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The Historical Journal, Volume 46, Issue 02



The Historical Journal (2003), 46:295-316 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C 2003 Cambridge University Press
DOI 10.1017/S0018246X0300308X
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THE EXPERIENCE OF SURVIVAL DURING THE 1641 IRISH REBELLION

JOSEPH COPE a1
a1 State University of New York, Geneseo College

Abstract

In recent scholarship, the problem of violence has dominated work on the
1641 Irish rebellion. Unfortunately, no scholarship has addressed the means
by which victims of the war survived this conflict. This article uses
microhistorical evidence from the 1641 depositions for county Cavan to
reconstruct the range of possible survival strategies. Philip MacMulmore
O'Reilly, a member of the Irish gentry and kinsman to the Cavan rebels,
balanced support for the rebellion with attempts to assist endangered
Anglo-Protestant settlers. Although deponents questioned O'Reilly's motives,
they agreed that he was instrumental in protecting settlers. George
Creichton, a Scottish minister and planter, provides a distinctly different
example. Despite his religious views and politics, Creichton forged strong
ties to neighbouring Irish before the rising. Although in danger, Creichton
mobilized a network of friends, kin, and sympathetic neighbours to protect
himself and to assist less fortunate Anglo-Protestant neighbours. These two
examples reveal the wider existence of early seventeenth-century social
relationships that crossed ethnic and religious lines. In the midst of the
chaos of 1641, a significant number of settlers benefited from fragmentation
in the rebel ranks and often built their survival strategies upon the social
relationships that they had forged in more stable times.
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The death of Jacques Derrida has attracted world-wide comment - some of =
it
plain silly. My own intellectual history means that I have done a lot =
of
work, at various times, on French theorists. Some I have found worth =
while,
others less so. I think Irish Diaspora Studies has to engage with =
Derrida -
or perhaps that was only in our earlier developmental stage...?

I noticed Terry Eagleton's defence of Derrida in the Guardian last week =
-
information below... And saw another Eagleton item - about his being
involved in a car accident. I am sure we all wish him well.

3 Guardian items listed below...

P.O'S.


1.
Don't deride Derrida

Academics are wrong to rubbish the philosopher

Terry Eagleton
Friday October 15, 2004
The Guardian=20

'Deconstruction, the philosophical method he promoted, means not =
destroying
ideas, but pushing them to the point where they begin to come apart and
expose their latent contradictions. It meant reading against the grain =
of
supposedly self-evident truths, rather than taking them for granted. =
English
senior common rooms are full of self-righteous blather about thinkers =
like
Derrida being more interested in abstract theories than in close =
reading. In
fact, he read works of art and philosophy with a stunning originality =
and
intricacy beyond that of most of his critics...'

Full text at...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1327834,00.html


2.
So, I went to see this man about a donkey ...

Terry Eagleton had always wanted a donkey. Finally, after weeks of
searching, he went to buy one from an Irish farmer. But instead of =
returning
in the saddle, he came home in an ambulance

Friday October 15, 2004
The Guardian

'It happened on the day I went to see a man about a donkey. In Ireland,
where I live, donkeys are nowadays purely decorative, having long since =
been
overtaken by the diesel engine. For me, however, their pointlessness =
simply
adds to their modest, moth-eaten charm, so when I was offered one as a
birthday present by my partner I was delighted to accept. They are, =
however,
notoriously hard creatures to come by, even in a country where they have
been in constant use since Roman times...'=20

(Moderator's Note: I don't think Terry meant deliberately here to =
re-awaken
the debate about Roman contacts with Ireland... Anyway, the search for =
a
donkey ends in what sounds like a very frightening car accident...)

'...One of the ambulancemen on the way to hospital in Sligo never shut =
up,
afraid that I might lapse into unconsciousness. He had spent eight years =
as
a New York cop, a common enough occupation for men from the west of =
Ireland.
In the 19th century, the NYPD kept whole Irish villages economically =
afloat.
Two weeks after he came back to Ireland to retrain as an ambulance =
worker,
his best friend in the force was shot dead.

The fact that this information made me feel better was a little shaming. =
The
shame, however, was perfectly tolerable.

"Were you down here on business?" they asked me in the hospital. "Yes," =
I
replied. "I came to see a man about a donkey." I could see them eyeing =
each
other. Hello, I could feel them thinking, what has this feller got to
hide?...'

Full text at
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3.
DJ Taylor on Terry Eagleton's race through the English novel

Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian

by Terry Eagleton
352pp, Blackwell, =A350
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1311268,00.html

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The Journal of Economic History, Volume 62, Issue 04
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The Journal of Economic History (2002), 62:1170-1171 Cambridge =
University
Press
Copyright =A9 2002 The Economic History Association
DOI 10.1017/S0022050702451704=20
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BOOK REVIEWS
GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
=09

Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756=9657, Merchants of New York and =
Belfast.
Edited by Thomas M. Truxes. Oxford: Oxford University Press for The =
British
Academy, 2001. Pp. xxxi, 430. =A350.00.

