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=CCr=ECnk=E8rind=F2 is an online Journal of African Migration, freely =
available on
the web.

=CCr=ECnk=E8rind=F2's Inaugural Issue, Issue 1 September 2002, contains =
this
article, on Nigerians in Dublin, Ireland...

Which will be of interest to many IR-d members, and poignant reading for
all.

It is available in HTML and as a pdf download.

P.O'S.

Title: Searching for Fortune: The Geographical Process of Nigerian
Migration to Dublin, Ireland=09
Author: Julius K=F3mol=E1f=E9=09

Abstract: Nigerian migrants move predominantly to the countries where
they are more likely to adjust rapidly in terms of being able to =
understand
the host country's language, to secure gainful employment, and to =
reunite
with members of their family, friends or associate with other people =
from
their country of origin. For these reasons, the United Kingdom, United
States and Canada are some of the most popular destinations for Nigerian
migrants. This paper conceptualizes the contemporary migration of =
Nigerians
as an incessant quest, as it were, the departure of mostly well educated =
and
young people from their home country to more fertile pastures abroad, in
search of their individual fortunes. The process of migration creates
Diaspora in host countries like Ireland that create significant changes =
in
the lives of the migrants as well as the social and economic geography =
of
the host country. In some ways, the migration can also be conceptualized =
as
an Israelites' journey, a journey that takes Nigerian migrants from one
promising foreign country to the next until they find the proverbial
"promised land." =09

Journal: =CCr=ECnk=E8rind=F2: a Journal of African Migration=09
Issn: d0000911=09
Eissn: 15407497=09
Year: 2002=09
Issue: 1=09
Key words: immigration; migration; Nigeria; gender and Nigerian
immigration

Article freely available at
http://www.africamigration.com/

From the Web site...

=CCr=ECnk=E8rind=F2: a Journal of African Migration is a peer-reviewed =
journal
devoted to the study of African migration and immigration to other parts =
of
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To our minds, the
word, =CCr=ECnk=E8rind=F2 captures the essence of past, contemporary, =
and future
migrations and immigration of Africans around the continent, and from =
the
continent to other lands.

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=20
Interesting remarks about Irishmen in the British Armed services. The =
Irish
Guards (an elite British Army regiment) still recruit in Eire, and it =
was
somewhat ironic to note that when one of the regiment's pipers Ian =
Malone
(from Dublin) was killed in Iraq a few years ago his coffin arrived =
back at
RAF Brize Norton draped in the Union Jack.

Wasn't there also something about Irishmen getting changed into civvies =
in
Liverpool, where the clothing was stored, before returning home on =
leave in
the Second World War?

Without wishing to namedrop, I was talking to the Irish ambassador to
Britain in 2004 and I made some clever remark about the fact that the =
first
Victoria Cross of the Great War was awarded to an Irishman, Michael =
O'Leary
(Irish Guards again) - only to be pulled up sharp by his excellency who =
said
sternly "the first VC was won by an Irishman!" As of course it was: C D
Lucas from Co Monaghan in the Crimea.

The ambassador also added that he had recently attended an armistice =
service
in London, incognito, but that the British top brass had all made a =
bee-line
to him to express their gratitude and extol the virtues of the Irish
serviceman in the British service. I wonder what the numbers are these
days?

Dan Jackson

University of Northumbria


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Perhaps the other generalisation against which to be on guard is that =
of
assuming what was true for one period was true for another. It also
depends upon what one means by 'the Irish'. The experience(s) of
Michael Davitt, Sir John Pope-Hennessy (the first), O'Donovan Rossa,
Sir Anthony MacDonnell, T.P. O'Connor and Lord Russell of Killowen were
very different in their relations with the ruling power (I deliberately
choose patriotic Catholics); and all were different from the
experiences() of evicted tenants, gombeen men, railway contractors and
the miners of Castlecomer. When at the time of the gathering of the
imperial prime ministers in, what, 1909? (I am away from my books),
Redmond met Sir Wilfrid Laurier, it was as the Prime Minister in =
waiting
of a potentially independent Dominion. It is in the multiplicity of
experience and accommodation that the fascination lies.

One might ask the awkward question whether the number of Irish people
who 'collaborated' was in any proportion higher than those of other
countries occupied by an imperial power. I doubt if any imperial =
r=E9gime
could have survived without out at least the silent complicity of a
critical mass of the population. The British empire started to =
collapse
when it lost that complicity: I suspect that the Sinn Fein courts were
as effective as the flying columns in subverting English rule in =
ireland

I have not seen recent studies, but I doubt if every Irishman who =
joined
the British Army or the Royal Irish Constabulary (or the Bar or the
Customs & Excise or the Post Office, come to that) did so just because
it was 'a job'. I wonder how many still do join the British Armed
Forces (I knew in West Cork in the 1980s a couple of ex RAF men). I
remember after the Armistice Day Enniskillen bombing quite a number of
'unlikely' people started wearing poppies in honour of relatives who =
had
'served'.

David Rose

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_____________________________________
NEACIS - October 2006 Irish Studies conference at the University of
Connecticut

NEW ENGLAND AMERICAN CONFERENCE for IRISH STUDIES


NEACIS 2006 will be held at the University of Connecticut at Storrs on =
Oct.
21-22, 2006

Theme: =93CHANGING IRELAND=94

Confirmed speakers: COLM T=D3IB=CDN, EMMA DONOGHUE, & KEN SIMPSON

Presentation topics may include but should not be limited to:=20

=95 Irish identity=20
=95 Celtic Tiger Ireland=20
=95 Northern Irish Peace Process
=95 colonialism / post-colonialism=20
=95 immigration /emigration=20
=95 social, historical, artistic, religious, sexual or political =
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2-day conference =95 campus hotel =95 screenings =95c=E9il=ED =95 2 =
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This is an interdisciplinary conference. While proposals addressing our
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Global and local contexts: the Northern Ogoja Leprosy Scheme,
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The activities of Irish missionaries, Catholic and Protestant, in modern
times are obviously of interest to Irish Diaspora Studies. But anyone =
who
has tried to use the Catholic sources =96 journals from articles, =
memoirs and
biographies =96 find themselves negotiating that special mixture of
hagiography and teleology. Similar arise, of course, in other fields =
=96 I
have just been re-reading some Soviet era Marxism...

