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You are cordially invited to:
'Where the Squat Pen Rests', An Evening of Readings by some of Ireland's
most celebrated writers
Date: 12 May 2005
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Rocket Complex, London Metropolitan University, 166-220
Holloway Rd, London N7 8DB

It is our pleasure to include, below, details of this memorable evening =
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some of Ireland's most celebrated writers. This event is proudly hosted =
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Where the Squat Pen Rests=85
An evening of readings by some of Ireland=92s most celebrated writers=20

The Rocket Complex
London Metropolitan University
Holloway Rd, London N7

12 May 2005, 7.30pm
=A310 (=A37 concessionary rates)

Joseph O=92Connor
Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include Cowboys and =
Indians,
Desperadoes, The Salesman and Inishowen. His most recent novel, Star of =
the
Sea became an international bestseller and received many awards, =
including
the Prix Litt=E9raire Europ=E9en Zepter for European novel of the year, =
the
Irish Post Award for Fiction and Italy's Premio Acerbi. It has been
published in 29 languages. He has also written short stories, film =
scripts
and three stageplays. He was recently awarded a Fellowship at the New =
York
Public Library's Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers.

Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin and now lives and works in County =
Wicklow.
She is the author of a collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which =
won
the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You
Like? (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award) and The Pleasure of =
Eliza
Lynch. Her new book, Making Babies, is her intimate, engaging, and very
funny record of the experience of pregnancy and early child-rearing.

Ronan Bennett
Ronan Bennett was brought up in Belfast. He is the author of four =
novels,
including The Second Prison, Overthrown by Strangers, and The =
Catastrophist.
His most recent novel Havoc, in its Third Year was long-listed for the =
2004
Man Booker Prize and won the Hughes & Hughes/Sunday Independent Irish =
Novel
of the Year award. It was compared by =91The Observer=92 to Arthur =
Miller=92s The
Crucible in =93its marriage of historical drama and contemporary
significance=94.

Martina Evans
Martina Evans was born in County Cork and moved to London in 1988. She =
has
published three novels, Midnight Feast, The Glass Mountain and No =
Drinking,
No Dancing, No Doctors. She has also published three collections of =
poetry,
the most recent of which Can Dentists Be Trusted? was published by Anvil
Press last year. She is presently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen =
Mary,
University of London and working on her fourth novel.

Cherry Smyth
Cherry Smyth grew up in Portstewart in Northern Ireland and her first
collection of poetry When The Lights Go Up was published in 2001. She =
has
since edited an anthology of poems by women in prison entitled A Strong
Voice In A Small Space (winner of the Raymond Williams Community =
Publishing
Award) and written the screenplay for the film Salvage. She has also
published a number of short stories and recently completed her first =
novel.
A pamphlet entitled The Future of Something Delicate will be published =
later
this year and a full second poetry collection in 2006.

For further information and bookings contact:

Kathy O=92Regan
Irish Studies Centre
London Metropolitan University
Tower Building, Holloway Rd, London N7 8DB
Tel: 020 7133 2913
Email: k.elsner[at]londonmet.ac.uk


The Irish Studies Centre=20
The main purpose of the Irish Studies Centre is the promotion of Irish
Studies through teaching, research, documentation and community liaison.
Founded by Professor Mary Hickman in 1986, the Irish Studies Centre is =
based
in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations and aims to
increase the understanding and appreciation of the Irish contribution to =
all
aspects of economic, cultural, political and social life. As well as
teaching and research, it achieves this through a number of other =
activities
including an annual Cultural Programme, its holding of the Archive of =
the
Irish in Britain, its publications and its international links with =
Irish
academics, researchers and politicians.=20
Each year the Irish Studies Centre hosts a series of lectures which are =
open
to any interested member of the public. The Cultural Programme (formerly =
the
Public Lecture Series) regularly has audiences of a hundred and fifty =
plus
and its ability to attract high profile speakers from Ireland guarantees =
the
event considerable public interest and media attention. The Cultural
Programme is relevant to anyone who has an interest in the history and
current affairs of Ireland and the Irish abroad.=20

Proceeds from the entrance fee to tonight=92s event will go towards =
supporting
the Cultural Programme.

