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SUMMER...

As the (northern hemisphere's) summer holiday period begins, remember that
you can easily manage your membership of IR-D via the Jiscmail Web
interface.

Jiscmail knows you by your email address.

For those wanting to use the Web interface...

Go to...

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

On the left hand side you can click on
Register Password
And go to the Register Password screen.

Follow the instructions there. Put in your email address, the email address
by which you are known to the IR-D list.
Choose your Password

Your chosen Password is then confirmed by email in the usual way.

When you have registered your Password and received confirmation by email
you can go BACK to Jiscmail's web site, and, again on the left hand side,
you can click on Subscriber's Corner and get to a new screen. There, using
your email address and your Password, you can enter your Subscriber's
Corner, and set up various IR-D list options...

You can suspend your membership for a time, and so on...

Such changes can also be done by email - see the instructions in the
Jiscmail Welcome email...

P.O'S.

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Older Irish migrants living in London: identity, loss and return

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies July 2004, vol. 30, no. 4, pp.
763-779(17)

Gerard Leavey; Sati Sembhi; Gill Livingston

Abstract:
More than a quarter of a million people left Ireland for Britain in the
1940s and 1950s. The literature on the Irish experience in Britain reveals
high levels of social deprivation and poor health, some of which has been
attributed to prejudice and discrimination, the legacy of a colonial
relationship. Other commentators have suggested the more interwoven
complexities for Irish migrants in Britain of maintaining an authentic
identity. In this paper we explore the myth of return, encompassing notions
of identity and settlement for this cohort of Irish people, now in the
latter part of their lives. They discuss complex, conflicting attitudes to
'home' and belonging. We used focus groups and semi-structured in-depth
interviews to explore their reasons for, and experience of, migration and
their attitudes to the possibility of return. Many of the informants,
particularly single men, detailed their lives as exiles, unable to return to
Ireland and poorly connected to British life. They describe a state of
disconnection to both worlds. Others have been able to obtain, over time, a
relatively contented existence in the UK.

Keywords: Irish Migration; Mental Health; Ethnic Elders; Identity; Myth of
Return

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 1369-183X

DOI (article): 10.1080/13691830410001699603
SICI (online): 1369-183X(20040701)30:4L.763;1-

Publisher: Carfax Publishing, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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The Lane bequest

Journal of the History of Collections May 2004, vol. 16, no. 1, pp.
89-110(22)

Anne Kelly

Abstract:
This article revisits a cultural conflict between Britain and Ireland over
the bequest of Sir Hugh Lane who died in the sinking of the Lusitania in
1915. His will left his collection of modern pictures to the National
Gallery in London although a signed but unwitnessed codicil left them to
Dublin. The contentious issue has been examined and presented by Lady
Gregory, Thomas Bodkin and others from the Irish perspective. However,
little is known of the history of the affair from the British point of view
and the analyses of material from British archives provides important new
information on the issue. It also indicates that the Irish negotiating
position would have been substantially changed had this material been known
to the Irish side during the long years of the debate.

Document Type: Research article ISSN: 0954-6650

SICI (online): 0954-6650(20040501)16:1L.89;1-

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Journal of Historical Geography
Volume 28, Issue 4 , October 2002, Pages 534-553

doi:10.1006/jhge.2002.0444
Copyright C 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Regular Article

Writing Ireland's historical geographies

Mark McCarthy f1

Department of Heritage Studies, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology,
Co.Mayo, Westport Road, Castlebar, Republic of Ireland

Available online 24 March 2004.

Abstract

This paper seeks to review the progress that has taken place in Irish
historical geography during the twentieth century, and to assess the way in
which published writings have produced an extraordinarily evocative and
colourful elucidation of Ireland's past histories and geographies. It is
shown how revisionist writings have played a significant role in the
revising of traditional nationalist interpretations of Ireland's past, and
how new interdisciplinary links have been established by Irish historical
geographers with cognate disciplines such as economic and social history. In
terms of methodology, it will also be shown how Irish geographers have moved
away from their former ethnographic concentration on the morphology of the
Irish landscape to a more manuscript-orientated approach to reconstructing
the history of Ireland's past geographies. Recent work by 'new' cultural
geographers on Ireland's 'modern historical geographies' is also explored.

