From Patrick O'Sullivan

The Irish World Wide, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - for sale, cheap...

The Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society, Clayton House, 59
Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AQ, England, now has available copies of The
Irish World Wide, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, in paperback.

The publishers' price of the Volumes of The Irish World Wide in
paperback is 16.99 pounds sterling (about 27 US dollars) - the
Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society tell me that they will
be able to sell the Volumes at 6.70 pounds sterling (about 10 US
dollars), plus post and packing.

The Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society is one of the
largest family history societies in Britain, and has some 4000 members
spread across the world. There is a flourishing Irish Ancestry Group.
The Society runs a family history library, a bookshop, and has an
income-generating mail order book sales department. Their Web site
catalogue is certainly worth browsing.

Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society will accept book orders
and enquiries from non-members...
Web site http://www.mlfhs.demon.co.uk
Bookshop enquiries email bookshop[at]mlfhs.demon.co.uk

To be frank and blunt... I hope that this will put some pressure on the
publishing house, Cassell - the present owners of 'Leicester University
Press' - to push the remaining Volumes of The Irish World Wide into
paperback, and complete that project.

I have taken the liberty of posting to the Irish-Diaspora list, as 3
separate emails, the table of contents of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of The
Irish World Wide.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., Patterns of Migration, Volume 1 of The Irish
World Wide, Leicester University Press, London & Washington, first
published 1992, paperback edition 1997, ISBN 0 7185 0118 7

Contents

General Introduction to the Series
Patrick O'Sullivan

Introduction: Patterns of Migration
Patrick O'Sullivan

1.
'Like Crickets to the crevice of a Brew-house': poor Irish migrants in
England, 1560-1640
Patrick Fitzgerald

2.
Wild Geese: The Irish in European armies (sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries)
John McGurk

3.
Irish migration to Argentina
Patrick McKenna

4.
The Murphys and the Breens of the overland parties to California, 1844
and 1846
Joseph A. King

5.
Ned Kelly (Australia) and William Donnelly (Canada) in comparative
perspective
James Sturgis

6.
A 'bigger, better and busier Boston'- The pursuit of Irish political
legitimacy: the Boston Irish, 1890-1920
Alun Munslow

7.
The Irish childhood and youth of a Canadian capitalist
T. D. Regehr

8.
Friendship patterns and social networks among post-war Irish migrants in
Sydney
Seamus Grimes

9.
Graduate emigration: A continuation or a break with the past?
Gerard Hanlon

10.
'And they still haven't found what they're looking for': A survey of
the New Irish in New York city
Linda Dowling Almeida

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From Patrick O'Sullivan


Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Irish in the New Communities, Volume 2 of
The Irish World Wide, Leicester University Press, London & Washington,
first published 1992, paperback edition 1997, ISBN 0 7185 0116 0

Contents

Introduction: The Irish in the New Communities
Patrick O'Sullivan

1.
The myth and reality of Irish migrants in mid-nineteenth century
Manchester: a preliminary study
M. A. Busteed, R. I. Hodgson and T. F. Kennedy

2.
The historiography of the Irish in nineteenth century Britain
Roger Swift

3.
Faction fights: The Irish worlds of Butte, Montana, 1875-1917
David M. Emmons

4.
The historiography of the Irish in the United States
Donald Harman Akenson

5.
'No petty people': the Anglo-Irish identity in colonial Australia
Gordon Forth

6.
'I gcuntas De muin Bearla do na leanbhain': eismirce agus an Ghaeilge
sa naou aois deag
'For God's sake teach the children English': emigration and the Irish
language in the ninettenth century
Karen P. Corrigan

7.
Australia felix: Irish doctors in nineteenth century Victoria
Laurence M. Geary

8.
'We can't all live on a small island': the political economy of Irish
migration
Ellen Hazelkorn

9.
White skins, white masks: psychological distress among the Irish in
Britain
Liam Greenslade

10.
Irish studies: a historical survey across the Irish diaspora
Nessan Danaher

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The Creative Migrant, Volume 3 of The Irish
World Wide, Leicester University Press, London & Washington, first
published 1994, paperback edition 1997, ISBN 0 7185 0114 4

Contents

Introduction: The Creative Migrant
Patrick O'Sullivan

1.
Ireland and the scientific tradition
Martin J. Counihan

2.
'Till their... bog-trotting feet get talaria': Henry D. Thoreau and the
immigrant Irish
James P. Myers, jun.

