From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

More on Robert Emmet...

P.O'S.

Forwarded on behalf of

patrick.lonergan[at]ireland.com
Sent: 16 September 2003 18:18

Kilmainham Gaol Museum

Saturday 20 September [at] 7:00pm
Emmet: The Republic of Letters

Recital of poetry, prose and music concerning Robert Emmet
by
Kevin Whelan, Stephen Rea & Neil Martin.


This hour-long performance takes place on the exact bicentenary of the
execution of Emmet. Historian Kevin Whelan sets the scene and
contextualises poems read by distinguished actor Stephen Rea,
interspersed with music played by Neil Martin of the West Ocean String
Quartet. The performance includes poems by Florence Wilson, Seamus
Heaney, Derek Mahon, Thomas Kinsella and Medbh McGuckian, and concludes
with a version of Emmet¹s Speech from the Dock.

*** Admission Free ***
***Booking Essential ***
Phone: (01) 453 5984
Email: kilmainhamgaol[at]duchas.ie


-----------------------------------------------
Patrick Lonergan
Government of Ireland Research Scholar
Department of English,
NUI Galway,
Co Galway,
Ireland.

patrick.lonergan[at]ireland.com
patrick.lonergan[at]nuigalway.ie

VISIT:

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_________________________________________________

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
"Deirdre McMahon"

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY: OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2003

This seminar is a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary
Irish History can discuss their work. It is open to all willing to
participate, including researchers visiting Dublin to use the National
Archives, National Library and other repositories. Proposals for papers
can be directed to any of the three convenors: Dr Michael Kennedy (Royal
Irish Academy, difp[at]iol.ie); Dr Deirdre McMahon (Mary Immaculate
College, University of Limerick, Deirdre.McMahon[at]mic.ul.ie); and
Professor Eunan O'Halpin (Trinity College Dublin, eunan.ohalpin[at]tcd.ie)
Seminars take place at 16.15pm each Wednesday in the IIIS Seminar Room
C6002, Sutherland Centre, Level 6, Block C, Arts Building, Trinity
College Dublin.

8 OCTOBER: Interrogating spaces of memory: aspects of the iconography of
Dublin in the 20th century. Dr Yvonne Whelan, University of Ulster. 15
October: Working for Sean Lemass, 1944-46: reflections of a private
secretary. Mr Kevin O'Doherty. 22 OCTOBER: An indifferent Church ?
Catholicism and social security in post-war Ireland. Dr Sophia Carey,
Trinity College Dublin. 29 OCTOBER: Throwing political discretion to the
winds: Sean MacEntee and the 1952 Budget. Tom Feeney, University College
Dublin. 5 NOVEMBER: The other army crisis: the military and civilian
responses to venereal disease in the national forces 1922-27. Dr
Susannah Riordan. 12 NOVEMBER: The oral history of broadcasting, RTE
Archives. Brian Lynch, RTE. 19 NOVEMBER: The state, the media and the
Irish language in the 1960s. Dr Sean MacReamoinn. 26 NOVEMBER: The
Congested Districts Board and the new Ireland, 1919-1923. Dr Ciara
Bhreathnach, University College Cork. 3 DECEMBER: Witness seminar on the
Irish accession to the EEC, 1972-1973. (From 14.15pm)


Deirdre McMahon

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Nazi collaborators

From: Patrick Maume

Speaking of Frank Ryan, there is a (deliberately provocative)
review of Ferghal McGarry's new short biography of Ryan in the
latest ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW (by Stradling).

Those of you with access to the IRISH TIMES may also have
noticed its recent letters-page controversy over Sean Russell
(sparked off by the recent staging of a commemoration by Sinn
Fein at the Russell statue in Fairview park, addressed by the
Dublin Euro-candidate Mary Lou McDonald).

The statue was put up c.1950 - one suspects that SF's ability
to do so from the Inter-Party Government reflected Sean
McBride's desire to cock a snook at de Valera. There are
complaints about its continued existence from time to time -
wonder how much longer it will last...

Best wishes,
Patrick Maume

[Moderator's Note: Background
http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/1316318?view=Eircomnet
Plus a web search will throw up discussion in An Phoblacht, The Blanket,
etc.
P.O'S.]



On 15 September 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
> 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
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

History Ireland, Volume 11 No. 3 Autumn 2003, has been sent out to
contributors. It is a Robert Emmet Speial Issue - TOC below. Further
information on the web site...

P.O'S.

http://www.historyireland.com/

History Ireland,
Volume 11 No. 3 Autumn 2003
Robert Emmet Special Issue

CONTENTS:

? News
____________________________

? The Rising

The Rising of 1803 in Dublin
Ruán O'Donnell

Emmet's military technology
Ruán O'Donnell

Town Major Sirr, the arresting officer
Pat Marshall

?The dog that didn?t bark?: the North and 1803
James Quinn

Thomas Russell, librarian
John Gray

?A more general and rooted spirit of disaffection?: the 1803 rising in
Kildare
Liam Chambers

Michael Dwyer of Immal
Ruán O?Donnell

? Sources

Robert Emmet?s copy of John Locke?s: two treatises of government
Jim Smyth

French Connection II: Robert Emmet and Malachy Delaney?s memorial to
Napoleon Buonaparte, September 1800
Sylvie Kleinman

[Which] Speech from the Dock?
Patrick M. Geoghegan

? Legacy
Another side of Thomas Moore
Ronan Kelly

Robert Emmet and 1916
Angus Mitchell

Emmet on film
Kevin Rockett

Robert Emmet: between history and memory
Kevin Whelan

Reviews

From: "Maureen E Mulvihill"

Submission for Multiple List Posting
16 September 2003.

