From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This summary by Jim Rogers plus the TOC of the latest issue of NHR has
reached us.

Much of interest, as ever - of special interest to Irish Diaspora
Studies is Jerrold Casway on The Women of the Flight of the Earls...

...And of course my own essay, which has been given a nicely prosaic
title, Developing Irish Diaspora Studies: A Personal View. Which sums
it up. This piece started as an informal talk for Brian Lambkin's
Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh. A second draft was then seized by
the Galicians, translated and published in their journal, Tempo
Exterior. I am grateful to James Rogers and Thomas Dillon Redshaw for
their help in preparing an English language version - and it is a
pleasure to see it published here.

Patrick O'Sullivan


From: Rogers, James
JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu
Sent: 05 September 2003 17:07

New Hibernia Review volume 7:1 has been working its way through the
worldwide Irish Studies community ? by good ol? snail mail for many of
us, and in the breathless realms of cyberspace for those us whose
libraries have signed on to Project Muse...

What follows is a brief rundown on the contents of this issue, adapted
from the editors? notes. For further information on New Hibernia Review,
please contact editor Thomas Dillon Redshaw managing James Rogers at
tdredrshaw[at]stthomas.edu or jrogers[at]stthomas.edu , respectively.

Poet, raconteur, and émigré academic James Liddy opens the issue with
a recollection of the 1947 Irish-American novel authored by his relative
Harry Sylvester. In its veiled focus on diocesan and Tammany politics at
the advent of MacCarthyism in the early 1950s, Moon Gaffney anticipates
William Kennedy's portraits of the political world of Irish America in
his Albany novels ? though with an overlay of Catholic Worker outrage.

The history of ideas in Ireland steadily gains attention in Irish
Studies. A prime example of such new work is Thomas Duddy's incisive
History of Irish Thought (2002). Prof. Duddy discerns in Revival
writing the limitations of "writing for Ireland" and arrives at a
reconsideration of William Larminie's 1897 views on Eriugena, whose De
divisione naturae he translated. As Prof. Duddy elegantly reveals, to
be an Irish thinker in Ireland is to engage ideas philosophically, or
theologically, rather than in the narrative, poetic, or political modes
typical of the Revival.

From Belfast Frank Ormsby has sent on a sheaf of new poems whose humor
and wonder our readers will admire. In 2002 Ormsby received the Lawrence
M. O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in recognition of his constant
artistry and steadying contribution to Northern poetry. The highly
crafted, slowly construed verbal and emotional subtleties of Ormsby's
lines reveal much that remains valuable in Northern life and culture.

Artistic expressions of nationalism have become the prime objects of
postcolonial theorizing. In Ireland, however, renewed critical attention
to the painting of such nationalist realists as Séan Keating, Maurice
MacGonigal, Charles Lamb, and Paul Henry. In this issue, Elizabeth
Martin synthesizes the work of feminist criticism with the new research
of such historians of Irish art as Síghle Breathneach-Lynch and S. B.
Kennedy. These painters were aesthetically drawn to the imagery of the
Gaelic West in a cultural context fraught with the ideological
ramifications of Free State nationalism and the de Valéran dispensation.
Royal Hibernian Academy painters?Henry and Lamb?were Northerners.

Next, John Cronin sorts out the ideological issues, linguistic conundra,
and aesthetic origins of Liam O'Flaherty's stories. Ever since its
publication in 1953, Liam O'Flaherty's collection of short stories Dúil
(Desire) has been a source of scholarly interest and critical debate.
They fall square on the border between Irish and English. In writing and
publishing them in Irish and English in several versions and several
orders, O'Flaherty stood astride the linguistic and, thus, ideological
boundary. Indeed, he wrote "I am a whore when I write in English."

Historians point to the Flight of the Earls in 1607 as the event that
precipitated the long decline of the Gaelic Order in seventeenth-century
Ireland and ended in the Flight of the Wild Geese after the Treaty of
Limerick in 1691. Most often historians trace the lives of the Gaelic
nobles in Spain, France, Italy, and the Low Countries with averting to
their mothers, wives, and daughters. Dr. Jerrold Casway traces out the
peregrinations and perils of the noble and serving women of the Flight
of the Earls, paying especial attention to the travails of such women as
Catherine Countess O'Neill, Nuala O'Donnell, and Rosa O' Dogarty, who
died in Louvain in 1660.

The well-known poet and critic Gerald Dawe reviews a range of
anthologies of Irish poetry from Brendan Kennelly's The Penguin Book of
Irish Verse (1970) through Frank Ormsby's A Rage for Order: Poetry of
the Northern Troubles (1992). He writes here in pursuit of an idea about
the North, about the "Troubles," and about the assumed moral authority
of "Troubles" poetry. Debating the history and origins of the Belfast
"Group" Dawe takes to be a critical distraction, while finding the
origin and, consequently, the limits of the term "Northern poetry" lies
directly in his aim.
Michael Parker's the examines two short stories?"Beyond the Pale" by
the novelist William Trevor and "The Cry" by the poet John Montague?
each of which offered, early on, prescient analyses of the gravity of
the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland as, profoundly, a matter of story and
storytelling.