I flagged up some of the difficulties around missionary sources in the
Introduction to The Irish World Wide, Volume 5, Religion and Identity.
Where I saw Jordan=92s life of Bishop Shanahan as a sort of ideal =
type...
Jordan, J.P. (1949). Bishop Shanahan of Southern Nigeria. Dublin: =
Clonmore
and Reynolds. And I used David Miller=92s review of Hogan, Irish =
Missionary
Movement, to try to point out gaps and problems. I also pointed to the
character of Jack in Friel=92s Dancing at Lughnasa.

I have since found that my remarks in that Introduction have been used =
by
Aled Jones and Bill Jones, The Welsh World and the British Empire, to
support their observation of the unwillingness of =91Celtic=92 =
missionaries to
be critical of their own activities. I guess this is fair enough, but =
you
can=92t help feeling that we are all... trying to build bricks without
straw...

Anyway...

On that note...

Hist=F3ria, Ci=EAncias, Sa=FAde-Manguinhos
Print ISSN 0104-5970

Is a Brazil based journal interested in the history of medicine.

It has a useful web presence...

http://www.scielo.br/revistas/hcsm/iaboutj.htm

In the context outlined above, the following article is of interest. In
part it is a historiographic essay on the difficulties that arise =
through
relying on Irish Catholic missionary sources...

The text is available as html and as a pdf download.

Global and local contexts: the Northern Ogoja Leprosy Scheme, Nigeria,
1945-1960

Contextos locais e globais: o Programa de Combate =E0 Lepra em Ogoja do =
Norte,
Nig=E9ria, 1945-1960

John Manton
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine University of Oxford, 45-47
Banbury Rd., Oxford OX2 6PE, United Kingdom,
john.manton[at]nuffield.oxford.ac.uk

ABSTRACT

Deriving funding from missionary sources in Ireland, Britain and the =
USA,
and from international leprosy relief organizations such as the British
Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA) and drawing on developing
capacities in international public health under the auspices of WHO and
UNICEF through the 1950s, the Roman Catholic Mission Ogoja Leprosy =
Scheme
applied international expertise at a local level with ever-increasing
success and coverage. This paper supplements the presentation of a
successful leprosy control programme in missionary narratives with an
appreciation of how international medical politics shaped the parameters =
of
success and the development of therapeutic understanding in the late
colonial period in Nigeria.

Keywords: Catholic missionaries, leprosy, Nigeria, international
organizations.

RESUMO

A miss=E3o cat=F3lica Ogoja Leprosy Scheme aplicou, em n=EDvel local, os
conhecimentos internacionais de ponta em lepra, com sucesso e resultados
abrangentes, gra=E7as ao apoio financeiro de institui=E7=F5es =
mission=E1rias da
Irlanda, da Gr=E3-Bretanha e dos Estados Unidos, assim como de =
organiza=E7=F5es
internacionais como o British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA).
Tirou proveito tamb=E9m de avan=E7os ocorridos no dom=EDnio da sa=FAde =
p=FAblica
internacional sob os ausp=EDcios da OMS e Unicef, na d=E9cada 1950. O =
presente
artigo combina a apresenta=E7=E3o de um bem-sucedido programa de =
controle da
lepra, por obra de mission=E1rios, com a an=E1lise sobre como as =
pol=EDticas
m=E9dicas internacionais modelaram os par=E2metros de sucesso e o
desenvolvimento de conhecimentos terap=EAuticos na Nig=E9ria, no final =
do
per=EDodo colonial.

Palavras-chave: miss=F5es cat=F3licas, lepra, Nig=E9ria, =
organiza=E7=F5es
internacionais.

Full text at...

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=3Dsci_arttext&pid=3DS0104-59702003=
0004000
10

The article appears in the usual medical citation indexes, in studies of =
the
history of leprosy, and on some fee-paying article sites. But it is =
freely
available at Hist=F3ria, Ci=EAncias, Sa=FAde-Manguinhos.

P.O=92S.

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This latest TOC has been slow to reach us - I nearly went hunting for it...

Subscribers and members of BAIS will already have received their copies of
this first issue of 2006.

The most significant item here is Catherine Nash's brave and important study
of the cultural politics of genetic studies - a topic that has troubled the
IR-D list a number of times in recent years.

I think that Catherine's essay is very significant - not just in Irish
Studies but in the whole field of Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (which
I have just invented). For that reason I have made a little effort and can
say now that usual between the lines conditions apply.

P.O'S.


IRISH STUDIES REVIEW -BATH-
VOL 14; NUMB 1; 2006
ISSN 0967-0882

pp. 1-10
A Micronarrative Imperative: Conor McPherson's Monologue Dramas.
Wallace, C.

pp. 11-37
Irish Origins, Celtic Origins: Population Genetics, Cultural Politics.
Nash, C.

pp. 39-55
Joyce's Saucebox: Milly Bloom's Portrait in Ulysses.
Forbes, S.

pp. 57-67
Leo Africanus As Irishman?: National Identity Formation in W. B. Yeats'sA
Vision.
Nally, C. V.

pp. 69-89
The Victorian Fathers Of The Irish Literary Revival: The Treatment of the
Deirdre Myth by Samuel Ferguson and Standish James O'Grady.
Pereira, L.

pp. 91-106
Hugh O'neill As Hamlet-plus: (Post)colonialism and Dynamic stasis in Brian
Friel's Making History.
Lysandrou, Y.

pp. 107-123
Lady Elizabeth Echlin (170282): An Irish eighteenth-century correspondent of
Samuel Richardson and author Of An Alternative Ending to Richardson's
Clarissa.
Coyle, E. A.

pp. 125-161
Book Reviews

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Today's Women's Hour on BBC radio four had a segment on women in the 1916
Rising. The programme is available on the website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/ - click on the 'listen again' button
and from there you can download the programme in full.