Colleagues interested in early-modern Irish Women Writers and the
evolving literary culture which they both resisted and enriched may
enjoy seeing my piece in the Summer, 2003 issue of Eighteenth-Century
Studies, "Fourteen Hundred Years of Irish Women Writers," pages 607-610,
being my review of the new Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish
Women's Writing and Traditions, 2-volume set (Cork University Press,
2002). $250. Cloth.

For an online posting of the piece, see the Project Muse website:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v036/36.4mulvihi
ll.html

With apologies for cross-posting on this occasion,

In the spirit, colleagues,

Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum
Princeton, New Jersey
mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Our attention has been drawn to an article in New Scientist, 13
September 2003, pp 54-55...

The Insider: Focus on Ireland

David Ahistrom

Spend, spend, spend

'Ireland is luring top researchers from abroad with a state funding boom
that runs into billions. But the initiative needs long-term financial
stability to succeed...'

Ahistrom is the science editor of The Irish Times Dublin. One group
'lured' to Ireland, to Cork, was David Cotter's entire photonics team
from Ipswich, England. There is 'a government drive to push Ireland
higher up the product value chain...'

The article does not seem to be available at the New Scientist web site
http://www.newscientist.com/
But institutions with subscriptions might have access...

P.O'S.


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From:
Subject: New encyclopedia?

Paddy,

Not sure whether it's made it to the Ir-D list yet but
the new Irish encyclopedia (G&M) is out since yesterday.

Didn't you dig them out on it?

Best,

James.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

From: Jean Talman
jean.talman[at]utoronto.ca
Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies Conference


Dear CAIS members and friends

The 2004 Conference will be held May 26-29 at Saint Mary's University,
Halifax. The theme is "Mother Tongues: The Languages of Ireland." The
Call for Papers follows this message. Please consider submitting a
proposal and do whatever you can to encourage your colleagues, students,
friends to do likewise. The Call can also be found on the new CAIS
website which is now located, thanks to the hard work of Danine
Farquharson and Julia Wright, at www.irishstudies.ca

Sincerely,
Jean Talman
Communications Officer
Canadian Association for Irish Studies
L'Association canadienne d'études irlandaises

Conference/Réunion 2004
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 26-29 mai 2004

Mother Tongues: The Languages of Ireland

The major focus at CAIS 2004 will be on the importance and role of
language in the Irish experience. To that end, the Conference Programme
Committee invites proposals for papers that deal with or touch on any
related area. Subjects for consideration include:

- - The historical context (Irish, Latin, Norse, Hiberno-French, English,
Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots)
- - The contemporary situation (Irish, English, Ulster Scots,
bilingualism, new immigrants, post-Good Friday Agreement, the European
context, Shelta (Gammon/ Cant), language as a code or badge of identity
in Northern Ireland, the politics of language in Ireland)
- - Comparative research, e.g., Ireland and Canada
- - The influence of immigrants from Ireland on language in Canada (e.g.,
the Irish in Newfoundland, the Miramichi (New Brunswick) or the Ottawa
Valley)
- - Creative literature: translating the literature of Ireland (e.g., from
Irish to English; from Irish or English to other languages); and
attempts, thematically or textually, to deal with language issues or
related topics
- - Language and political, social or cultural discourse in contemporary
Ireland

Please note that the CAIS Conference Programme Committee also welcomes
proposals for conference papers and panels on other themes and topics.

Conference presenters must be members of the Canadian Association for
Irish Studies.

Please sent short abstracts (c. 125 words) by 15th January 2004 by mail
to:
Pádraig Ó Siadhail
D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3
Fax: (902) 420-5110
Or by e-mail to:
padraig.osiadhail[at]smu.ca

From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Nazi collaborators


I've read other reviews of McGarry's biography of Ryan, about whom I
know very little. And so this is an innocent question, which perhaps
Patrick will address: Is it correct to say that there is still an
honest and yet-unresolved controversy among scholars (and perhaps
among Irish republicans?) over whether Ryan was a "Nazi
collaborator"? (And I realize that any answers to that question may
be inextricably bound up with definitions of "Nazi collaborator.")

Thanks, Kerby



>From: patrick maume
>Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
>To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Ir-D Nazi collaborators
>
>From: Patrick Maume
>
>Speaking of Frank Ryan, there is a (deliberately provocative) review of

>Ferghal McGarry's new short biography of Ryan in the latest ENGLISH
>HISTORICAL REVIEW (by Stradling).
>

From: Liam Harte
L.Harte[at]ulster.ac.uk
Subject: CFP: Space, Text, Time

This call for papers should interest Ir-D List members. As you can see
from the line-up of keynote speakers, the conference promises to have a
strong diasporic dimension and should be of interest to many on the
List.


ACADEMY FOR IRISH CULTURAL HERITAGES
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER

SPACE, TEXT, TIME
An international interdisciplinary conference
Magee Campus, 26-28 March 2004

Keynote Speakers: T.M. Devine, Terry Eagleton, John McGahern, Bronwen
Walter

CALL FOR PAPERS

This international conference, the first of its kind to be hosted by the
Academy, seeks to investigate spatial and temporal constructions of
identity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The conference
title acknowledges the prevalence of metaphors of space and time in
literary, academic and popular discourses of identity, and invites
papers on specific embodiments of these constructs, as well as on their
conceptual potential and limitations. The conference is hospitable to
empirical and theoretical approaches, and to the widest possible range
of ideological perspectives. The choice of keynote speakers reflects the
wide-ranging nature of the conference's engagement with key concepts in
identity formation, an engagement extending well beyond the Academy's
immediate field of enquiry in Irish Studies.

