From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

BostonIrish[at]attbi.com
Subject: Irish Play "Stones in His Pockets" Coming to Boston

Marie Jones' "joyful, uproarious" play, Stones in His Pockets is coming
to Boston's Shubert Theatre for a two week engagement December 3-15,
2002.

For details click on the link below.

http://www.irishmassachusetts.com/events-dec02.htm#wang

Thanks.

Boston Irish Tourism Association
www.IrishMassachusetts.com
www.IrishHeritageTrail.com

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Dowry in Mid-C19th Ireland

I suggest the works of Cormac O Grada. Ir contact him. If you don't
have his email address,
please send me a message directly to MillerK[at]missouri.edu and I'll be
glad to provide it.
Kerby Miller.



>Subject: Dowry in Mid-19th Century Ireland
>From: "Murray, Edmundo"
>
>In a letter written in 1864 by John James Murphy (1822-1909) in
>Argentina and addressed to his brother Martin in Kilrane, Co. Wexford,
>he regrets that the £200 dowry assigned to their sister Margaret would
>be too high in relation with the suitor's properties. Could anyone in
>this list suggest readings about the dowry institution in Ireland at
>that time?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Edmundo Murray
>UniversitÈ de GenËve

Forwarded on behalf of
Leon Litvack

Please distribute...

P.O'S.

Subject: SSNCI Belfast call for papers: plain text


Dear friends,

Call for papers

Ireland and Europe in the Nineteenth Century

An International Multidisciplinary Conference
Hosted by the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland


Queen's University Belfast

20-22 June 2003

The nineteenth century was the period when modern ideas of nationhood
underwent significant development. In the case of Ireland, there was
significant dialogue and comparison with Europe; but this can be viewed
as a two-way process, encompassing both the influence of European ideas
and culture on nineteenth-century Ireland, and the influence of Irish
ideas on nineteenth-century Europe.

We invite proposals for papers (of 20 minutes duration) on any aspect of
this dialogue, including the sociology, anthropology, and ethnology of
nationhood and identity; travel writing; revolutionary movements and
discourses; appropriations of Europe; and national imaginings. It might
also be interesting to explore gender and genderings of Europe;
constructions of European Romanticism; historiography and the history of
ideas; religious and philosophical movements; intertextuality; the rise
of the novel; and musical or artistic influences. The complex
connections between Ireland, Britain, and Europe might also feature as a
topic for discussion.

Selected essays will contribute to an edited volume.

Proposals of around 250 words should be sent, before before 28 February
2003, to

Dr Leon Litvack or Dr Colin Graham
School of English
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK
Email L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk
Colin.Graham[at]qub.ac.uk
Tel. +44-28-90335103
Fax +44-28-90314615

www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/ssnci.html

-------------------------------
Leon Litvack
Senior Lecturer
School of English
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/
Tel. +44-2890-273266
Fax +44-2890-314615

From: Angela McCarthy
Subject: Irish Scottish List

List members might be interested to know that the Irish Scottish List,
operated by the AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the
University of Aberdeen, is now functioning. To subscribe please send an
email to majordomo[at]abdn.ac.uk. Leave the subject line blank and in the
body
of the message type: subscribe irishscottish.

We look forward to welcoming many on board.

Best wishes
Angela McCarthy


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From: "Maureen E Mulvihill"
To:
Cc: "James E. Tierney" ,
"Maureen E Mulvihill"
Subject: "The Intelligencer" (No 6)


Dear Michael Kenneally in Montreal -

In swift reply to your intriguing query, posted on the Irish Diaspora
List, you might email Professor James Tierney in St Louis, whose chief
specialty is English periodical (or serial) literature of the 18thC.

