From Patrick O'Sullivan


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members of minority groups.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Well, it is already midnight in the Pacific, and there the new
Millennium has begun.

Here we are getting ready for our little neighbourhood's party. It was
going to be a street party - but we have decided not to trust
Yorkshire's weather. So that it will be a house party - and we will
spill out on to the street for fireworks at our midnight.

All the scholarly lists have been very quiet, and there is nothing of
urgence to post to the Irish-Diaspora list. There are signs of some
problems on the Internet - mostly the usual holiday problems, though it
looks as if some mail systems have closed down completely. I am going
to wait for a few days - just to let the problems sort themselves out -
before cranking up the Irish-Diaspora list again. In the New Year, New
Century, New Millennium.

Do feel free to post messages to the Irish-Diaspora list at
irish-diaspora[at]bradford.ac.uk
They should be picked up, and passed on in the usual way. But not till
after the weekend,

Here we have our new desktop computer in place, and we have backed up
everything that can be backed up. We have had the new computer for only
a few weeks - and already I am simply astounded by the number of
longterm Irish-Diaspora list problems it has solved. So, hopefully, an
even better Irish-Diaspora list service in the New Year.

Our good wishes to every member of the Irish-Diaspora list, throughout
the world. And our hopes for a better world for our children - which is
what the Irish Diaspora was always about...

Patrick O'Sullivan

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Dear Friends,

I am doing some work on the Fenians in Ireland, Britain, and
America in the late 1860s -- particularly in connection with
Charles Dickens.
----------

In March 1867 Dickens travelled to Ireland on reading tour, and
was apprehensive about the possibility of disturbances --
especially around St. Patrick's Day. He wrote to his
sister-in-law to say:

Our business here is very bad, though at Belfast it is enormous.
There is no doubt that great alarm prevails here. This hotel is
constantly filling and emptying, as families leave the country,
and set in a current to the Steamers. There is apprehension of
some disturbance between tomorrow night and Monday night (both
inclusive); and I learn this morning that all the drinking shops
are to be closed from tonight until Tuesday. Of course you will
not be in the least uneasy about me. If any commotion occurs, I
shall instantly stop the Dublin Readings, and of course I shall
not put myself in harm's way. . . There is no doubt whatever
that alarm prevails. (letter of 15 March)

The following day he wrote to Catherine (Mrs Ralph Bernal)
Osborne to say

When, when, when, will you be at peace in Ireland and sit under
your vines and fig-trees without hanging revolvers and Enfield
rifles on the branches? I feel as if I were in a more than
usually incomprehensible dream when I am shown a hosiery
establishment in Sackville Street here, from which some scores
of young men decamped in the last wretched "risings" to starve
in wildernesses or pine in jails. So the notion of your being
guarded in your house, and of our getting involved with America
(as we shall at last) on this mad head, has a grim absurdity in
it of such nightmare breed that I half believe I shall wake
presently and wonder how I ever came to invent in my sleep the
word "Fenian".
------------------------

I wonder if anyone could suggest some rlevant critical material
on the Fenians in this period?

Many thanks.

All good wishes,

Leon
----------------------
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

There is also an excellent new piece in the latest Scottish Historical
Review on the Fenians in Scotland. It's by Elaine McFarland. Full
citation available if Leon or others can't track it down.

Happy New Year to you all

Don MacRaild
Sunderland

There's a useful Ph.D thesis on the Fenian movement in Dublin in the 1860s
done at TCD by Sinichi Takagami in the late '80s/early '90s . Not to be
missed is the 'lively' exchange between John Newsinger and Vincent Comerford
on the nature of early Fenianism that appeared in SAOTHAR in 1992.

Best regards,
Gary Owens

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Things have settled down, out on the Internet and here at home.

The children are back at school.

Britain is experiencing a flu epidemic, which is worrying. For the
illness which made us so ill during the holiday period was not a classic
flu. Is there worse to come?...

Our new computers and other equipment are working well - though I, for
one, am heartedly fed up with all the low grade learning that working
with computers seems to involve. New versions of older pieces of
software have hidden familiar facilities in weird places. New pieces of
software force you to re-think familiar work practices, for no good
reason that I can see. It is not difficult - it is simply tedious...

