From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following item is being distributed by the Irish Embassy in Ottawa,
Canada.

P.O'S.


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

Dear all,

I would be very grateful if you could disseminate the following
information amongst your members and any other interested parties.
Should you have any queries regarding this message, please do not
hesitate to contact me. However any queries regarding visas for the US
should be directed to the US Embassy or nearest US Consulate. Thank you
very much for your assistance with this. It is very much appreciated.

Yours sincerely,
Marcella Smyth
Embassy of Ireland,
Ottawa
marcella.smyth[at]iveagh.irlgov.ie

"Effective 17 March 2003, all Irish passport holders, who are landed
immigrants in Canada and who intend visiting the US for MORE than 90
days, MUST obtain an non-immigrant visa from US Embassy or their nearest
US Consulate prior to travel. Information about applying for
non-immigrant visas and all the necessary application forms can be found
at the following internet address: www.state.gov/travel or from US
Embassy or your nearest US Consulate."

The ethnicity figures might have been different if respondents had been
able to give two answers instead of being forced to choose one. This is a
generic problem with official datasets which tend to sacrifice validity for
simplicity (cheapness of processing).

Russell Murray

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Irish Studies General Office
irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk
Subject: Seminar Programme, Institute of Irish Studies


Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast
Remembering and Commemoration, 27 February - 15 May 2003


The Institute is pleased to announce its Spring seminar programme on
Remembering and Commemoration, hosted jointly with local organisation
'Healing through Remembering'. A copy of this programme, commencing
Thursday 27 February at 4.00pm, is attached.


By having access to the Institute at weekly seminars, members of the
community have the opportunity to participate in the world of the
University, to consider the results of the newest research and to debate
with speakers the issues raised. The seminar programme gives an
opportunity for scholars of standing and promise to communicate the
results of their research to a wider audience. These seminar
programmes, with themes in Irish Studies, will take place each semester
in the Seminar Room, Institute of Irish Studies, 8 Fitzwilliam Street.


Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
8 Fitzwilliam Street
Belfast BT9 6AW
Northern Ireland
Tel: (0) 28 9027 3386
E-mail: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk


Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
8 Fitzwilliam Street
Belfast BT9 6AW
Northern Ireland
Tel: (0) 28 9027 3386
E-mail: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk

February 27 Professor Harvey Whitehouse, School of Anthropology
Ritual, Trauma and Memory


March 6 Dr Fran Brearton, School of English Memory and Remembrance
in Michael Longley's Poetry

March 13 Dr Fearghal McGarry, School of History '"Too Damned
Tolerant"? Republicans and imperialism in the Irish Free State'.

March 20 Dr Guy Beiner, Trinity College, University of Dublin
Ambiguous memories: "commemorative possession" and "commemorative envy"
of the "The Turnout"

March 27 Mark Phelan, Drama, School of Languages, Literatures and
Arts Not so Innocent Landscapes, Representing the "Disappeared":
material absence and historical presence in David Farrell's photography.

April 3 Dr Karen Murphy, Facing History and Ourselves, Boston
Confronting the Past: the Roles of History and History Education in the
Process of Reconciliation

May 1 Dr Yvonne Whelan, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages,
University of Ulster Geographies of Conflict Commemoration:
Interrogating Cultural Landscapes of Northern Ireland

May 8 Dr Katy Radford, School of Anthropology Music and Memories:
Commemoration of an Absent Presence

May 15 Dr Des O'Rawe, Film Studies, School of Languages, Literatures
and Arts The Northern Other: the South, the Cinema and the
Troubles

From: Irish Studies General Office
irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk
Subject: Seminar Programme, Institute of Irish Studies

Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast
Remembering and Commemoration, 27 February - 15 May 2003

The Institute is pleased to announce its Spring seminar programme on
Remembering and Commemoration, hosted jointly with local organisation
'Healing through Remembering'. A copy of this programme, commencing
Thursday 27 February at 4.00pm, is attached.