Further information about the Irish Studies Centre can be found at our
website: www.irishstudiescentre.com

The Irish Studies Centre is grateful to the Ireland Fund of Great =
Britain
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Sitting here in my ofice at Eastbourne thinking about the sumer of 68 and
the loathing that was projected onto Boss Daley: the anger provoked by (was
it?) Mike Royko's book: how votes were bought for Kennedy and the stoning of
poor blacks by white Chicagoans under the nose of the Boss: was it all
untrue? Or not quite true? How many rights does it take to make a wrong: we
knew at the time that he had had all those freeways built: it didn't matter
to us young 'revolutionaries' then: why on earth should it now? Of course
black and white is easy: shades of grey less tempting, even if more
true: still....


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From: Richard Jensen
rjensen[at]uic.edu
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April 21, 2005
Daley Remembered as Last of the Big-City Bosses
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM

CHICAGO, April 20 - Outside Chicago, the image of Mayor Richard J.
Daley that comes to mind is one of a flushed, jowly old man on the floor of
the Democratic National Convention in 1968, shaking his finger and cursing
at the rostrum while his police force manhandled demonstrators on the
streets.

But here, on the 50th anniversary of his first swearing-in as mayor,
many remember him as a powerful leader who single-handedly created, as the
slogan went, "the city that works."

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I must put my two cents in.....
I am a Chicagoan by birth and grew up under Hizzoner. I remember his
destruction of a vibrant Italian neighborhood so he could have an university
built where he wanted it. The same university is still destroying parts of
Chicago for its expansion. The university is University of
Illinois-Chicago. There was vacant land in other places but Hizzoner wanted
it in the near west side of the city.
I grew up in Austin and saw my neighborhood destroyed by greedy real estate
agents who conducted a very lucrative trade in panic pedalling. Citizens of
my neighborhood were told by Daley to deal with it. But Bridgeport
residents (where he lived) would get rid of any African-Americans that dared
to move in at that time.
Of course there was his wonderful destruction of the English language. I
have a book of his sayings which are quite hilarious. Once on a radio show,
WMFT, they stopped the musice and put on what sounded like a person having a
violent tantrum. It was our mayor ranting at Leon Depres- an independent
alderman who dared to question his judgement. How can anyone every forget
his order for the National Guard to shot to kill rioters after Martin Luther
King's assassination!
I was one of the 1968 Democratic Convention protesters who saw tanks on our
streets among other things. I told my story to the Walker Report and FBI
who summoned me. I had 3 goons from the Chicago Police Department break
down my door and harrass me after my arrest.
These are the things I remember about Richard J Daley!
Susan Hickey

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Please distribute widely...

P.O'S.

IRISH STUDIES LIBRARIAN

Responsibilities: The Irish Studies Librarian is responsible for the
development of a collection poised to become a distinguished collection of
primary, secondary, and creative works in Irish Studies including, but not
limited to, history, political science, and Irish language and literature.
Reflecting university and libraries priorities, this encompasses selection,
cataloging, and especially communication with the faculty. The Irish Studies
Librarian is responsible for the support of scholarly collections
initiatives, cooperative interinstitutional programs and services, and
cultivation of effective working relationships with relevant publishers,
vendors, and antiquarian book dealers. Significant financial resources are
available to carry out these responsibilities. Salary and Benefits:
Librarians are nontenure-track members of the library faculty and earn 20
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Hallie Rubenhold's book on The Covent Garden Ladies has received much
attention - some obvious links pasted in below. A search for Rubenhold plus
Samuel Derrick will turn up more. Rubenhold identifies Derrick as the main
author of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies - I am not clear on what
evidence...

I cannot recall ever having read any work by Samuel Derrick. It would seem
that his most successful publication is unlikely to enter The Canon, or be
anthologised for the edification of The Young.

There was a steady stream of these Irish litterateurs from Dublin to
eighteenth century London. There simply wasn't a market for their wares and
skills in Dublin - I have made a study of Mathew Concannen, whose A Match at
Football, 1721, is recommended to the historians of sport. (I was puzzled
as to why Pope had bothered to insult Concannen, twice, in The Dunciad - in
the end I decided that Concannen was a useful dactyl...)

