From: ppo[at]aber.ac.uk
Subject: John Hickey (1930-2002)

From: Paul O'Leary


Dear Paddy,

I heard recently of the sad death of John Hickey, Emeritus Professor of
Sociology at the Dominican University in Illinois, and a member of this
group who contributed from time to time. John was an early researcher in
the field of the Irish in Britain, writing a thesis on the Irish in Cardiff
in 1959 that was eventually turned into his book 'Urban Catholics' (1967).
He also published a number of papers on the Irish and Catholicism in
Britain and a paper on Irish rural migrants during the 1970s, as well as
studies on the sociology of Ireland. I am aware of one paper of his on the
Irish in Cardiff still in press, and when he died he was preparing a new
book on Irish migrants and Catholicism, comparing Cardiff with several
American cities. There are plans to bring this project to conclusion
posthumously and I'll keep you informed of progress.

Best wishes

Paul



Dr Paul O'Leary
Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru / Dept of History and Welsh History
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth / University of Wales Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion SY23 3DY

Tel: 01970 622842
Fax: 01970 622676

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Ir-D members should be aware of the latest issue of the Journal of American
Ethnic History - TOC below. It includes an article on 'Teaching
Irish-American History' by Kevin Kenny, with Comment by Jay Dolan, Marion
Casey and Timothy Meagher.

The Journal of American Ethnic History is available on the web, through the
Catchword system...

http://www.catchword.com

Some institutions may have access - otherwise money is involved...

and it is also at Northern Light. More money...
www.northernlight.com

On a personal note... It is really nice to see in these articles the
chapters of my Irish World Wide series being used in teaching - as was
intended...

P.O'S.


Journal of American Ethnic History
Volume 21 Number 4

Articles

The Diversity Visa Lottery - A Cycle of Unintended Consequences in United
States Immigration Policy p3
Anna O. Law

Teaching and Outreach

Teaching Irish-American History p30
Kevin Kenny

Comment: Teaching Irish-American History p40
Jay P. Dolan

Comment: Irish-American Studies and Undergraduate Pedagogy p44
Marion R. Casey

Comment: Teaching Irish-American History p51
Timothy J. Meagher

Forum: Old and New Immigrants: On Nancy Foner's From Ellis Island to JFK

Introduction p55
Leo Lucassen

From Ellis Island to JFK - An Economist's Perspective p57
Carmel U. Chiswick

From Ellis Island to JFK: Comparison in Anthropology and History p68
Caroline B. Brettell

Race, the Children of Immigrants, and Social Science Theory p74
Brian Gratton

Old and New Migrants in the Twentieth Century: A European Perspective p85
Leo Lucassen

Response p102
Nancy Foner

Review Essays

The Irish Experience in America p120
Ellen McMahon

Reinventing "Race" p124
Nancy Gentile Ford

Reviews p128

Notes on Contributors p173


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

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Title: Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish Constitution
Author(s): B. Collins ; P. Hanafin
Source: Law and Critique Volume: 12 Number: 1 Page: 53 -- 73
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Abstract: This article examines the ``hidden' ideological appeal which the
1937 Irish Constitution attempted to make by the invocation of the rural
ideal, a hybrid of Irish nationalism, Catholicism and, most importantly,
Gaelic romanticism. In this move, the historical legitimacy of the new state
could be defined through the constitution by an appropriation of diverse
symbols from an imagined past, a golden age of Gaelic unity and moral
certainties. Particular attention will be paid to the image of woman as a
representation of the nation in the 1937 Constitution, and to the context of
Irish nationalist discourse generally, where she repeatedly appears in the
archetypal forms of either mother or virgin. The predominance of the image
of woman as mother in the Constitution, in contrast to her appearance in
pre-independence nationalist discourse (where she regularly figured as a
combination of mother, helpless maiden, seductress and destroyer) will be
examined in terms of the Lacanian themes of Lack and jouissance (or
enjoyment). This cultural (and legal) shift will be examined in terms of the
renunciation of enjoyment inherent in this new national imagery, and in
relation to the redemptive potential of the image of woman as mother; themes
which appear significant in relation to post-colonial political formations
generally, and to post-independence Irish political discourse in particular.
Keywords: constitution; gender; Ireland; Lacan; nation; postcolonial; Zizek

From Patrick O'Sullivan

So, Belfast did not get it...

Neither did Bradford...

Best of luck to Liverpool...

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of...