Abstracts (200 words maximum) should be submitted before 7th November
2003 to Dr Liam Harte, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University
of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northland Road, Derry/Londonderry BT48 7JL.
Email: { HYPERLINK "mailto:l.harte[at]ulster.ac.uk" }l.harte[at]ulster.ac.uk

Further particulars, including booking forms and details of fees and
accommodation, can be found at the conference website: { HYPERLINK
"http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/academy/" }
http://www.arts.ulst.ac.uk/academy/stt.htm

Many thanks,

Liam.

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Nazi collaborators

From: Patrick Maume
While we are in this area - I was depressed to find out recently
that one of the major ideological screeds of postwar neo-nazism,
IMPERIUM by Francis Parker Yockey, was actually composed in
Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow, in 1947-8! (He published it
under the pen-name "Ulick Varange" - choosing Ulick as a
Danish-Irish name and deriving the surname from the Viking
mercenaries who made up the Varangian Guard of the
Byzantine Empire.) Since Yockey was an American citizen (of
partly Irish descent) was not wanted for any crime at the time,
and did not intend to establish permanent residence, his entry
to Ireland was presumably easier than that of the European
collaborators, but it still suggests they weren't paying enough
attention to the sort of people they let in. I don't know what
contacts - if any - he had in Ireland.
For an outline of Yockey's career by a somewhat eccentric
independent scholar (who is chiefly interested in the use or
misuse of Spengler's DECLINE OF THE WEST by this
"fundamental weirdness of a thirty-year-old American sitting on
the Irish coast in 1948 and arguing that his country had
actually lost the recent European war") see
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/imp.htm and
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/dod.htm
[I came across this site
while doing some research on Evangelical Protestant
premillennialism, which is another of the author's areas of
interest]
On the other side of the political spectrum, I believe Tony
Cliff, the late guru of the Socialist Workers' Party, spent some
of the war years in Ireland after being refused entry into
Britain. I'm not quite sure how he managed this; I wouldn't
have expected the DFA to be particularly lenient towards a
revolutionary Marxist of Jewish origins, and his Commonwealth
citizenship (he was born in South Africa) can hardly have been
much help given that the UK had excluded him and the government
wished to distance itself from the concept of a single
Commonwealth citizenship.
Best wishes,
Patrick Maume
----------------------
patrick maume

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Nazi collaborators 3


From: Patrick Maume

Dear Kerby,
Yes, there is still an ongoing argument about whether Ryan can
be described as a Nazi collaborator. Manus O'Riordan reviewed
Fergal's book in a couple of places (can't remember where
unfortunately) in which he argued that Ryan remained opposed to
the Nazis, that he went along with them because he saw himself
as a possible liaison with the De Valera government if there was
an invasion, that he may be seen as having sabotaged Russell's
mission (presumably by his refusal to land after Russell's death
- - though this is a slightly odd argument since he could simply
have refused to carry it out once he got back to Ireland). I
may be doing O'Riordan's argument an injustice but it's some
time since I read the review(s) and I can't even remember where
I saw them.
Fergal McGarry argues that previous accounts of Ryan have been
written by leftists searching for ideological ancestors who tend
to downplay his more awkward aspects - for example, McGarry
quotes a letter written by Ryan to a friend in Germany during
the war in which Ryan says he believes a German victory would
benefit Ireland more than an Allied one - this letter is also
quoted in the Sean Cronin biography but Cronin doesn't put the
same emphasis on it. McGarry also argues that Ryan's decision
to return to Germany on the submarine marks a decisive
turning-point after which he can be seen as a willing
coolaborator. (He wanted to get back to Ireland later in the
war and sent out feelers to the Irish Government on this point,
I think through diplomatic channels. By then it was too late -
even if the government had wanted to let him back they felt he
could not do so because his appearance in Ireland would have
been interpreted by the Allies as a possible sign of official
contact with the Germans.)
One interesting point might be the influence of the
Nazi-Soviet Pact. Ryan was not a Communist Party member under
discipline, but he might possibly have been influenced by the
Soviet line of 1939-41 that it was a bourgeois-imperialist war
with nothing to choose between the two sides. (Uinseann
MacEoin's THE IRA IN THE TWILIGHT YEARS mentions that when
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union several MArxist IRA men interned
in the Curragh camp promptly "signed out" so they could go and
join the British forces; traditionalist-militarist IRA men were
quoting this years later as proof that you could never trust the
Reds!)
I think,as you say, it's a question of definition; there is
room for disagreement. For much of the time Ryan's state of
mind is simply unknowable and there is therefore room for
disagreement about what he thought he was doing - but McGarry's
book represents the cutting edge at present and he does
unquestionably regard Ryan as a collaborator. We just have to
wait for further developments/responses.
Best wishes,
Patrick


On 18 September 2003 05:59 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> From: Kerby Miller
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Nazi collaborators
>
>
> I've read other reviews of McGarry's biography of Ryan, about whom I
> know very little. And so this is an innocent question, which perhaps
> Patrick will address: Is it correct to say that there is still an
> honest and yet-unresolved controversy among scholars (and perhaps
> among Irish republicans?) over whether Ryan was a "Nazi
> collaborator"? (And I realize that any answers to that question may
> be inextricably bound up with definitions of "Nazi collaborator.")
>
> Thanks, Kerby
>

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have pasted in, below, the publisher's information about this book,
Daniel O'Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine: Killing
Remarks, by the late Leslie A. Williams - this book was seen through the
press by her husband, Bill Williams, whose own work will be well known
to Irish-Diaspora list members.

P.O'S.


