Patrick O'Sullivan

People at the following email addresses - hud.ac.uk and cuny.edu -
should know that you are getting a very erratic and unreliable service
from your email provider.

Over the past months an extraordinarily high proportion of Irish-
Diaspora list messages have been returned, undelivered, from those
addresses. There is no particular pattern to the rejections.

If Ir-D messages are not getting through to you then it is very likely
that other messages are not getting through.

And, of course, there are no guarantees that THIS message will get
through.

Both problem addresses are at academic institutions - academic
institutions cause us recurring problems. For they WILL fiddle, and not
tell their customers. Explanations we have had in the past include
email inboxes being set at too small a capacity, various filters and
anti-spam devices, and just inadequate capacity.

Could you just look into it, please? It is simply generating pointless
extra email traffic. And I'd really like things to be tidy before the
Christmas and New Year/New Millennium holiday season. And all THOSE
problems.

P.O'S.
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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From: Donald MacRaild
Subject: O'Donnell, The Irish Abroad


I wonder if any one can help me. I recently bought a copy of Elliot O'Donnell,
The Irish Abroad; A Record of the Achievements of Wanderers From Ireland
(London, Bath, New York and Melbourne, Issac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1915), but I
don't know anything about it. Can anyone cast a little light on the man or the
book?

Donald MacRaild

Forwarded, out of interest...

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>a new collection from the National Digital Library at the Library of
Congress.
>
>Please send any questions about America Singing to NDLPCOLL[at]loc.gov
>
>America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets Collection to be Added to
>American Memory historical collections
>
>The latest addition to the American Memory online historical collections
>documents one of the earliest forms of mass media in the United States.
>Descended from the British musical broadsides of the sixteenth and
>seventeenth centuries, song sheets disseminated popular songs before the
>invention of recorded music.
>
>Song sheets were especially popular during the Civil War, recording
>military movements and reflecting public attitudes about the war. They
>also honored individual regiments and military and political leaders.
>The 4,291 song sheets in this new online collection provide a unique
>perspective on the social, economic, and political issues of the day.
>Some of America's most beloved songs such as the "Battle Hymn of the
>Republic" and the "Star Spangled Banner" were printed as song sheets.
>
>Unlike other kinds of sheet music, song sheets were normally single
>sheets printed with lyrics but no music. The lyrics have been set to
>the tunes of familiar songs such as "Yankee Doodle" and "The Last Rose
>of Summer" or to new songs being sung in music halls. Though many songs
>were serious or dramatic, others were humorous and poked fun at various
>people or events.
>
>In addition to documenting public opinion, song sheets also document
>changes in the printing industry. Several companies are highlighted
>within the collection and users can see how publishing houses relocated
>and changed over time. The collection also documents the introduction of
>the mechanized printing press and how this new technology helped to meet
>the needs of a country that was eager for news and for ways to express
>itself.
>
>America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets can be found at the following
>URL:
>

Forwarded on behalf of

------- Forwarded message follows -------
The tenth annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, to be
held 29-31 October 2000 in Cortland, NY, seeks a person to chair the Modern
Irish Drama panel, whose former chair has withdrawn.

Established scholars or qualified advanced graduate students may apply. Our
consolidated call for papers goes out in March to over 400 schools. Session
chair should also create an individual CFP for his/her own session, to be sent
to schools and individuals of his/her own choice.

First come will be first served.

Thanks in advance to any and all who may apply.

Alexander G. Gonzalez
Professor of English
Conference Director

Forwarded, for information...

