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15 June 2007 14:52  
  
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:52:15 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Map of Irish Diaspora?
  
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Piaras,

Just for completeness...

Author - personal EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley.
Title An atlas of Irish history ... Maps drawn by W. H. Bromage.
Publisher/year London: Methuen, [1973].

My own copy is... Edwards, R. D., An atlas of Irish history; Methuen:
London, 1981.

Has maps and a section on The Irish Abroad...

Which make you think, This could be done better... The book is very much of
its time.

I have not seen the latest edition...
Ruth Dudley Edwards. An Atlas of Irish History. London and New York:
Routledge, 2005. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, select
bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-27859-1.

Reviewed by: Mimi Cowan, Department of History, Boston College.
Published by: H-Albion (August, 2006)
Review at...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29201160600141

I am not clear what Ruth has done to improve things...

I did some work a while back, talking to geographers and cartographers,
about ways in which things might be done better - in recent years
cartography has become much more creative and imaginative...

And, of course, by now an interactive web page or cd would be the obvious
way forward...

Patrick O'Sullivan



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Dear all

A colleague here, Willie Smyth, who is Chair of Geography, has asked me if I
know of any comprehensive world map of the Irish Diaspora (any period,
contemporary or historical). I know this begs a lot of questions especially
regarding definitions and data problems. Maybe my memory is failing me but I
cannot offhand recall such a map - has anyone any ideas?

Piaras Mac Einri
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15 June 2007 16:53  
  
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:53:11 -0400 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Map of the Irish Diaspora
  
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There is a map of the distribution of the Irish in America (1st and 2nd generation only) in 1890 on pages 690-691 of J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey, Making the Irish American (New York University Press, 2006). It's based on the Report of the Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census (published in 1895).

There are maps specifically for the Irish in New York City (1st generation only) in 1890, 1920 and 1970 on pages 571-573 in Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher, The New York Irish (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). This book also includes five impressionistic maps (one for each borough of the City) that chart folk memories of parishes and neighborhoods that were Irish in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Having been involved in the making of all these maps, I can tell you that it is labor-intensive and fraught with challenges because (at least in the USA) census categories are always changing, making it difficult to compare years or places over time. Joe and I presented our 1890 map and other tables with the caveat that, "as a measure of the number of Irish Americans and the meaning of Irish America, the U.S. census -- as rich a resource as it is for the study of American history -- raises far more questions than it can immediately answer, challenging all of us to handle the results carefully."

A reliable map of the worldwide Irish diaspora would be a tremendous asset, especially if it included the raw data used to make it. So, we're talking about a big, fat atlas or book: who's ready to take this on? We would all be in his or her debt.

Marion

Marion R. Casey
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
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16 June 2007 09:07  
  
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:07:53 +1000 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Map of Irish Diaspora
  
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I agree with Marion that we really need a big fat atlas of the Irish Diaspora. I
have a number of books about the Irish in different places with small maps of
varying degrees of usefulness. But the more comprehensible books about the Diaspora,
like Akenson's or Bielenberg's or Paddy's series, don't include maps. An atlas, with
chapters accompanying maps, might actually help to promote comparative study; and it
certainly would be useful for teaching purposes.

For anyone interested in Australia, the following book - although it has
shortcomings - does have a number of detailed line maps showing the distribution of
the Irish in the main populated areas of Australia and where those immigrants came
from in Ireland:

A.L. Greiner and T.G. Jordan-Bychkov, 'Anglo-Celtic Australia: Colonial Immigration
and Cultural Regionalism', Santa Fe, NM: Center for American Places, 2002, pp 73-98.

Elizabeth

__________________________________________________
Professor Elizabeth Malcolm ~ Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies ~ School of
Historical Studies ~ University of Melbourne ~ Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA ~ Phone:
+61-3-83443924 ~ FAX: +61-3-83447894 ~ Email: e.malcolm[at]unimelb.edu.au
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17 June 2007 20:44  
  
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:44:36 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
TOC IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES VOL 26; NUMBER 2; 2007
  
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IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
VOL 26; NUMBER 2; 2007
ISSN 0332-3315

pp. 177-194
Student teachers' prior experiences of history, geography and science:
initial findings of an all-Ireland survey.
Waldron, F.; Pike, S.; Varley, J.; Murphy, C.; Greenwood, R.

pp. 195-210
Student discourse on physical activity and sport among Irish young people.
Collier, C.; MacPhail, A.; O'Sullivan, M.

pp. 211-213
BOOK REVIEW.

pp. 123-125
Editorial.
Sugrue, C.; Devine, D.; Conway, P.; Smyth, E.

pp. 127-143
The Revised Programme of Instruction, 1900-1922.
Walsh, T.

pp. 145-162
Teacher professional development and ICT: an investigation of teachers
studying a postgraduate award in ICT in education.
McGarr, O.; O'Brien, J.

pp. 163-176
Teacher Design Teams (TDTs) - building capacity for innovation, learning and
curriculum implementation in the continuing professional development of
in-career teachers.
Simmie, G. M.
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19 June 2007 10:09  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:09:50 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Book Review, Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson,
  
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Global Migration and the World Economy
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Published by EH.NET (June 2007) Cross posted from EH.Net

Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Global Migration and the
World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2006. xi + 471 pp. $50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-262-08342-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Drew Keeling, Department of History,
University of Zurich.

For decades, scholars of modern cross-border migration and its
history have noted the desirability of broad comparative
perspectives, as frameworks for more numerous studies of particular
locales and ethnicities. In recent years, economists have led
development of a "big picture" approach to the history of
international migration, and Jeffrey Williamson and Timothy Hatton
have been at the forefront of those economists.

Global Migration and the World Economy, the latest and most
exhaustive joint study of this duo, builds on their prior work
together and independently, but also breaks important new ground. For
instance, most of this new book is not duplicated either in their Age
of Mass Migration (1998) or in Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke's
collaboration, Globalization and History (1999).

The book is divided into four sections by time period: the nineteenth
century rise of global migration, the early twentieth century fall,
the late twentieth century "rise again," and a final section
examining contemporary migration trends and future alternatives. Ten
of eighteen chapters concern the period since 1914, and among the
book's strengths are its many insightful comparisons between the post
World War II period and the "first global century" that ended with
World War I.

Using an impressive combination of original theory, statistics, and
logic, and incorporating a broad array of findings from other
scholars, the authors dissect the economic fundamentals underlying
international mass migration. They deploy their multi-pronged
analysis across the vicissitudes of the modern migratory age: through
shifts in origin countries, the transformation from industry to
services in destination country economies, the growing importance of
asylum-seeking and illegal migration, and the emergence of policy
regimes that have become more restrictive, more sophisticated, and
more difficult to effectively administer. A solid historical
perspective informs a thorough examination of contemporary issues:
from the importance and limitations of immigration regulations in
shaping the magnitudes and character of migration, to democratic
disconnections between public opinion and public policies on
migration, to the complex offsets and feedbacks between education and
mobility, skilled and unskilled labor, and the "brain drain" and
remittances. Global Migration and the World Economy is chock full of
precise and salient questions, and takes at least a stab at most of
them, although it is often a challenge for the reader to keep track
of which among a shifting multitude of open issues is being
addressed, or where it has already been addressed.