In less than a decade, Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game (1993) has
overcome its "cult" status and achieved stature as a classic?and as a
classic representation of Irish nationalism at work in the lives of
individuals. In her article, Donna Decker Schuster argues here that the
film has universal appeal because each character in it enacts the elegy
in rituals of mourning common to us all and, thus, well documented in
Western literature and culture.

Digitization and the embrace of the World Wide Web have altered Irish
Studies by quickly internationalizing research and reporting, as Patrick
O'Sullivan's comments here evidence, having been translated into Galego
(Galician) in Tempo Exterior. Despite that polylinguality, the
fundamental internationalism and the fundamental interdisciplinarity of
Irish Studies lie in the three hundred years of the Irish diaspora.
Here, Prof. Patrick O'Sullivan appeals for increased conversation
between academic disciplines in Irish Studies so as to counter what is
inevitable about research into Irish history and culture?that it is
Anglocentric, depending for obvious historical reasons on Anglophone
archives.

Liddy, James, 1934-
Croesus and Dorothy Day: Moon Gaffney?s Irish America

Duddy, Thomas.
Thinking Ireland: Cultural Nationalism and the Problem of Irish Ideas

Filíocht Nua: New Poetry

Martin, Elizabeth Frances.
Painting the Irish West: Nationalism and the Representation of Women

Cronin, John.
Liam O?Flaherty and Dúil

Casway, Jerrold I.
Heroines or Victims? The Women of the Flight of the Earls

Parker, Michael.
Northern Odyssey: John Montague?s "The Cry" (1964) in Its Political
Contexts

Schuster, Donna Decker.
The Heritage of Elegy in The Crying Game (1993)

O'Sullivan, Patrick.
Developing Irish Diaspora Studies: A Personal View

Reviews: Léirmheasanna

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Noticed at the web site of C.U.R.A. (University Centre for Astrological
Research)...

This useful article by Peter Berresford Ellis...

http://cura.free.fr/xv/13ellis2.html

The Fabrication of 'Celtic' Astrology
by Peter Berresford Ellis

"The Celtic 'tree zodiac' fabrications, the direct result of Robert
Graves' invention of a tree calendar', have become an almost
insurmountable barrier to any serious study of the forms of astrology
that were practised by pre-Christian Celtic society. For fifty years,
from the time Graves' published his book The White Goddess (1946), a
veritable industry has been built up among his acolytes, which preach
artificial astrological ideas based on Graves' spurious arguments. Some
have even published books on what they fondly term 'Celtic Astrology',
manufacturing a completely artificial 'astrological system'."

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This note has reached us - about the new web site for the Canadian
Association for Irish Studies (CAIS)...

Note that on the web site are the Call for Papers for the Special Issues
of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies - which I would urger Ir-D
members to support...

Culture of Cities (abstracts due 15 September 2003; full papers due 15
October 2003)
Reconsidering the Nineteenth Century (submissions due 15 February 2004)

Amongst the useful things on the new web site is Index of CJIS Articles:
Volumes 1-24 - this index was published in the 1999 double issue of the
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.

P.O'S.


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

Forwarded on behalf of...
Julia M. Wright

Subject: CAIS website


Hello everyone,
The CAIS website has moved from the University of Alberta to a
new, permanent home: . The Call for Papers for
2004
is already online at the new website. --Julia

__________________________________________
Julia M. Wright
Canada Research Chair in English
Wilfrid Laurier University
homepage: http://www.wlu.ca/~wwweng/faculty/jwright/
Bibliography of 19th-c. Irish
Literature: http://www.wlu.ca/~wwweng/faculty/jwright/irish

From: "Sean Mc Cartan"
To:
Subject: Re: Ir-D 'Celtic'


Geraldine Stout of Duchas tells all on 29th September at UAS lecture,
'The Bend of the Boyne' 8.0pm, Archaeology dept, QUB, Elmwood Avenue,
Belfast.

Sean McCartan

[Moderator's Note...

Much stuff on web...

See...

http://styluspub.com/books/book5641.html

http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/news/2_8_02.html

http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/dowth/siteq.html

P.O'S.]