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'Culture' as a Barrier to Service Provision and Delivery: Domestic Violence
Services for Minoritized Women

Critical Social Policy August 2004, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 332-357(26)

Burman E.[1]; Smailes S.L.[2]; Chantler K.[3]

[1] Manchester Metropolitan University, Email: e.burman[at]mmu.ac.uk [2]
Manchester Metropolitan University, Email: s.smailes[at]mmu.ac.uk [3]
Manchester Metropolitan University, Email: khatidja.chantler[at]lineone.net

Abstract:
This paper addresses how domestic violence services to women of African,
African-Caribbean, South Asian, Jewish and Irish backgrounds are structured
by assumptions about 'culture' which produce barriers to the delivery of
domestic violence services. Phoenix's (1987, 'Theories of Gender and Black
Families', pp. 50-61 in G. Weiner and M. Arnot (eds) Gender Under Scrutiny.
London: Hutchinson) discussion of the representation of black women is
applied more generally to analyse how discourses of gender and racialization
function within accounts of domestic violence service provision. Discourses
of both cultural specificity and generality/commonality are shown to
intersect to effectively exclude minority ethnic women from such services.
Domestic violence emerges as something that can be overlooked or even
excused for 'cultural reasons', as a homogenized absence; or alternatively
as a pathologized presence, producing heightened visibility of minoritized
women both within and outside their communities - since domestic violence
brings them and their communities under particular scrutiny. Such
configurations also inform discourses of service provision to minoritized
women. Finally key implications are identified for service design, delivery
and development, including the need for both culturally specific and
mainstream provision around domestic violence, and the need to challenge
notions of 'cultural privacy' and 'race anxiety' in work with minoritized
communities.

Keywords: 'race anxiety'; racism; intersections between 'race' and 'gender';
challenging racialized models of familial violence

Document Type: Journal article ISSN: 0261-0183

DOI (article): 10.1177/0261018304044363
SICI (online): 0261-0183(20040801)24:3L.332;1-

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I hope the Conference in Liverpool gets off to a good start this morning...

I am not going to be able to get over to Liverpool today, Monday - because
of Responsibilities..

I am going to set out tomorrow morning, Tuesday, and should arrive in time
to give my paper on John Denvir in the afternoon...

I am hoping to be in Liverpool for at least part of the morning - depending
on time and traffic. And want at the very least to say hello to Edmundo
Murray, David Barnwell, Oliver Marshall, Pat McKenna, and Laura Izarra...

I will be in Liverpool again on Wednesday, when we meet for our Irish
Diaspora list Open House...

Are there any specific questions about the Irish Diaspora list that people
would like me to address. In my notes so far I start with a brief summary
of Bode's Law...

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Dear Paddy,

Unfortunately, at that time I will be flying back to Geneva due to urgent
work reasons. However, I would like to say hello to you and other IR-D
members, and invite them all to our Panel on "The Irish in South America"
(Tuesday 13th July 9.00-10.30 Session C). Panelists include David Barnwell,
Oliver Marshall, Pat McKenna, Laura Izarra and myself.
See you in Liverpool... Edmundo

Edmundo Murray
The Irish Argentine Historical Society
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
Maison Rouge
1261 Burtigny Switzerland
+41 22 739 5049
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This item appeared on H-Catholic...

This person's prose style has some odd features - 'Limerick, a hardscrabble
city...'?

P.O'S.

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July 11, 2004

New York Times
Once an Exporter of Priests, Ireland Now Has Too Few By LIZETTE ALVAREZ

[Excerpt]

LIMERICK, Ireland - For centuries, Ireland mass-produced Roman Catholic
priests, ordaining and exporting them at so steady a clip that the Mass in
America seemed forever cast in a thick Irish brogue.

Now, with that religious heyday long gone, Ireland finds itself facing a
serious shortage of priests. The problem is expected to grow significantly
worse in the next decade as more older priests retire, abandon the
priesthood or die, and too few men prepare to replace them.

