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For information...

A search for 'Irish' turns up over 700 entries...

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There is a review of David T. Gleeson. The Irish in the South, 1815-1877, on
H-Net...
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=41181040006101.

The review is a little ungenerous, I think - or maybe it tries to be
even-handed, praising and then picky. Gleeson deals with a neglected theme
and gives us a remarkable amount of detail. And we now have a book. Of
course there is more to be done... Of course...

P.O'S.

David T. Gleeson. The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2001. xii + 278 pp. Acknowledgements, appendix,
notes, selected bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2639-1;
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4968-5.

Reviewed by Mark I. Greenberg, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Published by H-South (November, 2002)

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On a train of thought...

Mark F. Fernandez. From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's
Judicial System, 1712-1862. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2001. xviii + 135 pp. Appendix, bibliography, notes. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-8071-2705-1.
Reviewed by George Dargo, New England School of Law.
Published by H-Law (August, 2002)

This book has a section on Alejandro O'Reilly...

See...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=99151032546682

'Of particular interest is Fernandez's skillful discussion of the Spanish
period, from 1762, when France ceded the colony to Spain, until the
retrocession to France, which did not take effect until late in 1803, twenty
days before the American takeover of all of Louisiana on December 20 of that
fateful year. These abrupt regime changes had significant effects upon the
law, not only by creating uncertainty and confusion, but also by depositing
sedimentary layers of law upon the earliest foundations established by the
French. Fernandez is skillful in sorting this out. For example, his
discussion of Alejandro O'Reilly, the Irish mercenary who had served the
Spanish crown in the recently concluded Seven Years' War, is particularly
lucid. Not only was the "Code of O'Reilly" an effective instrument in the
establishment of Spanish substantive law, but the legal administration that
O'Reilly set up through the force of his own imposing personality made his
law reforms of lasting consequence to the future state. The forty year
period of Spanish rule was a formative period of Louisiana legal history,
and Fernandez's discussion of this sometimes confusing sequence of events is
most useful...'

P.O'S.

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Three issues of Irish Sword have appeared in quick succession, as editor
Kenneth Ferguson steams on...

The Military History Society of Ireland now has a web presence...
http://www.mhsirl.com/

And it may be that Tables of Contents for these volumes will appear there in
due course. But they're not there yet.

Irish Sword, Vol. XXII, Winter 2001, No. 90
Of special interest here is Kenneth Ferguson's own article 'An English or
French etymology for "bawn"' - since the Irish-Diaspora list has discussed
the word and the thing at some length. One of KF's starting points is the
query that reached us from Nicholas Luccketti about possible 'bawns' in
Connecticut and Virginia. KF, p 367, notes: 'there has been a tendency to
mis-assign a Gaelic etymolgy to unfamiliar words of Irish occurrence...'
Amongst his examples: 'Abu!' and 'craic'....

Irish Sword, Vol. XXII, Summer 2002, No. 91
Special Issue on Ireland and the American Civil War
Obviously I wish I could spend more time discussing this substantial Special
Issue... I can only note key articles of interest to us...
Thomas J. Ryan on 'Out of Ireland into the Union Army: the battle over
Irish emigration'
2 studies of Dick Dowling and the Sabine Pass, studies of Patrick Cleburne,
Patrick O'Rorke, and James Wall Scully,
A very useful article by Michael H. Kane, 'American soldiers in Ireland',
which will be of great help to scholars of Fenianism in Ireland and in
Britain. Much celebratory militarism, of course, but much more than that,
including many good book reviews...

Irish Sword, Vol. XXII, Winter 2002, No. 92,
Special Issue, Naval Themes
This volume is not quite so fat, but includes items that are really worth
having...
Sean G. Ronan on John Philip Holland, including a section on 'the Fenian
connection'
John de Courcy Ireland, 'The place of Ireland in naval history', a
wide-ranging discursive piece - and who could do it better?

Congratulations to Kenneth Ferguson... By my reckonning he simply has to
see the issue of Summer 2003 through the press - then he can relax...

P.O'S.


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On a train of thought...

