From: mairead canavan
Subject: Irish in Wales

Dear All,

My request is similar to Marion Casey's in that I am
hoping for literature references. I am in the process
of registering for an Mphil at the University of
Glamorgan and want to do a study on the Irish in Wales
with regard to health. So far it seems there is no
data at all and I would be grateful for any
information contacts or references.

Thanks

Mairead Canavan

From: Carmel McCaffrey

Ir-D Literary pseudonyms


Thank you Patrick but why not the fuller title Ollamh Brithem if of the
law? I have looked through Kelly but see no reference. I would also
like
to know more about the statue - what date was it erected? Any pictures
remaining?
Carmel



> From: Patrick Maume
> Subject: Literary pseudonyms
>
> Ollamh Fodla was the legendary lawgiver of ancient Ireland. THere
> was a statue of him in the Four Courts (along with Moses, Solon and
> other lawgivers) until it was destroyed in the 1922 explosion.
>

Marion,

If you look at the Irish Diaspora Studies Web site...
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
in the Study Guides section there is Donald MacRaild's Essay on the
Historiography of the Irish in Britain. This will quickly bring you up
to speed on the literature.

I need not give full bibliographic references here. They will all be
found in Don's Essay.

Two books to look at are Donald MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern
Britain, 1750-1922 Macmillan, Basingstoke & London, 1999, and Graham
Davis, The Irish in Britain, Gill & MacMillan, 1991. Interestingly
Don's book does not supersede Graham's - for Graham's book is really a
series of essays on cruxes within the historical record.

The crucial chapter, for our purposes here, is Chapter 2, 'Little
Irelands' - a version of which also appears in Swift & Gilley, 1989. In
fact, I introduced Graham Davis, and his chapter (which I had read in
draft), to Sheridan Gilley.

For me Manchester is where it all begins... In two ways...

1.
When I began looking at this thing of ours, cosa nostra, obvious roads
led back to Manchester. And that's when I began thinking, This will not
do. And that's why I was so interested when I read Graham Davis'
chapter.

You will find my rather bad-tempered remarks on the whole Engels' pig
school of Irish-in-Britain historiography in my Introduction to The
Irish in the New Communities, Vol. 2 of The Irish World Wide. And in
that volume you will also find the chapter by Mervyn Busteed, and pals,
on the myth and reality of the Irish in Manchester.

Manchester is thus one of our 'mythopoetic' cities. For my American
city I would have liked to have had, for example, New York - but Bayor
and Meagher had New York sewn up. But I did have Boston in Volume 1.
So here in Volume 2 I had Butte, which brings the benefits of
incongruity, and allows us to signboard David Emmons' splendid work.

2.
It really all begins with Dr. Kay's 1832 pamphlet on the cholera
districts of Manchester. Dr. Kay took with him in his discovery of
Little Irelands, inside his head as it were, Malthus, Bentham and
Ricardo - and his and their influence can be seen in all further
discussion, including the 1836 Report on the Irish Poor, the Manchester
novels of Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell and Frances Trollope, in Carlyle,
and in Engels. The whole 'condition of England' question - and the long
tradition, as I have said elsewhere, of blaming the immigrant Irish for
the ills of England, and indeed for the illnesses of England...

I think it is possible to argue that this whole 'discourse of the slum'
or discourse of the city - including a special 'privileged' place for
the Irish, or the immigrant - was taken on board by the ruling elites in
North America, as their own great cities expanded. There is something
ready-made about the discussion - they may not have read Engels but they
had certainly read Carlyle and the novelists.

I'll search out some references.

I would say to you and your student. Be warned. There is a lot to chew
on here.

P.O'S.







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From: "Marion R. Casey"

Subject: Manchester



One of my students would like to do a comparative paper on the Irish in
New York and in Manchester. Does anyone have suggestions regarding the
literature on Manchester? We will be very grateful.

Marion Casey
Department of History
New York University





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From: ppo[at]aber.ac.uk (Paul O' Leary)
Irish in Wales


There is an increasing literature on the Irish in Wales before 1922, much of
which is still only available in unpublished theses. A number of these are
listed in the bibliography appended to the recent collection of essays
edited by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, The Irish in Britain: the Local
Dimension (1999). My own book on the subject, Immigration and Integration:
the Irish in Wales, 1798-1922 , published by University of Wales Press next
January, provides an overview.

Paul O'Leary


>
>
>From: mairead canavan
>Subject: Irish in Wales
>
>Dear All,
>
>My request is similar to Marion Casey's in that I am
>hoping for literature references. I am in the process
>of registering for an Mphil at the University of
>Glamorgan and want to do a study on the Irish in Wales
>with regard to health. So far it seems there is no
>data at all and I would be grateful for any
>information contacts or references.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mairead Canavan
>
>
>
Dr. Paul O'Leary
Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru/Dept. of History and Welsh History
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth/University of Wales Aberystwyth

From: hartel[at]smuc.ac.uk
Organization: St. Mary's University College
Subject: Re: Immigrant Autobiography



Dear Patrick,

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to reply to my enquiry about
immigrant autobiographies. I'm still mulling over some of the issues
raised, but here are a few responses to the points which struck me
initially.

While I agree with your own remarks about the problems of audience and
agenda, I think there are wider questions to be asked about why and how
some immigrants chose to represent themselves autobiographically. The
sociological aspects you mention certainly need to be addressed, though
I'm also interested in examining the fictive and rhetorical dimension
of autobiographical narratives, in reading autobiography not just as
historical evidence but also as a cultural practice (as I think you
are) and as a textual construct.