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>The University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center (IHRC)
>will soon be moving to its new quarters in the Elmer L. Andersen Library on
>the University's main campus. As a result, the Center's archives and
>library collections will be closed to research for several weeks as staff
>members prepare for and execute the move.
>
>Beginning December 22, the IHRC will suspend its services to all patrons
>(on-site, phone, mail, and e-mail requests) until the move is completed
>approximately February 1, 2000. During the initial weeks following the
>move, collections will be open on-site by appointment only. The Center's
>Web site (http://www.umn.edu/ihrc/) will contain further details on the
>service schedule as the move progresses.
>
>The IHRC's new home, Andersen Library, is a state-of-the-art archival
>building that will also house additional special collections of the
>University. Among these are the Social Welfare History Archives, the YMCA
>Archives, the Children's Literature Research Collection, and the Charles
>Babbage Institute for the History of Information Processing. Details on
>this facility (including photos) and the programs to be located there can
>be found at the following site:
>http://kinglear.lib.umn.edu/mlac/
>
>We wish to thank our colleagues for their patience as we negotiate this
>transition and once again to thank the many whose support over the past
>several years was instrumental in our achieving this milestone. Watch for
>further information soon on opening celebrations!
>
>*******************************************************************
>Joel Wurl
>Curator & Asst. Director
>Immigration History Research Center
>University of Minnesota
>826 Berry St.
>St. Paul, MN 55114
>phone: (612)627-4208 fax: (612)627-4190
>e-mail: wurlx001[at]maroon.tc.umn.edu
>
>VISIT THE IHRC WEB SITE: http://www.umn.edu/ihrc

From Patrick O'Sullivan


Two citations...

1.
Mental illness and irish people: stereotypes, determinants and changing
perspectives
Clarke, L.
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
1998 - volume 5 - issue 4 - page 309 - 316


2.
Mental illness and Irish people: Stereotypes, determinants
and changing perspectives
Clarke, L
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
1998 - volume 5 - issue 6 - page 555 - 562


3.
This is the abstract of the first article...

Journal name Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
ISSN 1351-0126 electronic:1365-2850
Publisher Blackwell Science Ltd
Issue 1998 - volume 5 - issue 4
Page 309 - 316

Mental illness and irish people: stereotypes, determinants and changing
perspectives
Clarke, L.

Keywords
change, colonialism, emigration, famine, identity, mental illness,

Abstract
The causes of psychological illness in Irish people have been identified
with colonial rule and the catastrophic conditions deriving from famine
in the nineteenth century. In particular, the scourge of unremitting
emigration, resulting from famine, has formed a background against which
speculative theories of inferiority, alienation and mental illness have
been constructed. In particular, the long standing idea that Irish
people exhibit higher rates of schizophrenia, both in Ireland and
abroad, is discussed. Contemporary studies which suggest that these
elevated rates do not correspond to international diagnostic criteria
for schizophrenia are introduced. Rather, these enhanced rates may
reflect a malaise which resembles schizophrenia but which is really a
product of historical dispossession. The importance of these factors is
underscored by the previous neglect of Irish people, considered as an
ethnic minority, as well as the particular distaste which many Irish
people display towards such a notion.


4.
Whilst I am intrigued by the notion of 'a malaise which resembles
schizophrenia' I have to report that there is nothing substantial in the
first article to support the suggestion. I have not, as yet, been able
to extract an abstract or full text of the second article.

P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan

The following web page gives details and information about the
forthcoming IASIL Conference at Bath Spa University College. Please
pass this on to those of your colleagues who may be interested.
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/hum/conborder.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

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:

Dr Neil Sammells
Faculty of Humanities
Bath Spa University College
Newton Park
Bath BA2 9BN Fax:
Tel:
Email: 01225 875503
01225 875662
n.sammells[at]bathspa.ac.uk

Forwarded on behalf of Leon Litvak
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland

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Dear friends,

Details of upcoming Society events are now on the web:

1. "Ireland Abroad": An International and Multidisciplinary
Conference (14-16 April 2000, in Aberdeen)
at
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/abroad.htm

2. SSNCI Symposium: "Nineteenth-Century Studies in the
Twenty-First Century" (23-24 June 2000, in Maynooth)
at
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/symposium.htm

All are invited to attend.

----------------------
Leon Litvack
Senior Lecturer
School of English
Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

L.Litvack[at]qub.ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/prometheus.html

Tel. +44-(0)2890-273266
Fax +44-(0)2890-314615

From: Michael de Nie
Subject: BLPES Pamphlet Collection

Ir-D List members may be interested in the following, which includes a number of
items on Ireland. For instance, the Issues in British History section
includes a guide to pamphlets held at the BLPES on Home Rule.

