From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Our thanks to Jim Rogers for keeping us informed.

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of
James Rogers
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu

New Hibernia Review, a quarterly journal published by the University of
St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies, is proud to announce the
publication of Volume 6, Number 4 (Winter, 2002).

Readers with access to the Project Muse® site, which offers searchable,
full-text issues on-line, can view the journal?s most recent issue at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_hibernia_review/. (The past eight
issues of New Hibernia Review now are available on the Muse® site).

Here?s a look at the contents of the most recent issue:

Natasha Casey takes an always lively and occasionally scathing look at
the Riverdance phenomenon and its highly commercial version of Irishness


Thomas Hachey, head of Irish Studies at Boston College, traces the
history of Irish neutrality and finds that Ireland?s neutral stance
proved a flexible concept, which successive Dublin governments
articulated in different ways for domestic political purposes

Daniel Tobin, editor of the forthcoming Notre Dame Anthology of
Irish-American poetry, contributes a long poem from his new collection,
?The Narrows?

Liam Harte of the Uiniversity of Ulster takes note of how -- spurred on
by the gravity of the "Troubles" in the North, younger Irish novelists
began in the late 1990s to take note of the day-to-day political matter
of electioneering, referenda, and constitutional issues ? including Colm
Tóibín's The Heather Blazing (1992)

Gary Murphy of Dublin City University reexamines Irish farm policy in
the 1950s by recounting recounts the ways in which the National Farmers
Association attempted to shape the agricultural and trade policies of
Sean Lemass's Fianna Fáil government in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Stung by what it saw as the technological and industrial emphasis of T.
K. Whitaker's policies, the NFA pressed for Ireland's entry into the
European Economic Community .

David Graham Haynes explores in detail just how Jim Sheridan?s 1990 film
The Field reworked John B Keane's drama by altering the stage characters
of Tadgh and his father Bull McCabe to suit the powers of the
actors?Sean Bean and the late Richard Harris, respectively. .

Earl G. Ingersoll scrutizes Joyce?s use of the compass and geography in
Dubliners, and shows that the geography of address matters far less
than the geography of direction. Ingersoll reveals that Joyce faces his
characters east or west?rather than north or south?and leads them toward
sad hopes and great expectations thwarted.

From NUIG, Adrian Frazier, the tireless biographer of George Moore,
recounts the turbulent relations between Moore and the W B Yeats ? and
shows conclusively that the travesties of Yeats in Moore's memoir of the
Revival pale in comparison to Yeats's management of gossip against Moore
in his letters and his Autobiographies,

Jack Morgan and Michelle Sweeney examine one of Colum's favorite
genres?the faunal or "animal" poem. In Colum's practice of that genre,
they perceive links to the Moderns?especially to Elizabeth Bishop?and to
medieval Celticism, to "Pangur Bán" and the Welsh lines of Dafydd ap
Gwilym

From Limerick, Dr. Rióna Ní Fhrighil employs classics of American
criticism by Harold Bloom and Elaine Showalter together with criticism
in Irish by Mairín Ní Dhonnchadha and Daithí Ó hÓgain to anatomize imní
na húdarachta ("anxiety of authorship" in the work of Eavan Boland and
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

Finally, New York?s Maureen Mulvihil presents a brief review of the
January, 2002, of an exhibition of documentary photographs titled Hidden
Truths: Bloody Sunday 1972 at Manhattan's International Center of
Photography. Curated by Trisha Ziff, the exhibition was complemented by
a Bloody Sunday Panel at New York University Law School

For more information, including subscription information and contributor
guidelines please contact the Center for Irish Studies, 2115 Summit
Avenue #5008, St. Paul MN 55105 (651) 962-5662, or Mail #5008, or e-mail
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu.
The center?s Web site is www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies.

From: "michael j. curran"
To:

Hi Paddy
very interested in this report, so 'fill me in' as soon as you get
further info. Might try to make the meeting of Feb. 18th. in London. We
are basically looking at mental health and psychosocial adaptation or
acculturation of the Irish in Britain. Slan go foill MICHAEL


Michael J. Curran PhD
Irish Diaspora Project
Dept. of Psychology
Aras an Phiarsaigh,
Trinity College
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: 02890 839569

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of the Federation of Irish Societies, London...

Note: There will be Irish consultation events on the Department of
Health mental health and ethnicity Report, in London, Birmingham and
Manchester.

I am told that it was not possible to arrange events in all major cities
because of costs. It is hoped that people from Leeds, Sheffield,
Liverpool, Coventry, Bradford, etc., will be able to get to the 4
planned meetings. The DoH will accept email and written responses, but
those will not necessarily be regarded as representing Irish views.

When further news about the Report reaches us I will share it with the
Ir-D list.

P.O'S.


PRESS RELEASE for immediate use -

Improving mental health services for the Irish in England: Irish
community consultation events in London, Manchester and Birmingham

The Department of Health will shortly launch a report, Inside Outside:
Improving mental health services for Black and Minority Ethnic
communities in England. This report is the first of its kind in
specifically addressing the needs of people from ethnic minority
communities on a major cause of ill-health. It is particularly
important for the Irish community as the mental health profile of the
Irish in Britain has been a cause for concern for some time, and
solutions to deal with levels of reported distress and illness are
overdue. This report clearly includes and addresses Irish experience of
mental health services within proposals for service improvement. It
therefore challenges an ethnic minority agenda which has often equated
ethnic minority status with skin colour, and in doing so, has taken on
board the urgency of addressing the needs of England?s largest migrant
and ethnic minority group on an issue of great community concern.

