From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Making some notes on the Irish diplomatic service and its contacts with
the Irish diaspora - there seems to be little in Michael Kennedy and
Joseph Morrison Skelly (eds) Irish Foreign Policy 1919-1966: From
Independence to Internationalism...

I was struck by a sentence at the end of Gerard Keown, 'The Irish Race
Conference, 1922, reconsidered', in Irish Historical Studies, XXXII,
127, May 2001, p. 376.

'Reflecting on his career as ambassador to Australia in the 1950s,
Timothy Kiernan observed that the most the Irish state should expect of
the diaspora was indifference; anuthing more would be a bonus.'

This seems a nice juicy quote, but unfortunately it does look as if
Keown has paraphrased Kiernan. Is Kiernan likely to have used the word
'diaspora'? - it would be interesting if he did use it.

The source is given as T.J. Kiernan, 'On representing Ireland abroad',
_Administration_, ii, 3 (Autumn 1954), p. 31.

Has anyone actually seen the original text? Or is anyone in touch with
Gerard Keown?

By the way, that same issue of IHS includes a review article by John A.
Jackson, 'Emigration and the Irish abroad: recent writings'...

Owen Dudley Edwards review of Kennedy & Skelly, plus their reply are on
the Reviews in History web site... Where, oddly, Kennedy & Skelly speak
of 'Tommy Kiernan'...

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/edwardsOwen.html

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/skellyJoseph.html

P.O'S.


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A new book has been brought to our attention...

Theorizing Diaspora, edited by ANITA MANNUR & JANA EVANS BRAZIEL.

Basic information from the publisher's web site, pasted in below. There
is a sample chapter, the one by Arjun Appadurai, on the web site.

Unfortunately I have not been able to get hold of a full Table of
Contents. The editors cheerfully tell us that the book came together in
discussions round the photocopier. Their own Introduction is a helpful
summary of debates around the notion of 'diaspora'. The book then
offers key essays, mostly from the 1990s, by Appadurai, Gilroy, Stuart
Hall, and so on. The 'Irish' are not indexed, but people who know the
original works will know that we do get an occasional mention.

One irritating thing about this book is that most (all?) of the chapters
are re-prints - but that it takes a bit of detective work, plus some web
searching, to find out the original dates and sources of the material.
I would have expected the editors' little intro to each chapter to give
clearly the source and context - but I guess sociologists will be
ahistorical. That apart, a useful book - and as usual the game is to
see how far the word 'Irish' can be inserted into all the
generalisations.

P.O'S.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631233911

Title: Theorizing Diaspora
Author: ANITA MANNUR, JANA EVANS BRAZIEL
ISBN: 0631233911
PAPERBACK: 063123392X
Pub Date ROW: 02/01/2003
Pub Date US: 15/01/2003

Description: Exploring the dispersion of populations and cultures across
many geographic regions and spheres, diaspora studies has emerged as a
vibrant area of research amid rapidly increasing transnationalism and
globalization. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader presents in a single volume
the most influ...


Bringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since
its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing
Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent
and contested theoretical space.

Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that
have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies.
Offers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars
including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall.
Presents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese,
Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean.
Reflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the
humanities and social sciences.
Includes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive
bibliography.

Contents
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In
Diaspora Studies: Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur. Part I:
Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora. Part II: Ethnicity, Identity, And
Diaspora. Part III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora. Part IV: Cultural
Production And Diaspora. Selected Bibliography On Diaspora Since 1990
Anita Mannur. Index.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received the following...

PRESS RELEASE from the National Portrait Gallery, London...

P.O'S.

HIGH TREASON
THE APPEAL OF ROGER CASEMENT
The Court of Criminal Appeal, 17 and 18 July 1916
By Sir John Lavery

2 July ? October 2003
Room 30
Admission free

A major court painting by Sir John Lavery will go on display at the
National Portrait Gallery on 2nd July 2003, depicting the controversial
appeal of Roger Casement, the Irish folk hero who was hanged in 1916 for
his involvement in the Irish Nationalist revolt in Dublin. This is the
first time that the painting has been on public display in the UK.

Lavery?s monumental painting records the two days of Roger Casement?s
appeal against his sentence of death for treason before five judges of
the Court of Criminal Appeal and contains over 40 individual portraits.
The painting is part of the Government Art Collection and has been
temporarily returned to the UK from loan to the King?s Inns, Dublin, for
conservation work.

Born in 1864, Casement was the son of an Irish Protestant father and a
Catholic mother and grew up in County Antrim and Liverpool. A renowned
human rights campaigner, he was knighted in 1911 for his public services
exposing the cruelties practised by European traders in Africa and South
America. He retired from the colonial service in 1912 and, always of
strong nationalist sympathies, joined the Irish Volunteers the following
year, taking up the cause of Irish nationalism.

When the First World War broke out, Casement hoped to obtain German help
in winning Irish independence and made his way to Berlin to enlist Irish
prisoners of war for service in an Irish rising. In April 1916, the
Germans despatched a ship, the Aud, with a cargo of arms to be landed in
Kerry for a rising planned for Easter week. Casement followed in a
submarine. The Aud was captured and blown up by its crew. Casement was
arrested on 20 April 1916 and taken to England, to the Tower of London,
to stand trial. He was subsequently found guilty of treason, stripped
of his knighthood, and sentenced to be hanged. The Easter Rising in
Dublin went ahead on 23 April, and seven days of street fighting ensued
in which many were killed.

Many influential people petitioned for a reprieve for Casement. Copies
of diaries alleged to be Casement?s, recording homosexual practices,
were circulated, it is said, by the British government to defuse the
campaign for a reprieve. The diaries had an inevitable effect on public
opinion. Casement was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London on 3 August
1916. His remains were later returned to Ireland and re-interred in
Glasnevin Cemetery on 1 March 1965 after a state funeral.

