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University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan .

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 31 AUGUST 2004

From: patrick maume
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Captain Rock

From: Patrick Maume
That Katsuta article on Rockism is very interesting indeed. A couple of
points that can be drawn from it:
(1) It seems to have genuine contemporary evidence for a popular belief
that a son of the United Irishman Arthur O'Connor would return from France
as a millennial deliverer. There is some interesting material on the
evidence for a committee structure directing Rockism in parts of Munster
(albeit with the caveat that informats may be reporting their own or others'
fears).
(2) There's an interesting sidelight on the formation of Thomas Davis that
nobody has picked up on. Apparently Mallow was virtually besieged and
witnessed widespread repression in 1798, & during the 1820s when Davis was a
boy the area saw both large-scale agrarian violence and bitter political
struggle between anti-emancipationist Tories and O'Connell-backed Whigs for
the boroughparliamentary seat. Davis (b.1815) can't have been unaffected
by this. George Boyce said in his ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW review of Helen
Mulvey's recent Davis biography that the material on Davis apart from his
own publications is so thin that any life of him must necessarily be "the
life of a mind" - but I think more attention to the Mallow context would
highlight what Davis was reacting against - both the embittered siege
mentality of the small Protestant communities in southern provincial towns,
surveying Rockism in the 1820s and the Tithe War of the 1830s, and the sheer
effort which it must have taken the young Protestant barrister-journalist to
make up his mind to associate himself with O'Connell, whom many of Davis's
friends and family would have seen as directly responsible for the siege...
I have a couple of little publications just out or forthcoming in this
area from UCD Press. I've just brought out an abridged edition (IRISH
RECOLLECTIONS) of the memoirs of the Evangelical Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna,
who describes her experience of Rockism in Kilkenny/Tipperary in the early
1820s and the fears engendered by the Pastorini prophecies. Tonna's own
attitude to Irishness is interestingly ambivalent - born in Norwich and
Brought up to hate & fear the Irish she came to see Ireland as her second
country (because she was "born again" while living there) & devoted much
effort to Irish-Language evangelisation. She saw O'Connell as a limb of
Antichrist and Thomas Moore as a propagandist employed by the Vatican, and
her work sheds a interesting light on how the Protestant premillenialist
apocalypticism which still resonates in the American Bible Belt was
influenced by the Irish Protestant siege experience of the 1820s...
Best wishes,
Patrick
>
>
> >From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
> Reading the latest issue of Irish Historical Studies, XXXIII, No. 131,
> May 2003...

> Shunsuke Katsuta on the Rockite movement in the 1820s - detailed and
> interesting, mostly based on un-calendared papers from the Chief
> Secretary's Office. Which, of course, give the Point Of View. (Does
> not mention my own chapter on Captain Rock - but I know why. It is
> because my dear editors gave my chapter such a daft title that no one
> knows what it is about

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

From: Jason King
jkingk[at]yahoo.com
Subject: CFP Canadian Journal of Irish Studies


Call for Papers:

Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

The interdisciplinary Canadian Journal of Irish Studies invites submissions
for a special issue addressing themes in Irish-Canadian history and
literature, broadly defined, in the nineteenth century and the twentieth
century. (scheduled to appear in 2005). Possible topics, very broadly
defined, include (but are not limited to):

 comparative historical or literary work on Canadian and other
areas of the Irish diaspora
 Cultural hybridity
 Globalisation and immigration in Canadian and/or Irish comparative
perspective
 Irish-Canadian ethnicity and inter-cultural contact/conflict with
other ethnic groups
 Irish-Canadian emigrant letters
 Irish-Canadian historiography
 Irish-Canadian literary history
 Irish-Canadian nationalism
 Irish-Canadian print or popular culture
 Post-colonial dimensions of Irish-Canadian culture
 Racialization of the Irish in Canada
 Regional historical and literary themes
 Trans-Atlantic historical and literary themes

Submitted essays should be up to approx. 6500 words in length (including
notes etc.)
and should follow either the MLA Style Sheet (literatures and languages) or
the
*Chicago Manual of Style* (other disciplines). The author's name should
appear only on the
cover sheet in order to facilitate blind vetting.
Please send two hard copies and one electronic copy
(MS-Word or WordPerfect), by *1 August 2004*, to the guest editors:


Kevin James

Department of History

427 MacKinnon,

University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario,

Canada, N1G 2W1

kjames[at]uoguelph.ca

E-mail enquiries: kjames[at]uoguelph.ca



Jason King

English Department

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Maynooth, County Kildare

Ireland Canada University Foundation

jkingk[at]yahoo.com

E-mail enquiries: jkingk[at]yahoo.com

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: RE: Ir-D Joint Conference, Liverpool, July 2004

Paddy--

1:30 with sessions opposite is an odd time for a reception.
There doesn't seem to be anything afterwards - I recall that tours were
mentioned at one point for the afternoon that day. Information does seem to
be slow coming along -- perhaps because of the number of organizations
involved.