- ----- Original Message -----
Subject: Ir-D 'Celtic'
>
> From: Carmel McCaffrey
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Article, Fabrication of 'Celtic' Astrology
> Paddy,
>
> As my friend Oscar Wilde once said "I can resist anything but
> temptation" and I am tempted, probably unwisely, to jump in here.
>
> I just want to point out that the study of Celtic knowledge should not

> lie at the sole heart of Irish origins - any study of the "Celtic"
> should not claim to represent all knowledge of the pre- Christian
> Irish to the neglect of other periods. Notwithstanding that the
argument
> here surrounds the Ogham alphabet, consideration should also be given
to
> the astronomical significant of Newgrange [2900 BC] and the later
> stone circles - to confine this knowledge to what the Celtic
> societies knew is to narrow the field considerably as regards Irish
> studies. There is also the enormous amount of Bronze Age gold that
> the Irish produced - more than any other European society - with
> much of it lunar shaped - astrology influenced? With the precarious
> position of the Celts now being brought into vogue - and their
> physical presence in Ireland problematic - the time seems ripe for the

> discussion of who the early Irish really were.
>
> Carmel McC
>
>
>
>

From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Article, Fabrication of 'Celtic' Astrology



> A group of Celtic scholars have now been working in the cosmological
> and astrological areas accumulating and assessing the substantial
> literary evidence, of which I have given some indication during the
> last year.



Paddy,

As my friend Oscar Wilde once said "I can resist anything but
temptation" and I am tempted, probably unwisely, to jump in here.

I just want to point out that the study of Celtic knowledge should not
lie at the sole heart of Irish origins - any study of the "Celtic"
should not claim to represent all knowledge of the pre- Christian Irish

to the neglect of other periods. Notwithstanding that the argument here

surrounds the Ogham alphabet, consideration should also be given to the
astronomical significant of Newgrange [2900 BC] and the later stone
circles - to confine this knowledge to what the Celtic societies knew
is to narrow the field considerably as regards Irish studies. There is
also the enormous amount of Bronze Age gold that the Irish produced -
more than any other European society - with much of it lunar shaped -
astrology influenced? With the precarious position of the Celts now
being brought into vogue - and their physical presence in Ireland
problematic - the time seems ripe for the discussion of who the early
Irish really were.

Carmel McC

From: Dan Leach
Subject: Breton exiles in Ireland


My name is Daniel Leach, and I'm a PhD candidate in History at the
University of Melbourne. Elizabeth Malcolm is my supervisor, and I'm
contacting you at her suggestion. I would be very grateful if you could
circulate this message on the Irish diaspora list.

I'm researching Breton nationalist exiles in Ireland from 1944 until the

late 1990s. My study focuses upon key former Parti National Breton (PNB)

figures and others who were accused of collaborating (in varying
degrees) with the occupying Germans or with Vichy, and who then fled to
Ireland after the Liberation of France. Many later became actively
involved in Irish Republican and pan-Celtic political movements, as well

as continuing their Breton nationalist activity from exile. I wonder if
you're familiar with figures like Yann Goulet (head of the PNB's Bagadoù

Stourm youth wing in the war years and later sculptor of Irish
Republican monuments, particularly the Ballyseedy Memorial) and Alan
Heusaff, co-founder of the Celtic League and editor of its journal
'Carn'. Other prominent Breton nationalist intellectuals in Irish exile
include Roparz Hémon, Yann Fouéré and Raymond Delaporte.

I'm especially interested in the attitude of Irish government agencies
involved in the asylum granted to fugitive Breton nationalists in the
immediate postwar period, many of whom were escaping severe criminal
penalties, including execution, in France. I'm researching the extent to

which conceptions of the Irish state's own origins in armed nationalist
struggle influenced its attitudes to fellow minority nationalist
militants, especially as the government was then headed by a surviving
hero of the Easter Rising. How did the presence of fugitive 'war
criminals' in Ireland affect Irish interstate relations, particularly
with France? The topic entails many questions relating to the
construction of Irish state identity and the development of pan-Celtic
ideas, and the singular role of Ireland as a 'model' for aspirant
minorities of western Europe, especially in the Celtic fringe and
Euskadi. In this connexion, I'm interested in any other western European

extremist nationalist exiles who might have sought refuge in Ireland,
especially from the Celtic fringe or Euskadi (Adam Busby of the Scottish

National Liberation Army [SNLA] comes readily to mind, but there may be
others).

I wonder if you or anyone else on the Ir-D mailing list would have any
information, advice or direction to offer me on this topic or related
matters. Your help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.


DL

From: Patrick Fitzgerald
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: Immigration into Ireland 1850-1950

Dear Paddy,

I was wondering if you might help me out by posting this query on the
list.

I am currently trying to gather material relating to immigration into
Ireland 1850 to 1950 and struggling. I have some published material on
Jewish immigration and some leads on the Italians but would appreciate
any further suggestions. Best,

Paddy Fitzgerald
Centre for Migration Studies Ulster-American Folk Park Omagh NI

From:
Subject: National Anthem
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk


A quick Google search has failed to answer my
question. Did Peadar Kearney, who wrote 'A Soldier's
Song' also write the Irish version that became,
Amhr/an na bhFiann, the national anthem? If not, who
did?

regards


Dymphna Lonergan
Flinders University of South Australia

=====
Go raibh tú daibhir i mí-áidh/May you be poor in ill-luck
Agus saibhir i mbeannachtaí/rich in blessings
Go mall ag déanamh namhaid/slow to make enemies
go luath a déanamh carad/quick to make friends

Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Breton exiles in Ireland


From: patrick Maume
I'm not sure about state attitudes but here are a few points:
There were quite a few obituaries for Yann Goblet on his death -
some might be available on the Web. (E.g. I remember quite a
large one in the Republican Sinn Fein paper SAOIRSE.) SAOIRSE
also continues to carry notes on Breton (and Basque) nationalist
activities and RSF have sent reps to "European small
nationalities" conferences.
The Cork City Library in the 1980s used to get the (Pan-Celt)
Celtic League magazine CARN and I remember seeing obits for
Breton nationalists of this type in it. I'm not sure if CARN
still exists or where it might be found but I know the Celtic
League has a website.
Yann Fouere's daughter Olwen is a fairly well-known
Dublin-based actress; have you tried contacting her?
I believe there were also instances of Flemish nationalist
collaboratrs moving to Ireland after WWII, though I can't
remember details. I have the impression that Albert Luykx, one
of the defendants in the 1970 Arms Trial, came from such a
background.
There was a good deal of coverage in the late 80s of the fact
that the Ustasha war criminal Andrija Artukovic had spent some
Time in Ireland immediately after the war (though I think he was
sheltered by the Franciscan Order rather than living there
openly as the Bretons did). I remember about 12 years ago
meeting a student whose girlfriend was the granddaughter of an
Ustasha who had settled in Ireland, but I don't know if anyone
has looked at this sort of thing.
In relation to the wider subject, the autobiography of the
Welsh nationalist Gwynfor Evans has some interesting references
to Ireland. He was rather a staid person who greatly admired de
Valera, & detested the Late Late Show (he appeared on it once in
the late 60s or early 70s & got a bit of a mauling for being
an old-fashioned nationalist.) I got my copy from Politico's
bookshop in London.
Best wishes,
Patrick

On 12 September 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> From: Dan Leach
> Subject: Breton exiles in Ireland
>
>
> My name is Daniel Leach, and I'm a PhD candidate in History at the
> University of Melbourne. Elizabeth Malcolm is my supervisor, and I'm
> contacting you at her suggestion. I would be very grateful if you
could
> circulate this message on the Irish diaspora list.
>
> I'm researching Breton nationalist exiles in Ireland from 1944 until
> the late 1990s. My study focuses upon key former Parti National Breton

> (PNB)figures and others who were accused of collaborating (in varying
> degrees) with the occupying Germans or with Vichy, and who then fled
to
> Ireland after the Liberation of France. Many later became actively
> involved in Irish Republican and pan-Celtic political movements, as
well
> as continuing their Breton nationalist activity from exile.
----------------------
patrick maume

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Breton exiles in Ireland 2

I would caution against any tendency to lump all of the 1950s Breton
expatriate community in Ireland into one ideological camp, as has
happened on more than one occasion in the French media. They shared a
common interest in Breton nationalism, a wider although somewhat
amorphous pan-Celtic nationalism, a general interest in small-nation
European nationalisms and a strong anti-Communism. They were also in
Ireland for a common reason, that they were regarded as enemies of the
French state. Their Breton nationalism had expressed itself in a variety
of ways.

Some had been constitutional (maybe the well-known hibernicism 'slightly
constitutional' would be more
accurate) Breton nationalists (or, at least, had not been actively
involved in paramilitarism), but several had been involved in
paramilitarism in the 1930s (in a movement broadly inspired by the IRA)
and eventually became part of the German occupation forces (and
therefore collaborators as far as French people generally and the vast
majority of Bretons were concerned) during the Second World War. Within
Brittany there was a kind of war within the war, with the Resistance
attacking German targets, reprisals by the Germans against the civilian
population and the use by the Germans of local militia forces drawn in
part from Breton nationalist elements. The most pertinent case was that
of the the 'Bezen Perrot' (Perrot unit), named after a Breton Catholic
cultural nationalist, a priest, who was apparently killed by a Communist
member of the Resistance. A number of Breton 'ultras', who saw
themselves as Breton nationalists and who felt this murder should be
'avenged', renamed an existing paramilitary group after Perret, but
ended up in German uniforms fighting their own Breton compatriots and
arguably serving purely German interests. The Bezen Perrot and other
paramilitary units included people who later formed part of the group
which came to Ireland such as Neven Henaff, Alan Heussaff, Yann Goulet,
Roparz Hemon.

The post-war period in France led to what is euphemistically called the
'épuration', a kind of settling of scores against all collaborators or
alleged collaborators. It also led to a crack-down on all forms of
Breton nationalism, whether paramilitary or cultural. The French dislike
of 'regionalism' of any kind (one should think as well of Corsica and
the Basque and Catalan regions) has really only been slightly modified
since decentralisation in 1981 and there is tolerance today for
languages and cultures other than French only insofar as they can be
represented as 'harmless' 'folklore'. A number of those Bretons who had
been involved in supporting the German war effort were, not
surprisingly, condemned to death in absentio; I believe that a number of
these sentences were ultimately set aside in the 1960s. Some had moved
eastwards as the German forces retreated and found themselves living
with false identities in a devastated post-war Germany, hardly a place
which welcomed them with open arms. This is part of the background to
their decision to move to Ireland in the early 1950s.