Sarah.

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Thanks to Sarah for this...

In fact, from time to time our attention is drawn to material of interest on
the BBC radio web site... For example, the latest Heaney collection has
attracted much interest, and there are interviews and discussions on the BBC
web site...

I might also draw attention to the Trench Warfare radio, on the politics of
archaeology... The latest episode mentioned the Black Pig's Dyke...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/trenchwarfare/

Particularly on BBC Radio 7, there is often useful stuff for the literature
folk... Recently there have been dramas by Wilde and by Shaw - beautifully
done by those gorgeous British actors. Shaw still works well in England.

Some stuff you can download in MP3, to play again whilst you jog.

In the archives you can hear the voices of, for example, GBS and WBY...

But it is a very crowded web site, and constantly changing. The BBC's
agreement with the talent means that new material is available there only
for 2 weeks - and often by the time we hear about useful stuff it has gone.

We have looked at possible solutions, but there is no obvious solution...
Just be quick, I suppose... Also, I am not at all sure how long the BBC can
go on running its web site like this...

P.O'S.




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Of Sarah Morgan
Sent: 20 April 2006 12:18
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] 1916 women

Today's Women's Hour on BBC radio four had a segment on women in the 1916
Rising. The programme is available on the website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/ - click on the 'listen again' button

and from there you can download the programme in full.

Sarah.

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Hi Paddy and colleagues

While we are on the subject, RTE carries much material of interest on its
website as well, although unfortunately programmes commissioned from
external parties seem to retain their own copyright and are not carried on
RTE's website.

Last night's Prime Time, RTE's main investigative programme, was about
labour migrants and the issue of whether they are displacing or replacing
Irish workers. It can be viewed at http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/230-2133305.smil

Piaras

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This message caught my eye, because one of the sample searches suggested is
'irish emigration'...

So, I searched...

Over a hundred archives of interest turned up, the first being - of course -
Kerby Miller's letter collection...

Searches for specific individuals or Irish family names or interests also
proved fruitful. There seems to be a good spread of English language
resources. This ArchiveGrid resource is currently free, but I am not sure
what the long term plans are...

P.O'S.


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Forwarded on behalf of
Catherine Nash...

P.O'S.

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Subject: Science BAIS Conference 24 June 2006

Science Ireland

Lock Keeper=92s Graduate Centre, Queen Mary, University of London

Saturday 24th June 2006


This year the annual conference of the British Association for Irish =
Studies
has
a double focus on the place of science in Ireland and on Ireland as the
subject
of scientific enquiry. It is being organised in association with the =
School
of
English and Drama and Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of
London.
In this interdisciplinary conference we bring together those working on =
the
practices, knowledges, sites, institutions and cultures of science in
Ireland,
in order to consider the place of science in Irish studies and the =
situated
and
specific history and culture of science in Ireland.

Themes include the relationships between the history, geography and =
cultures
of
science in Ireland and colonialism, modernity, nation building and state
formation. In addition to this focus on the history of science in =
Ireland,
the
conference will consider the ways in which Ireland has been the subject =
of
scientific investigation in the past and continues to be the focus of
scientific research in the present.

This one-day conference will take place on Saturday 24 June 2006 at the =
Lock
Keeper=92s Graduate Centre, Queen Mary, University of London.

Registration fee, payable in advance: =A320 (=A315 conc.)

The full programme, directions to the venue and registration forms are
available
at the BAIS website: http://www.bais.org.uk/pages/Conference/conf.htm.

To register for the conference please download and complete the =
registration
form and send it with a cheque payable to 'British Association for Irish
Studies' to Dr Catherine Nash, Department of Geography, Queen Mary,
University
of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS by Monday 19 June.

Conference convenors: Dr. Catherine Nash, Department of Geography, Queen
Mary,
University of London and Prof. Clair Wills, School of English and Drama,
Queen
Mary, University of London.

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Some time in the recent past I blinked and Chesterbecame a University...

P.O'S.

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UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER=20
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THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRISH NOVEL

Applications are invited for a Gladstone Fellowship leading to a PhD in=20
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=A312,300 per annum over three years (subject to satisfactory progress). =
=20

I have located the job specification and application pack at

http://www.chester.ac.uk/jobs/hrms039a/index.html

The reference number for this post is HRMS/039a. Deadline Friday 19 May
2006.

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From today's New York Times. Readers who know the personalities mentioned
below may find the description applied to one of them, at least, to be bo=
th
curious and inaccurate.

Piaras

April 26, 2006
Letter From Dublin
Want a Debate With That Drink?
By BRIAN LAVERY

It was not your typical icebreaker, certainly not in an Irish pub.

"You were born in England, you live in England," said a gray-haired man i=
n a
crowded bar on the south side of Dublin.

"The mere fact that you're born in England does not mean that you owe
allegiance to the queen," replied a bearded Muslim. "If I was born in a
barn, does that make me a horse?" But then again, this was not your typic=
al
pub. It was Leviathan, a kind of soapbox-in-a-pub that has become the cit=
y's
hottest ticket by capitalizing on two time-honored Irish traditions:
drinking and arguing. Held on the first Thursday of every month, it draws=
a
sell-out crowd to Crawdaddy, a subterranean club in the arched stone vaul=
t
of an old train tunnel on Harcourt Street.

