From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Valerie Norton

From: Valerie Norton
Subject: Irish Journal of Sociology Issue 11.2 - Irish Diaspora

Please find below the contents of the latest edition of the Irish
Journal of Sociology. Issue 11.2 is a special edition on The Irish
Diaspora. Copies are available at ?10 from the address below.

ISSUE 11.2 - IRISH DIASPORA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.. Editor's Introduction: Sociological Perspectives of the Irish
Diaspora, James W. McAuley.
2.. 'Locating' the Irish Diaspora, Mary J. Hickman.
3.. Work and the Diaspora: Locating Irish Workers in the British Labour
Market, Henrietta O'Connor & John Goodwin.
4.. Strangers in a Strange Land?: (Re)constructing 'Irishness' in a
Northern English Town, Noel Gilzean & James W. McAuley
5.. The 'Craic' Market: Irish Theme Bars and the Commodification of
Irishness in Contemporary Britain, Mark McGovern.
6.. Beyond a Black-White Dualism: Racialisation and Racism in the
Republic of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Experience, Máirtin Mac an
Ghaill.
7.. The Irish Diaspora: Globalised Belonging(s), Breda Gray.

BOOK REVIEWS

1.. Paschal Preston, Reshaping Communications: Technology, Information
and Social Change - Edward Brennan.
2.. Niamh Hourigan, Comparison of the Campaigns for Raidió na Gaeltachta
and TnaG - Hilary Tovey.
3.. David Byrne, Understanding the Urban - Mary P. Corcoran.
4.. Hilary Tovey and Michel Blanc, Food, Nature and Society: Rural Life
in Late Modernity - Steve Quilley.
5.. Richard Stivers, Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and its American
Stereotype - Rudy Ray Seward.
6.. Efrat Tseëlon (ed), Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender,
Sexuality and Marginality - Mira J. Hird.
7.. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, The Internet Research Handbook. A Practical
Guide for Students and Researchers in the Social Sciences - Jessica A.
Bates.

______________
Valerie Norton
Administrator
Irish Journal of Sociology
ISSC Building, Belfield
UCD, Dublin 4

Tel: +353 1 716 4615
Fax: +353 1 716 1108
Email: valerie.norton[at]ucd.ie

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The web site of

Actes de l'histoire de l'immigration

has recently been added to...

Of interest to Ir-D members will be...

The Literature on Women Immigrants to the United States

Dorothea Schneider, Dept. of Sociology, University of Illinois

Mars 2003

http://clio.ens.fr/revues/AHI/articles/volumes/schneid.html

This article is freely available, on line, in English.

The whole web site
http://barthes.ens.fr/clio/revues/AHI/index.html

Is worth browsing - its articles do tend to be in French.

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information, and comparison...

Would we, in the light of our own experiences, encourage te Lebanese to
go down the specific route they have chosen?

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
Subject: Lebanese Emigration Research Center

Dear Colleagues:
This is to announce the founding of the Lebanese Emigration Research
Center (LERC) at Notre Dame University (NDU) Lebanon. Attached, please
find the public announcement. At this time, we are interested in the
university professors of Lebanese ancestry in all fields in the USA. In
the nearest future, we will be collecting information engineers,
architects, medical doctors, lawyers, artists, etc. Similar efforts will
be undertaken for other countries around the world. A summary of their
names, resumes and bibliographies will be published in series. We
respectfully ask that you forward the attached announcement to
colleagues, friends, affiliations, etc. in the USA and the rest of the
world, and/or in sharing their E-mails with us. Your assistance in this
and in future efforts will be greatly appreciated.

Ameen A. Rihani
Vice President for Sponsored Research and Development
e-mail: aarihani[at]ndu.edu.lb
&
Guita G. Hourani
Researcher
Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC)
e-mail: ghourani[at]ndu.edu.lb
Notre Dame University (NDU)
P.O.Box 72, Zouk Mosbeh
Kesrawan, Lebanon
Tel and Fax: 00961-9-224803


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

Major Academic Initiative at Notre Dame University - "The Lebanese
Emigration Research Center (LERC)"

Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon

The Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) is the new academic
initiative of Notre Dame University (NDU). The Center's creation is a
direct reason of a worldwide identity and ancestral awakening and
genealogical interest. The Center's objective is to encourage
interdisciplinary academic research in the field and related fields of
"the Lebanese emigration". The Center's creation will be formally
announced at NDU in Zouk Mosbeh, Kesrawan, in November 2003, during a
one-day conference on sources of information for research on emigration.