By having access to the Institute at weekly seminars, members of the
community have the opportunity to participate in the world of the
University, to consider the results of the newest research and to debate
with speakers the issues raised. The seminar programme gives an
opportunity for scholars of standing and promise to communicate the
results of their research to a wider audience. These seminar
programmes, with themes in Irish Studies, will take place each semester
in the Seminar Room, Institute of Irish Studies, 8 Fitzwilliam Street.

Catherine Boone
Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
8 Fitzwilliam Street
Belfast BT9 6AW
Northern Ireland
Tel: (0) 28 9027 3386
E-mail: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk

Administrator
Institute of Irish Studies
Queen's University Belfast
8 Fitzwilliam Street
Belfast BT9 6AW
Northern Ireland
Tel: (0) 28 9027 3386
E-mail: irish.studies[at]qub.ac.uk

February 27 Professor Harvey Whitehouse, School of Anthropology
Ritual, Trauma and Memory

March 6 Dr Fran Brearton, School of English Memory and Remembrance
in Michael Longley's Poetry

March 13 Dr Fearghal McGarry, School of History '"Too Damned
Tolerant"? Republicans and imperialism in the Irish Free State'.

March 20 Dr Guy Beiner, Trinity College, University of Dublin
Ambiguous memories: "commemorative possession" and "commemorative envy"
of the "The Turnout"

March 27 Mark Phelan, Drama, School of Languages, Literatures and
Arts Not so Innocent Landscapes, Representing the "Disappeared":
material absence and historical presence in David Farrell's photography.

April 3 Dr Karen Murphy, Facing History and Ourselves, Boston
Confronting the Past: the Roles of History and History Education in the
Process of Reconciliation

May 1 Dr Yvonne Whelan, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages,
University of Ulster Geographies of Conflict Commemoration:
Interrogating Cultural Landscapes of Northern Ireland

May 8 Dr Katy Radford, School of Anthropology Music and Memories:
Commemoration of an Absent Presence

May 15 Dr Des O'Rawe, Film Studies, School of Languages, Literatures
and Arts The Northern Other: the South, the Cinema and the
Troubles

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr Susan Schreibman
E-mail:

Subject: ACIS - Call for Papers- "Material Ireland/Virtual Ireland"

Call for Papers
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Material Ireland / Virtual Ireland
24-25 October 2003
University of Maryland

The Mid-Atlantic Regional American Conference for Irish Studies invites
paper (20 minute) and "poster session" (15 minute) proposals for its
interdisciplinary conference at the University of Maryland, College
Park.
The conference organizers welcome any papers that address Ireland's rich
material past and present, as well as its virtual present and future.
Especially welcome are papers which address the following
themes:

- -the role of objects in Ireland in the production of knowledge;
- -specific artifacts and their histories (physically and/or virtually);
- -the relations between ideal and actual historical audiences, or between
local, international, or virtual readers;
- -the relationship between peoples' material world and the society around
them;
- -the use of multimedia and/or the World Wide Web in Irish arts and
education;
- -how the study of objects enrich or problematise our understanding of
Irish culture and art;
- -how the study of objects reveal new perspectives on traditional fields
of study, such as the Irish Renaissance or the Eighteenth Century;
- -how certain objects have become engines of commodification of Irish
culture, such as the Book of Kells or the shamrock;
- -what manuscripts, books and other print culture reveal about the
society that produced/and or rejected them;
- -how the existence of the World Wide Web changes, alters, enriches
knowledge production in Irish arts, politics,culture;
- -how material artefacts and digital media reinforce perceptions of, for
example, imperial culture or post-colonialism, the Celtic Tiger or The
Troubles;
- -what are the relations between literature and its material production
(voice/text, embodied writing, theater props/dramatic space, changing
modes of printing and distribution, etc);
- -what the World Wide Web reveals about Irish society, politics, culture,
arts

We also welcome 15 minute "poster session" proposals in which conference
participants can depart from the traditional conference format.
Proposals for the poster session may involve, for example, creative work
(readings from one's own creative writing, or playing music), a response
to material culture (a reading from archival material, for example), or
demonstrating a virtual/multimedia site/product.