The lively if somewhat goofy forum is popular with union organizers, work=
ing
stiffs and university students alike, who pay 20 euros ($25, at $1.26 to =
the
euro) to be heard and entertained. Naoise Nunn, a comedy promoter who
founded Leviathan two years ago, calls them the commentariat.

"It's a reaction to what I see as a cozy consensus in the media," he adde=
d.

Previous topics have included the rights of immigrant workers and
Anglo-Irish relations. The topic this evening was no less pointed: "Are
Islam and the West on course for a clash of civilizations?" If that weren=
't
incendiary enough, the five panelists were handpicked to provoke conflict.
Representing the traditional West were Joe O'Shea, a reporter from The Ir=
ish
Daily Star, a tabloid that reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed; Bri=
gid
Laffan, a left-wing professor of political science; and Alan Shatter, a
former moderate member of the Irish parliament.

On the Islamic side were Ali Saleem, from the Islamic Cultural Center of
Ireland, and Anjem Choudary, a high-profile and controversial Islamic
fundamentalist from Britain who has been accused of supporting the attack=
s
of Sept. 11, 2001.

Presiding over the forum, as usual, was the economist and rising media st=
ar
David McWilliams, who employs an arched eyebrow and a knowing glance to
provoke skepticism and laughter among the motley audience of about 300,
which included scruffy students and sharply dressed lawyers.

"Get involved with the panel as much as possible," Mr. McWilliams instruc=
ts
the crowd. "If you have questions, if you have issues, if you're irate, i=
f
you're sympathetic, by all means ..." But before the main event, the
audience gets warmed up by Paddy Cullivan, an irreverent lounge singer, w=
ho
performs a set of topical parodies. An Islamic send-up of a McDonald's
commercial gets a hardy chuckle, and gives everyone plenty of time to set=
tle
into their candlelit tables - and pints of Guinness.

With some people clearly buzzed, the panelists appear sometime after 10 p=
.m.
The stage has two black leather couches under spotlights, like the set of=
a
television talk show.

Mr. Choudary, in his opening statement, takes a conciliatory tone, seekin=
g
to elicit empathy for the Muslims who rioted in response to the Danish
cartoons. But Mr. Shatter, the politician, wastes no time in confronting
him.

He's "masking" his true views, Mr. Shatter says, citing Mr. Choudary's
alleged links with groups that encourage young Muslims to become suicide
bombers. As Mr. Choudary begins to reply, Mr. Shatter cuts in, "Do you
believe those who crashed into the twin towers are martyrs?" The audience
grows silent, even as waitresses in tight black T-shirts weave across the
floor with trays of drinks.

"There are always two perspectives," Mr. Choudary says calmly. He's clear=
ly
been asked this question before. "Open your mind and look at the people w=
ho
are living in Afghanistan, in Sudan, in Saudi Arabia, where buildings are
falling on their heads on a daily basis."

The crowd wasn't buying it. "Answer the question!" barks a 30-something
heckler from the balcony. The audience members nod their heads in agreeme=
nt.
"Yes or no!" Mr. McWilliams, seated on a stool between the couches, steps
into the fray. Switching from provocateur to mediator, he struggles to ke=
ep
the discussion from boiling over into unintelligible shouting. "Now, now!
You're getting very rowdy," he says, pointing an accusatory finger into t=
he
crowd, like a headmaster of an elite prep school.

Keeping the lid on is not always easy, especially as hecklers find courag=
e
at the bottom of a pint glass.

In truth, however, drunken interruptions are rare; the caliber of debate =
is
usually quite high. The combination of alcohol and discourse, after all, =
is
a time-honored tradition here. Centuries-old debating clubs, which are st=
ill
popular and cherished at Irish universities, have produced a city full of
people who know how to argue.

Frustrated by what many here see as the corporate-driven mass media,
Dubliners today flock to public lectures at universities, royal academies
and less-formal settings like Leviathan to exercise their verbal jousting.

Spread solely by word of mouth and e-mail, pub debates have begun to crop=
up
elsewhere, including one called the First Wednesday Debates, at Bewley's
Caf=E9 on Grafton Street, which is sponsored by Comhlamh, an umbrella cha=
rity
group.

But Leviathan remains the most popular by far. After the panelists parry =
and
riposte for nearly an hour, the microphone moves to the audience floor as
the format shifts to question and answer. It becomes clear that the crowd
likes to argue as much as the assembled experts.

Should Muslims in Ireland act more Irish? Is Ireland a terrorist target
because it allows American warplanes to refuel? Can women be treated with
respect under fundamentalist Islam?

Before the panel can answer, the audience chimes in, often with nonsensic=
al
responses.

By the time Leviathan concludes around midnight, the audience is worked u=
p.
Instead of going home, the crowd ends the night with more drinks at the b=
ar.
And more debate.

On his way out the door, Mr. McWilliams, with his shock of red hair and
impish smile, tries to explain Leviathan's appeal.

"It's about trying to recapture a bit of public space in this town," he
says. "People here are educated," he says, but they like getting drunk.
"There's nothing worse than a sober group taking itself too seriously."

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From today's Irish Times

Irish designs on new world order

26/04/2006

A US sociologist sees the potential for a rapidly changing Ireland to be the
template for a rapidly changing world, writes Kate Holmquist

Take a typical Irish entrepreneur: he spent his Easter holiday catching up
with childhood friends and family in Co Clare in his grandfather's "local",
where remarkably little has changed in 50 years, even though his pint was
served by a Czech and the nearby hotels where the tourists stay are staffed
by eastern Europeans. Today he's off to China to network with business
contacts there, while keeping in touch via e-mail with business partners in
the US and Europe.