A tour de force summation of economic history literature on migration
will make this an excellent reference source for future researchers.
The coverage is particularly thorough on recent publications, through
about 2004, which lends this volume an impressive "cutting edge"
character, but also makes its conclusions tentative in a number of
places. This suggests the possibility of an eventual second edition,
which would also provide an opportunity to correct ambiguities in a
few of the otherwise generally helpful "supply and demand" graphs or
"box diagrams" and to redress overstatements such as "the labor
market effect of immigration has always been the key focus in debate
over immigration policy." That remark, on page 289, is difficult to
reconcile with the finding, on page 359, that "prejudice against
those of a different race and culture is the most important influence
on attitudes towards immigrants."

The topical coverage is very wide, although less so than the title
might suggest. Migration's overlaps with international trade are
treated more extensively, for instance, than its impacts on economic
growth or its interactions with demographic and environmental
factors. A more functionally descriptive title might be "the economic
causes and consequences of global migration since 1815," and in that
important category this significant book has few peers, if any.

While an impressive work overall, some parts of Global Migration are
problematic. The authors appropriately stress the importance of labor
markets, which have been underappreciated in most of the migration
historiography, but apply an incomplete corrective. They say little
about labor demand, stressing labor supply instead, and attributing
even more significance to factors exogenous to labor markets (such as
travel costs, famines, wars, and government policies). At the core of
their historical explanation for "what drove migration" is a model in
which potential migrants in poorer countries are stuck in a "poverty
trap" until they can find a way to "escape" it, with the help of
higher wages, government subsidies, foreign remittances or lower
ticket prices. Undoubtedly, relocation costs have always been a
consideration in long-distance cross-border migration decisions, and
were, in general, a more serious constraint the further back in time
one looks, but the Hatton and Williamson model imputes to them a
centrality beyond that established by their data. Rising wages across
the nineteenth-century Atlantic basin lowered the real costs of
travel, new travel technologies reduced travel times, the sources of
Europe's overseas emigrants shifted southward and eastward to regions
more remote from New World destinations, and there was a long term
secular shift towards lower average labor market "skills" amongst
transatlantic migrants. All of this is consistent with a declining
cost barrier to migration. But how big a role did that barrier play
to begin with, at the outset of the "first global century," e. g.
circa 1830? The truth is, no one seems to really know for sure yet,
including Hatton and Williamson. There is no model here explicitly
assessing the relative importance of factors, including travel
affordability, which distinguished stayers from leavers, there is no
clear distinction between wanting to migrate and being able to
migrate, and the cost data presented are quite incomplete.

The authors' claim that "during the great transition from trickle to
flood, it was the decline in steerage rates and in the time in
passage that mattered most," but there are at least two problems with
this theory as they present it. Firstly, most nineteenth century
overseas migrants left from Europe, most of those European emigrants
moved to the United States, and the all-time peak in U.S. immigration
relative to population was in the early 1850s, a time when very few
migrants yet reached America on the steamships which cut oceanic
travel times by two thirds or more. Steamships did not take more
steerage passengers to the U.S. than sailing ships until 1865.
Secondly, the supporting passage cost data presented in Global
Migration do not include most available sources of such figures, such
as the fares compiled by Kristian Hvidt (1971) or Arnold Kludas
(1986) showing an increase in North Atlantic transit fares after 1900
that coincides with an even sharper rise to the second highest all-
time peak in the U.S. immigration rate.

Hatton and Williamson deal authoritatively with the expected net
benefits of migration, but have little to say about how the variance
and uncertainties of such net benefits also have been important to
voluntary international migrants. Uncertainties and fears - of mass
amnesty, or of millions forced to live outside the law - have played
a role in recent U.S. immigration policy debates. Long-distance
transnational migration itself has long and rightly been regarded as
a great gamble. Smuggled migrants crossing Arizona's deserts or the
waters between Africa and Europe clearly confront substantial risks.
Risk considerations have been convincingly suggested as contributing
factors to past mass migration trends, such as the record high rate
of Irish emigration in the early 1850s, for example, or the strong
and persistent drop in German emigration after 1890. The causal role
of pitfalls and anxieties, about leaving or staying or both, receive
little attention in this book, however.

The discussion on pre-World War I economic "convergence" between
immigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving countries is not entirely
clear-cut. Williamson's path-breaking international real wage
comparison data set, gathered in the early 1990s and focused on
1870-1913, apparently still lacks coverage of two immigrant source
countries which were major contributors to the massive migration
"peak" of 1900-1913, Russia and Austria-Hungary. Many of the
convergence examples actually cited, moreover, are comparisons within
Europe rather than between Europe and the New World. This important
distinction is often blurred.

The authors nonetheless do make a persuasive case (for the nineteenth
century and today) that chain migration, demographic transitions,
travel costs relative to source incomes, and government policies are
more significant than wage gaps in "driving" migration, but that
international labor market migration, if sufficiently massive, has
generally reduced global economic inequality between poor and rich
countries. This migration-induced convergence has tended to come at
the cost of rising inequality within richer destination countries,
however. Subject to some notable distinctions and qualifications, the
authors also reach similar conclusions regarding "south-to-south"
migration, e.g. movement between less-developed countries.

The chapter on the early twentieth century "backlash" against
immigration suffers from a conflation of attitudes and intentions (on
the one hand) with effective policies (on the other). Based on a
model quantifying "policy stance" rather than "policy impact," Global
Migration plausibly indicates that "labor market fundamentals," e.g.
the negative effect of immigration on wages of the native-born were,
after all, more important than xenophobia or racism in producing a
gradual shift in favor of restricting European migration to the New
World by the early twentieth century. Contrary to the assertions in
this chapter, however, (although not the immediately following
chapter on the impacts of the" backlash") the decade 1915-24 saw
dramatic changes in the policies actually adopted in the U.S., the
destination of most transatlantic migrants in the century before
World War I.

On the eve of that war, gradually increasing exclusion of limited
categories of arriving Europeans had raised the debarment rate at
U.S. entry ports to a still near negligible 2%. During the war, in
contrast, U.S. immigration dropped by over 75%. The 1920s quota laws
which soon followed were explicitly and successfully designed to
eliminate most of the influx from Southern and Eastern Europe which
had accounted for a large majority of the 15 million American
immigrants of 1894-1914. As the authors rightly observe, American
immigration quotas were largely redundant during the Great Depression
and World War II, but nonetheless did have major restrictive effects
in the 1920s and 1950s. The shifting constellations of political
party strategies and interest groups which enabled significant
fulfillment of growing popular sentiment against immigration to the
U.S. by the 1920s, but not before, was chronicled in John Higham's
Strangers in the Land half a century ago. It remains a useful study
still today, but is not mentioned in Global Migration. The
counterfactual question of whether - absent the world wars, the 1930s
depression, and the U.S. quotas - immigration from Europe might have
dwindled anyway after 1920, is one of many examples of provocative
and interesting issues raised by the book, but not resolved, due to
unavoidable space limitations.

Hatton and Williamson do not, however, duck complicated and
controversial concerns about labor migration negatively affecting
native employment and wage levels. In several different historical
contexts, they unravel the often indirect ways this occurs (such as
inflows of foreigners helping to stimulate regional relocations of
natives). Nonetheless, the authors also make a convincing case that
the net overall effect of cross-border migration has tended to be
economically beneficial: not just for migrants but also for the
countries they move out of and into.