I will be glad to participate during the time slot we've been given
or to fill in as "host" if you want to go to a session or part of one. I
just finished teaching an Irish Diaspora course and will post some thoughts
on that for the list. It was a very interesting experience and, on the
whole, went pretty well. I could say a few words about that, if you want to
do have a brief program. I see some names I recognize from the list on the
program and am sure there are others. I am looking forward to meeting
people I have not yet met, so there is a value in having a place and time
for that.

I checked the British Rail website and there should be no problem
getting from Manchester to Liverpool. Now, to find a decent fare to
Manchester.

Bill

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Just to remind people...

On Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May 2004, the third international Irish in
Europe conference takes place at St Kieran's College, Kilkenny. The
programme features twenty-four lectures given by academics from Ireland,
France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Belgium, Scotland and England. Papers
explore the military, commerical and intellectual activity of Irish migrants
in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Full details of the programme, accommodation, transport, and the Irish in
Europe Project are available at www.irishineurope.com/

http://www.irishineurope.com/events.html

The revised Conference schedule is now on the web site - and is pasted in,
below.

Much good stuff.

P.O'S.


Third Irish in Europe Conference
Kilkenny campus of NUI Maynooth

14-15 May 2004

Venues: Divinity Hall and Green Room, St Kieran's College

Friday 14 May 2004

12.30pm onwards: registration in Divinity Hall, St Kieran's college, College
Rd. Kilkenny

[Light buffet lunch available]

1.45 Welcome address
2.00 Opening session: Ciaran Brady (TCD) The Victorians and the decline of
Spain

The conference continues in two parallel sessions

2.30 Ciaran O'Scea (Valladolid) Making Ireland literate: the role of service
papers, cedulas and memorials in the transformation of Irish oral culture in
early modern Castile
Patrick Clarke de Dromantin (Bordeaux) L'insertion des Jacobites dans la
société française du XVIIIe siècle

3.00 Coffee

3.30 Óscar Recio Morales (Madrid) Strangers in a strange land: in search of
Irish identities in early modern Spain
Patrick Ferté (Toulouse) Étudiants et professeurs irlandais dans les
universités de Toulouse et de Cahors (17e-18e siècles)

4.00 Samuel Fannin (Murcia) Sons of Milesius: legend as history in Irish
emigration and integration in 18th century Spain
Guillaume Vautravers (Dijon) The Geography of recruitment for the Irish
brigade in French service, 1690-1790

4.30 Forum

Evening session at Butler House, Kilkenny
7.00 Louis M. Cullen (TCD) Apotheosis and crisis : the Irish diaspora in the
age of Choiseul
7.45 Launch of the Irish in Europe database by John Keating and Denis Clancy
(NUI Maynooth)
8.30 Conference Dinner (city restaurant)


Saturday 15 May 2004

10.00 Opening session: Pierre Joannon (Ireland Fund de France) Andrew
McDonagh or the Irish Monte-Cristo

The conference continues in two parallel sessions

10.30 Patricia O Connell (Dublin) Irish students in Lisbon, Évora and
Coimbra
Priscilla O'Connor (NUI Maynooth) The Irish community in 18th century Paris

11.00 Martin Murphy (Oxford) Varieties of Irishness in 18th century Seville:
The Whites and the Wisemans
Liam Chambers (MIC,UL) Eighteenth-century rivalry and dissent in the Irish
College, Paris

11.30 Coffee and forum

12.00 Begoña Villar García (Málaga) Los irlandeses en la España moderna:
refujiados, mercenarios, comerciantes y estadistas
Éamon Ó Ciosáin (NUI Maynooth) The Irish in France 1660-1690: the point of
no return?