Major Academic Initiative

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of emigration centers across the
world. The attention now being given to the question is understandable,
because emigration, particularly in the last two centuries, has altered
the character of many countries and communities around the world. But
important as this subject is to others, it is of particular importance
to us, who are Lebanese either by nationality or by descent. Lebanese,
like other people from the Mediterranean basin, began their recent
migration in the middle of the nineteenth century, heading toward North
America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Australia.

There were many 'pushing' and 'pulling' factors that propelled the
Lebanese emigration movement, a movement that left its tangible marks
both on Lebanon and on the host countries.

We believe that the creation of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center
is timely, for it can be a platform for research and a catalyst for the
study of the Lebanese emigration, a subject that has long been
neglected, particularly in the Lebanese academic milieu.

The Center's Objectives

LERC is an integral part of NDU and thus partakes of its tripartite
mission: research, teaching, and service. It seeks in every manner
possible to promote the multidisciplinary study of emigration history.
Its main objective is to promote the study of historical and
contemporary migration, to and from Lebanon, within a comparative
international framework, using new information and communication
technologies.

The creation of this Center will provide an innovative and far-reaching
way to address the emigration issue past and present. Research topics
include, but are not limited to, human diversity, cultural dialogue,
community adaptation, environmental understanding, globalization, human
rights, ethnicity and national solidarity.

First Tasks

The Center is undertaking a major project, namely compiling a roster of
university professors of Lebanese lineage. The purpose of this
compilation is: a) to identify these professors and their fields of
study; b) to invite them to participate in related conferences and
research projects; c) to invite them to lecture at NDU and share their
academic and professional experience with our students and professors;
and d) to obtain their relevant research and publication for the NDU
library.

We encourage all those who feel themselves concerned to send their
biographical and bibliographical data to the addresses herein listed.

We are planning to publish several volumes of this roster as it become
available.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
Subject: Seminar 29th April, Professor John MacKenzie-Humanity Manse

Seminar

Professor John Mackenzie, Honorary Professor, RIISS

29th April 2003
5.15
Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds

South Africa was a totally different migration destination from others
like Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It was never a location
of mass migration, even although there were migration schemes to the
Cape (such as that of 1820) earlier in the 19th century. The 1820
settlers were intended to be farmers, but most of them quickly moved
into the towns, and that generally became a pattern. Until later in the
same century, when the mineral revolution of diamonds and gold pulled in
larger numbers of workers, including Scots, the southern African
colonies were primarily places which drew in professionals. This paper
will concentrate on this migration of graduates, examining the
significance of their training and activities in relation to the
development of professional cadres in the region. It will also consider
missionaries and the military, two other distinctive areas of Scots
activity.






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Rachel Hughes
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 273683
Fax:+44 (0) 1224 273677
riiss[at]abdn.ac.uk
ahrbciss[at]abdn.ac.uk

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Lebanese Emigration Research Center

The Lebanese diaspora is even more deeply divided than its Irish
equivalent and for not altogether dissimilar reasons - sectarian and
ethno/political allegiances of one sort or another. The location of NDU
in Zouk Mosbeh, Kesrawan, given the religious geography of that country,
suggests a considerable challenge lies ahead if this project is to be
genuinely inclusive of all the traditions of Lebanon. I would have
thought the chances of success would be enhanced by the inclusion of
appropriate partners in other parts of the country e.g. AUB in Ras
Beirut.