'Civil War flags embodied the spirit of the units they led, and few units of
the Union Army displayed such spirit as the famed Irish Brigade. From 1862
to 1865 the brigade built and confirmed its reputation on battlefields with
names like Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. Blue for the Union and
Green for Ireland focuses on the story of the nine wartime flags of the
brigade's 63rd New York Volunteers. Besides documenting the succession of
flags that led the regiment, this book places the presentation and
retirement of the regiment's flags in the larger context of wartime
Washington and New York politics and illustrates the complex relationship
among the soldiers on the battlefront, the citizens on the homefront, and
the assorted politicians and local leaders operating inbetween. Going
forward after the war, the book follows one of the regiment's flags - the
extravagantly elegant Second Irish Colors, a product of the world-renowned
Tiffany & Co. - as it traveled first to Virginia and then to the University
of Notre Dame where, over the course of a century, it declined from
venerated relic to deteriorated historical curiosity before being
professionally conserved in 2000 and restored to its proper place as a
respected historical artifact...'

Blue for the Union and Green for Ireland

On the University of Notre Dame web site there are extracts from the book,
including interesting illustrations and quotes...

http://www.archives.nd.edu/flag/

'The flags which the decimated regiments of this brigade bore, torn to
tatters as they were by the lurid tempest of war, were proof enough of the
terrible scenes through which the heroes had passed; but evidences of the
same effect were stamped in every lineament of their swarthy faces, in every
muscle of their brown, horny hands, and in every motion of their free, swift
stride. . . .'

P.O'S.

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For information...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=323571068287163

Patricia Monaghan. The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic
Myth and Spirit. Novato: New World Library, 2003. 295 pp. Maps,
bibliography, index. $22.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-57731-190-6.

Reviewed by Leslie Van Gelder, Oxford Institute for Science and Spirit.
Published by H-Nilas (September, 2003)

'In The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog, Monaghan seems to have resolved that
question for herself by learning from the experience of Ireland. We need not
be "native to a place" she tells us, since all natives are transplants, too.
Instead, we need to come to honor, respect, and revel in the storied places
we all come from. "I have news for you," Monaghan tells us with a wise,
laughing smile, "spring comes everywhere with sweetness and hope ... just as
Ireland is sacred, so all land is sacred, as we are all sacred. This is my
news." We would do well to listen to this news, and with Patricia Monaghan
as our guide, we are well on our way to finding our own way through past,
present, and future, too...'

Note...
H-NILAS is a moderated internet discussion forum sponsored by the Nature in
Legend and Story Society (NILAS).

I wish I had a wise, laughing smile...

P.O'S.

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Kevin Kenny and I have negotiated with the Organization of American
Historians and its journal, the Journal of American History.

It will be recalled that Kevin Kenny had scored something of a coup in
getting his essay on 'Diaspora and Comparison' into the Journal of American
History in the first place, and in using his essay to bring the study of the
Irish Diaspora towards the centre of US historiography's preoccupations...

The OAH and the JAH have kindly agreed to make Kevin Kenny's Special Essay
freely available to us.

Journal of American History
June 2003
Volume 90, No. 1

Special Essay
Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study
Kevin Kenny

This Kevin Kenny essay is now available at the following web address...

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/issues/articles/901_kenny.pdf

Note that you will need full web access to get to that web address, which
gives you the article as published, in an Adobe Acrobat pdf file, which can
then be saved and printed.

Further use of this Special Essay should note that copyright remains with
the OAH - Copyright (c) 2003, Organization of American Historians. Further
information on the OAH can be found at http://www.oah.org/

I am sure that worldwide Irish Diaspora Studies would like to express
gratitude to the OAH and the JAH, and, of course, to Kevin Kenny.

Further note... I would prefer Ir-D members to go to the web address and
get hold of the article that way. But I do know that some Ir-D members do
not have full web access. If such members can send me a personal email I
can send them the Kevin Kenny Special Essay as a 2.2mb pdf email attachment.

Patrick O'Sullivan


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England

From: Sara Ellen Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu
Subject: GAA footage - New York

I'm currently writing my dissertation, "Irish Sport and Culture at New
York's Gaelic Park."