Regards,
Michael de Nie



BLPES Pamphlet Collection [.pdf]
http://www.blpes.lse.ac.uk/services/guides/pamphlets/

In a welcome move to researchers and historians, the British Library of
Political and Economic Science (BLPES) has created an online guide to its
large pamphlet collection, containing some 90,000 pamphlets, many from the
19th and early 20th centuries. While covering a number of important public
and political issues in British history, the collection also contains a
fair amount of European and International materials, including a large
number of German-language pamphlets, as well as materials on Latin American
trade unions, the League of Nations, pacifism, the two World Wars, and
conflict in the Middle East. Users can browse the guide by fifteen topics
(e.g., Issues in British history, political parties, social policy, poor
laws, transport, etc.) or search the online catalog by subject keyword,
author, title, or issuing body. The guide lists pamphlet author, title, and
classmark, while the online catalog also includes publisher, pages,
location, and other notes. As an added bonus, the majority of pamphlets
listed in the social policy and transport guides have been digitized and
are available in .pdf format. [MD]

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1999.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

Forwarded on behalf of

Ian McShane
National Museum of Australia
mcshan[at]atrax.net.au

Exhibition: The peopling of Australia since 1788.

>Dear IR-D list members
>
>I am looking for suggestions of a nineteenth-century Irish migrant to
>feature in an exhibition about the peopling of Australia since 1788.
>The exhibition will be part of the opening displays of the National
>Museum of Australia, due to open in Canberra, March 2001.
>
>The exhibition will present an overview of the subject traditionally
>known as migration and settlement, but seeks to move beyond the
>generally restricted treatments of migration history in museums by
>looking at debates around population and identity, and the
>characteristic role of government in migration and population matters
>in Australia.
>
>A section titled Coming to Work reviews the strong connections in
>Australian history between migration and work. The search for
>opportunity and betterment is a characteristic motivation of migrants.
>Australian migration policy has focussed on labour force requirements
>and the recruitment of workers as permanent settlers. These two
>thoughts underpin the section.
>
>The exhibition design provides space for eight case studies - the
>exhibition team consider that biographies will be the best way of
>presenting the theme. Without being too driven by a desire to be
>representative of period or nationality (an impossible demand to meet
>anyway) I would like the segment to span 200 years and cover major
>migrant groups and influences (eg Gold Rush, recruitment of refugees
>after World War 2). The physical design of the case studies provides
>room to explore the broad context of each case study, so the
>selection will not suggest the individual featured is a quintessential
>migrant from a particular national group or period.
>
>In this light, we are seeking information on an Irish migrant/s who
>arrived in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century. In
>addition to information on biography and working life, the most
>important selection criterion is the availability of visual material -
>portraits, photographs, tools of work, other personal possessions that
>illuminate the story.
>
>We have identified a number of Irish members of religious orders who
>may be suitable, and are at this stage looking for people who worked
>in other occupations.
>
>Any and all suggestions on biographies are gratefully received, as
>well as suggestions on the broader theming of the Coming to Work
>segment.
>
>I am happy to provide further information on the segment or the
>exhibition or the Coming to Work segment if you contact me on or off
>list.
>
>
>Ian McShane
>National Museum of Australia
>
>mcshan[at]atrax.net.au
>

Oliver Marshall is back in Oxford, England - after travels in South and North
America.

He sends us this report on Irish Studies in Brazil...


FROM Oliver Marshall...

One of the first things that I did in Brazil was to meet Peter O'Neill, the
energetic promoter of pretty-well all things Irish in Rio. Perhaps
surprisingly given the Brazilian context, he finds a great deal to do.
He's now working on the second issue of his annual Brazil-Ireland Links
publication which is sure to be as great a success as the first issue
genuinely was. Those of us who have promised a contribution should get
moving ......

In Sao Paulo I met with Laura Izarra and Munira Mutran of the Brazilian
Association of Irish Studies. Munira is very much the pioneer of Irish
Studies in Brazil and she now runs a highly successful post-graduate
programme with Laura at the Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP). I can't
recall how many Masters (in Brazil a Master's dissertation is far more
significant a piece of work than in Britain, Ireland or North America) and
Doctoral candidates they have between them but they are certainly kept
busy. At USP, Irish Studies means, in effect, literary studies, and Laura
is especially keen to develop more clear diaspora content to their work and
this certainly makes sense within the context of the immigrant-based
society that is Sao Paulo. Just looking at the corridors of USP's
Humanities Faculty, evidence of other diasporas is clearly apparent (a
Centre for Japanese Studies, a Centre for Arab Studies, a Centre for Jewish
Studies) and comparative work would seem one way forward for Irish
diaspora studies in a place, such as Brazil, with an insignificant Irish
element. By the way, to anyone out there wishing to support the promotion
of Irish Studies in Brazil, how about sending Laura and Munira books for
the small Irish Studies library that is slowly being created to support
post-graduate teaching at USP?

