From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This book is now being reviewed - but so far nothing has reached us that we
can share with the Ir-D list. The Following information is from the
Princeton UP web site...

P.O'S.


The People with No Name:
Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British
Atlantic World, 1689-1764
Patrick Griffin

Princeton UP

Paper | 2001 | $21.95 / £14.95 | ISBN: 0-691-07462-3
Cloth | 2001 | $60.00 / £39.95 | ISBN: 0-691-07461-5
256 pp. | 6 x 9 | 2 maps

Information and tributes...
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7173.html

In part, Griffin's book is so successful because he understands that the
historian of any diaspora has a dual responsibility: to the homeland and to
the new land. Privileging either of these distorts the picture. . . .
Griffin's fine book will stand as a fundamental building block of Ulster
Scots and of Scots-Irish historical study."--Donald Harman Akenson, American
Historical Review

"There is much new in Griffin's study. . . . His accomplishment derives in
part from an ability to discuss identity formation in a jargon-free story at
once engaging and profound."--Warren R. Hofstra, Journal of American History


Table of Contents:

Maps xi
Acknowledgments xiii
INTRODUCTION: Identity in an Atlantic World 1
CHAPTER ONE: The Transformation of Ulster Society in the Wake of the
Glorious Revolution 9
CHAPTER TWO: "Satan's Sieve": Crisis and Community in Ulster 37
CHAPTER THREE: "On the Wing for America": Ulster Presbyterian Migration,
1718-1729 65
CHAPTER FOUR: "The Very Scum of Mankind": Settlement and Adaptation in a New
World 99
CHAPTER FIVE: "Melted Down in the Heavenly Mould": Responding to a Changing
Frontier 125
CHAPTER SIX: "The Christian White Savages of Peckstang and Donegall":
Surveying the Frontiers of an Atlantic World 157
Notes 175
Bibliography 223
Index 239

The Introduction is available at
http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/i7173.html

From: Maureen E Mulvihill
mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com
Subject: "David C. Rose, Guest Speaker, CUNY Grad Ctr., 19 Nov 03"


Announcement:

David C. Rose, Guest Speaker
City University of New York Graduate Center
19 November 2003

The November meeting of the City University of New York Victorian Seminar
will convene on Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 6:30 P.M., Room 4108, CUNY
Graduate Center (34th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan).

Its guest speaker, David C. Rose (M.A., Oxon; Dip. Arts Admin., NUI), editor
of "The Oscholars: Journal of Oscar Wilde and Fin-de-Siecle Studies"
(http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/oscholars/), will speak on "Oscar Wilde and
Arthur Conan Doyle: Some Curious Connections."

Wine and snacks will be available from 6 P.M. on. There will be dinner
festivities thereafter at a local Irish pub. Join us if you can. Our thanks
to Professor Anne Humphreys for coordinating this event.

(Those who do not have CUNY I.D., will be required to sign in at the
first-floor Security Desk.)

David Rose also will be speaking at Bryn Mawr, later this month, and
visiting campuses in Pittsburgh and Stony Brook. Colleagues who wish to
contact him during his US trip (16 November - 26 November), may e-mail me
directly, as his base of operations will be with me and my husband, Daniel
R. Harris, on Plaza Street West, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York.

(Apologies for cross-posting.)

In the spirit, colleagues,

Maureen E. Mulvihill
mulvihill[at]nyc.rr.com

From: Patrick Fitzgerald

Hi Paddy,
Here is a review of the Griffin book which I did for IESH. By all means
share with Ir-D list.
Best wishes,
Paddy Fitzgerald

PATRICK GRIFFIN, The People with No Name: Ireland?s Ulster Scots,
America?s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World,
1689-1764 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp.iii + 244. 2
maps. £13.95stg).

In a world of ever more creeking bookstore shelves it is a distinct asset
for any author to produce a good title and Griffin has certainly done so
here. What browser of the latest historical offerings could resist edging
out a volume with the intriguing title ?The People with No Name?.
Princeton?s dustcover design, floating the title mid-Atlantic, enhances the
initial visual appeal. Playing upon the long established elusiveness of any
agreed label for Ulster?s eighteenth century Protestant transatlantic
emigrants, Griffin sets out to tell their ?fascinating story in its full,
transatlantic context?. Given that a critique levelled at previous
historians of this migratory group (R.J. Dickson and J.G. Leyburn most
notably), related to their greater familiarity with sources and context on
their own side of the ocean, this transatlantic emphasis is particularly
welcome. Griffen clearly demonstrates his assured handling of the evidence
from both eighteenth century Ireland and colonial America.