The ?Black Diaries? were widely believed, particularly in Ireland, to be
forgeries but a forensic study conducted in 2002, with the support of
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, found them to be genuine.

The painting was commissioned by the presiding judge, Sir Charles John
Darling, who invited Irish artist Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) to record
the court proceedings. The presence of an artist in court was, and
remains, regular practice, the weekly magazines publishing illustrations
of court scenes. Commissioning a huge canvas from a society portrait
painter was, however, exceptional. The artist had to keep his box of
paints hidden below the box as he worked on a sketch. In this final
version, not completed until 1931 and worked up in the artist?s studio,
Casement looks straight out, towards the Jury Box, and thus the viewer
becomes both the public and the jury. The painting remained in the
studio until Lavery?s death in 1941, and was left by him to the nation.
It hung first in an office in the Royal Courts of Justice, and in 1950,
following the request of Serjeant Sullivan, who had been part of
Casement?s defence team, it was lent to King?s Inns, Dublin.

Lavery?s painting will be accompanied by a contextual display of four
sketches; Roger Casement by Sir William Rothenstein, Sir John Lavery by
Sir Bernard Partridge, Sir Charles Darling by Sir Leslie Ward and Sir
Frederick Smith by Robert Stewart Sherriffs.

Notes to Editors

§ The painting is oil on canvas and measures 194.5 cms x 302.5
cms.

§ The painting was exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland in
1966 in Cuimhneachan 1916: A Commemorative Exhibition of the Irish
Rebellion 1916. This is the first time it has been on public display in
the UK.

§ A study for the painting exists in the collection of the Hugh
Lane Municipal Art Gallery, Dublin. It measures 25x30 inches and is
very similar in composition to the final painting.

§ Sir John Lavery (1856-1941); painter; born in Belfast; studied
at Glasgow School of Art, Heatherley?s and Academie Julian; influenced
for a time by J.A.M Whistler; painted Queen Victoria?s state visit to
Glasgow Exhibition, 1888; thereafter uninterruptedly successful,
especially with portraits of women; presented collections of portraits
of contemporary statesmen to Dublin and Belfast; also painted
conversation pieces and scenes; knighted 1918; RA 1921. The National
Portrait Gallery holds thirteen portraits by Lavery, including The Royal
Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913.

Lectures and Events

Thursday September 25 1.10pm Free, no tickets required
John Lavery - artist reporter
Professor Kenneth McConkey, Dean of Arts and Social Sciences University
of Northumbria, examines the work of artist John Lavery, whose work
includes the courtroom scene of the controversial Roger Casement trial
of 1916.

For further press information please contact:
Hazel Sutherland, Press Office, National Portrait Gallery

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Keown paraphrases Kiernan

Good morning Patrick

Maybe I am coming in at the end of a long discussion (have been somewhat
distracted by other matters here!) but I was struck by Kiernan's
reported remark that all the Irish state should expect of the diaspora
was indifference. Incidentally, while I agree that it is unlikely that
the word diaspora would have been used, it does appear in John A.
O'Brien's 1954 _The Vanishing Irish_, not to be confused with Timothy
Guinnane's excellent 1997 book of the same title.

When it came to the attitudes of the Department of External
Affairs/Foreign Affairs, it could equally be said for many decades that
all that the diaspora could expect from them was indifference. There
have been individuals down the years who worked against the odds to get
to know the Irish community in the countries to which they were posted,
but my ambassador in Paris was more typical. He called me in when I
arrived there in 1985 and gave me a usual pep talk. The phrase which
most stuck in my mind was 'remember, we are not here to pour drink down
the gullets of the local Irish community'. Later, when I put a friend of
mine who owned a small bar on the list of those to be invited to a St
Patrick's Day reception, questions were asked. The bar in question, Tigh
Johnny, was a central part of the Irish network - it was one of the
placees where you went to ask about work or a place to live or just meet
people.

I trust Mary Hickman will not mind if I quote from her 1997 keynote
speech to the Scattering conference here in Cork on this topic:

"In Britain in the 1980s, if one is to judge by the messages that
emanated from the Irish Embassy in London at that time, the Department
of Foreign Affairs did not want to hear anything about serious issues of
racism and discrimination for its citizens in Britain. In fact, if you
raised such issues and in any way linked them to what was happening in
Northern Ireland you were treated like a pariah in respectable Irish
society in London. That has changed and much is owed to the current and
previous Ambassadors (Ted Barrington and Joseph Small) and their staff
for transforming the relationship of the Embassy with the full range of
Irish people in Britain. In the 1990s community, activists and poets
(let alone all shades of political opinion in Northern Ireland) get
invited to Embassy receptions!"

I would trace the beginnings of this sea change in official attitudes to
the mid to late 1980s. Irish Foreign Service personnel had a tough time,
especially in the USA, where the post-Anglo Irish Agreement (1985)
climate of opposition and division within the ranks of Irish America
sometimes became very personal indeed. Diplomats were expected to engage
with Irish America and to explain official policy. Much of this was done
in a normal climate of give and take and sometimes noisy dissent, but
this was not always the case and individual diplomats were subjected to
various kinds of threats and intimidation. In the middle of all that,
the very significant increase in the number of undocumented Irish
arriving in the USA in the late 1980s posed a new challenge. I think it
would be fair to say that the authorities in Iveagh House at first did
not want to know but that events on the ground and the responses of
individuals on the ground changed that reletively quickly. Ray
O'Hanlon's 1998 _The New Irish Americans_ tells the story very well.
Within Foreign Affairs itself I think much credit would be given to one
individual, James Farrell in the New York consulate, who reached out to
the new Irish community.