All correspondence and enquiries should be sent to: Dr Susan Schreibman,
Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities,
University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, College Park, MD 20742.
E-mail:
Proposals for papers should be submitted by 11 April 2003, preferably by
email, and should include the following information:

- -proposal is for a paper or a poster session;
- -speaker's name and affiliation;
- -email address;
- -250 word abstract

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Back from Inishowen - tubes cleaned out by the Atlantic air. My thanks
to the friends met, and new friends made.

Little known fact. All the standard books, and television quiz shows,
will tell you that Malin Head is the most northerly point on the island
of Ireland. It isn't. Though I guess it does depend on what you mean
by 'Malin Head'...

My thanks to Russell Murray for looking after things in my absence.

I have pasted in below my 'Too Much?' message - my observation that we
seem to be becoming aware of more Irish Diaspora Studies stuff than
heretofore. I asked for advice and feedback...

The gist of the feedback received is: Use your discretion, Padikins...

So... I will...

Without any hard and fast rules, and without making any claims to being
exhaustive... If stuff connects with the interests of Ir-D members, or
with previous Ir-D discussions, during quiet times, we will distribute
it. Fridays are often quiet (as people rush off to that cottage in the
Hamptons...)

What I would also like to do is be a bit more systematic about creating
new bibliographic guides, on the model of Brian McGinn's guide to the
material on the Irish in South America, or Paul Walsh on the military
history. We have a number of Irish Diaspora Studies themes where a
little bit of effort would see virtually complete guides ready for
display on the web site.

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Housekeeping: Too Much?



From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I'd like some advice, and feedback, from Ir-D members about a problem
that has become more pressing over the past 3 months.

As you all know, we like to distribute via Ir-D notices of relevant
Irish Diaspora Studies books, articles and other resources. This has
the merit of keeping Ir-D members aware of the 'state of play' and
seeing how their own work fits into the patterns - and, of course, such
information is then stored in our database at www.irishdiaspora.net

We have been investing and negotiating, and now have better software and
better coverage of more databases. Further, more and more research
material is becoming available online - there are more databases, more
journals have some sort of web presence. Many of those databases, as
well as moving forward in time, as time passes, are moving BACKWARDS in
time, collating resources as databases become linked and as more
journals have online Tables of Contents.

The upshot is that we are now becoming aware of far more relevant Irish
Diaspora Studies material than has been the pattern in the past. Some
of this material is, in fact, quite old - part of this backward
collating pattern. I look at some of the material now turning up in
those databases and wonder how a normal human researcher, in the old
days, could even have become aware of it.

As I say, this pattern has really become visible to us in the past few
months. I am really not at all sure how to handle this.

Should we just continue to distribute everything we come across, at the
risk, maybe, of at times swamping the Ir-D list? Should we try to
become more selective? But on what basis? Should we just direct
people's attention to the publicly available databases and say, Search
for yourself?

I now have something of a backlog of material which has collected during
my usual winter of minor illness. I am trying to think this through
myself. I would value any comments, suggestions and advice from
Irish-Diaspora list members.

Paddy

- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Book shop find... I have much enjoyed reading Kevin FitzGerald's
autobiography...

FitzGerald, K., With O'Leary in the grave. 1986, Salisbury: Michael
Russell. There is also an Oxford UP 1987 edition I think.

The book should be added to the list of autobiographies of the Irish in
Britain, and named as an Irish Diaspora text. The title of the book is
not explained within the book - presumably we are expected to know our
Yeats and insert the previous line, 'Romantic Ireland's dead and
gone...'

The book is unusual amongst the Irish in Britain autobiographies.
FitzGerald's father was (sometimes) very wealthy - so that this is an
account of a middle class Irish childhood in England, with the Catholic
background and the Irish connections accepted as a matter of course.

Here's a useful section, p. 104. FitzGerald is nearly expelled from his
English agricultural college... He is called before the Principal...

'"FitzGerald," he began, "you are Irish, I think." I had not yet
grasped that this is the typically British beginning to particular forms
of insult. "You are Irish, I think" is a useful all-round opening for
"You are dirty; dishonest; seem to have acquired some unpleasant
habits; are a Catholic, militant Protestant, red revolutionary", or
anything else which the speaker dislikes...'