In the introduction the author engages with what he describes as the
?slippery term? identity. Eschewing any glib generalizations he sensibly
cautions against a ?failure to take these people on their own terms, as men
and women without easily identifiable identities? and points to the
consequent risk of distorting the group?s experience. The emphasis rather is
upon a ?dynamic of redefinition? in response to changing circumstances on
both sides of the Atlantic. Undoubtedly Griffin places the role of religion,
in general terms, and the emergence of vital piety, in particular, at the
centre of the story. The historiographical trend in the preceeding
generation had been towards a stress upon the role of socio-economic factors
in the shaping of the decision to emigrate rather than the established
emphasis upon the impact of Penal restrictions upon dissenters. Griffin
serves to draw religious issues back towards the centre of the explanatory
equation. In so doing, however, he draws attention as much to the pressures
emanating from within Ulster Prebyterianism as those from without.
Developing tensions within the church between Old Light and New Light
factions grew ever more bitter after 1720. By 1726 one contemporary was
graphically describing the church in Ulster as like a ?wasp?s nest? and
these unhappy divisions fuelled the desire to escape the theological rancour
for a perceived New World ?oasis of calm? or ?land of Canaan?. As Griffin
demonstrates, in truth, no neat divide between religious and socio-economic
factors can be drawn. Whilst dissension, on the surface focused on
theological issues such as the role of the individual in effecting salvation
and issues of church governance such as subscription to the Westminster
Confession of Faith, the growing cleavage in Ulster Presbyterianism directly
reflected a rapidly changing economy and society. The perceived radicalism
and liberalism of the New Lights was not unconnected with the contemporary
secular discourse concerning the equality of the individual and the civic
rights of British Protestants, following the Revolutionary Settlement. New
Lights, Griffin suggests, were also more likely to be urban rather than
rural and those prospering most from the evolution of the linen trade. The
latter, of course, was then beginning to bring increasing prosperity to
Ulster and simultaneously opening the province up to international markets
and wider intellectual currents.

The author goes on to explore the migration and settlement experience and
to examine how the liberal/conservative divisions took root amongst the
Ulster migrant enclaves on the evolving Appalachian frontier. It is in his
final chapter, ?Frontiers of an Atlantic World?, that Griffin presents,
perhaps, the most interesting and original dimension of his thesis. Adapting
to a changing frontier and reflecting a culture of movement, it is suggested
that the ?Scots-Irish? came increasingly to rally around a familiar concept,
Britishness. Through the promotion of this identity rather than a stress on
Irish or Scottish ethnicity, the author suggests, Ulster dissenters in the
New World cut a path to negotiating their place in a wider world. The defeat
of Catholic France in 1763 allowed them to promote with vigour their rights
as subjects of the British Crown and footsoldiers of a now expanded Atlantic
Empire. This appealing thesis, however, arguably requires stronger
evidential support. One might suggest two particular areas in which further
research could serve to bolster the central conclusion. The concentrated
geographical research focus upon Donegal township, in south-eastern
Pennsylvania seems to sit somewhat uneasily with the argument that ongoing
movement was a pronounced pattern amongst Ulster?s New World settlers. There
was also limited consideration of expressions of cultural identity beyond
religion. Did the emerging sense of Britisness manifest itself amongst
Ulster settlers across a wider range of material and non-material cultural
forms? Griffin, nonetheless, has made a welcome contribution to a growing
body of scholarship pursuing a still tantalisingly elusive migrant group.


PATRICK FITZGERALD
Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster-American Folk Park

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I think it right to share with the Irish-Diaspora list the following item,
which has just reached us.

P.O'S.

From the Births, Marriages, Deaths column of the Irish Times, Friday,
November 14, 2003.

BRENNAN (Paul) (19 rue Servandoni, Paris and Lettermullen, Co. Galway)-
November 10, 2003, (suddenly) at his home; deeply mourned by his wife
Nicole, son Philippe, daughter-in-law Christelle, grandson Maxime, brothers
and sisters Geoff, Mary, Bríd, Nano, Pádraig, Margaret and Brendan, all his
extended French and Irish families, nephews, nieces, relatives and many
friends and colleagues. Memorial Mass has taken place at Saint-Sulpice,
Paris. Funeral after 12 Noon Mass on Monday, November 17 in the Church of
St. Oliver Plunkett, Renmore to the New Cemetery, Bohermore.
"May he rest in peace."

From: Avril Tobin
To: "irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk"
Subject: PhD research

Dear everyone

I am embarking on the fieldwork stage of my ESRC-funded doctoral research.
The working title of the project is "Roots to Integration?" and it is a
sociological investigation of the ways in which identity is negotiated by
emigrant individuals and communities.

A major part of the research design involves interviewing emigrants from the
Republic of Ireland - particularly those who came to Edinburgh during the
1980s and 1990s. I wondered whether anyone on the Irish Diaspora List might
be able to help me in my search for interviewees? I would also be
interested in hearing from Irish people living in Edinburgh more generally,
who may be interested in participating in, or contributing to, the research
in other ways (for example, by taking part in focus groups, helping to
promote the research by displaying small posters etc.)

Lastly, I would also be delighted to hear from anyone on the List who could
offer advice/information on other recruitment strategies which they have
found successful in the past.

Any contributions would be very gratefully received.

Thanks and best wishes

Avril

Avril Tobin,
Department of Sociology
School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh
Adam Ferguson Building
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LN

a.tobin[at]sms.ed.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Here, we have seen Remembrance Day pass - what used to be known as Armistice
Day in the USA but since 1954, I think, is Veterans' Day... An appropriate
time to draw attention to an ongoing project by Irish-Diaspora
list member, Brian McGinn, and his colleagues...

Ir-D members will know that Brian McGinn has been researching the
participation of Irish-born young people in the conflicts in Vietnam and in
Korea, asking the very basic question, How many Irish people died in those
wars.