This is why I was struck by your reference to the 'posed' nature of
memoirs, since it is precisely this quality - the way experience is
transformed into literature - that I want to explore further. This is
not to say that I'm disinterested in the actual content of personal
narratives; on the contrary, I'm continually fascinated by it. But the
subtleties involved in the act of self-writing intrigue me also,
especially the way self-representation relates to things like memory
and subjectivity, and of course to the received conventions of the
autobiographical form. I'm inclined to side with those who emphasise
the literary and performative aspects of autobiography over the
historic and objective ones. I suppose this explains my bias towards
the published book, though I'm also looking for unpublished memoirs.

Speaking of books, I think 'The Poorhouse Fugitives' is an excellent
treatment of working-class writing. As you say, Maidment has thought a
lot about the many-sided nature of the discourse and brilliantly
interweaves extracts and commentary. If I could produce something half
as good I'd be pleased.

All the best.

Liam Harte

Forwarded on behalf of...

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n.sammells[at]bathspa.ac.uk




http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/conborder.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Iasil 2000

?Irish Literatures: Borders and Border Crossings?


The 2000 Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Irish Literatures will be held at Bath Spa University College, 24-28
July. Papers are invited which explore the conference theme from a
variety of angles: examining, for instance, regional literatures; the
fixing and transgression of national, cultural and sexual identities;
new methodological approaches which cross the borders between
traditional disciplines; border dialogues with writing from other
countries. To mark its bicentenary, papers are particularly welcome
which look at the literary consequences and treatment of the Act of
Union.


Proposals of no more than 500 words max should be sent by 15 January
2000 to:


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Bath Spa University College


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The Ireland Fund of Canada Scholarship Programme

The Ireland Fund of Canada has established a scholarship, to be awarded
annually, to suitable applicants. This is a grant of up to $10,000 CDN
for graduate students to study at a recognized academic institution in
Ireland in the field of Irish Studies. An academic panel from the University of
Toronto and York University will vet the applications.

Applications for the fall of 2000, should be sent by December 31, 1999,
to Melanie Hurley, Executive Director, at the Ireland Fund of Canada, 56
The Esplanade, Suite 206, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1A7.

Applications to consist of
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study;
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(3) letters of academic reference from two professors.

For more information, please call The Ireland Fund of Canada, National
Office, 56 The Esplanade, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1A7. Tel. (416) 367-8311
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Forwarded on behalf of Celtic Studies, St. Michael's College, University
of Toronto, Canada...


GARM LU, a Canadian Celtic Arts journal published by the students in the
Celtic Studies Programme at St. Michael's College, University of
Toronto, is now accepting submissions of essays, fiction, poetry, art
and drama that is Celtic in theme, form or content. Submissions in
English or any Celtic language are welcome.

Submissions can be sent to: Garm Lu, Celtic Studies, St. Michael's
College, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4.
e-mail: garmlu[at]hotmail.com Phone: (416) 783-1905
visit the Garm Lu website at: www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Hall/1927

Thanks

Jean Talman
Administrative Assistant
Celtic Studies
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University of Toronto

This might interest all those brave people who spend time fossicking in
European and Caribbean archives...

P.O'S.

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>The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Harvard
>University
>
>Fall Workshop:
>Caribbean Resources for Atlantic History, 1500-1800
>
>November 6-7, 1999
>
>This two-day Workshop will focus on the primary sources for the study of
>Atlantic history in the early modern period that are available in the
>public repositories and private collections in the Caribbean islands, as
>well as those located elsewhere that focus on the Caribbean. Invited
>speakers who have worked with those materials and who can assess their
>possible uses will join with participants in discussing the documents and
>what they suggest about the role of the islands in the history of the
>Atlantic world. Possible subjects for discussion will include sources
>related to Atlantic commerce, the slave trade, the sugar economy, the
>plantation system, and relations among colonial powers in the area, as well
>as issues of race, gender, and religion.
>
>Attendance at the Workshop and participation in the discussion are open to
>the academic community. Historians at the beginning of their careers,
>including Ph.D. candidates, are especially encouraged to attend. Travel
>and accommodation expenses will be the responsibility of attendees; the
>Workshop will provide lunches and local lodging information.
>Pre-registration is required.
>A preliminary program is outlined below.
>
>For a registration form and additional information, please contact Pat
>Denault, Atlantic History Seminar, 408 Emerson Hall, Harvard University,
>Cambridge, MA 02138; Fax: 617-496-8869; Email: atlantic[at]fas.harvard.edu;
>Web: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/caribgen.html
>
>Preliminary Program
>Caribbean Resources for Atlantic History
>November 6-7, 1999
>Harvard University
>
>[Speakers are confirmed, but please note that the sequence and exact titles
>are preliminary.]
>
>Saturday, November 6
>
>Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
> INTRODUCTION
>
>Philip Morgan, College of William & Mary
> SOURCES FOR CARIBBEAN PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY
>
>Douglas Chambers, University of Southern Mississippi
> ASSESSING FUGITIVE SLAVE ADVERTISEMENTS AS PRIMARY SOURCE
>MATERIALS: JAMAICA, 1791-1814
>
>Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
> RESOURCES FOR AFRICAN AND INDIGENOUS HISTORY IN SPANISH CARIBBEAN
> ARCHIVES
>
>Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
> OUTRE-MER: THE ARCHIVES OF THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN
>
>
>Sunday, November 7
>
>David Hancock, University of Michigan
> ARCHIVAL SOURCES FOR ATLANTIC HISTORY IN THE WEST INDIES
>
>James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona
> "ONE ONE COCOA FILL BASKET": JAMAICAN ARCHIVAL RESOURCES FOR 17TH-
> AND 18TH-CENTURY ATLANTIC HISTORY
>
>Wim Klooster, University of Southern Maine
> IMPERIAL RELATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN: SOURCES IN THE SPANISH
> AND DUTCH ARCHIVES

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From Patrick O'Sullivan

We have not commented much on The International Library of Studies on
Migration, series editor Robin Cohen.

Because, for what is in the end, a series simply reprinting important
articles, the cost of the volumes is extraordinarily high.