Daniel O'Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine: Killing
Remarks
Leslie A. Williams; Edited by William H. A. Williams
Nineteenth Century Series
ASHGATE PRESS (UK) www.ashgate.com/shopping/search.asp
$79.95/£45.00

Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English
metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with
the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to
"killing remarks," rhetoric that helped the press, government and public
opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?' The book explores
the reportage of events and people in Ireland, focusing first on Daniel
O'Connell, and then on debates about the seriousness of the Famine.
Drawing upon such journals as The Times, the Observer, the Morning
Chronicle, the Scotsman, the Manchester Guardian, the Illustrated London
News, and Punch, Williams suggests how this reportage may have affected
Britain's response to Ireland's tragedy.

Continuing her survey of the press after the death of O'Connell, Leslie
Williams demonstrates how the editors, writers and cartoonists who
reported and commented on the growing crisis in peripheral Ireland drew
upon a metropolitan mentality. In doing so, the press engaged in what
Edward Said identifies as 'exteriority,' whereby reporters, cartoonists
and illustrators, basing their viewpoints on their very status as
outsiders, reflected the interests of metropolitan readers. Although
this was overtly excused as an effort to reduce bias, stereotyping and
historic enmity - much of unconscious - were deeply embedded in the
language and images of the press.

Williams argues that the biases in language and the presentation of
information proved dangerous. She illustrates how David Spurr's
categories or tropes of invalidation, debasement and negation are
frequently exhibited in the reports, editorials and cartoons. However,
drawing upon the communications theories of Gregory Bateson, Williams
concludes that the real 'subject' of the British Press commentary on
Ireland was Britain itself. Ireland was used as a negative mirror to
reinforce Britain's own commitment to capitalist, industrial values at a
time of great internal stress.

Contents
Preface; Introduction; The Times, O'Connell and repeal - 1843; Punch,
'Rint' and 'Repale' - 1843; Traversers and Priests - 1844-1845; 'The
Commissioner' - 1845; Imagining a Famine/Imaginary Famine - 1845; 'The
Battlefield of Contending Factions' - January to June, 1846; Parsing
Pharaoh's Dream - July to December 1846; 'A Transition of Great
Difficulty' - January to March 1847; The Death of Daniel O'Connell ? May
1847; 'A Conspiracy Against Life': June to December 1847; Charles
Trevelyan and the 'Great Opportunity' - January 1848; The Uprising at
Boulagh - 1848; A Dream of the Future -1849; Conclusion; Bibliography;
Index.
About the Author/Editor

Leslie A. Williams, author of Daniel O'Connell, the British Press, and
Killing Remarks, was an art historian specializing in the Victorian
period. At the time of her death she was Chair of the Department of Arts
and Humanities at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.

William H. A. Williams, editor, is historian and author of 'Twas Only an
Irishman's Dream: The Image of the Irish and Ireland in American Popular
Song Lyrics, 1800-1920. He is member of the faculty of the College of
Undergraduate Studies, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Further Information
Illustrations: Includes 40 b&w illustrations.
ISBN: 0 7546 0553 1
Publication Date: 05/2003
Number of Pages: 398 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 234 x 156 mm
British Library Reference: 070.4'499415081
Library of Congress Reference: 2002026179

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...

Christine Johnston
Senior Library Assistant

Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
Telephone (028) 8225 6315
Fax (028) 8224 2241
Email christine.johnston[at]ni-libraries.net


The Fourth Literature of Irish Exile
Autumn School
Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh
Saturday, 18 October 2003

The Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School is now in its fourth year.
Our focus will again be on how emigrants from Ireland have given
expression in words to feelings of exile. Part of the programme will
take place in the stimulating setting of the Outdoor Museum of the
Ulster-American Folk Park: at a fireside in the Old World, on board
ship, and in the New World. The rest will be in the warmth of the
library of the Centre for Migration Studies. The aim is to give members
of the public a friendly opportunity to meet and mix with experts on
some of the less well-known aspects of 'exile' in Irish literature.

Speakers
Annesley Malley is an acknowledged authority on the history of Derry and
has recently curated the exhibition ?Wooden Ships and Iron Men?, which
will be on display in the CMS Library.
John Moulden is well known both as a singer and as an authority on the
Irish song tradition and is currently working on a doctoral thesis at
the Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Change at the National
University of Ireland, Galway. He will lead the walk through the outdoor
museum.
Patricia Coughlan is a Professor of English at University College, Cork
and has written widely about 19th and 20th-century Irish literature. She
has a particular interest in women writers.
Piaras Mac Éinrí was Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies
for six years and has a particular interest in the theme of exile in
relation to contemporary immigration of labour migrants, asylum seekers
and refugees to Ireland and in the relationship between Ireland and its
Diaspora.
Brian Lambkin is Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the
Ulster-American Folk Park and has a particular interest in ?returned
exiles?.

Chairs
Patrick Fitzgerald is Lecturer and Development Officer at CMS and
teaches the QUB MSSc degree in Irish Migration Studies with John Lynch
who is Senior Teaching Fellow in the Institute of Lifelong Learning at
Queen?s University, Belfast.


Programme details

Saturday 18 October, 2003

10.30 Registration (CMS Library at Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh)
Tea / Coffee on arrival

10.45 Welcome (CMS Library)

10.50 ?Thomas D?Arcy McGee and The Irish Chiefs: a newly discovered
poem of
exile with American and Australian connections?, Brian
Lambkin
Chair: Patrick Fitzgerald

11.30 Discussion

11.45 ??Wooden Ships and Iron Men?: voyaging into exile?, Annesley
Malley
Chair: John Lynch

12.15 Discussion and viewing of exhibition

12.45 Demonstration of the ?Breaking the Silence? on-line Oral History
Archive,
Piaras Mac Éinrí

1.00 Lunch, Ulster-American Folk Park Restaurant

1.45 ?Songs of Emigration and Exile in the Outdoor Museum: at a
fireside in the Old World, on board ship, and in the New World?, John
Moulden
Chair: Patrick Fitzgerald

3.00 Afternoon Tea (CMS Library)

3.15 ?An Irishwoman in nineteenth-century Paris and Paraguay: Anne
Enright?s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2001), Patricia Coughlan
Chair: Patrick Fitzgerald

3.45 ?Homelands and otherlands: 11 September, Ireland and the Irish
Diaspora?,
Piaras Mac Éinrí
Chair: Brian Lambkin

4.15 Summary Remarks

4.30 Reception by Omagh District Council for speakers and
participants in Library

Fee: £20.00 stg (£15.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior
citizens)
This includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon
tea/coffee and drinks reception.