Guillaume Daudin a1
a1 OFCE, Paris

Researchers have been giving Irish trading networks more attention =
recently
(see, for example, Louis M. Cullen. The Irish Brandy Houses of
Eighteenth-Century France. Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2001). Thomas M.
Truxes has already written a pioneer book on the subject (Irish-American
Trade, 1660=961783. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Ireland =
could
trade directly with British America since a modification in English
navigation laws in 1731. In his new book, Truxes gives us an in-depth =
view
of the most successful Irish-American partnership of the time based on =
the
letters sent by its New York partner during nine months in 1756 and =
1757.
These were interesting times: the Seven Year's War had opened new
opportunities=97including (British) privateering and troop supply=97and =
caused
new difficulties=97such as the renewed fight against smuggling by the =
English
authorities and (French) privateering=97without disrupting fundamentally =
the
traditional flows of trade between Ireland and British America. Ireland
mainly exported linens, salted beef, pork, butter, and passengers and
imported flax seeds, rum, lumber, staves, and some pig iron and
semi-manufactured goods.

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Secret GOP Weapon: The Scots-Irish Vote
By JAMES WEBB

Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2004; Page A18

To an outsider George W. Bush's political demeanor seems little more than
stumbling tautology. He utters his campaign message in clipped phrases,
filled with bravado and repeated references to God, and to resoluteness of
purpose. But to a trained eye and ear these performances have the deliberate
balance of a country singer at the Grand Ole Opry.

Speaking in a quasi-rural dialect that his critics dismiss as affected, W is
telling his core voting groups that he is one of them. No matter that he is
the product of many generations of wealth; that his grandfather was a New
England senator; that his father moved the family's wealth south just like
the hated Carpetbaggers after the Civil War; that he himself went North to
Andover and Yale and Harvard when it came time for serious grooming. And as
with the persona, so also with the key issues. The Bush campaign proceeds
outward from a familiar mantra: strong leadership, success in war, neighbor
helping neighbor, family values, and belief in God. Contrary to many
analyses, these issues reach much farther than the oft-discussed Christian
Right. The president will not win re-election without carrying the votes of
the Scots-Irish, along with those others who make up the "Jacksonian"
political culture that has migrated toward the values of this ethnic group.

At the same time, few key Democrats seem even to know that the Scots-Irish
exist, as this culture is so adamantly individualistic that it will never
overtly form into one of the many interest groups that dominate Democratic
Party politics. Indeed, it can be fairly said that Al Gore lost in 2000
because the Democrats ignored this reality and the Scots-Irish enclaves of
West Virginia and Tennessee turned against him.
Why are the 30 million Scots-Irish, who may well be America's strongest
cultural force, so invisible to America's intellectual elites? It is
commonplace for commentators to lump together those who are descended from
British roots into the WASP culture typified by New England Brahmins, or the
Irish, who are overwhelmingly Catholic. But it is political nonsense to
consider the Scots-Irish as part of either.

The Scots-Irish are derived from a mass migration from Northern Ireland in
the 1700s, when the Calvinist "Ulster Scots" decided they'd had enough of
fighting Anglican England's battles against Irish Catholics. One group
settled initially in New Hampshire, spilling over into modern-day Vermont
and Maine. The overwhelming majority -- 95% -- migrated to the Appalachians
in a series of frontier communities that stretched from Pennsylvania to
northern Alabama and Georgia. They eventually became the dominant culture of
the South and much of the Midwest.

True American-style democracy had its origins in this culture. Its values
emanated from the Scottish Kirk, which had thrown out the top-down hierarchy
of the Catholic Church and replaced it with governing councils made up of
ordinary citizens. This mix of fundamentalist religion and social populism
grew from a people who for 16 centuries had been tested through constant
rebellions against centralized authority. The Scots who headed into the
feuds of 17th-century Ulster, and then into the backlands of the American
frontier, hardened further into a radicalism that proclaimed that no man had
a duty to obey a government if its edicts violated his moral conscience.

Matched with this rebelliousness was a network of extended family "clans,"
still evident among the Scots-Irish, built on an egalitarianism that
measured a person by their own code of honor, courage, loyalty and audacious
leadership. Noted Scottish professor T.C. Smout said it best when he
observed that these relationships were "compounded both of egalitarian and
patriarchal features, full of respect for birth while being free from
humility." They demanded strong leaders, but would never tolerate one who
considered himself above his fellows. Andrew Jackson, the first president of
Scots-Irish descent, forever changed the style of American politics,
creating a movement that even today is characterized as Jacksonian
democracy.

The Scots-Irish comprised a large percentage of Reagan Democrats, and
contributed heavily to the "red state" votes that gave Mr. Bush the
presidency in 2000. The areas with the highest Scots-Irish populations
include New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, northern Florida, Mississippi,
Arkansas, northern Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado,
southern Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of California, particularly
Bakersfield. The "factory belt," especially around Detroit, also has a
strong Scots-Irish mix.