The potential receptivity of contemporary policymakers and opinion-
shapers to these judicious conclusions is another matter. The
authors' stated desire to reach that set of audiences might have been
more effectively served had there been a bit more attention devoted
to how labor migrants import language, culture, ideas, and so forth,
along with their job skills. Migrants come for work, but then often
also become neighbors, taxpayers, users of public services, parents
of school children, citizens and voters, and these developments, in
turn, have economic impacts well beyond the fiscal impacts (which are
treated authoritatively here). The cogent final section, on
contemporary policy issues, has much to recommend it, but it is
questionable how much of the preceding 340 pages policy formulators
might read en route to it. Complex historical insights and practical
politics do not mix easily in any case, however.

A more avoidable shortcoming is the relative absence of questions
addressed by migration historians. This book is loaded with material
casting doubt upon non-economic historians' often implicit
assumptions that narrow slices of the migration picture suffice to
illuminate the whole. But, the argument for the big picture rather
than the narrow case study is never quite engaged.

Scholarship from outside of economic history but addressing migration
history broadly is also given little weight. One cannot expect a book
of this scope to cover all bases, but not mentioning Markus Hansen,
Philip Taylor or Daniel Tichenor, for example, somewhere in four
hundred pages suggests a lost opportunity. Dirk Hoerder's nine
hundred page Cultures in Contact, published in 2002, has several
references to Wallerstein, but none to Williamson, or Hatton. Global
Migration and the World Economy talks at some length about Heckscher,
but makes no mention of Hoerder. This divergence of History and
Economics is undoubtedly yielding gains from specialization, but also
implies unrealized potential gains from trade. A better appreciation
of the inherently interdisciplinary and historical nature of this
deeply personal and interpersonal, psychological, cultural, and even
biological phenomenon would enrich models and analyses built around
economic aggregates. A firmer and more nuanced understanding of
migration's economic fundamentals, and a greater awareness of their
central role, would enhance historians' investigations of
international human relocation.

Historians should read Global Migration and the World Economy,
because sooner or later, they are likely to be called upon to more
directly confront some of the crucial issues it raises. An
interconnected world of demographic challenges, resource limitations
and increasing climate disruptions, for example, is going to be a
world where cross-border mass migration will be about much more than
ethnic identities, culturally diffusing diasporas, or even elegantly
contingent narratives. Even if - as Hatton and Williamson
realistically conclude - the historical record offers no "easy
solutions to the world migration problems" of the near future, it
seems a reasonably safe bet that coming global migration challenges,
whatever else they do, will also stoke desires for geographically
broad historical insights.

Notwithstanding its unevenness, and sometimes overstated conclusions,
the sweep and incisive power of this book make it likely to remain a
point of reference for years to come. It will probably receive more
attention within the fields of economics and economic history than
outside of them, but the long run prospects for interdisciplinary
"convergence" on the causes and effects of global migration are
improved by this ambitious and far-reaching scholarly contribution.



Drew Keeling received his Ph.D. in History from the University of
California, Berkeley in 2005, and is now an instructor in the History
Department at the University of Zurich. His dissertation, "The
Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the USA,
1900-1914" was awarded the 2005 Gerschenkron Prize of the Economic
History Association. Two related publications are forthcoming later
this year: "Costs, Risks, and Migration Networks between Europe and
the United States, 1900-1914," in Research in Maritime History, and
"Transport Capacity Management and Transatlantic Migration,
1900-1914," in Research in Economic History.

Geographic area: General, International, or Comparative (0)
Time period: 19th Century (7), 20th Century: Pre WWII (8), 20th
Century: WWII and post-WWII (9)
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration (J),
International and Domestic Trade and Relations (S), Labor and
Employment History (T), Living Standards, Anthropometric History,
Economic Anthropology (U)


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19 June 2007 10:10  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:10:41 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Christy Moore on Desert Island Discs
  
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Worth listening to is Christy Moore, interviewed by Kirsty Young on that
very English radio programme, Desert Island Discs.

From the web page, below, you can get to the BBC's Listen Again web pages...

Christy Moore lays down his sentences like heavy baulks of wood...

P.O'S.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml

This Week's Guest:
Christy Moore

17 June 2007
Repeated
22 June 2007

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Irish musician Christy Moore.

His stature and influence in folk music is unparalleled - Bono, Elvis
Costello and Billy Bragg are among those who cite him as a key influence.

A passionate performer he's the archetypal Irish poet and protest singer; in
the late 1970s Special Branch raided the launch of his album H Block; his
songs have been banned by both London and Dublin courts and as recently as
2004 he was held by police and questioned about his lyrics and lifestyle.

Not all the struggles he's dealt with have been political. By his own
admission he wasted years maybe even decades boozing and bingeing on drugs.
Having cleaned up his act he was then forced to confront the devastating
legacy of his father's early death and how it affected him throughout his
life.


1. Ave Maria
Performer Felicity Lott
Composer Gounod
CD Title Songs by Charles Gounod
Track 4
Label HYPERION
Rec No: CDA668012

2. A Stitch in Time
Performer Christy Moore
Composer Mike Waterson
LIVE PERFORMANCE

3. Lonely Boy
Performer Paul Anka
Composer Paul Anka
CD Title Paul Anka: 30th Anniversary Collection
Track 7
Label RHINO
Rec No: R271489

4. Brennan On the Moor
Performer The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Composer Trad.
CD Title The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Track 1
Label TRADITION
Rec No: TCD 1022

5. Taimse Im' Chodladh
Performer Planxty
Composer Trad.
CD Title Planxty: Words and Music
Track 3
Label SHANACHIE
Rec No: 79035

6. Joe Hill
Performer Luke Kelly
Composer Robinson
CD Title The Dubliners: 20 Original Hits, Vol.2
Track Side 2 trk 5
Label CHYME
Rec No: CHLP 1014

7. The Joy of Living
Performer Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger
Composer Ewan McColl
CD Title MacColl: Black and White - the Definitive collection
Track 20
Label COOKING VINYL
Rec No: Cookcd 038

8. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Performer John Reilly
Composer Trad
CD Title The Bonny Green Tree
Track Side 2 Trk 2
Label TOPIC
Rec No: 12T 359

Record: Taimse Im' Chodladh
Book: Collection of Popular Songs of England & Scotland -Francis Child
Luxury: A set of Uillean Pipes
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:16:42 -0230 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Re: Map of Irish Diaspora?
  
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This isn't quite the same thing of course, but I once came across an atlas
of Irish Catholic missions abroad - c. 1950s I think. Very nicely
produced. Damn, I wish I'd bought it - never saw it again.