Contact
Tel: 028 8225 6315 Fax: 028 8224 2241
E mail: Christine.Johnston[at]ni-libraries.net

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Elliott Barkan

Sponsors include the NYU Ireland House

P.O'S.

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

From: Elliott Barkan
Subject: Announcement: Major Migration Conference



INVITATION TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE
"TRANSCENDING BORDERS: MIGRATION, ETHNICITY, AND INCORPORATION IN AN AGE
OF GLOBALISM" at New York University, OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 2, 2003

This is the second international conference in the ongoing commitment of
the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to explore topics important
to our understanding of migration to the United States and the diversity
of the population that has resulted from its being the host to millions
of newcomers throughout our history.

While much scholarly attention has been focused on the pushes and pulls
of migration, less has been focused on the period subsequent to
migration, the period of incorporation, when immigrants become
Americans. This conference is a multi-ethnic, interdisciplinary meeting
of scholars to examine critical processes whereby migrants from one
society find a home in another, a transformation that is significant to
both donor countries and host countries. And that process of
transformation has changed considerably over time. If it is true that we
live in a global age that has been fashioned by new technologies of
transportation and communication, then it becomes even more critical to
comprehend how this new reality is affecting the incorporation of
newcomers and to compare it with that of century ago, during the last
great influx of immigrants.

New York City is the ideal location for such a conference, for it not
only remains the premier urban destination for immigrants and refugees
in North America but it is also home to a great many institutions that
serve immigrant communities today as they have in the past. Moreover, it
is the home of many ethnic organizations, scholarly institutions, and
scholars who study the experiences of immigrants and refugees. New York
is a microcosm of the diversity and opportunity that American embodies.

THIS CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO PERSONS WHO PRE-REGISTER (SEE FORM BELOW).
THERE IS NO CHARGE TO ATTEND THE SESSIONS, BUT PRE-REGISTRATION BY
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CHARGES.

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OF ARTS AND SCIENCE OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA STATE
UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO, THE MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE, THE CENTER
FOR MIGRATION STUDIES, THE NYU IRELAND HOUSE, THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ETHNICITY AND RACE, THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW
FOUNDATION, THE POLISH AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, AND HARLAN
DAVIDSON PUBLISHER.

THIS CONFERENCE IS BEING DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HIGHAM
(1920-2003), PIONEERING SCHOLAR, TEACHER, MENTOR, FRIEND, AND THIRD
PRESIDENT OF THE IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY SOCIETY. A. Conference
Coordinators: 1. Elliott R. Barkan, President, Immigration and Ethnic
History Society, Dept of History, California State University, San
Bernardino 2. Alan M. Kraut, Past President, Immigration & Ethnic
History Society, Dept of History, American University
3. Hasia Diner, On-Site Coordinator, Department of
History, New York University
B. Registration: Friday, 9AM Noon, King Juan Carlos Center (KJCC)

C. Keynote Speakers:
1. Friday, Luncheon, Noon 2 PM Lipton Room, D'Agostino Hall
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Foner, Lille and Nathan Ackerman Visiting
Professor of Equality and Justice in America, Baruch College, CUNY,
"Then and Now or Then to Now: Migration to New York in Contemporary and
Historical Perspective"

2. Friday, Dinner, 6:45 PM 9:30 PM (Sponsored by the College of
Arts
and Science, American University)Lipton Room, D'Agostino Hall Keynote
Speaker: Roger Waldinger, Dept of Sociology, UCLA, "Immigrant
'Transnationalism' and the Presence of the Past"

D. Sessions:

A. FRIDAY, OCT. 31, 2:30pm 5 pm
1. "Economic Context of Reception and Class-related Issues"--KJCC
Session Coordinators: a. Barry R. Chiswick, Dept. of Economics,
University of Illinois, Chicago

b. Ewa Morawska, Dept. of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Barry Chiswick

Presenters:

c. Saskia Sassen (Univ of Chicago, Sociol), "Winners and Losers in
Current Global North American Immigration Policies"

d. Ewa Morawska (University of Pennsylvania, Sociol), "The Economic
Adaptation of Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative Historical
Approach"

e. Caroline Brettell (Southern Methodist Univ, Anthro), "Meet Me at
the Chat Corner: The Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs"

f. Barry Chiswick, "Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?"

Discussant:
James Hollifield (Southern Methodist Univ, Pol Sci)

2. "Globalism, Citizenship, Naturalization, and Political
Incorporation"Casa Italiana

Session Coordinators:

a. Guillermina Jasso, Dept. of Sociology, New York University
b. Adam McKeown, Dept. of History, Columbia University

Chair: Guillermina Jasso

Presenters:

c. Mae Ngai (Univ of Chicago, Hist), "Unlovely Residues of Outworn
Prejudices: Revisiting the Har-Celler Act of 1965"

d. Karen Woodrow (Univ of Notre Dame, Latino Studies), "Migration,
Immigration, and Naturalizing in America"
e. Suzanne Shanahan (Duke University),
"'Nationalizing' International Norms and
the Changing Logic of Immigration and
Citizenship Law"