In the spirit,

Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:59 AM
Subject: Ir-D Ireland is a rich and flourishing Nation


>
> From: "Michael Kenneally"
> To:
> Subject: Query
>
>
> I have a query about Sheridan. I'm looking for the putative source
> of "Ireland is a rich and flourishing Nation." That phrase appears in

> The Intelligencer No. 6 (on p89 of J. Woolley's Clarendon ed.); and it

> reportedly epitomizes the English view of Ireland's economic
> conditions that Sheridan is lambasting in that number. The phrase is
> italicized and therefore suggests that it is a quotation. The only
> other thing in Intelligencer 6 (a mid-1728 issue) that may be
> pertinent to identifying the source of the quotation (if, of course,
> it is that) comes from/with Sheridan's characterization of the phrase
> as "new Cant."
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Michael
> ____________________
> Michael Kenneally
> Director, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies
> Concordia University
> Samuel Bronfman House,
> 1590 Dr. Penfield Ave.,
> Montréal, QC, H3G 1C5
> Phones: (514) 848-8711, 848-7389
> Fax: (514) 848-4514
>
>
>

Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish Play "Stones in His Pockets" in Boston
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Paddy,

Was taken to see Stones in His Pockets here in Gainesville for my
birthday in October. After the play, that was all we talked about at
the festive dinner. It is one of those plays that will produce post
performance discussions.

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

Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Website: American Nativist Cartoons

From: Patrick Maume
While browsing the Net recently I cam across this website on
nineteenth-century nativist cartoons. The main focus is on
anti-Catholicism, but some are also anti-Irish (e.g. one from
the 1890s shows leading politicians bowing down before an
enthroned stage-Irishman representing the Irish vote.) It may
be of interest to students of the diaspora
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapplication/Images.cfm?Major=RE&M
inor=D
Best wishes,
PAtrick

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patrick maume

From: "Thomas J. Archdeacon"
Subject: Nativist cartoons

Thanks to Patrick Maume for the reference to the UC-Davis site, but,
when I clicked on the URL, however, I got an error message. I think
this URL will work better:
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapplication/MarchandMajors.cfm
It will take you directly to a list of cartoon categories. I found the
nativist ones under "Immigration."

You might also want to look at the homepage:
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/. It describes the work of the late
professor on whose files the site is based. The site seems aimed
primarily at K-12 teachers; that is, teachers from kindergarten through
the end of American high school education. If you click on US Primary
Source Lessons and then on the University Lessons sub-category, however,
you will find useful materials for more advanced work.

Tom

Thomas J. Archdeacon
tjarchde[at]wisc.edu
Ph: 608-263-1778
Fax: 608-263-5302
Dept. of History
U. Wisconsin - Madison
5133 Humanities
455 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706

Please distribute...

From: Ruth Hegarty
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Final Call - Representing the Troubles conference

Royal Irish Academy

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Representing the Troubles:

Literature, Theatre, Film, TV Drama

In the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland experienced thirty
years in which the political status of Northern Ireland was challenged
by numerous acts of violence. Since the signing of the Good
Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998 it has been widely sensed that an era
has passed in Irish history and that violence of the kind which marked
the period 1969-94 is unlikely to recur on the same scale in the
foreseeable future. Five years after the signing of the Good Friday
agreement seems accordingly an auspicious time to begin an assessment of
how the period of the Troubles was represented in literature, theatre,
film and television drama.

It is therefore proposed to hold a conference on the above theme in the
Royal Irish Academy on
10 & 11 April 2003.

Proposals are invited for twenty minute papers on relevant subjects.
Among topics we hope participants will address in presented papers are:


The Troubles and the Family;
The View from the South;
The Urban Rural Divide;
Sexuality;
Religion;
Language Choice;
Anthologising the Troubles;

This list should not be considered restrictively exhaustive.
Papers will be welcomed that cover more than one genre.

Please send abstracts of not more than 500 words to
The Committee for Anglo-Irish Literature at the
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
or by email to r.hegarty[at]ria.ie.

before 31 December 2002

Ruth Hegarty
Administrative Officer,
Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann
19 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.