But the series does reprint important articles, and thus is a quick way
of getting an overview of the literature and debates within it. It
certainly is worth looking at the Table of Contents, and seeing which
articles might be available in a library near you. Also, I do know that
some Ir-D list members are in the happy position of having the resources
to build up research facilities...

The publisher, Edward Elgar, has a Web site at
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk

There are so far 10 volumes in the series...
1. Theories of Migration
2. Geography and Migration
3. The Sociology of Migration
4. Migration in European History
5. The Politics of Migration
6. Law and Migration
7. Migration and Social Cohesion
8. Migration and Public Policy
9. Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism
and, forthcoming,
10. Gender and Migration

I am going to send next, as a separate email, more information on the
volumes on 'Social Cohesion', 'Diasporas' and 'Gender', because I know
that this material will be of interest to some Ir-D list members.

Other information can be gathered at the publisher's Web site.

P.O'S.


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Forwarded, with permission...

Some book reviews of interest from...


THE IE BOOK REVIEW
_______________________________________________________________________
Editor: Pauline Ferrie October, 1999 Issue No.51
=======================================================================

This monthly supplement to the Irish Emigrant reviews books recently
published in Ireland, and those published overseas which have an Irish
theme. Back issues are on our WWW pages

CIVIL WAR IN ULSTER by JOSEPH JOHNSTON
- - This book was first published in 1913 and was written by a Northern
Protestant who was educated at Trinity College Dublin and at Oxford.
It is now forgotten that there were (and still are) Northern
Protestants who do not fit the media stereotype of thoughtless
anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bigots. This book was written by a man
who gave considerable thought to the political issues of his day and
is a topical reminder that such stereotyping is dangerous. The
author's purpose was polemical. He wished to make a logical case in
response to the whipping up of emotion against the Home Rule Bill
which was then progressing through Parliament and which was
vehemently opposed by the Tories. It is very interesting to see this
man's ideas and expectations, before they were all brutally swept
aside by World War One. In this respect it is reminiscent of William
Shirer's "Berlin Diary", written just before World War Two. Both
remind us that, when we look back, we should not assume that people
of their time had any more ability to foresee the future than we
have. To have such a contemporary view of affairs as they appeared
at the time is very valuable.

Naturally, the language is not modern but to some eyes that is no bad
thing. It is still pleasing (at least to this reviewer) to see the
allusions of a classical scholar used to illustrate very clearly some
contemporary issue. And this is not to say that a classical
education is necessary to understand the references; they appear in
situations where their appropriateness brings abundant clarity. It
is a great pity that to read the book is to confirm that logic is no
answer to mischievous and rabble-rousing politicians. The author's
logic is impeccable and his scathing presentation of facts lay bare
the unfounded arguments of the Tory and Unionist establishment. He
warns that the Tories have no real interest in anything other than
the recovery of power. Certainly they have no interest in the
ordinary man of Northern Ireland. He takes us through all the issues
of the time and in every case he clearly illustrates that the
approach of the Tories was purely tactical. Randolph Churchill's
remark about "playing the Orange card" is the perfect example.

Yet the Tories got away with their high treason. And Johnston is
very clear that this was exactly what they were doing. If this was
"loyalism" what was treason? He gives the answer; treason is the
actions of those opposed to the Tories. It is particularly poignant
to note Johnston's mis-reading of the attitude of the army top brass.
He could not conceive of a situation where they would actually rebel
or resign. He sets out how such a scenario might be handled but it
is clear that he does not really contemplate the occurrence.

This book might be read with benefit in our present situation.
However it would be a mistake to simply take it as confirmation that
the Unionists have always been wrong and, therefore, should now be
ignored. The situation is not now that of 1913. Then the Unionists
were being fed propaganda about the terrible fate which they faced if
they were subjected to the rule of the majority in Ireland. Today
the Unionists object, not to an unreasonable fear of the unknown, but
to their having to accept those who have spent thirty years actually
murdering them. This book is a valuable and well-written aid to our
appreciation of the situation early this century. It is not a
prescription for dealing with the present position.
(Reviewed by John McAvoy)
(UCD Press, ISBN 1-900621-30-4, pp200, IR13.95)

THE GAA, A HISTORY by MARCUS DE BURCA
- - This second edition of Marcus de Burca's history of the Gaelic
Athletic Association includes events in the movements over the past
twenty years or so. de Burca was commissioned by the GAA to compile
the history as part of the its centenary celebrations and the
original covers not only the games promoted by the association, but
dwells at length also on the part played by the GAA in the
nationalist struggle of the early years of this century. This
revised edition includes the introduction of the "back door" route
into championship, the gradual development of a mixed GAA-Australian
rules game, and the work being carried out at Croke Park to bring it
up to international stadium standard. With a new index and
bibliography, the second edition of de Burca's book provides a
comprehensive view of the country's largest sporting body.
(Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 0-7171-2914-4, pp260, IR19.99)

MIGRANTS ALL by LUCY BRENNAN
- - In her first collection of poetry Lucy Brennan draws on her own
experiences as an emigrant, now living in Canada, to tell a story
which combines fact and myth. In this series of verses we are given
a sense of rootlessness, of moving without purpose from one place to
another until we reach the poet's beginnings in Ireland and the poems
become autobiographical. She remembers separation from her parents,
her grandmother's house where

"You could, but you wouldn't have dared, eat off
the fine-scrubbed deal."

The Christmas when the family were back together again she helps her
father tidy the garden and sees the symbolism in the act:

"As I pick up stones
and pull tough weeds with him,
we recover some ground together."