On the millennium bug... I have nothing much to add to the non-story.
One of our old computers decided that the year was 2094, and the other
decided that it was the year 1994. This has caused no great problems -
some complaints from other pieces of software, and Patrick Maume... But
no crashes.

[An interlocutor comments: 2094? 1994? Paddy, this would suggest that
those old computers were Intel systems incorporating the Award BIOS
v4.50g, released between April 26 1994 and May 1 1995. As everyone
knows, this BIOS version assumes that the year cannot be one prior to
its release in 1994 - if it sees a year value less than 94 it
automatically resets it to 94, quite independently of the century
setting. And this BIOS version cannot support a manual date reset.
Paddy, however did you manage?

Paddy: Not hard. We put in a small correction program, to sit between
the BIOS and the rest of the computer system, to re-set the date at
power-on.]

Our thanks to all those who sent good wishes for the New Year. Our good
wishes to every member of the Irish-Diaspora list.

Now, let us crank up the Ir-D list, and get cracking...

P.O'S.

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Forwarded on behalf of
NEW COLLEGE IRISH STUDIES PROGRAM,
THE IRISH ARTS FOUNDATION
& ANNA LIVIA BOOKS



A READING AND RECEPTION
for
MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD
Author of "ALL SOULS: A Family Story from Southie"
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18th, 7:30 PM, JOHNNY FOLEY'S IRISH HOUSE
243 O'FARRELL STREET, S.F.


New College of California's Irish Studies Program, the San Francisco
Irish
Arts Foundation, and Anna Livia Books are proud to present a reading and
reception for Michael Patrick Mac Donald, author of the acclaimed
memoir,
"All Souls: A Family Story from Southie", published by Beacon Press, on
Tuesday, January 18th, 7:30 PM, at Johnny Foley's Irish House, 243
O'Farrell
Street, San Francisco.

Time magazine called All Souls a "powerful memoir of precarious life and
early death in Boston's Irish ghetto".

The New York Times said "All Souls is riveting prose, the written
equivalent
of an Irish wake."

The Irish Voice enthused:" Demand for All Souls...has been so great it's
already into its fourth printing."

And USA Today's reviewer wrote that "Michael Patrick Mac Donald's tale
of his
life in a housing project in South Boston depicts an urban hell. It's a
story
told before, but in his story, the damned are white."

"ALL SOULS is an American family story you've never imagined, "an
incendiary,
moving book that startles on nearly every page." (Kirkus Reviews)

Come and meet the author of this important new book.


A Reading and recption for MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, author of ALL
SOULS:A
FAMILY STORY FROM SOUTHIE, Tuesday, Jan. 18th, 7:30 PM, Johnny Foley's
Irish
House, 243 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco.

FOR INFORMATION
CALL:214-1302, EXT. 427

From Patrick O'Sullivan


Publisher Michael S. Parer, Editor Val Noone, and Manager Mary Doyle,
have launched a new venture, The Irish Australian Network - which
conveniently becomes TAIN, a word in Irish which can mean 'gathering',
but a word that will be more familar from the title of the Irish epic,
Tain Bo Cuailnge.

(This is usually translated as 'The Cattle Raid on Cooley' - I suppose
that in Australian English that would be 'The Cattle Duffing of
Cooley...')

The first mainfestation of the Australian Irish Network is TAIN, a
magazine - I have scanned in below the contents of the first issue,
No.1, Jan-Feb 2000. Michael Parer tells us that there are plans to make
the Network very much a network, with Web access to databases and
genealogical information.

Further information will be found at http://www.tain.net.au
or email info[at]tain.net.au.

As will be seen Val Noone has gone for a large number of short items,
looking at recent events in Ireland, and Irish events, or events of
Irish interest, in Australia. The Contents list needs a little
clarifying - trhus the item on page 20 is in fact a review, by Francis
Devlin Glass of Jill Blee's latest novel, Brigid.

I note too that Joe O'Sullivan, president of the Australian Irish
Heritage Association, is pressing for better connections between
Australian Irish heritage groups.

TAIN, the magazine and the Network, look as if they will be useful
resources for those who wish to track Irish events, and the development
of Irish Studies, in Australia.

P.O'S.