3.
The Irish joke
Patrick O'Sullivan

4.
The stage Irish
Owen Dudley Edwards

5.
'The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o'er the deep': the influence of
Thomas Moore in Australia
Frank Molloy

6.
Hunting the fenians: problems in the historiography of a secret
organisation
Patrick J. Quinlivan

7.
Story-tellers and writers: Irish identity in emigrant labourers'
autobiographies, 1870-1970
Bernard Canavan

8.
The Irish migrant and film
Kevin Rockett

9.
Irish dance world-wide: Irish migrants and the shaping of Irish
traditional dance
John P. Cullinane

10.
My love is in America: migration and Irish music
Graeme Smith


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Great excitement amongst the Irish in Britain, as the office of the
Taoiseach (the Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland) goes public
with the list of successful applicants under the Irish Sailors and
Soldiers Land Trust Act, 1988.

The Land Trust (it will be recalled - previously discussed on the Irish-
Diaspora list) was one of the last remnants of the British Empire and
the pre-1922 United Kingdom. The British Government finally admitted
that the funds held within the Trust belonged to the Irish Government.
The office of the Taoiseach assigned a first tranche to a number of
excellent causes within Ireland, and then decreed that this tranche -
the very last - would address the needs of the Irish in Britain.

The full list of successful applicants has not yet reached us. And
would anyone who has a copy of such a list, or a press release, please
send a copy - as an email, PLEASE - to
Irish-Diaspora list

We do know that the Assessment Committee received a total of 175
applications, seeking a total of 16 million pounds. The Fund had only
1.5 million pounds to distribute.

Even as we speak successful applicants are being contacted and asked to
an impromptu reception with the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in the Irish
Embassy, London, this coming Saturday morning, May 22.

Early indications are that the Taoiseach and his Advisory Committee went
for a 'balanced ticket', with a good spread of successful applications
across the charities, the voluntary organisations and the scholarly and
academic sectors. That being said, it is clear that many excellent
projects did not get funding. I think I would stress the 'balanced
ticket' idea - because I know that these funding applications can be
very wearying.

Bradford seems to have done well, with offers to my own Irish Diaspora
Research Unit, to Pat Bracken for his mental health research, and to
Kathy Cremin for her Web site development.

I zoom off to France tomorrow, for a well-deserved, much-needed, long-
planned family holiday. There seems to be a sort of rule that two days
before I go on holiday the sky falls in.

I will therefore not be able to get to London for the reception on
Saturday morning - to give my thanks to the Taoiseach for this vote of
confidence. I herewith appoint Kathy Cremin the representative of the
Irish Diaspora Research Unit, the Department of Interdisciplinary Human
Studies, the Department of Social and Economic Studies, the University
of Bradford, the City of Bradford, and the County of Yorkshire.

Paddy O'Sullivan

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I am now off to France for 2 weeks.

Good food, good wine, catch up on my reading...

Any emails sent to me personally will not be read until June 7.

Any emails sent to
Irish-Diaspora list
will be distributed to all the Irish-Diaspora list members in the usual
way.

Lynda Prescott will be Irish-Diaspora list Moderator for the next two
weeks, backed up by Russell Murray. My thanks to Lynda and Russell.

And the rest of you... Be good, be kind...

By the way, I never did post the traditional Irish-Diaspora list St.
Patrick's Day Competition. I have since been criticised for this.
There were a number of problems with the Competition - I was feeling out
of sorts, it was difficult devising a Competition that was fair to
everybody. In the end I devised a Competition that was unfair to
everybody...