Only 8 Roman Catholic clerical students are expected to be ordained in
2004 in all of Ireland, compared with 193 ordinations in 1990. The Diocese
of Dublin, the largest in the country, has planned no ordinations for next
year, and the Diocese of Limerick, a hardscrabble city on the banks of the
Shannon River, is expected to ordain one man soon, and then wait years for
its next priest.

With Ireland joining the ranks of the wealthy in Europe, interest in joining
the priesthood or religious orders is at a low point. In 1970, 750 people
were seeking to become priests, brothers and nuns. Last year, the number was
39. All but one seminary in Ireland have closed.

In all, Ireland has 3,238 diocesan priests, not including priests in
religious orders, down 500 since 1981. Their average age is 60, which means
most will retire in the next 10 to 15 years.

For the first time, not enough priests are in Ireland - a country forged in
Catholicism - for all its churches and rituals, and that is changing the way
people worship and the way the Catholic Church operates here.

The country is confronting the notion of fewer Masses and priestless
parishes; Banogue, a small, rural parish in Limerick, was among the first to
lose its full-time priest, a milestone that shocked parishioners and sent a
warning signal rippling across Ireland. A priest now visits from another
parish.

[Continued at New York Times website]

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But there will be EIGHTEEN ordinations into the Church of Ireland in 2004!!!
While prestigious C. of I. schools can't cope with the volume of
applications from Catholic parents - usually those most recently
incorporated into 'the ranks of the wealthy'.

Whats happening at all, at all?

Ultan

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....Only 8 Roman Catholic clerical students are expected to be ordained in
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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

July 5, 2004 Monday SECOND EDITION

HEADLINE: Iraq duty brings Civil War foes together again Guard units that
traded fire in 1862 team up to train at Fort Hood

BYLINE: DAVID McLEMORE, Staff Writer

FORT HOOD, Texas - Think of it as a family reunion.

When the 256th Infantry Brigade of the Louisiana National Guard came to Fort
Hood in April for training before deployment to Iraq, it was joined by about
700 members of the 1st Battalion of the 69th Infantry from New York.

The last time soldiers from Louisiana met the boys of the Fighting 69th,
they were shooting at each on a hillside in Virginia in 1862 to disastrous
results for both sides.

"I guess we can file this away under the heading 'The Civil War Is Really
Over,'" said Lt. Col. Mark Kerry, civil affairs officer for the 256th.
"We've met before. And we have quite a history between us, and now we're
going to war with them. I couldn't be happier."

When the 256th was alerted for mobilization, it needed additional fighting
units to fill out the brigade, Col. Kerry said. The Pentagon drew on the
42nd Division of the New York National Guard to augment the 1st Battalion of
the 69th at Fort Hood. Together, they will go to Iraq this fall.

"The New Yorkers were chomping at the bit," he said. "They were the first
National Guard unit to arrive at the World Trade Center on Sept.
11. They were ready to serve."

The 69th, one of the legendary units that sprang up during the Civil War,
was composed almost exclusively of Irish immigrants living in New York
during the time of President Lincoln. Some hadn't been off the boat long
when recruiters persuaded them to take up arms and head south.

They quickly earned a reputation as fierce fighters at the Battle of Bull
Run in the opening days of the war. At a later battle, in which the 69th
repeatedly threw itself at the withering fire of the Confederates, Gen.
Robert E. Lee gave them the nickname the Fighting 69th.

FIERCE REPUTATIONS

The 69th, like other Irish regiments, adopted a regimental flag of green
silk adorned with a golden harp and other Celtic symbols. During the
fighting at Malvern Hill, the Irish's repeated charge led Confederate Gen.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson to shout in frustration, "Here come those damned
green flags again."

The military antecedents of the Louisiana National Guard included volunteers
from Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the bayous in between who rushed to the
sound of guns not long after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.

The Louisiana regiments, like the New Yorkers, were composed largely of
Irish immigrants, said Terry L. Jones, a historian at the University of
Louisiana at Monroe and an authority on the Louisiana Civil War regiments.
And like the New Yorkers, their members earned a reputation as ferocious
fighters.