12.30 Enrique García Hernán (Madrid) The Irish Cleric in Madrid, 1600-1650
Steve Murdoch (St Andrew's) Entrepreneurs and industrialists: Irishmen in
Sweden, 1660-1725

1.00 Buffet Lunch

2.30 Charlie Dillon (Queen's, Belfast) Translating the counter-reformation
in Prague: Introduction à la vie dévote and An Bheatha Chrábhaidh c. 1647
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (UCD) Irish diplomatic missions to Rome in the 1640s

3.00 Jan Parmentier (Gent) The Ray dynasty: Irish mercantile empire builders
in Ostend, 1690-1790
Thomas Byrne (NUI Maynooth) Nathaniel Hooke and the French embassy to
Saxony, 1711-12

3.30 Coffee and forum

4.15 Thomas Bartlett (UCD) Napoleon's Irish Legions
Declan Downey (UCD) The Irish cabal at the Viennese court, 1630-1830

4.45 Patrick Fitzgerald (Ulster Folk Park) The Irish in early modern Europe:
towards a diasporic approach?

5.15 Plenary and closing session

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Useful article in The Guardian last Thursday - interestingly, in the
computer section... Brings us up to date on the present state of the family
history and genealogy industries...

P.O'S.


EXTRACT BEGINS...
Genes reunited

As the interest in tracing family history has grown, genealogy websites have
sprung up to cater for the demand. Phil Inman and Sean Dodson report

Thursday April 29, 2004
The Guardian

Britain is in the midst of an intense race to build the most extensive
database of recorded family history. As a result, what was once closely
guarded by civil servants, librarians and obsessive genealogists is now easy
to find online. It includes registers of births, marriages and deaths from
1837, census results from 1871, parish records and thousands of family
trees. All have been put on the web in recent years and, in many cases, in
recent months.
Ever since the government's attempt to put the 1901 census online collapsed
under the weight of 3m hits in three hours, a growing band of specialist
genealogy websites has sought to make up the lost ground.
EXTRACT ENDS...

REST OF ARTICLE AT...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1205150,00.html

INCLUDES BY LIST OF USEFUL WEB SITES....

Finding your roots

. Society of Genealogists also publishes the magazine My Family History.

. The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (01227 768664).

. Genuki is one of the main centres for genealogical records and is
supported by Manchester and Newcastle universities.

. Familia provides a guide to what is available at public libraries, though
only the large county libraries that hold genealogy records.

. Rootsweb.com (with support from the MyFamily group) provides a forum much
like Genes Connected, though with free access to records of births,
marriages and deaths

. Newsgroups offer a way to quiz others building family trees about shared
ancestors.

. EveryGeneration.com is a resource for people of African, Caribbean or
mixed ancestry.

. Anyone can search a Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site
www.cwgc.org to find details of an ancestor who served in the first or
second world wars.

. Cyndi's List of Genealogy web sites has more than 130,000 links.

. www.census.pro.gov.uk houses the 1901 census.

. Beginners can find help at the Federation of Family History Societies'
First Steps in Family History at www.ffhs.org.uk/leaflets/faq.htm

From: bradkent[at]alcor.concordia.ca

I've received a call for papers that seems to cover many of the issues
discussed by the Irish Diaspora group. The journal's website (which
includes an index of past issues) provides the following mission statement:

"Mind and Human Interaction is a biannual journal that combines the
perspectives of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, diplomacy, political science,
history, sociology, and anthropology to provide in-depth analysis of the
psychological processes beneath the surface of conflict, acculturation,
ethnonational identity, and other aspects of human relations."

I've pasted the CFP in below...

Brad Kent

- -----Original Message-----
Subject: CFP - Diaspora Identity

Mind and Human Interaction, an interdisciplinary journal published by the
Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, University of Virginia,
is seeking papers on the theme of "Diaspora Identity".

Whether exiled or immigrating to a new land, whether first or second
generation, an individual psychologically intertwines the home of origin and
the present home in a variety of ways that impact his/her identity.
We would be very interested in learning more about this psychological
process and look forward to receiving your submission.

Paper length is variable, however, most papers published in Mind and Human
Interaction range from 3,000-9,000 words. Please refer to our website
listed below for citation guidelines and further information.
Please submit papers before or by September 1, 2004. Papers may be
submitted as email attachments or by mail providing a disk with the
formatted paper is included.

Please send submissions to:

mind[at]virginia.edu

Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction University of Virginia PO
Box 800657 Charlottesville, VA 22908-0657

For guidelines, refer
to:http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/csmhi/journal.cfm


Please contact the editor, Lisa Aronson, at LA8N[at]virginia.edu, with any
questions or comments.