His laptop is his "office", although he has a Dublin base where paperwork is
done. He'll be back for meetings in Dublin next week, before heading for
Bulgaria, where he's part of a property investment consortium.

Let's call him Conor. He, his wife and teenage children live in Dublin
because the schools are good and his wife wants to be near her mother,
although his wife does much of her shopping in New York and goes for "girls'
weekends" with her sisters in Paris and other European cities.

The family are all looking forward to some uninterrupted family time this
summer at their holiday home in Spain, while their Filipina housekeeper goes
home to visit her children. In Spain, Conor will play golf with the usual
crowd who are all Irish-born, but who he only ever sees in Spain. The golf
club feels like a little piece of Ireland, sometimes.

In his heart, Conor is Irish, which for him is a state of mind as much as it
is a place on the map. On his travels, he meets people who feel "Irish" too,
even though some of them have never been to the island of Ireland. For them,
Ireland is Guinness, Riverdance, literature and the stories their Irish
great-grandparents told them long ago. Ireland is also represented by people
like Conor, international entrepreneurs and ambassadors who seem to be at
ease anywhere in the world, without losing their core identity.

Sociologist Saskia Sassen calls lifestyles like Conor's "multiplex", or
multi-layered. His way of living - which many of us share to some degree, if
not the same extreme - puts "multi-tasking" in the shade. Conor lives on
several levels and in several places at one time. The boundaries of any
particular "nation-state" - with its laws and regulations - are matters for
his lawyers and accountants to sort out. Conor conducts most of his business
in cyberspace, making his Irishness more a matter of personal loyalty than
geographic location.

The incredible pace at which the Irish have attuned themselves to this new
way of being puts this tiny country at the vanguard of the third major
transition in human history, Sassen believes. The first occurred in medieval
times, when people were bound to feudal rulers. The second was the emergence
of the nation-state and the third - now under way - is the creation of a new
world order where nation-states will gradually dissolve to make way for
global allegiances that exist on a level beyond physical geography.

She argues that this State has been in the forefront of this change in two
ways: by embracing membership of the EU and, in the late 1980s and 1990s, by
encouraging US companies to set up here, bringing with them digital networks
that have connected the State to the globe. The UK, by contrast, has
continued to cling to its old view of "empire" while the US has become
increasingly isolated and its people narrow in their thinking. Yet the State
has managed to maintain good relationships with both the US and the UK, a
further sign of our flexibility.

"The Irish State has set an example of very advanced, sophisticated
thinking. It has engineered a very focused economic plan with a clear shape.
Ireland is an emblemmatic, natural experiment that allows me and others to
do the research that will help show us what the future will look like for
all of us," she says.

Our children are completely attuned to this new way of living, using texts
and websites such as Bebo to communicate with each other in preparation for
the day when they too will be cyber-nomads with careers that take them all
over the world, while more traditional jobs that do not require high degrees
of education and travel are increasingly taken up by immigrants.

Our children will come and go, choosing - as many people do now - to live
here during periods of their lives, but not for their lifetimes. We will no
longer regard ourselves as "citizens" of "nations", but as members of a new
order that we will have to consciously create.

The fact that the Irish, in a mere 15 years, have embraced this new way of
life without social upheaval is a remarkable example of the flexibility of
the human mind in general, and perhaps the Irish mind in particular, Sassen
thinks.

The current wave of immigration into the State is just a symptom of the
blurring of the old view of nationhood. Sasken calls this
"denationalisation", and she thinks that our own painful past of emigration
prepared us for it in ways we were unaware of at the time, by creating
networks of people linked to the State.

In leaving the geographic island of Ireland behind, the Irish brought
Ireland with them in the form of music, story-telling, theatre and
literature. The result is that the emotional and artistic sensibility that
is "Ireland" is familiar and appealing to hundreds of millions of people
around the world - as the success of Riverdance has shown.

Thousands of "Irish" websites and chatrooms enable people to be "in Ireland"
even though they may have never set foot here, or only visit occasionally.

Sassen's worldview is so drastically different that it's almost too big to
comprehend. Yet the Irish are better-placed to cope than most because we
already have a cultural identity that goes beyond physical geography. For
many people who are not Irish citizens, "Ireland" is a much-loved place in
the emotional geography of the mind. Following Sassen's argument, we may
have to redefine what belonging to Ireland means as Ireland becomes a
cyber-emotional "space", rather than a physical place.

To sum it up simply, territory will no longer be geographic, authority will
no longer come from individual nation-states and rights will have to be
defined and protected through new kinds of legal instruments that we have
yet to invent.

"Ireland has a very complex identity that is flexible and can absorb
differences. Look at the ease with which Irish society has switched from
poverty to wealth," says Sassen. "The challenge now is for Ireland to move
on from its dramatic image of the oppressed - characterised by poverty,
courage and valour - and make the transition to wealth, while keeping the
solid groundwork of identity that it has. There is a possibility for
Ireland's transition to be so well-managed that it will show the rest of the
world the way to do it. It's time for this State to wrap its brain around
the idea of providing infrastructure, rather than telling us how we can
treat each other nicely, which is not enough." And she's optimistic that the
State will succeed in this, considering how much we've wrapped our brains
around already.

* Saskia Sassen will speak at Dublin City University, Q122 Business School,
tomorrow, at 4.30pm. Later, at 7.30pm, she will address a UCD conference on
migrant workers' rights in Room G32, Earlsfort Terrace. Admission free to
both events


(c) The Irish Times

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From: Kerby Miller [mailto:MillerK[at]missouri.edu]
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Launch of ArchiveGrid, new electronic resource for
locating archival material

Just so everyone knows, copies of the great majority of all the
documents in "my collection" were deposited, by me, at PRONI and in
the National Library of Ireland, at the time I collected them in
1977-78, and most of them also wound up at the U. of Michigan's
library in Ann Arbor, for reasons too complicated to explain.
Frequently, I try to help people identify and find "my" documents in
those archives, but for some reason, it's often tricky.