Piaras Mac Einri

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
H-NET BOOK Review
Published by H-Albion (April, 2003)

Vincent P. Carey. _Surviving the Tudors: The 'Wizard' Earl of Kildare
and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586_. Dublin: Four Court Press,
2002. 240 pp. Index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 1851825495.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Carole Levin , Department of
History, University of Nebraska

Vincent Carey has produced a major study of Gerald Fitzgerald, eleventh
earl of Kildare and leading Catholic noble in the Pale, that not only
tells us a great deal about this fascinating man, who was known as the
"wizard" earl, but also contextualizes his life to present more
information significant for those who study English as well as Irish
history. If we truly wish to understand Tudor England and the reign of
Elizabeth, we must also have an understanding of Anglo-Irish relations.
Carey also informs his readers about the legends that surrounded Kildare
and why the Irish needed to regard him as a master of the "black arts."
Carey admits the difficulty in understanding the "mental world" of
Kildare because of the lack of personal evidence about most of the Irish
figures of this period. The English-Irish humanist Richard Stanihurst,
who served as tutor to Kildare's children, provides some evidence that
was published in Holinshed's Irish Chronicle, which suggests that
Kildare's childhood was difficult. Carey argues, however, that we have
to treat the evidence with caution because of Stanihurst's efforts to
present Kildare in a most positive light.

Carey argues that despite the strength of the forces against him,
Kildare had the consummate political skills and impressive personality
to face the various political challenges. Kildare had a strong local
power base and also useful court connections, especially those that came
from his wife, Mabel Browne, who had been a gentlewoman of Mary I's
privy chamber. Mary I's accession was most helpful to Kildare; after a
difficult time in his youth when in Edward VI's reign there was a strong
attempt to pursue the Protestant Reformation in Ireland, he was restored
to the title of earl in 1554. Another valuable resource for Kildare was
his relationship with Shane O'Neill. Kildare worked with O'Neill and
the Leicester faction at the English court to undermine the power of
Thomas Radcliffe, earl of Sussex, and lord deputy. This English
political alliance also aided Kildare when Sir Henry Sidney became
Ireland's governor and lord deputy. Kildare abandoned Shane O'Neill,
cooperating with Sidney and his attempts to strengthen royal government
in Ireland. As a result, Sidney was willing to allow Kildare a free
hand in his assertion of local power. For his support of Sidney's
successful put down of the revolt led by the Butler family in 1569,
Kildare received substantial rewards.

Unfortunately, Sidney's departure in 1571 was eventually disastrous for
Kildare. Sir William Fitzwilliam's administration as lord deputy began
to unravel, and Fitzwilliam accused Kildare of conspiring with the
rebels. Fitzwilliam was convinced that Kildare was his enemy, and he
used the gentry's resentment of Kildare's military practices to
construct enough evidence to have Kildare arrested and transported to
London, where, in the Tower, he faced charges of treason. But the
flimsiness of the evidence, combined with Elizabeth and her Privy
Council's decision not to destroy the leading magnates in Ireland,
allowed Kildare to survive this potentially deadly setback. By the time
Kildare returned to Ireland in 1578, the politics of religious and
ethnic conflict had terribly transformed the political situation there;
it was a time of ferocious violence. In the late 1570s and early 1580s
the Pale community became increasingly disaffected with English policy,
particularly because of the increased military and financial demands and
the brutality in the suppression of insurrections. Though Kildare did
not participate in the Demond and Baltinglass revolts, he was caught up
in the wave of reaction that swamped Ireland. As the international
situation for England worsened from 1576 onward, there was a deep dread
of the Catholic and Spanish threat that could use Ireland against the
English, and English government officials perceived Kildare as involved
in a plot to destroy them. Sir Arthur Grey de Wilton, appointed lord
deputy in 1580, decided he needed to eliminate all opposition, and
arrested Kildare as a Catholic plotter in what Carey has characterized
as a "witch-hunt" (p. 192), particularly since Carey describes Kildare
as "a politique in matters of religion" (p. 195). Kildare's enemies
continued their efforts until Kildare was committed to the Tower in June
1582. But Elizabeth did not want to destroy Kildare, though his power
was gone. He was forced to abjectly submit and was released in June
1583, but bound to stay within a twenty-mile radius of London, and died
in November 1585, a broken man both physically and politically.

Carey's study is thoughtful and well-written, and he demonstrates a
meticulous knowledge of both primary sources and the secondary
literature. The book is well-organized with chapters that are
chronological but also provide needed context and it is thoroughly
grounded in medieval/early modern Anglo-Irish historiography. It is
essential reading for anyone with an interest in Tudor Anglo-Irish
relations.