The Scots-Irish political culture is populist and inclusive, which has
caused other ethnic groups to gravitate toward it. Country music is its
cultural emblem. It is family-oriented. Its members are values-based rather
than economics-based: they often vote on emotional issues rather than their
pocket books. Because of their heritage of "kinship," they're strangely
unenvious of wealth, and measure leaders by their personal strength and
values rather than economic position. They have a 2,000-year-old military
tradition based on genealogy, are the dominant culture of the military and
the Christian Right, and define the character of blue-collar America. They
are deeply patriotic, having consistently supported every war America has
fought, and intensely opposed to gun control -- an issue that probably cost
Mr. Gore both his home state of Tennessee and traditionally Democratic West
Virginia in 2000.

The GOP strategy is heavily directed toward keeping peace with this culture,
which every four years is seduced by the siren song of guns, God, flag,
opposition to abortion and success in war. By contrast, over the past
generation the Democrats have consistently alienated this group, to their
detriment.

The Democrats lost their affinity with the Scots-Irish during the Civil
Rights era, when -- because it was the dominant culture in the South -- its
"redneck" idiosyncrasies provided an easy target during their shift toward
minorities as the foundation of their national electoral strategy. Their
long-term problem in having done so is twofold. First, it hampers their
efforts to carry almost any Southern state. And second, the Scots-Irish
culture has strong impact outside the South. This is especially strong in
many battleground states. It is no accident that many political observers
call the central region in Pennsylvania "Northern Alabama." Scots-Irish
traditions play heavily in New Hampshire -- the only New England state that
Mr. Bush carried in 2000. Large numbers of Scots-Irish settled in the
southern regions of Ohio (called "Northern Kentucky"), Indiana and Illinois.
They were among the principal groups to settle Missouri and Colorado. They
migrated heavily to the industrial areas in Michigan, which is one reason
that George Wallace, ran so strongly in that state in 1968 and 1972.

But other than with those who identify with the Christian Right, it would be
wrong to think that the Republicans have their firm loyalty. For every Lee
Atwater or Karl Rove who understands the Scots-Irish, there are others who
privately disdain them. And sometimes not so privately -- the most vicious
ethnic slur of the presidential campaign came from Charles Krauthammer,
after Howard Dean suggested that the Democrats needed to reach out to the
"guys with the Confederate flags on their pickup trucks." Mr. Krauthammer,
who has never complained about this ethnic group when it has marched off to
fight the wars he wishes upon us, wrote that Mr. Dean "wants the white trash
vote . . . that's clearly what he meant," and that he was pandering to
"rebel-yelling racist rednecks."

As with other ethnic groups, those inside the culture know how to read such
code words, and there may come a time when the right Democratic strategist
knows how to counter them in the manner that Mr. Dean contemplated. John
Edwards is at his visceral best when his campaign rhetoric seems directed at
doing that.

The decline in public education and the outsourcing of jobs has hit this
culture hard. Diversity programs designed to assist minorities have had an
unequal impact on white ethnic groups and particularly this one, whose roots
are in a poverty-stricken South. Their sons and daughters serve in large
numbers in a war whose validity is increasingly coming into question. In
fact, the greatest realignment in modern politics would take place rather
quickly if the right national leader found a way to bring the Scots-Irish
and African Americans to the same table, and so to redefine a formula that
has consciously set them apart for the past two centuries.

Mr. Webb, a former secretary of the Navy, is the author of "Born Fighting:
How the Scots-Irish Shaped America," just published by Broadway.

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I must say that, as a specialist in voting behavior of ethnic groups, I have
never seen such a stupid essay that is so disconnected with history or
contemporary reality.
Richard Jensen

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From; Patrick Maume
For another view of the Scots-Irish tradition, see Anatol Lieven's new book
AMERICA - RIGHT OR WRONG, in which the Scots-Irish are denounced as a horde
of savages who have preserved their aboriginal barbarism all the way from
the medieval Scots-English Border to the American South and West, via Ulster
where the Catholics served as warming-up act for the Amerindians. Lieven's
view of the Scots-Irish as responsible for most of the many features of
America which he dislikes (with Andrew Jackson firmly installed as
Archfiend) owes a lot to the erratic Texas-liberal commentator Michael Lind,
something to Lieven's own culture-shock at spending ten months in an Alabama
college in 1979 (surrounded by proud, insecure rednecks who knew nothing
about the world outside the USA and thought Iranians were Arabs) and perhaps
something to the fact that his mother was a member of the O'Hagans of Newry,
one of the most prominent "Castle Catholic" legal families of the nineteenth
cetury!
Best wishes,
Patrick

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patrick maume

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From: Kerby Miller
MillerK[at]missouri.edu
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Anatol Lieven on Scots-Irish

Four or five years ago, when conducting research in the 1990 U.S. Census for
my article on the Scots-Irish in the Old South (in Andy Bielenberg, ed., THE
IRISH DIASPORA), I discovered something that may be relevant to this
discussion.