The only exceptions are a file-drawer full of documents (photocopies
and typescripts) that people have sent me or that I've found over the
last 20 years, long after I made my major public appeal to collect
documents when I was in Ireland in the late 1970s. But anyone's
welcome to come look at these (as well as the ones I collected
earlier).

I haven't made any decision as to the future deposition of the more
recently- collected documents (no reason, just lack of time).

I have virtually no original documents; I returned those to the
donors. I made photocopies, and since then have made typescripts
from the photocopies, so the letters, memoirs, etc., can be used more
easily, by me and others, in research.

So, contrary to possible rumors, I'm not "hoarding" or "sitting on"
vast caches of documents not accessible to other scholars.

Sometimes people make requests that I can't fulfill for lack of time
("I'm doing research on Irish immigrants in the northern U.S. Please
send me photocopies of everything pertaining to that subject."), but
otherwise I try to oblige. In fact, several scholars per year
usually visit Columbia, Missouri, and ransack my collections, with my
happy acquiescence, for their research. Usually, but not always,
they're advanced students working on doctoral dissertations/theses.

KM


>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>This message caught my eye, because one of the sample searches suggested is
>'irish emigration'...
>
>So, I searched...
>
>Over a hundred archives of interest turned up, the first being - of course
-
>Kerby Miller's letter collection...
>
>Searches for specific individuals or Irish family names or interests also
>proved fruitful. There seems to be a good spread of English language
>resources. This ArchiveGrid resource is currently free, but I am not sure
>what the long term plans are...
>
>P.O'S.


>Subject: WWW: New electronic resource for locating archival material
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>ArchiveGrid http://www.archivegrid.org
>
>is a new web site that offers
>faculty, scholars, librarians, and genealogists unparalleled access to
>archive records and finding aids to enable you to do extensive primary
>research on your subject.

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My own experience has been that Kerby Miller is very willing to share =
the
material he has with any scholar.

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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From: Kerby Miller [mailto:MillerK[at]missouri.edu]=20
Subject: Re: [IR-D] Launch of ArchiveGrid, new electronic resource for
locating archival material

Just so everyone knows, copies of the great majority of all the=20
documents in "my collection" were deposited, by me, at PRONI and in=20
the National Library of Ireland, at the time I collected them in=20
1977-78, and most of them also wound up at the U. of Michigan's=20
library in Ann Arbor, for reasons too complicated to explain.=20
Frequently, I try to help people identify and find "my" documents in=20
those archives, but for some reason, it's often tricky.

The only exceptions are a file-drawer full of documents (photocopies=20
and typescripts) that people have sent me or that I've found over the=20
last 20 years, long after I made my major public appeal to collect=20
documents when I was in Ireland in the late 1970s. But anyone's=20
welcome to come look at these (as well as the ones I collected=20
earlier).

I haven't made any decision as to the future deposition of the more=20
recently- collected documents (no reason, just lack of time).

I have virtually no original documents; I returned those to the=20
donors. I made photocopies, and since then have made typescripts=20
from the photocopies, so the letters, memoirs, etc., can be used more=20
easily, by me and others, in research.

So, contrary to possible rumors, I'm not "hoarding" or "sitting on"=20
vast caches of documents not accessible to other scholars.

Sometimes people make requests that I can't fulfill for lack of time=20
("I'm doing research on Irish immigrants in the northern U.S. Please=20
send me photocopies of everything pertaining to that subject."), but=20
otherwise I try to oblige. In fact, several scholars per year=20
usually visit Columbia, Missouri, and ransack my collections, with my=20
happy acquiescence, for their research. Usually, but not always,=20
they're advanced students working on doctoral dissertations/theses.

KM


>Email Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>This message caught my eye, because one of the sample searches=20
>suggested is 'irish emigration'...
>
>So, I searched...
>
>Over a hundred archives of interest turned up, the first being - of=20
>course
-
>Kerby Miller's letter collection...
>
>Searches for specific individuals or Irish family names or interests=20
>also proved fruitful. There seems to be a good spread of English=20
>language resources. This ArchiveGrid resource is currently free, but I =

>am not sure what the long term plans are...
>
>P.O'S.


>Subject: WWW: New electronic resource for locating archival material
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>ArchiveGrid http://www.archivegrid.org
>
>is a new web site that offers
>faculty, scholars, librarians, and genealogists unparalleled access to=20
>archive records and finding aids to enable you to do extensive primary=20
>research on your subject.

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October 2006, Cork, Ireland
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Email Patrick O'Sullivan

For information...

P.O'S.


Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference
20 to 22 October 2006
Cork, Ireland

The Department of Government at UCC will host the
annual PSAI conference. The event promises to
feature compelling discussions on current issues
in politics, with papers dealing with Irish,
European and international themes.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 05 July
2006.

Enquiries: psai[at]ucc.ie
Web address: http://www.ucc.ie/acad/govt
Sponsored by: PSAI

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I only got a chance to read this today - how utterly depressing this
is. Moving in this direction the new "countries" to which loyalty will
be owed and given will be Toyota, Exxon, Microsoft ...

I also note that the "typical Irish entrepreneur" has a wife who does
what? Lives near her mother and shops? Some things never change.