The final section of "Migrants All" is imbued with the spirit of the
mythical figure, Mad Sweeney, with whom Ms Brennan identifies in his
homelessness. There is a sadness running through the verses which is
tempered by the prospect of new beginnings.
(Watershed Books, ,
ISBN 1-894205-09-X, pp76, Can$11.95)

IRISH MEN AND WOMEN IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by RICHARD DOHERTY
- - In what has of necessity become the first of two books, given the
scope of the subject, Richard Doherty has set out to examine first
the motives which led the citizens of Ireland to fight in the armed
forces of a traditional foe, and then to look in detail at some of
the more distinguished members of that group. Contrary to popular
belief the overriding motive was not financial, since military pay
was not particularly high. While some did enlist for the steady
wage, others came from families with a strong British Army
connection, a few signed up from a sense of gratitude to a country
which had given them the employment they couldn't find at home, and
for a significant number of young men there is no doubt that the
excitement of war was the attraction. Among those Irishmen and women
who most distinguished themselves during the war was Brendan
Finucane, a twice-decorated fighter pilot with the RAF, and Fr Dan
Kelleher, who became army chaplain and was awarded the Military Cross
for his actions in saving his comrades at Monte Cassino. Indeed an
entire chapter is devoted to the chaplains of all denominations who
gave their services. The final chapter deals with the number of
Irishwomen who served in the Armed Forces, some overseas and some,
like Maeve Boyle in Derry, who worked in their own home towns. The
author, whose own father fought in the Second World War, gives
detailed accounts of the operations in which the various
personalities were involved, though, on a personal note, I preferred
reading about who they were and their motives for enlisting, rather
than what they did during the conflict.
(Four Courts Press, ISBN 1-85182-441-3, pp320, IR19.95)

MACBRIDE'S BRIGADE by DONAL P. McCRACKEN
- - Another group of Irishmen who formed a fighting body, in this
instance to oppose the British, is the subject of Donal McCracken's
book. This John MacBride is the same man who died with the leaders
of the Easter Rising sixteen years after his campaign in South
Africa. He became leader of a brigade which fought with the Boers
against the British and took part in such legendary actions as
Ladysmith. However the author reveals much more than just the part
played by the brigade in the Boer War at the turn of the century,
since MacBride was not the only prominent Irishmen in South Africa
during this period. Both Michael Davitt and Arthur Griffith spent
some time in the province, and the latter was subsequently involved
in the foundation in Dublin of the Irish Transvaal Committee. From
this group he later founded Cumann na Gaedheal from which developed
Sinn Fein, and a direct link was thus forged between the Boer
struggle against the British and the subsequent nationalist struggle
at home. The author has lightened the narrative by the insertion of
a number of verses relevant to the subject, including Arthur
Griffith's own "Song of the Transvaal Irish Brigade".
(Four Courts Press, ISBN 1-85182-499-5, pp208, IR19.95)

BLOODY WOMEN by DAVID M. KIELY
- - While male murderers greatly outnumber female murderers, in Ireland
the percentage of murders carried out by women is three times that of
the US, and in "Bloody Women" David Kiely has given details of 17 of
these. Covering a period from 1849 to the early '90s, he introduces
a varied collection of women whose motives for the killings they
perpetrated ranged from greed, through jealousy to self-defence. The
earliest is the case of Kate Webster, a Wexford woman who went to
extraordinary lengths in the disposal of her victim in London, and
she was one of those who paid the ultimate price for her crime; in
many cases the death sentence was commuted to imprisonment. Another
case in which the disposal was bizarre is that of the murder of Pat
O'Leary in 1924, for which his brother and sister were found guilty.
Parts of the body were found scattered around the County Cork farm
with apparently no attempt being made at concealment. One of the
most poignant cases must surely be that of the two Flynn children in
Co. Laois, murdered by their mother's servant, 14-year-old Mary Cole,
simply because she resented interference with her social life. The
final two cases are ones many will remember, that of Noreen
Winchester, who killed her father after a lifetime of both physical
and mental abuse, and the killing of Penny McAllister by her
husband's lover, Susan Christie, which happened only eight years ago.
Very satisfyingly, the author tells us in each case what became of
those involved in the various crimes who escaped the hangman's noose.
(Gill & Macmillan, ISBN 0-7171-2852-0, pp251, IR7.99)


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

The International Library of Studies on Miration, series editor Robin
Cohen.

See http://www.e-elgar.co.uk

A.
Here is a bit more information, from the publisher's Web site, about
Vertovec ed., 7. Migration and Social Cohesion - since I referred to
this volume in a recent paper...

Migration And Social Cohesion

Edited by Steven Vertovec, Research Reader in Social Anthropology,
University of Oxford, UK and Director of the ESRC Research Programme on
Transnational Communities, UK

There is a common assumption that immigrants contribute significantly to
the breakdown of social cohesion. However, researchers and policymakers
find that, on the contrary, immigrants contribute much to their adopted
societies economically, socially, culturally and politically. This
volume includes a variety of key works which explore this relationship
between migration and social cohesion. The articles by some of the
foremost writers in the field cover models and frameworks of immigrant
incorporation, debates in multicultural policy, immigrant and ethnic
minority political participation, citizenship, entrepreneurship and
language and sociocultural adaptation.

26 articles, dating from 1979 to 1998
Contents: Introduction Part I: Frameworks Part II: Institutions Part
III: Citizenship Part IV: Dynamics Index
Contributors include: W.R. Brubaker, S. Castles, J. Crowley, T. Hammar,
I. Light, R. Miles, M.J. Miller, B. Parekh, A. Portes, P. Weil, M.
Weiner, M. Zhou


B.
Here is a bit more on Vertovec & Cohen, eds, 9. Migration, Diasporas And
Transnationalism

Edited by Steven Vertovec, Research Reader in Social Anthropology,
University of Oxford, UK and Director, ESRC Research Programme on
Transnational Communities, UK and Robin Cohen, Professor of Sociology,
University of Warwick, UK

This authoritative collection brings together the most significant
papers by leading scholars in an increasingly important area of study.
Social scientists and political analysts are becoming more and more
aware of the importance of long-maintained or newly embellished links
between post-migration communities and the societies from which they
originate. Closely tied to this field is a renewed interest in
?diasporas? or globally dispersed groups whose collective experiences
often draw on deep historical roots in more than one place.