The most wonderful thing about the book is FitzGerald's father -
vociferous, opinionated, giving to hijacking random strangers into his
discussion as example or audience. One of those fathers that seem only
to appear in autobiographies. I have been going round the house giving
FitzGerald Senior impersonations for my children - they claim not to see
any difference...

P.O'S.


- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050

Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
Irish Diaspora Net Archive http://www.irishdiaspora.net

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From: Paul O'Leary
ppo[at]aber.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D FitzGerald, With O'Leary in the grave


I like the extract, below.

Paul

>>From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
>Here's a useful section, p. 104. FitzGerald is nearly expelled from
>his English agricultural college... He is called before the
>Principal...
>
>'"FitzGerald," he began, "you are Irish, I think." I had not yet
>grasped that this is the typically British beginning to particular
>forms of insult. "You are Irish, I think" is a useful all-round
>opening for "You are dirty; dishonest; seem to have acquired some
>unpleasant habits; are a Catholic, militant Protestant, red
>revolutionary", or anything else which the speaker dislikes...'
>

From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Too Much? 3

Well Paddy, what is then?

CMcC

irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

Little known fact. All the standard books, and television quiz shows,
will tell you that Malin Head is the most northerly point on the island
of Ireland. It isn't.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following book review is being distributed by H-Net.

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
Subject: REV: Gray on O'Hearn, _The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the USand
Ireland_

Published by EH.NET (February 2003)

Denis O'Hearn, _The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and Ireland_.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press and Palgrave, 2001.
xiii + 241 pp. £45/$79.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-7190-5973-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Jane Gray, Department of Sociology, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth.


This book has two aims. First, it seeks to explain Irish economic
development within the theoretical framework of world-systems theory by
locating Ireland in the context of its history as an 'intermediating
zone' within the Atlantic economy dominated first by Britain and then by
the United States. Second, the book uses the Irish case to develop
world-systems concepts and to transcend some of the limitations of the
paradigm. Denis O'Hearn (Reader in Sociology at Queen's University,
Belfast) correctly points out that most definitions of 'coreness' and
'perhipherality' within the world-systems literature are descriptive
rather than analytical. For example coreness is often defined in terms
of the degree to which economic activities are capital-intensive, labor
is skilled and wages and profits high, in contrast to peripherality
where the opposite characteristics are true. The problem with these
definitions is that they cannot explain why historical core-periphery
configurations are reproduced over time, nor can they explain why some
places change their position within the hierarchy. O'Hearn argues that
coreness should be defined in terms of the ability to capture and
localize innovative economic activities that have the capacity to
generate wider economic growth. Thus he argues that at key 'switching
points' the hegemonic powers of the Atlantic economy prevented Irish
economic and political actors from industrializing in innovative
economic clusters, redirecting the Irish economy towards activities that
served their own strategic interests, and leaving Irish industrial firms
and sectors to try to compete on the basis of semi-peripheral 'adaptive
response' -- that is by lowering wages and intensifying worker effort.
In describing and explaining this process O'Hearn seeks to transcend
another shortcoming of world-systems theory -- its tendency towards
teleological accounts of particular local and regional economic
histories that leave little room for contingency. He understands the
actions of Irish political and economic elites in terms of 'iterative
problem solving.' Their attempts to industrialize were constrained by
the institutional consequences of Ireland's initial incorporation to the
evolving world-economy, and by the paths taken at earlier 'switch
points,' but the outcomes of their efforts -- and of those of core
elites -- were never pre-determined.