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

I pass on this publisher's blurb, for information... But I have to comment.
I don't think I can be accused of underplaying the importance of the Irish
Famine. But that last sentence of the first paragraph - 'Ireland without
the Great Famine would be an Ireland without an emigrant history, without
the Irish Diaspora, without the tales of the dispossessed, and without the
myths and realities that shape the culture of the nation.' - is simply not
true.

I wonder if the Editors know what is being distributed in their names?

P.O'S.


PUBLISHER INFORMATION...

Famine and Diseases in Ireland
(ISBN 1851967915)
Pickering & Chatto
Price: £450.00

Famine and Disease in Ireland
5 Volume Set

Editors: Leslie Clarkson and E Margaret Crawford

The Great Famine of 1845?9 remains the great climacteric in Irish history.
It does so for two reasons. The first is that it occurred at a time when
famines on a major scale had become a thing of the past in Western Europe
and in part of the economically most advanced political entity in the world
? the United Kingdom . The second reason is that the Great Famine has
entered deeply into the psyche of the nation. Ireland without the Great
Famine would be an Ireland without an emigrant history, without the Irish
Diaspora, without the tales of the dispossessed, and without the myths and
realities that shape the culture of the nation.

The first volume in the collection will include a general introduction and a
reprint of Sir William Wilde?s, ?Table of cosmical phenomena, epizootics,
epiphitics, famines and pestilences in Ireland?, published in 1856 as part
of the preface to the Census of Ireland for the year 1851 (Part V, Tables of
Deaths, vol. I). Wilde?s own analysis of the table will also be included in
this volume. The second and third volumes will contain reprints of
contemporary works relating to the Great Famine. A fourth volume will bring
together writings on the medical conditions in Ireland during the Great
Famine gathered from the Dublin Journal of Medical Science and similar
publications. Many of these were from the pen of Sir William Wilde or were
commissioned by him. The fifth volume will contain writing relevant to
earlier famines in Ireland .

The volumes will be of great interest to historians of Ireland. They will
equally be relevant to students of development and famine studies.

Publication details
1 85196 791 5: 5 Volume Set: £450/$750
c.2000 pages: 234x156mm: June 2005

Editorial apparatus
Each text is accompanied by a headnote containing author information where
possible, a brief textual history and each text?s basic argument. The
inclusion of an extensive bibliography facilitates the research needs of
scholars and students.

The edition?s general introduction includes a discussion of the place of
famine studies in Irish historiography. It also includes an examination of
the nature of famines in the past and how they have been treated by
historians. This leads on to a consideration of the relevance of medical and
nutritional history for social historians.

A feature of the edition will be an explanation of the medical terms that
appear in most of the texts and of the Irish terminology used in Wilde?s
tables. The authorities citied by Wilde and the other authors will be
identified.

Contents
Volume 1

Complete text:
W R W Wilde, ?Table of cosmical phenomena, epizootics, epiphitics, famines,
and pestilences in Ireland ?, Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, part v
(1856)

Volume 2

Complete text:
Sir Charles Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis (1847, 1848)

Volume 3

Excerpted texts:
Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Vol. VII, No. 13, n.s. (1849),
pp 64?126; Vol. VII, No. 14, n.s. (1849), pp 340?401; Vol. VIII, No. 15,
n.s. (1849), pp 1?86; Vol. VIII, No. 16, n.s. (1849), pp 210?339

Volume 4

Complete text:
Francis Barker and John Cheyne, An Account of the Rise, Progress, and
Decline of the Fever lately epidemical in Ireland together with
Communications from Physicians in the Provinces (1821)

Volume 5

Complete texts:
A B, A short View of the State of Ireland (1727); John Rutty, A
Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons and of the prevailing
Diseases in Dublin (1770); William Harty, Historical Sketch of the Causes,
Extent, and Mortality of contagious Fever, Endemics in 1741, and during
1817, 1818, and 1819 (1820)

Editorial board
L A Clarkson is Professor Emeritus of Social History at Queen?s University
Belfast. He has published many books and articles on Early Modern England
and Ireland including, with E Margaret Crawford, Feast and Famine. A History
of Food and Nutrition in Ireland 1500?1920 ( Oxford , 2002)
E Margaret Crawford is Senior Research Fellow at Queen?s University Belfast.
In addition to Feast and Famine, she has published extensively on food and
nutrition and is editor of Famine; the Irish Experience 900?1900 ( Edinburgh
, 1989)