Sharon Curran
sharoncurran[at]imaginebelfast2008.co.uk

Subject: IMAGINE BELFAST THANKS ALL INVOLVED IN CAPITAL OF CULTURE BID

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE USE

October 30, 2002 ? 8.30am

IMAGINE BELFAST THANKS ALL INVOLVED IN CAPITAL OF CULTURE BID

Imagine Belfast 2008 today thanked all those involved in the City?s bid for
the title of European Capital of Culture 2008.

Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle Gateshead and Oxford this
morning (Wednesday October 30) were confirmed as the six shortlisted cities
and will now move into the crucial phase of the competition to vie for the
ultimate prize of European Capital of Culture 2008, to be announced in
Spring 2003. Each city was also named a United Kingdom Centre of Cultural
Excellence.

Addressing staff and supporters at a reception this morning, Imagine Belfast
?s Chief Executive Hilary McGrady said: ?This is obviously very
disappointing news for everyone who has been involved in creating,
developing, and supporting Belfast?s bid. Imagine Belfast 2008 has always
been about initiating a cultural process to engage the imagination of
Belfast?s people. We did just that and succeeded in creating a bid that was
in the words of Prime Minister Tony Blair ?an imaginative, innovative and
ambitious entry?.

?There are no losers in this process. We mustn?t lose sight of the benefits
that bidding for European Capital of Culture status has brought Belfast.
All of the activity surrounding the bid has been a catalyst for encouraging
more positive perceptions of the city ? at home and internationally.

We are certainly much more fully aware of where our cultural strengths lie
and where there remains a lot of work to be done. Culture has been placed
at the top of the agenda ? and for the first time, we?ve got a real
diversity of agencies and organisations across Belfast focused on creating a
better city through cultural development?.

Tom Collins, Chairman of Imagine Belfast 2008 said: ?Although we haven?t
succeeded in making the shortlist, we have proved that we are a City of
considerable standing in the UK. It also highlights the positive
developments this city has made and has already begun to transform the image
of Belfast internationally. Imagine Belfast wants to thank everybody who has
contributed to the bid, and to ask that we continue to push for a cultural
renaissance in the City.?

The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Alex Maskey commented: ?While the
Council is obviously disappointed that Belfast has not been shortlisted, we
must recognise that a lot of hard work and energy has been invested in this
bid ? not to mention the imagination, commitment and partnership that has
been involved right across the City.

Strong partnerships have been formed, which can still be used to drive
forward initiatives that can make this City a better place in which to live,
work and to visit. We know that we can still place this City on the world
stage for all the right reasons?.

RELEASE ENDS

ISSUED BY IMAGINE BELFAST 2008

For further information, please refer media enquiries to:

Matt Curry, Head of Communications T: 028 9032 2008
E: mattcurry[at]imaginebelfast2008.co.uk
W: www.imaginebelfast2008.co.uk

From Patrick O'Sullivan

History - Migration - Anthropology conference

There seems no specific Irish content here, but many themes that interest
us.

If you have full web access it is worth visiting the web site, for many of
the Conference papers are already displayed there - giving a flavour of
current European approachews to migration issues.

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of
ulrichraiser[at]gmx.de




History ? Migration ? Anthropology: New Perspectives on Migration and
Migration History
Third Workshop on Contemporary European Migration History

organized by: Network Migration in Europe e.V. in cooperation with
Arbeitsstelle Historische Anthropologie at the University of Erfurt and
Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

(further information is available at:
http://www.network-migration.org/workshop2002)

Contact address: ulrichraiser[at]gmx.de


November 7-9, 2002

Location: Begegnungsstaette Kleine Synagoge, 99084 Erfurt, An der
Stadtmuenze 4/5 and Erfurt
University-Campus, Nordhaeuser Strasse 63

The conference will be kindly supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation and
the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin



Program


Thursday, November 7, 2002

2.00-2.15 pm

Opening and Welcome
Network Migration in Europe e.V./Arbeitsstelle fuer Historische
Anthropologie/Centre Marc Bloch Berlin

2.15-2.45: Introduction to the Topic
Michael Esch, Alf Luedtke, Jan Motte, Rainer Ohliger, Ulrich Raiser


2.45-4.45 pm

Panel I: Locating Migrants: Social and Economic Constructions of Place and
Identity
Chair: Jan Motte (Network Migration e.V.)

