From:
To:
Subject: Newspapers

Hello all,

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841-1902 is now online and in beta
testing. The URL is: http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/. Just
thought you'd like to know. Anybody interested in doing a "NINA"
search?? :)

Slainte',

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A couple of Ir-D members brought to our attention the recent statement
by the Prime Minister of Ireland on proposed changes to alcohol
legislation. My thanks. And, yes, indeed, the press release was picked
up by newspapers throughout the world.

Frankly, I was a bit perturbed by some of the ways in which the Prime
Minister's comments were picked up outside Ireland. I did not
immediately distribute the information, for it lacked a context.

It seems to me there are 2 elements to the context. One is the
'liberalisation' of Ireland's alcohol laws - see discussion below. The
other is Ireland's young population - what is, in European terms, a very
unusual age distribution pattern.

If I can be allowed some private musings... The Diaspora Studies
question might be... Does Irish culture have much previous experience
of its young people staying at home? In my recent trips to Ireland I
have sometimes got the impression of a culture almost baffled by the
presence of all these young people...

P.O'S.


A web search wil quickly turn up world-wide coverage of the Prime
Minister's statement. There are a number of summaries of the proposals
on the alcohol laws... Eg the Irish Emigrant web site and in the
newsletter...

http://www.emigrant.ie/files/indexfile.asp?id=97#17343

http://www.doh.ie/pressroom/pr20030527b.html

It is also worth looking at the material at the web site of the
International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP)
http://www.icap.org/about_icap/about_icap.html

Note the 'Dublin principles...'

And see also the discussion by Martin Kettle, of The Guardian - extract
and web address below...

EXTRACT BEGINS
My name is Britain, and I have a drink problem

The mixed-up licensing bill won't help this country kick its alcohol
habit

Martin Kettle
Saturday May 31, 2003
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,967619,00.html

....
Ours is not the only country that has tried this route. Ireland too has
tried to change from a pub culture to a cafe culture by allowing bars to
stay open much later, just as the licensing bill will allow here. The
result has not been tapered and regulated drinking, but an explosion in
alcohol consumption, nearly 50% up over the past decade. It is a mark of
our insularity - our reluctance to draw on any country's experience
other than that of the United States - that the spiralling catastrophe
of Ireland's licensing liberalisation has had almost no impact on the
British government's blinkered belief in deregulation as the answer to
everything.

This week, though, the Irish government did something that Britain can
no longer afford to ignore. It set itself a six-week target to enact
sweeping new measures to reverse the liberalisation of the 1990s.
Closing times are to be brought forward. Under-21s are to be required to
carry ID. No one under 18 will be allowed in any bar after 8pm. And it
will become an offence to serve a drink to anyone who is already drunk.

Ireland's politicians have been forced to act in this way because
liberalisation created not cafe culture but a late-night battlefield of
drunkenness and its attendant dangers. In particular, it fuelled binge
drinking among young people, including under-age drinkers. In Ireland,
one in five 12- to 14-year-olds is now a regular drinker. So are two in
three 15- to 16-year-old boys and half of girls of the same age. Nearly
half of Ireland's 18- to 24-year-old men now engage in "high-risk
drinking", as do an amazing two-thirds of Irish women in the same age
group.

Yet this is the kind of society which the British government is set upon
creating here. It is the kind of Britain that is still implicit in the
licensing bill. Like Ireland until recently, Britain is a society in
denial about its drinking. When the bill comes back to the Commons for
its third reading, MPs have an obligation to learn from what has
happened in Dublin this week. We dream of a drinking culture like that
of Italy, but the nightmare is that unless we think again we will become
a drinking culture like the one Ireland is now struggling to curtail.
EXTRACT ENDS

To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
From: Peter Hart
Subject: Re: Meagher and Stonyhurst


I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who answered my queries - most
helpful as always and much appreciated.

Peter Hart

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Ireland, Action on Alcohol Abuse

Hello Paddy

I read your comments about alcohol with interest. There was also some
kerfuffle a couple of weeks ago about remarks which President McAleese
made in Charlottesville
(http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/special/2003/mcaleese/index.htm) -
some people felt we shouldn't be wheeling out stereotypes of the Irish
while visiting another country etc. I thought her remarks were balanced.
Moreover it was a small part of a wide-ranging speech. I suppose the
sub-editors have to get excited about something.