Web site www.pickeringchatto.com/famine

From: patrick maume
Sender: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Ir-D TEXTS, Famine and Diseases in Ireland

From: Patrick MAume
I wonder will this encourage research non the famines or near-famines
(I've seen them described as both) of 1817 and 1822? I've done a little
research on the period recently & was surprised at the number of references
to them in 1840s journalism; but they have been almost completely
overshadowed by the Great Famine in historical memory.
Best wishes,
Patrick
----------------------
patrick maume

From: "William Mulligan Jr."
To:
Subject: RE: Teaching the Irish Diaspora - Long


I have nearly finished teaching a course here at Murray State University on
the Irish Diaspora -- I say nearly finished because the final exams are
sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be graded. The real moment of truth.
This post is yet another delaying tactic on my part. I thought there might
be some interest among those on the list in how this went. A number of you
helped me as I was planning this by sharing information and ideas. If I
forgot to thank you personally, before I got too busy to do that, please
accept my belated appreciation. I'll be
happy to send the syllabus, study guides, and exams to anyone who asks
either as email attachments or by mail.

First, a word about Murray State. We are a regional, comprehensive (i.e.,
through the masters degree, no doctorates) state-supported university in the
southwest corner of Kentucky. One of the local TV stations refers to this as
"the heartland." This is middle America, for good and for bad. The
enrollment here is about 10,200 and our admissions standards are not
particularly selective. We have fared well in a recent rash of ratings of
American universities, however.

I've been here eleven years. Most of our students come from small towns
(there are only a few big cities) within a 150 mile radius. Within this
radius a very high proportion of the population are descendants of pre-1830
emigrants from Ireland. Our immediate area, known as the Jackson Purchase,
was heavily settled by people whose ancestors had emigrated from Ireland
very early in that migration and found their way to far western Virginia and
North Carolina by the first years of the nineteenth century. Very few of
the students have any clear sense of being Irish Americans, however, and
many seemed surprised as the course unfolded and they realized they were
part of the Diaspora. Their reasons for taking the course were very varied.
[I also teach an Irish history course here which has become quite popular.
Several referred to the Diaspora course as the "second half" of Irish
history. An interesting way to look at it.]

I learned a long time ago to "play the hand I'm dealt" and do not inquire
too closely into why students take a course.
One learns things best left unknown -- such as time slot and lack of
alternatives, for example. It's better not to know how many of your students
are in your course because the one they really wanted was full.

I described the course in the syllabus, in part, as -

Chief among the larger questions the course will address is: what does it
mean to be Irish in different cultural settings. (One could ask the same
question of other Diasporic peoples. But, in this course we will focus on
the Irish.) At several points during the semester we'll view parts of a
video series called "The Irish Empire." The concept of an Irish "Empire" is
one we will address in the second discussion.

The course was primarily lecture with two small group discussions prior to
the two exams that doubled as review sessions and the showing video series,
The Irish Empire. The format worked pretty well. I may try and work in more
discussion and will probably buy the Irish Empire on DVD now that it's
available so I can be more selective next time I teach the course. (The
students did especially enjoy the inebriated rock singer in Episode 5 and
several want me to invite Donald Akenson to campus so they can meet him :-)
) I'll probably try to use some additional videos that time didn't allow
this time, as well. I see some things I can shorten. I assigned Andy
Bielenberg's and Charles Fanning' collections of essays and had The Irish
World Wide on reserve in the library as well as Kenny's essay in the JAH and
Paddy's essay in New Hibernia Review. I was pleasantly surprised by the
number who did a lot of the reading. Somewhat unusual here and a good sign.