Contents: Introduction Part I: Reappraising Contemporary Migration Part
II: Old and New Meanings of Diaspora Part III: Transnationalism:
?Globalisation from Below? Index
Contributors include: A. Appadurai, J.A. Armstrong, L. Basch, C. Blanc-
Szanton, J. Clifford, R.Cohen, P. Gilroy, N. Glick Schiller, S. Hall, W.
Safran, G. Sheffer, N.Smart


UK Publication Hardback June 1999 704 pp 1 85898 869 1 £150.00
US Publication Hardback August 1999 $245.00

Migration, Diasporas And Transnationalism

Contents: Acknowledgements ? Introduction Part I: Reappraising
Contemporary Migration 1. Harvey M. Choldin (1973), ?Kinship Networks in
the Migration Process? 2. James T. Fawcett (1989), ?Networks, Linkages,
and Migration Systems? 3. Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch and Cristina
Blanc-Szanton (1992), ?Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for
Understanding Migration? 4. Panos Hatzipanayotou (1991), ?International
Migration and Remittances in a Two-Country Temporary Equilibrium Model?
5. Charles B. Keely and Bao Nga Tran (1989), ?Remittances from Labor
Migration: Evaluations, Performance and Implications? 6. Johanna
Lessinger (1992), ?Nonresident-Indian Investment and India?s Drive for
Industrial Modernization? 7. Aihwa Ong (1996), ?Cultural Citizenship as
Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in
the United States? 8. Roger Rouse (1991), ?Mexican Migration and the
Social Space of Postmodernism? 9. Barbara Schmitter Heisler (1985),
?Sending Countries and the Politics of Emigration and Destination? 10.
Charles W. Stahl and Fred Arnold (1986), ?Overseas Workers? Remittances
in Asian Development? Part II: Old and New Meanings of Diaspora 11. John
A. Armstrong (1976), ?Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas? 12. James
Clifford (1994), ?Diasporas? 13. Robin Cohen (1995), ?Rethinking
?Babylon?: Iconclastic Conceptions of the Diasporic Experience? 14.
Robin Cohen (1996), ?Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to
Challengers? 15. Paul Gilroy (1991), ?It Ain?t Where You?re From, It?s
Where You?re At. . .: The Dialectics of Diasporic Identification? 16.
Paul Gilroy (1994), ?Diaspora? 17. Stuart Hall (1990), ?Cultural
Identity and Diaspora? 18. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1994), ?Spaces
of Dispersal? 19. David D. Laitin (1995), ?Identity in Formation: The
Russian-Speaking Nationality in the Post-Soviet Diaspora? 20. Richard
Marienstras (1989), ?On the Notion of Diaspora? 21. William Safran
(1991), ?Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return?
22. Gabriel Sheffer (1986), ?A New Field of Study: Modern Diasporas in
International Politics? 23. Gabriel Sheffer (1995), ?The Emergence of
New Ethno-National Diasporas? 24. Ninian Smart (1987), ?The Importance
of Diasporas? 25. Elliott P. Skinner (1993), ?The Dialectic between
Diasporas and Homelands? Part III: Transnationalism: ?Globalization From
Below? 26. Arjun Appadurai (1991), ?Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and
Queries for a Transnational Anthropology? 27. A. Appadurai and C.
Breckonridge (1989), ?Editors? Comment: On Moving Targets? 28. Katy
Gardner (1993), ?Desh-bidesh: Sylheti Images of Home and Away? 29. Akhil
Gupta (1992), ?The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational
Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism? 30. M.
Kearney (1995), ?The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of
Globalization and Transnationalism? 31. Michael Kearney (1991), ?Borders
and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire? 32. Orlando
Patterson (1975), ?Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance: A
Theoretical Framework and Caribbean Case Study? 33. Yossi Shain (1995),
?Multicultural Foreign Policy? 34. John F. Stack, Jr. (1981), ?Ethnic
Groups as Emerging Transnational Actors? Name Index


C.
Here is a bit more about Willis & Yeoh, 10. Gender and Migration...

Gender And Migration

Edited by Katie Willis, Lecturer in Geography, University of Liverpool,
UK and Brenda Yeoh, Associate Professor of Geography and Director,
Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This volume demonstrates the ways in which a gender perspective has been
incorporated into existing themes and methods of migration research and
has also led to the development of new areas of interest. It draws
together the most important published articles based on gender and
migration research in North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia in
order to highlight major theoretical developments relating to
employment, gender relations, household organisation, identity,
citizenship, transnationalism and migration policy. The editors have
prepared an introduction which provides an overview of these key
developments in gender and migration research, as well as suggesting
topics for future research.

21 articles, dating from 1990 to 1998
Contributors include: E. Avila, A. Bakan, S. Chant, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo,
N. Kibria, P. Pessar, J. Salaff, D. Stasiulis, T-D. Truong, H. Zlotnik