It is true that our present Minister for Justice, Equality and Law
Reform, Michael McDowell, is apparently very exercised about the issue
of alcohol abuse. It is also true that the same Minister is in the habit
of coming up with a new idea about once every five minutes; by all
accounts he has the civil servants driven mad. Some of the proposals now
being floated - such as checking people's state of inebriation on the
way _into_ a pub - sound a bit off the wall.

I was surprised, by contrast, to read that Bertie Ahern is allegedly
concerned about alcohol abuse. He himself has been an enthusiastic
supporter of Irish pub culture; he opens a new one every other week and
foreign dignitaries of almost all persuasions (except, I suppose,
visiting
Ayatollahs) are hauled into the nearest hostelry to be pictured with
Bertie, sipping a pint of the black stuff (never mind that Guinness, now
Diageo, is not even an Irish company and has not been since at least the
1930s). I think Bertie, who is personally abstemious, is the perfect
example of the culture of denial in Irish public life, but he is not
alone. The GAA is Ireland's biggest sporting organisation and has fought
tooth and nail against any attempt to limit sports sponsorship by
alcohol companies.

There is no denying that there is a huge alcohol problem in this
country. As recent disturbing television documentaries have shown,
alcohol-related violence and misbehaviour are now having a significant
effect on Irish public life. Random alcohol-related violence in Dublin
and Cork has left several people dead or maimed for life within the past
year. The Accident and Emergency services are overwhelmed every weekend
by drunks, many of who are violent and abusive to health care workers.
Drunks behind the wheel may be less common here than in the past, but
there has been an explosion of binge drinking by people of all ages.
Under-age drinking in Ireland is the highest in Europe - and it's
decreasing in other European countries, whereas it's still going up
here. After major sporting events, the publication of the Leaving
Certificate (end of high school examinations) results, and other
occasions when general conviviality is to be expected, the birth control
clinics of Ireland are over-run by people looking for the morning-after
pill, not necessarily because they had unprotected sex with someone, but
because they were so drunk that they can't remember whether they had or
not. The streets are not safe. If this sounds like the meandering
prejudices of a forty-something curmudgeon I can only say that I am not
a non-drinker, I have two teenage children and hear a fair amount of
what's going on from them as well as what I can see or read with my own
eyes.

There is a popular theory among the more conservative elements of our
society that the problem with Ireland today is the 'God-shaped hole in
our hearts' - that the sudden and radical secularisation of large parts
of Irish society has been accompanied, in effect, by a breakdown in the
moral order. As an agnostic I wouldn't quite agree with this reading.
But I think it is undeniable that we have gone from being an extremely
authoritarian (and largely anti-youth) society to a post-religious one
within a very short period of time. Precisely because of the
authoritarian nature of the old morality (I would argue) people have
tended to kick over the traces. Irish ideas in Ireland about
citizenship, common ownership of the public domain, and the meaning of
individually and collectively responsible behaviour, are not as
developed as they should be. One has only to look at the all-pervading
political and planning corruption which has stifled our cities and made
this country an increasingly difficult place to live in.

To return to the question of alcohol, there is no point in saying that
cafe culture works in France (which it does) if it doesn't in Ireland.
We have got to do something, and maybe McDowell is right. But it's also
true that restricting pub opening hours is only treating a symptom, not
the underlying causes. And your point about Ireland not having
experience of dealing with young people staying at home is acute, I
think. You only have to look at a city like Cork - there are virtually
no places for young people to hang out except pubs. There is a dearth of
parks and public spaces - even the skateboard facilities are gone
because of insurance costs.

A colleague and I recently took 44 students to Montpellier on a week
long field trip. They were accommodated at a different location - big
mistake! They almost got sent home the first night because of drinking
and noise and some of them probably would have seen the inside of a
French police cell - not a pleasant prospect - on the way. We read them
the riot act. After that they worked hard all week and were a great
crowd - all were over 18 and we had to strike a balance between keeping
them out of trouble and recognising that they were adults and it was not
our place to tell them what to do. There was nothing secretive about
their drinking, as there would have been in our day, and we did not pass
moral judgement, but none of them could explain the rush to oblivion
that it seemed to involve for some of them.