On the topic of books, on the same evening that I left Brazil "Finnicius
Revem" was launched at, appropriately, Finnegan's Pub in Sao Paulo. The
translation of Finnegans Wake into any language is a remarkable
achievement, but what I found particularly interesting was how this
Brazilian literary event was being handled: the publisher (Atelie
Editorial/Casa de Cultura Guimarães Rosa) is launching the work
chapter-by-chapter. So, every three months one chapter is appearing, with
the text produced in both Portuguese and English. I don't know the exact
reasoning for publishing in this way, but it does allow for plenty of
launch parties: with 17 chapters, it will take over four years for the
entire book to appear. Apparently, Donaldo Schüler, the book's Porto
Alegre-based translator, has been interested in Finnegans Wake for some 40
years - and so four years is nothing for the Brazilian public to have wait
for the arrival of the complete Portuguese text. The cost? 595 reais, or
about US$330. (The monthly minimum wage in Brazil, by the way, is about
US$80).

All the best,

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford

From Patrick O'Sullivan


Ian,

I would think that the obvious place to start would be in the works of
David Fitzpatrick - notably Oceans of Consolation, Cork UP, 1994. There
are reviews on our web site
Irish-Diaspora list

Using all the techniques of historical geographer, and the family
historian, he is able to go into astonishing detail of the lives of the
Irish migrants to Australia whose letters he has collected. He also
finds some family photographs.

David can be found at Trinity College, Dublin. He is very approachable
and helpful - he has sent me photocopies of letter from his collection,
for a project of my own. But he is not a great emailer - a search of
the Trinity College Web site might reveal a contact point. Or might
not.

In this book and in articles David has used illustrations, some of which
are in Australia - eg Thomas Selby Cousins, The Bushman's Dream, 1869,
and George Baxter, News from Australia, 1854? (Another Emigrant's Letter
image) - both in the National Library of Australia.

P.O'S.

In message , irish-
diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk writes
>
>
>
>Forwarded on behalf of
>
>Ian McShane
>National Museum of Australia
>mcshan[at]atrax.net.au
>
>Exhibition: The peopling of Australia since 1788.
>
>>Dear IR-D list members
>>
>>I am looking for suggestions of a nineteenth-century Irish migrant to
>>feature in an exhibition about the peopling of Australia since 1788.
>>The exhibition will be part of the opening displays of the National
>>Museum of Australia, due to open in Canberra, March 2001.
>>

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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England

From: Kerby Miller
Re Australia

Just following up on Paddy's suggestion, which would have been my own.
Although David Fitzpatrick is very approachable, as Paddy says, for unknown
reasons he does NOT have or use email. You can either write or phone him,
or, if very pressed for time, reach him by email through Prof. Bill Vaughan
at Trinity, asking Bill to pass along your message to David. Bill's email
address is: wvaughan[at]tcd.ie
Kerby Miller.


>From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
>Ian,
>
>I would think that the obvious place to start would be in the works of
>David Fitzpatrick - notably Oceans of Consolation, Cork UP, 1994. There
>are reviews on our web site
>Irish-Diaspora list
>
>Using all the techniques of historical geographer, and the family
>historian, he is able to go into astonishing detail of the lives of the
>Irish migrants to Australia whose letters he has collected. He also
>finds some family photographs.
>
>David can be found at Trinity College, Dublin. He is very approachable
>and helpful - he has sent me photocopies of letter from his collection,
>for a project of my own. But he is not a great emailer - a search of
>the Trinity College Web site might reveal a contact point. Or might
>not.
>
>In this book and in articles David has used illustrations, some of which
>are in Australia - eg Thomas Selby Cousins, The Bushman's Dream, 1869,
>and George Baxter, News from Australia, 1854? (Another Emigrant's Letter
>image) - both in the National Library of Australia.
>
>P.O'S.
>
>In message , irish-
>diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk writes
>>
>>
>>
>>Forwarded on behalf of
>>
>>Ian McShane
>>National Museum of Australia
>>mcshan[at]atrax.net.au
>>
>>Exhibition: The peopling of Australia since 1788.
>>
>>>Dear IR-D list members
>>>
>>>I am looking for suggestions of a nineteenth-century Irish migrant to
>>>feature in an exhibition about the peopling of Australia since 1788.
>>>The exhibition will be part of the opening displays of the National
>>>Museum of Australia, due to open in Canberra, March 2001.
>>>