Contents: Acknowledgements ? Introduction Part I: Gender and Migration
Theory 1. Caroline Wright (1995), ?Gender Awareness in Migration Theory:
Synthesizing Actor and Structure in Southern Africa? Part II: Households
and Reproduction 2. Hania Zlotnik (1995), ?Migration and the Family: The
Female Perspective? 3. Sylvia Chant (1991), ?Gender, Migration and Urban
Development in Costa Rica: The Case of Guanacaste? Part III: Gender and
International Labour Migration 4. Thanh-Dam Truong (1996), ?Gender,
International Migration and Social Reproduction: Implications for
Theory, Policy, Research and Networking? 5. Mirjana Morokvasic (1993),
??In and Out? of the Labour Market: Immigrant Women in Europe? Part IV:
Circular Migration 6. Mark Ellis, Dennis Conway and Adrian J. Bailey
(1996), ?The Circular Migration of Puerto Rican Women: Towards a
Gendered Explanation? Part V: Migration as Gendered Work 7. Janet W.
Salaff (1997), ?The Gendered Social Organization of Migration as Work?
Part VI: Migration and Gender Relations 8. Nazli Kibria (1990), ?Power,
Patriarchy, and Gender Conflict in the Vietnamese Immigrant Community?
9. Patricia R. Pessar (1994), ?Sweatshop Workers and Domestic
Ideologies: Dominican Women in New York?s Apparel Industry? Part VII:
Social Constructions of Female Migrants 10. Lesley Gill (1993), ??Proper
Women? and City Pleasures: Gender, Class, and Contested Meanings in La
Paz? 11. Richa Nagar (1998), ?Communal Discourses, Marriage, and the
Politics of Gendered Social Boundaries among South Asian Immigrants in
Tanzania? 12. Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang (1998), ?Negotiating
Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers
in Singapore? Part VIII: Gender, Migration and Constructions of National
Identity 13. Julia Bush (1994), ??The Right Sort of Woman?: Female
Emigrators and Emigration to the British Empire, 1890-1910? Part IX:
Gender and Transnationalism 14. Marixsa Alicea (1997), ??A Chambered
Nautilus?: The Contradictory Nature of Puerto Rican Women's Role in the
Social Construction of a Transnational Community? 15. Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila (1997), ??I'm Here, But I'm There?:
The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood? Part X: Gendered
Participation in Immigrant Politics 16. Michael Jones-Correa (1998),
?Different Paths: Gender, Immigration and Political Participation? Part
XI: Gender, Migration and Citizenship 17. Daiva Stasiulis and Abigail B.
Bakan (1997), ?Negotiating Citizenship: The Case of Foreign Domestic
Workers in Canada? Part XII: Accompanying Spouses 18. Brenda S.A. Yeoh
and Louise-May Khoo (1998), ?Home, Work and Community: Skilled
International Migration and Expatriate Women in Singapore? 19. Arpita
Chattopadhyay (1997), ?Family Migration and the Economic Status of Women
in Malaysia? Part XIII: Women ?Left Behind? 20. Bridget O'Laughlin
(1998), ?Missing Men? The Debate Over Rural Poverty and Women-headed
Households in Southern Africa? Part XIV: Gender and Refugees 21. Eve
Hall (1990) ?Vocational Training for Women Refugees in Africa? Name
Index

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From Patrick O'Sullivan


Forwarded out of interest...

I can think of quite a few Irish 'Captivity Narratives'...

P.O'S.

------- Forwarded message follows -------
Call for Papers

THE CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE

The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Association invite papers or panels treating any aspect of Captivity
Narratives for its annual meeting to be held at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel
in Albuquerque, New Mexico (February 9-12, 2000).

Indeed, topics that lend themselves to this classification are numerous and
varied. A paper addressing the role of Homer's Briseis, a study of the
Biblical Daniel, a film review of the John Wayne movie, The Searchers, a
discussion of Fowles's The Collector, a review of the Lindbergh kidnaping,
presentations on salve narratives as well as P.O.W. survival tales could
all be described as "Captivity Narrative" analyses.

Please submit a one-page abstract or panel proposal and a c.v. by December
1, 1999 to the Area Chair:

Mary Lynn Dodson
Amarillo College
P. O. Box 447
Amarillo, TX 79178

voice-mail (806) 371-5176
e-mail: mldodson[at]actx.edu

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The Public Record Office of the United Kingdom at Kew, near London, has
opened a Web site at...

http://www.pro.gov.uk

The PRO has put its catalogue, of over 8 million records, in a
searchable form on this Web site. The actual documents can not be seen
- - you still have to go and queue in Kew. But this does mean that visits
to Kew can be planned more constructively.

There are plans to put the entire contents of some of the most popular
records on the Web - possibly beginning with the 1901 census and World
War I service records.

I tested the system. Here are some of the references turned up by a
search for Fenians/Fenian...

Document Details for HO 45/7799
Lettercode Title Records created or inherited by the Home Office,
Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Class Title Home Office: Registered Papers
Piece/Item Title MILITARY (See also WAR; DESERTERS; CHANNEL ISLES and
ISLE OF MAN): Fenians: Additional military: for Dundee, said to be a
Fenian centre
Header Title c.1841-1855, 1856-1871
Text Date 1866
Closure Status Open
Place of Deposit Public Record Office, Kew
Note Text /70,73,80

Document Details for HO 45/9330/19461B
Lettercode Title Records created or inherited by the Home Office,
Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Class Title Home Office: Registered Papers
Piece/Item Title IRELAND (FENIANS): Fenian Convicts in Western Australia
Header Title 1871-1878
Text Date 1876-83
Closure Status Open
Place of Deposit Public Record Office, Kew
Former Reference 19461B

And here is one of the references turned up by a search for
Irish/Manchester...

Document Details for HO 44/30
Lettercode Title Records created or inherited by the Home Office,
Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Class Title Home Office: Domestic Correspondence from 1773 to 1860
Piece/Item Title Churchwardens and overseers of Manchester, on the state
of the destitute Irish poor residing there. Draft reply stating no
remedy available, and further letter of protest
Text Date 1837 Nov 14, 24
Closure Status Open
Place of Deposit Public Record Office, Kew
Note Text ff 323-331

P.O'S.


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From: don.macraild[at]sunderland.ac.uk (MACRAILD Don)
Subject: Manchester 4!