Floris Vermeulen
Institut voor Migratie en Ethnische Studies, Amsterdam
Organisations and Community Structure: A Historical Research on Migrant
Organisations in Amsterdam 1960-1990.

Anastasia Christou
Aegean University, Athens
Narrating the Ethnography of Return: Interdisciplinary Contributions to
Migration Research

Sally S. Booth and Jeffrey E. Cole
Dowling College
Migration and Domestic Labor in Sicily

Antoine Pecoud
Oxford University
Self-employment and Immigrants? Incorporation


4.45-5.15 pm: Coffee Break


5.15-7.15 pm

Panel II: Migrant Memories: Path Dependencies ? Past Dependencies
Chair: Alf Luedtke (Arbeitsstelle fuer Historische Anthropologie and MPI
fuer Geschichte)

Onur Yildirim
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Representation of the 'Lausanne Refugees' in Turkish and Greek
Historiographies

Susanne Schwalgin
Universitaet Muenster
Narrating a ?Nation in Exile?: (Re-)Constructing Community in the Armenian
Diaspora of Greece

Segolene Plyer
Centre Marc Bloch Berlin and Institut fuer Europaeische Geschichte Mainz
A Village Divided: Sudeten Expellees and their Paths of Integration in the
two Germanies after 1945


8.00 pm: Dinner



Friday, November 8, 2002


10.00-12.00 am

Panel III: Discourses of Belonging: Mediating Migrant Identities (1)
Chair: Michael Esch (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)

Ayse Caglar
FU Berlin and European University Institute Florence
Media, Advertisement Industries and theTransformations in the Public
Spheres: Transnational Spaces of Turkish Immigrants in Europe

Rita Chin
Oberlin College
Migrant Literature and the Discourse of Integration in the Federal Republic
of Germany, 1978-1985

Robert P. Stephens
Virginia Tech
Migrations of Goods and People: Drugs, Immigration, and the German
Auslaenderproblem, 1960-1975


12.00 am-2.00 p.m: Lunch


2.00-3.30 pm

Panel IV: Discourses of Belonging: Mediating Migrant Identities (2)
Chair: Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe e.V.)

Yvan Gastaut
Universite de Nice
Public Opinion and Immigration in Contemporary History: Problems of Sources
and Methods [Opinion publique et immigration en histoire contemporaine:
problemes de sources et de methode]

Rachel Greenwald
University of Wyoming
Orientalism and Contemporary Images of Islam in the Federal Republic of
Germany, 1970-1989


3.30-4.00 pm: Coffee Break


4.00-5.30 pm

Panel V: Constructing and De-constructing Immigrant Statuses and Images
Chair: TBA

Edna Lomsky-Feder and Tamar Rapoport
The Hebrew University
Reading and Relocation: Russian-Jewish Homecomers in Israel

Jan Motte and Rainer Ohliger
Network Migration in Europe e.V.
Visualizing and Representing Migration History: Images of the Other - Other
Images?


8.00 pm: Dinner


Saturday, November 9, 2002

9.30 am-11.30 am
Panel VI: Shared Ethnicities ? Split Identities ?
Chair: Ulrich Raiser (Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin)

Ari Sammartino
University of Michigan
The Russian Past and the Soviet Future: Reactions to the Post-World War I
Refugee Crisis in Weimar Germany

Victoria Hegner
Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin
Russian Jewish Migrants in Berlin and in Chicago: A Comparative Study

Theodora Dragostinova
University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne
The Voluntary and Reciprocal Population Exchange between Bulgaria and
Greece in the Interwar Period: Some Issues of Methodological Reciprocity

Dimitrina Mihaylova
Oxford University
Nesting Transnationalism and Hindered Migrations: Pomaks from South Eastern
Bulgaria and their Experiences at and Across the Border

11.30-12.00 am

Coffee Break

12.00 am-1.30 pm:
Final Debate: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to European Migration History:
Challenges ? Opportunities ? Limits