Switchboard: 00 353 1 6762570
Fax: 00 353 1 6762346
Direct Dial: 00 353 1 6380918
E-Mail: r.hegarty[at]ria.ie
Website: www.ria.ie

Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann
Promoting study in the sciences and humanities since 1785

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am noticing an increasing amount of interest within Europe in what we
do...

When I say 'what', 'we' and 'do'... Well, there is interest in the very
notion of Irish Diaspora Studies - as I have said before there is a
perception out there that we are somewhat 'ahead of the game'. Though
how far this is in fact true may be debateable. So, there is interest
in the 'Diaspora Studies' approach to the study of other diasporas,
migrations and scattered peoples. There is interest in the
Irish-Diaspora list, and how it functions.

This interest within Europe seems to pull in a number of directions, and
have a number of starting points. Amongst these I would include the
emergence, or re-emergence, of numbers of small states/nations - many of
which look to Ireland for a role model. (From under my writer's hat, I
can report that writers within those countries are interested in
Ireland's literary traditions - especially the tradition of
interrogating the national identity in drama. Which may now be a pain
for Irish writers. But O'Casey is a hero out there...)

Also relevant would be the long term consequences of the collapse of
communism and the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and the proposed
expansion of the European Union. For example, it is noticeable here in
Bradford, Yorkshire, that we have much renewed contact beteen the
homelands and our Polish and Ukrainian communities (many of whom are, of
course, exiles - in the straightforward, political refugee, sense of the
word.) I'll tidy up some of the relevant parts of the information I am
getting, and share that information with the Irish-Diaspora list.

As ever, comment and further information would be welcome.

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We are seeing versions of a number of pieces of research entering the
media - the linking theme being that emigration/immigration is a good
thing, destruction of myths and 'myths' about immigration, etc.

Examples are...
Roger Vickerman's ESRC funded research at the University of Kent,
England, on the expansion of the European Union...
{http://www.ukc.ac.uk/economics/research/1europe/}

And Paul Harrington at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, on New
England's needs...
{http://www.nupr.neu.edu/12-02/immigrationBRT.ht}

More to the point, here on the Irish-Diaspora list, from those web sites
you can download, for free, the texts of the relevant research
reports... So, very quickly, a lot of material on those debates, as
they currently progress... With a lot of resonances with C19th and
C20th Ireland.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received the following announcement from...

Ben Glahn
bglahn[at]salzburgseminar.org

On behalf of the Salzburg Seminar...

There is further information on the web site {www.salzburgseminar.org}

Note that there are sometimes fellowships available for the Salzburg
Seminars, which can cover some of the costs.

P.O'S.


Subject: Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in Europe -- Salzburg Seminar
Session 409

FROM
Ben Glahn
bglahn[at]salzburgseminar.org

I write at the suggestion of Dominique Möisi, editor of Politique
étrangère, concerning an upcoming session of the Salzburg Seminar that I
believe you will find of interest to you and your colleagues.

From June 17-24, 2003, the Salzburg Seminar will convene Migration,
Race, and Ethnicity in Europe at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg,
Austria. This session will examine questions of cultural and political
integration in the European Union; issues regarding the labor force,
worker mobility and economic expansion; and the promise and challenge of
migration, ethnic identity and racial diversity as the European Union
faces the realities of enlargement, economic reform, and of cultural
cohesion.

The Salzburg Seminar is one of the world's foremost international
educational centers committed to broadening the perspectives of
conscientious international citizens. Throughout its fifty-four year
history, the strength of the Salzburg Seminar has been its ability to
convene diverse groups of scholars, practitioners, business leaders, and
government representatives to engage in multi-dimensional and
interdisciplinary discussions and debates. At the Seminar's historic
facilities of Schloss Leopoldkskron, the home of the Salzburg Seminar
since 1947, participants will be provided with the experience of an
extended, weeklong dialogue on the multicultural future of a
multinational Europe.