Carmel

MacEinri, Piaras wrote:

>>From today's Irish Times
>
>Irish designs on new world order
>
>26/04/2006
>
>A US sociologist sees the potential for a rapidly changing Ireland to be the
>template for a rapidly changing world, writes Kate Holmquist
>
>Take a typical Irish entrepreneur: he spent his Easter holiday catching up
>with childhood friends and family in Co Clare in his grandfather's "local",
>where remarkably little has changed in 50 years, even though his pint was
>served by a Czech and the nearby hotels where the tourists stay are staffed
>by eastern Europeans. Today he's off to China to network with business
>contacts there, while keeping in touch via e-mail with business partners in
>the US and Europe.
>
>His laptop is his "office", although he has a Dublin base where paperwork is
>done. He'll be back for meetings in Dublin next week, before heading for
>Bulgaria, where he's part of a property investment consortium.
>
>Let's call him Conor. He, his wife and teenage children live in Dublin
>because the schools are good and his wife wants to be near her mother,
>although his wife does much of her shopping in New York and goes for "girls'
>weekends" with her sisters in Paris and other European cities.
>
>The family are all looking forward to some uninterrupted family time this
>summer at their holiday home in Spain, while their Filipina housekeeper goes
>home to visit her children. In Spain, Conor will play golf with the usual
>crowd who are all Irish-born, but who he only ever sees in Spain. The golf
>club feels like a little piece of Ireland, sometimes.
>
>In his heart, Conor is Irish, which for him is a state of mind as much as it
>is a place on the map. On his travels, he meets people who feel "Irish" too,
>even though some of them have never been to the island of Ireland. For them,
>Ireland is Guinness, Riverdance, literature and the stories their Irish
>great-grandparents told them long ago. Ireland is also represented by people
>like Conor, international entrepreneurs and ambassadors who seem to be at
>ease anywhere in the world, without losing their core identity.
>
>Sociologist Saskia Sassen calls lifestyles like Conor's "multiplex", or
>multi-layered. His way of living - which many of us share to some degree, if
>not the same extreme - puts "multi-tasking" in the shade. Conor lives on
>several levels and in several places at one time. The boundaries of any
>particular "nation-state" - with its laws and regulations - are matters for
>his lawyers and accountants to sort out. Conor conducts most of his business
>in cyberspace, making his Irishness more a matter of personal loyalty than
>geographic location.
>
>The incredible pace at which the Irish have attuned themselves to this new
>way of being puts this tiny country at the vanguard of the third major
>transition in human history, Sassen believes. The first occurred in medieval
>times, when people were bound to feudal rulers. The second was the emergence
>of the nation-state and the third - now under way - is the creation of a new
>world order where nation-states will gradually dissolve to make way for
>global allegiances that exist on a level beyond physical geography.
>
>She argues that this State has been in the forefront of this change in two
>ways: by embracing membership of the EU and, in the late 1980s and 1990s, by
>encouraging US companies to set up here, bringing with them digital networks
>that have connected the State to the globe. The UK, by contrast, has
>continued to cling to its old view of "empire" while the US has become
>increasingly isolated and its people narrow in their thinking. Yet the State
>has managed to maintain good relationships with both the US and the UK, a
>further sign of our flexibility.
>
>"The Irish State has set an example of very advanced, sophisticated
>thinking. It has engineered a very focused economic plan with a clear shape.
>Ireland is an emblemmatic, natural experiment that allows me and others to
>do the research that will help show us what the future will look like for
>all of us," she says.
>
>Our children are completely attuned to this new way of living, using texts
>and websites such as Bebo to communicate with each other in preparation for
>the day when they too will be cyber-nomads with careers that take them all
>over the world, while more traditional jobs that do not require high degrees
>of education and travel are increasingly taken up by immigrants.
>
>Our children will come and go, choosing - as many people do now - to live
>here during periods of their lives, but not for their lifetimes. We will no
>longer regard ourselves as "citizens" of "nations", but as members of a new
>order that we will have to consciously create.
>
>The fact that the Irish, in a mere 15 years, have embraced this new way of
>life without social upheaval is a remarkable example of the flexibility of
>the human mind in general, and perhaps the Irish mind in particular, Sassen
>thinks.
>
>The current wave of immigration into the State is just a symptom of the
>blurring of the old view of nationhood. Sasken calls this
>"denationalisation", and she thinks that our own painful past of emigration
>prepared us for it in ways we were unaware of at the time, by creating
>networks of people linked to the State.
>
>In leaving the geographic island of Ireland behind, the Irish brought
>Ireland with them in the form of music, story-telling, theatre and
>literature. The result is that the emotional and artistic sensibility that
>is "Ireland" is familiar and appealing to hundreds of millions of people
>around the world - as the success of Riverdance has shown.
>
>Thousands of "Irish" websites and chatrooms enable people to be "in Ireland"
>even though they may have never set foot here, or only visit occasionally.
>
>Sassen's worldview is so drastically different that it's almost too big to
>comprehend. Yet the Irish are better-placed to cope than most because we
>already have a cultural identity that goes beyond physical geography. For
>many people who are not Irish citizens, "Ireland" is a much-loved place in
>the emotional geography of the mind. Following Sassen's argument, we may
>have to redefine what belonging to Ireland means as Ireland becomes a
>cyber-emotional "space", rather than a physical place.
>
>To sum it up simply, territory will no longer be geographic, authority will
>no longer come from individual nation-states and rights will have to be
>defined and protected through new kinds of legal instruments that we have
>yet to invent.
>
>"Ireland has a very complex identity that is flexible and can absorb
>differences. Look at the ease with which Irish society has switched from
>poverty to wealth," says Sassen. "The challenge now is for Ireland to move
>on from its dramatic image of the oppressed - characterised by poverty,
>courage and valour - and make the transition to wealth, while keeping the
>solid groundwork of identity that it has. There is a possibility for
>Ireland's transition to be so well-managed that it will show the rest of the
>world the way to do it. It's time for this State to wrap its brain around
>the idea of providing infrastructure, rather than telling us how we can
>treat each other nicely, which is not enough." And she's optimistic that the
>State will succeed in this, considering how much we've wrapped our brains
>around already.
>
>* Saskia Sassen will speak at Dublin City University, Q122 Business School,
>tomorrow, at 4.30pm. Later, at 7.30pm, she will address a UCD conference on
>migrant workers' rights in Room G32, Earlsfort Terrace. Admission free to
>both events
>
>
>(c) The Irish Times
>
>.
>
>
>

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This may be of interest to the list.