For the Irish in Korea project Brian McGinn made his research skills and
experience available to John Leahy from Lixnaw, Co. Kerry and Pat Maguire,
from Mullaghdun, Co. Fermanagh, two decorated Irish-born veterans. The
number of Irish-born who died as members of the US forces in Korea was 28,
as far as Brian McGinn can establish after two years of research. Their
stories can be found on Marilyn Knapp Litt's web pages...

http://www.illyria.com/irishkor.html

On that page there is a link to the Irish Echo page, with the account of the
granting of posthumous US citizenship to those 28.

http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=13752

It is a very Irish-American story. It is not at this stage possible to say
how many Irish-born people actually served with the US forces in Korea - the
released records do not allow this.

As I understand it, foreign nationals who served in the US armed forces were
automatically granted citizenship after 90 days in uniform - but since Korea
was not a 'war' but a United Nations 'police action' those rules did not
apply to that conflict. A further twist was introduced by the
Irish-American Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, signed in 1950
by Sean MacBride - the treaty exempted Irish nationals in the USA from
conscription, but denied them later application for US citizenship if they
chose to use this exemption. Brian McGinn's research suggests that, for
many of the dead, military service was, indeed, seen as a route towards US
citizenship.

Of course many other Irish people served and died in Korea, with the
tradiotional Irish regiments in the British armed forces, and in the forces
of other Commonwealth countries. This is a specifically Irish-American
story, with, I think, an Irish-American resolution...

P.O'S.


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

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From: Bronwen Walter
Subject: Ir-D PhD Research, Irish in Edinburgh

Dear Avril

We have recently updated the website for the Irish 2 Project to include a
description of our recruiting methods for second-generation Irish people in
London, Manchester, Glasgow, Coventry and Banbury, which may be of help. The
site is
www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/progress/irish2

Good luck with the research.
Bronwen Walter

>
> From: Avril Tobin
> To: "irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk"
> Subject: PhD research
>
> Dear everyone
>
> I am embarking on the fieldwork stage of my ESRC-funded doctoral research.
> The working title of the project is "Roots to Integration?" and it is
> a sociological investigation of the ways in which identity is
> negotiated by emigrant individuals and communities.
>
> A major part of the research design involves interviewing emigrants
> from the Republic of Ireland - particularly those who came to
> Edinburgh during the 1980s and 1990s. I wondered whether anyone on
> the Irish Diaspora List might be able to help me in my search for
> interviewees? I would also be interested in hearing from Irish people
> living in Edinburgh more generally, who may be interested in
> participating in, or contributing to, the research in other ways (for
> example, by taking part in focus groups, helping to promote the
> research by displaying small posters etc.)
>
> Lastly, I would also be delighted to hear from anyone on the List who
> could offer advice/information on other recruitment strategies which
> they have found successful in the past.
>
> Any contributions would be very gratefully received.
>
> Thanks and best wishes
>
> Avril
>
> Avril Tobin,
> Department of Sociology
> School of Social and Political Studies University of Edinburgh Adam
> Ferguson Building George Square Edinburgh
> EH8 9LN
>
> a.tobin[at]sms.ed.ac.uk
>
>

----------------------
Bronwen Walter
B.Walter[at]anglia.ac.uk

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have pasted in below much interesting information about the SSNCI
Conference in Chicago next year...

We like this sort of stuff - we like to see who is thinking about what...

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

P.O'S.


Forwarded on behalf of...
James Murphy
jhmurphy[at]indigo.ie

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

Structures of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
An interdisciplinary conference exploring the role of religion

Among the speakers:
Marjorie Howes (Boston College) ? "Popular Catholicism, popular fictions."
Emmet Larkin (University of Chicago) ? ?The Devotional Revolution
revisited.?
D.W. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University) ? "Did Ulster Presbyterians have a
Devotional Revolution?"
Walter L. Arnstein (Urbana-Champaign) ? ?Charles Bradlaugh: A Victorian
atheist encounters Roman Catholic Ireland."
Mary Burke (Notre Dame) ? ?Post-Darwinian evangelical anxiety and the
writings of J.M. Synge.?
Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) ? ?Maturin, Sheil and the staging of
confessional difference in the romantic period.? Kevin O?Neill (Boston
College) ? ?Friends and neighbours: Mary Shackleton Leadbeater and the Irish
Quakers?

Among the other topics:
Queen Victoria, Maud Gonne and the ethics of motherhood; the fiction of May
Laffan; the evolution controversy; the station mass; religion and prisons;
the Arklow disturbances of 1891; medicine and sectarianism; evangelical
Presbyterians in the Ulster tenant-right movement; Irish evangelicals in a
British revival network; William Maginn?s beliefs; Lloyd George and
anti-Catholicism; religious belief in Fenian recollections; anti-Catholicism
in post-Emancipation Hampshire; Banim?s The Boyne Water; Father Boyce and
the Wild Irish Girl; Catholic periodicals and the ideal woman; religion and
Famine poetry; William Warren Baldwin in Ontario; Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna.

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

Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
& Midwest Victorian Studies Association
joint international conference

Structures of Belief in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
16-18 April 2004, DePaul University, Chicago.