As Mary notes the climated is now very much changed. This is probably in
part because of changes in the ethos of the Department and of diplomatic
relations generally and well as the fact that since the 1970s staff have
been recruited from much less rarified backgrounds than their
predecessors. In a more general sense the Department now sees the
Diaspora as a community which needs to be engaged with and as a valuable
resource, but that is still some way from a formal engagement of the
type proposed in last year's Task Force Report. It is regrettable that
current bugetary constraints are being used as an excuse to justify the
non-implementation of the various recommendations in the report. And
Ireland's engagement with its own Diaspora still has an element of the
self-serving about it (which is no fault of the civil servants); we
continue to do pitifully little to address the needs, for instance, of
the older marginalised Irish in Britain.

Piaras Mac Einri

From: "Brian McGinn"
To: "Irish Diaspora Studies"
Subject: Washington, D.C.'s Folklife Festival

The Celt Belt
Folk Festival Links Scotland, Appalachia

By Ken Ringle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 3, 2003; Page C01

Make no mistake about it. The Scotland and Appalachia sections of the
Folklife Festival on the Mall are not just showcases of rural
cutesy-quaint for the cultural voyeurs of the urbanized 21st century.
They are direct pipelines into a major wellspring of the American
character.

If the New England Pilgrims, Virginia Cavaliers and Pennsylvania Quakers
shaped our national institutions, argues historian David Hackett Fischer
of Brandeis University, it was the Scotch-Irish of Scotland and northern
Ireland who most defined our culture and who define it still.

They arrived later than the others and settled in the mountain
backcountry of pre-Revolutionary America (richer, earlier settlers held
the fertile lowlands), and carved out a hardscrabble existence that for
all its hardship and terrors was as proud as it was independent. There
were a lot of them. Puritan immigrants numbered about 21,000, Fischer
says. The Scotch-Irish numbered 275,000. Their heirs have fought our
wars, written our music, shaped our churches and otherwise most defined
our essence as a people for the past 200 years, Fischer says.

Shouldn't we maybe say thank you?

Down on the Mall, the festival participants aren't looking for
thank-yous. They would probably be puzzled by them if not embarrassed.
As much pride as they have as individuals, the Scotch-Irish have never
chosen to leverage their collective ethnicity into political power,
unless you count the election of Andrew Jackson as president -- their
first great political hurrah.

Asked, for example, if the Appalachian foodstuffs she was hawking on the
Mall were produced by local agricultural cooperatives, Phyllis Deal of
Clintwood, down in Virginia's mountainous southwestern toe, said, "No,
there's a traditional resistance to cooperatives in our area. We're just
not very cooperative."

In his landmark 1989 study "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in
America," Fischer traces the fractious independence of the Appalachian
Scotch-Irish to the centuries of warfare along the borderlands of
northern Ireland and southern Scotland from which Appalachian settlers
emigrated in the mid-1700s. It was, apparently, a sort of 18th-century
Hibernian Middle
East: The fighting never stopped.

Since they were subject to violence and raids from both warring
factions, Fischer says, the Scotch-Irish developed a distrust of all
governments and most institutions other then their own family or clan.
Loyalty to clan twinned with suspicion of strangers and with a cultural
conservatism that clung to traditional beliefs and folkways. It also
produced, Fischer says, an evangelical passion in religion that
emphasized one's powerlessness to shape the future. And a land-hunger
that spread them across the continent.

"Albion's Seed" argues persuasively that the instability of that
ancestral homeland shaped an Appalachian culture that lent its
distinctive character to everything from marriage customs and costumes
to speech patterns, gender roles and food.

Somewhere in the middle of all that comes music, the most magical
festival link between the musicians visiting from Scotland and their New
World heirs.

Jean Haskell, one of the coordinators of the festival's Appalachian
program and a former teacher in the Appalachian Studies program at East
Tennessee State University in Johnson City, said the grandparents and
great-grandparents of today's Appalachian musicians "carried this
cultural heritage almost unconsciously. . . . They'd know a ballad
they'd learned from their parents just as 'a really old-timey song.' But
these kids today grow up in that same tradition, find themselves playing
bluegrass and get interested in the roots of the music. Next thing you
know they become neo-revivalists."

The best example of that may be a Roanoke, Va., group at the festival
called the Celtibillies, which interweaves bluegrass and Irish music on
a mind-reeling collection of instruments that include the hammered
dulcimer, banjo, guitar, fiddle, Irish drum, bass and lutelike bouzouki.
Haskell said the best part of the festival for the performers is
something the public never hears: evening jam sessions at the Key Bridge
Marriott, where the performers are all staying. J.P. Mathis, banjo
player with the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Band, said
Appalachian musicians and musicians from Scotland playing together often
discover they know the same tune stock, "though often the verses are
different."

Over at the Bristol Mural Stage, storyteller Sheila Kay Adams explained
how the verses evolve over time. Incorporated in a ballad she learned
from her grandmother, Adams said, was a verse that seemed to make no
sense:

The coats that hang on the mountaintop
They hang so blue and true
They remind me of my driver boy
Who drove in the lowlands low.

"But then I found an earlier version of the story that explained
everything," she said. "In the other version the verse went:

The coach that rolls by the mountaintop
It looks so blue and true
It reminds me of my driver boy
Who drove in the lowlands low."

Her grandmother had learned the song by ear and heard "coats" for
"coach," Adams said.

"But there is also the possibility that when it came down to her after
the Civil War the singer she heard it from had used 'blue coats' to
refer to a lover who died in the Union Army. That's how these ballads
acquire layers of meaning over the years. Behind what seems to be
nonsense may lie great depths of human experience."

That experience was not entirely happy. The subjects of Appalachian
ballads and their antecedents seem forever to be throttling their loved
ones in one way or another -- hanging them, stabbing them, drowning them
or dressing them out with a Barlow knife like a deer carcass on the
banks of the O-hi-o.