P.O'S.


'More than 200 years on from his death, the author of a scandalous
bestseller of Georgian London has been outed.

For almost 30 years from 1757, Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was the
essential gentleman's accessory for a night on the town. Historian Hallie
Rubenhold estimates it sold at least 250,000 copies...'

'...Derrick claimed noble Irish ancestry, but was apprenticed to a Dublin
draper before running away to London determined to be a member of Dr
Johnson's set. Tobias Smollett, a notoriously soft touch, gave him a
shilling to replace his tattered stockings; Boswell, swift to spot another
social climber, described him as "a little blackguard pimping dog".

Derrick was often reduced to sleeping in doorways, and was notoriously dirty
and smelly. A diabolical poet, he was also briefly an actor. A playgoer
wrote: "Any other man might labour all of his life and at last not get into
so bad a method of playing."

When the list appeared, his only rich relation, an aunt in Dublin, sent an
emissary to London. Derrick was away, so he was entertained in their filthy
garret by "Mrs Derrick", Jane Lessingham, an actress and prostitute. The
aunt disinherited Derrick, and the mistress promptly left him for a richer
man...'

Full text at...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1456598,00.html

See also
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-1569199,00.html

http://pub5.bravenet.com/news/383552651/34177/1

http://br.news.yahoo.com/050411/40/t9bn.html

etc.

Publisher's web site...

The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack And The Extraordinary Story Of
Harris's List
Authors: Hallie Rubenhold
Publication Date: 1 Apr 2005
Tempus Publishing,
ISBN: 0752428500
Hardback Book, 320 Pages, 235 x 156 mm

http://www.tempus-publishing.com/

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A number of William Blake items are in the news...

I am a bit surprised by the 'discovery' that there were mistakes on Blake's
plates - Blake himself says...

'Re-engraved time after time,
Ever in their youthful prime;
My designs unchanged remain,
Time may rage but rage in vain.
For above Time's troubled fountains,
On the great Atlantic mountains,
In my golden house on high,
There they shine eternally.'

Though it is obviously good that someone goes and looks at the hard
evidence.

William Blake, one of my favourite poets, has been in my thoughts because
someone has raised again the question of Blake's Irish origins, and I
thought I should maybe look at the evidence. I know Yeats' Introduction to
his edition of Blake - Tom Paulin says '...he argues in his introduction
that Blake was descended from the O'Neill family via a shebeen in Rathmines
run by a woman called Ellen Blake. In other words, Blake was a Gaelic
aristocrat brought low...' I have pasted in below the link to Tom Paulin's
essay...

The MYSTICA web site says...
'...Although Blake is a common Irish name, the family's ancestry is dubious.
Later the poet W. B. Yeats, an ardent devotee of Blake and editor of his
literary works, would have it believed that Blake came directly from Irish
ancestry, but this is contradicted by Martin J. Blake in his genealogical
work, Blake Family Records (1902-1905)...'

P.O'S.


1.
Art historian dents image of William Blake, engraver

Research shows how artist 'fumbled and bungled'

Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent
Monday April 18, 2005
The Guardian

'An academic has uncovered a secret that William Blake, poet, visionary and
artist, managed to conceal all his life and for almost two centuries after
his death - by studying the backs of his copper engraving plates.

An art historian from Nottingham Trent university, Mei-Ying Sung, has made
the first systematic study of the backs of dozens of surviving plates, and
has revealed the repeated mistakes in the engravings which he toiled to
correct.'

Full text at...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1462029,00.html


2.
Lost grave of William Blake found in London
By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter
HE IS the author of Jerusalem and The Tyger, but despite his place as one of
Britain's most admired lyricists, William Blake lies in an unmarked grave.
For decades his resting place has evaded scholars and biographers. Now a
pair of amateur sleuths say that they have solved the mystery after two
years of research.

Full text at...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4484-1572002,00.html


3.
The Poems of William Blake
An introduction by Tom Paulin

http://www.routledge.com/classics/features/blakepoems.html


4.
MYSTICA on William Blake...
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/b/blake_william.html

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From: Michael Donnelly
mikedx[at]yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [IR-D] William Blake 2

One of the important things regarding this topic for us is that whether or
not Blake was of Irish origin, Joyce and others *believed* him to be of
Irish origin (his father said to be an O'Neill)(see Ellman and others).