When the Louisiana troops fought under Stonewall Jackson, he referred to
them as his "foot cavalry" for their ability to move fast. During one
campaign, Gen. Robert Ewell complained that the Louisianians outmarched his
Virginia troops, often having to wait for the Virginians to catch up, Dr.
Jones said.

At the second battle of Manassas, the Louisianians ran out of ammunition at
one point and began throwing rocks at the advancing Union troops.
They were a favorite of Gen. Lee, who called them the Louisiana Tigers.

BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL

Although they shared virtually every major battlefield in the war, there is
only apparently one documented encounter between the 69th and the
Louisianians: the battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862.

On that hot Virginia day, as Confederate forces pushed against the
retreating Union line, the 69th pushed to take position on a small hill in
the farmland near Richmond. Historians record that the New Yorkers charged
screaming a Gaelic battle cry: "Faugh A Ballagh!" or "Clear the way!"

The 10th Louisiana, rushing up the hill through devastating Union artillery,
engaged the 69th. Again and again they drew back only to charge. As both
sides ran short of ammunition, the fighting turned vicious as the combatants
clubbed each other with muskets or fought with their hands. It ended at dark
with the Louisianians withdrawing, allowing the Union forces to safely
retreat.

"What's fascinating about the reunion of the two Guard units isn't that they
fought in the Civil War. It's that there is documentation they actually
fought with each other," said John C. Rodrigue, a professor of history at
Louisiana State University. "These two units that once engaged one another
are now working together and are going to war together. In a kind of
post-modern way, it speaks to the notion that regional reconciliation is now
complete."

'LIKE MAKING GUMBO'

Today, at Fort Hood, history lessons aren't part of the curriculum.
Working together is. The Louisiana troops and the New Yorkers fill their
days practicing the intricacies of convoy security, roadside checkpoints and
crowd control - the skills they will find more useful in Iraq.
"There's been a number of jokes about the Yankees, but everyone is getting
along really well. We're all working under the same flag now,"
Col. Kerry said. "It's like making gumbo. You put in a lot of different
things and spice it up, and it tastes pretty good. All we've done is add a
little more to the gumbo."

Staff Sgt. Timothy P. O'Brian of Troy, N.Y., walks out of the barracks he
and other members of the 69th share with their Louisiana comrades. A
commercial artist in civilian life, the 39-year-old guardsman said the 69th
is made up of people from Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and upstate New York.
They felt it was their time to get into the war.

"Since 9-11, we've been at Ground Zero, so we really feel this is our
fight," Sgt. O'Brian says. "We were there at the start. After 20 years in
the Guard, this is my first real opportunity to serve my country."

It's also his first visit to Texas. The heat, he says, you can keep.
"The people here have been great, though," Sgt. O'Brian says. "It's been
kind of neat talking about the Civil War, and it's been fun learning about
the other side."

He points to a group of Louisiana Guard members standing nearby. Their
nametags carry surnames such as Melancon and Thibodeaux. "But I got to tell
you, they've made us feel welcome," he says. "We're all part of the team."

The Louisianians smile as Sgt. O'Brian yells out, "Hey, y'all guys are all
right." Then, with the timing of a Borscht Belt comic, he pauses, then says,
"I mean, youse guys." He smiles.

"See," he says. "I've been corrupted already."

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Hm...

Let us briefly acknowledge that this newspaper article is full of mysteries
for those who live outside the USA...

But, staying within matters of interest to the IR-D list...

I remember in The Fighting 69th, 1940, Directed by William Keighley and
starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien,
that when the 69th were brigaded with a unit from Louisiana there was some
joshing about previous encounters - Fredericksburg was mentioned, I think...

The movie is odd - it is one of those 'preparedness' movies made before the
USA entered World War 2. But does have walk on parts for other
Irish-American heroes, including Wild Bill Donovan and the poet Joyce
Kilmer.

Kilmer, killed in action in 1918, always seemed to me a poet of great
ambition - immediately we think of Rupert Brooke and Francis Ledwidge... Is
he much studied nowadays?