"People used to ask me if these things I sing were 'Child ballads,' "
Adams said, referring to Francis J. Child's famous five-volume
collection "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads," published in the
1880s. "I told them I'd learned them as a child but always thought them
to be awfully violent to be children's songs."

Historian Fischer says the ballads were no more nor less than the mythic
evocation of a violent existence -- the only one most of the
Scotch-Irish knew before they arrived in America. Unlike the Puritans,
Quakers and Cavaliers -- their fellow English-speaking immigrants -- the
Scotch-Irish came not for political or religious reasons but for
economic ones, he says. The earlier arrivals, considering them dangerous
rabble, shunted them right through the existing Colonies to what was
then the backcountry frontier.

Having been landless for the most part in the old country, the
Scotch-Irish arrived as opportunists, and even while maintaining their
colonization of Appalachia they would soon send their sons and daughters
westward to settle the rest of the continent. They were warrior men and
strong working women, some as famous as Patrick Henry, George Patton and
John C. Calhoun, others as literate as Mark Twain and William Faulkner,
still others as infamous as Clyde Barrow and Jesse James, or as
flamboyant as actress Tallulah Bankhead.

In music their mournful ballads would give rise not only to bluegrass
music and Texas swing, but to the somebody-done-somebody-wrong songs of
the contemporary country and western playlist. In their working-class
stereotype they would be factory workers and farmers, moonshiners and
mechanics, and that guy on the Harley with "Born to Lose" tattooed on
his biceps.

They would also be a fellow like Greg Golden, who is at the festival
marketing Appalachian foodstuffs for Clinch-Powell Kitchen, an economic
uplift effort located near Kingsport, Tenn.

A rangy fellow with a mustache, Golden works to help farmers add value
to their agricultural products by turning strawberries into jam or
vegetables into pickles now that burley tobacco is fading fast as the
area's primary farm product.

"Of course, marijuana is the real cash crop down there now," he says,
"but we don't deal with that."

Golden grew up aware of the strong Scottish heritage of his region
("Hell, the University of Tennessee's colors are Scots colors -- orange
and white") and employed ageless Appalachian folkways like storing a few
apples with his potatoes to keep them from sprouting.

But the cultural link that most bemuses him is the legend of the turkey
craw bean -- a greenish-white string bean of extraordinary sweetness
that he says is grown only in the mountain region of southwestern
Virginia and northeastern Tennessee.

"It's the greatest bean you can grow," he says, "and the story is that
the original settlers of Appalachia brought a male turkey with them from
Scotland to start their poultry flocks in America. And after the flocks
were underway they killed the turkey to eat him and while cleaning the
carcass found a seed in its craw. They planted the seed and all the
beans we have there today come from that one seed."

Albion's Seed?

Golden hasn't looked for turkey craw beans among the Scottish foods at
the festival. But he says he intends to try.

C 2003 The Washington Post Company

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Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn2[at]earthlink.net

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded on behalf of
Roger Swift
r.swift[at]chester.ac.uk

Please circulate widely...

Already an impressive line-up - I think people will turn up out of
loyalty and as a tribute to Roger Swift...

P.O'S.


CHESTER COLLEGE
CENTRE FOR VICTORIAN STUDIES


IRELAND AND THE VICTORIANS
An International Conference
2-4 July 2004


Call for Papers


This broad-based interdisciplinary conference, commencing on the evening
of Friday 2 July 2004 and concluding after lunch on Sunday 4 July, seeks
to explore aspects of the complex relationship between Britain and
Ireland during the long nineteenth century. Speakers include Roy Foster,
John Belchem, D. George Boyce, Virginia Crossman, Fintan Cullen, Melissa
Fegan, Christine Kinealy, Don MacRaild, Alan O?Day, Roland Quinault,
Jeremy Smith, Roger Swift and Diane Urquart.

The organisers are particularly keen to provide a platform for new
researchers in the field as well as for established scholars. Offers of
suitable papers (to read for approximately 20 minutes) within the study
of Victorian art, culture, history, literature, politics and religion
will be particularly welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should
be submitted no later than Friday 31 October 2003 to Professor Roger
Swift, Director, Centre for Victorian Studies, Chester College, Parkgate
Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ.


CHESTER COLLEGE
CENTRE FOR VICTORIAN STUDIES

IRELAND AND THE VICTORIANS
An International Conference, 2-4 July 2004

REGISTRATION FORM

Registration Deadline: FRIDAY 2 APRIL 2004

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Please complete sections 1, 2 and 3 below

1. I wish to attend the Conference on the following basis
(please tick)

Whole conference, full board £138 [ ]
Whole conference, non-residence £99 [ ]
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Please send your cheque with this form to: The Conference Office,
Chester College, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ. You will receive
confirmation of your registration.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Further to my message about this book...

The publisher has now forwarded to us a list of the contents...

P.O'S.

Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In
Diaspora Studies:
Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur.

Part I: Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora:

1. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy Arjun
Appadurai.
2. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity Paul Gilroy.
Additional Readings On Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora.


Part II: Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora:

3. Diaspora: Generational Ground Of Jewish Diaspora Daniel Boyarin And
Jonathan Boyarin.
4. Ethnicity In An Age Of Diaspora R. Radhakrishnan.
5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American
Differences Lisa Lowe.
Additional Readings On Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora.


Part III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora:

6. Against The Lures Of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women And
Intellectual Hegemony: Rey Chow.
7. Returning(S): Relocating The Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer
Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe.
8. In The Shadows Of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics And
The Diasporic Dilemma: Martin F. Manalansan IV.
Additional Readings In Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora.


Part IV: Cultural Production And Diaspora:

9. Cultural Identity And Diaspora Stuart Hall:
10. Diaspora Culture And The Dialogic Imagination Kobena Mercer.
11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities In Motion
Gayatri Gopinath.
Additional Readings On Cultural Production And Diaspora.