Blake always did seem a bit gaye to me to be strictly British...

Michael Donnelly

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From: Patrick Maume
I believe Yeats's claim that Blake was of Irish descent was based on
contact with a fellow-occultist called Blake who claimed (on dubious grounds
- how dubious I'm not sure) to be a collateral descendant. Anyone have more
on this?
Best wishes,
Patrick

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Dear colleagues,

See below for an invitation to a forthcoming SSNCI launch, to which you are
cordially invited.

A direct purchase form for this volume may be accessed at the society's
website www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/ssnci.html, or through UCD Press's
webpage www.ucdpress.ie (the latter allows credit card purchases).

All good wishes

Margaret Kelleher.



THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND
AND
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request the pleasure of your company at a reception to celebrate the
publication of

Nineteenth-Century Ireland
A Guide to Recent Research

edited by

LAURENCE M. GEARY
and
MARGARET KELLEHER

at Newman House
86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
on Wednesday 4 May 2005 at 6.00 p.m.

where the book will be launched by

PROFESSOR MARY E. DALY
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From: Carmel McCaffrey
cmcc[at]qis.net
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Daley Remembered 3

Susan
Thanks for this. I have also heard similar stories from eye witnesses to
that time in Chicago. You paint a very full canvas of a man who had power
and frequently used it to crush opposition. The old story and new again
today.

Carmel

>From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] Daley Remembered 2
>
>
>I must put my two cents in.....
>I am a Chicagoan by birth and grew up under Hizzoner. I remember his
>destruction of a vibrant Italian neighborhood so he could have an
>university built where he wanted it. The same university is still
>destroying parts of Chicago for its expansion. The university is
>University of Illinois-Chicago. There was vacant land in other places
>but Hizzoner wanted it in the near west side of the city.
>I grew up in Austin and saw my neighborhood destroyed by greedy real
>estate agents who conducted a very lucrative trade in panic pedalling.
>Citizens of my neighborhood were told by Daley to deal with it. But
>Bridgeport residents (where he lived) would get rid of any
>African-Americans that dared to move in at that time.
>Of course there was his wonderful destruction of the English language.
>I have a book of his sayings which are quite hilarious. Once on a
>radio show, WMFT, they stopped the musice and put on what sounded like
>a person having a violent tantrum. It was our mayor ranting at Leon
>Depres- an independent alderman who dared to question his judgement.
>How can anyone every forget his order for the National Guard to shot to
>kill rioters after Martin Luther King's assassination!
>I was one of the 1968 Democratic Convention protesters who saw tanks on
>our streets among other things. I told my story to the Walker Report
>and FBI who summoned me. I had 3 goons from the Chicago Police
>Department break down my door and harrass me after my arrest.
>These are the things I remember about Richard J Daley!
>Susan Hickey
>

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Paddy,
I cut and pasted this from today's Irish Independent. I hope you can
read it. Should be of interest to the list.

Carmel

*Argentina to honour its Irish-born hero with docks statue*

ADVERTISEMENT


A TWO-METRE high bronze statue of the Irish-born founder of the Argentinean
navy, Admiral William Brown, is to be erected at Dublin Docks.

A similar statue is to be located in the Co Mayo town of Foxford - the naval
hero's birthplace.

The statue in Dublin will be sited along Sir John Rodgerson Quay.

Both statues will be cast in bronze in Argentina and will be transported by
the Irish Navy next spring, to Ireland.

The statues and surrounding monuments will be unveiled in 2007 as part of a
huge project in Ireland and Argentina to celebrate the 150th anniversary of
the death of Admiral Brown.

The Argentinean Ambassador to Ireland, Marcelo Huergo, says his country is
delighted to have an opportunity to honour their hero of Independence from
Spain and the founder of their navy in this way.

"The purpose of placing this statue and monument in this important and
prominent location in Dublin is to honour the legacy of William Brown to the
people of Argentina," he said.