Copyright (c) 2003 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits
the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the
author, web location, date of publication, originating list, and
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses
contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We do not track every Irish Diaspora Studies obituary on the Ir-D list.
But, looking back over the past month, I feel we should note the deaths
of Tony O'Malley and Daniel Patrick Moynihan...

The death of Brian Nelson does not bring any kind of narrative closure.
In fact, if the Guardian is to be believed, a very significant number of
activists within terrorist organisations, on every side in Northern
Ireland, were, in one way or another, British government agents. Always
a danger with secret organisations...

P.O'S.

1.
Tony O'Malley, artist, born September 25 1913; died January 20 2003

Tony O'Malley, who has died aged 89, was a major painter in the St Ives
art community between 1960 and 1990. But his place in Irish art of the
last half century is also well established, his peer group including
William Scott and Louis le Brocquy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,934806,00.html


2.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Jeffersonian polymath of US politics and academe who advanced civil
rights and anti-poverty programmes in America

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has died at the age of 76, was one of those
rare American politicians who gave his calling a thoroughly good name.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,924182,00.html


3.
UDA spy's death sparks fresh call for public inquiry

Army double agent linked to Finucane murder dies of cancer

Campaigners yesterday intensified calls for a public inquiry into the
murder of the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, following the death of
Brian Nelson, the army double agent said to have set him up, just days
before a new police report on the case.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,936256,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,935150,00.html

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Just when you thought that you could cope with all the hazards of
running an email discussion forum...

Along comes a new hazard - spam prevention.

Junk email, spam, has become an unpleasant, time-consuming, wasteful
intrusion. So, inevitably we find that organisations and individuals
have installed spam prevention or blocking systems. The trouble is, of
course, that an email discussion forum, an email 'list', can look
exactly like a spam merchant to simple minded software. I have
installed some spam prevention software on this computer, partly to see
what would happen - the software, left to its own devices, very quickly
decided that irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk was sending it spam.

Over the past few weeks I have spent an inordinate amount of time
dealing with the consequences of similar spam prevention activity. The
worst examples have been when very large organisations, government or
academic, decided to install spam prevention systems about which
individual users know little, and over which they have no control. So,
Ir-D messages are sent out - and are immediately bounced back. Spam
prevention at one government organisation decided that all messages
emanating from bradford.ac.uk were spam - so that when I try to alert
that Irish-Diaspora list member to the problem my own messages are
rejected.

Yes, I have tried using one of my alternative email addresses... But
really - how much work am I expected to do on each individual problem?
I think I have to go back to one of my balder statements. There is no
point in our sending out Irish-Diaspora list messages to email addresses
that simply reject them. For whatever reason.

Could Ir-D members please keep an eye on spam prevention policies and
practices, and try not to saddle us with extra chores.

Paddy


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: Review

The current issue of the Vol. 30, no. 1 (2003) has
an interesting and thoughtful review of Reginald Byron,
that may be of interest to many on the list

Bill Mulligan

From: "aifric o grada"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Neighbours: Irish in Australia

Patrick Maume's point about the possibility of the All Saints Irish
storyline being a liberal statement is very interesting. I would like to

extend it to my earlier point about the ambiguous dualistic position of
the
Irish. Following the discussion, and Daryl Adair's follow-up, I thought
more
about All Saints, and recall that quite recently I happened upon an
episode
that featured a non-Western asylum-seeker. As far as I could tell the
man in
question had injured himself in some way to avoid being deported. One of
the
doctors seemed to have the role of liberal, non-prejudiced sympathiser,
which was in stark contrast to the stereotypical stone-faced official
from
the Immigration department. The guy seeking asylum had told the doctor a

story of incredible brutality and violence perpetrated on him, his wife
and
their daughters. As it turned out he was making it up insofar as he had
actually been the perpetrator of those acts to his brother's wife and
children. The doctor was sickened and left the man to his fate.