If others outside Ireland are picking up some of the elements of this
debate and putting the old stereotypical spin on it, that's too bad. But
we do need to begin to put our house in order no matter what they may
think.

Piaras

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis
Group
Issue: Volume 29, Number 1/January 2003
Pages: 67 - 82
URL: Linking Options

Moving spaces and changing places: Irish women's memories of emigration
to Britain in the 1930s

Louise Ryan

Abstract:

This paper engages with conceptualisations of place and space to explore
the ways in which London has been constructed, encountered and
negotiated as a series of racialised and gendered locales. The paper
draws upon oral history narratives of 11 women who emigrated from
Ireland to Britain in the 1930s. Arriving in Paddington or Euston
station, these young women were confronted with a vast and seemingly
unknowable city. The modern city can be interpreted as potentially
liberating for young women as well as potentially threatening and
dangerous. In this paper I explore the ways in which these women, now in
their late 80s and early 90s, describe their youthful mobility within
the city and their active negotiation of places and spaces. As live-in
domestic servants these women inhabited an in-between space. Their
'home' place was also their workplace, thus the usual boundaries between
work and home, public and private did not apply. Their free time was
associated not with the familial, private, domestic place but with
public spaces such as streets, shops, dancehalls and cinemas. However,
these Irish women encountered the city not just as a gendered place but
also as a racialised environment where their Irishness defined them as
'other', alien and outsider. In this paper I aim to discover not only
how they encountered the city but also, and more interestingly, what
strategies they used to actively negotiate the city in ways that sought
to transform its vastness and anonymity into places that were familiar,
manageable and enjoyable.

Keywords:
irish women, 1930s, london, gendered, racialised, social networks

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded for information...

P.O'S.

publication
British Journal of Criminology

ISSN
0007-0955 electronic: 1464-3529

publisher
Oxford University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 43 - 1 - 41

pages
41


article

The Politics of Intolerance-Irish Style

O'Donnell, I. - O'Sullivan, E.

abstract

The 'law and order' debate in the Republic of Ireland has taken a number
of unusual twists in recent years, developments that are not widely
recognized and have generated little academic interest outside the
country. The absence of an Irish voice in the international literature
is striking. A country with a traditionally low level of crime, Ireland
has witnessed a sharp decrease in the official crime rate since 1995.
The murders of a police officer and journalist in 1996 led to a
transformation of the criminal justice landscape. A major
prison-building programme was initiated, a policy of 'zero tolerance'
policing was introduced, and some of the symptoms of a 'culture of
control' began to emerge.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

In a recent issue of Language in Society there was a review of

Can Threatened Languages Be Saved? 'Reversing Language Shift, Revisited:
a 21st Century Perspective'
EDITED BY: Joshua A. Fishman

Details of Review, below...

Note that this is a completely new book - not the 1991 classic.

Chapter 8 in the new book is
Irish language production and reproduction 1981-1996, Padraig O Riagain

Publisher web site
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

P.O'S.


publication
Language in Society - Cambridge

ISSN
0047-4045 electronic: 1469-8013

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 32 - 1 - 109

article

Joshua A. Fishman (ed.), Can threatened languages be saved? Reversing
language shift, revisited: A 21stcentury perspective. Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters, 2001. Pp. xvi, 503. Pb $24.95.

England, Nora C.

abstract

This volume revisits, as its title states, the theory and practice of
reversing language shift (RLS) first proposed by Fishman in 1991. A
dozen of the original case studies are reanalyzed and several more are
added, producing a rich source of detail on some of the specific
situations of language shift and efforts to reverse it. Fishman
contributes introductory and concluding chapters as well as one of the
case studies (Yiddish); other authors cover Navajo, New York Puerto
Rican Spanish, Québec French, Otomí, Quechua, Irish, Frisian, Basque,
Catalán, Oko, Andamanese, Ainu, Hebrew, immigrant languages in
Australia, indigenous languages in Australia, and Maori. The resulting
book provides a wealth of information about language shift and public
policy directed toward RLS, but its aims are broader than that.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded, discreetly, for information...

Norman Vance is always worth reading...

P.O'S.



Book review
Rethinking Irish history. Nationalism, identity and ideology
Patrick O'Mahony and Gerard Delanty; Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001, 222pp,
£22-95, ISBN 0-333-97110-8

Norman Vance
School of English and American Studies, University of Sussex, Arts
Building, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex BN1 9SN, UK

Available online 8 April 2003.