Editorial
2 Re: Tain

Features
3 East Timor: the Irish connection, Maire de Buitleir
4 Mixed rules the real winner, Paddy Butler
6 Net access for Tain subscribers, Michael Parer
7 Mouth music on the web, Terry Monagle
8 New look at ancient wisdom, Val Noone
9 Christmas customs, Aine Szymanski
10 The latest from Roddy Doyle, Terry Monagle
11 After the Victorian elections, Frank Purcell
12 Role of Irish President, Brian Lenihan
12 Eureka, Ned and the Somme, John Molony

Travellers'tales
14 Pat Dodson in Dublin, John May
14 What is real in Belfast? Jerome Cooney
15 Green Aussie in green Ireland, Val Noone
15 St Brigid's day in Kildare, Hannah Casey
17 Football in Perth, teaching in Meath, Charles McComish
17 Quiz, Clancy


Migration history
19 Eileen O'Malley on three continents, Doreen O'Neill
20 From Ballarat to Clare, Frances Devlin Glass
21 Peter Koch's novel of 1848, Richard O'Brien
22 Eureka to East Melbourne, Bernie Brophy
23 New research on getting to Port Phillip, Pauline Rule


For the record
25 The peace process: heart of Ireland, Robin Boyd

Notes on the news
27 Garryowen

What's on
28 Calendar, classifieds and directory

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The news about MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, Author of "ALL SOULS: A Family
Story from Southie" reminds me that a recent study in the journal,
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, has looked from a different
perspective at the Irish districts (or should I say 'Irish' districts)
of Boston - Dorchester, Charlestown, and South Boston ('Southie'). The
Ortiz, Simmons and Hinton article might not be picked up by a keyword
search - I have pasted in the citation and abstract, below.

The article compares the approaches to, and the experiences of dementia,
of two groups in Boston, Irish-Americans and 'Latinos', immigrants from
the many countries of South and Central America. I should explain that
the University of Bradford has a special unit which studies dementia.
It is all a sad business, in any country or culture - and I am not sure
that these cultural comparisons add much to the discussion. But, for
our purposes here, the article does give a useful summary of the ways in
which Irish-Americans and 'Latinos' see themselves, and are seen, in
Boston, USA.

Irish Diaspora scholars will note the respect still accorded to the work
of Nancy Scheper-Hughes - and will note in passing that one of the
'Latinos', an immigrant from Argentina, is called 'Arturo Brown'...

P.O'S.


ANA ORTIZ, JANIE SIMMONS and W. LADSON HINTON
LOCATIONS OF REMORSE AND HOMELANDS OF RESILIENCE:
NOTES ON GRIEF AND SENSE OF LOSS OF PLACE OF LATINO
AND IRISH-AMERICAN CAREGIVERS OF DEMENTED ELDERS

ABSTRACT. In this essay, based on qualitative research with Latino and
Irish-American
caregivers of demented elders, we argue that spatially and culturally
constituted definitions
of personhood, the moral life, and justice shape perceptions of
normative aging, the agency
of the demented persons and their place in the community, the
appropriate care of the aged
and demented, as well as partially determine the concrete resources
which will be available
to elders and their families. We review how ties to homelands and
neighborhood institu-tions
act as mediators and shapers of anticipatory grief, caregiver burdens,
and caregiver
resources, serving as a buffer against exhaustion and despair for some
families (primarily
the Irish-American sample), and as an additional site of loss or stress
for others (primarily
the Latino sample).
KEY WORDS: Alzheimer?s disease, dementia, ethnicity, social history,
Latino, Irish-American

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 23: 477?500, 1999.
© 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.

From: Tracy Ryan
Subject: possible title

Hi -- an acquaintance in Australia is involved in a
co-publication of a book of short stories for
10-14-year-olds by writers in Ireland and Australia.
They are looking for a suitable title: i.e. one that
is simple and clear enough for the age bracket but
takes both cultures into account. Could anyone with
bright ideas please backchannel me (if this is okay,
Patrick)?

Regards
Tracy.

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-------------------------

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The Irish Studies Centre now invites proposals for a research project in
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For information...