Paddy O'Sullivan


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they were shooting at each on a hillside in Virginia in 1862 to disastrous
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From: Linda Dowling Almeida
lindaalmeida[at]hotmail.com

I am reading a transcript of a nurse who travelled to England from Ireland
in 1947 to study nursing. She says that the "British National Labor" paid
her passage to England. Anyone familiar with a program that would sponsor
travel for nurses like this? Could it be a union or government service?
Were other students supported this way? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Linda Dowling Almeida
New York University

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From: Liam Greenslade
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Subject: Irish Nurse in England

As I recall there is some mention of this scheme in Mary Lennon et al's
(1988) book 'Across the Water: Irish women's lives in Britain' London:
Virago.An other source might be Mary Daniel's occasional paper on Irish
midwives in Britain (don't know the exact title) published by the Institute
of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool in the early 90s. Hope this helps

--
Liam Greenslade
Department of Sociology
Trinity College Dublin

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From: "Rogers, James"
To:
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Does anyone know if there have been any published studies of the midcentury
Irish publishing/distribution efforts of the Devin-Adair company of New
York? In particular, would a list of the Irish titles that they handled be
readily available anywhere?

Thanks

Jim Rogers
New Hibernia Review
jrogers[at]stthomas.edu

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Subject: Education Needs of Roma


My name is Louise Lesovitch and I am the Co-ordinator of a project with the
CDVEC and Pavee Point (a Traveller centre based in Dublin) on the
educational needs of Roma in Ireland today. I am trying to establish best
models of practice that have been developed (or are being developed)
relating to educational needs and inclusion of individuals from Roma
communities.

Just to give you an outline of the project:

Project Outline

The project 'Meeting the Educational Needs of the Roma community in Ireland:
A study involving Roma men, women and children/young people'- is being
conducted through the City of Dublin Vocational Committee and Pavee Point.
The aims of the project are to:

1. Compile a demographic profile and experiences of 'education'.

2. Evaluate primary, post-primary, adult and further education research for
Roma men and women with a particular emphasis on access, participation and
outcomes - as well as identifying best practices.

3. Devise recommendations for design and delivery of educational provision.

I and individuals from Roma communities in Ireland will be conducting a
series of focus groups and interviews with Roma - in order to generate
information around educational needs. From this, guidelines and
recommendations will be drawn up for the Department of Education - in order
to establish not only the importance of understanding and listening to Roma
voices and experiences - but creating a context in which to work on removing
barriers, fears and concerns re participation and access to educational
services in Ireland.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this email. I look forward
to hearing from you when time permits.

Best regards

Louise Lesovitch
Project Co-0rdinator

(Tel: 087 686 8888)

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From: "Siobhan Maguire"
To:
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I thought this might be of interest to the members.
Siobhan Maguire


Headline: Bodies of murdered Irish rail workers to be exhumed in US

Summary: A Pennsylvania coroner and district attorney are standing by =
for
the exhumation of 57 Irish railroad workers believed to have been =
murdered
by 19th century anti-immigrant vigilantes.

Mon, Jul 12, 04

Website Address:
http://www.Ireland.com/newspaper/front/2004/0712/1125094265HM1EXHUME.html=


Bodies of murdered Irish rail workers to be exhumed in US
Se=E1n O'Driscoll in New York
=09
A Pennsylvania coroner and district attorney are standing by for the
exhumation of 57 Irish railroad workers believed to have been murdered =
by
19th century anti-immigrant vigilantes.

The Pennsylvania Emerald Society, an organisation of Irish-American =
police
officers, has agreed to pay for memorial signs at the burial site and is
negotiating with the US national railroad company, Amtrak, to allow for =
more
tests on the land before the exhumation.

Under Pennsylvania law, a coroner and district attorney's office must be
contacted in suspicious death cases, even alleged murders dating back to
1832.

Two history professors at Immaculata University in Pennsylvania, Prof
William Watson and Prof John Ahtes, are organising the exhumation in
Malvern, in the south-east of the state, and believe that a now-defunct
railroad corporation hid files on the deaths to stop the truth from
emerging.