Individual Lunch

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Title: Representations of the Child in Modern Irish Drama
Author(s): M. Kurdi
Source: Neohelicon Volume: 29 Number: 2 Page: 73 -- 91
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Abstract: The present paper surveys representations of the child-subject in
modern Irish drama from the 1890s to the 1980s, examining their links with
the process of decolonization through revealing some of the social and
psychological effects of colonialism and its aftermath. In the early 19th
century the newly constructed roles of the child became entrenched in the
ideology of colonial imperialism. During the Irish Literary Revival, the
drama as a key literary genre provided a decidedly anti-imperial response to
and counteracting of the colonial stereotypes which described the Irish as
feminine, child-like and uncivilized, by redirecting the force of these
categories. In several plays of the period the character still growing tends
to be implicated in the project of highlighting the difference between the
paralytic world of the moment and the potential for change, and is shown as
capable of envisaging and anticipating transformation. After the 1920s, in
post-independence and post-colonial times the dramatized child-subject
becomes related to the sense of frustration and impasse generated by the
persistence of the old narratives, troping the experience of communal and
individual crisis, loss, the difficulty or even impossibility to change
certain patterns, prejudices and attitudes. It is only in the late 1980s
that this trend seems to change, and the child in drama evokes the
transcendence of past traumas, looking back to the Irish theatre of the
early 1900s. The conclusion of the paper points to the recent emerging of
yet another group of contemporary Irish plays with teenagers as
protagonists, which junior characters, along with their counterparts in
world-drama, perform a new aspect of the cultural and anthropological
self-definition of the postmodern individual.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Title: Divorce in Ireland: The Fear, the Floodgates and the Reality
Author(s): J. Burley ; F. Regan
Source: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family Volume: 16
Number: 2 Page: 202 -- 222
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract: The Irish story of family law reform in the post-Second World War
era is quite different from the experience of other countries. One of the
main reasons why the story is different is that from 1937 divorce was banned
under the Irish Constitution. Divorce law reform therefore required a
referendum to change the constitution. Even though there were thousands of
separated people in Ireland in the early 1980s, the proposal to introduce
divorce was vociferously opposed in referenda in 1986 and 1995. The
opposition to constitutional change was fuelled by anti-divorce campaigns
which used fear tactics related to money, children, property and inheritance
to argue that divorce would tear apart the fabric of Irish society. The
campaigns also claimed that divorce would open the floodgates to marriage
breakdown. The availability of divorce in Ireland since 1997 has not,
however, borne out the dire predictions of the anti-divorce campaigners.
This article briefly outlines the historical background to the introduction
of divorce in Ireland and examines the consequences of the reform. It
demonstrates that the divorce and family breakdown floodgates have not been
opened and argues that a complex range of factors must be taken into account
in order to explain why, at least in the first five years, relatively few
Irish people applied for divorce.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



Title: 'Lifting the veil': the arts, broadcasting and Irish Society
Author(s): B. O'Neill
Source: Media, Culture & Society Volume: 22 Number: 6 Page: 763 -- 785
Publisher: Sage Publications
Abstract: This article examines the role played by broadcasting in Irish
artistic and cultural life from independence in 1922 to 1960 with the onset
of formal modernization. It examines the cultural context for the arts in
early independent Ireland in which a mood of ambivalence and sometimes
outright hostility to high culture prevailed. Rather than a profound
disjunction between pre- and post-modernizing phases of Irish history,
however, this article argues that there were important lines of continuity
in cultural experience, in particular middle-class experience of the arts,
which continue to inform Irish cultural life up to the present. Such
cultural experience may be characterized by its pervasive middlebrow
sensibility which, starved of the traditional institutional supports for
culture, made up in amateur enthusiasm what was missing in cultural capital.
Broadcasting, in fact, was the key institution in the middlebrow process of
cultural development in pre-1960s Ireland which along with the developing
arts policy of the time can be seen to give a different complexion to a
period in Irish history better known for its cultural impoverishment and
repressive nature.

Keywords: arts policy; broadcasting; Ireland; social class

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



Title: Mismatches in Language Policy and Practice in Education: The Case of
Gaelscoileanna in the Republic of Ireland
Author(s): M. Coady ; M. Ó Laoire
Source: Language Policy Volume: 1 Number: 2 Page: 143 -- 158
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between national
language policy and practice in Irish-medium schools, which are known in
Irish Gaelic as Gaelscoileanna. The paper provides an overview of the
state's language policy since 1922 to promote Irish by using the schools as
the primary vehicle for policy implementation. Based on a recent study, the
paper describes various changes in the Gaelscoileanna movement over time,
including the students' linguistic profile, pupil to teacher ratio,
available teaching aids and textbooks in Irish, and teachers' belief
regarding the potential impact of the schools on language revival efforts.
Findings from the study reveal a mismatch between national language policy
and educational supports necessary for schools to most effectively implement
their curriculum. They also reveal teachers' skepticism that schools can
impact on Irish revival. This finding is relevant given the current
directions being taken in Irish language policy.
Keywords: bilingual education; Gaelic; Gaelscoileanna; Ireland; Irish;
Irish-medium schools; language planning; language policy