*Teresa O'Malley
*

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Does anyone have a copy of the Joe Lee article Paddy referred to? I
can't find a location for the periodical.

Thanks.

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

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From Irish Examiner...

20/04/05

Diplomatic shake-up as 24 ambassadors named
By Harry McGee, Political Editor

THE Government has approved the biggest shake-up of Ireland=92s =
diplomatic
representation since the foundation of the State.

At the Cabinet meeting yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern =
got
approval for 24 ambassadorial appointments.

That included ambassadors to new embassies in Romania, Latvia, Bulgaria =
and
Lithuania. In all, there are now 70 Irish full diplomatic missions.

The changes included top-level changes in the posts at the United =
Nations,
the Anglo-Irish division and the EU permanent representation in =
Brussels.

Brendan Scannell, until now head of the Anglo- Irish division is to =
become
the ambassador to Japan. He will be replaced by the ambassador to Israel
Patrick Hennessy.

Anne Anderson, the current permanent representative to the EU will =
become
ambassador to France, and will be replaced by another senior diplomat, =
Bobby
McDonagh.

Her counterpart at the United Nations in New York, Richard Ryan will be =
the
new ambassador to the Netherlands to be replaced at the UN by the
department=92s political director David Cooney.

Other notable appointments involve two former press directors for the
department. Dan Mulhall is to be appointed director general of the EU
division at headquarters while Dermot Brangan is to be the new =
ambassador to
Mexico.

A spokesman for the department said it was the most wide-ranging and
extensive list of diplomatic appointments for many years.

=93It reflects the growing number of missions that Ireland has abroad in
addition to key appointments at the UN, the EU, Anglo-Irish, and as part =
our
new Asia economic strategy,=94 he said.

List of ambassadorial appointments:

Brendan Scannell: Japan.

Anne Anderson: France

Richard Ryan: Netherlands.

Declan O=92Donovan: Spain.

Bobby McDonagh: EU, Brussels.

David Cooney: UN

Eugene Hutchinson: Malaysia.

Brian Nason: Belgium.

Peter Gunning: Spain.

Thelma Maria Doran: Norway.

Patrick McCabe: Slovenia.

P=E1draic Cradock: Romania.

Donal Hamill: Czech Republic.

Barrie Robinson: Sweden.

Kenneth Thompson: Deputy permanent representative to EU.

Tim O=92Connor: Consul General, New York.

Dermot Brangan: Mexico.

Geoffrey Keating: Bulgaria.

Tim Mawe: Latvia

Donal Denham: Lithuania.

M=E1irt=EDn =D3 Fainin: Argentina.

Michael Forbes: Israel.

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From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

Everyone loves a parade? Try telling that to the organizers
By SUSAN PAYNTER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

'...Face it: The volunteer organizers of any community parade have a job
that makes you envy the elephant scoopers.

Certainly, after this month's St. Patrick's Day unpleasantness and its
aftermath in the press, John Keane of Seattle's Irish Heritage Club is one
of those who is bleeding something more sanguine than green beer.

On the upside, it was the biggest St. Pat parade ever, in Seattle. Almost
1,600 citizens marched while thousands stamped and cheered.

Still, there's no use denying that many were incited to fury at the sight of
the mayor of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, who provoked audience and organizers
alike by waving a Union flag like a bloody shirt.

The idea behind this invitation and all previous ones was to tighten ties of
commerce and comradeship between Seattle and Ireland by inviting Lisburn
mayors, Irish ambassadors, government ministers and officials from Galway,
Derry and environs.

But, the instant that Lisburn's mayor hinted he might carry a symbol that is
next to a swastika or a rebel flag in impact, the mayor was told in writing
and in person "no dice."

But he doesn't want to mount a parade that becomes famous for squelching
freedom of speech, Keane told me in the aftermath. Still, the next time
someone is set on carrying a symbol of pain in the parade, he'd rather just
cancel the whole damn thing...'

His hope for common sense ran down the drain the day before the St. Pat
parade when publicity made it painfully clear that the mayor's goal was to
stir up trouble. And that the parade committee's chief aim would be to
minimize the publicity the man was after.