The patterns of mental distress among Irish people in England and their
access and use of services present disturbing evidence. There are
significantly high rates of suicide among Irish people of both sexes.
Rates have persisted for decades and increased over time. There is
evidence that these rates may be under-estimated. Research on attempted
suicide shows similar excess. Excessively high rates for depression are
observed among the Irish at both national and local levels, alongside
excessive overall psychiatric admission rates.

Recurring concerns within the Irish community sector are the extent to
which GPs fail to deal with mental health issues underlying presenting
alcohol problems. There is also concern that previous experiences of
psychiatric services, lack of knowledge of rights and of services, low
self-esteem and anti-Irish prejudice, militate against some Irish people
effectively using specialist psychiatric services. Although there is
evidence that Irish people have higher rates of consulting GPs for
mental health problems, many vulnerable groups of Irish people do not
access primary care for many reasons.

Inside Outside includes proposals to:
a) increase the cultural competence of mental health staff
b) reduce ethnic differences in care and service delivery
c) develop the ethnic minority community and voluntary sector to
deal with mental health

In connection with this initiative, the Department of Health is funding
Irish, Asian, Black and Chinese communities in England to stage a number
of community events to consult on this new report. Feedback from these
events will inform the final published report.

The Irish consultation is being co-ordinated by the Federation of Irish
Societies, with events in Manchester (29 January), Birmingham (4
February) and London (5 February, women?s event; and 18 February,
general event).

Involvement in this consultation process is a chance for Irish people to
become involved in a process which shapes and improves services for the
Irish and other minority ethnic communities. In the light of the
evidence of mental distress among Irish people in England, it is
important that as many Irish people as possible become involved. All
Irish people and others with an interest in the mental well-being of
this community are welcome.

Irish people (of all generations) who are or have been most affected by,
or in need of mental health services and support, will be particularly
welcome at these events.

All those wishing to attend these Irish consultation events are
encouraged to contact Sue King, (FIS) on 020 7916 2728 (tel.), 020 7916
2753 (fax) or sue_fis[at]hotmail.com (e-mail) for general and booking
details.


END OF PRESS RELEASE



Editors:
For further information concerning this press release, please contact
Paddy Walls on 01386-841237 or WallsAMP[at]aol.com or Seán Hutton on 020
7916 2733

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

It is, of course, our duty to monitor uses of the word 'Irish', wherever
they might occur.

There is an interesting new example, in theorising about Artifical
Intelligence - Paul McKevitt, of Magee, Derry, has launched the notion
of 'Irish Rooms'.

You are, of course, familiar with the Turing Test of the possibility of
intelligent machines. Briefly, two rooms, an interrogator in one room
communicating with an entity in the other room. Can the interrogator
tell if she is communicating with a human or a machine? There is much
stuff on the web about the Turing Test. For example.

http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html#onlineref

Searle's Chinese Room offers a further thought experiment, a critique of
the Turing Test. Again, much stuff on the Web - you can follow the
links from the above web address.

Paul Mckevitt's Irish Room is a critique of Searle's Chinese Room, and a
defence of Turing. The key Paul McKevitt essay, now much cited, is this
one...

Title: From Chinese Rooms to Irish Rooms: New Words on Visions for
Language
Author(s): P. Mc Kevitt ; C. Guo
Source: Artificial Intelligence Review Volume: 10 Number: 1 Page:
49 -- 63
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract: Natural languages like English have been constrained in
expressing perceptions like vision, sound and touch for years despite
the efforts of Joyce (1922, 1939) and others. In situ, lexicons have
been limited in their form and content. They have typically been
structured in the form of sequences of natural language words with their
content defined using flat symbolic descriptions in natural languages.
In particular, we believe that today's dictionaries in general, and with
respect to Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in particular, are
unnatural in the sense that they do not encode pictures for words just
like we do in our heads. There is now a move towards integrated systems
in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991; Mc Kevitt 1994a,
1994b) and that will cause a need for dire actions on lexical research
in the form of integrated lexicons. We believe that lexicons must move
towards a situation where natural language words are also defined in
terms of spatial and visual structures. These spatial and visual
structures will solve what have been two of the most prominent problems
in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for years: (1) Where
are symbolic semantic primitive meanings in computer programs grounded?
and (2) how come some words, typically in the defining vocabulary, in
dictionaries have circular definitions so that words end up defining
each other? We believe integrated lexicons will cause these two problems
to go away and hence help solve Searle's Chinese Room Problem and move
more towards Irish Rooms of people like James Joyce.
Keywords: The Irish Room; The Chinese Room; lexicons; dictionaries;
intentions; integration; symbol grounding; circularity; primitives.

There are more references on Paul McKevitt's web page, plus - under
Publications - some downloadable articles...

http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/

The essay 'From Irish Rooms to Danish Rooms' will give you the gist of
the argument - and introduce you to Sean the Leprechaun, who (initially)
understands only Irish. The linguists might find McKevitt interesting -
in the background is a critique of dictionaries, 'lexicons'. And a
feeling for the ways in which language works.

Anyway - Leprechaun and all, 'Irish Rooms' turn out to be a good thing,
and a defence of poor old Alan Turing...

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish Sword, under editor Kenneth Ferguson, continues to catch up with
itself, and the latest issue, Vol XXII, No 89, Summer 2001, is now being
distributed.

I will distribute the Table of Contents, if one becomes available.
There is a plan for such information to become available on the MHSI web
site...
http://www.mhsirl.com/

But it's not there yet.