Post-Script: Cyber-Scapes And The Interfacing Of Diaspora Anita Mannur.
Additional Readings On Diaspora And Cyberelectronics.

Selected Bibliography On Diaspora Since 1990 Anita Mannur.
Index.

- -----Original Message-----
From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

A new book has been brought to our attention...

Theorizing Diaspora, edited by ANITA MANNUR & JANA EVANS BRAZIEL.

Basic information from the publisher's web site, pasted in below. There
is a sample chapter, the one by Arjun Appadurai, on the web site.

Unfortunately I have not been able to get hold of a full Table of
Contents. The editors cheerfully tell us that the book came together in
discussions round the photocopier. Their own Introduction is a helpful
summary of debates around the notion of 'diaspora'. The book then
offers key essays, mostly from the 1990s, by Appadurai, Gilroy, Stuart
Hall, and so on. The 'Irish' are not indexed, but people who know the
original works will know that we do get an occasional mention.

One irritating thing about this book is that most (all?) of the chapters
are re-prints - but that it takes a bit of detective work, plus some web
searching, to find out the original dates and sources of the material. I
would have expected the editors' little intro to each chapter to give
clearly the source and context - but I guess sociologists will be
ahistorical. That apart, a useful book - and as usual the game is to
see how far the word 'Irish' can be inserted into all the
generalisations.

P.O'S.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0631233911

Title: Theorizing Diaspora
Author: ANITA MANNUR, JANA EVANS BRAZIEL
ISBN: 0631233911
PAPERBACK: 063123392X
Pub Date ROW: 02/01/2003
Pub Date US: 15/01/2003

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This CFP is being circulated again...

So, as a reminder...

P.O'S.


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

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Midwest Victorian Studies Association in
conjunction with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
posts the following call for papers for a joint conference of the
associations, April 16-18, 2004, in Chicago, hosted by DePaul
University:

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 Harringon
(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, e-mail and phone
contact details, and one-page CVs by 1 November, 2003 to Prof. James H.
Murphy, Department of English, DePaul University, McGaw Hall, 802 West
Beldon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614-3214, USA.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of John Ellis...

The North American Journal of Welsh Studies is always worth looking at -
in this issue I especially recommend Hywel Bishop, Nikolas Coupland and
Peter Garrett, "'Blood is Thicker than the Water that Separates Us!':
Welsh Identity in the North American Diaspora"

Some nice development of some good ideas - like 'identity resources...'

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
From: "Ellis, John"

The North American Journal of Welsh Studies Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 2003)
is now available online at
http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/journal.html

The issue includes the following articles:

Colleen M. Seguin, "Cures and Controversy in Early Modern Wales: The
Struggle to Control St. Winifred's Well"

Daniel Westover, "A God of Grass and Pen: R.S. Thomas and the Romantic
Imagination"

Hywel Bishop, Nikolas Coupland and Peter Garrett, "'Blood is Thicker
than the Water that Separates Us!': Welsh Identity in the North American
Diaspora"

The NAJWS is an interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year
by the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and
History (NAASWCH)


- --John S. Ellis
University of Michigan Flint

From: "Richard Jensen"
To:
Subject: Fw: CFP: ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM


- ----- Original Message -----
From:

I am looking for someone interested in joining a panel to present at
next year's ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM, in Omagh, Northern
Ireland, on 23-26 June, 2004. I include the text of the call for papers
below. Our panel needs one more paper dealing with some aspect of the
Scotch-Irish in the 18th century, specifically with regard to war and/or
conflict in early America. if you are interested please contact me
directly (off-list) at maass.2[at]osu.edu. Thank you,

John Maass

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park,
Omagh, is pleased to host the Fifteenth Ulster-American Heritage
Symposium, 23-26 June, 2004 in partnership with the University of
Ulster, Queen's University, Belfast, MAGNI, the Education and Library
Boards of Northern Ireland and Enterprise Ulster.

Since 1976 the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two
years, alternating between co-sponsoring universities and museums in
Ulster and North America. Its purpose is to encourage scholarly study
and public awareness of the historical connections between Ulster and
North America including what is commonly called the Scotch-Irish or
Ulster-Scots heritage. The Symposium has as its general theme the
process of transatlantic emigration and settlement, and links between
England, Scotland, Ireland and North America. Its approach is
inter-disciplinary, including history, language and literature,
archaeology, folklife, religion and music. The meeting in 2004 will
consider the changing ways of how we think about emigration from Ulster,
especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As in 2000 and
2002, particular attention will be given to developments in Scotch-Irish
/ Ulster-Scots culture, history and heritage. Keynote speakers will
include Professor Kerby Miller whose new book Irish Immigrants in the
Land of Canaan is published by Oxford University Press in 2003;
Professor Michael Montgomery; Professor Kathleen Wilson, who is curating
a major traveling exhibition on 'Ulster Linen Worldwide' for 2005, and
Dr Patrick Fitzgerald and Dr John Lynch, whose book Migration in Irish
History 1600-2000 is to be published by Palgrave in 2004.

So far there are plans for panel discussions on 'The Volume of
Emigration from Ulster 1600-2000' and on 'Foodways' (including a
'tasting'). The organizers will be especially pleased to receive offers
of papers on the
following: The role of women; responses to conflict; relations with
other ethnic groups; interpretation of Irish cultural identity and
heritage (Irish, Gaelic Irish, Scotch-Irish, Ulster-Scot, British);
regional, local community and family studies; foodways.

Deadline for proposals for individual papers or panels: October 31 2003
Proposals should include an abstract of the paper (300 words) and brief
c.v.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Catching up on my Guardian reading - spotted 2 items of interest...

P.O'S.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1000255,00.html

Knowing me, knowing you

It annoys the scholars, but Beckett's Mercier and Camier gives Keith
Ridgway a thrill of recognition

Saturday July 19, 2003
The Guardian

This is a re-think of Mercier and Camier. I like this bit...