I've heard that ABC's Wide World of Sports aired footage of GAA games
sometime in the 60s and/or 70s. I believe there was footage from Croke Park,
but I've also been hearing that there was local TV coverage of events like
the kicking contest between Roy Gerela and Mick O'Connell.

Does anyone have any information on the existence of archival footage?

Many thanks,

Sara Brady
seb213[at]nyu.edu

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People, pace, place: Qualitative and quantitative images of Ireland as a
tourism destination in France
Sinead O'Leary, Jim Deegan.

Journal of Vacation Marketing. London: Jun 2003. Vol. 9, Iss. 3; pg. 213

Subjects: Consumer attitudes, Attitude surveys, Perceptions, Studies,
Tourism, Statistical analysis
Classification Codes 9175 Western Europe, 7100 Market research, 9130
Experimental/theoretical
Locations: Ireland, France
Author(s): Sinead O'Leary, Jim Deegan
Article types: Feature
Section: Academic papers
Publication title: Journal of Vacation Marketing. London: Jun 2003. Vol. 9,
Iss. 3; pg. 213
Source Type: Periodical
ISSN/ISBN: 13567667
ProQuest document ID: 373186581
Text Word Count 6791

Abstract (Article Summary)
Ireland's traditional tourist images - relating to people, pace and place -
are increasingly threatened by the development of the Celtic tiger economy.
Furthermore, recent trends suggest that the French visitor market to Ireland
is showing signs of stagnation. To date, however, there has been little
research regarding destination image in either Ireland or France and none
that focuses specifically on Ireland's image in France. In this study, 281
French visitors to Ireland were asked to describe their image of Ireland in
terms of common attribute-based components and holistic aspects. The
findings show that the key images of Ireland remain the welcoming people,
the beautiful scenery and the relaxed pace of life. Given the dramatic
changes that have taken place in Ireland since the 1990s there are
indications that these images may no longer accurately represent all aspects
of Irish society. The study highlights the need for image modification to
ensure that the portrayed image of Ireland is consistent with what the
destination has to offer in reality. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Interesting review at...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=218141045970113

Bruce L. Mouser, ed. A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the
Sandown, 1793-1794. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
2002. xxii + 156 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-253-34077-2.

Reviewed by Trevor Burnard, Reader in Early American History, Brunel
University, West London.
Published by H-Atlantic (January, 2003)

The reviewer writes...

'Gamble's distaste for Africans and easy capacity for comparing them to
animals reflect standard European thinking but his expressions of distaste
are sufficiently detailed and forceful as to make his words arresting. His
words are given more force when counter-posed with his equally contemptuous
attitude to the Irish peasants that he encountered in Cork. He asserted that
the Irish live worse than Africans did in Africa, especially Irish women who
were "us'd to a degree of barbarity carrying the manure on their backs to
the land, while as of[ten] great idle fellows are looking on at their ease."
Teachers will find it useful to expose students to Gamble's prejudices to
both Africans and the Irish, in order to show that it was not only Africans
that Englishmen compared to animals: Gamble noted that in Cork "People[,]
Hogs[,] and Dogs all live in the same place" and were probably fed "out of
the same vessels." '

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Two Thomases: Dublin castle and the quality of life in Victorian Ireland
Thomas E Jordan.

Social Indicators Research. Dordrecht: Nov 2003. Vol. 64, Iss. 2; pg. 257

Subjects: History, Quality of life, Social conditions & trends,
Statistical analysis, Studies
Classification Codes 9175 Western Europe, 9130 Experimental/theoretical,
1220 Social trends & culture
Locations: Ireland
Author(s): Thomas E Jordan
Article types: Feature
Publication title: Social Indicators Research. Dordrecht: Nov 2003. Vol. 64,
Iss. 2; pg. 257
Source Type: Periodical
ISSN/ISBN: 03038300
ProQuest document ID: 410460551
Text Word Count 11771