The political, ideological and cultural development of Irish Nationalism
and a distinctively Irish identity, and their eventual embodiment in a
conservative nation-state, have been endlessly investigated and
discussed by historians, political scientists and literary critics. In
this book academic sociologists take their turn, proposing an ambitious
and timely exercise in `critical social science', a trenchant critique
of the `construction and institutional realisation of national identity
in the Irish Republic'. The dead hand of tradition and monolithic
nationalist mythology have manifestly hampered progress and progressive
political thinking in modern Ireland, but serious??if largely
unheeded??criticism has been tried before, not just in the historian
J.J. Lee's magnificent and acerbic Ireland 1912?1985 (1989) but in the
much-trumpeted Field Day pamphlet series (inaugurated in 1983)
associated with the northern writer and critic Seamus Deane and his
friends, and in the unjustly neglected Letters from the New Island
series (1987) edited by the Dublin novelist Dermot Bolger. The once and
future taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald used his 1982 Richard Dimbleby
broadcast lecture Irish Identities as an opportunity for critical
reconsideration, anticipating the pluralist aspirations of the New
Ireland Forum (1984) and the controversial Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985).

Unfortunately, only Professor Lee's book appears in the extensive
bibliography of the present work. This illustrates two of its main
weaknesses. For pragmatic reasons it has deliberately ignored the north
and the continuing northern crisis, though the northern crisis hurt
Field Day and Fitzgerald into overdue if inadequate critique of
nationalist sacred cows, and while the word `culture' is much in
evidence there is no real engagement with the seminal contribution of
writers, not to mention painters and film-makers, to the construction
and critique of the Irish national ideal.

It is of course impossible to include everything in a short book.
Drawing on recent research which argues for nationalism as a product of
modernisation, the authors mobilize the concept of nationalist
mobilisation as the engine of the nationalist idea. Within this
framework they briskly discuss history and its uses, social and
political structures and social and economic change, but they sensibly
concentrate on the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland,
triumphalist and seemingly invulnerable in the early twentieth century,
enormously influential until well past mid-century, but now dogged by
scandal, dwindling vocations and a loss of moral authority. But even
here there are problems and omissions. Even if the Irish Catholic
hierarchy aspired to run a tight ship and discourage mutiny it did not
always succeed, and there was and is greater variety of opinion within
and around the Church than is altogether convenient for critics and
chroniclers in a hurry. In this book important differences between Rome
and Armagh, or bishops and local clergy, or clergy and laity, are not
allowed to complicate the (only broadly accurate) picture of hegemonic
homogeneous Irish Catholicism. Catholicism, romantic Celticism and an
idealised peasantry now seem to have been the triple pillars supporting
the idea of the Irish nation, at least as Eamon de Valera saw it, but at
the end of the nineteenth century conservative and authoritarian
Catholic bishops were often unsympathetic to the Gaelic League, which
included many Protestants such as its first president Douglas Hyde, and
hostile to lay expressions of agrarian social concern and the mild
socialism of journals such as the Irish Peasant, suppressed by Cardinal
Logue. Its Catholic editor, the language-enthusiast W.P. Ryan,
retaliated by proclaiming a fundamental tension between `Vaticanism' and
`Celticism'.

It is also the case that while the 26 counties of the Irish Republic are
now overwhelmingly Catholic, the Protestant minority was more
substantial a century ago. The authors of this study take no account of
the extent to which secular Protestants such as W.B. Yeats and many
southern members of the post-disestablishment Church of Ireland,
thinking they had little more to lose, perhaps, did not oppose, arguably
even collaborated with, the inauguration of the new nation-state. This
acquiescence was not absolute or enduring, however, since in the 1920s
and 1930s some of them, in tandem with Catholic intellectuals, took
issue with censorship and other forms of repressive legislation inspired
by Catholic social teaching and in some cases left the country for good.