THE VENUE

The conference will be held at DePaul University, Chicago. DePaul is the
eight largest private university in the United States, with twenty-three
thousand students. Many of its students are from diverse ethnic and
religious backgrounds and many are first-generation university students. The
university has several major campuses, and in a recent survey its students
were determined to be the happiest university students in the United States!
One of the reasons may be the location of one of its two principal campuses
at Lincoln Park, just north of the city centre. Close to Lake Michigan, it
is a leafy, prosperous neighbourhood, with interesting architecture, several
beautiful parks, a zoo, a large conservatory and the world-famous
Steppenwolf Theatre. It is also close to Lake Michigan and the Red, Brown
and Purple lines of the Elevated Railway all serve Fullerton station which
is within the campus. The conference will be taking place at the new,
sate-of-the-art Student Center and at an older, Gothic building, the
Cortelyou Commons. Accommodation for conference participants has been booked
at a nearby hotel and residential conference centre. MVSA members will also
be availing of the accommodation deals. For further information on DePaul
and Lincoln Park visit the university website at http://www.depaul.edu/.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. Marjorie Howes (Boston College, USA)
"Popular Catholicism, popular fictions."

Prof. Emmet Larkin (University of Chicago, USA)
?The Devotional Revolution revisited.?

Prof. D.W. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
"Did Ulster Presbyterians have a Devotional Revolution?"


SPEAKERS (subject to change)

Prof. Walter L. Arnstein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
?Charles Bradlaugh: A Victorian atheist encounters Roman Catholic Ireland."

Ms Andrea Bobotis (University of Virginia, USA)
?Rival femininities: Queen Victoria, Maud Gonne, and the ethics of
motherhood.?

Professor Jill Brady Hampton (University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA)
?The Catholic Church, colonialism and agency in the fiction of May Laffan.?

Mr Matthew Brown (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
?Evolution, conversion, and religious faith in nineteenth-century England
and Ireland.?

Dr Mary Burke (University of Notre Dame, USA)
?Post-Darwinian evangelical anxiety and the writings of JM Synge.?

Dr Claire Connolly (Cardiff University, Wales, UK)
?The dramatic tragedies of Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil
and the staging of confessional difference in the romantic period.?

Prof. Cara Delay (Denison University, USA)
?A controversial religious episode: the station-mass in post-Famine Catholic
Ireland.?

Mr Gabriel Doherty (University College Cork, Ireland)
?The role of religion within the Irish prison system, 1877-1899?

Dr Martin Doherty (University of Westminster, UK)
?Evangelicalism on the streets: religion, community relations and
Constructive Unionism: the Arklow disturbances of 1891.?

Dr Larry Geary (University College Cork, Ireland)
?Medicine, religion and sectarianism in pre-Famine Ireland.?

Dr Gerald Hall (University of Chicago)
?Conquests, commonwealths and political economy: evangelical Presbyterians
in the tenant-right movement in Ulster.?

Dr Janice Holmes (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK)
?Irish evangelicals in a British revival network, 1830-1900.?

Professor David Latané (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
? ?Perge, Signifer?, or where did William Maginn stand??

Dr Deirdre McMahon (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick,
Ireland)
?Lloyd George, anti-Catholicism and the Irish question, 1886-1922.?

Prof. Amy E. Martin (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
?Nationalism as blasphemy: political and religious belief in the genre of
Fenian recollections.?

Ms Shirley Matthews (University of Southampton, UK)
??Second Spring? and ?Precious Prejudices?: Catholicism and anti-Catholicism
in Hampshire in the wake of Catholic Emancipation.?

Ms Bridget Matthews-Kane (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
?Religion and aristocracy in John Banim?s The Boyne Water.?

Dr Patrick Maume (The Queen?s University of Belfast, NI, UK)
?Father Boyce and the Wild Irish Girl ? a study in intertextuality.?

Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick,
Ireland)
?Catholic periodicals and the construction of the ideal woman in late
nineteenth-century Ireland.?

Ms Teresa O?Brien Walker (Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK)
??The enemy of their religion but the loving friend of their country and
their souls?: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and the ideology of evangelicalism
in the nineteenth-century Ireland.?

Prof. Kevin O?Neill (Boston College, USA)
?Friends and neighbours: Mary Sheckleton Leadbeater and the Irish Quakers?

Prof. Katherine Parr (North Central College, Illinois, USA)
?Religious associations in Famine poetry: images of guilt, blame and
reprisal.?

Dr G.K. Peatling (University of Guelph, Canada)
?Tell this to the Indians: the religious basis of William Warren Baldwin?s
Thoughts on the civilization of the native Americans of Ontario, 1819.?

Ms Kara M. Ryan-Johnson (University of Tulsa)
?The siege of O?Connell: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna?s historical novels of
Ireland.?

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Jim Doan has asked that the following Call for Contributors be
distributed...

Sean Duffy of UCD is the senior editor. Ailbhe MacShamrhain and James
Moynes are the associate editors. Routledge is the publisher.

Note that the contact email address is...

medieval.ireland[at]taylorandfrancis.com

P.O'S.

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

Calling contributing authors to write for Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia,
to be published by Routledge in October 2004. The Encyclopedia will be a
one-volume work and will contain over 300 entries describing Ireland from
the fifth to the sixteenth century. The Encyclopedia will cover all aspects
of life, culture, and society in medieval Ireland including both the periods
before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169.

Available articles range from 250 to 2500 in word length. Our upcoming
production schedule requires that we offer relatively short deadlines (6-8
weeks). We offer an honorarium of $50 for every thousand words. Should you
agree to contribute, we will mail you the contributor agreement for your
signature. Article subjects range from Anglo-Saxon Influence to Fitzgerald
to Medicine to Wisdom Texts, among several others. A complete unassigned
list is provided below. Please send an e-mail to
medieval.ireland[at]taylorandfrancis.com to check on the availability of
articles or for additional information regarding style guidelines and sample
articles.