From Patrick O'Sullivan

A Further Report...

1.
We take delivery soon of the new computer that will handle Irish
Diaspora Research Unit work, including the management of the Irish-
Diaspora list and our web site.

We have chosen a computer whose name reminds me of one of my favourite
Irish market towns.

Q. Paddy, are you thinking of Kilpentium?
A. That's right - Athlone.

2.
Meanwhile the re-design of the Web site continues apace, and is nearly
finished. We will then start putting up new stuff. Including the
amazing Bibliography of Military History.

Thanks to everyone who commented on the new design, and helped test it.

3.
We will also re-start work on DIDI - the Database of Irish Diaspora
Interests. Or maybe Directory...

Just to remind people... Some scholarly lists like new members to post
a message to the list about their interests. Lists vary in their
attitudes to this practice. The practice of the Irish-Diaspora list is
that new members do NOT post such messages introducing themselves to the
Irish-Diaspora list.

I think that this is because of the way the Irish-Diaspora list began
and grew, from a core of members who knew each other's interests and
work. Also - to be blunt - it is my experience that the person who
posts the most fulsome declaration to a list leaves in disgust two weeks
later.

The Irish-Diaspora list does, however, run DIDI, the Database of Irish-
Diaspora Interests. DIDI will be accessible through the Irish Diaspora
Studies web site - and accessible to Irish-Diaspora list members ONLY.
When - and if - you want to, you can add your own entry to that
database.

It was while working on the first group of DIDI entries that decided we
had to rethink our HTML strategy. Because it was so time-consuming. We
did not fancy doing it one hundred or more times.

But... What an interesting bunch of people we are.

When we have the basic structure of DIDI in place I will announce it
here. And then we will be able to welcome more entries.

P.O'S.
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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
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From: harrisrd

Subject: RE: Ir-D Vector Map of Ireland?

Hello Tom,
I have a set of boundary maps [down to the parish level] which were made
to work through Atlas Graphics. I haven't accessed them for a while. I paid
to have them made while living in Indonesia some years ago. I would be happy
to discuss letting you use them.

Ruth-Ann Harris

From Patrick O'Sullivan


The Diaspora Studies Conference at Hamburg, Germany
February 10 to 13, 2000
now has a helpful Web site at...

http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/diaspora/

THIS OUTLINE IS TAKEN FROM THE WEB SITE...

EXTRACT BEGINS...
Since 1996, a group of researchers at the Institute of Social
Anthropology (Institut für Ethnologie) at the University of Hamburg has
been conducting a series of comparative field studies and seminars on
questions of diaspora, de-territorialization and transnational
communities. In order to sum up our research and to exchange ideas and
results with leading scholars on an interdisciplinary and international
level, this conference will present theoretical contributions as well as
selected case studies.

A variety of issues, which can be summarized by the two foci: locality
and religion, both being important elements of transnational identities,
will be addressed:

Types and variation of "old" and "new" diasporas and other forms of
transnational cultures;
processes of the construction and maintenance of identities;
history, transnationalism and the state.
EXTRACT ENDS...

Irish Diaspora Studies will be represented by...
Changing Identities in the Irish Diaspora Prof. Dr. Piaras Mac Einri,
Cork:
Diaspora- a Useful Concept for Interrogating Irish Identity and
Belonging Dr. Breda Gray, Cork:
The Invention of History in the Irish American Diaspora: Myths of the
Great Famine Astrid Wonneberger, M.A., Hamburg:

P.O'S.