In ex-Confederate states with some degrees of what might be termed political
or cultural modernity, such as South Carolina and Georgia, the great
majority of residents who considered themselves of some variety of Irish
descent (almost all descended from 18th- and early 19th-century Ulster
Presbyterian immigrants, of course) responded to the "ancestry" question by
saying they were of "Irish" descent.

By contrast, I noticed that in states such as Alabama and Mississippi, the
great majority of the same kinds of people responded they were
"Scots-Irish."

It struck me at the time that the difference in the responses might have
political as well as cultural significance--the two conflated consciously or
unconsciously. I've never pursued the matter in research or print, although
it might be very illuminating to do so.

Given current fashions (the origins and motives of which are disputable), it
will be interesting to see whether an "Ulster Scots" choice appears in
subsequent censuses (perhaps replacing "Scots-/Scotch-Irish") and the degree
to which respondents will embrace a label that excludes the words and
associations of "Irish" and "Ireland" altogether.

As for Andrew Jackson, I've long thought that an excellent article, or even
part of a larger project on the development of "Irish"/"Scotch-Irish"
identities in the 19th- and early 20th-century U.S., might focus on
Jackson's "ethnic image" or "character," both in terms of his own
self-identification and of the labels applied to him by contemporaries
(e.g., partisan journalists) and by subsequent historians and popularizers,
supporters and antagonists alike. E.g., was Jackson America's "first
'Irish' president" or our "first 'Scotch-Irish' president"? I suspect that,
over time, he was both, and that the "progression" (or "regression") from
one to the other would tell us much about the changing connotations of the
labels and about the development of the two distinct ethnic identities.

A great doctoral dissertation topic, perhaps? (But would its author be
employable?)

Kerby

>From: P.Maume[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] A different view of the Scots-Irish from Anatol
>Lieven
>
>From; Patrick Maume
>For another view of the Scots-Irish tradition, see Anatol Lieven's new
>book AMERICA - RIGHT OR WRONG, in which the Scots-Irish are denounced
>as a horde of savages who have preserved their aboriginal barbarism all
>the way from the medieval Scots-English Border to the American South
>and West, via Ulster where the Catholics served as warming-up act for
>the Amerindians. Lieven's view of the Scots-Irish as responsible for
>most of the many features of America which he dislikes (with Andrew
>Jackson firmly installed as
>Archfiend) owes a lot to the erratic Texas-liberal commentator Michael
>Lind, something to Lieven's own culture-shock at spending ten months in
>an Alabama college in 1979 (surrounded by proud, insecure rednecks who
>knew nothing about the world outside the USA and thought Iranians were
>Arabs) and perhaps something to the fact that his mother was a member
>of the O'Hagans of Newry, one of the most prominent "Castle Catholic"
>legal families of the nineteenth cetury!
> Best wishes,
> Patrick
>
>----------------------
>patrick maume

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We have been sent a leaflet - an actual piece of paper - by Eurospan
University Press Group. The leaflet, 6 or so folded pages, is called 'Irish
Studies 2005 - New & Forthcoming'. And it is very interesting.

It lists Irish Diaspora Studies books books we were aware of, like...

Janet Nolan, Servants of the Poor Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and
Irish America
Michael De Nie, The Eternal Paddy Irish Identity and the British Press,
1798-1882
Kevin Kenny, New Directions in Irish-American History
Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism A Literary and Intellectual History
Graham Davis, Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas...

And many books on Irish literature and history...

The leaflet also lists books by scholars whose research I had not realised
had reached book form... Dermot Quinn on the Irish in New Jersey, David
Holmes on the Irish in Wisconsib, Susan Gedutis on Irish music and dance...

Going to the web site of this company... There is an 'Irish Literature'
button on one of the menus - and you can search for keywords Irish and
Ireland... But I can see no way to reproduce the leaflet.

So, paper wins...

From the web site...

www.EUROSPANonline.com

'EUROSPANonline.com is the online bookstore of Eurospan, Europe's premier
independent distributor of books, journals and electronic products. Here,
you'll find many thousands of titles in subjects ranging from Art to
Zoology, comprising reference and multi-volume works, annuals, undergraduate
and postgraduate textbooks, monographs, professional manuals and electronic
products published from the USA, Canada, Asia and Australia...'

Many books of Irish Diaspora interest in the USA are published by - with all
due respect - quite small academic publishers. What strikes me is that this
web site seems to make visible and available in one place, on this side of
the Atlantic, books from quite a number of the smaller US and other academic
publishers. And some of the prices are very reasonable - for academic
books...

Interesting...

P.O'S.