If you have any questions please let us know. If you are unable to
participate, we would welcome your suggestions of other outstanding
academics or scholars as potential contributors.

We look forward to hearing from you and to adding your name to our list of
distinguished contributors.

Unassigned Articles List
(as of October 11, 2003; subject to change; word counts in parentheses)

Anglo-Saxon Influence (500)
Bermingham (1000)
Connachta (750)
Desmond Fitzgerald (1500)
Ecclesiastical Organization (2500)
English Influence (Literature) (500)
Famine and Hunger (750)
Fitzgerald (1500)
Gilla-na-Náem Ua Duinn (750)
Jews in Ireland (1000)
Laigin (500)
Languages (2000)
Leinster (1000)
Mac Aodhagáin (500)
Medicine (1000)
Muirchú (1000)
O Cléirigh (500)
Ó Conchobhair-Fáilge (500)
Oireacht (250)
Poer (750)
Poetry, Irish (1500)
Scriptoria (750)
Tírechán (1000)
Uí Briúin (1000)
Uí Chennselaig (750)
Uí Dúnlainge (1000)

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


1.
'There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who
arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at
this period in history.'

And if the poor shrubber is under stress, think of the moderator of an email
list or discussion forum...

The spam continues to be a nightmare - and we hope that the European Union
legislation will click in and have some sort of bite... And as for
anti-spam... A number of Ir-D members, including myself, have had the
experience of being spammed by anti-spam software - if you do set up
anti-spam software will you please make sure it is configured properly. A
recent Ir-D message, about the New Issue of Irish Economic & Social History,
XXX 2003 was rejected by some anti-spam programmes - because the Subject
line contained the letters XXX... A highly reputable organisation set up
anti-spam structures that blocked ALL messages not in MIME. The reasoning
behind this is hard to grasp. Anyway, Ir-D messages, by policy and because
of the limitations of our software, are NEVER in MIME.

I wonder sometimes if we are seeing the death of email...

2.
I much enjoyed my trip to London a few weeks ago, to discuss 'Irish
Studies'. Though you have to question the motivation, or organisational
skills, of someone who, on the outward journey, manages to get to our local
railway station only as the train is pulling into the platform (perhaps one
minute better than getting there as the train leaves the platform...) And
on the return journey clambers onto the last carriage as the doors slam shut
- - and becomes one of those people who have to squeeze along the length of
the train (Excuse me, excuse me, EXCUSE ME) to find a seat...

As to the discussion, I don't think I contributed much. I am out of
practice with these things - not skilled, for example, at dealing with
questions that turn out to be disguised statements... 'Don't you think that
the future of Irish Studies lies within Area Studies...?'

I was very impressed by the thoughtfulness and the sublety of the teaching
practices discussed - I have said before that England gets better teachers
than it deserves... But I am less and less convinced that there is any such
thing as 'Irish Studies'. There is Irish History and there is Irish
Literature, and their inter-connections. Looking back at my own notes, I
drew attention to a number of key essays - for example by Charles Orser, and
by Marilyn Cohen - which really take the form of an extended question: why
is my discipline not part of Irish Studies?

For me, the most interesting paper was by Paddy Lyons, which took us out of
England, to look at his development of 'Irish Studies' in Warsaw (Poland)
and Glasgow (Scotland).

I have tried to remember all promises made - at the event and in the pub
afterwards. But I don't think I have succeeded. Feel free to contact me
with reminders...

3.
In the same way, I think I have sent, to everyone who asked for it - as an
pdf email attachment - the text of my article in...

New Hibernia Review
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2003
pp 130-148

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

AS PUBLISHED...

If anyone has been missed out do please remind me...

Paddy


- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Mary Muldowney
muldownm[at]tcd.ie

If you are able to help please contact her directly...

P.O'S.



Subject: Northern Irish Women in WWII

Introductions needed to women who travelled from Northern Ireland to work in
the U.K. during the Second World War.

I'm completing a Ph.D. thesis on the impact of the Second World War on women
in Dublin and Belfast using oral history interviews as the basis for my
research. These interviews are with so-called `ordinary women', whose
experiences have generally been omitted from the writing of history. Until
relatively recently, the gender division of social roles had a largely
negative impact on the writing of history because it contributed to the
invisibility of women, who were not considered to have played a significant
part in the shaping of events. This was especially true of women who worked
outside their homes, because the workplace was designated as a masculine
sphere in which class issues were defined by the perception of the male
worker as breadwinner.

One chapter in my thesis is about women who went to work in the U.K.
during the war years for various reasons, including the fact that there were
better employment opportunities there. I have already interviewed several
Dublin women who did this and I would like to interview some Belfast women,
to compare their reasons for going and their experiences.

If anybody out there has a female relative who went from Belfast (or
anywhere in Northern Ireland) to work anywhere in the U.K. during the Second
World War, I'd be really grateful if you could persuade them to talk to me.
I'll travel to wherever they live and the interview can be as long or as
short as they wish. Unfortunately, I cannot submit my thesis without
completing this chapter, so there is some urgency attached to this request.
I can be contacted by email at 'muldownm[at]tcd.ie' and any help you can give
will be acknowledged.