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Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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From Patrick O'Sullivan



Recently we were contacted by Lanie Barry, whose grandfather was the Barry of
'Shamrocks and Sagebrush'. The grandchild is now studying the grandfather,
for an MA - and all that was needed was a little encouragement.

But this did prompt me to see what had been written about the Irish in Oregon.
(Oregon? Look at a map of the USA. Top left. Just below Washington State.
Washington State, not to be confused with Washington DC.)

Here is what I found... Barry, of course...

B. Barry, From Shamrocks to Sagebrush, Examiner Publishing
Company, Lakeview, Oregon, 1969.

M. Kazen, Irish Families in Portland, Oregon, 1850-1880, 1975. The
Oregon Historical Society has a copy in its rare books collection, in
Portland.

M. Kelleher, Emigration from Dunhallow to Lake County Oregon, 1880-1950,
National University of Ireland, Cork, MA Thesis, 1983.

J.F. Kilkenny, 'Shamrocks and Shepherds: The Irish of Morrow County',
Oregon History Quarterly, 69: 101-147, 1968.

And that's all I can find.

Now, who is that M. Kelleher, in 1983, studying the Irish in Oregon?

P.O'S.
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From Patrick O'Sullivan



I am very anxious to get hold of, quickly, an article from Emania - and
it looks as if the formal university systems are unlikely to deliver it
until well into the next millennium...

The article is... Richard Warner, 'Tuathal Techtmar: a myth or ancient
literary evidence for a Roman invasion?', Emania: Bulletin of the Navan
Research Group, 1995, 13, 23-32.

Can anyone help?

Paddy O'Sullivan


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Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
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From: "Marion R. Casey"

Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish in Oregon




Dear Paddy,

According to Patrick Blessing's bibliography, there is also:

D.M. Feller, Get a Job: Occupational Structure and Social Mobility in
Portland, Oregon, 1860-1880 (n.d., n.p., on microfilm at Oregon Historical
Society; "includes a section on Irish")

The Irish in Jordan Valley, Malheru County, Oregon (pamphlet, Oregon
Historical Society)

W.G. Robbins, The Far Western Frontier: Economic Opportunity and Social
Democracy in Early Roseburg, Oregon (Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon,
1969)

W.G. Robbins, "Opportunity and Persistence in the Pacific Northwest: A
Quantitative Study of Early Roseburg," Pacific Historical Review 39 (1970)

W.G. Robbins, "Social and Economic Change in Roseburg, Oregon, 1850-1880,"
Pacific Northwest Quarterly (April 1973): 80-87


Now, under "Oregon" Patrick Blessing has a most intriguing entry. If correct,
then the Oregon Historical Society in Portland has 25 feet of records for
the "Great Britain Board of Trade, 1791-92" that contains "reports,
proposals, inquiries, and other documents relating to Irish immigration to
the U.S."

Has anyone ever looked at this material? 25 feet of anything from late
18th century America is always worth investigating.


Marion Casey
Department of History
New York University

From: "Marion R. Casey"

Subject: Re: Ir-D Irish in Oregon




Dear Paddy,

According to Patrick Blessing's bibliography, there is also:

D.M. Feller, Get a Job: Occupational Structure and Social Mobility in
Portland, Oregon, 1860-1880 (n.d., n.p., on microfilm at Oregon Historical
Society; "includes a section on Irish")

The Irish in Jordan Valley, Malheru County, Oregon (pamphlet, Oregon
Historical Society)

W.G. Robbins, The Far Western Frontier: Economic Opportunity and Social
Democracy in Early Roseburg, Oregon (Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon,
1969)

W.G. Robbins, "Opportunity and Persistence in the Pacific Northwest: A
Quantitative Study of Early Roseburg," Pacific Historical Review 39 (1970)

W.G. Robbins, "Social and Economic Change in Roseburg, Oregon, 1850-1880,"
Pacific Northwest Quarterly (April 1973): 80-87


Now, under "Oregon" Patrick Blessing has a most intriguing entry. If correct,
then the Oregon Historical Society in Portland has 25 feet of records for
the "Great Britain Board of Trade, 1791-92" that contains "reports,
proposals, inquiries, and other documents relating to Irish immigration to
the U.S."

Has anyone ever looked at this material? 25 feet of anything from late
18th century America is always worth investigating.


Marion Casey
Department of History
New York University