The Faculty of Session 409 are as follows:

Dominique Moïsi (Chair), Deputy director, Institut français des
relations internationales;
Editor-in-chief, Politique étrangère
M.A. Zaki Badawi, Principal, Muslim College, London; Chairman, Imams and
Mosques
Council, United Kingdom
Kemal Kirisci, Director, European Studies Center, and Jean Monnet Chair
in European
Integration, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul; Former Member, External
Research
Advisory Committee, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Geneva Eneko Landaburu, Director General, Enlargement
Directorate-General, European
Commission, Brussels
Dominique Schnapper, Member, French Constitutional Court, Paris Rita
Süssmuth, Member and Former President, German Bundestag, Berlin

Applications can be made directly online from our website:
www.salzburgseminar.org,
Applications can also be emailed to the Salzburg Seminar's admissions
officer, Ingrid Wolf-Hattinger, at .

We look forward to hearing from you soon. Should you have specific
questions about Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in Europe, please feel
free to contact me at any time.


With sincere regards,


Benjamin Glahn
Program Associate
Salzburg Seminar

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have been contacted by Fernando Pérez-Barreiro Nolla, acting on
behalf of Xulio Ríos and IGADI.

Xulio Ríos is the Director of the Instituto Galego de Análise e
Documentación Internacional (IGADI ? the Galician Institute of
International Analysis and Documentation), an independent body whose
interests include the study of states,
nations and minorities in Europe and the study of the Galician Diaspora.
Xulio Ríos is also the Editor of IGADI?s journal, Tempo Exterior.

For further information see {http://www.igadi.org/}
Note that there are a variety of language buttons at the top of that
page, which lead to other language versions of (part of) the web site.

Xulio Ríos and Fernando Pérez-Barreiro were planning a special edition
of Tempo Exterior, with contributions from scholars of other diasporas.

In the background is an initiative by the Xunta, the autonomous Galician
government, which include the drafting of White Paper on the "acción
exterior" of Galicia. There is further information on
{www.libroaexga.com}
Go to 'Comisión Redactora'. You'll find there the photos and short
biographies of the Committee. I have not been able to find other
language versions of this web site. But Galician is not too hard if you
can read Spanish or Portuguese. (Please don't tell the Galicians I said
that...)

Irish-Diaspora list members will at once be reminded of the Republic of
Ireland's Report of the Taskforce on Emigration. Go to
{www.gov.ie/iveagh} And follow the link to Emigrant Taskforce Report.
Also at the same place is the study commissioned by the Taskforce from
Bronwen Walter.

I have, of course, already made the Galician 'Comisión Redactora' aware
of these resources.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


We have been contacted by

Dr. Gloria TotoricagXena
Center for Basque Studies
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557-0012
totorica[at]unr.edu
www.basque.unr.edu

...acting on behalf of the Third Basque World Congress, which will be
held in the Basque Country, July 2003.

At the Congress there will be representatives of Basque 'collectivities'
from some 21 countries.

It is also hoped that there will be presentations by scholars from other
diasporic peoples.

The Second Basque Congress took place in 1999, and is well represented
on the Web. When I have more information about the Third Congress I
will share it with the Irish-Diaspora list. What I find especially
interesting is that the autonomous Basque government is required BY LAW
to organise and support this Congress.

These are the questions that the Basque World Congress is asking of
us...

1. Introduction and brief history of Irish emigration

2. Information about how the Irish diaspora is currently constituted
organizationally and institutionally

3. What kind of financial resources are available to the Irish
communities outside of Ireland - Irish government, business leaders,
foundations, etc. that are Irish, or do most Irish organizations rely on
outside funding not related to homeland sources?

4. What are the most significant problems that these communities are
experiencing regarding maintaining ethnic identity with the Irish
outside of Ireland? What are the communities' plans for their futures?

5. What kinds of activities do the Irish communities promote and
implement? Educational? Language? Homeland visits? Historical?
Political? Business exchange?