'...In the past, people whined about the banners of the Committee for Truth
and Justice in Ireland, The Seattle Irish Gay and Lesbian Association, or
Noraid, the Saints of Seattle.

Some even complained about Highland dancers in the parade, because they're
Scottish, not Irish.

Since then, all those groups have been absorbed, and almost without notice.

But this flagrant flag drew unprecedented abuse "from a few bigots," Keane
said. "There is no other way to describe them." One person called the
Heritage Club president, who is also a Presbyterian minister originally from
Belfast, "a Protestant bastard."

"It's ridiculous. Nobody on the committee gets paid. And we're not
interested in fighting anyone," Keane said. "We don't want to be like Boston
or New York."...

Full text at...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/217968_paynter30.html

Everyone loves a parade? Try telling that to the organizers
By SUSAN PAYNTER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

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There is a lot of interest in Russell A. Kazal's book, Becoming Old =
Stock:
The Paradox of German-American Identity...

The train of thought is that Joe Lee flagged up the issue of
Irish-American/German-American contrasts and comparisons in J. J. Lee,
'Millennial Reflections on Irish-American History', Radharc: Chronicles =
of
the Glucksman Ireland House, Volume 1, November 2000. He said, p. 30, =
'It
is difficult to pass over German America without wondering if a =
sustained,
systematic comparative study with Irish America would not greatly =
illuminate
the experiences of both immigrant peoples...'. and goes on to outline a
possible programme.

The Irish are certainly THERE for Russell Kazal, but perhaps there only =
in
their most manifest manifestations. I have pasted in below some =
publicity
material and a paragraph from his Introduction.

Anyone who wants to continue the discussion with Russell Kazal, and who
happens to be in Philadelphia... He is speaking at The Historical =
Society
of Pennsylvania, with The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, April 27, =
2005
6 PM HSP History Book Club
http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=3D10

P.O'S.



Becoming Old Stock:
The Paradox of German-American Identity
Russell A. Kazal


'...Such ethnic quiescence is brought into sharp focus when one compares =
it
with local manifestations of Irish identity. The bulk of Irish and =
German
immigrants to the United States arrived at roughly the same time, in =
waves
running from the 1830s to the 1890s. Survey research carried out in the
mid-1980s in the Albany, New York, area, however, found that while Irish =
and
German ancestries were each claimed by roughly one-third of native-born
whites, only some 20 percent of respondents saw themselves as "German,"
compared with 31 percent who asserted an "Irish" identity.3 One can see =
a
similar contrast in how Philadelphia celebrates these two ethnicities. =
The
city's annual Steuben Day parade in September draws scattered onlookers =
to
the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, but a visitor strolling through other
downtown sections might never know that the day was dedicated to a =
German
immigrant who became a Revolutionary War hero. On March 17, that same
pedestrian would find it impossible to miss the fact that Philadelphia =
was
honoring St. Patrick. At the most prosaic level, she or he could not =
walk
down Center City's Walnut Street for more than two blocks without having =
to
maneuver around a line of people snaking out of a bar with green plastic
hats on their heads...'

From Sample Chapter at
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7741.html


Becoming Old Stock:
The Paradox of German-American Identity

Russell A. Kazal

Cloth | 2004 | $35.00 / =A322.95 | ISBN: 0-691-05015-5
390 pp. | 6 x 9 | 7 halftones. 5 line illus. 8 tables.

More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other =
country.
Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they
have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic,
twentieth-century retreat from German-American identity. In this age of
multiculturalism, why have German Americans gone into ethnic =
eclipse--and
where have they ended up? Becoming Old Stock represents the first =
in-depth
exploration of that question. The book describes how German =
Philadelphians
reinvented themselves in the early twentieth century, especially after =
World
War I brought a nationwide anti-German backlash.

Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of =
written
sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and =
Lutheran
residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms--as "American" =
in
opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines
working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity =
with
other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners.

Becoming Old Stock sheds light on the way German Americans used race,
American nationalism, and mass culture to fashion new identities in =
place of
ethnic ones. It is also an important contribution to the growing =
literature
on racial identity among European Americans. In tracing the fate of one =
of
America's largest ethnic groups, Becoming Old Stock challenges =
historians to
rethink the phenomenon of ethnic assimilation and to explore its complex
relationship to American pluralism.