Among the group which came to Ireland there was and continued to be a
spectrum of attitudes, from 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' and a
kind of naive narrow nationalism not very different to mainstream Irish
nationalism of the time, to xenophobia and outright sympathy with the
Nazi cause including a strident anti-Semitism. Some remained active and
unapolegetic Nazi sympathisers until their dying day and some did not.
The emergence of a new resistance movement in the late 1960s in Brittany
was supported by some and not by others.

The whole matter became a question of public controversy again a few
years ago after Alan Heussaff died in 1999 and a debate ensued in
sections of the French press about his background and activities during
the war. There is still a degree of bitterness in France and Brittany
about the whole business and his own family there was divided on the
matter. His interests in his later years were primarily cultural and his
major work was the production of a Breton-Breton dictionary (which
itself became a subject of controversy in the pages of the French media
in _Liberation_ and the _Canard Enchaine_ because of the allegedly
anti-French nature of some of the entries).

I don't think anyone has explained the question of who exactly
facilitated their entry into Ireland and why. I heard on more than one
occasion that it was a particular Fianna Fail TD, who is still alive. I
met him last year at an academic occasion and asked him directly but he
said he had had no connection with the matter. I think it is correct to
say that there was a degree of residual sympathy within certain circles
of Fianna Fail for fellow Celtic nationalists in Brittany. The extent to
which this sympathy ever took an explicitly political form is moot, and
probably confined to the post-WW2 period when these exiles came here,
although there continue to be, of course, strong cultural links between
Brittany and Ireland. Several of the Bretons who settled in Ireland did
identify strongly with Irish nationalism, sometimes in its more robust
versions.

Patrick Maume correctly mentions Flemish nationalists coming to Ireland.
I think a small number of (French-speaking) ex-Rexists came as well. One
very well-known educational publisher in Ireland is supposed to have
been one of this group. However, I am not sure if one should make a
direct link between the specific question of the Breton group and the
broader one of the various kinds of pro-Nazi sympathisers who came to or
passed through Ireland at the time - although I would not rule it out
either. The issue of Irish immigration policy in the 1950s has now been
quite well covered by a number of people, especially as regards the
resistance of the Department of Justice to Jewish immigration. Given
that no 'smoking gun' has been discovered in the case of the Bretons, I
would surmise that the files are either destroyed or have not yet been
released in spite of the 30 year rule.

Alan Heussaff, (or Heusaff, both spellings occur), who died in 1999, was
my father in law for several years and I met a number of the other
figures mentioned in Daniel's posting on various occasions. The
extremely lively and intellectually freewheeling Heussaff household was
a regular meeting place, not only for various Bretons in Ireland, but
for a whole spectrum of European nationalists - Scottish, Friesian,
Basque and others. The language of the household was Irish, although the
irony was that it was only possible for these various minorities to
communicate with one another through one of the languages of the
oppressors - English, French or German.

Most of the Bretons I met in this community would never have seen
themselves as Nazis. We may regard this nowadays as naive and would
certainly find their views unacceptable, but it it worth bearing in mind
that French 'universalism' was utterly intolerant of what we would
nowadays call the Other within - in this case the somewhat different
identity and culture of the Bretons - while many European nationalist
and separatist movements of the 1930s, not just the Breton, were tainted
by an undercurrent of xenophobia and exclusion.

Piaras Mac Einri

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is interesting...


For information, from that busy man. Joe Bradley...

Interesting listed stuff here...

Note Neal Garnham on cricket in Ireland...

P.O'S.



University of Stirling
Scotland

Department of Sports Studies
Research Seminars in Sport
2003-2004

Thursday 2 October
Mike Hall, 4D Sports (Holistic Sports Consultancy) The Tao of Sport

Thursday 6 November
Bert Moorhouse, Director of Football Studies Unit, University of Glasgow
Economic Inequalities Within and Between Professional Football Leagues
in Europe: Sporting Consequences and Policy Options

Thursday 4 December
Neal Garnham, Senior Research Fellow, Academy for Irish Cultural
Heritages, University of Ulster Cricket in Victorian and Edwardian
Ireland: The Irish political classes and developing character

Thursday 19 February
Professor Ian Henry, Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy, Loughborough
University Models of Professional Football in China, Algeria,
England, France and Japan

Thursday 11 March
Professor Barrie Houlihan, Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy,
Loughborough University Elite Sports Development Policy

Thursday 25 March*
Dr Yannis Pitsiladis, University of Glasgow The dominance of
east-African athletes in distance running: nature v nurture?