Prof Watson said that the 57 were most likely single men, possibly
Gaelic-speaking and many might not have been accustomed to a money =
economy.
"They were in a very vulnerable position and were easily forgotten," he
said.

The men are officially listed as cholera victims, but, according to Prof
Watson, the railroad corporation hid the records for decades. The two
professors have made an extensive search of state and national records =
to
uncover the men's identities.

A Pennsylvania cemetery has volunteered individual graveyard spaces for =
all
the men when their bodies are exhumed, and the research team has =
employed
Irish graduate students to help research emigration and census records.
According to Prof Watson, anti-Irish feeling was very strong at the time =
and
the Irish were widely blamed for spreading cholera. A group of =
vigilantes
was roaming Pennsylvania looking for Irish to attack, particularly when =
the
fear of cholera gripped the wider public in 1832.

He believed the Pennsylvania and Columbia Railroad Company covered up =
the
deaths to stop bad publicity and to ensure that Irish immigrants were =
not
frightened away from railroad construction projects. The two professors
believe they have uncovered the identity of Phillip Duffy, the men's
foreman, who appeared to care little for the fate of his men.

"We believe that Phillip Duffy is from Tipperary," said Prof Watson. "We
have a document saying that a Philip Duffy came in [to the US] after the =
war
of 1812 and we believe this is our man," he said.



=A9 The Irish Times

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From: Kerby Miller
MillerK[at]missouri.edu
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Bodies of murdered Irish rail workers to be exhumed

If the story of mass murder is true, surely this will have dramatic =
effects
on the historiography of the Irish in America. Please try to keep us
updated on the results of the exhumations, etc.
Thanks,
Kerby.



>From: "Siobhan Maguire"
>To:
>Subject: Bodies of Irish rail workers to be exhumed in US
>
>I thought this might be of interest to the members.
>Siobhan Maguire
>
>
>Headline: Bodies of murdered Irish rail workers to be exhumed in US
>
>Summary: A Pennsylvania coroner and district attorney are standing by=20
>for the exhumation of 57 Irish railroad workers believed to have been=20
>murdered by 19th century anti-immigrant vigilantes.
>
>Mon, Jul 12, 04
>
>Website Address:
>http://www.Ireland.com/newspaper/front/2004/0712/1125094265HM1EXHUME.ht
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>Bodies of murdered Irish rail workers to be exhumed in US Se=E1n=20
>O'Driscoll in New York
> =20
>A Pennsylvania coroner and district attorney are standing by for the=20
>exhumation of 57 Irish railroad workers believed to have been murdered=20
>by 19th century anti-immigrant vigilantes.
>
>The Pennsylvania Emerald Society, an organisation of Irish-American=20
>police officers, has agreed to pay for memorial signs at the burial=20
>site and is negotiating with the US national railroad company, Amtrak,=20
>to allow for more tests on the land before the exhumation.
>
>Under Pennsylvania law, a coroner and district attorney's office must=20
>be contacted in suspicious death cases, even alleged murders dating=20
>back to 1832.
>
>Two history professors at Immaculata University in Pennsylvania, Prof=20
>William Watson and Prof John Ahtes, are organising the exhumation in=20
>Malvern, in the south-east of the state, and believe that a now-defunct =

>railroad corporation hid files on the deaths to stop the truth from=20
>emerging.
>
>Prof Watson said that the 57 were most likely single men, possibly=20
>Gaelic-speaking and many might not have been accustomed to a money =
economy.
>"They were in a very vulnerable position and were easily forgotten," he =

>said.
>
>The men are officially listed as cholera victims, but, according to=20
>Prof Watson, the railroad corporation hid the records for decades. The=20
>two professors have made an extensive search of state and national=20
>records to uncover the men's identities.
>
>A Pennsylvania cemetery has volunteered individual graveyard spaces for =

>all the men when their bodies are exhumed, and the research team has=20
>employed Irish graduate students to help research emigration and census
records.
>According to Prof Watson, anti-Irish feeling was very strong at the=20
>time and the Irish were widely blamed for spreading cholera. A group of =