'The narrator is a bit of a smart aleck too, at least in the beginning,
and his voice is one familiar in much Irish literature - haughty,
condescending, sometimes funny, often annoying - who can't keep his nose
out of things, and who it's often tempting to believe acts as a
defensive barrier between the writer and what he's writing.'


http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,995447,00.html

No regrets, no surrender

From civil war in the Congo to verbal wars in the Irish parliament,
Conor Cruise O'Brien has illuminated and infuriated as writer,
politician, historian and academic. Geoffrey Wheatcroft finds that his
capacity for controversy is undiminished

Saturday July 12, 2003
The Guardian

'Conor Cruise O'Brien is an exception to many rules. At 85, he is
certainly not enjoying a tranquil old age amid universal reverence and
honour...'

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Ir-D Review, 3 books on Death


From: Patrick Maume

Reading this review I noticed this sentence...

> Certainly
> there is some evidence that contemporaries who experienced a close
> proximity to death made it less unwelcome; Edmund Spencer wrote "Sleep

> after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life
> does greatly please."

This is a spectacular example of quoting out of context - in Spencer THE
FAERIE QUEEN these words are spoken by a malevolent figure who is trying
to tempt one of the heroes to commit suicide!
Best wishes,
Patrick

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Interesting book - and the review is by Nicholas Canny... So, we will
read...

One important point, which I bring up when I am trying to explain Irish
history on the Europrean mainland, is the way in which the solution to
the wars of religion offered by the Treaty of Westphalia did not become
availabnle in Ireland.

By the way, I took the accents out of Ó hAnnracháin in the Subject line,
above, because - in the past - 'non-Ascii' letters have caused some
institutions to reject Ir-D messages...

P.O'S.


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

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (July 2003)

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin. _Catholic Reformation in Ireland: The Mission of
Rinuccini, 1645-1649_. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2002. xiv + 324 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-19-820891-X.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Nicholas Canny ,
Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway

The title alone will indicate the importance of this book since Ireland
is one of those few countries in Europe where Catholicism prevailed as
the majority religion despite repeated efforts of the authorities during
the early-modern centuries to suppress it. The significance of the
subject is also evident because loyalty to Catholicism in today's
Ireland (both north and south of the twentieth-century political border)
exceeds that in most other European societies which, in former
centuries, were closely identified with Catholicism. Moreover the
demands of Catholicism, especially as these were articulated by the
ultra-montane church of earlier centuries, continue to exercise
considerable, albeit declining, influence on political choices in
Ireland.

Despite the apparent importance of Catholicism in Irish life in past
centuries the subject of the Counter Reformation in Ireland (or Catholic
Reformation as it is called here) has received but limited scholarly
attention through the centuries. Moreover Archbishop GianBattista
Rinuccini, Papal nuncio (1645-49), to the Catholic Confederation in
Ireland, and the main protagonist in this volume, has earned but scant
sympathy from Irish scholars and commentators, even when these have been
committed Catholics and admirers of the Papacy.

These neglects can be explained by several factors. First the study of
the Counter Reformation in Ireland, as opposed to the study of that
movement in countries where Catholicism was the official religion of the
state, has been hindered because scarcely any records of Irish Catholic
parishes survive from any date previous to the late-eighteenth century.
Potential work on the Counter Reformation in Ireland has also been
frustrated because the body of surviving Catholic sermons, reform
literature and catechetical texts is small, and relatively few Catholic
bishops and priests from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have
left personal papers of consequence. Where Rinuccini is concerned, it
goes without saying, historians of Protestant or secular disposition
have had little interest in this agent of the Papacy other than to
condemn him. At the same time Catholic writers, whether of nationalist
or liberal inclinations, have portrayed him, however anachronistically,
as an ultra-montane meddler with little understanding of the society
which he aspired to mould to an alien pre-determined model.

In the light of such neglect Dr. Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin is to be commended
not only for his choice of subject but for his persistence in seeking to
extract meaning on the Counter Reformation in Ireland from most
unpromising sources. These include official documents from English,
French, Spanish, and Vatican archives and the texts composed by
Rinuccini during his lifetime. The outcome from Ó hAnnracháin's
investigation is an original and, in several respects, a startling book.
His crowning achievement is his convincing reconstruction of the mental
world of Archbishop Rinuccini based on the combination of a reading of
Rinuccini's surviving writings, on the close study of Rinuccini's
conduct as a reforming prelate in the Archdiocese of Fermo before he was
appointed to Ireland, and on an appraisal of his actions in Ireland
during the years of his nunciature. The portrait that emerges is of an
austere, intelligent, learned, and rigidly disciplined individual who
was unrelenting in his loyalty to Pope Innocent X and who comprehended
his responsibilities in Ireland in the light of the broader involvement
of the Papacy in European affairs, and especially in the context of the
negotiations being conducted at Münster that would lead to the Peace of
Westphalia of 1648. To this degree Rinuccini had a clearer
understanding of what would be a satisfactory outcome of his involvement
with Ireland than did most of his associates or opponents.

hAnnracháin explains that Rinuccini appreciated from the outset that
any likely outcome from his Irish mission would fall short of the ideal
since it would, in all likelihood, result in the Catholics of Ireland
being subjected to a Protestant monarch. Lest this should occasion
scandal that could weaken the Catholic demands at the negotiating tables
of Munster or Osnabrück, Rinuccini made it clear that any such flawed
settlement would require the assurance that the monarch's viceroy in
Ireland would henceforth be a Catholic, the guarantee that Catholicism
in Ireland would be re-invested as a legally recognized public religion
in Ireland, and the certainty that an episcopally-controlled Catholic
church in Ireland would enjoy an appropriate endowment which would
ensure that it would not suffer interference from secular authority,
whether of the state or of Catholic proprietors.