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From: Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
Subject: TaraSkryne submissions and funding

Save the TaraSkryne Valley and proposed Motorway

Please visit our website www.taraskryne.org join the e-mail discussion =
group
and sign on-line petition




A chairde,

T=E1 br=F3n orm nach rabhas i dteagbh=E1il i gceart le tamall anuas. Mar =
is eol do
chuid agaibh is cosuil go ndeanfaidh an gAire nua (Dick Roche) cinneadh =
ar
Theamhair agus an bothar nua go luath. Mar sin ta dian gha le =
aighneachtai a
sheoladh chuige. Seoladh thios.
An dara rud na go bhfuil diangha le airgead don fheachtas ag an bpointe =
seo.
Ta costaisi orainn cheana fein agus ma bhionn cas cuairte i gceist, =
beidh
costaisi nios troime i gceist.=20
Doibh siud a thug airgead dhuinn cheana fein, nilim ag lorg a thuilleadh
uaibh! Ar mile buiochas as ucht an meid a thug sibh cheana fein.=20
Ceist? An bhfuil smaointe ag einne ar leagan feiliunach Ghaeilge ar Save =
the
TaraSkryne Valley Campaign/group? Bheinn buioch as smaointe ar seo.=20
Ta an-eolas ar na seadchomharthai agus an bothar ar suiomh idirlion
seandalaiochta Ollscoil na Gaillimhe=20
http://www.nuigalway.ie/archaeology/Tara_M3.html
Beidh me i dteagbhail aris go luath le eolas ar an meid a tharla le 10 =
mhi
anuas.
Beannachtai=20
Muireann

Friends colleagues,=20
I am sorry that I have not been in contact recently. Many of you may =
know
that the new Minister, Dick Roche, is expected to make a decision on the
future of Tara/M3 within the next two weeks. We need as many submissions
against this as possible. Address and e-mail address below. I'm asking =
as
many of you as possible to send a submission.=20
Secondly, the campaign needs funding again. To those who have =
contributed,
thank you so much and we do not expect you to contribute again. With =
ongoing
expenses and the possibility of going to court within weeks we are in
serious need of funding.=20
Make out cheques to Save the TaraSkryne Valley Campaign and send them to =
me
Dr Muireann Ni Bhrolchain, Department of Medieval Irish and Celtic =
Studies,
NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
I am also asking that people suggest an Irish version of the title Save =
the
TaraSkryne Valley Campaign/Group?
The archaeology Department website in NUI Galway has very useful maps =
etc.
indicating the route and the impacted sites, see
http://www.nuigalway.ie/archaeology/Tara_M3.html=20

I will be in contact again shortly with information on what has occurred
over the past 10 months or so.=20
Yours sincerely,
Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
STSV and Department of Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies, NUI Maynooth


Minister Dick Roche, Department of the Environment, Heritage and local
Government, Custom House, Dublin 1, tel (01) 8882000, fax (01) 8882888
or e-mail him minister[at]environ.ie

It might also be helpful to write to the Taoiseach: sample letter =
attached
as Template letter to Bertie.=20
Send to An Taoiseach, Bertie, Ahern, Dail Eireann, Dublin 2 or e-mail =
him
taoiseach[at]taoiseach.gov.ie


P.S. Originally the NRA said that there were 6 sites on the route of the
road. The total is now 38 and rising. Conor Newman says that the sites
really number 45-7 as the NRA are disregarding some of them without even
knowing what they are=20
The estimated price for excavation was =8010 million in April, by =
October it
had risen to =8030 million. =20

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We have receives information about a forthcoming book of interest to Irish
Studies and Irish Diaspora Studies.

In May 2005 Irish Academic Press will begin publication of a series on the
Irish Abroad - General Editor, Ruan O'Donnell.

One of the first to be published in this series will be...
Thomas Francis Meagher: The making of an Irish American.

This will be a book of essays on various aspects of Meagher's life from his
ancestral background to the death of his son in 1910. The book traces his
family to present day California. The foreword is by Roy Foster and the book
is edited by John M Hearne (Waterford Institute of Technology) and Rory T
Cornish (Winthrop University, South Carolina, USA). There are contributions
from John Mannion and David Emmons.

When we get more information I will share this with the IR-D list.

P.O'S.


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Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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Forwarded on behalf of
Dr. Jason King
English Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, County Kildare
jkingk[at]yahoo.com

Maybe for 'this year' read 'next year'...

But it's a possible usage - this year as opposed to that year...

P.O'S.


