistic nuns, the Vatican was on the attack. He tells Derek Malcolm why
that's good news

Monday September 16, 2002
The Guardian


'I don't know why the Vatican bothered to slag off me or my film," says
Peter Mullan, winner of the Venice festival's Golden Lion for his film The
Magdalene Sisters. "They've only given us some wonderful publicity. The best
thing they could have done would have been to ignore us completely. It could
be worth a million at the Italian box office now." The film, about a
Catholic reformatory run by cruel and uncaring nuns in 1970s Ireland and
attacked as a falsehood by the Church, is already worth a million - the
price in dollars that Miramax, the American powerhouse, has just paid to
distribute it in the US.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

This connects with an earlier Ir-D discussion of Irish language film (I'm
still working on that one)...

But immediately...

Film maker Bon Quinn now has a web site at...

http://www.conamara.org/

There are links to a Bob Quinn filmography and bibliography, and to a
display about his Atlantean film trilogy - whose arguments you either
enjoyed or you did not. But it certainly offered a more interesting way of
thinking about - and listening to - sean nos singing...

Bob Quinn tells me that current projects include a study of the Galtymore,
the Irish club in north London, in the 1950s and 1960s.

His email address is
Bob Quinn


P.O'S.


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From: "Daryl Adair"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Keneally & Foster


Friends,

The two articles in question are obviously not related. But the second one,
on Roy Foster, prompted me to wonder whether Tom Keneally has ever been a
focus for Prof Foster's critique of Irish story-telling. I am thinking,
particularly, of the fictional Keneally family biography "The Great Shame".

Cheers,

Daryl Adair
University of Canberra

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

From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Date: Monday, 16 September 2002 11:00:28 PM
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Keneally & Foster

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Two web items...

1.
From the Guardian, London...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,791726,00.html

The one that got away


2.
From the Boston Globe...

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/focus/_Tisn_t+.shtml

'Tisn't

An Irish historian exposes his country's mythmaking from the Great Potato
Famine to 'Angela's Ashes.' Dublin is distressed

By Christopher Shea, 9/15/2002

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The Irish World Wide, the end (continued)

Regular readers will know that I am selling off the last few remaining
copies of the volumes of The Irish World Wide series.

Thank you to all the people who have sent me kind messages, at this
significant turning point.

And thank you to all the people who have placed orders.

Boxes and packets of the books have now been dispatched to some intriguing
parts of the world, and we have enough orders to be able to see clearly
pricing and costs.

There is full information about the series on...
http://www.irishdiaspora.net

The books are still being listed by the booksellers, but I am not convinced
that there really are many copies out there.
See...
http://www.addall.com/
Search for
Patrick O'Sullivan and/or
1. Patterns of Migration
2. The Irish in the New Communities
3. The Creative Migrant
4. Irish Women and Irish Migration
5. Religion and Identity
6. The Meaning of the Famine

HARDBACK
We have copies left only of Volumes 1, 3, 5 and 6 in hardback. These are
going at 10 pounds sterling each.

PAPERBACK
We still have some full sets of The Irish World Wide in paperback. Our
guide price for a full set of all 6 volumes in paperback is 35 pounds
sterling, 50 euros, 50 US dollars.

We have very few copies of Volume 4 on Women, and Volume 6 on the Famine.
So, we are very reluctant to let these go except as part of a full set. But
I think that if people are genuinely trying to complete their sets of the
series we should be flexible.

Otherwise copies of Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 5 are going at 5 pounds sterling
each.

POSTAGE
As a guide... For a full set, postage, surface, printed paper rate, to most
parts of the world is 12 pounds sterling. Airmail is rather more expensive.
Larger or smaller packets of books we prepare, then cost, and quote a final
figure by email.

PAYMENT
I must ask the buyer to accept all costs, including postage and currency
transfer costs.

We have accepted cheques drawn on British banks, or pound sterling notes or
euro notes - because we can use them.

To buyers outside the pound or euro zones we suggest you use the Western
Union Money transfer service.

http://www.westernunion.com/homePage.asp

Amazingly this works very well. The service will cost the buyer about 15 US
dollars, and will cost me nothing.

Books are mailed when we have received payment -because we do not have the
resources to chase payment, and I do not have the temperament.

So far it has all worked very well. I am especially grateful to the people
who tested the Western Union system and made it work.