Thursday 22 April*
Bridget McConnell, Director of Cultural and Leisure Services, Glasgow
City Council Governing Culture: Who, Why & How in Scotland since 1998
(work in progress)

Thursday 29 April
Professor Chuck Korr, Professor of History, University of Missouri, St
Louis A place where sports really mattered: Robben Island

Most seminars will take place at 12.30pm in the Tennis Centre Meeting
Room, Gannochy Sports Centre, University of Stirling.

Except for the following
*Thursday 25 March Venue: Swimming Pool Meeting Room
*Thursday 22 April Venue: Stirling Management Centre

Presentations will begin at 12.30pm sharp. From 12 noon tea and coffee
will be available in the seminar room, courtesy of the Department of
Sports Studies.

For further information please contact Dr Joe Bradley,
Tel. 01786 466493, e-mail j.m.bradley[at]stir.ac.uk

From: "Nieciecki, Daniel"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk'"
Subject: RE: Ir-D Irish National Anthem


Kearney is only responsible for the English verses, which appeared
sometime around 1907. They were also published in An tÓglach, the
newspaper of the Irish Volunteers, sometime after the Redmond split. It
is recorded by several sources to have been sung, in English, during the
1916 Rising.

The Irish verses were translated later by Liam Ó Rinn (1888-1950), and
it was Ó Rinn's chorus ("Sinne Fianna Fáil...") that was adopted as the
anthem of the Free State in 1926.

The music was provided by Patrick Heeney (1881-1911).

I have never been able to ascertain whether Kearney was an Irish
speaker. If he was, I cannot fathom how he could come up with this rhyme
in the third stanza of the English text:

"Sons of the Gael, men of the PALE
The long-watched day is breaking
The serried ranks of INIS FÁIL..."

Daniel Oisín Nieciecki

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Ir-D Irish National Anthem
>
>
> From:
> Subject: National Anthem
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
> A quick Google search has failed to answer my
> question. Did Peadar Kearney, who wrote 'A Soldier's
> Song' also write the Irish version that became,
> Amhr/an na bhFiann, the national anthem? If not, who
> did?
>
> regards
>
>
> Dymphna Lonergan
> Flinders University of South Australia
>
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This is interesting...

Ir-D members might like to know that there is some background in Peter
Berresford Ellis, The Celtic Dawn, 1993. He has a section on Alan
Heusaff etc. I do wonder if Peter B E is not so anxious to find or
stress the socialist, anti-imperialist dimension that he could be
accused of glossing over...

I myself had a strange encounter some years back with Welsh language
nationalist activists - and some of their activities and attitudes
looked little different from ordinary racism and fascism.

One context might be Joep Leerssen's current work on cultural history -
see Joep Leerssen: Irish Cultural Nationalism and Its European Context,
in Hearts and Minds, Irish Culture and Society under the Act of Union,
ed. by Bruce Stewart (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe) being the
proceedings of the symposium entitled 'Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture
and Society under the Act of Union' held at The Princess Grace Irish
Library in Monaco from 6th to 8th October 2000.

Readers of John Buchan will know that some of the starting points for
what later turned into the nazi state were not at first unwelcomed -
strong leaders, youth movements, and so on. I have passed on Daniel
Leach's query to contacts in Europe - our Galician friends were reminded
of a number of Galician nationalists who had various flirtations with
what turned into fascism. Vicente Risco had a passing infatuation with
the incipient Nazism and wrote about it in Galician in a sort of
intellectual travelogue with the title of ?Mitteleuropa?. Alvaro de Las
Casas and his Ultreyas in the - for whom Filgueira Valverde wrote some
songs. Compare W.B. Yeats. And of course we have the strange odyssey
of Frank Ryan...

Generally there is a feeling that the topic is a sensitive one, for all
nationalisms. My enemy's enemy is my friend, perhaps.

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:47:33 +1000
From: Dan Leach
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Dear Dr. OSullivan,

My name is Daniel Leach, and Im a PhD candidate in History at the
University of Melbourne. Elizabeth Malcolm is my supervisor, and Im
contacting you at her suggestion. I would be very grateful if you could
circulate this message on the Irish diaspora list.

Im researching Breton nationalist exiles in Ireland from 1944 until the

late 1990s. My study focuses upon key former Parti national breton (PNB)

figures and others who collaborated (in varying degrees) with the
occupying Germans, and who then fled to Ireland after the Liberation of
France. Many later became actively involved in Irish Republican and
pan-Celtic political movements, as well as continuing their Breton
nationalist activity from exile. I wonder if youre familiar with
figures like Yann Goulet (head of the PNBs Bagadoù Stourm youth wing in

the war years and later sculptor of Irish Republican monuments,
particularly the Ballyseedy Memorial) and Alan Heusaff, co-founder of
the Celtic League and editor of its journal Carn. Other prominent Breton

nationalist intellectuals in Irish exile include Roparz Hémon, Yann
Fouéré and Raymond Delaporte.