Mary Muldowney
Tel: 353 87 798 8330

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This one turned up in the databases without an Abstract. The extensive hunt
for an Abstract was successful, but leaves us not much wiser... Presumably
the headache cure was used in a South German monastery? And then? Does
anyone have full access to Cephalalgia - International Journal of Headache?

P.O'S.

A sixth-century Irish headache cure and its use in a South German monastery

author
Isler, H R - Hasenfratz, H - O'Neill, T

year - volume - issue - page
1996 - 16 - 8 - 536

publication
Cephalalgia - International Journal of Headache

ISSN
0333-1024electronic: 1468-2982

publisher
Blackwell Publishing

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Cephalalgia
Volume 16 Issue 8 Page 536 - December 1996
doi:10.1046/j.1468-2982.1996.1608536.x

A sixth-century Irish headache cure and its use in a South German monastery
H Isler1, H Hasenfratz2, T O'Neill3
Medieval headache treatment is largely unknown. Medieval incantations
against headache enumerate bodily organs to be protected. One 8th-century
Latin hymn from Lake Constance using this device is addressed to St. Aid
"mechprech", who has been identified as Aed Mac Brice, Bishop of Killare,
6th century. This Irish Saint inspired unusual legends by some rather
unorthodox activities: He abducted a young girl as hostage while his
inheritance was withheld, but at the same time was seen surrounded by
angels. He prayed for a nun who was pregnant and made the pregnancy vanish
by a miracle, and he replaced the severed heads of maids, men and horses,
creating a new spring as a by-product of this operation. Already at his
birth his head had hit a stone, leaving a hole in the stone which collected
rainwater that cured all ailments. In our own time, such "bullaun stones"
are still believed to cure headache in Ireland. According to the legends
collected by Plummer and Co1man, St. Aed Mac Bricc was well known for his
power to cure headaches. He relieved St. Brigid's headache when she was
suffering many miles away, but his most impressive cure was in convincing a
headache sufferer that the patient's headache could actually be transferred
to his own head. The headache hymn or incantation is intended to repeat
Aed's unique miracle.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Popular Music and Society has now become one of the Routledge, T & F
journals with a web presence - but the online coverage has not moved back in
time to any great extent.
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=300392
So, instead of an Abstract, I have given some Opening Sentences...

(By the way, the online free sample of Popular Music and Society includes an
interesting article about National Identity in Brazilian Popular Music by
João Gabriel L. C. Teixeira.)

P.O'S.


Dunne, Michael. "'Tore Down A La Rimbaud': Van Morrison's References and
Allusions." Popular Music and Society, Vol. 24, 2000 15-30.

'In his Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison (1997), Brian Hinton
approvingly cites Greil Marcus's opinion that "too many rock critics attach
far too much importance to lyrics alone" (12). And this misguided emphasis
might be considered an especially strong temptation for critics who hope to
deal with the lyrics of Van Morrison, a songwriter interested in the
"inarticulate speech of the heart," one who is willing to follow his
"beautiful vision" "into the mystic." Attending to Morrison's lyrics need
not be an unproductive enterprise, however, since his songwriting technique
allows us to approach his work from directions other...'

"Tore Down A La Rimbaud": Van Morrison's references and allusions
Journal article by Michael Dunne; Popular Music and Society, Vol. 24, 2000
Subjects: Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rock
musicians--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Morrison, Van--Criticism,
interpretation, etc., Rock music--Criticism, interpretation, etc.,
Allusions--Usage

From: "MacEinri, Piaras"
To:

Dear Paddy,

Members of the Ir-D list may be interested in the following generous tribute
to Paul Brennan, published on the obituaries page of the Irish Times on
Saturday 15 November. The author is a Paris-based journalist with an
excellent knowledge of Franco-Irish affairs.

It would be difficult to exaggerate Paul's contribution as a promoter of
academic and cultural contacts between Ireland and France and within the
broader realms of Irish Studies. He nurtured a generation of students and
worked tirelessly to promote a better knowledge of Ireland and Irish affairs
in France. His untimely death is a major loss.

On a personal note, Paul was my supervisor when I undertook postgraduate
studies in Paris and a friend ever since. He was at all times knowledgeable,
accessible, critical, and supportive.

Ni bheidh a leitheid aris ann.

Piaras


A bridge between French and Irish cultures
15/11/2003


Prof Paul Brennan, a leading figure in Irish studies for the past three
decades, died unexpectedly of heart failure after his daily run through the
Luxembourg Gardens in Paris on November 10th. He was 64 years old.

As Professor of Irish Civilisation at the University of Paris III, he
oversaw the master's and doctoral degree programmes in Irish studies. During
his two consecutive terms as president of the inter-university Sociét
Française des Études Irlandaises, the number of French students enrolling in
Irish studies more than doubled.

He edited the review Études Irlandaises for most of the 1990s and remained
on its editorial board. He was a familiar figure on French radio and
television and was asked by French newspapers to explain events like the
Belfast Agreement and the Nice Treaty referendum.

Brennan directed a very large number of doctoral theses and took a keen
interest in his students' subsequent careers. He did his utmost to promote
contacts between Irish and French academics and was at the time of his death
organising a colloquium on "The Internationalisation of Ireland" to have
been held at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris in mid-December. Nine Irish
doctoral candidates and 12 French graduate students were to have read
papers.