6. Are there Irish business networks that support Irish identity and
cultural maintenance in diaspora communities?

Well....

Patrick O'Sullivan


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

In my earlier message on the Development of Galician Diaspora Studies I
mentioned that Fernando Pérez-Barreiro Nolla, Xulio Ríos and IGADI, were
planning a special diasporas edition of their journal, Tempo Exterior.

Obviously, they wanted a contribution from a scholar of the Irish
Diaspora. Usually I pass on these invitations to members of the
Irish-Diaspora list, and usually to scholars in the earlier stages of
their careers, who need to add to their list of publications.

However, this time, after discussion with our Galician colleagues, I
decided that I should myself write a piece for Tempo Exterior. There
were a number of reasons for this. Our colleagues made it clear that
they wanted not simply a case study but something that would push
forward Galician Diaspora Studies at the theoretical level, and push
forward the Galician language. There were also problems of time.

I had, in draft form, a paper which I gave to Brian Lambkin's Centre for
Migration Studies, Omagh, last year - a paper which had benefitted from
further comment by Piaras Mac Einri of UC Cork. I rewrote that piece
and supplied to our Galician colleagues a paper which I called 'The
Development of Irish Diaspora Studies'...

Abstract pasted in here, first in Galego...

Patrick O?Sullivan
A evolución dos Estudos da Diáspora Irlandesa: éxitos e fracasos dunha
iniciativa intelectual.

Resumo:
Neste artigo trázase o desenvolvemento dos Estudos da Diáspora Irlandesa
nos dez últimos anos, atendendo a cómo a nosa actividade pode ter
interés para os estudosos doutras diásporas, migracións e pobos
dispersos. O principal da nosa tarefa foi crear un rexistro cumulativo
das investigacións, verdadeiramente interdisciplinares, non somente
empregando os medios tradicionais, como publicacións e reunións en
conferencia, senón acudindo tamén a a novas tecnoloxías: Internet, a
Web e as bases de datos. Pero moito do que facemos ven configurado ainda
por programas de intencións que non son os nosos, por programas do
mundo universitario ou das disciplinas universitarias tradicionais, e
programas políticos e económicos en xeral.

Patrick O?Sullivan
The Development of Irish Diaspora Studies: success and failure in a
scholarly enterprise.

Abstract:
This article charts the development of Irish Diaspora Studies over the
past ten years, looking at ways in which our enterprise will be of
interest to scholars of other diasporas, migrations and scattered
peoples. Our main task has been to create a cumulative research record,
genuinely interdisciplinary, using not only traditional means, like
publications and conferences, but also harnessing newer technologies,
the internet, the web and databases. But still much of what we do is
shaped by agendas not our own, by agendas within academia or within the
traditional academic disciplines, and by political or economic agendas
in the world at large.

This paper is in what I would normally regard as the Second Draft phase.
Our Galician colleagues have seized it, translated it, and I think it is
now with the printer. It was a very interesting exercise, which I wish
we could have handled in more leisurely style. For example,
distinctions which I normally make in English, like 'scholarly' not
'academic', are not available in Galego. In the Abstract you can see
that 'scholarly' has become intelectual/intellectual. 'Intellectual'
makes perfect sense in other European languages - but has to be watched
within English English, where it is usually contrasted with words like
'practical'. So, an 'intellectual' would be impractical, effete,
useless. And I am none of those things.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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From: patrick maume
Subject: Ir-D : Irish religious impact on Africa