Modern sociology probably begins with Durkheim and Weber and critical
engagements with religion as a social phenomenon, so by emphasising the
importance of religion this book stands in a distinguished tradition.
Less impressively, perhaps, it is rather light on specific facts and
figures and sometimes unhelpfully redescribes recent Irish social
history in a generalising sociological vocabulary, grandly invoking
grand narratives of `socialisation', `modernisation' and `dysfunctional
social stratification' and alluding casually to identity projects and
relational fields in a manner which can be insensitive to nuance and to
the distinctive role played by particular individuals. The moral
ascendancy of the Catholic Church is related slightly mysteriously to a
`psycho-social technology of sin', veiling potentially interesting error
in the decent obscurity of learned language. At times one thinks,
unkindly, of Evelyn Waugh's satire on 1930s newspapers in Scoop (1938),
in which all civil conflicts in foreign countries are reduced to
Patriots vs. Traitors and a petty quarrel within a ruling family is
swiftly transformed in progressive circles into theorised ideological
conflict.

But it is perhaps unfair to complain about the book's strategic
translations into sociological idiom when its achievement is not so much
to develop a narrative or report first-hand research as to redeploy the
findings of others in a conceptual framework which can liberate the
reader from Irish exceptionalism, the tired and ultimately unhelpful
doctrine that no other country can resemble Ireland in suffering or in
idiosyncratic development. It is however regrettable that despite
numerous allusions to recent academic work, little of the
distinctiveness of individual contributions to Irish studies really
comes through. References are sometimes perfunctory or trivially
inaccurate (Banard for Barnard, Thunete for Thuente, Robin for Robert
Dudley Edwards, D. Boyce and G. Boyce for the one and only D.G. Boyce).
Originally published in 1998, the paperback edition in 2001 has a new
preface, but there is no mention in it of the arguably significant
changes to the Irish Constitution in the wake of the Good Friday
Agreement, and to the legal position of divorce, which have occurred in
the interim.

The project of critically interrogating the moth-eaten ideology
officially if no longer convincingly underpinning the Irish state is
indeed important and overdue, and the authors were right as well as
brave to attempt it, but for this reviewer at least there is still scope
for a bigger and better book on the subject.

History of European Ideas
Volume 29, Issue 2 , June 2003 , Pages 251-253

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
James Murphy...

P.O'S.


From: "jhmurphy[at]indigo.ie"
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: SSNCI conference 2004 FAO Paddy O'Sullivan & Irish Diaspora
list

Dear Paddy,
Greetings from Chicago.
I thought the message below about next year's SSNCI conference might be
of interest to the readers of the Irish Diaspora list. Best wishes,
James


Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland & Midwest Victorian
Studies Association Joint International Conference, 16-18 April 2004, De
Paul University, Chicago

CALL FOR PAPERS

Structures of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - in British and
Irish Perspective

The histories of nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland are often
thought of as asymmetrical, with religious faith as a key marker of
difference between the two cultures. How did religion and other systems
of belief operate in the relationship between the islands? Did religion
increase in importance in Ireland as it diminished in Britain? This
conference invites papers that explore belief systems in
nineteenth-century Ireland. It especially welcomes contributions that
probe the relationship of such systems to British action, perception and
articulation. The impact of Catholic emancipation on Britain, the
presence of the Catholic masses in British cities, the ideology of
evangelical activity, the relationship between religion, gender and
subjectivity in literature, and the interaction of religion and material
culture are among the many topics that might be explored. All systems of
belief are of interest to the conference. Though Christianity
predominated, Maria Edgeworth advocated Jewish rights in Harrington
(1817), John Kells Ingram was a notable disciple of Comte, John Tyndall
a doughty exponent of evolution and W.B. Yeats a committed adherent to
theosophy.

Hard Copy Paper Proposals (200-400 words), mail, email and phone contact
details, and one-page CVs by 1 November, 2003 to Prof. James H. Murphy,
Dept of English, De Paul University, McGaw Hall, 802 West Belden Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60614-3214, USA.

Further information concerning conference registration will in time be
found at: www2.ic.edu/MVSA/ and at
www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/ssnci.html

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
The British Association for Irish Studies

Please distribute as widely as you can.

P.O'S.


The British Association for Irish Studies
and
The Learning and Teaching Support network
are co-hosting a symposium on

'Irish Studies in the Curriculum'

Saturday 6th September 2003
Senate House, London

OPENING SPEAKER PATRICK O'SULLIVAN,
HEAD OF THE IRISH DIASPORA RESEARCH UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

In the last 20 years, Irish Studies has established an identity not just
as a research specialism but as a focus for teaching. The term 'Irish
Studies' serves to describe curricula which draw on a range of
discourses which in turn are inflected by debates within and between
academic disciplines.