The topics covered included:

Introduction to the Course

Emigration in Irish History: An Overview

The Irish on the Continent before 1600

The Flight of the Earls and the Wild Geese

The Irish in Europe

The Irish in Britain before 1840

Famine Migrants in Britain

The Irish in Britain 1850 - WWII

The Irish in Post War Britain

Irish Migration to North America before 1830

Famine Migration to the US and Canada

The Irish in the US Civil War

Irish America, 1870-1960

The Irish in Canada

The Irish in Australia

The Irish in New Zealand

The Irish in South Africa and Elsewhere

The Irish in Latin America: An Overview

The Irish in Argentina

Varieties of Irishness: The Diaspora Today

Irish Immigrants in the US during the 1980s

Next time, I'll spend less time on the emigration overview -- it got way too
theoretical for my students, much as I enjoyed it -- and the Irish on the
continent. That worked better when I connected it with Spanish activities
in South America. I need to add a lecture or two on the Irish in the
British Empire generally, esp. India. That was one thing I have realized I
did not include enough on. I'm not sure I'll end on the Irish in the US in
1980s again. That actually turned into a lecture on emigration in the 1980s
and the subsequent Celtic Tiger economy. A better conclusion.

All-in-all the course went well. The midterm exams were solid, class
questions and discussion indicated a good level of engagement. I'll know
more after I grade the exams and see the student evaluations -- if there is
more to report I will.

One of the students sent me an mail at the end of the course suggesting that
"my friends" on this list ( I referred to the Ir-D list as a source of
information a number of times in class) should do a text book on the
Diaspora. Not a bad idea. Perhaps those of us who'll be in Liverpool can
discuss this.

Bill Mulligan

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of...
Wilson McLeod
Subject: Conference information

A chàirdean

[English version below]

RANNSACHADH NA GÀIDHLIG 3

Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann / University of Edinburgh
21-23 Iuchar / July 2004

Chan eil a' cho-labhairt mhòr seo fad air falbh a-nis. Bidh còrr is 60
pàipear ann uile gu lèir, a' gabhail a-steach litreachas de gach rè,
cànanachas, eachdraidh, dualchas, sòisio-chànanachas agus dealbhadh cànain,
agus foghlam/ionnsachadh na Gàidhlig. Is iad Raghnall MacilleDhuibh (Na
Pùballan), Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Oilthigh Chambridge) agus Boyd Robastan
(Oilthigh Shrath
Chluaidh) na prìomh-òraidichean.

Bho chionn ghoirid sgaoil sinn bileagan fiosrachaidh tron phost (is dòcha
gun d'fhuair sibh tè dhiubh mar-thà). Air làrach-lìn na co-labhairt gheibh
sibh dreachd clàr-ama, geàrr-chùnntasan phàipearan, fiosrachadh mu
àiteachan-fuirich agus mu thuras na co-labhairt, agus foirm-clàraidh:

http://www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/rannsachadh_na_gaidhlig.htm

Ma tha ceistean sam bith agaibh, nach cuir sibh fios gu Wilson McLeod,
w.mcleod[at]ed.ac.uk.

Tha sinn an dòchas gum bi sinn gur faicinn anns an Iuchar!

***

This major conference is now less than three months away. There will be more
than 60 papers in all, approximately one-third of them in Gaelic, covering a
wide range of topics: literature of all periods, linguistics, history,
folklore, sociolinguistics and language planning, and Gaelic
education/learning. Our plenary speakers are Ronald Black (Peebles), Máire
Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) and Boyd Robertson (University of
Strathclyde).

We recently sent out a number of information leaflets in the post (you may
already have received one of these). We have also created a web page where
you will find the draft programme, abstracts of papers, details concerning
accommodation and the conference excursion, and a booking form:

http://www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/rannsachadh_na_gaidhlig.htm

Should you have any questions, please contact Wilson McLeod,
w.mcleod[at]ed.ac.uk.

We hope to see you in July!

Is mise le meas


Wilson McLeod
- --

Dr Wilson McLeod
Ceiltis agus Eòlas na h-Alba / Celtic and Scottish Studies
19 Ceàrnag Sheòrais / 19 George Square
Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann / University of Edinburgh Dùn Èideann / Edinburgh EH8
9LD ALBA/ SCOTLAND

From Email Patrick O'Sullivan


I was following up some leads on Christopher Brennan - who, I think, is an
interesting writer. I have a copy of Terry Sturm's edition. And I wanted
to see how far you could see Brennan as an Irish Diaspora writer...

And I came across this reference...

Justin Lucas, '"Shut out of mine own heart": Reading Christopher Brennan'.
Chapter published in Kuch and Robson, (eds), Irelands in the Asia Pacific,
(Gerrard's Cross: [UK], Colin Smythe, forthcoming).

And I hunted down details of the Kuch and Robson book - details pasted in
below. Looks interesting... Does anyone know more?