Subject: Canadian Association for Irish Studies - Call for Papers

Call For Papers:

Ireland and the Atlantic: Intercultural Contact and Conflict

The Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS) invites proposals for
presentations of twenty minutes in length - as well as full panel
discussions - for its annual conference, to be held this year at the
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, June 22-25, 2005. The theme of
the CAIS conference this year is "Ireland and the Atlantic: Intercultural
Contact and Conflict". Possible topics, very broadly defined, include (but
are not limited to):

- The Irish Atlantic: cultural, economic, literary, political, and/or social
inter-relations and the formation of migratory routes between Ireland and
any destination in the North, Central, or Southern Atlantic sphere.
- Irish Archipelagic Relations: cultural, economic, literary, political,
and/or social inter-relations and the formation of migratory routes between
Ireland and/or England, Scotland, and Wales.
- Ireland and Europe: Irish-European Atlantic migratory routes and conduits
of cultural, economic, literary, political, and social exchange.
- Ireland and Canada: Irish-Canadian emigrant letters, historiography,
literary history, print and popular culture, forms of nationalism,
racialization of the Irish in Canada, research partnership, Ulster and
Canada etc.
- Ireland and the Atlantic: Selected Topics:
- comparative historical or literary work on the Irish diaspora and/or other
migrant groups in the Atlantic destinations to which they travelled
- Cultural hybridity and transfer in trans-Atlantic perspective
- Globalisation and immigration in comparative perspective
- Scots-Irish culture, history, and literature
- Trans-Atlantic Irish ethnicity and inter-cultural contact/conflict with
other ethnic groups

The deadline for paper proposals is April 15, 2005. Paper proposals should
be 250-500 words in length, and sent either electronically or by post to:

Dr. Jason King
English Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, County Kildare
jkingk[at]yahoo.com

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There are a couple of Irish Diaspora Studies lecture events in the QUB
Belfast Festival this year - and I mean this year...

The Festival theme is journeys and migrations).

Marjory Harper and David Fitzpatrick this Thursday night and Graham Davis
and Brian Lambkin the following Thursday...

http://www.belfastfestival.com/events/dsp_eventDetails.jsp?iEventID=1063

IRELAND TO NORTH AMERICA - DR MARJORY HARPER
An expert on the Scottish and Irish diaspora, her latest book on emigration
to North America is Adventurers and Exiles.

IRELAND TO AUSTRALIA - DR DAVID FITZPATRICK
His several books include Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish
Migration to Australia.

http://www.belfastfestival.com/events/dsp_eventDetails.jsp?iEventID=1221

IRELAND TO BRITAIN - DR GRAHAM DAVIS
His books include The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914; he contributed to the
documentary The Irish Empire.

IRELAND TO EUROPE - DR BRIAN LAMBKIN
Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at Omagh.

P.O'S.


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The Patrick Kavanagh centenary has been marked by events throughout
Ireland...
http://www.patrickkavanaghcountry.com/html/pkcentenary_events.htm

Here in England we have had complaints from Penguin/Allen Lane that =
their
Patrick Kavanagh Collected Poems, edited by Antoinette Quinn, has been
practically ignored...

But I have made a note on my Christmas list...

Patrick Kavanagh Conference
A CENTENARY CONFERENCE AND CELEBRATION
in Boston

should be praised. Details pasted in below...

Are there any other events that we should be aware of?

P.O'S.

http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/news/kavanagh/

Patrick Kavanagh Conference
A CENTENARY CONFERENCE AND CELEBRATION
Friday and Saturday, October 29 & 30
Sponsored by Sir Anthony O'Reilly
With Special Guest Speaker, Nobel Laureate S=E9amus Heaney

Patrick Kavanagh is a pivotal figure in Modern Irish Literature, and had =
an
important shaping influence on later generations of poets. His poetry =
has
also become increasingly popular with the general public; when the Irish
Times compiled a list in 2000 of the nation's favorite poems, ten of
Kavanagh's poems were in the top fifty. Born in 1904 in County Monaghan, =
he
worked on the family farm after leaving school, and was intimately
acquainted with Irish rural life. In the 1930s he published his first =
book
of poetry and an autobiography, The Green Fool. Kavanagh is perhaps best
known for his searing indictment of the social, sexual, and spiritual
poverty of rural life in The Great Hunger (1942). Later books included =
more
volumes of poetry, such as Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, and another
autobiography.

Friday, October 29

Gasson 100
7:30 pm Keynote Lecture
Nobel laureate S=E9amus Heaney
Welcome and Introduction: Marjorie Howes, Boston College
Reception to follow

Saturday, October 30

9:30 Continental Breakfast, Connolly House

10:00-11:00 Kavanagh and Heaney: the Politics of Empathy
Peggy O=92Brien, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Moderator: Robert Savage, Boston College
Connolly House

11:15-12:15 =91No Earthly Estate': Religion in Patrick Kavanagh's Poetry
Fr. Thomas Stack
Moderator: James Smith, Boston College
Connolly House

12:15-1:30 *Lunch, Connolly House

1:30-2:30 Kavanagh's Hereafter
Eamon Grennan, Vassar College
Moderator: Philip O=92Leary, Boston College
Connolly House

2:45-3:45 Patrick Kavanagh's Collected Poems: The Centenary Edition
Antoinette Quinn, Trinity College, Dublin
Moderator: Kevin O=92Neill, Boston College
Connolly House