Now, to give the Irish-Diaspora list something to mull over in my
absence, I have posted the competition to the Irish-Diaspora list, as a
separate email, and now re-named the traditional Irish-Diaspora list
Month of May Quiz.

Have a go at the Quiz. You can also pass it on - entry is not
restricted to members of the Irish-Diaspora list. And I'm sure we will
be able to find some sort of prize.

Paddy O'Sullivan
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The tradition Irish-Diaspora list Month of May Quiz, 1999

Completed quiz entries should be sent to

before June 6 1999

Entry is not restricted to members of the Irish-Diaspora list.
Entries from groups are acceptable.


Group A
Identify and source the following, and indicate what they have in
common.
1. Eliza Gilbert
2. Henry McCarty
3. The Jackmel
4. Robert Noonan
5. Alfred Willmore


Group B
Identify and source the following, and indicate what they have in
common.
1. William Cornelius
2. Mr. Power
3. Cerisa Palmer
4. Dusty Springfield
5. insert here a name of your choice that fits the pattern
[Note: Group B is maybe a mirror image of Group A.]


Group C
Source the following, and indicate what they have in common.
1. the recollections of a spy
2. a fascinating hobby
3. the autobiography of a navvy
4. studies in Irish history, 1845-52
5. the real life of Molly Bloom


Group D
Identify and source the following, and indicate what they have in
common.
1. John Thomond O'Brien,
2. Terence Belew McManus
3. Eliza Alicia Lynch
4. Roger Casement
5. Frank Ryan


Group E
Source the following, and indicate what they have in common.
1. Ballycloran
2. Ballybeg
3. White O' Mornin'
4. Ballybran
5. Ballyboo [that's a hard one]


Good luck, and good references.

Patrick O'Sullivan
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> From: ultan cowley
>
> Dear Paddy,
> Apropos of the scheme blow:
> I have been awarded IR£10,000 to produce a video for schools based on my
> TRIBUTE TO THE NAVVIES Revue material.
>
> This video will give second-level students a focused and unusual insight
> into the causes and consequences of Irish emigration as experienced by
> those Irish who left Ireland over a period of two centuries to work in the
> construction industry in Britain.
>
> The video will be produced in association with the Transition Year
> Curriculum Support Service, which will produce accompanying teaching
> materials, and the Episcopal Commission for Emigrants, which will monitor
> the financial aspects of its production.
>
> It is hoped to distribute this material (video & ancillary teaching
> materials) not only throughout the island of Ireland but also in Britain.
> Anyone interested in accessing the material should contact myself.
>
> Enjoy the holiday; its a good life if you don't weaken !
>
> Ultan

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Lynda Prescott
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University of Bradford
West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP
(01274 235198)

> Glad to hear that the Irish World Wide volumes will be coming out in
> paperback. I use one of the volumes in my couse on women and emigration
> and have been concerned about the price. Good news!
> Ruth-Ann Harris

> Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Adjunct Prof of History and Irish Studies, Boston College
> Note new e-mail address: harrisrd[at]bc.edu
> Home Phone: (617)522-4361; FAX:(617)983-0328; Office Phone:(617)552-1571
> Summer and Weekend Number: (Phone) (603) 938-2660

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From: DanCas1[at]aol.com


I am currently beginning production on a documentary film I am producing and
directing for Global Vision in New York City; Danny Schechter is executive
producer.

The film, "CHURCHES OF FIRE - Ireland & America" will attempt to examine
issues of race, ethnicity, so-called "minority communities," and religious
sectarianism in Ireland and the United States, in both a historic and
contemporaneous context. I will be filming in Ireland, the UK, and the United
States and am primarily interested in talking with community people and
activists who are "on the ground," so to speak, and having to confront these
increasingly lethal and volatile questions in their everyday lives. I am also
interested in talking with artists, writers, musicians, scholars,
journalists, religious people, and/or just general troublemakers, who might
be willing to contribute to an analysis of these subjects, either on or off
camera.