Peter Hart


On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Liam Greenslade wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I don't know what stage of development it's in now but the Migration Policy
> Institute set up an on-going project to map migrants globally. The details
> can be found at
> http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/wmm.cfm?CFID=15374660&CFTOKEN=62
> 021908
>
> Best
>
> Liam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: 15 June 2007 14:52
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Map of Irish Diaspora?
>
> Piaras,
>
> Just for completeness...
>
> Author - personal EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley.
> Title An atlas of Irish history ... Maps drawn by W. H. Bromage.
> Publisher/year London: Methuen, [1973].
>
> My own copy is... Edwards, R. D., An atlas of Irish history; Methuen:
> London, 1981.
>
> Has maps and a section on The Irish Abroad...
>
> Which make you think, This could be done better... The book is very much of
> its time.
>
> I have not seen the latest edition...
> Ruth Dudley Edwards. An Atlas of Irish History. London and New York:
> Routledge, 2005. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, select
> bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-27859-1.
>
> Reviewed by: Mimi Cowan, Department of History, Boston College.
> Published by: H-Albion (August, 2006)
> Review at...
>
> http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29201160600141
>
> I am not clear what Ruth has done to improve things...
>
> I did some work a while back, talking to geographers and cartographers,
> about ways in which things might be done better - in recent years
> cartography has become much more creative and imaginative...
>
> And, of course, by now an interactive web page or cd would be the obvious
> way forward...
>
> Patrick O'Sullivan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of MacEinri, Piaras
> Sent: 15 June 2007 10:47
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Map of Irish Diaspora?
>
> Dear all
>
> A colleague here, Willie Smyth, who is Chair of Geography, has asked me if I
> know of any comprehensive world map of the Irish Diaspora (any period,
> contemporary or historical). I know this begs a lot of questions especially
> regarding definitions and data problems. Maybe my memory is failing me but I
> cannot offhand recall such a map - has anyone any ideas?
>
> Piaras Mac Einri
>
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19 June 2007 15:30  
  
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Re: Map of Irish Diaspora?
  
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Hi all

I don't know what stage of development it's in now but the Migration Policy
Institute set up an on-going project to map migrants globally. The details
can be found at
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/wmm.cfm?CFID=15374660&CFTOKEN=62
021908

Best

Liam

-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: 15 June 2007 14:52
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Subject: [IR-D] Map of Irish Diaspora?

Piaras,

Just for completeness...

Author - personal EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley.
Title An atlas of Irish history ... Maps drawn by W. H. Bromage.
Publisher/year London: Methuen, [1973].

My own copy is... Edwards, R. D., An atlas of Irish history; Methuen:
London, 1981.

Has maps and a section on The Irish Abroad...

Which make you think, This could be done better... The book is very much of
its time.

I have not seen the latest edition...
Ruth Dudley Edwards. An Atlas of Irish History. London and New York:
Routledge, 2005. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, select
bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-27859-1.

Reviewed by: Mimi Cowan, Department of History, Boston College.
Published by: H-Albion (August, 2006)
Review at...

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29201160600141

I am not clear what Ruth has done to improve things...

I did some work a while back, talking to geographers and cartographers,
about ways in which things might be done better - in recent years
cartography has become much more creative and imaginative...

And, of course, by now an interactive web page or cd would be the obvious
way forward...

Patrick O'Sullivan



-----Original Message-----
From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of MacEinri, Piaras
Sent: 15 June 2007 10:47
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Subject: [IR-D] Map of Irish Diaspora?

Dear all

A colleague here, Willie Smyth, who is Chair of Geography, has asked me if I
know of any comprehensive world map of the Irish Diaspora (any period,
contemporary or historical). I know this begs a lot of questions especially
regarding definitions and data problems. Maybe my memory is failing me but I
cannot offhand recall such a map - has anyone any ideas?

Piaras Mac Einri
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19 June 2007 19:17  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:17:29 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
CFP four-volume encyclopedia on the history of immigration,
  
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migration and nativism in the United States
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four-volume encyclopedia on the history of immigration, migration and
nativism in the United States cfp

Essays needed for four-volume encyclopedia on the history of immigration,
migration and nativism in the United States
Location: United States
Call for Papers Date: 2007-07-15 (in 26 days)
Date Submitted: 2007-06-15
Announcement ID: 157088
Forwarded on behalf of
James S. Olson
Professor, Sam Houston State University
Email: immigrationbook[at]gmail.com

Essays are needed for "On the Move: The Encyclopedia of Immigration,
Migration, and Nativism in United States History," a four-volume, one
million word comprehensive encyclopedia to be published by Facts on File
beginning in 2009.


We are seeking essays that range from 200 to 1,000 words, and possibly more
upon review of initial submissions. The volumes will consist of more than
1,500 entries covering a broad range of topics emphasizing the themes of
demography, geographic mobility, and identity. Example entries include
blurbs on literary works or films with related themes such as "Born in East
L.A." and "Lone Star"; brief summaries of landmark legislation or Supreme
Court cases; profiles of important historical figures in this arena, such as
Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X or Black Hawk; and lengthier examinations of ethnic
peoples and their pasts in North America.

If you are interested, please e-mail us at: immigrationbook[at]gmail.com for
submission guidelines and a list of available topics.

We prefer that contributors hold a master's degree in history, sociology,
anthropology or a related field.

James S. Olson
Professor, Sam Houston State University
Email: immigrationbook[at]gmail.com
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19 June 2007 19:18  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:18:39 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
CFP: Postgraduate Symposium in Franco-Irish Studies, Tallaght
  
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CFP: Postgraduate Symposium in Franco-Irish Studies

Call for papers / Appel =E0 communications=20
=A0=20
1st International Postgraduate Symposium in Franco-Irish Studies=20
1=E8re Journ=E9e Internationale des Doctorants en Etudes =
Franco-Irlandaises=20
=A0=20
Encounters / La rencontre (5 & 6 October 07)=20
=A0
Conference organiser: Jean-Christophe Penet=20
Co-organisers: Peter D. Guy, Sarah Nolan, Raymond Mullen=20
=A0=20
=A0=20
The theme of =91encounters=92 seems most appropriate to launch this =
first
international postgraduate symposium organised by the National Centre =
for
Franco-Irish Studies, Tallaght. It is our hope that the gathering will =
allow
for fruitful exchanges between postgraduates from different backgrounds =
and
cultures, but also for a stimulating exchange of ideas. The encounters =
of
French and Irish authors or historical/social events the conference will =
aim
to bring about may, of course, range from chance encounters or carefully
planned ones to encounters that are synonymous with unpleasant
confrontations from which new ideas can spring forth. We are confident =
they
will pave the way for a true eclecticism that will endow us with a fresh
vision of the authors and events under scrutiny.=20
=A0=20
Quelle th=E9matique, pour cette premi=E8re journ=E9e internationale des =
doctorants
organis=E9e par le Centre National d=92Etudes Franco-Irlandaise de =
Tallaght,
plus appropri=E9e que celle de la rencontre=A0? C=92est =E0 une =
rencontre heureuse
entre doctorants de divers horizons, =E0 un =E9change des plus =
stimulants entre
jeunes chercheurs =E0 la culture et =E0 la formation diff=E9rente mais =
dont les
diff=E9rences peuvent s=92av=E9rer =EAtre une richesse pour la recherche
lorsqu=92elles deviennent =E9change, =E0 laquelle nous souhaitons que ce =
colloque
donne le jour. Aussi esp=E9rons-nous que la rencontre d=92auteurs et de =
faits de
civilisation fran=E7ais et irlandais provoqu=E9e par ce colloque(qui =
peut se
d=E9cliner sous la forme de la rencontre de l=92analyse d=92un auteur ou =
d=92un fait
de civilisation irlandais/fran=E7ais =E0 travers un prisme =
fran=E7ais/irlandais) =96
que cette rencontre se fasse sous le signe d=92un rapprochement, d=92une =
mise en
contact fruit du hasard ou, au contraire, concert=E9e et voulue, ou =
encore, de
fa=E7on plus primordiale, qu=92elle ait lieu =E0 la mani=E8re d=92un =
affrontement,
d=92un combat lib=E9rateur d=92id=E9es =96 ouvrira la voix =E0 un =
=E9clectisme digne de ce
nom, =E0 m=EAme de nous donner un nouveau regard sur les auteurs et les
=E9v=E9nements =E9tudi=E9s.=20
=A0=20
Keynote speakers / Conf=E9renciers:=20
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Dr. E. Maher (ITT, Dublin)=20
-=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Prof. C. Maignant (Universit=E9 Lille 3)=20
=A0=20
Short proposals in English or French (c. 350 words) should be submitted =
to
Jean-Christophe Penet (jcpenet[at]itnet.ie) by 31 August 2007. The =
organisers
hope to publish a selection of the papers. Papers for the conference may =
be
in English or French, preferably in the speaker=92s native language.=20
=A0
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19 June 2007 19:19  
  