Irish Studies is delivered through individual modules on traditional
'single discipline' programmes in Higher Education; it is available in
single, joint and combined honours programmes and it has a profile at
Masters and PhD levels. Different modes of delivery and diversity in
curricula are reflected, as well, in courses or course elements offered
in secondary schools and in Further Education.

This symposium on 'Irish Studies in the Curriculum' will give delegates
the opportunity to reflect on approaches to, and strategies for, the
delivery of curricula or elements of curricula which focus on
representations of Ireland and Irishness.

Topics for discussion might include:

Irish Studies in 'English' programmes
Marketing Irish Studies
Teaching the North
Interdisciplinarity in Irish Studies
Irish History in the Curriculum
Irish Studies in Schools and Further Education
The current state of 'Irish Studies'
Teaching 'Irish Studies' inside and outside Ireland

If you wish to attend, please complete the attached registration form.
Alternatively you can register online at
http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/events/registration/eventreg.asp

Should you wish to submit a proposal, it should be up to 500 words in
length and deal directly with teaching issues. Proposals should be sent,
in the first instance, to Petrina Farrington at the English Subject
Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Egham Hill, TW20
0EX. (petrina.farrington[at]rhul.ac.uk) Please note the deadline for
proposals is Friday 30th June.

Funding for the event has been provided by the Learning and Teaching
Support Network (LTSN) which is seeking to support the development of
curricula in 'Area Studies' subjects such as Irish Studies. The remit of
the LTSN is to cater for the support of learning and teaching in Higher
Education, but papers on the teaching of Irish Studies at other levels
will also be welcomed. For further information on the LTSN, please visit
the English Subject Centre at http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/ and the
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk.


ENGLISH SUBJECT CENTRE

Registration Form

Name of Event: Irish Studies in the Curriculum

Date of Event: Saturday 6th September 2003

[Events are free of charge, but you must notify us at least 1 week in
advance if you have to withdraw]

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All events include a buffet lunch. Please notify us of any food
preferences or allergies.


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The English Subject Centre will maintain the data you supply in keeping
with the UK Data Protection Act to notify you of future SC event and
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Please return the registration form to:
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London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
E-mail: esc[at]rhul.ac.uk
Tel: 01784 443221

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This query is forwarded on behalf of David Collins of The Irish
Ancestral Research Association (TIARA).

TIARA runs a very useful Irish Family History web site - to which I
often direct the hundreds of family history queries I get. And I also
direct them to Genuki and Rootsweb.

So, I'd like to be helpful to TIARA. Can anyone help with this query
about an Irish in Caribbean web site?

Paddy


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

From: David Collins

The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) is in the process of
updating its Links pages at .

We had a link to a website, Blacks of Irish Descent in the Caribbean, at
which is no longer
active.

A Google search didn't turn up any similar pages. Are you aware of any
other web site that covers this topic?

Thank you,

David Collins
TIARA Volunteer

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Rosa Gonzalez - looks like another interesting view of 'Irish Studies' from Spain... There are essays here that I want to read.

I deduce that the publisher, PROMOCIONES Y PUBLICACIONES UNIVERSITARIAS, S.A, is the University press - but I cannot find its web site. Could someone whose Spanish is better than mine have a look?

P.O'S.


THE REPRESENTATION OF IRELAND/S.
IMAGES FROM OUTSIDE AND FROM WITHIN

Rosa GONZÃ?LEZ (Ed.) (2003)
Barcelona: PPU

17 X 24 cm. 382 pages ISBN: 84-477-0841-1
Paperback â?¬ 16

The Representation of Ireland/s.

Images from Outside and from Within is a multi-authored and interdisciplinary project that explores some of the discursive formations underlying the imagined communities of Ireland and their representation through cultural and literary texts.

The authors are international scholars working in the area of Irish Studies, who approach their subjects from such diverse disciplines as history, sociology, cultural theory, film, media and literary studies.

Though laying no claim to comprehensiveness, the volume provides highly nuanced insights into a wide range of past and current attempts at self-defining, describing, visualising, imagining, inventing, reformulating and translating Ireland and the Irish at home and abroad.