>vigilantes was roaming Pennsylvania looking for Irish to attack,=20
>particularly when the fear of cholera gripped the wider public in 1832.
>
>He believed the Pennsylvania and Columbia Railroad Company covered up=20
>the deaths to stop bad publicity and to ensure that Irish immigrants=20
>were not frightened away from railroad construction projects. The two=20
>professors believe they have uncovered the identity of Phillip Duffy,=20
>the men's foreman, who appeared to care little for the fate of his men.
>
>"We believe that Phillip Duffy is from Tipperary," said Prof Watson.=20
>"We have a document saying that a Philip Duffy came in [to the US]=20
>after the war of 1812 and we believe this is our man," he said.
>
>
>
>=A9 The Irish Times

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From: Thomas J. Archdeacon
tjarchde[at]wisc.edu
Subject: [IR-D] Bodies of murdered Irish rail workers to be exhumed

This Pennsylvania mystery is very interesting, and I have shared the story
with the members of the Irish Studies List. Based on the news report, the
diagnosis of "murder" seems thin -- at the moment. Seemingly beyond dispute
are the 57 dead men. How the men died is the question. The railroad and
the supposedly indifferent Irish-born foreman would have had reason to play
down -- indeed, to cover up - even natural deaths, if they feared the
presence of cholera in the camp would dissuade more Irish laborers from
putting themselves at risk. The rumor of vigilantes attacking Irish is
worthy of attention but vague. I hope the forensic evidence will be such
that the authorities will be able to establish deaths by natural or
unnatural causes.

Fear of cholera and the association of the Irish with it were real. See,
for example, Charles Rosenberg's old book, The Cholera Years. Of course,
there were other reasons for violence around railroad camps, including
competition for jobs - often between groups of Irishmen from different
counties. A toll of 57 dead, however, seems unusually high for that kind of
fighting in that era. It will be interesting to see how the story pans out.
As Kerby noted, confirmation of such a massacre would be a notable
development in our field.


Tom

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From: "Maureen E Mulvihill"
To:


In prompt & cordial reply to Jim Rogers' recent query re the Devin-Adair
Publishing Co of early New York:

Why not contact Thomas Cahill, author of the best seller, "How The Irish
Saved Civilization"? He's presently (or was, for some time) Director, Irish
Stds., Doubleday, NYC. (For his email address, see web matches for Cahill
and/or visit the Doubleday website.)

A professional, working bookman, as well as a publishing scholar, Cahill
knows the NYC publishing industry; thus, he may be able to supply a few
leads re Devin-Adair. I assume that his contacts & connections are fairly
broad by now, perhaps extending to early NY publishers of Irish-culture
titles.

Cordial regards & 'Happy Summer' to all on the Irish Diaspora List, MEM

Maureen E. Mulvihill, PhD
(Mairin Ni Maoilmhichill)
Fellow, Princeton Research Forum, NJ.
Formerly, Associate Fellow,
Institute for Research in History, NYC.

Recent New Work: "Ephelia" (London, 2003); and a multimedia archive at
http://www.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia

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From: Kerby Miller
Illustrations for e-book version of IRISH IMMIGRANTS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN

Dear Colleagues,

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is turning IRISH
IMMIGRANTS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN into an E-Book, and to the electronic
version they want to add many visuals of old prints, photographs, paintings,
etc., that are illustrative of . . .

1. Ireland (urban and rural) and, especially (but not exclusively) Ulster
in the period 1660s-ca.1820s;

2. America (urban and rural) during roughly the same periods (colonial,
revolutionary, early national), e.g., Philadelphia in the late 1700s; and,

3. The Scots-Irish and other Irish in America (e.g., frontier scenes,
French & Indian war, Revolutionary war scenes) during the same periods.

The ACLS has asked me for suggestions concerning books (old and
recent) and websites where they might locate such visuals. Special archives
and library collections, as well.

I am aware of some printed sources--but would welcome further
suggestions--and I am totally ignorant of suitable websites, archival
collections, etc..

Hence, I'll be very grateful for your assistance in suggesting
likely sources.

Many thanks,

Kerby.

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