O'Hearn identifies three cycles of industrialization in Ireland
associated with three cycles of change within the Atlantic economy. In
the first cycle, Britain sought to challenge Dutch supremacy within the
world economy by shifting its center from the Baltic to the Atlantic.
During this period, British interests led to the suppression of the
(potentially
innovative) Irish woollen industry, and to the promotion of linen
manufacturing which, according to O'Hearn, was clearly semi-peripheral
in character. In the second cycle, efforts to industrialize on the basis
of the innovative cotton manufacture were frustrated by British trade
policies that ultimately led Irish factory entrepreneurs to revert to
the linen industry. The third cycle was associated with the rise of U.S.
hegemony within the Atlantic economy after the Second World War. The
newly independent Irish state had experienced a phase of 'easy
industrialization' under import-substitution policies between the wars,
but switched to a policy of export-led industrialization by the
late1950s, partly in response to the structural limitations of ISI, but
also under pressure from the United States, which had made Ireland a
beneficiary of Marshall Aid, despite its stance of neutrality during the
war. In an influential article published in 1989, O'Hearn argued that
export-led industrialization had created slow economic growth in Ireland
because trans-national corporations repatriated profits, failed to
establish linkages to the local economy, and because the policy of
'radical' free trade led to the collapse of indigenous industry. He
elaborates on these arguments and provides more detailed evidence in
Chapter 6 of this book. At the end of the 1980s, when Ireland was
experiencing economic stagnation, and high levels of unemployment and
emigration, the thesis that export-led industrialization simply created
new forms of 'dependency' seemed highly plausible. But the boom that
began in Ireland in the mid-1990s has made the dependency argument less
fashionable. Has the 'Celtic Tiger' undermined O'Hearn's case? In
Chapter 7 he argues that the extraordinary levels of growth achieved
after 1994 can be explained by the sheer size of the flow of U.S.-based
trans-national corporation (TNC) investments. This in turn was due to:
the resurgence of the United States in the world-economy; the new
strategy of 'flexible specialisation' that encouraged TNCs to
agglomerate their off-shore investments in foreign-investment complexes;
the skill of the Irish Industrial Development Authority in attracting
inward investment; and the 'pro-business' environment created by
Ireland's 'social partnership' model of industrial relations together
with its low corporate tax regime. He suggests that once investment
flows slow down, Ireland remains at risk of slow economic growth due to
the scale of foreign investment stocks. TNCs continue to repatriate
profits and, according to O'Hearn, the extent to which they have
established linkages to domestic firms has been overstated, as has the
potential of the indigenous software industry. He emphasizes the extent
to which the 'Celtic Tiger' has increased social inequality due to
labor-market segmentation and a relative decline in state spending. In
the absence of articulated economic growth based on a national system of
innovation, the Irish state must attempt to sustain economic growth
through the continued adoption of liberal policies that impede social
development.

This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of Irish
socio-economic change by placing it in a comparative and theoretical
perspective. This is in contrast to much of the sociological scholarship
on Ireland, which continues to be ahistorical, showing little
understanding or appreciation of social change before the twentieth
century. More importantly, perhaps, it makes a significant contribution
to world-systems theory -- indeed it has recently won the 'Distinguished
Scholarship' book award from the Political Economy of the World-System
Section of the American Sociological Association. O'Hearn has created a
dynamic model of socio-economic change within the modern world-system
that links the emergence and development of historical regularities to
the contingent 'problem-solving' of elite actors at particular
historical moments. In my view the model would be enhanced by more
attention to non-elite agency. For example, in his account of the 'first
cycle of industrial transformation' (Chapter 3), O'Hearn describes the
shift from woollens to linen as "a shift away from an industry with the
potential to develop core production relations to one that clearly
induced the expansion of semi-peripheral domestic production" (pp.
67-68). This was because woollens (and later cottons) tended to be
organized under putting-out systems, whereas the Irish linen industry
was organized under the 'Kaufsystem' whereby "cottage producers supplied
their own raw materials, which they processed and wove into textiles in
an integrated production system, until they sold the cloth to merchants
in the marketplace" (p. 68). It is true that linen was more likely to be
organized under the Kaufsystem because the nature of the raw material
meant that small-holders were able to supply enough from their own
resources to absorb the labor capacity of their households. However that
in itself did not prevent the development of more complex ways of
organizing production in other European linen manufacturing regions. In
my view, in order to understand why the Kaufsystem persisted in Ireland,
it is necessary to take account of the household strategies of the
producers themselves, strategies that were not entirely determined by
the actions of British or Irish elites. Of course taking account of
non-elite strategies is not inconsistent with O'Hearn's analysis. For
example, household decisions might be traced, in part, to some of the
institutional consequences of incorporation described in Chapter 2.
Nonetheless, including non-elite strategies would add another dimension
of contingency and variance to this sophisticated account of the
relationships between particular, local events and long-term patterns of
global economic change.