Discussants:
Adam McKeown and Guillermina Jasso

B. SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 9:30 am - NOON
3. "Immigrants, Refugees/Asylees, & Government Policies at Point of
Reception" (Session sponsored by the Center for Migration Studies,
Staten Island, NY)--KJCC

Session coordinators:

a. Steve J. Gold, Assoc. Chair, Dept. of Sociology, Michigan State
University,

b. Michael J. Wishnie, School of Law, New York University,

Chair: Steve J. Gold

Presenters:

c. Carole Charles (Baruch, CUNY, Sociology), "Political Refugees or
Economic Immigrants? A new "old debate" within the Haitian Immigrant
Communities but with Contests and Division"
d. David Haines (George Mason University), "Refugees in America:
Practical Challenges, Moral Commitments, and Reflexive Lessons"

e. Leti Volpp (American University Washington School of Law),
"Unwelcome Reception: Shifting Immigration, Refugee, and Asylum Policies
Post-September 11"

Discussant:
Michael Wishnie

4. "The Gender Factor in Migration/Immigration & the Adjustment of
Newcomers"Greenberg Room, Vanderbilt Hall Session coordinators:

a. Donna R. Gabaccia, Dept. of History, University of Pittsburgh

b. Barbara M. Posadas, Dept. of History, Northern Illinois University

Chair: Donna Gabaccia

Presenters:

c. Barbara Posadas (Northern Illinois University) and Roland Guyotte
(Univ of Minnesota, Morris, Hist), "Filipino Families in the Land of
Lincoln: Immigrant Incorporation in Springfield, Illinois"

d. Val Marie Johnson (Univ of Toronto, Hist/Soc), "Seeking 'The Moral
Law' and Citizenship: Gendered Relations of Class and Ethnicity in New
York City Campaigns Against Vice"

e. Doris Friedensohn (Emerita, New Jersey City University), "Bye, Bye
to Magic Nails: Conversations with Korean Women about Comfort,
Competence, and Class"

Discussant:
Donna Gabaccia

C. SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 2PM 4:30 PM
5. "Ethnicity and Religion: The Role of Religious Institutions & Group
Differences"--KJCC Session coordinators:

a. Karla Goldman, Jewish Women's Archive, Brookline MA

b. Elizabeth A. McAlister, Dept. of Religion, Wesleyan University

Chair: Karla Goldman

Presenters:

c. Paul Spickard (Univ of Calif Santa Barbara, Hist), "Asian Americans:
Religion and Race"

d. Peggy Levitt (Wellesley, Sociol), "Religious, Ethnic, and
Racial Boundaries"

e. Jose Casanova (New School University), "Does Religion
Matter
in Immigrant Incorporation?"

Discussant:
Elizabeth A. McAlister

6. "Transnationalism and Diaspora: Incorporation vs Homeland
Ties"Greenberg Room Session Coordinators:

a. David Gerber, Dept. of History, SUNY Buffalo,

b. Nina Glick Schiller, Dept. of Anthropology, University of New
Hampshire
Chair: David Gerber

Presenters:
c. Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez (SUNY-Albany, LACS-CSDA), "Atlantic
Countercurrents: Migration and Transnationalism between Spanish and
Latin America from an Historical Perspective"

d. Yong Chen (Univ of Cal Irvine, Hist), "The Meanings and Price of
Political Participation: Trans-nationalism in the Chinese Diaspora
during the Twentieth Century "

e. Vladimir Pistalo (Becker College, Worcester, MA), "Frustration and
Fulfilment among Serbian Immigrants: 1880-2000"

Discussants:
David Gerber and Nina Glick Schiller

D. SUNDAY, NOV. 2, 8:30 AM 11:00 AM
7. "Second Generation Issues, Incorporation, & the Role of
Schools"--KJCC

Session Coordinators:
a. Marion R. Casey, Dept. of History, New York University
b. Philip Kasinitz, Chair, Dept. of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Chair: Marion R. Casey

Presenters:

c. Min Zhou (UCLA, Sociol), "Ethnic Language Schools and the
Development of Supplementary Education in an Immigrant Chinese Community
in the U.S."

d. Anne Brophy (Georgia
State Univ, History), "'Warped
Americans and Not Poles': In-
venting (and Ignoring) 'the Se-
cond Generation Problem' in
the Interwar Decades"



e. Deborah Dash Moore (Vassar College), "At Home in America?: Revisiting
the Second Generation"

Discussant:
Philip Kasinitz

8. "Ethnic Cultures and the Mass Culture: The Role of Media in
Shaping Immigrant Experiences and Incorporation"
(Session sponsored by Ireland House, NYU)Greenberg Room
Session Coordinators:
a. Gary K. Okihiro, Dept. of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University

b. Robert Brent Toplin, Dept of History, University of North
Carolina, Wilmington

Chair: Gary Okihiro

Presenters:

c. Marilyn Halter (Boston Univ, History), "Ethnic Tourism and the
Global
City: The Marketing of Metyropolitan Boston"
d. Arlene Davila (New York University, History), "Ethnicity in Its
Place: The Immigrant as Good Ethnic Consumer"

e. Timothy Meagher (Catholic University, History), "The Importance
of
Being Italian: Italian Americans in American Movies Since the 1960s"

Discussant:
Robert Brent Toplin


E. SUNDAY, NOV. 2, 11:45 AM 2: 15 PM

9."Suspicious Strangers: American Efforts to Restrict and Control
Immigration in Eras of Uncertainty"--KJCC

Session coordinators:
a. David Reimers, Emeritus, Dept. of History, New York University
b. Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Middle East & Middle Eastern American Center,
CUNY Graduate Center