Is this indicative of the double-standard and ambiguity that Irish
communities may find themselves embedded in? While certainly the Irish
storyline, although representing an Irish illegal, did not frame the
Irish
person as a threat, it did indirectly construct the 'Us' and the
'Immigrant
Other'. Is there a sense that "well the Irish are relatively harmless
and
liberal welcomes should of course be extended but only to particular
groups', which Daryl Adair's point seemed to support? Once more, has the

Irish individual become a relatively acceptable vehicle for constructing
the
'native Us' in a society where multiple standards frame discourses of
immigration? It could be interesting to study this in other societies,
or
even in a methodologically comprehensive way in Australia. Does it not
seem
that Irish communities fall ambiguously between Self and Other, at least
in
Western societies?

Aifric O' Gráda
University College Cork

From: Daryl Adair
Subject: Re: Ir-D Neighbours: Irish in Australia 8

Patrick Maume may well be right on the money. A portrayal of a
non-English speaking and/or non-white "illegal" immigrant (particularly
a Muslim) would have been way too sensitive given the current antipathy
towards "asylum seekers" by the Australian government. From a
script-writer's point of view, then, the choice of an Irish character is
understandable - even if misleading. It is difficult to think of a group
of people more loved in Australia than the Irish.

Daryl Adair
Canberra, Australia

>
>From: Patrick Maume
>In view of the Howard government's recent policy on asylum
>seekers, is it possible that the hospital drama mentioned below
>might actually have been trying to make a liberal point - that
>tolerance shown to Irish illegal immigrants should be extended
>to those of other nationalities?
> Best wishes,
> Patrick
>

From: D.C. Rose
oscholars[at]netscape.net
Subject: Spam cure as disease


Dear Paddy,

A heartfelt hear hear to your message to the list. Every month my
encyclical to subscribers to The Oscholars has been bounced by some
postmasters and I have to send postcards! This included one system at
an American university that bounced anything sent through eircom (no
Irish need apply, how are ye?)

The trouble is, the offenders won't read your note because that too will
have bounced.

Yours in solidarity.

David

THE OSCHOLARS
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


publication
Policy and Politics

ISSN
0305-5736 electronic: 0305-5736

publisher
Policy Press

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 31 - 1 - 85

article

Common origins, different paths: adaptation and change in social
security in Britain and Ireland

Daly, Mary - Yeates, Nicola

abstract

This article compares social security in the British and Irish welfare
states. Laying emphasis on both historical origins and contemporary
reforms, it develops and applies a comparative framework that brings
together structural, political and ideological factors. The article
outlines how two social security systems compare as regards principles,
institutional features and political characteristics. It then goes on to
identify the main reforms and their significance for the characteristics
of each of the two models and the cross-national comparison. The
analysis reveals that different factors are driving developments in both
countries and that, despite common origins and some contemporary
similarities, the two social security systems are moving in different
directions.

Cet article compare la Sécurité sociale de l'Etat-Providence en Grande
Bretagne et en Irlande. En s'appuyant à la fois sur les origines
historiques et les réformes modernes, il développe et applique un cadre
comparatif qui réunit les facteurs structurels, politiques et
idéologiques. L'article explique dans les grandes lignes comment les
deux systèmes de sécurité sociale se comparent au regard des principes,
des caractéristiques institutionnelles et des caractéristiques
politiques. Il identifie ensuite les principales réformes et leur
signification pour les caractéristiques de chacun des deux modèles et de
la comparaison transnationale. L'analyse révèle que différents facteurs
entraînent des développements dans les deux pays et que,malgré des
origines communes et des similarités actuelles, les deux systèmes de
sécurité sociale évoluent dans des directions différentes.

Este artículo compara la seguridad social en los estados del bienestar
británicos e irlandeses. Poniendo énfasis en los orígenes históricos y
reformas actuales, se desarrolla y aplica un marco comparativo que
acerca factores ideológicos, políticos y estructurales. El artículo
perfila cómo dos sistemas de seguridad social se comparan con respecto a
principios, características institucionales y políticas. El artículo
continúa identificando las principales reformas y su significado por las
características de cada uno de los dos modelos y la comparación a través
de la nación. El análisis revela que diferentes factores están trayendo
desarrollos a ambos países y que a pesar de orígenes comunes y algunas
similitudes actuales, los dos sistemas de la seguridad social se están
moviendo en direcciones diferentes.

keyword(s)