4:00-5:00 Musical Performance
The Glee-Men Sing: The Stories and Songs of Yeats, Joyce, O=92Casey, =
Behan,
and Kavanagh
Danny Doyle
Introduction: Ann Morrison Spinney, Boston College
Gasson 100

5:00 Closing Reception
Sponsored by the Consul General of Ireland, Isolde Moylan
Gasson 100

*This event is free and open to the public. If you would like to reserve =
a
lunch on Saturday, please respond to Liz Sullivan at 617-552-3938 or
elizabeth.sullivan.3[at]bc.edu
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J.Goodby[at]swansea.ac.uk
Subject: request for help from John Goodby

This is a pretty broad request, but I wonder if anyone on the list could
help me out at rather short notice? I'm presenting a paper to a diaspora
studies seminar group here in Swansea next Thursday, entitled 'After the
Celtic Tiger and Good Friday Agreement': representations of Ireland and
Irishness in Britain in the new millennium. Some of this rests on the
research I carried out when I was a member of the Axial Writing project team
funded by the ESRC Transnational Communities Programme, 1997-2002.

But it has struck me that I really have very little information on recent
developments, having been out of the Irish Studies loop for the last few
years. I would be really grateful if any members of the list could help me
out on this by volunteering even very brief nuggets of information; have
there been any significant (or even not-so-significant) developments--in
media representations, migrant flows, cultural exchanges / events,
etc.--since 2001-02? I'd be more than happy, if anyone was interested, in
entering into a fuller discussion of the research I did conduct (mainly
interviews with Irish cultural workers / Irish organizations in London ca.
1998-2000), after the paper has been given--so there should be something in
it for those who can help me.

Yours sincerely,

John Goodby

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This article is freely available at the U of Calgary web site...
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/hic/website/2004vol4no1/framesets/2004vol4no1greg
oryarticleframeset.htm

P.O'S.

History of Intellectual Culture, 2004
Volume 4, No. 1

ISSN 1492-7810

http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic

Vernacular Song, Cultural Identity, and Nationalism in Newfoundland,
1920-1955

E. David Gregory


Abstract

Although a force in Newfoundland politics and culture, nationalist sentiment
was not strong enough in 1948 to prevent confederation with Canada. The
absence among many Newfoundlanders of a strong sense of belonging to an
independent country was the underlying reason for Smallwood's referendum
victory. Most islanders were descendants of immigrants from either Ireland
or the English West Country. Nowadays, they view themselves as
Newfoundlanders first and foremost but it took centuries for that common
identity to be forged. How can we gauge when that change from old (European)
to new (Newfoundland) identity took place in the outport communities?
Vernacular song texts provide one valuable source of evidence. Three
collections of Newfoundland songs - Gerald Doyle's The Old Time Songs and
Poetry of Newfoundland, Elisabeth Greenleaf's Ballads and Sea Songs from
Newfoundland, and Maud Karpeles' Folk Songs from Newfoundland - illuminate
the degree to which by the late 1920s a Newfoundland song-culture had
replaced earlier cultural traditions. These songs suggest that the island
was still a cultural mosaic: some outports were completely Irish, others
were English, and in a few ethnically-mixed communities, including St.
John's, there was an emergent, home-grown, patriotic song-culture. Cultural
nationalism was still a minority tradition in the Newfoundland of 1930.

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European Review of Economic History, Volume 6, Issue 03
=20

European Review of Economic History (2002), 6:339-363 Cambridge =
University
Press
Copyright =A9 2002 Cambridge University Press
DOI 10.1017/S1361491602000163=20

What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in =
comparative
perspective

JOEL MOKYR a1 and CORMAC =D3 GR=C1DA a2
a1 Department of Economics, Northwestern University, 2003 Sheridan Road,
Evanston, IL 60208, USA
a2 Department of Economics, University College, Dublin 4, Ireland


Abstract
The Irish Famine killed over a million people who would not have died
otherwise. The nosologies published by the 1851 Irish census provide a =
rich
source for the causes of death during these catastrophic years. This =
source
is extremely rich and detailed, but also inaccurate and deficient to the
point where many scholars have given up using it. In this article we try =
to
make adjustments to the death-by-cause tabulations and provide more =
accurate
ones. These tables are then used to analyse the reasons why so many =
people
died and why modern famines tend to be less costly in terms of human =
life.

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Theatre Survey, Volume 43, Issue 02


Theatre Survey (2002), 43:253-259 Cambridge University Press
Copyright C 2002 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.
DOI:10.1017/S0040557402000133


The Dublin Gate Theatre Archive at Northwestern University

Anne M. Pulju a1
a1 Northwestern University

The state of theatre archives in Ireland was a major subject of the recent
Irish Theatre History Conference (subtitled Archives, Historiography,
Politics) held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in November
2001. Many of the theatre-related collections in Ireland discussed at the
conference, despite the best efforts of their curators, have historically
lacked the resources to make materials fully accessible to scholars or to
catalog their holdings comprehensively. This trend has changed in recent
years, however, and new efforts in managing Irish theatre resources are
planned. It seems an appropriate time to discuss one major Irish theatre
collection that is both fully cataloged and readily accessible, although it
is located at some distance from its original home.