Chair: David Reimers

Presenters:

c. Roger Daniels (Univ of Cin- cinnati, Hist), "Immigration Policy in a
Time of War: The United States, 1939-1945"

d. Anny Bakalian (CUNY, Graduate Center) and Mehdi Bozorgmehr (MEMEAC,
CUNY), "The Impact of Post-9/11 Government Initiatives on Middle Eastern
and South Asian Americans"

e. Gary Gerstle (University of Maryland), "The Immigrant as Threat to
National Security: A Historical Perspective"
f. Aristide Zolberg (New School Univer-
sity), "In the Realm of the Strange Bed-
fellows: Why Immigration Restric-
tion Failed in the 1990s"
Discussant:
g. Peter Schuck (Yale Univ, Law),


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From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To: "'irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk '"
Subject: Bretons and others in exile in Ireland

I referred some days ago (following a contribtion from Patrick Maume) to
Belgian Rexists as well as Flemish nationalists coming to Ireland in the
post-war period and described a well-known educational publisher as
having belonged to the Rexist group. The publisher in question, Albert
Folens, was of course one of the Flemish exiles Patrick refers to:
apologies for my own error in this regard (I am sure he knew this and
was too polite to say so!).

Yesterday's Irish Times carries an obituary for Folens (text follows)
which deals with his Flemish background, albeit in terms that can most
kindly be described as giving a little less than the full story.

Piaras

(TEXT FOLLOWS)

Flemish patriot found home in Ireland

20/09/2003

Albert Folens: Albert Folens, who has died aged 86, was a Flemish
nationalist who found a home he cherished in post-war Ireland. He
founded a schoolbook publishing business which became a household name.
An accomplished linguist, he taught French through Irish.

He and his wife, Juliette, started the business in their garage with a
hired Roneo machine. Today it has two Dublin premises and subsidiaries
in Britain and Poland.

He came to Ireland in 1948 on a "doctored" passport, having escaped from
Allied imprisonment, after finding himself on the wrong side in the
second World War.

As war broke out Albert Folens was a very bright De La Salle seminarian
who declined, however, to take his final vows. He left the seminary with
a Flemish group who objected to teaching Flemish children through French
(the language of Belgium's Walloons) but emerged from war-time confusion
as a qualified primary teacher.

He joined the Flemish Legion, trained by Germany, for the specific task
of fighting the Red Army. The legion, an anti-communist Flemish
nationalist organisation, felt it had a moral duty to fight Stalin.

"At this point, the terrible atrocities of Stalin's regime were well
publicised," says his widow. Like Breton nationalists, the Flemish felt
they would fare better if Germany were to win, though no promises had
been made.

Folens did not go to fight, however. After training, his military career
was arrested by an ulcer. He went to Brussels where he found himself
"snookered"; he could not get teaching work because the state schools
would not employ anyone who was De La Salle trained and the order would
not employ anyone who had left. He lived by private translating and
newspaper book reviewing.

In 1944, after a military trial, he was imprisoned by the British. He
was sentenced to 10 years but escaped after 31 months.

Throughout Belgium about 100,000 Flemish nationalists were held at the
time as collaborators. After six months on the run with what he
described as vegetarian hippies living a Franciscan lifestyle, Trappists
smuggled him out of Belgium. Juliette, whom he had married in 1943, got
two years but was paroled after six months.

In spite of arriving with a false passport he, and later Juliette, felt
welcome in Ireland. "I was home. Ireland was made for me and I was made
for it: freedom, fresh air, hills, lakes, soft weather, friendly talk,
humour," he wrote.

Up to 25 Flemish refugees arrived at that time. He found a resonance
with Irish nationalism. He even claimed Irish ancestry, saying his
family had come to Flanders with the Wild Geese.

Folens was fascinated by languages and religion and was widely read.
Passionate about Flemish, he loved French and spoke German, Italian, and
Russian. He knew Latin. The Lives of the Saints and the Scriptures were
another fascination (as Jehovah's Witnesses who called to the house once
found to their cost).

He used missals in several languages to learn languages.

He worked first translating correspondence for a Clones bicycle factory,
which failed. Later he translated for Kanturk Creamery and wrote short
stories for Belgian magazines. After studying for his H.Dip.Ed. at UCD
in 1951, he taught at Fairview CBS and then Clonliffe College.

At Coláiste Mhuire, Parnell Square, he started teaching through Irish.
With Donchadh Ó Céileachair, who taught him enough Irish, he wrote
Nuachúrsa Fraincise, a French primer using Irish and published by
Sáirséal agus Dill. Among dozens of books he wrote was Aiséiri Flóndrais
(The Resurrection of Flemish).

In 1957 the Folens began printing school notes at home. They wrote 60
letters offering them to schools and within a few days the postman
delivered a bagful of replies. They had correctly perceived a wide gap
in the market. The philosophy behind the rapidly successful business
that followed was to get teachers to write the texts.

A wide range of textbooks in all subjects followed Folens French Course,
which he wrote. He produced children's magazines in Irish and English
and texts on current affairs.

Though known as "a born teacher", in 1960 he gave it up to devote
himself to the business. A former pupil, Alan Dukes, recalls that in his
lively performances a sense of French culture was a bonus unintended by
the course.

The plainly produced Folens notes were designed to get pupils through
exams but some educationalists complained that they encouraged
"cramming" and were detrimental to the philosophy of broad education.

In 1963, after several house moves, the Folens purpose built a home cum
factory at Scholarstown Road. By 1966 it had become too small and the
business moved to the Naas Road, and later to Tallaght.

To those in the business he was a shrewd, upright, straightforward,
witty and erudite businessman (who offered no discounts). The nuns loved
him. But there was a prickly, litigious side.

He dreamed of publishing a 12-volume encyclopaedia in Irish with
Government help. When the Department of Education "pulled the plug", he
sued successfully. The Folens logo, The Bee, reflected his energy and
strong work ethic - "we are always as busy as bees, but if you hurt us
we sting". He was wary of trade unions.