Reference:

O'Hearn, Denis. 1989. "The Irish Case of Dependency: An Exception to the
Exceptions?" _American Sociological Review_, 54, 4: 578-596.


Jane Gray is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of
Ireland, Maynooth. Her chapter on "The Irish, Scottish and Flemish Linen
Industries during the Long Eighteenth Century" is forthcoming in B.
Collins and P. Ollerenshaw, editors, _The European Linen Industry in
Historical Perspective_ (Oxford) and she has recently completed a book
manuscript on the Irish linen industry.

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From: Sara Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu

Subject: "'Irish Studies': Forged/Forging Youth" March 7-9, 2003 at
Glucksman Ireland House


The GRIAN Association will hold its 5th Annual Conference on Irish
Studies, "'Irish Studies': Forged/Forging Youth" from March 7 through 9,
2003 at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University. For the 2003
conference GRIAN has been inspired by "youth," a theme interpreted
loosely. "Forged/Forging Youth" promises to be a weekend packed with
intellectual and cultural stimulation for anyone interested in Irish
Studies.

Events include:

. Theatre: A Dublin Carol at the Atlantic Theatre Company
. Poetry: A reading by poet Eamonn Wall
. GRIAN's annual "State of the Study" roundtable
. Panels: "Archaeology of Knowledge: Returning to the Site(s) of
History"; "Body, Family, Narrative, State"; Subject(s)/Identity in/of
Irish Studies," and more
. Reception: Conference reception on Sunday March 9th

Conference attendees are also invited to attend GRIAN's Community Event
on Saturday March 8 at 6pm: The U.S. premiere of the Irish-language film
AQUA at Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street.

A full conference schedule is available at www.grian.org.

GRIAN (which means "sun" in Irish) is a New York-based nonprofit
organization devoted to collaboration between academia and the arts.
Since our foundation in 1995 as an informal graduate student support
network, we have grown in numbers and in scope. Our members include
students, educators, researchers and administrators as well as
playwrights, artists, journalists, and performers. GRIAN is committed to
fostering conversations between scholarly research and the creative
impulses which fuel and further those intellectual inquiries.

Register early at www.grian.org or email grianconference[at]hotmail.com.
Registration and most events will take place at Glucksman Ireland House,
One Washington Mews on the New York University campus. For directions
call 212-998-3950.

Co-sponsors for "Forged/Forging Youth" include Glucksman Ireland House,
Daltai na Gaeilge, Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies, and Josie Woods
Pub.

From: Sara Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu
Subject: AQUA Screening March 7, 2003

Announcement:

The GRIAN Association is happy to announce its second annual Community
Event. GRIAN will host the U.S. premiere of the Irish-language short
film AQUA, by Nina FitzPatrick and Edel O?Brien, on Saturday, March 8,
2003, 6:00 p.m. at Cantor Film Center, New York University.

Filmed in Irish, AQUA (1998; 26 minutes) tells the story of two students
who come up with an innovative scheme to make money. They will sell
audio recordings of the rivers of Ireland to gullible Irish-Americans as
a relaxation tape. But this witty Celtic Tiger fable has a twist:
ancestral voices, unheard at the time of recording, mysteriously become
audible on the final tapes.

AQUA will be introduced by Irish studies scholar Lucy McDiarmid and
followed by a commentary by internationally renowned poet Nuala ní
Dhomhnaill.

GRIAN (which means ?sun? in Irish) is a New York?based nonprofit
organization devoted to collaboration between academia and the arts.
Since our foundation in 1995 as an informal graduate student support
network, we have grown in numbers and in scope. Our members include
students, educators, researchers and administrators as well as
playwrights, artists, journalists, and performers. GRIAN is committed to
fostering conversations between scholarly research and the creative
impulses which fuel and further those intellectual inquiries.