One of the more surprising findings of this book is that most bishops
who had served in Ireland before Rinuccini's arrival there had reached
much the same conclusion concerning the ideal conditions that would
enable Catholicism to survive under the rule of a Protestant prince. On
reflection this becomes comprehensible because all Irish bishops had
been trained in seminaries on the Continent and some had spent time in
ministry in Catholic societies before taking up appointment in Ireland.
These however had previously kept their counsel largely to themselves
because they had been reliant upon Catholic landowners--frequently their
own kinsmen--to provide them with shelter and patronage as they
attempted to minister surreptitiously against the wishes of potentially
hostile state authorities. Rinuccini was not compromised as these Irish
bishops had been, first because he was a stranger in Ireland with no
countervailing loyalties besides those he owed to the Papacy, second
because he served in Ireland during an interlude when Protestant state
authority had been displaced by Catholic interests in those parts of the
country in which he functioned, and thirdly--and perhaps most
critically--because he enjoyed financial independence from the Catholic
community in Ireland thanks to the liberal subventions he had been
accorded by the Pope.

Much of this book is devoted to the re-enactment of the tensions between
the lay and clerical leaders of the Catholic Confederacy during the
years of its existence. This sad tale has often been told, but where
previous authors have attributed the ensuing political paralysis to
Rinnucini, Ó hAnnracháin attaches as much blame to "the peace party"--a
group of Old English lawyers and landowners who, as he demonstrates,
proved "duplicitous" in their dealings with Rinuccini whose money they
coveted more than his counsel. The book hints that the Confederacy
might have achieved more if it had followed Rinuccini's preferred policy
of a coherent military policy in pursuit of clearly-defined Catholic
objectives. The pursuit of such a policy would, however, have meant
offering the hypothetical crown of Ireland to a Catholic monarch on the
Continent, in preference to King Charles I. Nobody seems seriously to
have canvassed that option, and if they had done so they would probably
not have found any monarch interested in being so honored.

Copyright (c) 2003 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits
the redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit,
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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

Readers of the Irish Post, the London based newspaper of the Irish in
Britain, will know that I have been away - having almost overcome my
travel phobia - at the World Congress of Basque Collectivities, in the
Basque capital Vitoria Gasteiz.

There was an article by me, looking forward to the event, on page 12,
Irish Post, July 12 2003 - and I am now finishing the follow up article,
reporting on my participation. These newspaper articles are, of course,
a way of subsidising my costs.

Newspaper articles - well, you deliver them, and hope for the best from
the sub-editors. The article in the issue of July 12 acquired the
headline, 'Why the world turns to the Irish "model"' - when my point was
that the small nations of Europe looked to the 'Irish model'. And it
lost all my best gags. Including the quote from Owen Dudley Edwards,
who described the Irish Republic's Department of Foreign Affairs as 'the
most charming, most cultured, and most unscrupulous foreign service in
Europe, perhaps in the world...'

I found the Congress very interesting indeed, an unusual chance to
consider 4 diasporas thinking about themselves as diasporas, the Basque,
Jewish, Armenian and the Irish. I am writing up my notes - but first
need to get this newspaper article out of the way. You might ask, why
am I writing for the Irish Post, London. Well, I circulated the Irish
newspapers of Ireland - there was not a flicker of interest in the
Basque World Congress. Has it been noticed at all in Ireland?

Paddy


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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

There will be a book launch in Leeds, England, on Thursday July 31 - a
chance to take part in diasporic interactions...

I will be away on holiday, but if anyone would like to be the
Irish-Diaspora list representative at the event, do contact me.

Further information on the web site...

http://www.thetriplespiralpoets.com/

P.O'S.


1.
From the web site...

'The Triple Spiral' is an anthology of poems put together by three
members of Lucht Focail (Word People), an Irish literary and poetry
group based at the Leeds Irish Centre. The book is jointly published by
Cúlra, the Education and Acculturation Programme affiliated to Comhaltas
Ceoltóirí Éireann, and ourselves.

2.
Book Launch...

Forwarded on behalf of
Jó Ó Síoráin, Director of Culra

Launch of 'The Triple Spiral'

at

An Irish Literary Evening

by

Seanadóir Labhrás Ó Murchú
Ball an Seanad na hÉireann
agus
Ard Stúirthóir an Comhaltais

MEMBER OF THE IRISH SENATE
and
Director General of Comhaltas

The launch of this anthology of poetry will take place at an Irish
Literary Evening to be held at Borders Bookshop, Briggate, Leeds, on
Thursday, July 31st, 2003, which marks the beginning of Leeds Irish
Festival 2003.

Invited to launch the book is Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú, Director General
of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and a member of the Upper House of An
tOireachtas na hÉireann (The Irish Legislature).

The event will commence at 6.30 p.m. with readings of Irish verse and
prose from a variety of authors, published and unpublished. The three
poets whose work is 'The Triple Spiral' will introduce their work and
speak about the background from which it has arisen.

Senator Ó Murchú will then be invited to formally launch the publication
of the book.

Traditional Irish music and song from the Leeds and Bradford Branches of
Comhaltas will be a feature of the evening. To celebrate the
publication, a reception for the Triple Spiral Poets and Senator Labhrás
Ó Murchú will be held later in the evening at Healds Hall Hotel,
Liversedge. Attendance will be by invitation only.

From: Sara Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu
Subject: Foilsiú 3

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Children?s Literature of the Great Irish Famine: An Annotated
Bibliography Karen Hill McNamara Page 21

?Whither thou goest?: The Possibility of Community in Observe the Sons
of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Someone Who?ll Watch Over Me
Brian Cliff Page 33

In Their Own World: Belfast and Derry
Photo Essay by Christina Cahill
Page 47

Poetry

The Ink Moth
Greg Delanty
page 67

Poetry by Eamonn Wall
page 71

Book Reviews

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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 A couple of queries

From: Patrick Maume

I have a couple of queries that the List might be able to help
with.