The essays, which engage with representation in its broadest sense â?? as the construction and reproduction of images and of ideas, whether in some material form or formulated in the mind â?? have been grouped into the following sections:

I â?? Modes of Representation
â?¢â??Irish History and Irish Historical Narrativeâ?? by Gearóid Ã? Tuathaigh
â?¢ â??Signs of the Times: Murals and Political Transformation in Northern Irelandâ?? by Bill Rolston
â?¢ â??Bloody Sunday: Dramatising Popular History in TV Filmâ?? by Lance Pettitt
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From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D ANB Shields, Thomas Edward

From: Patrick Maume
Is the Fr. Peter Yorke mentioned below the same Fr. Yorke who
founded the SAN FRANCISCO LEADER?
It would be interesting to know if this debate had any impact
on the views of Fr. Timothy Corcoran, the UCD Professor of
Education c.1910-early 1940s, who was very influential on the
implementation of compulsory Irish. Corcoran habitually argued
that anything other than a teacher-centred approach was contrary
to Catholicism, and was a vitriolic opponent of what he saw as
Cardinal Newman's unCatholic approach to university education.
Best wishes
Patrick


On 02 June 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:


> From: "Richard Jensen"
> Subject: Fw: ANB - Bio of the Day

> American National Biography Online
>
> Shields, Thomas Edward (9 May 1862-5 Feb. 1921),

In 1907
> and 1908, Shields entered into a major national debate with Father
> Peter Christopher Yorke at the Catholic Education Association's
> national meetings on religious education. Yorke emphasized content,
> and Shields argued that more emphasis ought to be placed upon the
> method of teaching and the teacher's awareness of the student's
> learning readiness and psychological capacity.
>
> Citation:
> Patrick W. Carey. "Shields, Thomas Edward";
> http://www.anb.org/articles/08/08-01382.html;
> American National Biography Online June 2003
>
----------------------
patrick maume

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Ireland, Action on Alcohol Abuse - Colin Farrell

From: Patrick Maume
Perhaps something tangentially related to this subject - I've
had several people complain to me recently that the actor Colin
Farrell plays up to the stereotype of the drunken Irish wild man
both on and off screen; they see this as affecting the image of
Ireland abroad. I don't know if it is in order to discuss an
individual in this context, but he has achieved a very high
profile in recent years.
Best wishes,
Patrick


On 03 June 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> A couple of Ir-D members brought to our attention the recent statement

> by the Prime Minister of Ireland on proposed changes to alcohol
> legislation. My thanks. And, yes, indeed, the press release was
> picked up by newspapers throughout the world.
>
> Frankly, I was a bit perturbed by some of the ways in which the Prime
> Minister's comments were picked up outside Ireland.

From: "jamesam"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Query from TIARA

Have you tried http://www.candoo.com/genresources/historical.htm? That
might be of some help.

Slainte',

Patricia Jameson-Sammartano


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

> From: David Collins
>
> The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) is in the process of
> updating its Links pages at .
>
> We had a link to a website, Blacks of Irish Descent in the Caribbean,
> at which is no
> longer active.
>
> A Google search didn't turn up any similar pages. Are you aware of any

> other web site that covers this topic?
>
> Thank you,
>
> David Collins
> TIARA Volunteer
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

From today's Guardian...

P.O'S.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,974413,00.html

Brutal death of a travelling child

A boy aged 15 is left to die in the middle of a playing field in
Ellesmere Port. His family believe he was killed for 'being a Gypsy'

Audrey Gillan
Tuesday June 10, 2003
The Guardian

Winifred Delaney pulls a crumpled birth certificate out from inside her
bra. It belonged to her son, Johnny, killed eight days ago in what she
believes was an unprovoked attack. She points to his date of birth -
June 12 1987. Thursday would have been his 16th birthday.

The Delaneys are travelling people, living on a caravan site next to
Liverpool's docks. They have come to the conclusion, based on their own
experiences, that he was killed for just one thing: being a Gypsy.

...
Like many travellers, the Delaneys are originally from Ireland, and
though most have grown up in the UK their accent is a thick Irish brogue
mixed with travelling dialect. When they get Johnny's body back from the
coroner's office, they plan to take him to Ireland for a proper burial.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This item gives News of an Ir-D member....

Frank Neal has contacted us with news of the launch of his own
publishing company...