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:19:39 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
CFP: Secularism and Globalization in France and Ireland, Rennes
  
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A F I S=A0
The Association for Franco-Irish Studies=20
=A0=A0=20
Call for Papers=20
=A0=20
Secularism and Globalization in France and Ireland.=20
=A0=20
4th Conference of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies.=20
23-24 May, 2008 (University Rennes 2, Brittany, France)=20
=A0=20
Following the success of its three international conferences to date, =
the
Association of Franco-Irish Studies, in association with the Centre for
Irish Studies, University of Rennes 2, France, is soliciting papers for =
a
conference, which will run from 23-24 May 2008.=A0=20
The enlargement of the European Union and globalization have accompanied =
a
general process of secularisation of Europe. Today the separation of=A0 =
Church
and=A0 State is a common feature in the Western world, though some =
counter
examples such as the=A0 British Monarchy still exist. Such a trend has =
often
been described as an inevitable consequence of the spread of human =
rights,
seen as the rights of individuals protected by=A0 a State which has =
become
neutral in religious matters.=A0=20
=A0=20
George Rupp, in his Globalization Challenged (Columbia University Press,
2006), gives a concise definition of this trend which he describes as =
=93the
call of Western secular liberalism=94, according to which religious and =
other
ideological views may be tolerated as long as they remain private
convictions that do not shape public outcomes. Globalization often =
appears,
to quote Ian Burruma (The New York Review of Books, 11 April 2002), as
=93another word for =91US imperialism.=92=94=A0 In this regard, =
comparisons between
the French and the Irish experiences may prove fruitful. In spite of the
fact that the French and the American Revolutions were often seen as =
sisters
born out of the Enlightenment, they bore fundamental differences: the =
French
Revolution was secular, while the American one had a strong theological
background. Today the French are defensive about their perceived =
identity in
the face of Hollywood, Microsoft, MacDonalds and Sects, and the =
=93exception
culturelle=94 claim,=A0 in addition to Claude Hagege's well-voiced =
stance on
language, are evidence of=A0 a strong suspicion as to the real motives =
behind
globalization. Today the American-Irish connection is very strong, and a
long history of migration has played a major part in this process, but =
one
must not forget that for a long time Irish Catholicism considered =
American
culture as yet another Anglo-Protestant threat.=20
=A0=20
Now, at the beginning of the third Christian millennium, we are not only =
in
the globalization revolution, but also in the post-modern era.=20
What will be the responses of people in this new era to the deep
insecurities produced by globalization?=20
Is it possible in this context that they may become more theological and
religious rather than ideological and secular? What alternatives exist?=20
The aim of the Conference will be to examine and compare the French and =
the
Irish experiences of these phenomena, and assess what understanding =
and=A0
perspectives they may offer. The headings provided do not seek to be
prescriptive. Any other valid areas can also be examined.=20
Previous conferences have resulted in the publication of a selection of
essays and the proceedings from the Rennes meeting will therefore appear =
in
the third volume of Studies in Franco-Irish Relations series (Peter =
Lang).=20
Papers in French or English should be of 20 minutes duration and =
abstracts
of no more than 250 words must be submitted by the 4th of February 2008 =
to:=20
=A0=20
Dr. Eamon Maher,=20
Director,=20
National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies,=20
ITT Dublin,=20
Tallaght,=20
Dublin 24.=20
E-mail: eamon.maher[at]ittdublin.ie=20
Phone: + 353 (0)1 4042871.=20
Or=20
Dr. Yann B=E9vant,=20
Centre d=92Etudes Irlandaises=20
UFR Langues=20
Universit=E9 Rennes 2=20
35043 Rennes cedex=20
E-Mail=A0: yann.bevant[at]uhb.fr=20
Phone=A0: + 0033 (0)299=A0141=A0628=20
=A0=20
Keynote speakers include=A0:=20
Pr Peadar Kirby (Dublin City University)=20
Pr Catherine Maignant (Universit=E9 Lille 3)=20
=A0=20
Scientific Committee=A0:=20
CRBC members (CRBC is the umbrella CNRS research unit to which the CEI
belongs)=20
Pr Jean Brihault (Rennes 2)=20
Pr Gwendal Denis (Rennes 2)=20
Pr Francis Favereau (Rennes 2)=20
Pr Anne Goarzin (Rennes 2)=20
Pr Herve Le Bihan (Rennes 2)=20
=A0=20
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19 June 2007 19:23  
  
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Call for papers / Galwad am bapurau, S4C and the first 25 years,
  
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NOTE
'While the focus of this Conference is firmly on S4C as a Welsh language
broadcaster, its position as the first dedicated minority language =
channel
will be addressed through the comparative international context and =
papers
addressing this issue are also very welcome.'


=A0
Call for papers / Galwad am bapurau :

(Bilingual Message in Welsh and in English)

Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth / University of Wales Aberystwyth

2-3 Tachwedd / November 2007

Cynhadledd Ryngwladol i nodi chwarter canrif cyntaf darlledu gan S4C /

International Conference to mark the first 25 years of broadcasting by =
S4C
(Welsh language television)



*=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *
S4C: the first 25 years

2-3 November 2007

Call for Papers

The Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies in association =
with
the Wales Institute for Cultural and Communication Industries and the
Mercator Centre for Minority Languages is hosting a two day =
international
conference at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth to mark the =
25th
anniversary of the first broadcast by S4C, the Welsh language television
channel, on 1st November 1982.

The Conference seeks contributions from a wide range of participants -
academics researchers, professionals, practitioners and policy =
formulators -
and aims to analyse significant events and scrutinise major decisions =
taken
in the trajectory of S4C from the legendary broadcasting campaign right
through to the channel's vision of its future role and position in the
market-led, post-analogue, multi-platform world.

In addition to academic papers and presentations, keynote speeches and =
panel
discussion, the Conference will hold a number of unique witness sessions
during which key figures will be interviewed in depth on the subject of
their role in the creation / development of S4C.

While the focus of this Conference is firmly on S4C as a Welsh language
broadcaster, its position as the first dedicated minority language =
channel
will be addressed through the comparative international context and =
papers
addressing this issue are also very welcome.