SOCIAL SECURITY, WELFARE STATE, POLITICAL AGENCY, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


publication
Historical Journal - London

ISSN
0018-246X electronic: 1469-5103

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 46 - 1 - 155

article


LORD PALMERSTON AND THE IRISH FAMINE EMIGRATION: A REJOINDER

NORTON, DESMOND

abstract

This communication responds to Tyler Anbinder's article 'Lord Palmerston
and the Irish famine emigration' of the late 1840s, published in the HJ
in June 2001. Anbinder is incorrect in stating that 'no detailed account
of Palmerston's Irish estate during the famine or of his emigration
scheme has ever been written'. There are other inaccuracies in Anbinder.
There is also a problem of relevant omissions. Anbinder concentrates on
Palmerston's assisted emigration programmes in a single year (1847). But
Palmerston helped his tenants to emigrate both before and after 1847.
What makes 1847 distinctive is that it was the only year in which
Palmerston chartered ships for large-scale transportation of many of his
tenants directly from Sligo to British North America. This communication
seeks to place Anbinder's article in proper context, and hopes to
prevent subsequent researchers from repeating some errors.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


'To Bring Light Unto the Germans': Irish Recognition-seeking, the Weimar
Republic and the British Commonwealth, 1930-2

European History Quarterly, 1 January 2003, vol. 33, no. 1, pp.
65-100(36)

O'Driscoll M.[1]

[1] NUI University College Cork

Abstract:
This case study of the first years of the Irish Legation in Berlin
(1929-1932) sheds light on the challenges created in the transition from
Empire to Commonwealth. It serves as a counterbalance to the existing
work which has tended to focus almost exclusively on the relationship
between the metropole (Britain) and the dominions. This approach
neglects a third set of actors, namely third states with which Britain
and the dominions had diplomatic relations, such as Weimar Germany. How
did the Saorstát represent its co-equal status within the British
Commonwealth and how did Weimar perceive the Irish role in the
Commonwealth? This article demonstrates that the Saorstát encountered
difficulties in explaining the Commonwealth experiment and expressing
their national autonomy in the face of incomprehension by the
pre-existing European state system and the resistance from the local
British embassies. Established power relations and perceptions were
ingrained, inhibiting the international recognition the Free State
considered that it warranted.

Keywords: Commonwealth, diplomacy, dominions, empire, Irelan

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0265-6914

DOI (article): 10.1177/0265691403033001640
SICI (online): 0265-6914(20030101)33:1L.65;1-

Publisher: Sage Publications

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
From: david granville
david[at]hardgran.demon.co.uk
Sent: 18 April 2003 15:07
Subject: GFA 5th anniv meeting


Please circulate the details below to anybody you feel may be
interested. Many thanks, David Granville (Irish Democrat)

Connolly Association
CONFERENCE
5th Anniversary of Good Friday Agreement

SUPPORTING THE
GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT
How can Britain be involved?
Saturday 26 April 2003
12 Noon - 4.30 pm
at
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
173 Euston Road, London NW1

Speakers
ALBERT REYNOLDS (former Taoiseach)
Very Revd Nicholas Frayling (Dean of Chichester Cathedral) Stephen Pound
MP Caoimhghin O Caolain TD (to be confirmed) Willie Wallace (national
president of the Connolly Association)

CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION
244 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8JR

For further information contact: Jim Redmond tel. 020 750 31273 or Moya
St Leger tel. 020 738 10890

From: "A. O' Grada"
To:
Subject: 'Irishness' Mastercard ad

I have just seen an ad on RTE for Mastercard that may be of interest,
and worthy of discussion to list members.

The ad is based on the general Mastercard format of listing itemised
costs and finishing with a value that is 'priceless'- the premise being
that Mastercard can pay for everything else.

In the case of this ad, a smart-looking young man is walking through an
Irish city (Dublin we'll presume!)

He passes a couple aged 60+ (the stereotypical 'Returned Yanks')
[Voiceover: Emerald green trousers ??euro]

He sees a young couple in an Irish craft/souvenir shop looking at an
ornament [Traditional Irish cottage ??euro]

He passes a group of young women wearing big green leprechaun hats (on a
hen party perhaps)
[Leprechaun hats ??euro]

He goes into a pub and smiles to himself
[Knowing what it means to be truly/really Irish : PRICELESS]

Two pints of stout are passed onto the counter, with shamrocks drawn in
the heads [Accepted even by locals- MASTERCARD]


Thoughts? This may not be exactly word for word, but is almost there.