Russell A. Kazal is Assistant Professor of History at Arcadia =
University.

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From: Joe Bradley
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Subject: Brother Walfrid


Patrick

This may interest some on the list - it constituted a press release last
week

JB


Celtic Football Club and the memory,
legacy and significance of Brother Walfrid

. Celtic Supporters Associations and Federations have recently
launched a commemorative book to mark the build up to the erection outside
of Celtic Park later this year of a sculpture of County Sligo born Brother
Walfrid, the main founder of Celtic Football Club. The booklet will be on
sale from all official Celtic retail outlets from next week.
. Andrew Kerins, known popularly as Brother Walfrid, was born in
Ballymote County Sligo in 1840 and is the central figure in the founding of
Celtic Football Club.
. Jim Divers of the Celtic Supporters Association said that 'for
Celtic supporters Walfrid encapsulates everything the Club meaningfully
represents'.
. Walfrid Committee Chairperson Eddie Toner stated that 'Walfrid is a
symbol of Celtic and its supporters'.
. For Michael Kelly of the Association of Irish Celtic Supporters
Clubs, 'Celtic's achievements haven't simply been 'football' achievements.
They have been community achievements'.
. Mick Dinning of The Affiliation of Registered Celtic Supporters
Clubs believes that 'Celtic is an integral part of the Irish Catholic
diasporic community in Scotland, but like Walfrid, Celtic holds its hand out
to everyone, regardless of colour, creed or national origin.
. Jeanette Findley of the Celtic Trust believes that 'Brother Walfrid
and his legacy have a totemic value to Celtic and its supporters'.

For further Information contact the Chair of the Walfrid Committee Eddie
Toner on 07939585663

Celtic Football Club and the memory,
legacy and significance of Brother Walfrid

Andrew Kerins, born in Ballymote County Sligo in 1840, is the central figure
in the founding of Celtic Football Club. At Celtic Park on Friday evening a
limited edition commemorative brochure will be published as part of the
build up towards the unveiling at the stadium of a sculpture of Brother
Walfrid later this year. The booklet includes articles from Martin O Neill,
Brian Quinn, Neil Lennon and Billy McNeill amongst many others, including
supporters and members of the Walfrid Committee.

With backing from the Club, for the past two years representatives of Celtic
Supporter's groups including the Celtic Supporters Association, the
Association of Irish Celtic Supporters Clubs, the Celtic Trust, the
Affiliation of Celtic Supporters Clubs, the North American Federation of
Celtic Supporters Clubs and the Association of Donegal Celtic Supporters
Clubs as well as a number of individuals, have been planning and raising the
finance to erect the monument.

Brother Walfrid is a dominant figure in the memory of those Celtic
supporters who claim to be the inheritors of the Club founded and supported
by their grandfathers and great-grandfathers as Irish immigrants to the west
of Scotland. For them, Walfrid encapsulates everything Celtic meaningfully
represents. Walfrid is a symbol of Celtic and its supporters.

At a time when around a quarter of Scotland's population is officially under
the poverty line and corporate and commercial profiteering seem part of the
cultural norm of western society, a figure such as Walfrid stands out in a
society marked by extremes of both poverty and great wealth. Walfrid was
very much about moral, social and political conscience. Apart from kicking
a ball, great players and trying to win as many times as possible, Celtic is
also about social, political and moral conscience. Supporting Celtic is a
culture and Celtic is a social institution. Celtic was partly a spiritual
venture for Walfrid with a wider remit than just to play football.
Remembering Walfrid is a challenge that means keeping in mind that global
capitalism has caused and is causing thousands of deaths from poverty and
oppression, 'every day'. In Walfrid Celtic supporters find that the real
value and meaning of being a supporter of Celtic goes beyond the football
pitch.

Brother Walfrid reminds everyone of what Celtic is about. Celtic's
achievements haven't simply been 'football' achievements. They have been
community achievements. Celtic is an integral part of the Irish diasporic
community in Scotland and increasingly beyond, but like Walfrid himself,
Celtic holds its hand out to everyone, regardless of colour, creed or
national origin. Walfrid has a totemic value for Celtic and its legions of
supporters.