Abstracts of approximately 500 words or suggestions for panel =
discussions
should be sent to mercator[at]aber.ac.uk to arrive no later than 30th June
2007. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 20th July 2007.

Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to:

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 The emergence of S4C as a cultural, economic and =
linguistic force in
Wales

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 The relationship between S4C and other broadcasters in =
Wales and the
UK

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C as pioneer of minority language broadcasting

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C as multi-platform content disseminator

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C and cultural vitality in Wales

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Commissioning and programming

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Content

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Audiences, citizens and consumers

Abstracts submitted for consideration can be accepted in Welsh, English,
French, Spanish, Catalan and Galician.=A0 Final papers, however, should =
be
submitted in Welsh or English. Translation into and from BSL will be
arranged in consultation with participants.

Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth

S4C: y chwarter canrif cyntaf

2-3 Tachwedd 2007

Galwad am Bapurau (SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH)

Mae Adran Astudiaethau Theatr, Ffilm a Theledu mewn cydberthynas =E2 =
Sefydliad
Diwydiannau Cyfathrebu a Chreadigol Cymru ynghyd =E2 Chanolfan Mercator =
ar
gyfer Ieithoedd Llai yn cynnal cynhadledd ddeuddydd ryngwadol yn =
Llyfrgell
Genedlaethol Cymru i nodi 25 mlwyddiant y darllediad cyntaf gan S4C ar 1
Tachwedd 1982.

Mae'r Gynhadledd yn gwahodd cyfraniadau gan ystod eang o bobl - =
ymchwilwyr
ac ysgolheigion ac hefyd gan bobl sydd ac a fu'n gweithio yn y diwydiant =
neu
sydd ac a fu'n gysylltiedig =E2 meysydd polisi perthnasol. Bwriad y =
Gynhadledd
yw dadansoddi digwyddiadau arwyddocaol ac archwilio penderfyniadau =
allweddol
a gymerwyd ar wahanol adegau ar hyd ymdaith sylweddol S4C o gyfnod =
ymgyrch
chwedlonol hyd at weledigaeth bresennol y sianel ynglyn =E2'i =
swyddogaeth a'i
safle mewn byd =F4l-analog, aml-blatfform, gyda'r farchnad yn arwain.

Yn ogystal =E2 phapurau academaidd, cyflwyniadau, siaradwyr a =
thrafodaeth,
bwriad y Gynhadledd yw cynnal nifer o sesiynau llygaid-dyst, gan wahodd
unigolion allweddol i gynnig tystiolaeth o'u cyfraniad hwy i greu / =
datblygu
S4C drwy gyfweliad.

Er fod ffocws Gymreig bendant i'r Gynhadledd hon, croesewir papurau a =
fydd
yn cyfeirio at safle S4C fel y darlledwr penodol cyntaf mewn iaith
leiafrifol ac yn cyflwyno dadansoddiadau cymharol rhyngwladol.

Dylid danfon cynigion o tua 500 o eiriau neu awgrymiadau ar gyfer
trafodaethau panel at mercator[at]aber.ac.uk i gyrraedd dim hwyrach na =
30ain
Mehefin 2007. Danfonir cadarnhad i'r cynigion a gymeradwyir erbyn 20fed
Gorffennaf 2007.

Fe drafodir, ymysg eraill, y pynciau canlynol:



*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C fel grym ym mae diwylliant, economi a iaith yn Nghymru

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Y berthynas rhwng S4C a darlledwyr erail yng Nghymru a'r =
DG

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C fel arloeswr darlledu mewn ieithoedd lleiafrifol

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C yn lledaenu cynnwys aml-blatfform

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 S4C a hyfywedd diwylliannol yng Nghymru

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Comisiynu a rhaglenni

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cynnwys

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cynulleidfaoedd, dinasyddion a defnyddwyr

Gellir derbyn cynigion papurau yn y Gymraeg, Saesneg, Ffrangeg, Sbaeneg,
Catalaneg a Galisieg. Fodd bynnag, dylid cyflwyno'r papur terfynol yn y
Gymraeg neu'r Saesneg. Trefnir cyfieithu rhwng BSL drwy ymgynghori =E2
chynadleddwyr o flaen llaw. Croesewir papurau gan ymchwilwyr ifanc neu
newydd.

*=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *=A0=A0=A0=A0 *

University of Wales Aberystwyth
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20 June 2007 00:27  
  
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:27:08 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Barry McLoughlin's book Left to the Wolves - Irish Victims of
  
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Stalinist Terror
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There is a good article on the BBC website at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6759483.stm

Muiris
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20 June 2007 17:03  
  
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:03:15 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Terrorism and Migration_CFP
  
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Hi paddy,

is this of interest to anyone?

warm thoughts,

jim

CALL FOR PAPERS

Terrorism and Migration

A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the School of Humanities, Unive=
rsity of Southampton, UK.

Saturday November 17th-Sunday November 18th, 2007


Contemporary anxieties about terrorism in the mainstream media and politi=
cs have clearly articulated the war against terrorism and the struggle for =
global security to the control of immigration, as well as the criminalisati=
on of Islam. As A. Sivanandan has argued in a recent article, =91the war on=
asylum and the war on terror [=85] have converged to produce a racism whic=
h cannot tell a settler from an immigrant, an immigrant from an asylum spea=
ker, an asylum speaker from a Muslim, a Muslim from a terrorist=92. In res=
ponse to the conflation of discourses of counter-terrorism, global security=
and the control of migration, this conference invites papers from any area=
of the humanities and the social sciences that are related to the followin=
g topics:


=95 Terrorism and Migration in Literature, Film, Visual Art and Music

=95 Histories of migration, immigration law and political sovereignty

=95 Migration, Terrorism and the State of Emergency

=95 Ethnographies of migration and terrorism

=95 Terrorism, Migration and the Public Sphere

=95 Asylum, Imperialism and War


Confirmed Speakers include: Margaret Scanlan, Elleke Boehmer, Ranjana Kha=
nna, David Glover and Matthew Gibney.

Please submit a 200-300 word abstract via email or post to the address be=
low by September 1st, 2007:


Sandy White
English, School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
S017 1BJ
E-mail: sw17[at]soton.ac.uk








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23 June 2007 15:55  
  
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:55:06 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Book Review, Ford and McCafferty, eds.,
  
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_The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland_
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Catholic[at]h-net.msu.edu (June 2007)

Alan Ford and John McCafferty, eds. _The Origins of Sectarianism in =
Early
Modern Ireland_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ix + 249 =
pp.
Index. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-83755-3.

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Benjamin Hazard, Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Coming to Terms with the Past

The decision made by the Ulster Unionist Ian Paisley, in March 2007, to
share power with the Sinn Fein in the Northern Irish Assembly offers an
opportunity to examine the recently published proceedings of a symposium
which coincided with the historic Good Friday Agreement of 1998. This
book attempts to assess the emergence of religious division in Ireland
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This was a time of flux
and one of the problems to overcome is that of compartmentalization.=20
Apart from isolated efforts, the start of Irish confessionalization and
sectarianism has largely been overlooked, a point made by Alan Ford in =
his
introduction to this volume (p. 3).