First principal photography and interviews will begin in London on July 29,
30, and morning of July 1st. We will then be on the Garvaghy Road in
Portadown from approximately July 2nd-6th. After that we will be in Belfast,
Coalisland, Derry and Dublin. We will try to be in Clare at least one day. We
depart on July 14th.

We will then be filming in the southern United States, NYC and Boston. We are
hoping to complete the production in the spring of 2000.

Please e-mail me at dancas1[at]aol.com; or phone: 415-241-1302, ext.714, or
415-821-4482, fax:415-285-5947 with any suggestions or information.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Sincerely,

Daniel Cassidy
Producer
Churches of Fire
Global Vision
NYC, NY

Director
Irish Studies Program
An Leann Eireannach
New College of California
766 Valencia St.
San Francisco, Ca. 94131








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From: Eileen A Sullivan

Dear Dan,

Please let me know when you will be in Florida.

There is a fascinating church history here from the Irish priests during
the second Spanish period , 1783-1821, to current times.

At an O'Sullivan/Sullivan seminar a few years ago in St Augustine which I
organized, there was a wide range of Christians represented.


Eileen A. Sullivan, The Irish Educational Assoc. Inc.
Tel # (352) 332 3690
6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail : eolas1[at]juno.com
Gainesville, FL 32653

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From: "Brian McGinn"


The term was current in late 15th C England, as a synonym for the New
World. Henry Harrisse, in his John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America,
and Sebastian his Son (first printing, 1896; reprinted New York:
Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., 1968), p. 391, quotes from a document dated 10th
August 1497 in which King Henry VII orders that a gratuity be given "to hym
that founde the new isle." The recipient was apparently John Cabot, the
Genoese-born navigator who made two voyages to America, in May-July 1497
and 1498, under the English flag. On 1st April 1498 Henry VII is also
recorded as making loans to Thomas Thirkill and Thomas Bradley "going to
the new ile" (Harrisse, p. 395). These men are thought to have taken part
in Cabot's second voyage.

Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn[at]clark.net
_______________________________________________________________________

Lynda Prescott
Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
W.Yorks BD7 1DP
(01274 235198)

Forwarded on behalf of
Marilyn Cohen
Department of Anthropology
Montclair State University
Dickson Hall
Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043
marilyn[at]interactive.net


Dear Social Science Scholars,

Drs. Joan Vincent (Barnard College/Columbia University) and Marilyn Cohen (Montclair
State University) are writing a review chapter for a volume of essays reviewing
recent research in nineteenth century Irish Studies. The editors of the
interdisciplinary volume are Drs. Margaret Kelleher, Dept. Of English, NUI, Maynooth
and Larry Geary, Dept. of History, UC, Cork who were asked by the committee of the
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland to edit such a collection. Our
chapter will include a review of recent work (since 1990) by anthropologists,
sociologists and archaeologists relating to 19th century Ireland.

Since we are in the initial stage of collecting bibliography to read and review, we
would appreciate responses to the following:

1. Recent publications authored by yourselves that we should know about including
themes addressed. If these publications are in journals that may be difficult for us
to obtain here in the States, we would appreciate a reprint if that is possible.

2. Recent work by advanced graduate students that may be unpublished but addressing
new themes, trends or perspectives. We are especially interested in learning about
work by advanced graduate students whose work will otherwise escape our attention.
Drs. Vincent and Cohen are eager to convey the breadth of social science themes and
perspectives in their chapter and look forward to your responses.

Marilyn Cohen
Department of Anthropology
Montclair State University
Dickson Hall
Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043
marilyn[at]interactive.net

Joan Vincent
Department of Anthropology
Barnard College
Columbia University
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
jv167[at]columbia.edu

From Patrick O'Sullivan

I'm back in business, after an interesting and fun-filled family holiday
in France.