Co-sponsors for this event include Glucksman Ireland House, the New York
Council for the Humanities, and Daltai na Gaeilge.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

The Cantor Film Center is located at 36 East 8th Street. For further
information or to RSVP please email sara.brady[at]grian.org or call
212-998-3950.

From: Sara Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu
Subject: AQUA Screening March 8, 2003

Sorry my subject line was WRONG, AQUA is on Saturday, March 8

Sara

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From The Guardian...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,902720,00.html

Historian Christopher Hill dies at 91

Martin Kettle
Tuesday February 25, 2003
The Guardian

'Christopher Hill, the Oxford historian whose Marxist interpretations of
the 17th century helped to revolutionise the way in which generations of
scholars and students saw the English civil war and the era of Oliver
Cromwell, has died.'

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I suppose somewhere there is a Commission for the Correct Use of
Geomorphic Nomenclature. But anyway... It does depend what you mean by
'Malin Head'. Malin Head curls down to the west, like Hokusai's Wave.
So that it is possible to be on the very end of Malin Head, on the
promontory marked on the 1:50000 map as 'Malin Head', and see a
considerable amount of land to the north of you.

Both these sentences are taken from the one web site...

'At the top of the Inishowen Peninsula is Ireland's most northerly
point, Malin Head...'
'You will find at Bamba's Crown, Ireland's most northerly point, the
Tower, which was built in 1805 as a Lloyds Signal Station...'

http://www.inishowenonline.com/malin_head.htm

In fact it seems to be called BANBA's Crown or Head or something like
that. Banba being, I think, a goddess and one of the poetic names for
Ireland.

Though I suppose there are possible connections with La Bamba (y arriba
y arriba), or with Bamba, the Daniel Mannix of Senegal...

Paddy


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From: McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Too Much? 3

Well Paddy, what is then?

CMcC

irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

Little known fact. All the standard books, and television quiz shows,
will tell you that Malin Head is the most northerly point on the island
of Ireland. It isn't.

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From: Kerby Miller
Subject: No Irish Need Apply


In view of the visa and travel problems discussed here recently, I'm
somewhat surprised this rather disturbing news (about which I learned
only yesterday) hasn't been a subject of mention or discussion.

Kerby.