Paddy



Irelands in the Asia-Pacific

Since Mary McAleese embraced the expatriate and emigrant Irish in her
inaugural Presidential address, much has been made of the global Irish
family. This exciting collection of essays from a group of eminent scholars
explores the teaching and research of Irish literature in a region of the
world that has scouted the attractions of western culture since the
sixteenth century. Three or four centuries later those attractions, as far
as the Irish are concerned, have become specific.

It is reasonably well known that on his own life-time W. B. Yeats was
invited to take up a Professorship in Japan; that Ulysses has been
translated at least three times into Chinese; that the plays of George
Bernard Shaw apparently strike a chord with students in Hong Kong; that the
fairy-tales of Wilde are reverenced in China; and that the Irish influence
on Australian literature has been pervasive if not profound.

But what is not well-known are the contexts for these and other
inter-relations. Irelands in the Asia-Pacific explores these in a sequence
of twenty-six articles grouped under the headings of: Writing an Irish Self;
Joyce at large; Post-Colonial readings of Irish Literature; Antipodean
Connections; Teaching Irish Literature in the Asia-Pacific; and Irish
Literature Down-Under.

The Editors

Peter Kuch holds degrees from the University of Wales and from Oxford. He
has taught at the Universities of Newcastle (Australia) and Caen and held
Visiting Fellowships at The Humanities Research Centre of The Australian
National University and Trinity College, Dublin. He is currently a Senior
Lecturer in the School of English and Convenor of the Irish Studies Program
at The University of New South Wales. He has lectured widely in Australia
and overseas, has broadcast on radio and television, and has published
several books, and numerous reviews and articles on modern Irish,
Australian, and American literature.

Julie-Ann Robson completed her PhD on Oscar Wilde at The Australian National
University, after obtaining first-class honours in English and Philosophy at
The University of New South Wales. The holder of a prestigious Australian
Postgraduate Award she has taught at The University of Sydney, The
University of New South Wales and at Macquarie University. Her publications
include "'Literary Outsider': The Aesthetics of Oscar Wilde", in Jacqueline
Lo et al. (eds.) Impossible Selves: Cultural Readings of Identity (1999),
'Sin, Excess and Nemesis: Oscar Wilde and the Limits of Action', in The Harp
(IASIL Japan, 1998).

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From Email Patrick O'Sullivan

Thanks to Bill Mulligan for this. Very interesting.

Some gossip...

Some students have said that at times they find the Irish Empire documentary
series confusing. This is because at times the Irish Empire series IS
confusing.

Money was allocated to the project by RTE and partners, and then the project
went nowhere for a long time and nearly lost the money. Finally, they had
to start filming quickly, and in some cases started filming before they knew
what they were going to film. Editing can only rescue so much...

Meanwhile, the project was rescued by producer, Ritchie Cogan. Who is a
decent man. He sat here in my attic in Bradford, and we roughed out the
series - the similarity to The Irish World Wide series is sort of
inevitable. That's what happens when you take a thematic approach to the
study of the Irish Diaspora - you have one programme about women, and so on.
I then made introductions. Piaras MacEinri and Paddy Fitzgerald advised -
Paddy F wrote the commentary, which was a part of the rescuing process.

I am never convinced that un-scripted interviews are the way to do these
things - I was called in again at a later date, by Ritchie Cogan, to answer
on camera all the questions people had forgotten to ask. But you do get to
see the people on these tv docs, and hear up to date comment and research.

There is an RTE web site
http://www.rte.ie/tv/irishempire/

Ritchie Cogan is now involved with One World Broadcasting Trust
http://www.owbt.org/default.asp

There was a horse called Irish Empire, Owner Rudy Weiss, Trainer M J
Grassick - didn't do too badly.

People who are using Kevin Kenny's Special Essay in their teaching...
Remember that we negotiated access to the full text with the JAH...

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

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

This article is freely 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.

My own article from New Hibernia Review - which is a sort of companion piece
- - is available to anyone who emails me and asks for it. I can then send it
out as a pdf email attachment.

More gossip... On his page 142 Kevin Kenny mentions that Robin Cohen lists
the Irish as a 'victim diaspora', 'chiefly on the basis of the great
famine...' I am afraid that that is my fault - in my defence, I answered
the specific question that Robin Cohen put to me. We did not have a wider
discussion about Irish migration.

Paddy


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I have not bothered the Ir-D list with too much discussion of background
problems. But I will now, because we very nearly have solutions to those
problems in place.