Abstract (Article Summary)
Administration of Ireland in the nineteenth century was carried out,
principally, by three senior officials who were appointed by the current
Prime Minister in London, and who served at his pleasure. There were two
periods, 1835-1840, and 1853-1869, when Ireland was served by two
outstanding men, Thomas Drummond and Thomas Larcom. Both men were trained as
military engineers, and were well acquainted by both their membership in the
Corps of Royal Engineers and by their shared participation in some projects
of the civil government. Their paths to high office were different; Drummond
distinguished himself by his skill at technology, and Larcom achieved wide
recognition through his imaginative service in the mapping of Ireland. In
their periods of service, these two Sappers further distinguished themselves
by the quality and selflessness of their of their work. Improvement of
quality in the life of the Irish people is documented by presentation of
social indicators data from the period 1831-1871. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Article listed at...

http://www.soc.ulaval.ca/recherchessociographiques/default.asp


Pouvoir et perception : une communauté irlandaise au Québec au dix-neuvième
siècle
Par D. Aidan MCQUILLAN

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Résum
Au XXe siècle, les Irlandais formaient le groupe d?immigrants le plus
nombreux au Québec. Il y avait en réalité deux groupes culturels bien
distincts : les Irlandais catholiques et les Irlandais protestants ; les
premiers étaient potentiellement assimilables au sein de la société rurale.
Dans la paroisse de Saint-Sylvestre, où ils comptaient pour plus de la
moitié de la population, les Irlandais catholiques sont entrés en conflit
aussi bien avec leurs voisins francophones qu?avec les Irlandais protestants
et ils ne sont pas parvenus à établir une base de pouvoir politique. De
plus, une analyse des résultats agricoles indique que les Irlandais
catholiques tiraient de l?arrière par rapport aux deux autres groupes. Leur
statut dans la communauté diminua graduellement. Les Irlandais catholiques
ne réussirent ni à s?assimiler ni à se trouver une niche sociale ou
politique dans cette communauté rurale.

Abstract
The Irish were the largest immigrant group in Quebec during the nineteenth
century. They were in fact two distinct cultural groups, Irish Catholics and
Irish Protestants. Of the two the Irish Catholics should have been
assimilable into rural Quebecois society. In the parish of St. Sylvestre,
where Irish Catholics represented more than fifty per cent of the
population, not only did they not assimilate, they managed to antagonize
both their French and Irish Protestant neighbors. Their attempts to
establish a power base failed. Furthermore, an analysis of agricultural
success, based on data from census manuscripts indicates that Irish
Catholics were falling farther and farther behind the other groups. Their
standing in the community diminished. In terms of power relations within the
rural community Irish Catholics failed to assimilate or to establish a niche
for themselves socially and politically.

Notices biographiques sur les auteurs
D. Aidan McQuillan est professeur au Département de géographie et directeur
du Programmes d?études canadiennes de l?Université de Toronto. Ses travaux
portent sur les minorités ethniques en Amérique du Nord, les Amérindiens, et
la préservation du patrimoine urbain dans le monde. Il a publié Prevailing
Over Time : Ethnic Adjustment of the Kansas Prairies 1875-1925 (Lincoln,
University of Nebraska Press, 1991).

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Just to bring us up to date on Éire-Ireland...

The latest TOC is now displayed on the IACI web site...
http://www.iaci-usa.org/ei_sp03.html

And I have pasted it in below - note also at the end the Éire-Ireland Call
for Papers from Sean Farrell, on Unionist identities...

It will be recalled that some earlier Éire-Ireland material was available
freely at the FindArticles web site. And then it wasn't. And now it is
again. There has been some sort of corporate co-operation - it looks as if
FindArticles now belongs to LookSmart - and a redesign... And if you look
at FindArticles Éire-Ireland page you will see that all the articles from
this latest issue, and some earlier issues, are there for the having....

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0FKX/mag.jhtml

P.O'S.


Éire-Ireland Volume 38 Issue 1/2
2003 Spring/Summer Issue to be released in June

The Irish American Cultural Institute is pleased to announce the publication
of Volume 38 Issue 1/2 of Éire-Ireland. The latest issue centers around the
general theme of language and identity in Ireland.
As the leading journal of Irish Studies, Éire-Ireland offers a vital
publication outlet for the brightest minds and works in Irish Studies.
Éire-Ireland, published by the Irish American Cultural Institute, is
entering its 37th year of publication.