Of particular interest in this issue are
David Fitzpatrick on Orangeism and Irish Military History
Brian Griffin on the Irish in the Crimean War
And 3 Connaught Rangers items...
Conor Reilly on Conor O'Reilly ( a 'loyalist' Ranger), Brian Hanley on
Stphen Lally (a mutineer)...
And a useful note by Patrick McCarthy on the odd little literature that
has collected around the mutiny of 1920.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Some items from
The Irish Emigrant newsletter, January 20, 2003 - Issue No.833,
info[at]emigrant.ie
http://www.IrishEmigrant.com

P.O'S.

1.
Cut in funding to emigrant groups in Britain

The Government has been criticised for cutting its funding for
organisations working with Irish emigrants in Britain. Back in August,
the report from the Task Force on Policy Regarding Emigrants recommended
that funding for such groups under the Díon programme be increased by
500%, but instead the allocation has been cut by 5%. Fine Gael TD
Michael Ring called the cutbacks "a terrible kick in the teeth to Irish
emigrants. These are the people who helped their families at home
financially after they were forced to leave this country. Today many of
them are on the breadline and deserve any support they can get from the
Government".

2.
Jeanie Johnston welcomed to Belfast

Replica Famine ship, the triple-masted barque Jeanie Johnston, arrived
in Belfast on Friday on her maiden sail training voyage from Dublin.
Living up to its reputation as a "lucky ship" - no lives were ever lost
on the original vessel as she criss-crossed the north Atlantic in the
19th century - the replica vessel sailed into Belfast Lough just hours
ahead of a Force 7 south westerly gale. In all, the original Jeanie made
16 voyages from Ireland to Baltimore, New York and Quebec between 1848
and 1855. Today's Jeanie Johnston is 32 metres long, constructed of oak
and pine and displaces 700 tons. Over last weekend the Port of Belfast
was brought to a standstill by eager families intent on enjoying the
sight of the vessel in the harbour. Belfast's Lord Mayor Alex Maskey
welcomed the Jeanie and her crew to the city and congratulated everyone
involved in building and sailing this wonderful sailing ship. Of course
many young Northerners from both communities helped in the construction.
Sailing veteran Tim McGuinness, from Ardglass in Co. Down, was on hand
to welcome more than 2,500 visitors on a tour of the ship and its
museum. In the spring the Jeanie Johnsston will sail for Boston and
should arrive in April to an emotional welcome. Our advice is that when
it arrives in the US - don't miss it - this is an exceptional experience
- - guaranteed to bring many to tears. - Joe McCormack

3,
Speculation on identity of next US Ambassador to Ireland

The Boston Globe reports that James C. Kenny, the owner of a
construction company in Wheeling, Illinois, is the favourite to become
the next US Ambassador to Ireland. Mr Kenny is described as a friend of
President Bush and a major fundraiser for the Republican Party.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Some Irish-Diaspora list Housekeeping items...

1.
Dead email addresses...

After a month of being easy-going, over the holiday period, we have now
deleted from the Irish-Diaspora list a dozen or so email addresses that
were no longer working, and which were simply generating Error Messages.
Between them these few dead email addresses were generating up to 100
Error Messages every day.

So, it was pointless sending out Ir-D messages simply in order to get
Error Messages back. As ever, many of those non-working email addresses
were of the Hotmail type, which quickly fill up with spam if not emptied
regularly.

As ever, we have to say that if your email address is not working then
we have no way of telling you that your email address is not working.

2.
Spam

I think everyone is getting weary of spam emails. All my public domain
email addresses have been picked up and used by spam merchants. Add
another 100 junk emails to be deleted. One of their nasty tricks is to
hide tracks and bypass filters by putting one of these collected email
addresses in the FROM line of the spam email. There is evidence that
one of my email addresses has been used in that way.

Note that generally the advice is NOT to respond to any spam email, for
example asking to be deleted from mailing lists. This simply confirms
to the spam merchants that they have found a working email address.

3.
Viruses

Also, we are getting a new flurry of email viruses, as ever hidden in
email attachments. All get knocked on the head by our systems, of
course. Some of these are coming to -
and I note that it is likely to be Ir-D members who have this email
address in their systems.

Note that email viruses also forge the FROM line of their emails, trying
to make it look as if the message comes from a known source.

Remember, you will NEVER get an email with an attachment from
.

My own policy with attachments is never to send an attachment if a plain
email will do, and only to send attachments with the prior agreement of
the recipient.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of....

Jean Talman
jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca
Subject: The Ireland Fund of Canada Scholarship

Below are details on The Ireland Fund of Canada scholarship for graduate
studies in Ireland. Please pass the information along to any interested
students. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2003. You might
like to know that this year's recipient is CAIS member Marnie Hay, who
is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Modern Irish History at UCD.

THE IRELAND FUND OF CANADA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The Ireland Fund of Canada has established a scholarship, to be awarded
annually, to suitable Canadian applicants. This is a tuition grant of
up to $10,000 for graduate students who have applied to study at a
recognized academic institution in Ireland in the field of Irish
Studies.

An academic panel from the University of Toronto and York University
will vet the applications. Applications for the Academic Year of
2003/2004 should be sent by March 31st, 2003 to:

Fiona Reddy
Fund Development Manager
The Ireland Fund of Canada
67 Yonge Street, Suite 401
Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1J8.