Not without the usual medical disasters that accompany O'Sullivan family
holidays, of course. My younger boy, Jake, gashed his leg and had to
have the wound stitched up, in the middle of the night, by a French
country doctor. My elder boy, Dan, was ill with a virus, and was
prescribed an assortment of medicaments by another French country
doctor.

Both country doctors might have been sent along by Central Casting. The
first was portly and humorous, in the manner of Jean Gabin. The second
was lean and eager, like Truffaut appearing in one of his own movies.

Maybe the purpose of holidays is simply to survive them, and learn how
much nicer it is to be at home. With the wonderful, free British health
service...

I have a number of matters to catch up on, and will get back on top of
things over the next week.

Paddy O'Sullivan
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From: "WILLIAM JENKINS"



Dear friends of all things Irish:

There is a book dealing with an aspect of Irish agricultural history
currently in the process of publication and at the moment there is
no decided title, so we thought that we'd open suggestions to a
wider spectrum of folk...

The book is essentially a history of a regional dairy co-operative in
south-central Ireland. The main product of the co-op has been
butter, but in the last twenty years it has produced cheese also.
The book begins with a discussion of the diffusion of agricultural co-
operative ideas in the region in the late nineteenth century and the
ideological competition of the privately-owned creameries and
butter factories with which the co-operative leaders had to contend.
It then discusses the growth of dairy (butter-producing) co-
operatives, the obliteration of the private concerns, and the eventual
consolidation of all these independent co-ops into one regional
entity called Tipperary Co-op.

The working title is "Tipperary Co-op: Its Origins and Development"
but if anyone can think of a snappier title than that, we'll give them
credit and send them a copy of the final product.

Cheers,

William Jenkins
Department of Geography & Programme in Planning
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
CANADA

Tel: (416) 978-4812
Fax: (416) 978-6729

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Suggestions for a book title?

How about:

CREAM OF THE CROP

or

LIQUID CAPITAL

or

GENDER, CLASS, AND RELIGION

or

NATIONALISM AND REVISIONISM

all with appropriate and more prosaic subtitles.

Good luck,

Kerby Miller


P.S. Seriously, a good person to ask would be Liam Kennedy at Queen's, who
wrote his doctoral thesis and numerous articles on cooperatives and who is
from north Tipperary. His email address is: L.Kennedy[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK



>From: "WILLIAM JENKINS"
>
>
>
>Dear friends of all things Irish:
>
>There is a book dealing with an aspect of Irish agricultural history
>currently in the process of publication and at the moment there is
>no decided title, so we thought that we'd open suggestions to a
>wider spectrum of folk...
>
>The book is essentially a history of a regional dairy co-operative in
>south-central Ireland. The main product of the co-op has been
>butter, but in the last twenty years it has produced cheese also.
>The book begins with a discussion of the diffusion of agricultural co-
>operative ideas in the region in the late nineteenth century and the
>ideological competition of the privately-owned creameries and
>butter factories with which the co-operative leaders had to contend.
>It then discusses the growth of dairy (butter-producing) co-
>operatives, the obliteration of the private concerns, and the eventual
>consolidation of all these independent co-ops into one regional
>entity called Tipperary Co-op.
>
>The working title is "Tipperary Co-op: Its Origins and Development"
>but if anyone can think of a snappier title than that, we'll give them
>credit and send them a copy of the final product.
>
>Cheers,
>
>William Jenkins
>Department of Geography & Programme in Planning
>University of Toronto
>100 St. George Street
>Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3
>CANADA
>
>Tel: (416) 978-4812
>Fax: (416) 978-6729

The following brief book reviews will chime with the interests of some
Ir-D list members. They are taken from THE IE BOOK REVIEW - the monthly
supplement to the Irish Emigrant email Newsletter. Back issues are on
WWW pages

Our thanks to Pauline Ferrie, for letting us share these reviews with
the Ir-D list.