I'll keep on selling the books for another month or so, before pushing the
remainder out into the book trade. Anyone who wants to buy should contact
me at...
Patrick O'Sullivan

Paddy


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Two web items...

1.
From the Guardian, London...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,791726,00.html

The one that got away

For six years, novelist Thomas Keneally trained to be a priest. Just weeks
before ordination he left the seminary, plagued by doubts about the 'cold
corporate institution' of the Catholic church

Saturday September 14, 2002
The Guardian

When I was a young candidate for the priesthood at St Patrick's College in
Sydney, our family doctor said to my mother, "Tom has idealised the church.
It's going to be a great shock to him when he finds out that priests are
human." I was as romantic a seminarian as any. My desire to become a priest
was influenced by the fact that a pretty girl in my neighbourhood, whom I
had incoherently desired, had chosen to become a Dominican nun. I had some
grandiose idea, perhaps, of being St Francis to her St Clare. Like most of
my fellow seminarians, I also had a naïve piety and considerable generosity
of spirit.


2.
From theBoston Globe...

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/258/focus/_Tisn_t+.shtml

'Tisn't

An Irish historian exposes his country's mythmaking from the Great Potato
Famine to 'Angela's Ashes.' Dublin is distressed

By Christopher Shea, 9/15/2002

'ANGELA'S ASHES,' 'How the Irish Saved Civilization,' 'Riverdance,'
pubs with Gaelic slogans above the taps and a middle-aged warbler having a
go at 'Danny Boy' onstage: Irish nostalgia sells, all right. The green
brings in the green. And yet it's a certain brand of history that moves the
product, the pints, the tickets to the sort-of-Celtic dance extravaganzas.
What sells are stories and symbols that tell people what they want to hear -
stories that boil Irish history down to an emerald glop of cliche,
sentimentality, and wishful thinking.

At least this is the view of the Oxford University historian Roy Foster, one
of the most elegant and probing writers on Irish topics and also one of the
most controversial.

From: D.C. Rose
d.rose[at]gold.ac.uk
Subject: THE OSCHOLARS VOL.II NO.9 SEPTEMBER 2002


Dear colleagues, chers et chères collègues, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
Geachte collega's en collegae,

First, my apology for the non-transmission of the September issue of THE
OSCHOLARS up till now. A number of circumstances prevented this, none of
them of great significance in itself, but in combination deadly: a short
illness (now over), absence abroad from my desk, moving office, a persistent
computer fault . . . The August issue, produced under unfamiliar
circumstances from a farmhouse in Devonshire, also had a number of errors
and omissions that should not have occurred, and I suggest readers look
again at that issue, particularly at Tine Englebert's Music section.

The September issue contains in addition to the regular features, a hitherto
unpublished letter from Oscar Wilde. We hope this is a little compensation
for the disappointing lateness of the edition. There is also what must be
the final notice about the Oscar Wilde Symposium at Magdalen this coming
weekend. Unfortunately, I can only contrive to be around on the Saturday,
but I hope to meet many of you.

THE OSCHOLARS is posted, as usual, at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars;
the password remains umney

Readership continues to rise, but may we remind readers who are changing
their e-addresses to keep us informed? We have lost eight readers this way.

Very best wishes,

David Rose


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

From: John McGurk
jmcgurk[at]eircom.net
Subject: Re: O'Neill


Dear Paddy,

The O'Neill Country Historical Society are having a weekend conference
27th to the 29th Sept -Main theme is Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl Tyrone.

The venue is the Servite Priory in Benburb, Co.Tyrone.

Speakers include
Dr Hiram Morgan UCC on O'Neill from warlord to Earl.
Katherine Simms from TCD on the O'Neills and medieval bardic poetry.
Dr John McGurk on the Last Years of O'Neill in Ireland - Kinsale to
Rathmullan.
Prof.Kenneth Nichols, UCC on O'Neill clansmen.
and Richard Warner from the Ulster Museum on early kings and kingdoms of the
O'Neill country

There will be a banquet on the Satyrday night and coach tour of
O'Neill's own country - the Lucht Tighe -or as it is put on contemporary
maps - the Lottie- on Sunday.

Further information servitepriory[at]btinternet.com

All welcome. Message sent to list members in case any are in the area at
that time.

John McGurk
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