From: Patrick Maume
When browsing on the wilder fringes of the Web, as I sometimes
do, I came across a story about a church in Kenya which broke
away from Catholicism sometime ago, led by a man who declared
himself the "African Jesus". It retains many features of
Catholicism (including its own Pope and services in Latin).
The interesting thing is that it calls itself the "Legio
Mariae". Unfortunately the article does not seem to be aware of
the original Legion of Mary (founded by Frank Duff in Dublin
during the First World War) and it is not possible to tell how
far this group have copied Legion symbolism and ceremonies, but
it seems clear that it is modelled on the original Legion - an
unexpected offshoot of Edel Quinn's celebrated activities in
East Africa.
Perhaps a comparison might be made with the transplantation of
the Orange Order to West Africa in the early twentieth century.
The story can be found at
http://www.peacelink.it/afrinews/28_issue/p4.html
Best wishes,
Patrick

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patrick maume

From: "Sarah Morgan"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Basque World Congress

Paddy,

a very quick and uneven response to some of the questions (pasted in
under Qs 3-6). So not at all comprehensive and probably biased. You may
want to share this with the list straight away, or you might want to
collate responses into something more coherent than I have offered here!
Certainly Qs1 and 2 require more reflection and time to begin a response
(I think Q2 is a real challenge), and what I have offered only really
touches the proverbial iceberg.

Sarah.

> These are the questions that the Basque World Congress is asking of
> us...
>
> 1. Introduction and brief history of Irish emigration
>
> 2. Information about how the Irish diaspora is currently constituted
> organizationally and institutionally
>
> 3. What kind of financial resources are available to the Irish
> communities outside of Ireland - Irish government, business leaders,
> foundations, etc. that are Irish, or do most Irish organizations rely
> on outside funding not related to homeland sources?

In Britain, many of the Irish community groups get funding from a range
of British sources, in addtion to the Irish government's Dion fund (just
reduced in size by Charlie McCreevy), which remains an important source
of funding for many community groups. There is also the Irish Youth
Foundation, which I guess could be seen as fundraising among the 'great
and the good' as well as the Ireland Fund, which also operates in other
countries.

British funders come from a very wide range, and are often significant
funders of Irish organisations; for example, the National Lottery, local
government, Bridge House Trust, Barings Foundation but there are many,
many more.

>
> 4. What are the most significant problems that these communities are
> experiencing regarding maintaining ethnic identity with the Irish
> outside of Ireland? What are the communities' plans for their
> futures?

One of the most signifcant problems faced by second generation Irish
people in Britain is the denial of their Irishness by Irish-born people
in both Britain and Ireland, as well as by British people. In England,
the combination of white skin (for the majority) and English accents are
assumed to signify Englishness and/or Britishness. In Scotland, the
nuances are rather different, as sectarianism and anti-Irishness are
still strongly intertwined on the public stage (which is not to say they
are not enmeshed in England - but it is much more muted). Contributors
to the list with expertise on Scotland might want to add to this.

I think it remains to be seen whether there is a 'plan' in the
community/communities for the continuation of Irish ethnicities in
Britain, although that is not to say that nothing is happening: for
example Comhaltas - which can be loosely described as an organise to
promote and teach Irish traditional music - has many second generation
Irish members and musicians. I do know that Mike Walshe, formerly of
Manchester Irish Community Care focused his masters dissertation on how,
or not, community groups were trying to attract second generation Irish
people. My recollection is that it was critical of the lack of effort to
attract second generation Irish.

>
> 5. What kinds of activities do the Irish communities promote and
> implement? Educational? Language? Homeland visits? Historical?
> Political? Business exchange?

To an extent, all of these happen in Britain (although I don't know
about business exchange); what is missing here is the lobbying,
campaigning and research work which many community groups and academics
do in order for Irish people to be recognised and their needs met.

>
> 6. Are there Irish business networks that support Irish identity and
> cultural maintenance in diaspora communities?

A good question. Perhaps the Irish Youth Foundation could be mentioned
here?

Sarah Morgan

From: Don MacRaild
Subject: Immigration, History and Memory in Britain

Dear all,

Panikos Panayi, who isn't an Ir-D list member, has asked me to
distribute a call for papers.

If you don't hear me before the 25th, Happy Christmas one and all!