THE IRISH CHATEAUX by RENAGH HOLOHAN
- - Renagh Holohan has subtitled her book "In Search of Descendants of
the Wild Geese" and she introduces the subject by defining how this
group was made up. They were not, as is popularly believed, simply
the group of people who left Ireland as part of the Flight of the
Earls at the beginning of the 17th century. Nor were they confined
to military men who joined foreign armies to fight against England.
Merchants and sons of merchants who sought greater opportunity
overseas can also be included in this category of emigrants, and
these latter figure prominently in the book's catalogue of chateaux
in France which have strong Irish connections. Such well-known names
as O'Mahony, Hennessy and MacMahon feature along with descendants of
members of the Irish Brigade, the Dillons, O'Briens and McCarthys.
Numerous sketches of the chateaux and a map pinpointing their
positions complete this detailed study.
(Lilliput Press, ISBN 1-901866-34-3, pp188, IR9.99)


[I once suggested that John Field's Nocturnes represented the
quintessential Irish Diaspora art form - memorable, emotional, portable
and short. Though you do need to have a piano. Here is someone who
agrees with me... P.O'S.]

IRISH NOCTURNES by CHRIS ARTHUR
- - These thought-provoking essays have been arranged by their author to
reflect the 18 nocturnes of Irish composer John Field with which, he
hopes, there are "sufficient resemblances of mood" to justify the
form. Each essay starts from a specific object or experience and
develops this as a symbol of some aspect of our lives. In the first,
"Linen", a piece of linen worked by his great-grandmother leads the
author to reflect on the way in which our lives are a continuous
thread through the generations, and how one small change in
circumstances can alter for ever the lives of future generations. In
"Herdings" Arthur takes as his starting point an encounter with a
sheepdog and from this develops the idea of our own urge to impose
order on the world around us, be we financiers, doctors or farmers.
He further contends that we must all help "to round up, tend,
protect our civilisation's hard-won flocks as assiduously and
honestly as we can". Each of these 18 essays represents a lyrical
interpretation of a facet of the Belfast-born author's life through
his childhood to his work as a nature warden and his experiences as
an emigrant. This immensely readable and rewarding collection will
be available in the summer.
(Davies Group Publishers, , ISBN 1-888570-49-0,
pp246, $14.99)

THE LIFE OF COLUMBA by ADAMNAN trans. JOHN GREGORY
- - John Gregory's abridged translation of Adamnan's original Latin text
has a short introduction setting the author in context as the ninth
abbot of Iona, having been born 30 years after Columba, also known as
Columcille. The text is complemented by the expert photography of
Geoff Green showing many aspects of the Scottish isle on which
Columba made his home.
(Wolfhound Press, ISBN 0-86327-734-9, pp64, IR6.99)

GREEN ENGLISH by LORETO TODD
- - In examining the influence of the Irish language on spoken English,
Loreto Todd sets out three categories, Hiberno-English, Anglo-Irish
and Ulster-Scots. Hiberno-English is that spoken by those whose
mother tongue is Irish, and is characterised by a Gaelic
pronunciation of some consonants which help to produce a recognisable
Irish accent. The rhythms of Hiberno-Irish have also been grafted on
from the Irish language, in much the same way that Afro-Americans and
West Indians speak English with patterns inherited from the African
languages. Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots, were collectively known as
Planter English and developed from the series of plantations in both
Ulster and throughout Ireland. It is distinguished by the retention
of words no longer in use, or with different meanings as, for
example, in the phrase "I doubt it will rain", meaning "I believe it
is going to rain".