Frank writes...


- -----Original Message-----
From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com
Subject: Launch of Newsham Press

Dear Patrick

As I explained earlier, Tom Williams and I have set up a publishing
company.

The primary reason behind the venture is my dissatisfaction with the
treatment of academic authors by the big conglomerate publishers, a
disssatisfaction shared with others.

For example, one of my books, 'Black'47', is priced at £47.50, Hardback,
and MacMillan/Palgrave refuse to publish a paperback. In the USA
Amazon.com charge $85 for the Hardback.

Another book, 'Sectarian Violence', was published by Manchester
University Press. They refuse to produce another run of their paperback
edition, yet I get requests for it continually.

One reason for producing cheaper editions is to reach the much wider
readership of non academics. The big companies have a short term profit
strategy - their primary objective is to get their money back from sales
to the University Libraries. This issue has been aired on the
Irish-Diaspora list.

My colleague, Tom Williams, is auxillary bishop in the Liverpool
archdiocese and titular bishop of Mageo in Co. Mayo.

We aim to specialise in books on the Irish in Britain, the history of
English Catholicism and British Social history in general. I am on a
steep learning curve vis a vis publishing and so our first publishing
ventures are two of my own books.

Best wishes

Frank

- ----EXTRACT Ends----


For those who need to understand the complexities of the Catholic
Church's systems, see the Archdiocese of Liverpool press release
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/CN/03/030415.htm

I am sure we all wish Frank Neal good fortune with this venture.

The web site of Newsham Press is
www.newshampress.com

As news of its publications reaches me I will share it with the
Irish-Diaspora list.

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Further to my earlier message about Frank Neal's launch of his own
publishing company...

Here is information about the first 2 books published by Newsham
Press...

P.O'S.


- -----Original Message-----
From: FNeal33544[at]aol.com


Newsham Press Ltd.
St Anthony's
Newsham Street
Scotland Road
Liverpool L5 5BD

Tel. 0151 207 0177
Fax. 0151 298 2112
E-Mail info[at]newshampress.com
Web www.newshampress.com


1.
Publication Date: 12 June 2003

Frank Neal
Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience: 1819 to 1914 .An Aspect of
Anglo-Irish History.'

Newsham Press edition
Paperback ISBN. 0-9545013-0-6
245 pp

Price: £12.99(inc.postage)
19 Euros in Eire and Europe
$25 USA (inc.postage)
Cheques payable to NEWSHAM PRESS Ltd

(First published 1988, HB, 1990 PB, Manchester University Press)



2.
Publication Date: 31 July 2003.

Frank Neal
Black '47: Britain and the Famine Irish

Newsham Press edition
Paperback. ISBN 0-9545013-1-4
292 pp.

Price: £18 (inc postage) in UK.
26 Euros in Eire and Europe
$32 USA (inc Postage)

Cheques payable to NEWSHAM PRESS

Note: orders can be placed online at the website.

Web www.newshampress.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have rteceived the following email from Leon Litvack, directing
attention to...

Ireland and Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference 20-22
June 2003 FINAL PROGRAMME

It looks a very interesting programme - it is worth reading through the
quite detailed Abstracts, to get a taste of the event. Many Ir-D
members, plus many papers of Irish Diaspora interest. Some papers which
- - if I am not mistaken - began with a note or a query to the
Irish-Diaspora list...

Which is nice.

Our good wishes to Leon and his colleagues...

Paddy


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

Dear friends,

Final conference programme is available at
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/2003-conference-schedule.doc

The abstracts are available at
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/collected-abstracts.pdf

A mailing to all participants will go out on Friday 13 June. The same
info. will appear in an email.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Belfast,

Leon


-------------------------------
Leon Litvack
Reader in Victorian Studies
School of English
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This article is freely available at Findartices.com...

THE CHANGING FACE OF CATHOLIC IRELAND: CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM IN
THE ANN LOVETT AND KERRY BABIES SCANDALS.
Author/s: Moira J. Maguire
Issue: Summer, 2001
Feminist Studies

http://www.feministstudies.org/

THE CHANGING FACE OF CATHOLIC IRELAND: CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM IN
THE ANN LOVETT AND KERRY BABIES SCANDALS.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0300/2_27/78392716/p1/article.jhtml

P.O'S.