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Title: Resurgent Irish Immigration to the US in the 1980s and early 1990s: A
Socio-demographic Profile
Author(s): A.P. Lobo ; J.J. Salvo
Source: International Migration Volume: 36 Number: 2 Page: 257 -- 280
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Abstract: Irish immigration to the US has been motivated traditionally by a
lack of employment opportunities at home. With the passage of the US
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, however, Irish immigrants were no
longer explicitly favoured. Family reunification became the primary path of
entry, which worked against the Irish who had lost their immediate
generational link with US residents.
During the severe Irish recession of 1980-85 a resurgence in Irish outflows
resulted in a large undocumented Irish population in the US. Most of this
population was later legalized as a result of special legislation that
targeted the Irish. There have been concerns in Ireland that the outflow in
the 1980s, unlike prior flows, included a high proportion of skilled
persons, leading some to characterize the outflow as a ?new wave?.
This article uses US immigration data to assess how the occupational
characteristics of recent Irish immigrants compare with prior immigrant
cohorts and also examines how Irish immigrants are incorporated into the US
economy.
Recent Irish immigrants to the US spanned the occupational spectrum:
accountants, engineers, nurses and other professionals found a booming job
market in the most advanced sectors of the US economy, while less skilled
immigrants found jobs in the informal economy. While the number of entering
Irish professionals increased, flows of the less skilled increased even more
dramatically, resulting in an overall decline in the occupational
selectivity of Irish immigrants.
The 1980-85 Irish recession has been followed by robust growth for more than
a decade. Ireland is now experiencing a net inflow of persons, including
many Irish professionals returning from the US. However, Ireland continues
to experience a net outflow of the young and less skilled which may once
again result in a large undocumented Irish presence in the US.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Paul,

Thank you for this message.

This is sad news.

Professor John Hickey was a trusty and appreciative member of the
Irish-Diaspora list over many years.

If you are in touch with his famly would you please pass on our regrets and
condolences.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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England




- -----Original Message-----
Subject: Ir-D John Hickey (1930-2002)
Date: 29 October 2002 06:00

From: ppo[at]aber.ac.uk
Subject: John Hickey (1930-2002)

From: Paul O'Leary


Dear Paddy,

I heard recently of the sad death of John Hickey, Emeritus Professor of
Sociology at the Dominican University in Illinois, and a member of this
group who contributed from time to time. John was an early researcher in
the field of the Irish in Britain, writing a thesis on the Irish in Cardiff
in 1959 that was eventually turned into his book 'Urban Catholics' (1967).
He also published a number of papers on the Irish and Catholicism in
Britain and a paper on Irish rural migrants during the 1970s, as well as
studies on the sociology of Ireland. I am aware of one paper of his on the
Irish in Cardiff still in press, and when he died he was preparing a new
book on Irish migrants and Catholicism, comparing Cardiff with several
American cities. There are plans to bring this project to conclusion
posthumously and I'll keep you informed of progress.

Best wishes

Paul



Dr Paul O'Leary
Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru / Dept of History and Welsh History
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth / University of Wales Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion SY23 3DY

Tel: 01970 622842
Fax: 01970 622676

From Patrick O'Sullivan

There is a real possibility that this message will not reach the people for
whom it is intended.

All the people who run email 'lists' or discussion groups are becoming weary
of the problems we get from Hotmail and similar free email accounts. We
have just had a month during which very many of the emails sent by the
Irish-Diaspora list to Hotmail email addresses did not get through.

And of course every email that does not get through generates an error
message, which bounces back to us - and which must be examined, in case it
reveals some important problem.

I know that MSN are making promises about better service in the future - but
MSN are always making promises. Cynics have suggested that the problems
arise because MSN are trying to coax, or force, people towards a fee-paying
service.

Really, I see little point in the Irish-Diaspora list sending out messages
to email addresses that do not work, or which work only erratically. We are
just adding to the garbage that floats around the net.

Without any real, formal change of policy, I find myself - more and more -
trying to discourage people from joining the Irish-Diaspora list from a
Hotmail or similar account. Would Ir-D members with Hotmail email addresses
please think about their usage. If you have an alternative, sensible email
address, I think we would prefer it if you used that.

Paddy


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.