Dear All,

There is, as Paddy says, a lot on the Irish in Manchester. Whether it
starts with Kay, or not, is open to debate. Certainly, the centrally of the
Manchester Irish in negative stereotypes certainly begins there, but others,
such as Lyon Playfair and Joseph Adshead have things to say at about the
same time; and parliamentary papers, musings by various radicals (Hume and
PLace spring to mind) identify the 'problem Irish' in Manchester in the
1820s and before (see E.P. Thompson, The Making). No study would be
complete without reference to Cornewall Lewis's Report on the State of the
Irish Poor in Britain (1836). Also, the less well known bits from the
Morning Chronicle survey (which eventually yielded Mayhew's massive
sociological study of London) have an important Manchester dimension.
Unfortunately, these was written by A.B. Reach whose language is
anti-Irishness personified. I think references can be found to Reach in my
book Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922 (probably ch.6, although I
don't have a copy to hand--again! Sorry.

Perhaps most important in recent works (aside from Fielding's book) is
Caroline Scott's PhD dissertation comparing Manchester, Liverpool and
Newcastle. This is based upon a prodigious amount of work. Scott's thesis
is in the bibliography of the new Swift and Gilley.

Cheers


Don MacRaild
University of Sunderland

From: "Bruce Stewart"
Organization: University of Ulster
Subject: PGIL EirData 2000 Research Officership - Grad. Opportunity


Dear Friends,

Allow me to enclose a copy of a current advertisement for a well-
paid research post in Irish Studies being offered in connection with
the Eirdata 2000 project which I am directing at the University of
Ulster under contract with the Princess Grace Irish Library
(Monaco).

I would be very grateful if you would let any graduate students know
about this who might be interested in spending a pre-doctoral or
post-doctoral year working on a stimulating survey of Irish literary
and cultural resources.

best wishes, Bruce.

******GRAD OPP/ADVERTISEMENT******

University of Ulster
Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
School of Languages and Literature


Research Officer - Princess Grace Irish Library EirData Project at
Coleraine
(Ref. No. C99/373) : 1 year fixed term post initially

The Research Officer to the Eirdata Project will be responsible for
the development and publication of an online literary database of
Electronic Irish Records (EirData). A first or second class Honours
degree (or equivalent) with modules in Anglo-Irish literature or Irish
history is essential. A good working knowledge of bio-bibliographical
resources for Irish literary research, and evidence of independent
research in Irish literature or Irish history are both desirable.

Salary: 16,286 - 24,479
Closing date 12 November 1999
Interview date Week commencing 29 November 1999

Advertisments in Belfast Telegraph, Irish News, News Letter, Irish
times, & Internet from 25 October 1999.

Application forms are available from Human Resources, University
of Ulster at Coleraine, Cromore Rd., Coleraine, Co. Derry, Northern
Ireland, BT52 1SA. tel. 44 (001265 324949) - or internal 4957.

Website at http://www.ulst.ac.uk/Eirdata. For further information,
contact Bruce Stewart (EirData Director), University Coleraine, Co.
Derry, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA; tel. 01265 324355; email
bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk.



bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk
Languages & Lit/English
University of Ulster
tel (44) 01265 32 4355
fax (44) 01265 32 4963

From Patrick O'Sullivan

We have received a lengthy email...

From: Foreign Policy Research Institute

Foreign Policy Research Institute WIRE
A Catalyst for Ideas

HOW TO THINK ABOUT ETHNIC CONFLICT
by Chester A. Crocker

Volume 7, Number 10
September 1999

This essay is adapted from the Perlmutter Lecture on Ethnic
Conflict, delivered May 25, 1999, as the keynote address of
the Foreign Policy Research Institute's conference "Ethnic
Conflict: The Role of Religion, the Media, and the
Mediator."

Here is Crocker's Conclusion...

CONCLUSION
Ethnic conflict is a complex phenomenon. There is no single
cookie-cutter approach that will work. Dramatic differences
exist between the circumstances of a Bulgaria or Kosovo on
the one hand and an Indonesia on the other. Or take the case
of Ireland. What accounts for the fact that the Irish
conflict looks closer and closer to being finally resolved?
There are some special ingredients there, as in every case.
There is the long learning process, the empowerment of civil
society, the role of churches in building bridges, and the
role of third parties in Ireland, which makes it a promising
example. There is also a combination of important nations
such as the United Kingdom, United States, and Republic of
Ireland, as well as the European Union coming together and
in effect strengthening those parties that want peace and
marginalizing the parties that do not want peace. Yet even
with all these assets it is not assured.

In conclusion, ethnic conflict is a case-by-case story. I
know that sounds likes a Washington answer, but I do not
believe in any abstract theory of ethnic conflict. There is
no substitute for knowing the facts of the case and the
range of tools and instruments available to you. Above all,
you must make an act of will, and be determined if you are
to be effective.

END OF EXTRACT...

Anyone who wants the full text of the lecture - as a lengthy, forwarded
email, should send me an email at
Patrick O'Sullivan

P.O'S.
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From: "Bruce Stewart"
Organization: University of Ulster
Subject: Ir-D EirData 2000 Research Officer


Dear Friends, I need to correct a WWWeb URL for the EirData
2000 Page. Please go to http://www.ulst.ac.uk/iasil/eirdata.htm -
where I have added an email contact at the Univ. of Ulster Personnel
Dept. (Human Resources). Thanks, Bruce.

******GRAD OPP/ADVERTISEMENT******

University of Ulster
Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
School of Languages and Literature


Research Officer - Princess Grace Irish Library EirData Project at
Coleraine
(Ref. No. C99/373) : 1 year fixed term post initially

The Research Officer to the Eirdata Project will be responsible for
the development and publication of an online literary database of
Electronic Irish Records (EirData). A first or second class Honours
degree (or equivalent) with modules in Anglo-Irish literature or Irish
history is essential. A good working knowledge of bio-bibliographical
resources for Irish literary research, and evidence of independent
research in Irish literature or Irish history are both desirable.