Interested applicants should forward a letter of proposal including:
a) Current Curriculum Vitae
b) Personal biographic letter including an explanation of the chosen
field of study and the schools applied to
c) Budget - and a description of any other funding
d) Two letters of reference (no more than two)
e) Your recent transcript from University

*Please do not submit any publications or articles.

For more information please call:
The Ireland Fund of Canada
National Office
67 Yonge Street, Suite 401, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1J8
Tel: (416) 367-8311Fax: (416) 367-5931
Email:irelandfund[at]irelandfund.ca

William J. Neill
Chair, National Board
Patrons:
The Honourable Hilary M. Weston
John P. Dunne
Fredrik S. Eaton, O.C.
Dr. Anthony J.F. O'Reilly

From: Marion Casey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Loyalty to Irish counties 12


Dear Paddy,

I'm behind in reading Ir-D posts because I was away for a few weeks in
January. I also agree that John Ridge's essay is the only substantial
account we have so far.

Re: Siobhan Maguire's work, I thought you would like to know that I have
been trying since approximately 1997 to do the same for New York City.
See the listing of county society records in the Archives of Irish
America at

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/collection01.htm

Kerry gave its records to Iona College in New Rochelle, NY some years
ago. The papers of Mayo -- and Irish New York was/is run by what we
fondly call the "Mayo Mafia" -- are still in private hands but I'm
working on that. My argument is that if the man's house burns down,
then no one will ever know how influential Mayo was in New York and the
historical record will bestow that honor on Roscommon instead. This
usually gets people thinking, not to mention how swiftly county
rivalries come in to play!

FYI, the earliest minutes I have are for Carlow -- the county with the
least emigration to NYC -- from 1908. Curiously, the hardest items to
acquire for the archives are the beautiful county banners carried in the
St. Patrick's Day parade and displayed at the annual county dinners.

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: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:16 am
Subject: Ir-D Loyalty to Irish counties 12

>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Returning to Neil Collins' query...
>
> Historians often comment on the apparent oddity of this intense local
> loyalty to the Irish counties. For the 'shiring' of Ireland is one
> obvious survival of English rule. The English, of course, could never

> get the shire system to work properly in Ireland - absentee landlords,

> don't y' know...
>
> The intensity of county loyalty in present day Ireland -
> particulary in
> the area of sport - hovers on the edge of the bizarre. It is like
> Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill, with flags, banners,
> emblems, and
> a language of arcane historical reference. (I speak here as
> someone who
> has never quite understood sport - for example, it seems to me
> unsurprising that one person can run faster than another...)
>
> I know of no survey of this loyalty to county. We track quite a
> numberof databases and bibliographies - but it is always possible
> that we
> might have missed something. But it is not the sort of issue that
> Irishacademic social science is interested in. If I were to sit
> down with
> the methodologists to plan such a survey I might suggest that the
> easiest way to do it would be to get in touch with the
> importer/manufacturer of flags, and look at sales of particular colour
> patterns. And maybe work out a ratio, flags per population of county.
> (I say importer, because these flags look to me like commercialisation
> of European traditions - like the flags of the contradas of Siena...)
>
> Don MacRaild draws attention to my review of Bayor & Meagher, New York

> Irish. The review is on the web sites - at www.irishdiaspora.net it
> is in the folder called Book Reviews. I drew attention to John
> Ridge's chapter, 'Irish County Societies in New York, 1880-1914',
> because in fact it was the only piece of scholarship I had seen about
> the county societies, and which recognised that they were important
> and interesting.
>
> (On a train of thought, John Ridge has a quote from Asbury, Gangs
> of NY,
> on the Kerryonians, a gang who did little fighting and devoted
> themselves exclusively to hating the English...)
>
> My impression is that throughout the Irish Diaspora the county
> societies are dwindling, and disappearing. We could talk about
> this at length,
> and the particular generations that valued and used that kind of
> organisation. We have been tending to assume that a measure of county
> societies is a measure of county loyalty...
>
> We have heard stories of local county society records and archives
> disappearing into skips (dumpsters), with the deaths of key members.
> I still shudder when I recall David Fitzpatrick's account of the
> discovery on a tip of the archives of the Orange Order of NSW.
> Here in England
> Siobhan Maguire is doing brave work, contacting elderly members of the
> Irish polotical organisations, to plan for the inevitable future.
> I do
> hope other people are doing similar work to save the files of the
> county associations.
>
> Paddy
>
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A number of items of interest in The Guardian at the weekend - now on
the web site...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,880824,00.html

Hermione Lee on
The Speckled People
by Hugo Hamilton
304pp, Fourth Estate, £15.99
'Anyone setting out to write about their Irish childhood should have in
mind Roy Foster's gleefully ferocious attack on the Frank McCourt school
of bestselling, cliché-ridden "miserable Irish-Catholic childhoods"
written with "an utter lack of distinguished style". They will also be
conscious of the glittering weight of more distinguished predecessors in
Irish autobiography, from Yeats and Shaw to Elizabeth Bowen, Louis
MacNeice, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor and Patrick Kavanagh...'


http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,880838,00.html

Terry Eagleton on
Star of the Sea
by Joseph O'Connor
436pp, Secker, £12.99
'The Irish famine of the 1840s was the greatest social catastrophe of
19th-century Europe, yet inspired surprisingly little imaginative
writing. There is a powerful novel by Liam O'Flaherty and a starkly
moving drama by the contemporary playwright Tom Murphy. But in both
Yeats and Joyce it is no more than a dim resonance. It is as though
African-Americans were to maintain an embarrassed silence about the
slave trade...'