COVER

?The Watcher,? Paul Henry

The illustration featured on the cover of this volume is a painting by
acclaimed Irish artist Paul Henry (1876-1958) called ?The Watcher.? It was
completed during the period in his life when he lived on Achill Island
(1910-19) and was exhibited in Belfast in 1911. Henry?s landscape paintings
of the West of Ireland have become iconic for many who view the West as the
?real? Ireland.

This painting was recently exhibited at the retrospective for Paul Henry at
the National Gallery of Ireland (February 19 ? May 18, 2003). It is from a
private collection and appears on the cover of this volume courtesy of Pyms
Gallery, London.


TABLE OF CONTENTS & CONTRIBUTORS

Language and Identity in Twentieth-Century Ireland
by Maria Tymoczko and Colin Ireland

MARIA TYMOCZKO is professor of comparative literature at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Trained as a specialist in medieval Irish literature,
she also publishes on Irish writing in English and on translation. She is
translator of Two Death Tales from the Ulster Cycle (1981). Her book on
James Joyce, The Irish ?Ulysses? (1994), and her study Translation in a
Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation (1999)
have both won book awards from the American Conference for Irish Studies.

COLIN IRELAND is resident director of programs in Ireland for Arcadia
University?s Center for Education Abroad. He is editor and translator of Old
Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria (1999) and has published
on early Irish and English cultures in journals such as Celtica, Peritia,
Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, Neophilologus, and Neuphilologische
Mitteilungen. He also lectures in Old and Middle English at University
College Dublin.

?We Must Learn Where We Live?: Language, Identity, and the Colonial
Condition in Brian Friel?s Translations
by Maureen S.G. Hawkins

MAUREEN S.G. HAWKINS is assistant professor of English at the University of
Lethbridge. She co-edited Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature (1993)
and has published articles on eighteenth- through twentieth-century Irish,
British, American, and African drama and film, and on intertextuality and
cultural identity. She is currently working on a collection of essays on
Irish historical drama and on a book on the structure of modern tragicomedy.

An Béal Bocht: Mouthing Off at National Identity
by Sarah E. McKibben

SARAH MCKIBBEN teaches Irish studies at the University of Notre Dame. She
did her graduate work at Cornell University and at University College
Dublin. She has published essays on Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire and the
politics of early modern Irish poetry. She is interested in the intersection
of Irish studies, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory.

The Shock of the Old: Translating Early Irish Poetry into Modern Irish
by Kaarina Hollo

KAARINA HOLLO is lecturer in the Celtic Department at the University of
Aberdeen, having taught at Harvard University, University College Cork, and
Queen?s University, Belfast. Her research interests span Irish-language
literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day. She has published
on medieval Irish metrics, aspects of the Ulster Cycle, the reception of
continental romance in seventeenth-century Gaelic Ireland, and translation
from Irish to English in the contemporary context.

One Language, Two Tongues: George Fitzmaurice?s Use of Hiberno-English
Dialect
by Donald McNamara

DONALD McNAMARA recently completed his Ph.D. at Catholic University of
America after spending more than twenty years as a journalist. His research
interests are in Irish language, the literature of Ireland, and media
coverage of Ireland (in both the Republic and Northern Ireland). He also
serves on the executive committees of the North American Association of
Celtic Language Teachers.

Regional Roots: The BBC and Poetry in Northern Ireland
by Heather Clark

HEATHER CLARK is assistant professor of English at Marlboro College in
Vermont. She holds degrees from Harvard University, Trinity College Dublin,
and Oxford University, where she recently completed a doctoral dissertation
on the Belfast Group. Her main research interest is poetic collaboration in
Northern Ireland; she is currently preparing her dissertation for
publication. In 2002 she won the Nevill Coghill Poetry Prize at Oxford.