Throughout his career, Paul Brennan wrote and lectured widely in English and
French on the evolution of the Irish Constitution, the place of Ireland in
Europe, poverty and inequality in Ireland. He was passionately interested in
the Northern Ireland peace process and travelled to Belfast to meet
republican and unionist politicians.

He long served as a link between French academe and the Irish College and
appealed early on for the college to be open to Northern Protestants. "I
found his approach [to Northern Ireland] absolutely balanced, extremely
sensitive," said his close friend and colleague, Prof Wesley Hutchinson.

"He tried to make sure that the whole of Ireland was represented, in all its
diversity."

In addition to his pivotal role in Irish studies, Brennan was an important
figure in the French educational system. He sat on two senior national
recruitment bodies for secondary and higher education (CAPES and CNU) and
was appointed by the Ministry of Education to co-ordinate a nationwide
re-examination of foreign-language curricula. This year he published
recommendations for the teaching of regional languages such as Corsican,
Basque and Breton.

His commitment to socialism was forged in the "events" of May 1968, during
which he and his French bride, Nicole (née Canterot) both demonstrated. "We
were very enthusiastic," she recalled. "It shaped our values."

Brennan became the Paris secretary for the education branch of the Socialist
trade union CFDT. Though disillusioned with French party politics in recent
years, he continued to vote Socialist and never abandoned trade-union
activism.

A convinced European, Brennan did much to promote student exchanges under
the EU's Erasmus programme and visited "his" students in Ireland each
spring.

Paul Brennan came to France in 1963, at the age of 24, after earning a
bachelor's degree in history at University College Galway. He met his wife,
Nicole, now a professor of philosophy, at her sister's wedding in 1965. They
married six months later. The Brennans adopted their son, Philippe, in 1972
and doted on their grandson, who was born in December 2000.

Paul and Nicole Brennan spent summers at Currawee, Lettermullen, Connemara,
in their two-storey house facing the Aran Islands. Nicole painted and
gardened; Paul cooked. Every August they held a party for dozens of French,
American and Irish guests. Though the Brennan family were scattered, all of
his seven brothers and sisters attended.

To his students and fellow academics, Paul Brennan was warm and hospitable.
But he did not suffer fools gladly. "He had a great sense of humour, which
went with a sense of distance," Prof Hutchinson said. "He would size people
up very rapidly, with a twinkle in his eye."

His younger brother, Brendan, a civil servant who kept the professor
supplied with news of Ireland, recalls his "flowing hair, flamboyance, good
looks and charm." You couldn't help noticing his smart tweed suits, his blue
and purple silk shirts. "Most people couldn't wear the clothes he wore, but
he wore them with such elegance and panache," Brendan Brennan recalled.

At the end of September the brothers parted in a Paris boulevard. "As he
sauntered away, he looked as if Paris was his world, his oyster. He was
smoking a cigarillo; he was alive, happy. That was the last time I saw him."

Paul Brennan's funeral Mass took place at Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris on
November 13th. He is to be buried on Monday at New Cemetery in Galway, near
the graves of his parents, Patrick and Margaret.

He is survived by his wife, Nicole, their son Philippe and his partner
Cristelle, and grandson Maxime Ulysse.

Paul Brennan: born June 24th, 1939; died November 10th, 2003

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: RE: Ir-D Article, A sixth-century Irish headache cure

I found the article here, and I have forwarded it to you as a pdf file --
our library subscribes to an on-line database that has full text. Thank God
for our Nursing program. Enjoy.


Bill

William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University




From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

This one turned up in the databases without an Abstract. The extensive hunt
for an Abstract was successful, but leaves us not much wiser...
Presumably the headache cure was used in a South German monastery? And
then? Does anyone have full access to Cephalalgia - International Journal
of Headache?

P.O'S.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

Note that The Global Review of Ethnopolitics is freely available, on the
Web...

P.O'S.

From: Stefan Wolff
Subject: The Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Special Issue on Northern
Ireland

Dear colleagues,

The Global Review of Ethnopolitics
Volume 3, Issue 1 (September 2003) - Special Issue: Northern Ireland Edited
by Chris Gilligan and Jonathan Tonge

The first Special Issue of the Global Review of Ethnopolitics has just been
published, featuring articles on the peace process and its (in-)stability by
Stefan Wolff, Chris Gilligan, Jonathan Tonge, James W.McAuley, Peter Shirlow
and Neil Jarman; and almost twenty pages of book reviews on Northern
Ireland.

The issue can be accessed at www.ethnopolitics.org
and articles can be downloaded and printed
for free.