It's really struck me because I'm researching how the idea of the 'Irish
Diaspora' was constructed in the media in Ireland in the 1990s. This
'diasporic' focus was certainly evident in the 1990s, but to the best of
my knowledge it certainly hasn't been in more recent times. I also have
not seen such an explicit distinction being made between the Us (the
'real
Irish') and the Them (the 'pretenders who like to wear aran'). I think
this ad certainly indicates a new stage in the relationship between the
Irish state and those of Irish descent abroad, or more specifically, in
terms of how elements in the Irish state are representing those of Irish
descent abroad, and their relationship to them. Although the
relationship has been changing, particularly since the 1990s, I think
this is an important development. It is also interesting in terms of the
changes in the relationship post- Sept. 11, when I think that an already
evolving relationship certainly entered a new stage e.g. elements of the
'diaspora' were very critical of Ireland's percevied anti-Americanism,
and at the same time the relationship between Ireland and America was
utterly cemented in the public consciousness following the tragedy in
New York . This followed many changes in that relationship since the
1980s, and it is certainly interesting that the 'antagonisms' to the
'Returned Yank'(though a biased representation in itself) has returned
through a cosmopolitan, urban chic and 'confident' (?) frame.

Aifric O' Gráda
University College Cork

From: "jamesam"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Irishness' Mastercard ad

Interesting that this ad has crossed the Atlantic. I believe it ran
pre-9/11 over here. I don't remember all the voiceovers, but the premise
was a young Irish-American woman returning to Ireland with her mother.
The tag was "Finding out where your mother came from.....priceless."
That's an approximation, but the premise remained the same; Mastercard
will pay for almost everything!

By the way, I have a Mastercard that donates to The Irish American
Cultural Institute whenever I use it to make purchases. That's what I
consider priceless.

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Carle Bonafous-Murat

The deadline for the following call for contributions has been extended
to
31 May 2003.

The editiorial board of Etudes Irlandaises, a peer-refereed journal of
Irish
studies publishing articles in English and French, is now seeking
submissions
for Vol. 28.2 to be published in Fall/Winter 2003. The journal will
explore
the subject : Ireland/America in the 20th century, addressing it from a
variety of perspectives and disciplines, such as literature,
civilisation/culture, history and the visual arts. Possible topics
include,
but are not limited to :

- - Irish-American poetry / novels / plays
- - The circulation and printing of Irish literature in America
- - Travel writings
- - The representation of Ireland in American movies
- - Irish studies in the US academic world
- - Irish popular culture in the USA
- - International relations between Ireland and the USA
- - Irish immigration to / emigration from the USA

Submissions (4 paper copies and disk PC or Mac) must be sent by 31 May
2003 to Dr. Carle Bonafous-Murat (Institut du Monde Anglophone - 5, rue
de
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Hutchinson (Institut Charles V; 10, rue Charles V; 75004 PARIS; France)

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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P.O'S.

publication
Historical Journal - London

ISSN
0018-246X electronic: 1469-5103

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 46 - 1 - 115

article

COMMUNISTS, RUSSIA, AND THE IRA, 1920-1923

CONNOR, EMMET O

abstract

After the foundation of the Communist International in 1919, leftists
within the Socialist Party of Ireland won Comintern backing for an Irish
communist party. Encouraged by Moscow, the communists hoped to offset
their marginality through the republican movement. The Communist Party
of Ireland denounced the Anglo-Irish treaty, welcomed the Irish Civil
War, and pledged total support to the IRA. As the war turned against
them, some republicans favoured an alliance with the communists. In
August 1922 Comintern agents and two IRA leaders signed a draft
agreement providing for secret military aid to the IRA in return for the
development of a new republican party with a radical social programme.
The deal was not ratified on either side, and in 1923 the Communist
Party of Ireland followed Comintern instructions to 'turn to class
politics'. The party encountered increasing difficulties and was
liquidated in January 1924. The communist intervention in the Civil War
highlights the contrast between Comintern and Russian state policy on
Ireland, and was seminal in the evolution of Irish socialist
republicanism.