See also
John Burnside on flags...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,881041,00.html


P.O'S.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Ir-D members within UK Academic networks will be familiar with the
ATHENS system, which allows online access to databases, journals and
other resources. I, isolated in my attic in Yorkshire, bless its name
every day.

It seems right to share this message, below - it seems that some
misguided people are enagaged in a systematic attempt to undermine the
ATHENS system.

P.O'S.


FORWARDED MESSAGE>>>

ATHENS security scam alert
The ATHENS Team have received reports from UK universities of users who
have been asked to supply their ATHENS usernames and passwords to a
group purporting to be from ATHENS. The actual email is shown below.

This is not genuine. It is a systematic attempt to breach the security
of ATHENS by collecting genuine ATHENS usernames and passwords from
unsuspecting users. Please do not reply to this query with details of
your username and password. Indeed, you are advised generally never to
supply your password to anyone. The ATHENS Team will never ask for your
password, and would only contact users via the local Site Administrator.


Please inform your Head of Systems and Services if you receive the scam
message, and if possible please also forward the original message.


Subject: "ATHENS account verification - Your cooperation is
> appreciated"
>
> Dear Colleague, Dear Student
>
> We have been reviewing ATHENS access patterns in order to
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> analysis, the integrity of some accounts could have been
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> perfectly correct). Before we freeze access to any
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> a more detailed verification. In order to do that, we will
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> REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL and FILL IN THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.
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>>>> End of Scam Message

From: Peter Hart
Subject: Re: Ir-D Web Resource, Parliamentary Papers on Ireland


May I just send my congratulations to those responsible on the progress
of their project? It will be an extraordinary resource once completed
and the rest of us will be deeply in their debt.

Peter Hart

At , you wrote:
>
>
>Forwarded on behalf of...
>
>martina mary teresa fitzgerald
>Subject: Launch of Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
>1801-1922, Wednesday 19th February 2003
>
>==========================================================
>EPPI (Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland) 1801-1922:
>>From Union to Partition
>www.eppi.ac.uk
>==========================================================
>Dear Colleague (s),
>
>We would like to announce the launch of EPPI, a fully searchable Web
>database for British Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland,
>1801-1922. EPPI aims to enhance researchers' access to 13,700 British
>Parliamentary Papers relating to Ireland by providing a Web-based
>bibliographical database and full-text digital library
>of source materials.

From: patrick maume
Subject: Ir-D 2 Novels, 2 Reviews, Many flags

From: patrick Maume

One little thing no reviewer seems to have picked up on yet in
Hugo Hamilton's book (I haven't read the text so don't know if
it was made explicit) is that Hamilton's father was clearly a
member of the quasi-fascist 1940s Gaelic League splinter group
Ailtiri na h-Aiseirighe (Architects of the Resurrection). I saw
an extract from it in a newspaper recently in which Hamilton
mentions an E-shaped badge his father wore. This was
accompanied by a photo which shows that this was the Ailtiri
badge (in fact a Celtic cross with one quarter broken away to
symbolise partition). The fantasy of creating a powerful
Irish-speaking Ireland and the philo-Germanism were also
characteristic of this group.

I remember attending a paper on Ailtiri at the Roanoke ACIS
conference in 1999. Can anyone remember who was the author?
Hugo Hamilton might be interested in this reference.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On 28 January 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> A number of items of interest in The Guardian at the weekend - now on
> the web site...
>
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,880824,00.html
>
> Hermione Lee on
> The Speckled People
> by Hugo Hamilton
> 304pp, Fourth Estate, £15.99
> 'Anyone setting out to write about their Irish childhood should have
in
> mind Roy Foster's gleefully ferocious attack on the Frank McCourt
school
> of bestselling, cliché-ridden "miserable Irish-Catholic childhoods"
> written with "an utter lack of distinguished style". They will also be
> conscious of the glittering weight of more distinguished predecessors
in
> Irish autobiography, from Yeats and Shaw to Elizabeth Bowen, Louis
> MacNeice, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor and Patrick Kavanagh...'
>

From: Brian Lambkin
Brian.lambkin[at]uafp.co.uk


Dear Paddy

AEMI, the Association of European Migration Institutions (somehow I have
become the Chairman) has just put out the Call for Papers below.

best wishes Brian

Dr B K Lambkin
Director
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park
Castletown, Omagh, Co Tyrone, N. Ireland
BT 78 5QY
Tel: 028 82 256315 Fax: 028 82 242241
www.qub.ac.uk/cms www.folkpark.com



http://www.aemi.dk/news.php3?page=82

Aemi Conference 2003
September 28/October 1, 2003
Universidade Aberta/CEMRI
Lisbon-Portugal

Migrants and Descendants: Ambivalent Legacies and New Border-Crossings
in a Changing World.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Although scholarly attention in the field of migration has, for a number
of reasons, remained focused on adult immigrants, that scope has now
been considerably broadened to include their descendants. In large part,
this is due to the understanding that the adaptation of the "second
generation" will be decisive in establishing the long-term outlook for
contemporary immigration. How will that adaptation take place, which
processes will it follow? What paths of incorporation are being pursued?
What avenues are the immigrant descendants being offered for their
integration within the dominant society? How will they negotiate their
identities and respond to new identity challenges in this era of
globalization?
This Conference will critically examine these issues. It will do so, on
the one hand, by focusing on the various paths to incorporation that are
being followed by the "new second generation", mainly in light of their
educational achievement and the realities of the "new economy". On the
other hand, it will take aim at the much-debated issues of identity and
cultural retention, by dealing with - and questioning - some related key
topics, such as "second generation" and identity maintenance, and
cultural politics.