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From: "Brian McGinn"
Subject: Encyclopedia of the Irish in America

The 998-page Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, published by University
of Notre Dame Press and edited by Michael Glazier, is now out of print.

Those IR-D members who missed out on this reference work, originally priced
at $89.95, can now purchase it at the ridiculously-low remainder price of
$14.95, plus $3.50 shipping and handling.

For further details, go to:
www.edwardrhamilton.com
or directly:
http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/titles/4/1/1/4115163.html

Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn2[at]earthlink.net

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IR-D members will know that one of my constant complaints on the Irish
Diaspora list is about the difficulty we have getting hold of the Table of
Contents and the Abstracts of journals - journals generally, but especially
the TOCs of journals published in Ireland...

Where I have easily been able to get the TOCs of journals of interest I
often post the TOC to the Irish Diaspora list. Thus the TOC of Irish
Studies Review, published in England by Carfax, is easy to get hold of,
either on the web site or through the alerting service. Thus the TOCs of
journals published in the USA are now more easily available, through things
like Project Muse or other web sites.

I have been monitoring the British Library's Zetoc service...
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/index.html

Zetoc started in 2000. In its earliest days it was not of great use. Last
year it started becoming more visible and available. And now suddenly the
TOCs of quite a few journals of interest, PUBLISHED IN IRELAND, have started
turning up there. I am not sure quite why this has happened...

Anyway, suddenly many more TOCs are available - and I am not sure what to do
with them. Sending the occasional one out to the Irish Diaspora list is ok
- but sending a constant stream is maybe not ok...?

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Might it be better to post the TOCs
somewhere on the Web - like Thaddeus Breen used to do. I have contacted
Thaddeus, to see if he has any new plans...

I have pasted in below the web address of Zetoc - note that it is available
only to UK academics and other odds and ends like myself...

P.O'S.


http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/index.html

'Welcome to zetoc

zetoc provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents
of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings
published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a
daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, so that users can
receive notification of relevant new data.

zetoc is free to use for members of JISC-sponsored UK higher and further
education institutions. It is also available to English NHS Regions, NHS
Scotland and Northern Ireland. A small number of other institutions are
eligible to subscribe to zetoc.'

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No argument that this TOC from Zetoc should be forwarded to the Irish
Diaspora list...

Much to interest us...

P.O'S.

IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
VOL 33; NUMB 132; 2003
ISSN 0021-1214

pp. 369-386
`The first chapter of 1798?? Restoring a military perspective to the Irish
Militia riots of 1793 Nelson, I. F.

pp. 387-403
Gaelic sport and the Irish diaspora in Boston, 1879-90 Darby, P.

pp. 404-423
The formation of the United Irish League, 18918a1900: the dynamics of Irish
agrarian agitation Bull, P.

pp. 424-451
Punch's portrayal of Redmond, Carson and the Irish question, 1910-18 Finnan,
J. P.

pp. 452-469
Bolshevising Irish communism: the Communist International and the formation
of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups, 1927-31 O Connor, E.

pp. 470-472
Theses on Irish history completed in Irish universities, 2002

p. 473
Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh and Eunan O'Halpin, Documents
on Irish Foreign Policy Hopkinson, M.

pp. 474-475
Patricia Palmer. Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English
Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion Carpenter, A.

pp. 476-477
Clare Carroll. Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland
Cabal, M.

p. 478
Aidan Clarke. Prelude to Restoration in Ireland: the End of the
Commonwealth, 1659-1660 McGuire, J.

pp. 479-480
Eamonn O Ciardha. Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: a Fatal
Attachment Szechi, D.

pp. 481-482
Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh and Kevin Whelan. 1798: a
Bicentenary Perspective Connolly, S. J.

pp. 483-484
Helen F. Mulvey. Thomas Davis and Ireland: a Biographical Study Quinn, J.

p. 485
Kevin Collins. Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland,
1848-1916 Maume, P.

p. 486
Benedikt Stuchtev. W. E. H. Lecky (1838-1903). Historisches Denken und
Politisches Urteil Eines Anglo-Irischen Gelehrten Mulligan, W.

p. 487
David Fitzpatrick. Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish
Migration to Australia Brown, N.

p. 488
James W. Taylor. The 1st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War Jeffery, K.

pp. 489-490
Brian O Cuiv. Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian
Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries Bhreathnach, E.

p. 491
Robin Okey. The Habsburg Monarchy, C. 1765-1918 Woods, C. J.

pp. 492-493
Steven Ellis.Empires and States in European Perspective Rowe, M.