Title: Kevin Barry, the Incident at Monk's Bakery and the Making of an Irish
Republican Legend
Author(s): J. Ainsworth
Source: History Volume: 87 Number: 287 Page: 372 -- 387
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Abstract: Kevin Barry remains a popular figure in Irish republican folklore,
as a victim of British injustice and a martyr for Ireland. As a member of
the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, he had taken an active part
in a surprise attack on a British army ration party at Patrick Monk's Bakery
on 20 September 1920, which resulted in the deaths of three young British
soldiers and Barry's capture. After being tried by court-martial, convicted
and then executed for the murder of one of the three young soldiers, he
became the subject of a propaganda campaign directed by Sinn Fein in the
world press to characterize the British as brutal, merciless and uncivilized
in comparison with IRA fighters like Barry, who were portrayed typically as
young, courageous and gallantly devoted to their cause. Yet Barry had been
captured in the civilian disguise of a guerrilla fighter rather than as a
uniformed soldier, with flat-nosed ammunition in his pistol, and in
circumstances where both ballistic evidence and eye-witness testimony proved
his culpability beyond any doubt. While these were factors that could and
should have been used to challenge Sinn Fein's propaganda initiatives, the
British failed to mount any semblance of a counter-propaganda campaign. The
reasons for and the consequences of this mute response on the British side
are issues explored in considering how Kevin Barry became and still remains
a figure of legend among Irish nationalists.

From: "Paul O'Leary"
Subject: Re: Ir-D John Hickey (1930-2002) 2

From: Paul O'Leary

Yes, I am in touch with John Hickey's family and I shall pass on
condolences.

Paul



At , you wrote:
>
>>From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>Paul,
>
>Thank you for this message.
>
>This is sad news.
>
>Professor John Hickey was a trusty and appreciative member of the
>Irish-Diaspora list over many years.
>
>If you are in touch with his family would you please pass on our regrets
and
>condolences.
>
>Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>

From: "Bronwen Walter"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Transnational Communities' Conference 2

Dear Paddy

How strange that the opening words of Steve Vertovec's article in the Times
Higer Education Suppement (THES)
of 25 October about the Transnational Communities programme should be 'Irish
and Italian migrants to the US...'

Bronwen Walter


- ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> >From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
> I also went to London to attend the 'Final Public Event' of the Economic
and
> Social Research Council (ESRC) programme on 'Transnational Communities',
> 25th October 2002. See earlier Ir-D message and further information at
the
> web site...
> http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/
>
> I went to this 'Event' in a spirit of anthropological enquiry, and emerged
> baffled, bored and none the wiser.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

I have been doing a bit of travelling in recent weeks - including, in
connection with another project, a nightmare trip to Edinburgh. Yes, there
should be a sharp intake of breath from those who know both of my notorious
dislike of travel and of the state of British transport systems in recent
weeks...

I also went to London to attend the 'Final Public Event' of the Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC) programme on 'Transnational Communities',
25th October 2002. See earlier Ir-D message and further information at the
web site...
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/

I went to this 'Event' in a spirit of anthropological enquiry, and emerged
baffled, bored and none the wiser. It has to be asked, 3.8 million pounds
and 5 years later - what do we know that we did not know before? I assume
that the 19 research projects that made up this programme were well
conducted - very able people were involved. But the format chosen for the
'Event' did not involvce them, and did not really involve a proper report on
the research programme. Instead various members of the sorority and
fraternity of the minor great and good were chosen, to briefly report on the
research programme, comment, or take part in panel discussions.

With one or two exceptions there was little evidence that the various
commentators had actually read the research reports (there may be good
reason for this, since I know that some reports are not quite complete).
So, instead, commentators gave us their own, not particularly well informed,
views on 'transnational communities'. One colleague whom I met at the
Conference said, sotto voce, But this is banal, isn't it? Discussion, such
as it was, quickly became mired in issues around British asylum and
immigration policy - issues which, in Britain, are shaped by the rightwing,
tabloid newspapers.

Belatedly, there were a number of objections from the floor - a telling one
from one of the veritable researchers, who pointed out that exactly the same
discussion could have taken place, did take place, in this country 20 or 30
years ago. So, where was the new knowledge, where were the new insights?
Certainly not inside the heads of the people we had been asked to listen to.
A last, and perhaps minor point - I have seen no insight come out of this
research programme that could not have come out of detailed research into
the experiences of the Irish, in the past or in the present.