Don MacRaild
Northumbria



CALL FOR PAPERS

Immigration, History and Memory in Britain

De Montfort University 6-7 September 2003

It has long been acknowledged that British history cannot be exclusively
constructed from the histories of the white ethnic groups traditionally
perceived to make up the British Isles. History in Britain, as in most
nations, is a mosaic of different interpretations and experiences, of
indigenous histories intertwined with the story of immigration and the
development of migrant communities. This conference seeks to explore the
meeting points between these tales of immigration and British history
more generally, firmly writing the immigrant minority experience into
the broader sweep of British historiography. It is also hoped that the
conference will underline the significance of 'history from below' by
examining the 'smaller histories' of the minority groups, and more
particularly the role of history in constructing and maintaining ethnic
and national identity. In order to achieve this the conference aims to
break down the disciplinary boundaries that often prevent the wider
dissemination and discussion of research relating to Britain's ethnic
minorities, allowing a broad range of approaches, ideas and research
findings to be shared. Following the themes of 'immigration, history and
memory', the forum will provide an opportunity for scholars from a
variety of disciplinary backgrounds to bring together their work on the
diverse minority groups in Britain.

Papers: Please send abstracts of around 250 words considering one or
more of the following themes and groups by 28th February 2003

* Groups: We would like the conference to reflect the enormous
diversity of immigrant groups in Britain, from Europe, Africa, Asia and
the Middle and Far East. Papers are welcomed covering periods within the
nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries, but this time-span is
flexible, allowing for earlier research where this fits with the
conference themes.
*
* Key themes: Papers are welcomed from a range of disciplines,
most
obviously history, anthropology, sociology, geography and media studies.
This list is not prescriptive and papers addressing other relevant
themes are also invited.
* History and national and ethnic identity
* 'Official' history and immigration
* Oral history and ethnicity
* Myths, controversial and hidden histories
* Racism, memory and forgetting
* Transmitting and/or 'performing' history
* Memory and forced migration

Abstracts should be sent to:

Kathy Burrell, Department of Social & Cultural Studies, De Montfort
University, Polhill Avenue, Bedford, MK41 9EA; email:
KBurrell[at]dmu.ac.uk;
tel: 01234 793126

Panikos Panayi, Department of Historical & International Studies, De
Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH; email:
ppanayi[at]dmu.ac.uk; tel: 0116 271 1824

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received the following announcement from...


Luca Codignola
codignol[at]unige.it


UNIVERSITÀ DI GENOVA
RESEARCH CENTRE IN CANADIAN STUDIES AND ON THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EXPANSION
Fourth Annual Seminar in Atlantic History (Genoa, Italy, 29 January
2003, 15 April 2003)

Dear Patrick O'Sullivan:

Lack of firm commitments on the part of our funding agencies has made it
impossible so far to plan the Centre's traditional year-long Seminar in
Atlantic History, now in its fourth edition. Although we like to plan
our events fairly well in advance, we are only now in a position to
issue a general call for papers for two one-day conferences, devoted to
the general theme "Networks of People, Interests, and Ideas." The two
one-day conferences will take the place of our customary
by-weekly-lecture format.

The first conference, devoted to "The Italian Peninsula and North
America in the Early Nineteenth-Century. Networks of People, Interests,
and Ideas, 1799-1867" will take place on Wednesday, 29 January 2003. The
second conference, "The North Atlantic World in the Early
Twentieth-Century. Networks of People, Interests, and Ideas, 1914-67"
will take place on Tuesday, 15 April 2003. We are looking for a limited
number of papers to be clustered around a selected number of key-note
lecturers.

Should you or your colleagues be interested in participating with a
paper, in the language of your choice, please let us know by 15 December
2002. Papers will also be assessed for publication in the new series
edited by the Centre. You may also consider the possibility of coming
over to co-chair a session or to act as an official discussant. As for
financial arrangements, we trust that by the end of 2002 we will be able
to be clearer and more forthcoming in that regard. For the time being,
should you wish to come, you must count on your own resources only. If
you elect to join us, an official letter of invitation will follow.