>>Newsday
>>
>>Finding Trouble in U.S.
>>
>>By Jimmy Breslin
>>
>>February 24, 2003
>>
>>"I'm a 55-year-old granny with a gammy leg after years of to'ins
>>and fro'ins, and I'm here on a cheap holiday in New York, sourced
>>on the Internet by my daughter," Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was
>>saying yesterday.
>>
>>"We were going for our luggage. We were in Chicago. The cheap
>>flight takes you to New York that way. We didn't have to go through
>>immigration, they pass you through in Dublin now. The loudspeaker
>>calls out 'McAliskey.' We go up to your man and say yes, and we're
>>immedately surrounded by three men and a woman. They grab the
>>passports out of our hands. One of the men says to me, "We've a fax
>>from our agents in Dublin. It says you're a potential or real
>>threat to the United States.'"
>>
>>She told them to look at the name on the passport, which says
>>Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
>>
>>"I've been coming back and forth to this country for 30 years," she
>>told them.
>>
>>"You've evaded us before, but you're not going to do it now," one
>>of the immigration people, the oldest one, said.
>>
>>"Look at the passport. Read the name. I was a member of Parliament."
>>
>>"What year?"
>>
>>"Nineteen sixty nine."
>>
>>"That made you 21 years old," one of them said. "Come on." He
>>motioned toward an office.
>>
>>She was 21 then, and she was famous all over the world, but fame
>>comes and goes in a minute and here were four people who not only
>>never heard of her, but were detaining her.
>>
>>She remembered yesterday that she said, "This is crazy."
>>
>>The older agent said, "If you tell me one more time that this is
>>crazy, I'll put handcuffs on you and throw you into a cell."
>>
>>"All right, I won't say one more time that this is crazy. But it is
>>crazy," she said.
>>
>>Then Bernadette Devlin, who for so many years showed Catholics in
>>Northern Ireland how to breathe and be as unafraid as she was, and
>>by doing so placed the first jobs they ever had into their lives,
>>this small woman with music for a voice who thrilled so many Irish
>>in New York, wound up in an office, where she was fingerprinted and
>>photographed.
>>
>>Humiliate them. Then frighten them. "I'm going to throw you in
>>prison," the older man said.
>>
>>He tried the wrong party. "You can't do that," she said. "I have
>>rights. I have the right to free movement. I have human rights. I
>>have the right to be protected under the Constitution of the United
>>States."
>>
>>The daughter overheard one of them say, "After 9/11, nobody has any
>>rights=
=2E"
>>
>>It was common mouthing and behavior from a government that daily
>>shears people of their rights.
>>
>>"This must be the way they treat every Mrs. McAliskey," she was
>>saying yesterday. "That was the most disturbing."
>>
>>Under John Ashcroft, a prayer breakfast man who probably prays
>>against people, the Justice Department doesn't believe in the Bill
>>of Rights. Ashcroft is useless in a big Justice Department case
>>against such as Enron. How could he be? Even he says he accepted
>>big donations from them.
>>
>>But he can sweep the rights of individuals out of the room, and do
>>it while humming prayer songs.
>>
>>In one week in this city, an anti-war demonstration was blocked by
>>the mayor and police commissioner, and now Bernadette Devlin is
>>deported. That one comes from Washington. She is cleared easily by
>>American agents in Dublin who knew she was in order. Suddenly, they
>>are ordered to send a fax to Chicago to block her. Somebody in
>>Washington, with the mind of a rodent, has to order that.
>>
>>This has to be all about her making a speech against the war
>>someplace and the British put in a complaint to our authorities.
>>
>>At the Chicago airport, they asked Bernadette if she ever had been
>>arrested. Yes, in Northern Ireland. Had she been in prison? Yes,
>>for six months. "I told them I was convicted of an offense for
>>civil rights demonstrating 20 years ago."
>>
>>Her daughter, Deirdre, remembers one of them saying, "See, that
>>makes her ineligible to be in the country. She knew that. She snuck
>>past the people in Dublin."
>>
>>Bernadette said yesterday, "I told them that it has to be two years
>>in jail before you're ineligible to enter the United States. I was
>>in for six months. That put me in bracket A of 211. My
>>ineligibility was lifted. I've been going and coming to this
>>country for 30 years now. Go look me up on the computer."
>>
>>One of them whispered to her, "Don't make my boss mad. He shot at
>>Russians here."
>>
>>"I was going to tell them that I was shot in Northern Ireland, but
>>now I was afraid that he would be upset and start shooting at me.
>>Who knew what they would do? They were in a panic. Totally
>>irrational. They had a fax that said I was a potential or real
>>threat to America. I'm sitting there, an old nuclear warhead."
>>
>>She started in again about them looking up her file in the
>>computer. "It's there," she said. "They have a profile of me."
>>Finally, the older agent went into another room. Minutes passed.
>>When he came out he was different. "She's telling the truth," he
>>told the others.
>>
>>Then he said to her, "You're Bernadette Devlin."
>>
>>"Yes, I am."
>>
>>"Then you're right. It is crazy. I can't do anything about it. This
>>fax says you can't enter the country. I've got to send you back."
>>
>>She was seething with contempt. Amazingly, they let the daughter,
>>Deirdre, go off to New York, so she could tell everybody what had
>>happened. The agents hadn't looked at the luggage; Deirdre picked
>>hers up and was gone.
>>
>>Bernadette was escorted to the Aer Lingus flight back to Dublin.
>>She had arrived at 5:20 p.m. Now, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night, all
>>this beauty was being deported.
>>
>>She was found yesterday at her home in Coalisland, Northern Island.
>>
>>Copyright =A9 2003, Newsday, Inc.
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