In 1978 he began retiring. But in 2001 he suffered a severe stroke and
moved to a nursing home in Enniskerry, where he died peacefully
according to his wish for a "saol fada agus bás in Éireann".

His wife Juliette, daughters Hilda and Leentje, son Dirk, and 14
grandchildren survive him.

Albert Joseph Folens: born October 15th, 1916; died: September 9th,
2003.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

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

Note Fergus Kelly on early Irish literature.

His abstract will follow as a separate email.

P.O'S.

Subject: BRITISH ACADEMY AUTUMN LECTURES PROGRAMME 2003

The British Academy Autumn Lectures Programme 2003

The lectures begin at 5.30pm and take place at 10 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1.
For further information and abstracts:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/index.html

Thursday 9 October 2003
Thinking in threes: the triad in early Irish literature
Professor Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture

Thursday 16 October 2003
Scholarship and the musical: reclaiming Jerome Kern
Professor Stephen Banfield, The University of Bristol
Aspects of Art Lecture
This lecture will be held at the Royal College of Music, London

Thursday 23 October 2003
The rule of law in international affairs
Professor Brian Simpson, FBA University of Michigan
Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence

Wednesday 29 October 2003
Economics for consumer policy
Professor John Vickers, FBA Office of Fair Trading
Keynes Lecture in Economics

Thursday 30 October 2003
The Redescription of Englightenment
Professor John Pocock, FBA The Johns Hopkins University
Isaiah Berlin Lecture

British Academy lectures are freely open to the general public, and
everyone
is welcome. There is no admission charge for attendance at the British
Academy's lectures.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of

James H. Murphy
De Paul University
Chicago

Please distribute.

P.O'S.


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

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

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

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received the following message from Barry Coldrey about the
re-issue of his boo, Faith and Fatherland: The Christian Brothers and
Irish Nationalism.

Please distribute this message.

People who would like to purchase a copy of the book should contact
Barry Coldrey directly.

Faith and Fatherland is an important book - and Barry Coldrey once made
the extraordinary journey to visit us here in Bradford, to offer an
intriguing presentation based on it, about the ways in which the Irish
revolution was like and unlike revolutions elsewhere. All connecting of
course with his long term study of the history of the Irish Christian
Brothers.

And so yet another scholarly author is forced to rescue his own book
from publisher's oblivion...

P.O'S.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Barry Coldrey
busherw[at]bigpond.com

Subject: Re-issue of 'Faith and Fatherland': The Christian Brothers and
Irish Nationalism


To Librarians

22 September 2003

Gill and Macmillan (Dublin) have returned copyright on this book to me,
and since I get occasional requests such as this every so often I have
decided to re-issue 'Faith and Fatherland' under the Tamanaraik Press
label (with its current ISBN) using modern desk-top publishing
oportunities.

Faith and Fatherland caused something of a mild sensation in Ireland
when
it was released and had many reviews. Some of these will be published
too. $49.95 p&p included for Australia; the same in £stg and $US,
allowing for airmail postage to these places, and the bank fees for
changing $US and £stg cheques.

Also of interest to sociologists for the influence of education on
revolution/rebellion.

The chapters in Faith and Fatherland: The Influence of the Christian
Brothers on Irish Nationalism' are:

1 The Christian Brothers and Irish Education
2 The Christian Brothers and the National Education Board, 1838-­1921
3 The Christian Brothers and National Education Board Textbooks
4 The distinctiveness of the Christian Brothers Schools
5 The Education of the Revolutionary elite: The Christian Brothers
and
free secondary education;
6 The Ideology of Resistance: The Christian Brothers teaching of
Irish
history/ Irish geography;
7 The Christian Brothers and the Irish Language revival
8 The Christian Brothers and Irish-Ireland.
9 The Christian Brothers and the Fenian Rising, 1867
10 Executive Conservatism: The Limitations on Christian Brothers
Nationalism, 1870-­1921
11 The Christian Brothers and the Irish Revolution, 1916-­1921.

Best wishes,

Barry Coldrey

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
7/67 Collins Street, Ph: (03) 9480 - 2119
Thornbury, Vic 3071
Australia

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.

Thinking in threes: the triad in early Irish literature

Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture 2003

to be delivered by

Professor Fergus Kelly
Director of the School of Celtic Studies
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

at the British Academy on 9 October 2003

Abstract

The arrangement of ideas in groups of three is common in the literatures
- - ancient and modern - of the Celtic-speaking peoples. In this paper I
concentrate on the most extensive collection to be found in the Irish
language, which consists of 219 triads, as well as a few nonads,
tetrads, duads, and single items. It was composed about the ninth
century AD by an anonymous author - probably a cleric - and includes
observations on law, nature, geography, the Church, and human behaviour
in general.

Some of these triads have clearly been adapted from earlier sources, but
most display the author's vivid personal style. Sometimes, his triads
consist simply of observation of natural phenomena, as in Triad 145
'three cold things which bubble: a well, the sea, new ale'. Here he is
obviously attracted by the paradox that these liquids are bubbling,
though not at boiling point. In a lyrical mood in Triad 75 he presents
another paradox 'three slender things which best support the world: the
slender stream of milk from the cow's udder to the pail, the slender
blade of green corn above the ground, the slender thread over the hand
of a skilled woman'. There is also a paradox in Triad 91 'three smiles
which are worse than sorrow: the smile of snow melting, the smile of
your wife to you after another man has been with her, the grind of a
hound ready to leap'. Here he has imaginatively seen a common
denominator between melting snow, an unfaithful wife, and a fierce
hound.

Further information...

http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/index.html