And, on reflection, that should be an exciting observation...

P.O'S.


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From: Marion Casey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Immigration to the US, 1980s, 1990s


Paddy,

Just a note to say that Peter Lobo and Joe Salvo are two of the dedicated
and smart demographers in NYC's Department of City Planning, Population
Division.

Best wishes,
Marion

Marion R. Casey
Assistant Professor of History &
Faculty Fellow in Irish American Studies
New York University

- ----- Original Message -----
From: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:40 am
Subject: Ir-D Irish Immigration to the US, 1980s, 1990s

>
> From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> For information...
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Title: Resurgent Irish Immigration to the US in the 1980s and
> early 1990s: A
> Socio-demographic Profile
> Author(s): A.P. Lobo ; J.J. Salvo
> Source: International Migration Volume: 36 Number: 2 Page:
> 257 -- 280
> Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
> Abstract: Irish immigration to the US has been motivated

From Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Title: Fenianism in North America in the 1860s: The Problems for Church and
State
Author(s): O. Rafferty
Source: History Volume: 84 Number: 274 Page: 257 -- 277
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Abstract: Irish Catholic immigrants in North America provided, on the
surface, a potentially powerful source of support for the revolutionary
designs of the Fenian movement in Ireland. The Catholic bishops, encouraged
by their colleagues in Ireland, especially Paul Cullen, the archbishop of
Dublin, resisted Fenian strategies in the new world by declaring that the
Fenian organization was condemned by the church as a secret society. The
bishops' task was complicated by the circumstances of the American Civil War
in that the Fenians recruited to their ranks from among the Irish enlisted
soldiers. With anti-English sentiment running high in the northern states,
the Union authorities were inclined to turn a blind eye to Fenian
machinations both during and after the war. Although the bishops had been
anxious in 1865 to have the backing of Rome for their anti-Fenian stance,
their post-bellum position was more cautious and they, for the most part,
opposed the papal condemnation of Fenianism in 1870, a condemnation issued
at the behest of the Irish bishops. The church in America and Canada
laboured under various disadvantages, mostly of an anti-Catholic nature,
which hampered its ability to deal resolutely with the Irish nationalist
discontent in its midst. Ultimately, however, the disintegration of the
Fenian movement in North America had more to do with its own internal
incoherence than any external pressure.

From: "Catherine.E.Foley"
Subject: Dance Conference in Limerick

The International Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars will
be held at the Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick,
Ireland, from 26th -29th June 2003. This is the first time that the
conference has been held outside North America and because of the
conference's location in Ireland it is expected that there will be a number
of papers relating to Irish dance practices and Irish dance practitioners
both in Ireland and in the diasporic locations of England, North America,
Canada, Australia...etc. The role dance has played within the diasporic
experience is a significant one and this, together with other aspects of
dance research will be presented and addressed at this conference.

For further information contact,
Dr Catherine Foley, Chair Local Arrangments Committee,
Course Director MA in Ethnochoreology and MA in Irish Traditional Dance
Performance
The Irish World Music Centre
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
emaIl: catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie

Catherine

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The Irish-Diaspora list began in November 1997 - so we are about to reach
our fifth anniversary.

Thanks to the support of the good people at Sobolstones we were able to
rescue much of our archive, and develop our archive. We now have 4 full
years of Ir-D archives stored at www.irishdiaspora.net.

We did lose many of the very first year's Ir-D messages, because of computer
problems. But we have been able to find many lost items - and the design of
our database means that we have been able to slot in the rediscovered items
in the appropriate place.

Some of these lost items were sent to me by Irish-Diaspora list members, who
had held on to them in their own computers. Our thanks to them. If you do
come across any Ir-D messages from 1997, early 1998, that you are able to
send me as an email, please do send them.

To remind everyone...

For access to the RESTRICTED area of irishdiaspora.net...

Go to
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Click on Special Access, at the top of the screen.

Username irdmember
Current Password sheehan

Note the changed password. The password is always a clue to my current
reading...

That gets you into our RESTRICTED area.

Click on RESTRICTED, and you have access to our two databases...

DIRDA - the Database of the Ir-D Archive...
DIDI - the Database of Irish-Diaspora Interests...

Log out by clicking on irishdiaspora.net at the top of the screen.

Scholars who are using the guest username need to contact me directly,
because that username's password has also changed.

Note that we are working on a re-vamp of the Database system - more on that
at a later date.

P.O'S.


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