Best wishes,
Stefan Wolff & Karl Cordell
--------------------------------
Editors
The Global Review of Ethnopolitics
www.ethnopolitics.org
info[at]ethnopolitics.org

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


publication
Historical Journal - London

ISSN
0018-246X electronic: 1469-5103

publisher
Cambridge University Press

year - volume - issue - page
2003 - 46 - 3 - 723

article

WRITING EARLY MODERN HISTORY: IRELAND, BRITAIN, AND THE WIDER WORLD

CANNY, NICHOLAS

abstract

The professionalization of history in Ireland resulted from the 1930s effort
of T. W. Moody and R. Dudley Edwards to fuse writing on Irish history with a
received version of the history of early modern England. This enterprise
enhanced the academic standing of work on early modern Ireland, but it also
insulated professional history in Ireland from the debates that enlivened
historical discourse in England and continental Europe. Those who broke from
this restriction, notably D. B. Quinn, Hugh Kearney, and Aidan Clarke, made
significant contributions to the conceptualization of the histories of
colonial British America, early modern England, and Scotland. These
achievements were challenged by the New British History in turn which, for
the early modern period, has transpired to be no more than traditional
English political history in mufti. None the less, writing on the histories
of Ireland, Scotland, and colonial British America has endured and even
flourished. Such endeavour has succeeded where the focus has been on people
rather than places, where authors have been alert to cross-cultural
encounters, where they have identified their subject as part of European or
global history, and where they have rejected the compartmentalization of
political from social and economic history. The success of such authors
should encourage practitioners of both English history and the New British
History to follow their examples for the benefit of endeavours which will
always be complementary.

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D Article, Psychodynamics of nationalism


On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 05:00:00 irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> A nation is a people united by a common dislike of its neighbors and
> by a common mistake about its origins. George Brock (1990)


I thought this quote actually comes from the nineteenth-century French
writer Ernest Renan.
Best wishes,
Patrick Maume

----------------------

patrick maume

(Moderator's Note...
Sounds a bit too cynical for Renan. I have seen this quote ascribed to Karl
Deutsch, but also seen it described as a 'nineteeth century quip...'
P.O'S.)

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Article on rioting Hibernians in Victorian Sunderland

From: Patrick Maume
The current HISTORICAL RESEARCH "Notes and Documents" section has a piece by
Don MacRaild on a mid-Victorian Sunderland riot involving two rival AOH
publicans, and how the Bishop of Hexham & Newcastle got his clergy to
investigate & attempt to stamp out the AOH groups The text of the priests'
report to the Bishop is published in full:- HISTORICAL RESEARCH vol. LXXVI
no. 194 (November 2003) pp 557-73 Donald M. MacRaild 'Abandon
Hibernicisation': Prists, Ribbonmen and an Irish street fight in the
North-east of England. HISTORICAL RESEARCH is published by Blackwell
Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Historical Research.
Best wishes,
Patrick

----------------------
patrick maume

From: Mark Hall
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: some abstracts that may be of interest to the Ir-D list...


1.
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 5, Number 3 / August 2003
Pages: 345 - 370
URL: Linking Options

Rethinking national marxism
James Connolly and 'Celtic Communism'

David Lloyd A1
A1 University of Southern California, USA

Abstract:
Recent discussions of the life and writings of the Irish socialist and
nationalist James Connolly have tended to see him as having betrayed Irish
socialism through an infatuation with nationalism, while his seminal
historical work on Irish labour is seen as 'romanticizing' an imaginary
'Celtic communism'. In this dismissal of Connolly, Irish leftism coincides
with a larger left antagonism to what it considers 'identity politics'.
This essay argues that far from hypostasizing an essential Irish identity,
Connolly sketches an approach to the historical formation of cultural
difference, and projects a revolutionary transformation based on the
cultural differences that colonial capitalism itself produces. The history
of Irish labour is at once constitutive of and marginal to the history of
global capitalism, and out of this ambiguous position Connolly traces the
radical potential of peripheral working classes. What he proposes, in accord
with other 'national Marxist' thinkers from Mariátegui to Fanon or
Cabral, is a critique of metropolitan leftism that assumes the primacy of an
industrial proletarian subject. Connolly envisages the possibility of
revolutionary agencies that emerge out of recalcitrance to, rather than
passage through, colonial capitalist modernity.


Keywords:

Antonio Gramsci, colonialism in Ireland, Irish labour history, James
Connolly, José Carlos Mariátegui, syndicalism, 'the southern
question'



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2.
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 5, Number 3 / August 2003
Pages: 407 - 425
URL: Linking Options

Hand-to-hand history
Ephemera and Irish Republicanism

Laura E. Lyons A1
A1 University of Hawai'i

Abstract:

The lack of engagement with ephemera in contemporary accounts of nationalism
owes something both to the difficulty in finding this material and to
assumptions that underwrite ideas not just about what constitutes source
material but also about the proper subject matter of history itself.
In this paper, I argue that ephemera offer an important resource for
considering how those within the broad-based Irish republican movement
record the intellectual and political shifts and developments in their
commitments as well as in their relationship to other social movements in
Ireland. An examination of posters and leaflets produced by Irish
republicans for specific protests reveals the intersection of Irish
republicanism and other social discourses. Protests are linked to the
ephemeral realm not only by their performative status but also by the often
occasional nature of their goals. The immediacy of what is being protested
frequently overrides any sense of the historical value of the writing
produced to articulate those goals. At the same time, ephemera challenge the
official account of the historical incidents out of which they emerge, and
it is these two aspects of ephemera - their timeliness and their relation to
history - that this essay seeks to explore. Such an engagement with
ephemeral materials and the theoretical questions they raise - not just
about the particular groups that produce them, but also about historiography
- - can help scholars to recognize ways in which ephemera work to close the
gap between theory and praxis.


Keywords:

ephemera, historiography, Ireland, Irish republicanism, nationalism,
political violence

http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=BJFGV5W9FBDNY80P



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Mark Hall
Niigata Prefectural Museum of History