Bill Mulligan

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From: Schrover, M.L.J.C.
Date: Apr 27, 2006 8:04 AM
Subject: Cfp: Borders, irregular migration and gender in a global historica=
l
perspective January 18 - 19 2007
To: H-MIGRATION[at]h-net.msu.edu

Borders, irregular migration and gender in a global historical
perspective

Conference Leiden University, The Netherlands, January 18 - 19 2007
First Call for Papers

The last decade or two, many states struggle with issues of illegal
labour, the illegal residence of rejected asylum seekers, smuggling and
trafficking of people, and a whole range of other issues that are
somehow related to irregular immigration. Irregular migration is
perceived as growing in size and worsening in conditions.
Irregular migration is, however, not a new phenomenon. It exists as long
as borders and immigration laws exist: in Western Europe at least since
1918 and in colonial situations already since the nineteenth century.
Furthermore, borders and regulations are not the whole story. After all,
migrant are often highly motivated people who are all but passive
recipients of policy measures. They - or their intermediaries - try to
create and exploit loopholes that arise out of the policies that deal
with immigration. This holds for people from all countries and for both
sexes, although a lot attention has gone rather one-sidedly to male
migrants.
Male migrants were traditionally seen as the main players and women only
as passive followers. This picture has changed in recent decades. Many
studies stress that migration holds different risks for women than men.
Women tend to be more vulnerable to physical, sexual and verbal abuse
when travelling, they may face double discrimination in the receiving
societies and they are more likely to be dependent on intermediaries
such as informants, employers, human smugglers or traffickers. Moreover,
their position as "dependants" in the legal sense makes it more likely
that they have an instable residence status or none at all. Although all
these are important points, it should also be realized that women are
more than vulnerable victims of their circumstances.
Our conference welcomes theoretically and empirically grounded
contributions on gendered migration patterns, experiences and struggles.
In contributions comparisons should be made between migrant men and
women (and hence the focus should not be on women only). Moreover, we
welcome contributions on the dynamics between immigration policies and
controls and strategies of migrant women and men. Finally we are very
interested in work on migration control in colonial and non-Western
contexts.
The conference will be open to academics from a range of disciplines
including history, social sciences, international relations and law.

The conference will be a speakers-only conference (as the Leiden
conference was on previous occasions). It will consist of a two-day
plenary session. The conference will be small scale, which will enable
the participants to go into the topic in detail. Papers will be written
and distributed before the conference, leaving plenty of time for
discussion at the conference itself.
A selection of rewritten versions of the papers will be published
afterwards in a special issue of a relevant journal.

If you are interested in taking part in the conference, you are invited
to submit a proposal (1 page) and cv before June 2006 to
m.l.j.c.schrover[at]let.leidenuniv.nl. You will be notified if the proposal
has been accepted before the end of June 2006.
If your proposal is accepted you will receive a position paper before
September 2006. You will be asked to submit a full length version of the
paper (8000 words) before December 2006.
Participants to the conference, who present a paper, will not have to
pay the registration fee. We will provide hotel accommodation and meals
for the duration of the conference. Depending on final confirmation of
funding, travel expenses will be covered by the organisers, in the first
place for those participants who will need it most.

The conference will take place at Leiden University in the Netherlands
on January 18 - 19 2007.

Contact information: Marlou Schrover: m.l.j.c.schrover[at]let.leidenuniv.nl

Organising committee Leiden University: Marlou Schrover, Chris Quispel ,
Leo Lucassen (all Migration History) and Joanne van der Leun (Faculty of
Law, department of Criminology)


--
Bill Mulligan
Professor of History
Murray State University

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This may be of interest to the lsit.

Bill Mullihan


From: Pat Denault [pdenault[at]fas.harvard.edu]
Subject: Atlantic History Seminar Short-Term Research Grants
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:13 AM


Short-Term Research Grants, 2006-2007

The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at
Harvard University announces the renewed availability of short-term
grants to support archival research in Atlantic history, 1500-1825. The
awards, up to a maximum of $2,000, are designed to support research for
transnational studies focused on the interrelations and connections
among the peoples of the Atlantic world in the early modern period.
Grants may be used for research in any archive or depository; they are
primarily intended as travel grants, not to cover the cost of equipment
or the living expenses of researchers already in place.

The grants are open to both advanced doctoral and post-doctoral
scholars, with the emphasis on individuals at the beginning of the
academic career.
The deadline for applications is July 1, 2006, for grants to be used
from September 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007.

Applicants should submit a short CV, a proposal that includes a brief
(c.
2-3 pages) description of the overall project and of the specific
research to be undertaken, the archives or holdings to be visited, an
explanation of the amount requested, and a statement of approximately
when the grant will be used. Applicants should also arrange for two
letters of recommendation, specific to the proposal, to be sent
separately by the due date.

Successful applicants will be required to submit a report explaining the
outcome of the research for which the grant was used within 60 days of
the completion of their trip. An abstract of the report will be posted
on the Seminar Web site.

Completed application materials should be sent to
Short-Term Research Grant Program
Atlantic History Seminar
Emerson Hall 4th Floor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Applications and letters of reference may be mailed, sent as email
attachments (to pdenault[at]fas.harvard.edu), or faxed (617-496-8869).



_____________________________________________________________
Pat Denault
Administrative Director
Atlantic History Seminar Phone: 617-496-3066
Emerson Hall 4th Floor Fax: 617-496-8869
Harvard University URL:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic
Cambridge, MA 02138


--
Bill Mulligan
Professor of History
Murray State University