Best wishes,

Luca Codignola
Director

Prof. Luca Codignola
Università di Genova
Centro di Ricerca in Studi Canadesi e Colombiani /
Research Centre in Canadian Studies and on the Age of European Expansion
/
Centre de recherche en études canadiennes et sur l'époque de l'expansion
européenne
via Lomellini 8
16124 Genova / Genoa / Gênes
Italia / Italy / Italie
tel. / ph. / tél. (39) (010) 246-5897 ufficio / office / bureau
tel. / ph. / tél. (39) (010) 839-9104 abitazione / home / résidence
fax / télécopieur (39) (010) 246-5810
posta elettronica / e-mail / courrier électronique codignol[at]unige.it

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Yet another Palgrave Macmillan book of interest...

http://www.palgrave.com/catalogue/catalogue.asp?Title_Id=0333929667

[Note: Glen Hooper's Introduction can be downloaded as a PDF file...]

P.O'S.


Irish and Postcolonial Writing
Glenn Hooper, Colin Graham

Hardback
July 2002
280 pages
216mm x 138mm
ISBN:0333929667
£47.50.

Read PDF Sample Chapter

Description:
Cutting across geographical boundaries, literary genres and historical
periods, Irish and Postcolonial Writing examines the complex, sometimes
contested legacy of Ireland's postcolonial history. From the Act of
Union to the present day, these essays consider how Irish writing
responded to the history of colonial contact, in what ways in drew on
the experience of other cultures, and how those comparative histories
were translated and utilised. Opening with a number of essays dealing
with the theoretical implications of a postcolonial reading of Ireland,
the book's three-part structure then presents a series of comparative
essays which appraise Ireland in relation to the Caribbean, the Orient,
South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, while a final section offers a
number of readings of twentieth century writers. Underlining the
necessity for an integration of history, theory and practice, these
essays examine a range of influences and interconnections, with
contributors engaging with debates within cultural and gender studies,
historiography, and nationalism. A much needed response to the expanding
interest in Irish and Postcolonial studies, this essay collection brings
together the work of several established as well as younger scholars.

Contents:
PART I: THEORIES
Introduction; G.Hooper
A Diseased Propensity: Fetish and Liminality in the Irish 'Colonial'
Text; C.Graham Frantz Fanon, Roger Casement and Colonial Commitment;
R.Kirkland Demythologizing Ireland: Revisionism and the Irish Colonial
Experience; S.Mustafa PART II: COMPARISONS Settler Instability:
Edgeworth's Irish Novels and Settler Writings from Zimbabwe;
T.McLoughlin
Translations: Difference and Identity in Recent Poetry from Ireland and
the West Indies; S.Matthews 'Monstrous Fruit': Excremental Visions in
Postcolonial Irish and African Fiction; J.Esty Orientalism and
Celticism; L.Innes Talking about Revolution: Lady Anne Barnard in
France, Ireland, and the Cape Colony; D.Johnson PART III: READINGS 'What
is my Culture? Who Talks of my Culture?:' Interrogating Irishness in the
Works of James Joyce; M.Tymoczko Eavan Boland: Forging a Post-Colonial
Herstory; S.Fulford Troublesome Tales: J.G.Farrell and the Decline of
Empire; G.Hooper Bibliography Index

Author Biographies:
GLENN HOOPER is Research Fellow in the Institute of Irish and Scottish
Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is co-editor of Ireland in the
Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity and editor of Harriet Martineau's
Letters from Ireland and The Tourist's Gaze: Travellers to Ireland,
1800-2000.


COLIN GRAHAM is Lecturer in Irish Writing at Queen's University,
Belfast. He is co-editor (with Richard Kirkland) of Ireland and Cultural
Theory and author of Ideologies of Epic and Deconstructing Ireland.