In the first article, Ute Lotz-Heumann uses comparative methodology to
apply the concept of confessionalization from German historiography to
Ireland in the period from 1534 to 1649. Whilst the two are at odds on
the appropriate use of the terminology, Lotz-Heumann and Ford concur =
that
parallel processes of sectarianism and confessionalization emerged with
inter-denominational hostility in the 1580s (pp. 5, 53). This sets the
tone for the dispassionate approach taken by the editors in contrast =
with
romanticized histories propagated until the twentieth century, which =
both
expressed and fuelled sectarian thought and action.

John McCafferty surveys the difficulties confronted by the newly
established state church during the reigns of James I and Charles I.=20
Despite being "well-educated [and] accomplished preachers," Church of
Ireland bishops became caught up in "ruthless recovery of revenues and
unrelenting insistence on a narrowly conceived conformity" (p. 71-72).=20
The juxtaposition of this article with Tadhg O'hAnnrachain's upbeat
appraisal of the activity of Catholic prelates trained in continental
Europe highlights the weakness of "Briticizing" the episcopate in the
early years of Irish protestantism (p. 57). This, it would seem, added =
to
a sense of alienation amongst an indigenous Catholic population who =
could
turn to their own clergy, recently returned from new Irish seminaries on
the continent filled with the zeal of post-Tridentine teaching. Whilst
wrong-footed elsewhere in Europe, therefore, the introduction of Council
of Trent decrees in Ireland was facilitated by the relatively late =
arrival
of reformation in the country.[1]

The book's European theme recurs in M=C3=ADche=C3=A1l MacCraith's =
assertion that
the opinions of Irish Catholics "on the nature of their obligations to
James I" should be set in the wider context of the debate generated in
Europe "by the controversy emanating from the oath of allegiance" (p.
188). His interdisciplinary contribution makes two valuable primary
sources in the Irish language available to a much wider public and, in
doing so, casts light on the contemporary appeal of different political
philosophies to the Gaelic-Irish in the seventeenth century. Taken
together with Brian Jackson's account of internal strife amongst Irish
Franciscans this nuanced understanding challenges the received view of
monolithic ideologies on either side. This point is taken up by Alan =
Ford
who draws on a varied range of sources to evaluate the Irish historical
renaissance and the shaping of protestant history in the late sixteenth
and early seventeenth centuries. Whilst detailing James Ussher's role, =
he
has little to say about the sharing of manuscripts between the =
Archbishop
of Armagh and M=C3=ADcheal O'Cleirigh.[2]

David Edwards provides an impressive analysis of the arrival and
settlement of English Catholics in Ireland where evidence suggests the
enforcement of laws against their confession may have been less exacting
than in England. Their presence, he reveals, had significant and =
hitherto
unforeseen repercussions upon the outcome of the rebellion in 1641 (pp.
123-126). Marc Caball tests and refines Samantha Meigs's thesis on the
resistance to reformation offered by the bardic =C3=A9lite of Gaelic =
society.=20
In common with Edwards, he concludes that contemporary politics were =
based
upon religious allegiance rather than ethnicity which, in turn, appears =
to
be at variants with Declan Downey's review of how Irish catholic nobles
made recourse to "purity of blood and faith" overseas, especially in
Habsburg territories.

Therefore, as John Morrill states in his conclusion to the volume, =
rather
than reaching an overall consensus, this collection of essays makes a =
most
useful contribution to what has long been an "under-researched" topic =
(pp.
237-239). Decades of conflict both stifled and polarized such debate. =
It
is to be hoped that, in today's more open Irish political climate, this
book will give rise to further publications on the subsequent =
development
of sectarianism and confessionalization.

Notes

[1]. For earlier secondary sources on the subject, see Nicholas Canny,
"Why the Reformation Failed in Ireland: Une Question Mal Pos=C3=A9e," =
_Journal
of Ecclesiastical History_ 30 (1979): 423-450; and Karl Bottigheimer, =
"The
Failure of the Reformation in Ireland: Une Question Bien Pos=C3=A9e," =
_Journal
of Ecclesiastical History_ 36 (1985): 196-207.

[2]. Cf. Joop Leerssen, "Archbishop Ussher and Gaelic Culture," _Studia
Hibernica_ 22-23 (1982-83): 50-58.

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contact the Reviews editorial staff: hbooks[at]mail.h-net.msu.edu.
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23 June 2007 15:55  
  
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:55:15 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
CFP IRISH STUDIES CONFERENCE, University of Sunderland,
  
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9-11 November 2007
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From: Alison Younger [mailto:alison_younger[at]yahoo.co.uk]=20
=A0

The University of Sunderland
In Association with the North East Irish Culture Network

Fifth Annual Irish Studies Conference

9-11 November 2007
Ireland: At War and Peace
=20
Following the success of its last four international conferences:
Representing-Ireland: Past, Present and Future, [2003] and The Word, The
Icon and The Ritual, [2004], Lands of Saints of Scholars, [2005], and
Ireland: Renaissance, Revolution and Regeneration, (2006) the University =
of
Sunderland, in association with NEICN, is soliciting papers for an
interdisciplinary conference, which will run from 9-11 November 2007. =
The
conference will begin with a plenary lecture on Friday 9th November; =
there
will be a book launch and wine reception in the evening and a ceilidh =
and
conference banquet on Saturday 10th November.

The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches =
to
Irish culture from academics and non-academics alike. Performances,
roundtables, collaborative projects, and other non-traditional =
presentations
are encouraged in addition to conference papers. We particularly welcome
proposals for panels. As with previous year=92s conference, we welcome
submissions for panels and papers under the thematic headings of: =
Ireland at
War and Peace in the following areas: Literature, Performing Arts, =
History,
Politics, Folklore and Mythology, Ireland in Theory, Gender and Ireland
Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Tourism, Art and Art History, Music,
Dance, Media and Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Studies of the
Diaspora. North American and other international scholars, practitioners =
in
the arts, and postgraduate students are all encouraged to submit =
proposals
to the conference organisers. We also welcome proposals for papers in
absentia for delegates who wish to participate but may find it difficult =
to
attend the event.

As part of its commitment to furthering research and critical inquiry in =
the
field of Irish Studies, NEICN organises regular conferences, seminars =
and
readings. In the past four years we have had plenary papers delivered by
Terry Eagleton, Robert Welch, Luke Gibbons, Ailbhe Smith, Kevin Barry,
Siobhan Kilfeather, Shaun Richards, Lance Pettitt, Stephen Regan, Lord =
David
Puttnam, Andrew Carpenter, John Nash and Willy Maley, with readings from
Ciaran Carson Medbh McGuckian, Bernard O=92Donoghue and Eilis Ni =
Dhuibhne.

Previous conferences have resulted in the publication of a selection of
essays, and we hope to continue this with essays from this year=92s
conference.