Translating Ireland Back into Éire: Gael Linn and Film Making in Irish
by Jerry White

JERRY WHITE is assistant professor of film studies at the University of
Alberta and president of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. He has
published on Irish film in Cinema Journal, CineAction, the Canadian Journal
of Irish Studies, Éire-Ireland, and Wallflower Press?s Critical Guide to
British and Irish Filmmakers. He has also co-edited the anthology North of
Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980 (2002) and recently served on
the Toronto Film Festival?s jury of the 10 Best Canadian Films

Portrait of a Mythographer: Discourses of Identity in the Work of Father
James McDyer
by E. Moore Quinn

E. MOORE QUINN is assistant professor of linguistic anthropology and
folklore at the College of Charleston. Her research interests include
language and identity, linguistic ideology, the political economy of
language, and cross-cultural efforts to revitalize indigenous languages. She
is guest editor of a special issue on endangered languages for Cultural
Survival Quarterly. She is presently preparing a book on Irish-American
folklore from New England.

Language, Monuments, and the Politics of Memory in Quebec and Ireland
by Kathleen O?Brien

KATHLEEN O?BRIEN is an installation artist, writer, and associate professor
in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University where she also teaches
in Irish Studies. She is visual culture editor for the Canadian Journal of
Irish Studies and is currently working on a book that examines caoineadh and
the politics of the female voice in literature and the visual cultures
related to the Irish Famine.

Faultlines, Limits, Transgressions: A Theme-Cluster in Late
Twentieth-Century Irish Poetry
by Robert Welch

ROBERT WELCH is professor of English and dean of the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Ulster, having taught previously at the University of Leeds
and the University of Ife (Nigeria). A novelist and poet as well as a
scholar and critic, he edited The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
(1996). Other books include Irish Poetry from Moore to Yeats (1980),
Changing States (1993), The Kilcolman Notebook (a novel, 1994), Secret
Societies (poems, 1994), Groundwork (a novel, 1997), The Blue Formica Table
(poems, 1997), and The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999 (1999).

Seal sa Domhan Thoir: Sojourn in the Eastern World
by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL is a noted Irish-language poet. She was born in England
to Irish-speaking parents and spent a formative period of her childhood in
the West Kerry Gaeltacht. She has also lived in Turkey for several years.
Although a polyglot, she writes poetry in Irish only and has been translated
into English by many of Ireland?s leading poets. Her most recent collection
of poems in Irish is Cead Aighnis (1998); her most recent dual-language
volume is The Water Horse (1999) with translations by Medbh McGuckian and
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.


CALL FOR PAPERS - Spring 2004 Issue

The Spring 2004 issue of Éire-Ireland, a journal of the Irish American
Cultural Institute, will be devoted to a broad consideration of Unionist
identities in modern Ireland from 1780 to the present. The Guest Editor for
this special issue is Professor Sean Farrell of the College of St. Rose.
His approach to the subject is wide, extending from the Peep o' Day Boys and
the Orangemen of the late eighteenth century through the loyalist and
Unionist groups and parties of the present time, and embracing both southern
and northern Unionism as well as nationalist and British reactions to them.

The Irish American Cultural Institute encourages submissions representing
literary or visual, as well as historical responses to the topic of
Unionism. The deadline for the receipt of contributions to this issue is
October 15, 2003, but Professor Farrell would like to hear from potential
contributors as soon as possible. His mailing address is:

Professor Sean Farrell
Department of History and Political Science
College of St. Rose
432 Western Ave
Albany, NY 12203

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: RE: Ir-D An Irishman at the Basque World Congress


Thanks for sharing these. A lot of food for thought, very nicely presented.


Bill Mulligan

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Information about this article reached us by a roundabout route - and
clearly I did not tidy enough, or tidied too much...

The Article is listed at...

http://www.soc.ulaval.ca/recherchessociographiques/default.asp

Pouvoir et perception : une communauté irlandaise au Québec au dix-neuvième
siècle Par D. Aidan MCQUILLAN

If you click on the Table des Matieres... On the left hand side...
That gets you into the Contents area...
And you can click on Volume 40, XL on the right hand side...
It's in... Numéro 2, Volume XL, 1999

Which opens in a new window - for some reason... So...

Pouvoir et perception : une communauté irlandaise au Québec au dix-neuvième
siècle Par D. Aidan MCQUILLAN
Recherches sociographiques
Vol. 40, 2, pp. 263-283

Is the reference... There doesn't seem to be online access - so you'll have
to chase print...