(1) Does anyone know if there is a file of the old Catholic
story magazine AVE MARIA for the 1890s/1900s on this side of the
Atlantic? (I am revising for publication a paper on the
Longford priest-novelist Joseph Guinan; he published in AVE
MARIA and a stray reference in one of his novels makes me
suspect he may have written something for the magazine based on
his early experiences as a curate in Liverpool and never
bothered to bring it out in book form.)

(2) I am doing the DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY entry on the
right-wing war correspondent Francis McCullagh from Omagh.
During his career he (a) covered the Russo-Japanese War
(b)Covered the opening of the Young Turks' Ottoman parliament
and the Italian conquest of Libya, during which he publicised
the massacre of Arab civilians by Libyan troops (c)Served in the
British Army in the Mediterranean during the First World War
(d)Participated in the British Military Mission to Siberia in
support of the White Army during the Russian Civil War - he took
part in the investigation into the fate of the Romanovs, was
captured by the Bolsheviks and narrowly escaped execution
(e)Carried on an extensive campaign in North America against the
Mexican Republic's persecution of Catholic clergy (f) Reported
on the Spanish Civil War from the pro-Franco side.

He published several books on his adventures which I intend to
use, but for obvious reasons I don't want to rely exclusively on
his own accounts. A Google search has turned up very little.
Does anyone know of books or articles which contain references
to the aspects of his career listed above? (By the way, I am
aware of the references to him in Keene's recent book on foreign
volunteers on the Francoist side).
Thanks in advance for any help,
Patrick
----------------------
patrick maume

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

The following article has been brought to our attention...

Article
John Pope Hennessy and the Translation of 'Slavery' between late
nineteenth-century Barbados and Hong Kong
David Lambert and Philip Howell

Abstract pasted in below.

History Workshop Journal has a web presence at...

http://www3.oup.co.uk/hiwork/

Also of interest in this issue are Joanna Bourke on fear, Anne Hardy on
Molly Malone's malady, and of course Senia Paseta's book reviews. Senia
Paseta is now based at St. Hugh's, Oxford - I think - and is the
co-editor of Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All' , Adrian
Gregory and Senia Paseta (eds), Manchester University Press...

P.O'S.


History Workshop Journal

Volume 55, Issue 1, Spring 2003: pp. 1-24

Article
John Pope Hennessy and the Translation of 'Slavery' between late
nineteenth-century Barbados and Hong Kong

David Lambert1 and Philip Howell2

1Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2The Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge

This paper uses the experiences of Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-91) as
Governor of Barbados (1875-76) and Hong Kong (1877-82) to investigate
the political geography of British imperial government in the later
nineteenth century. Pope Hennessy's postings brought him into conflict
with successive white settler elites, as he attempted to forward both
colonial policy and his own humanitarian and political concerns. Two
consecutive episodes demonstrate the centrality of slavery to these
conflicts. In the Barbadian 'Confederation Riots', the legacy of
plantation slavery was invoked to understand plantocratic rule and the
racial and political conflict it provoked, confirming Pope Hennessy's
sympathies. In Hong Kong, however, the controversy over the Chinese
practice of adopting children for unpaid domestic labour brought the
principles of humanitarianism and inclusive government into open
conflict. Read alongside Pope Hennessy's peripatetic imperial career, we
argue that 'slavery' was thus 'translated' from one colony to another,
installed in the places and spaces of the imperial network, and
entangled in its tensions.

In the same issue of HWJ is this

Volume 55, Issue 1, Spring 2003: pp. 72-90

Article
Exorcizing Molly Malone: Typhoid and Shellfish Consumption in Urban
Britain 1860-1960

Anne Hardy1

1The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University
College London

After Dublin shellfish seller Molly Malone died of a fever, according to
the ballad, her ghost continued to walk her barrow, crying cockles and
mussels. Molly's fever was almost certainly typhoid, contracted by
sampling her wares. During the nineteenth century, an extensive urban
culture of shellfish eating had become established in urban Britain.
Around 1900, however, the link between shellfish consumption and typhoid
was established. Dramatic outbreaks of typhoid due to oysters eaten at
mayoral banquets had a damaging impact on the shellfish trades.
Extensive newspaper publicity helped to disseminate suspicion of
shellfish among consumers, and this was reflected in popular food
writing and cookery manuals. The steady decline in consumption during
the twentieth century has been attributed, for oysters, to 'social
change' and government failure to support the native industry. This
paper argues a different case: that the adverse publicity generated by
shellfish-related typhoid outbreaks was compounded by the efforts of the
public health organization and local government to sanitize and regulate
the shellfish trades. The impact of this campaign was to erode consumer
confidence in shellfish, and largely to destroy the culture of shellfish
consumption in Britain.



Published by Oxford University Press
Copyright COxford University Press 2003
Print ISSN: 1363-3554 Online ISSN: 1477-4569.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Frantic tidying up here, as we prepare for our family holiday...

One plan was that we go to Elba - but I became worried that I might
fall, and injure myself, and thus be trapped forever within a
palindrome...

So, we are going to Tuscany instead - plus a little sojourn in the
French Alps.

Russell Murray has kindly agreed to take over the running of the
Irish-Diaspora list. Emails sent to...
Irish-Diaspora list
will be picked up by Russell and distributed in the usual way.

Messages to my personal email addresses will have to wait till my
return.

Paddy

- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
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

I'll be in Cork July 28-Aug. 3 and again the Aug 9 to 13 and in Dublin
during the week in between doing research on the Irish copper mining
industry in the nineteenth century as part of my project on Irish miners
in Upper Michigan.

If anyone on the list wants to get together for a pint, let me know.

Bill Mulligan




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