Im especially interested in the attitude of Irish government agencies
involved in the asylum granted to fugitive Breton nationalists in the
immediate postwar period, many of whom were escaping severe criminal
penalties, including execution, in France. Im researching the extent to

which conceptions of the Irish states own origins in armed nationalist
struggle influenced its attitudes to fellow minority nationalist
militants at a time of Allied triumph in Europe, especially as the
government was then headed by a surviving hero of the Easter Rising. How

did the presence of fugitive war criminals in Ireland affect Irish
interstate relations, particularly with France? The topic entails many
questions relating to the construction of Irish state identity and the
development of pan-Celtic ideas, and the singular role of Ireland as a
model for aspirant minorities of western Europe, especially in the
Celtic fringe and Euskadi. In this connexion, Im interested in any
other western European extremist nationalist exiles who might have
sought refuge in Ireland, especially from the Celtic fringe or Euskadi
(Adam Busby of the Scottish National Liberation Army [SNLA] comes
readily to mind, but there may be others).

I wonder if you or anyone else on the mailing list would have any
information, advice or direction to offer me on this topic or related
matters. Your help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.


DL

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Much of interest...

Forwarded on behalf of...

JROGERS[at]stthomas.edu]u'

Listers:

Volume 7:2 of New Hibernia Review, the quarterly journal published by
the University of St Thomas Center for Irish Studies of Irish Studies
can now be examined on the Project Muse® web site at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_hibernia_review/toc/nhr7.2.html

Of course, many of you already get this in your mailboxes - but just in
case you don't, a brief rundown of the issue (drawn from the more
expansive editors' notes) follows:

This issue opens with a memoir from the essayist and novelist Floyd
Skloot, who studied with the Irish poet and translator Thomas Kinsella
in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Southern Illinois University
Carbondale. Skloot recounts his early meetings with Kinsella - now 75 -
and his reunion with the poet in the West of Ireland

Next, Dr. Christie Fox of Sam Houston State University in Texas
considers public aspects of the Galway Arts Festival, which often
features a parade created by the group "Macnas." Fox finds in such
parades a new genre of public performance that employs outlandish
costume and vibrant music, political satire and sheer "clowning
around"-macnas, meaning "playfulness" and "frolic."

The Dublin-based poet Micheal O'Siadhail also contributes a suite of
recent poems to this issue. These poems stretch back into recollection
and
autobiography and always work their rhymes around the discovery of
friendships and, especially, have coming into love.

An article by Dr. James Murphy of DePaul University takes to task the
benign neglect that has favored twentieth-century Irish fiction over
nineteenth-century novels and romances. Dr. Murphy sets Irish literary
and publishing history of the period in the context of the United
Kingdom as a whole.

Moving on to contemporary novels in the next article, Dr, Sally Barr
Ebest of the University of Missouri-St Louis surveys women
Irish-American novelists, such as the new writers Anna Quindlen or Alice
McDermott, and established writers like Maureen Howard and Mary Gordon.
One persistent theme in these novels, she finds, is the reconciliation
of feminist ideals with Catholicism.

Bryan Giemza of the University of North Carolina then considers Patrick
MacGill's autobiographical Children of the Dead End (1914), and
concludes that that this Irish working-class story has strong affinities
to American slave narratives like Frederick Douglass's Narrative - a
version of which
was published in 1846 in Dublin.

Jerry Nolan of the British Association for Irish Studies then presents
an article on the early years of the Irish Literary Theatre. Nolan's
article looks closely at the contributions of Edward Martyn, who was
eager to see Irish Drama stay abreast of contemporary European drama.

Dr. Kevin Donovan of Middle Tennessee State University then looks at a
1749 ballad opera Jack the Giant Queller) by the Irish writer Henry
Brooke, which was so satirical that the authorities in Dublin Castle
suppressed it after one performance.

Writing from the National University of Ireland - Galway, Gilliam Kelly,
Catriona Mitchell, Tom Ward, and Misja Weesjes survey the 2002 Irish
theater season, including the Dublin Theatre Festival. Commenting on
Keane's death in May 2002, they especially note the Druid Theatre's
revival of Keane's impressive first play Sive.

Finally, Dr. James Blake, Gaelic Literature correspondent for New
Hibernia Review, takes a stern look at recent developments involving
university-level instruction in technology and the sciences through the
medium of the Irish language.

For information on New Hibernia Review, including subscription
information and contributors' guidelines, please do contact me or editor
Thomas Dillon Redshaw at the address below.