LENGTH =96 Papers should not exceed 2,500 =96 3,000 words/20 minutes=92 =
delivery

DEADLINES =96 Enquiries and submissions should be submitted by 30th =
June, 2007
to the conference coordinators

Dr Alison O=92Malley-Younger =96 alison.younger[at]sunderland.ac.uk and =
Professor
John Strachan =96 john.strachan[at]sunderland.ac.uk and copied to the =
conference
administrator, Ms Susan Cottam =96 susan.cottam[at]sunderland.ac.uk=20
.
CONFERENCE VENUE =96 The conference will take place at St Peter=92s =
Campus.
Please see our websites [at] www.sunderland.ac.uk and www.neicn.com for =
further
details.
=A0

Slan agus beannacht
=A0
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
W. B. Yeats
Alison O'Malley-Younger [Dr]
Programme Leader: English and Drama/English and Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Sunderland
=A0
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27 June 2007 14:59  
  
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:59:16 -0400 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
CFP: Franco-Irish Connections, Military Aspects,
  
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From: Bill Mulligan
Subject: CFP: Franco-Irish Connections, Military Aspects,
17th-20th centuries
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Forwarded from H-Atlantic. This may be of interest to the lsit.

Bill Mulligan

Franco-Irish Connections, Military Aspects
17th-20th centuries

The Service Historique de la D=E9fense [the French Army historical =20
Service] in Vincennes, France, is organizing a two day conference =20
(6-7th September 2007) on the military aspects of the Franco-Irish =20
relationships between 17th and 20th centuries (free entrance).

The scientific organisation is in charge of the Dr Genet-Rouffiac, =20
chief curator in the Service historique, Andr=E9 Rakoto, chief of the =20
international department of the Service historique, and Dr David =20
Murphy from Trinity College, Dublin.

The papers, 45 mn long, in French or in English, are expected on the =20
following matters:
- the different aspects of the action of the Irish on the service of =20
France, or in France, their links with the French society and the role =20
of France as the first step on the Continent;
- Ireland in the French international policy, both as a subject of its =20
own and as an element of the British policy.

The proposals have to be submitted to the scientific committee before =20
the 30th june 2007 at one of the following addresses:

Dr Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac
Dr David Murphy
Service historique de la d=E9fense
murphydjj[at]eircom.net
Ch=E2teau de Vincennes
BP 166
00468 Arm=E9es
nathalie.genet-rouffiac[at]defense.gouv.fr

The entrance will be free but a registration list is already on line =20
on the SHD site, where the definite program will be fully available at =20
the beginning of July: www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr
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28 June 2007 09:26  
  
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:26:16 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
Ireland's first black mayor
  
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From today's Irish Times

Piaras

Ireland's first black mayor set to be elected in Portlaoise

A Nigerian man who arrived here seven years ago seeking asylum is =
likely to
create history by becoming Ireland's first black mayor today, Ronan =
McGreevy
.

Cllr Rotimi Adebari (43) was elected to Portlaoise Town Council in 2004 =
and
should take the chain of office when the members meet to elect a new =
mayor
this afternoon.

He is likely to be elected under a mayoral pact which sees the position
rotate among the Fine Gael/Sinn F=E9in/Independent members of the =
council.

Mr Adebari has scheduled a party for the new parish centre in =
Portlaoise
tomorrow evening to celebrate his imminent mayoralty.

He said: "It will be a great honour to become the number one citizen of =
the
town. The kudos, though, goes to the people of Portlaoise who elected =
me in
2004. They gave me this opportunity," he said.

"I would want to use my year to say to immigrants coming here that this =
is a
land of opportunities and it is a country that is described as a place =
of a
thousand welcomes.

"The people of Portlaoise have not only said that, but they have acted =
on it
by electing me to the town council".

Mr Adebari arrived in Dublin with his wife and two children in 2000 =
fleeing
religious persecution. After a few weeks the family settled in =
Portlaoise.

He struggled to find work in the first two years, but he got involved =
as a
volunteer with the Abbeyleix Tennis Club and set up Supporting =
Unemployed in
Laois (Suil).

He surprised many of his supporters by being elected to the town =
council as
an Independent in 2004, polling 321 first-preference votes.

Since then he has set up "Optimum Point", a consultancy which trains
companies and educational institutions in cross-cultural awareness and =
he
has completed a Masters in Intercultural Studies at Dublin City =
University.
He now works for Laois County Council co-ordinating an integration =
project
for local immigrants.

"I got involved in the community and I volunteered. It gave me the
opportunity to meet people first-hand and they got to know me. We all =
have
to make an effort to reach out to one another," he believes.

"I want to encourage immigrants to be a force in their communities, to
engage with their communities and people will get to know you. Their
perception of you will change just like that and that's what happened =
to
me."
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28 June 2007 20:31  
  
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:31:53 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
TOC Irish Political Studies Volume 22 Issue 2
  
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Subject: TOC Irish Political Studies Volume 22 Issue 2
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Irish Political Studies: Volume 22 Issue 2
(http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=3Dissue&issn=3D0790-7184&volum=
e=3D22&is
sue=3D2&uno_jumptype=3Dalert&uno_alerttype=3Dnew_issue_alert,email) is =
now
available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Ark (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive): The Northern =
Ireland
Qualitative Catalogue and Archive on the Conflict p. 133
Authors: Peter Mcloughlin;=A0 Mark McNally; Robert Miller
DOI: 10.1080/07907180701419300

Republic of Ireland p. 139

Northern Ireland p. 227

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy - =
Special
Issue on Intervening in Northern Ireland
Read the free editorial at =
www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13698230600941879
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28 June 2007 22:07  
  
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:07:47 +0100 Reply-To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-DLOG0706.txt]
  
'Blair chair' honours outgoing PM's role in peace process
  
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'Blair chair' honours outgoing PM's role in peace process

The University of Liverpool has announced it will create a chair in =
Irish
studies in honour of the outgoing prime minister

Liz Ford
Wednesday June 27, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk

Tony Blair felt the hand of history once more on his shoulders this week =
as
the University of Liverpool announced it was to create a chair in Irish
studies in honour of the outgoing prime minister.

The Blair chair has been created by the Irish government at the =
university's
Institute of Irish Studies, in recognition of Mr Blair's "instrumental =
role"
in the peace process.

The chair, announced yesterday, comes with a =A35m endowment to be spent =
on
postgraduate research and a new undergraduate programme in British and =
Irish
politics, which will be launched next year.

Researchers and students at the institute, founded in 1988, will be =
involved
in outreach work that focuses on peace-building programmes within
communities experiencing conflict in Ireland and elsewhere in the world.

Mr Blair, who stepped down as prime minister today, said: "This is a =
great
and unexpected honour. But it is also one shared by the very many people =
in
Northern Ireland and beyond who had the vision, courage and commitment =
to
work towards a peaceful future."

The Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, said the new chair was "a =
fitting
way to mark Tony Blair's immense and historic contribution in helping =
bring
peace to Ireland".

He added: "It is a contribution that will be remembered by Irish people =
all
over the world for as long as the history of our country is read and
written.

"The endowment of =A35m also recognises the importance of Irish studies
internationally and the achievements to date of the Institute of Irish
Studies in Liverpool - a city that has so many links with Ireland."

The director of the institute, Prof Marianne Elliott, said: "The =
endowment
will enable us to build on the work we have carried out in Ireland over =
the
past 20 years and introduce our knowledge to other countries with =
similar
issues.

"With Ireland now the fastest-growing economy in the western world, the
knowledge of its history, culture, language and politics will prepare
students for a range of careers."

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2112818,00.html

and

And from the Irish, a university chair

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=3D/news/2007/06/27/nblair6=
27.xm
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