P.O'S.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I have written up my notes on the Basque World Congress, and I have
displayed them on our web site...

http://www.irishdiaspora.net/

In the section called REPORTS.

The notes fall into 3 parts...

1 An Irishman at the Basque World Congress - BEFORE
2 An Irishman at the Basque World Congress - DURING
3 An Irishman at the Basque World Congress - AFTER

This was simply a way of getting rough notes off paper, into the machine,
and available.

Paddy


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For information....

Only one 'Irish question' is mentioned - I wonder which one?

P.O'S.

Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing seeks submissions for a
special issue on Ireland and Film. Rebecca Steinberger will be the
guest editor of this special issue on recent Irish films, planned for
appearance in spring of 2005. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to: how is the nation represented in recent cinematic
interpretations? What constitutes ?Irish? cinema? How does the Irish
question surface in film? What is the role of history in film
narrative? How does film?s function in Irish culture differ from that
of written fiction or plays? In what ways do film soundtracks reflect
traditional Irish music? What role does the Irish landscape assume in
film?

Articles should be no longer than 5,000-6,000 words in length and
should be written in MLA format. Submit three copies of the completed
paper and disk (preferably in Microsoft Word), along with a cover
letter and c.v., to Rebecca Steinberger, Assistant Professor of
English, College Misericordia, 301 Lake Street, Dallas, PA 18612-1098.
Submission deadline is 1 September 2004.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

This is a very interesting database - though I could not see any way to make
it work sensibly with a keyword search. But a search for specific Irish
(and 'Irish') songs of the period gets results, and shows intriguing
patterns.

P.O'S.

Early American Secular Music and Its
European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index
Compiled by

Robert M. Keller, Raoul F. Camus,
Kate Van Winkle Keller, and Susan Cifaldi

The Colonial Music Institute
Annapolis, Maryland
C 2002

http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/index.html

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For information....

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=275141030318726

Matthew Pratt Guterl. The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. ix + 234 pp. Illustrations, index,
bibliographical references. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-00615-1.

Reviewed by Brian Daugherity, Department of History, The College of William
and Mary, Virginia.
Published by H-South (August, 2002)

The book includes a section on Daniel Cohalan, the prominent Irish-American
nationalist and one-time New York Supreme Court Justice...

The reviewer says...

'Guterl's subsequent chapters flesh out his argument in greater detail. The
second focuses on Daniel Cohalan, the important Irish-American nationalist.
Cohalan, as the primary organizer of the first Irish Race Convention, held
in New York City in 1916, and an associate of the Friends of Irish Freedom,
was a leading advocate of Irish nationalism and anticolonialism in the years
preceding and following the Great War. A proponent of early cultural
pluralism and a firm believer in the uniqueness of the "Irish race," Cohalan
sought to preserve the distinctiveness of Irish culture even as he
emphasized the patriotism and loyalty of Irish-Americans. In the end, Guterl
argues, such a distinction was impossible to maintain. He writes, "as the
Great War began, a razor-thin line kept the Irish from being members of the
white race; with the postwar dawning of a new sense of race and the
emergence of worldwide anticolonialism partly based in New York, that line
was quickly erased" (p. 70)...'

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Variation among European Americans in emotional facial expression
Tsai JL, Chentsova-Dutton Y
JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
34 (6): 650-657 NOV 2003

Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 23
Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
The authors examined whether European Americans (EA) several generations
removed from their ancestors varied as a function of their countries of
origin by comparing the emotional facial expressions of EA originally from
Scandinavian countries (EA-S), who value emotional control, and those from
Ireland (EA-I), who value emotional expression. EA-S were less expressive
than EA-I while reliving various emotions, especially happiness and love,
suggesting that in this domain, EAs continue to be influenced by their
cultural heritages.

Author Keywords:
European Americans, White, Scandinavian, Irish, emotion, facial expression

KeyWords Plus:
CHINESE-AMERICAN

Addresses:
Tsai JL, Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Bldg 420, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Publisher:
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS

IDS Number:
735RP

ISSN:
0022-0221