MIGRATION SEMINAR SERIES
THE INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY of LIVERPOOL


February - March 2000


Monday: 7 February
Dr Donald MacRaild
(University of Sunderland)
'Orangeism, Associationalism and the Protestant Irish in Britain,
1870s-1920s


Monday: 14 February
Dr Dorothy Thompson
?Some Radical Irishmen and Irishwomen in England before 1850'


Monday: 21 February
Professor Frank Neal
(University of Salford)
Liverpool, 1847-51: the Cemetery of Ireland


Monday: 6 March
Professor Mark McGowan
(University of Toronto)
'Central Canadian Catholicism and the Crisis of Irish Identity,
1870-1950'


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Institute of Irish Studies, No.1 Abercromby Square
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Some Ir-D list members, who missed some messages over the holiday
period, want to know if there is an easy way to get hold of
Irish-Diaspora list messages from the recent past.

There is.

It will be recalled that, every now and again, the software which
manages the Ir-D list automatically makes a file containing a bundle of
recent Ir-D list messages and puts it in an archive. This software is
called Majordomo, and this archive is called irish-diaspora-digest.

Anyone can easily get the files from this archive.

The most recent file was created on Wednesday, January 12 2000, Volume
01 : Number 294

You can get that file by sending an email to
majordomo[at]bradford.ac.uk

The Subject line of this email does not matter - put in something to
help yourself remember what you are trying to do.

The text of the email should take this form

get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n294
end

The Majordomo software will then send you an email, acknowledging your
message. It will also send you file Number 294 as a separate email.

You can request many of these files in the one message, as long as each
instruction is on a line by itself, thus

get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n294
get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n293
get irish-diaspora-digest v01.n292
end

And so on. Always end with the word
end
on a line by itself.

You can thus haul out of the archive a sequence of the most recent
messages, working down from file n294.

The task of preparing an Index of our archive is in hand. But the
archive can already be used, at any time, in the rough and ready
fashion, outlined above.

P.O'S.


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From: Patrick Maume
GFH Berkeley wrote a book in the 1920s called IRISH VOLUNTEERS IN
THE PAPAL ARMY.
Myles Keogh, Custer's second-in-command at the Little Big Horn, who
came from Carlow, was a former member of the Papal Brigade. THe
Little Big Horn literature should have something on him.
THomas O'Malley Baines, a former member of the Brigade, published a
sketchy autobiography in his last years in San Francisco, though it
is a bit short on detail. Dr. Jordan (LAND AND POLITICS IN MAYO)
kindly sent me a microfilm from the Berkeley library but i have been
so beset with work I haven't been able to do anything with it. Baines
became one of Devoy's Squad and was transported to Australia in 1868,
moving to America after release. He says many returned Papal
volunteers were recruited into the Dublin Fire Brigade when it was set
up by Sir John Gray, and thence progressed into Fenianism.
Chevalier O'Clery (MP for Wexford 1874-80) was a leading light of
the Brigade. He wrote a book called THE ITALIAN REVOLUTION - I think
only the volume dealing with the 1840s was published.
I'll send on anyhting more if I think of it. I'm forwarding this
to the Nineteenth-Century Ireland list.
Best wishes,
Patrick Maume


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:27:26 -0500 Williams, Bill wrote:

> From: Williams, Bill
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:27:26 -0500
> Subject: [IRISH-STUDIES:401] RE: [IRISH-STUDIES: Papal War of 1860.
> To: "'irish-studies[at]relay.doit.wisc.edu'"

>
> I have a request from a friend concerning any published material in
English
> on Irish, US and/or Canadian volunteers in defense of the Papacy
during the
> Papal War of 1860. Any information will be gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bill Williams
>
> Email Bwilliams[at]tui.edu
> Homepage:
www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/WilliamsBill/INDEX.HTM
>
> The Union Institute
> 440 East McMillan St.,
> Cincinnati, Ohio 45206-1925
>
> 1-800-486-3116
> 513-861-6400 or 513-487-1217
> FAX -513-861-9026
>
>

From: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk
Subject: Query: onward migration from England

Dear Ir-D List members:

I am completing work on an article concerning an agricultural settlement
scheme in southern Brazil which attracted several hundred Irish
migrants
in the late 1860s. One of the interesting features of the settlement was
that most of the migrants came from the English "Black Country",
recruited
by their (Roman Catholic) parish priest, who was convinced that only
through onward migration could the Irish in England stand a chance of
moral
salvation. (The Irish migrants not from England came from, curiously,
"the
gutters of New York".)