Green English, then, is a combination of these three forms of the
spoken language and, although Ms Todd makes use of technical language
in explaining the differences between these and other forms of
English, her book is aimed at and can be appreciated by a lay as well
as a professional audience. Giving as it does an overall history of
the development of language in Ireland, together with the spread of
English as it is and was spoken in Ireland, through the means of
missionary work, military campaigns and emigration, "Green English"
is a fascinating study which will appeal to anyone with an interest
in words and language. Ms Todd concludes with an overview of the
extraordinary literary output from this island, and a plea for the
Irish language to be saved from extinction.
(O'Brien Press, ISBN 0-86278-543-X, pp143, IR16.99)

DANTA PIARAIS FEIRITEIR trans. PAT MULDOWNEY
- - Dr Pat Muldowney of the University of Ulster's Magee College has
produced the first bi-lingual edition of the poetic works of Pierce
Ferriter, one of the Four Kerry Poets, who flourished in the 17th
century. Ferriter's poems have not appeared in print since Fr
Patrick Dinneen published his editions in 1903 and 1934, and Dr
Muldowney has included both his own and Fr Dinneen's notes on
language and metre. The comprehensive study is completed by an
appendix dealing with the 1641 Rebellion, in which Pierce Ferriter
participated.
(Aubane Historical Society, ISBN 0-9521081-8-6, pp 120, IR10.00)

THE CISTERCIAN ABBEYS OF TIPPERARY by COLMCILLE O CONBHUIDHE OCSO
- - The late Fr Colmcille's work has been collected and edited by Finbarr
Donovan in an attempt to carry our the Cistercian's wish to complete
two books on the subject before his death. Chapters dealing with the
abbeys of Inislounaght, Holy Cross, Kilcooly and Hore are preceded by
a general introduction which covers the founding of the Cistercian
order in France, and the historical background to the order's
presence in Ireland. While a detailed plan is given for three of the
four abbeys, I feel the lack of illustrations might, perhaps, take
away from the enjoyment for the ordinary reader.
(Four Courts Press, ISBN 1-85182-381-6, pp335, IR14.95)

Pauline Ferrie
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Not a great deal of direct interest to Irish Diaspora Studies has
drifted into our nets over the past weeks. The following may be of
tangential interest...

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Albert L. Hurtado
Allan G. Bogue. _Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going
Down_. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii + 557
pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8061-3039-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3461927906901

[Some of the twists and turns of Irish-American historiography only make
sense if we have an appreciation of the iconic status of Turner's
'frontier' thesis within wider US historiography - an issue which I
simply flagged with one sentence in The Irish World Wide series. The
Turner thesis is 'around' - with recent Turner-influenced studies of,
for example, imperial Russia and western Europe in the early middle
ages. I suppose you could argue that emigration acts on Irish history
like Turner's 'frontier' on American...]

Reviewed for H-Nilas by Boria Sax
John M. MacAulay. _Seal-Folk and Ocean Paddlers_. Illustrations
by Venessa Wingad. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 1998. xv +
110 pp. Index. 7.95 British pounds (paper), ISBN 1-874267-39-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26366927747779

[This book suggests that the Scottish and Irish seal-folk legends are
memories of Inuit/Eskimo fishers, blown across the North Atlantic. The
reviewer is sceptical...]

Reviewed for H-USA by Sandra L. Katzman
Howard Markel. _Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and
the New York City Epidemics of 1892_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1997. xvi + 262 pp. Figures, tables and black
& white photos, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-8018-5512-8; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8018-6180-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16388927566281

[Interesting study of the history, theory, practice - the very notion -
of quarantine.]

P.O'S.

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Pauline and Liam Ferrie, who do such excellent work on the Irish
Emigrant email Newsletter and Web site
http://www.emigrant.ie/
from their base in Galway, Ireland, tell us that they will be attending
the Stonehill Irish Festival in Massachusetts, USA.

They will be in the Spirit of Ireland tent, which will most probably be
at the far end of 'O'Connell Street'. They invite anyone who is
attending the festival to drop by for a chat.

Give them our regards, and our thanks.

P.O'S.

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From: don.macraild[at]sunderland.ac.uk (MACRAILD Don)

Subject: Ir-D Suggestions for a book title?


How about

Milky way. Co-Operation ... etc.

Don