Jim Rogers
Managing editor, NEW HIBERNIA REVIEW
University of St Thomas #5008
2115 Summit Avenue
St Paul MN 55105-1096
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

Skloot, Floyd.
The Simple Wisdom: Visiting Thomas Kinsella

Fox, Christie.
Creating Community: Macnas's Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000

O'Siadhail, Micheal, 1947-
Filíocht Nua: New Poetry

Murphy, James H.
Canonicity: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Ebest, Sally Barr.
These Traits Also Endure: Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Women
Writers

Giemza, Bryan.
The Technique of Sorrow: Patrick MacGill and the American Slave
Narrative

Nolan, Jerry, 1936-
Edward Martyn?s Struggle for an Irish National Theater, 1899-1920

Donovan, Kevin.
The Giant-Queller and the Poor Old Woman: Henry Brooke and the Two
Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Ireland

elly, Gillian.
Mitchell, Catriona.
Ward, Tom.
Weesies, Misia.
Between the Ghosts of O?Casey and Keane: Irish Theater, 2002

Blake, James J., 1939-
University Extension Centers for the Gaeltachtaí

From:
Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish National Anthem 2

Buiochas mor/many thanks for that reply, Daniel. It
explains a lot. 'A Soldier's Song' is set alongside
Amhran na bhFiann on many websites as if it is a
direct translation and this is misleading. As for
Inisfail, yes that apears to be a giveaway. By the
way here in Australia we have an Inisfail that is
pronounced innis fale.

regards

Dymphna

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We are in the countdown to the publication of Roy Foster's second volume on W. B. Yeats...

So... The publicists have sent him out to Do Things...

Already noticed... These 2 items in The Guardian...

1.
A lengthy, and sometimes quite odd, interview by Andrew Brown...

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1039922,00.html

'Elongated, stooped and rather handsome, like the decoration in an
illuminated manuscript...' And, in the photograph, looking even more
morose than usual...

2.
Roy Foster's notes on Shaw's John Bull's Other Island...

Emerald ire

Yeats dismissed it as a 'green elephant'. But 100 years on, John Bull's
Other Island is still one of Shaw's most pertinent plays, says Roy
Foster

Wednesday September 10, 2003
The Guardian

'George Bernard Shaw, one of a brilliant generation of Irish writers who
electrified English audiences - and the English language - around the
turn of the 20th century, saw himself as different. "I too might have
become a poet like Yeats, Synge and the rest of them," he recalled. "But
I prided myself on thinking clearly, and therefore could not stay.
Whenever I took a problem or a state of life of which my Irish
contemporaries sang sad songs, I always pushed it to its logical
conclusions, and then inevitably it resolved itself into comedy." '

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Warwick Gould

Members of the IASIL, Ir-D and Irish Studies lists might wish to note
the research seminars coming up this autumn at the Institute of English
Studies in London, and, in particular, the Irish Studies Research
Seminar, co-ordinated by Dr Ian McBride (KCL), Dr Siobhan Holland (LTSN
English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway) and Dr Clare Hutton (IES),

The URL of the Seminar is
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies/Staff/hutton/IrishStudiesSeminars2003-4.htm.

22 October:
(Room 349) Prof Richard English, (QUB), on the Provisional IRA
5 November:
(Room 349) Dr Antonia McManus, (TCD), on Hedge schools
19 November:
(Room 349) Ultan Gillen (Exeter College, Oxford), on Ireland and the
Enlightenment
3 December:
(Room 349) Dr Richard Bourke (QM) on Edmund Burke and Ireland

In addition, a conference on Irish Studies in the Curriculum will be
held on 7 November. Full details on membership of the Institute and up
to the minute details of all of its events can be found at
www.sas.ac.uk/ies . If you have any queries, please contact Sally
Edwards on ies[at]sas.ac.uk

Professor Warwick Gould, FRSL, FRSA, FEA
Director, Institute of English Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Room 304, Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Voice 0044 (0) 207-862-8673
Fax 0044 (0) 207-862-8720
e-mail warwick.gould[at]sas.ac.uk
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of Sylvie MIKOWSKI...

The Department of English of the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne
and the Institute of Cultural, Textual and Documentary Studies of
Troyes invite proposals for papers for an international conference on
"The History of the Irish Book" to be held in Troyes (France) on May
6-7, 2004. Suggested topics to explore include (but are not restricted
to) :

- - -Medieval manuscripts
- - -History of literacy
- - -The Dublin book-trade in the 18th century
- - -Orality and the printed word
- - -Ango-Irish writers anfd their public
- - -History of reading
- - -Censorship
- - -History of modern Publishing
- - -Individual Publishing Histories
- - -Official Cultural Policies
- - -Text and image
- - -Reviews, Periodicals and Magazines
- - -The Marketing of the Irish Book Today
- - -Children's Books
- - -Religious Books
- - -History of Translation
Guests Speakers will be Professor Robert Welch (University of Ulster),
co-editor of The History of the Irish Book and Professor Warwick Gould
(Institute of English Studies, University of London), editor of Yeats
Annual. Proposals of a maximum length of 2500 words should be sent
before December 15, 2003 to :

Sylvie Mikowski, Professor of Irish Studies, University of Reims 2,
Square des Bouleaux, 75019 Paris, France, as well as any enquiries.

Sylvie.mikowski[at]noos.fr

From: Dan Leach
Subject: Re: Breton exiles

My warm thanks to all for your helpful replies and advice on this topic.

Some wonderfully rich leads have been turned up in next to no time. I
hope to be equally useful to someone out there in future.

Thanks again,

DL