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Subject: Web Resource, A Guide to Ulster Loyalism and Unionism Online
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The following web resource has been brought to our attention...

The Guide is a project developed by...

Niall O Dochartaigh
Dept. of Political Science and Sociology
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway
Ireland

Niall is to be congratulated on this interesting and useful project. What
is particularly helpful is his calm oulining of the patterns and the
content.

P.O'S.


A Guide to Ulster Loyalism and Unionism Online

http://niallodochartaigh.net/loy/

This guide organises and provides links to over 270 loyalist and unionist
websites, including links to archived copies of defunct sites. It is a first
attempt to make some kind of assessment of the scale and character of online
activity by Ulster loyalists and unionists and to provide some analysis of
that activity. Around ninety of the 270 sites catalogued in the guide are
now defunct and a novel feature of the guide is the fact that it provides
links to copies of these defunct sites held in the Internet Archive. The
Internet Archive saves only a selection of materials from these sites
however and many of these webpages are disappearing without trace.

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Urgent questions (deadline looming):

Roughly (or, precisely, if possible), when did the Orangemen in
Ulster (or Ireland, generally) adopt their "respectable" "marching
uniform" (suits and bowler hats)?

When did they begin to create "ladies' auxiliaries"?

Early 19th-century observers describe the Order and its marches in
Ulster as aggressively all-masculine and as "casual" (or
rough-and-ready) in their clothing.

Many thanks,

Kerby.

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From: Thomas J. Archdeacon
tjarchde[at]wisc.edu
Subject: RE: [IR-D] Celtic Football Club and the memory of Brother Walfrid

I read the press release about Brother Walfrid with interest and some
confusion. The former stemmed from my interest in Celtic as part of Irish
history in Scotland, the latter from my ignorance about the statue. Is the
purpose of the book to raise money for erecting the statue? Why? The
release indicates that the statue is already slated for installation later
this year.

Of greatest interest to me was the effort to maintain the connection between
the Irish community, the spirit of Brother Walfrid, and Celtic football
today. The political commentary on "global capitalism" was also of note.

I wonder what the operators of Celtic think of locking their club to Irish
history and the far left? A few years ago, I contacted Celtic with what I
thought was a simple question, although one about which information is not
easily le on this side of the Atlantic. When did Celtic adopt the four-leaf
emblem in place of the shamrock? I thought that would offer an interesting
clue regarding the assimilation of the Irish into broader Scottish society.
(As an American, I also find the exchange of the three leafs for the four
something of an annoyance. One sees it here every St. Patrick's Day, as
people morph the shamrock -- as well as its possible religious significance
-- into a four-leaf clover, a symbol of luck -- as in "the luck of the
Irish").

Celtic did not welcome my question. I received no answer to it. Instead, I
got a curt reply that Celtic was part of Scottish culture and not tied to
ethnic, sectarian interests, yada, yada, yada. The message struck me as a
bit defensive; I had not implied that modern Celtic was locked in an age of
immigration and sectarian battles. I just wanted the club to comment on a
change in its logo. I later visited Celtic's museum at the pitch, and could
see the evolution of the uniforms on display, but I still don't have the
date of the transformation.

Tom


Thomas J. Archdeacon
Professor, Dept. of History
U. Wisconsin -- Madison
4135 Humanities
455 North Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
[608-263-1778]

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From: Donald MacRaild
Donald.MacRaild[at]vuw.ac.nz
Subject: Celtic, Rangers, Ireland and sectarian conflict in today's Scotland

Dear list members,

Following Tom's thoughts on trying to winkle information out of Celtic
Football Club, you may be interested in the following article which tells of
sectarian fighting in the wake of the club's recent 2-1 win in the latest
Old Firm clash. The articles tells of Scots and Irish involvement, with
running battles around the central belt and serious violence on a ferry full
of fans making their way home to Northern Ireland. The clubs don't encourage
this violence, and the police regularly move games forward to reduce the
alcohol factor, but deaths are not uncommon and violence seems to be an
ever-present. Read on:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=443652005


Don MacRaild