The Conference is organized around the following three main themes:

1. European Migrations: new challenges for the XXI Century

1.1 Migration policies: multiple realities, different approaches.

In the last decade, the European Union has striven for the harmonization
of immigration and integration policies within the European space.
Despite these efforts, nation-states have shown considerable differences
in their reaction to migration issues. The diversity of such policy
approaches has had major implications for the integration and full
participation of migrants and their families in European countries. This
session seeks to address the need for a debate and intellectual exchange
on supranational, national, regional and local policies targeting
migrant communities. From a European comparative perspective, special
attention will be paid to integration policies and their impact on the
life chances of migrant descendents.


1.2 Migrations, Identity and Social Representations

In a context of changing boundaries and emerging new migratory
movements, the issues of identity and social representation become
central ones. New questions arise, which the citizens of nations are now
facing: How is the "nation" imagined? Who are we, and what do we share?
How did we become who we are? Who are the "others"? How do we see them
and how do they see us? Which processes are involved in our relation
with them? Is it possible to achieve meaningful intercultural relations?
This session seeks to explore these issues from a comparative
perspective.


2. Migrant descendants: old and new trajectories


2.1 Migrant descendants: paths of incorporation.


More than ever before, the job prospects of young immigrants and
immigrant descendants - more precisely, the '1.5' and 'second'
generations - are dependent upon their level of education and training.
At the same time, unlike the transatlantic migration of the past, the
"new second generation" is now, for the most part, made up of
non-Europeans. In view of these new circumstances, what modes of
incorporation are being followed by the members of these "new
generations"? Are they being the victims of exclusion at the hands of
the dominant societies? Are they being assimilated - and if so, into
what segments of those societies? What role is being played in the
process by their respective "ethnic communities"?


2.2 Migrant descendants: identities and cultural practices

This session examines the contemporary dynamics of identity and cultural
practices among migrant descendant populations. Are migrant descendants
at a crossroads with respect to their identity? How do they manage the
legacies and opportunities framing their reality in a changing world?
Are they just passive receivers of policies and practices imposed upon
them by others (including their parents' and communities') or are they
engaged in a proactive attitude leading to the definition of their
identities? In the latter case, are these identities, and the practices
associated with them, directed towards their local neighborhood, the
immigration country, the home country - or is it something new, binding
local and transnational communities in different spaces?

3. Return Migration

The Conference will also - in accordance with the recommendation made at
last year's meeting - include a brief follow-up on the topic of that
meeting: "Return Migration". At this point, it is not certain where, in
the program above, that topic might fit - although it is clear that it
will be dealt with either on Monday afternoon or Tuesday afternoon. The
final decision as to where it will be placed, may have to be made after
all the papers are submitted to the organizers.


Interested members are invited to submit, by March 31, 2003, their paper
abstracts (one page), in Word format, as attached files, to the
following
e-mail address: armando[at]univ-ab.pt.

It should be emphasized that papers which consider the possible role of
migration museums, archives and heritage centers in relation to the
above themes, will be welcome.

FROM
Jim McAuley
Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies
School of Human & Health Sciences
The University of Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD1 3DH
England



Forwarded on behalf of...

martina mary teresa fitzgerald
Subject: Launch of Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
1801-1922, Wednesday 19th February 2003

==========================================================
EPPI (Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland) 1801-1922:
>From Union to Partition
www.eppi.ac.uk
==========================================================
Dear Colleague (s),

We would like to announce the launch of EPPI, a fully
searchable Web database for British Parliamentary Papers
relating to Ireland, 1801-1922. EPPI aims to enhance
researchers' access to 13,700 British Parliamentary
Papers relating to Ireland by providing a Web-based
bibliographical database and full-text digital library
of source materials. Users will be enabled from their
own desktops to:

- - search and browse bibliographic information
under a variety of search terms such as title, date
published, session year, series, paper/Bill number
or subject.

- - browse bibliographic information using
detailed subject indexing, so they can assess
whether they need to see the full document or not.

- - search and retrieve the digitised full text
version of all documents included in the database.

The full-text digitised versions will be viewable
as page images and for the first time be fully-searchable
at the individual word level, using Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) technology, proven to be highly-
effective in the field of 18th - 20th Century British
Parliamentary Papers thanks to previous pilot studies
undertaken by the BOPCRIS project at the University
of Southampton. In addition, the full-text digital
library will be integrated with the EPPI bibliographic
database as an alternative method of retrieving relevant
documents.

EPPI phase one - the bibliographic database of
Parliamentary Papers - will be available online
from 19 February 2003 at the URL: www.eppi.ac.uk

Phase two - the addition of the full-text digital
library of documents - is ongoing and will be complete
by 2005. For further information, please contact the
project director, Dr Peter Gray, Department of History,
University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ.
Email pg2[at]soton.ac.uk

The EPPI project has been funded by a grant from the
Arts and Humanities Research Board's Resource Enhancement
Scheme.