Salary: 16,286 - 24,479
Closing date 12 November 1999
Interview date Week commencing 29 November 1999

Advertised in Belfast Telegraph, Irish News, News Letter, Irish
Times, & Internet from 25 October 1999.

Application forms are available from Human Resources, University
of Ulster at Coleraine, Cromore Rd., Coleraine, Co. Derry, Northern
Ireland, BT52 1SA. tel. 44 (001265 324949) - or internal 4957; also
email at p.watton[at]ulst.ac.uk.

Website at http://www.ulst.ac.uk/Eirdata. For further information,
contact Bruce Stewart (EirData Director), University Coleraine, Co.
Derry, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA; tel. 01265 324355; email
bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk.
bsg.stewart[at]ulst.ac.uk
Languages & Lit/English
University of Ulster
tel (44) 01265 32 4355
fax (44) 01265 32 4963

------- Forwarded message follows -------
Call for Papers

UNMASKING ETHNIC NEW ENGLANDS
New England ASA Conference
Spring 2000

The 2000 annual conference of the New England American Studies Association
will be held at the University of Southern Maine in Portland on April 29
and 30, 2000. We invite proposals for papers and panels that question
and explore the many ways that ethnic identities in New England have
been invented, constructed, hidden, and preserved. Subject areas might
include (but need not be limited to) the role of ethnicity in any aspect of
the region's literary, visual, religious, economic, and material cultures.

Situated in a region that earlier scholars identified as the starting point
for a national culture, NEASA welcomes submissions that re-examine the
configuration of ethnicity and race in New England. The conference will
explore how such ethnic and racialized identities have been revealed and
concealed and how they interact with traditional notions of New England's
role in American life. Panelists may address any and all time periods, from
the pre-Columbian to the present. Presentations that address the function
of New England ethnicity outside the region are welcome as well. To
encourage a wide range of papers we welcome submissions from
educators from all levels, activists, and practitioners in such fields as

+ Ethnic Studies
+ Area Studies
+ Gender Theory
+ Queer Theory
+ Secondary School Education
+ Public History
+ Visual and Material Culture
+ Labor History
+ Geography
+ Popular Culture
+ Music
+ Public Policy
+ Environmental Studies
+ Urban History
+ Museum Studies
+ Medicine and Health Care

As always, interdisciplinary approaches drawing from these and other
fields are encouraged. We also welcome proposals that will enrich the
conference by looking to alternative formats such as roundtable
discussions, performances, pedagogical discussions, and seminars.

NEASA is happy to announce that a cash prize will be awarded at the
conference to the best paper by a graduate student, independent scholar,
or non-tenure track instructor. Please indicate in your proposal your
eligibility for the award.

Proposals of not more than 250 words and a one page c.v. for each presenter
should be sent postmarked by January 7, 2000. Please note that electronic
submissions should not include attachments. Proposals should be sent to

Adam Sweeting
NEASA Program Committee Chair
Boston University
College of General Studies
871 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
E-mail: sweeting[at]bu.edu

Forwarded on behalf of...
G White
Subject: CAIS Conference



The call for papers for the 2000 Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish
Studies follows this message.

We hope that lots of you will submit proposals, we're really confident that this
year's meeting will be a good one. We are going to try to get some people over
from Ireland this year, and are working on some joint sessions with other
organisations. If you want some paper copies of the call to pass around
please let me know and I'll mail em right out, and will also be doing a
directed mailing of calls for papers in the next week or so.

I also want to let people know that in an attempt to keep expenses down, I
will be trying to billet people with sympathetic faculty members and grad
students. Priority will go to grad students giving papers, so if you fit
that bill let me know and we'll try to set something up. No promises, but
we hope that'll make it easier for some people to come west.

Looking forward to seeing everyone here in May!

Best, Jerry White, Conference 2000 Convenor



Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Conference 2000
25-27 May 2000
University of Alberta, Edmonton
Call for Papers : "Ireland and Internationalism"

One of the themes of the 2000 Congress of the Social Sciences and
Humanities is "Globalization." We'd like to pick up on that, and propose
"Ireland and Internationalism" as the theme of this year's Canadian
Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference.

We are open to a wide variety of presentations, from re-considerations of
the influence of the French Revolution on the United Irishmen to Samuel
Beckett's reception in France to the role of European unification on
contemporary Irish politics or economics. We'd be especially interested
in some of the following topics:

Ireland in the face of the European Union or other multinational
consolidations

Irish Gaelic in the context of "Minority Languages" (comparisons with
French in Canada? Cree in Canada? Spanish in Texas? Gaelic in Scotland?
Hindi in Pakistan?)

Ireland and the broader post-colonial context (comparisons with India?
Nigeria? Iceland? Nunavut?)

Irish women's movements in the context of international feminisms

Immigration/emigration and the transformation of Irish culture

Ireland's translation into Qubec French, or Ireland's translation into
Canadian English

Writers, artists and other intellectuals in exile

The internationalisation of the Irish stage

Irish cinema in the face of Hollywood, or Irish cinema's debt to
European funding agencies

Traditional and contemporary Irish music and its influences on and from
music abroad

This visual arts in Ireland and their relationship to contemporary
developments elsewhere

Old Irish texts in a broad medievalist context

Comparative Celtic Literature; how is Irish literature related to work
in Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish or Breton (we are hoping
to organise a joint panel with the Canadian Comparative Literature
Association on this topic).

These are just suggestions; we are hoping that the membership will propose
ideas for papers that broadly and creatively interpret the concept of
"Internationalism." We also hope that members will want to propose and/or
organise panels.

Please send a ~300 word abstract, in English or French, by 15 January 2000
to:

Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Conference 2000
c/o Jerry White
Department of Comparative Literature, Religion and Film/Media Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E6
Canada
Ph: 780.432.2988 Fx: 780.492.2715
Email: gswhite[at]gpu.srv.ualberta.ca