I am now trying to identify publications that address the issue of
re-migration from nineteenth century England to other "New World"
destinations. On a more basic level, I am looking for articles that
discuss
the attitude of the Church in Ireland towards the issue of overseas
migration generally. Yes, the Church generally discouraged migration
from
Ireland, but were there cases of priests who were actively involved in
encouraging overseas migration? Did any individuals within the Church
specifically support onward migration of Irish workers in England? Has
anything been written on these topics?

I would very much appreciate any assistance from fellow list members in
pointing me towards publications that may clarify some of these issues.

Many thanks for any ideas - and Happy New Year to all!

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford

e-mail: oliver[at]doyle-marshall.demon.co.uk

From Patrick O'Sullivan

I am following up this reference - which I thought might interest those
Ir-D list members who are interested in mental health issues... And the
history of mental health issues...

P.O'S.


Am J Public Health 1998 Sep;88(9):1396-402

Social class, ethnicity, and mental illness: the importance of being
more than earnest.

Vander Stoep A, Link B
Department of Epidemiology,
University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA. annv[at]u.washington.edu

This paper revisits a landmark study of the prevalence of mental illness
in the state of Massachusetts conducted by Edward Jarvis in the 19th
century. Jarvis drew an improper conclusion about the relationship
between social class, ethnicity, and insanity, asserting that the Irish
foreign-born had a higher prevalence of insanity in each social stratum.
A reanalysis of Jarvis' data shows that in both the pauper and
independent social classes in Massachusetts, the prevalence of insanity
was significantly lower among foreign-born persons than among
native-born persons. On the basis of his misperception, Jarvis
constructed elaborate etiological theories. These theories made a strong
impact on the mental health service policies of his day. The effects of
incomplete examination of data on etiological theories and mental health
policy in current times are highlighted in this article.

Publication Types:


Biography
Historical article

Personal Name as Subject:
Jarvis E

PMID: 9736887, UI: 98408094


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Forwarded on behalf of Leon Litvack,
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland...

- -----Original Message-----

Dear friends,

The registration form for the conference
"Ireland Abroad": An International and Multidisciplinary
Conference, 14-16 April 2000, in Aberdeen, Scotland
may be downloaded from the web at

http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/abroad.htm

All are welcome -- be ye members or non-members.

All good wishes,

Leon

----------------------
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
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From Patrick O'Sullivan

Browsing in the Catalogues, I saw this item, which seemed worth
pursuing. I have not seen this book reviewed anywhere? Does anyone
have any more information?

P.O'S.

Information from
http://www.oup.co.uk

Seen in the Oxford University Press catalogue...

The Transforming Power of the Nuns
Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900

Mary Peckham Magray, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan College,
USA

196 pages, 10 halftones, 2 maps, 234mm x 156mm
Imprint: OUP USA

Hardback, 0-19-511299-7
UK Price: £32.00
Publication date: 23 July 1998


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies

It will be recalled that last year the University of Melbourne,
Australia, was searching for a suitable person to take on the new post
of Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies.

I am very pleased to be able to report that our very own Elizabeth
Malcolm has been offered this new Professorship, and will make the move
to Melbourne in the very near future.

Elizabeth is now based at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of
Liverpool, England. She will take to Melbourne the experience of
developing Irish Studies there, and her extensive network of contacts in
the northern hemisphere. But the journey to Melbourne will also be a
home-coming - for Elizabeth is Australian, and will build too on her
network of contacts in Australia.

This is a very exciting development for Irish Studies and for Irish
Diaspora Studies. Our sincere congratulations to Elizabeth Malcolm.

When she has a moment... I hope Elizabeth will share with us her hopes
and plans for the future of Irish Studies in Melbourne.

Patrick O'Sullivan

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From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Ir-D Browsing in the Catalogues

I haven't read the book, but it was reviewed in the latest issue of the
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW.
Kerby.


>Information from
>http://www.oup.co.uk
>
>Seen in the Oxford University Press catalogue...
>
>The Transforming Power of the Nuns
>Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900
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>Mary Peckham Magray, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan College,
>USA
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