1.
The Irish-Diaspora list.
From its beginning the Irish-Diaspora list has worked through software
called Majordomo, based at the University of Bradford. This has never
really been very satisfactory, for a number of reasons - the software is
clumsy to use, old-fashioned, and saddles us with obscure chores. Also, the
University of Bradford insists that only members of the university take on
those chores.

I am now NEARLY ready to move the Irish-Diaspora list to Jiscmail
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/index.htm

'JISCmail is a mailing list service sponsored by the JISC, for the UK Higher
and Further Education communities, enabling members to stay in touch and
share information by e-mail or via the web. JISCmail is based on a Listserv
system which is hosted and run by a dedicated team at the CCLRC's Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory...'

So, Jiscmail works through the Listserv software - I think many people will
be familiar with Listserv. The management of your own individual account
becomes much simpler - there is a web interface. Though, if you want, you
can still do everything by email.

I still have a bit of work to do, just making sure that Ir-D[at]jiscmail will
work as we want it to, and tidying up the documentation.

irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk will continue to work, as before, for the time
being. I will alert Ir-D members in good time, before the changeover. You
don't have to do anything now.

2.
irishdiaspora.net
As teckies amongst you will know, irishdiaspora.net is in fact a web
database - it uses software called Cold Fusion, and lives on a big computer
in the USA. Recently we learnt that, from the end of this month, the
company which hosts irishdiaspora.net has decided that it will no longer
support the Cold Fusion software.

I suppose that ideally we might want irishdiaspora.net to be based in some
respectable academic setting that supports Cold Fusion - but finding one,
and negotiating a deal, is something that we really do not have time for.
At the same time some commercial solutions that we looked at were quite
beyond our means.

I have found a reasonably priced commercial hosting solution, based in
Scotland. The cost of this will be borne by the Irish Diaspora Research
Unit. We are safe there for at least a year - which gives us time to think.

Over the next week or so we will be moving irishdiaspora.net to its new
home. Really you should not notice anything, and, once bedded down, the
thing should work as before.

irishdiaspora.net does need a re-design - I never really liked the
ring-binder metaphor. We can look at that when we are past these present
hurdles...

P.O'S.


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This item from 1997 fell into our nets...

Phenylketonuria is one of the most common inherited disorders - it is an
inherited error of metabolism, which can now be controlled through diet.

I haven't seen the full article, but I would guess that the study of 'the
peoples' of Northern Ireland had something to do with available samples.

P.O'S.


Human Genetics
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
ISSN: 0340-6717 (Paper) 1432-1203 (Online)
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050488
Issue: Volume 100, Number 2

Date: July 1997
Pages: 189 - 194
Phenylketonuria and the peoples of Northern Ireland


J. Zschocke A1, J. P. Mallory A2, Hans G. Eiken A3, Norman C. Nevin A4

A1 Universitäts-Kinderklinik, Deutschhausstrasse 12, D-35033 Marburg,
Germany Tel.: +49-6421-282957; Fax: +49-6421-285724
A2 Dept of Archaeology-Palaeoecology, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern
Ireland
A3 Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Bergen, Haukeland Hospital,
Bergen, Norway
A4 Dept of Medical Genetics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland


Abstract:


Abstract The comparison of regional patterns of recessive disease mutations
is a new source of information for studies of population genetics. The
analysis of phenylketonuria (PKU) mutations in Northern Ireland shows that
most major episodes of immigration have left a record in the modern
genepool. The mutation I65T can be traced to the Palaeolithic people of
western Europe who, in the Mesolithic period, first colonised Ireland. R408W
(on haplotype 1) in contrast, the most common Irish PKU mutation, may have
been prevalent in the Neolithic farmers who settled in Ireland after 4500
BC. No mutation was identified that could represent European Celtic
populations, supporting the view that the adoption of Celtic culture and
language in Ireland did not involve major migration from the continent.
Several less common mutations can be traced to the Norwegian Atlantic coast
and were probably introduced into Ireland by Vikings. This indicates that
PKU has not been brought to Norway from the British Isles, as was previously
argued. The rarity in Northern Ireland of IVS12nt1, the most common mutation
in Denmark and England, indicates that the English colonialisation of
Ireland did not alter the local genepool in a direction that could be
described as Anglo-Saxon. Our results show that the culture and language of
a population can be independent of its genetic heritage, and give some
insight into the history of the peoples of Northern Ireland.