==========================================================
EPPI Launch Event
==========================================================
Date: 19 February 2003
Time: 12.30pm-4.00pm
Venue: Institute of Historical Studies
University of London,
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/loc.html
==========================================================
Cost: No charge. Lunch and refreshments
will be provided
==========================================================
Programme:

12.30-1.30pm: Lunch and Registration

1.30-2.00pm: Introduction and welcome
Dr Peter Gray, Project Director,
University of Southampton

2.00-2.20pm: Using the Parliamentary papers for research
Professor Liam Kennedy, School of History,
Queens University, Belfast

2.20-2.45pm: Demonstration of EPPI 1801-1922
Simon Brackenbury, Technical Director,
EPPI Project, University of Southampton

2.45-3.15pm: Coffee

3.15-3.45pm: Discussion / Q&A

To register please fill in the form below and return,
preferably by e-mail, by Monday 10th February 2003, to:

Martina Fitzgerald,
EPPI Project Officer
OPR Office, Level 4
Hartley Library
University of Southampton
Highfield,
Southampton SO17 1BJ

E-mail: mmtf[at]soton.ac.uk

==========================================================

REGISTRATION FORM

Surname: ...........................
(Prof./Dr/Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms)

First name: ........................

Department: ........................

Institution: ........................

Address: ............................

.....................................

.....................................

Telephone: .....................................

Fax: .....................................

E-mail: .....................................

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----------------------
martina mary teresa fitzgerald
mmtf[at]soton.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I am forwarding, below, David Rose's usual Oscholars announcement - as
an example of what we study, and as homage to his hard work.

I have included, with David's permission, his cautionary tale about
contact with an un-named US university...

P.O'S.

Forwarded for information...


- -----Original Message-----
From: D.C. Rose
oscholars[at]netscape.net
Subject: THE OSCHOLARS Vol III No 2 FEBRUARY 2003


Dear Colleagues, chers et chères collègues, Liebe Kolleginnen und
Kollegen, Geachte collega's en collegae, Cari colleghi e colleghe:

I am very happy to announce the posting of the February edition of THE
OSCHOLARS to its website at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars

The password remains, as always, umney

This issue, apart from its customary features, contains a greatly
augmented Work in Progress section, and reviews of Isa Beckmann's book
on Symbolism and of the recent production of Dorian Gray in Oxford.
These are by, respectively, Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths College, London)
and Bernard O'Donoghue (Wadham College, Oxford). The issue also
contains a radical textual analysis of the Penguin editions of Salome,
contributed by Joost Daalder (Flinders University, Australia). I also
particularly draw your attention to the offer of Perrier-Joüet in the
Editorial.

There is a new section on Willie Wilde.

Redaership continues to rise.

I do not usually intrude personal news into these encyclicals, but I
believe a recent experience should be recounted as others may like to be
forewarned: some of you will know. Early in January it was suggested
that I might like to apply for a teaching post in the Department of
History at a very distinguished American university. I did so, and was
appointed on 17th January, with immediate effect subject to the
requirements for a J-1 Visa (virtually a work permit) being fulfilled.
We proceeded with the documentation process, and on the 29th January I
received an e-mail from the Personnel Department, part of which reads

"The department submitting an appointment, getting it approved by the
Office of the Dean of the Faculty, issuing documents for you to use to
apply for a J-1 visa, you applying for and getting the visa, arranging a
flight, etc. just didn't seem possible in the time remaining before the
start of our new semester.

We recommend that our departments start paperwork for appointments
involving people outside the U.S. at least three months ahead of the
start date...and these days that is often not early enough."


That is to say, I should have applied for the post some two months
before it was advertised, or perhaps even vacant or created.

I also inquired whether one might come as a tourist, for which I do not
need a visa as an Irish citizen, and apply for a J-1 from within the
jurisdiction. This point was met thus:

"If you enter the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program you can be admitted
to the U.S. for up to 90 days with no extensions of stay or changes of
status allowed. So, no, if you entered as a tourist without a visa, we
would not be able to assist you with a change of status that would allow
you to work for [the university in question].

Even if you actually had a B-1/B-2 tourist visa stamp in your passport,
if you entered the U.S. using that and applied for a change of status
after arrival, it would take the Immigration Service at least 6
weeks...probably more...to adjudicate an application. And I believe the
adjudication would result in a denial since an application for change of
status that soon after entry would certainly suggest to them some type
of visa fraud...entry in one status with the intention to engage in
activity not allowed in that status (thus the requested change of
status)."


So that is that. Be advised: and also take note that these
communications come without any expression of apology for time wasted,
arrangements dislocated, hopes disappointed . . . nor of the offer being
renewed for a subsequent semester.

Somewhat bloody, but still unbowed, I hope you enjoy the current issue
of THE OSCHOLARS. Do keep the information flowing in. Have a nice
term.

David Rose
- --
D.C. Rose M.A. (0xon), Dip.Arts Admin. (N.U.I.)
Editor
THE OSCHOLARS
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars

From: "Sarah Morgan"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Mental Health services: Irish community consultation

Did anyone on the list attend the Manchester meeting for this? If so,
what is the feedback?

Thanks,

Sarah Morgan.

- ----- Original Message -----
>
> From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> Forwarded on behalf of the Federation of Irish Societies, London...
>
> Note: There will be Irish consultation events on the Department of
> Health mental health and ethnicity Report, in London, Birmingham and
> Manchester.
>
> I am told that it was not possible to arrange events in all major
> cities because of costs. It is hoped that people from Leeds,
> Sheffield, Liverpool, Coventry, Bradford, etc., will be able to get to

> the 4 planned meetings. The DoH will accept email and written
> responses, but those will not necessarily be regarded as representing
> Irish views.
>
> When further news about the Report reaches us I will share it with the

> Ir-D list.
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE for immediate use -
>
> Improving mental health services for the Irish in England: Irish
> community consultation events in London, Manchester and Birmingham
>
> The Department of Health will shortly launch a report, Inside Outside:

> Improving mental health services for Black and Minority Ethnic
> communities in England. This report is the first of its kind in
> specifically addressing the needs of people from ethnic minority
> communities on a major cause of ill-health. It is particularly
> important for the Irish community as the mental health profile of the
> Irish in Britain has been a cause for concern for some time, and
> solutions to deal with levels of reported distress and illness are
> overdue. This report clearly includes and addresses Irish experience
> of mental health services within proposals for service improvement.
> It therefore challenges an ethnic minority agenda which has often
> equated ethnic minority status with skin colour, and in doing so, has
> taken on board the urgency of addressing the needs of England's
> largest migrant and ethnic minority group on an issue of great
> community concern.
>
> The patterns of mental distress among Irish people in England and
> their access and use of services present disturbing evidence. There
> are significantly high rates of suicide among Irish people of both
> sexes. Rates have persisted for decades and increased over time. There

> is evidence that these rates may be under-estimated. Research on
> attempted suicide shows similar excess. Excessively high rates for
> depression are observed among the Irish at both national and local
> levels, alongside excessive overall psychiatric admission rates.
>
> Recurring concerns within the Irish community sector are the extent to

> which GPs fail to deal with mental health issues underlying presenting

> alcohol problems. There is also concern that previous experiences of
> psychiatric services, lack of knowledge of rights and of services, low

> self-esteem and anti-Irish prejudice, militate against some Irish
> people effectively using specialist psychiatric services. Although
> there is evidence that Irish people have higher rates of consulting
> GPs for mental health problems, many vulnerable groups of Irish people

> do not access primary care for many reasons.
>
> Inside Outside includes proposals to:
> a) increase the cultural competence of mental health staff
> b) reduce ethnic differences in care and service delivery
> c) develop the ethnic minority community and voluntary sector to deal
> with mental health
>
> In connection with this initiative, the Department of Health is
> funding Irish, Asian, Black and Chinese communities in England to
> stage a number of community events to consult on this new report.
> Feedback from these events will inform the final published report.
>
> The Irish consultation is being co-ordinated by the Federation of
> Irish Societies, with events in Manchester (29 January), Birmingham (4
> February) and London (5 February, women's event; and 18 February,
> general event).
>
> Involvement in this consultation process is a chance for Irish people
> to become involved in a process which shapes and improves services for

> the Irish and other minority ethnic communities. In the light of the
> evidence of mental distress among Irish people in England, it is
> important that as many Irish people as possible become involved. All
> Irish people and others with an interest in the mental well-being of
> this community are welcome.
>
> Irish people (of all generations) who are or have been most affected
> by, or in need of mental health services and support, will be
> particularly welcome at these events.
>
> All those wishing to attend these Irish consultation events are
> encouraged to contact Sue King, (FIS) on 020 7916 2728 (tel.), 020
> 7916 2753 (fax) or sue_fis[at]hotmail.com (e-mail) for general and
> booking details.
>
>
> END OF PRESS RELEASE
>
>
>
> Editors:
> For further information concerning this press release, please contact
> Paddy Walls on 01386-841237 or WallsAMP[at]aol.com or Seán Hutton on 020
> 7916 2733
>

From: WallsAMP[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Mental Health services: Irish community consultation 2

The feedback from all the events will be written up as part of a report
on
the consultation to be completed during Feb/March and will then
available
from the Federation of Irish Societies.

Paddy Walls

From: Peter Hart
Subject: Re: query


Does anyone know of a way to get a copy of the 1930s ('37 I think) movie
`Parnell'? It starred Myrna Loy and Clark Gable (the queen and king of
Hollywood), played wonderfully fast and loose with the facts of their
relationship, and has been named as one of the 50 worst movies of all
time. Perhaps for this reason, I have never found a cassette copy for
sale. I have seen it, years ago, on late-night TV, but lately it has
even vanished from there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Peter Hart

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Forwarded on behalf of...
"Connor Carville"

- -----Original Message-----
From: "Connor Carville"
Organization: St Marys College
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: RESILIENT VOICE CONFERENCE

'The Resilient Voice: Northern Irish Poetry 1960-Present Day' is a
conference to be hosted by the Institute of English Studies, School of
Advanced Study, University of London, 10-11 March 2003.

The speakers include: Fran Brearton, Rachel Buxton, Heather Clark, Neil
Corcoran, Gavin Drummond, John Goodby, Hugh Haughton, Ruth Ling, Edna
Longley, Colleen McKenna, Steve Matthews, Bernard O'Donoghue, Michael
O'Neill, Michael Parker and Ronald Schuchard.
In association with the Conference, the Institute will host the John
Coffin Memorial Literary Readings over the two concurrent evenings,
with Michael Longley and Derek Mahon reading together on 10 March and
Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian reading together on 11 March. These
events are free, public readings, and will be followed by a drinks
reception so that the audience can meet the poets.

Full information will be found at

http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Conferences/Resilient-Voice.htm

The full conference programme will be found at

http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Conferences/ResilientVoiceProgrammehtm.htm

The Conference is organised by Dr Stephen Enniss, of the Woodruff
Library, Emory University, and 2002-3 Leverhulme Research Fellow at the
School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Dr Stephen Regan,
Dept of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. Early booking is
advisable.

NB: On 12 March, Professor Denis Donoghue (Henry James Professor of
English and American Literature at NYU) will speak to the Institute's
Irish Studies Seminar on the subject of 'The Second Coming'. All
welcome: see

http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Staff/hutton/IrishStudiesSeminars2002-3.htm