From: Don MacRaild
Subject: Re: Ir-D Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies, Melbourne

Hearty congratulations to Elizabeth: this is very good news for Diaspora
folk in both hemispheres. Here is an excellent opportunity to weld the
various far-flung bits of the global community.

Don MacRaild
Sunderland

irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> 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: "Anthony McNicholas"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Onward migration from England

Dear Oliver,

I don't know how much help this will be but Father Nugent a very
well-known
Liverpool priest, who was the proprietor of the Northern Press newspaper
in
the late 1860s advocated emigration. His editor John Denvir, was very
much
against it. Lowe WJ (1975) The Irish in Lancashire 1846-71 PhD
unpublished
TCD mentions this. There is also a biography of Nugent by a Canon
Bennet,
but I don't know that there is anything in it. I have also seen
references
to emigration schemes to Spain, which was deemed better than Oz as it
was
nearer and Catholic.

Anthony McNicholas

- ----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: Ir-D Onward migration from England


>
>
> 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: Professor John Belchem
Subject: Re: Ir-D Onward migration from England

Yes, Nugent was very keen on child emigration to Canada,
part of his `Save the Boy' project, i.e. removing young
things from the moral contamination (or worse --
Protestant philanthropic proselytism) of Liverpool
street-life. Fallen young women were also shunted off to
the adjacent industrial districts of Lancashire where there
was female employment in the mills. As regards
adult workers, there are hints in his evidence to the Lords
Select Committee on Intemperance in the 1870s that he
favoured emigration to North America (which he visted in
search of employment opportunites for what he described as
Liverpool's `surplus population'). An Irish-Liverpudlian
himself, Nugent (in)famously categorized the Irish in
Liverpool as `the dregs'. Forgive the puff, but there is an
essay featuring the Monseigneur in my forthcoming book
(i.e. RAE fodder) on Liverpool, `Merseypride'. Watch this
space!

John Belchem

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:47:30 +0000
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

>
> From: "Anthony McNicholas"
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Onward migration from England
>
> Dear Oliver,
>
> I don't know how much help this will be but Father Nugent a very
> well-known
> Liverpool priest, who was the proprietor of the Northern Press
newspaper
> in
> the late 1860s advocated emigration. His editor John Denvir, was very
> much
> against it. Lowe WJ (1975) The Irish in Lancashire 1846-71 PhD
> unpublished
> TCD mentions this. There is also a biography of Nugent by a Canon
> Bennet,
> but I don't know that there is anything in it. I have also seen
> references
> to emigration schemes to Spain, which was deemed better than Oz as it
> was
> nearer and Catholic.
>
> Anthony McNicholas
>

----------------------
ah14[at]liverpool.ac.uk
Professor John Belchem, Head of School
School of History, University of Liverpool
9 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX
Phone: (0)151-794-2394 Fax (0)151-794-2366

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Janet Nolan, of Loyola University, USA, and I have been discussing the
possibility of creating one of our 'Study Guides' on the theme of
Irish Women and the Irish Diaspora. Or the Irish Woman's Diaspora...
Or Irish Women and Diaspora... Or...

We thought we should first see what is already available. There are
items like this one, now getting a little out of date...
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/Bibliographies/19c-i
rish-women

Does any one have more information on relevant Reading Lists or Study
Guides already displayed on the Web?

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

CHRONICON
is a history journal on the Web, run by Damian Bracken, Department of
History, University College, Cork
d.bracken[at]ucc.ie.

It is always worth a visit.

Thus, if you go to this Web address...

http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/nigh2fra.htm

... you will find the full text of this article...

THE GAELIC REVIVAL IN THE U.S. IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
GILLIAN NÍ GHABHANN
Abstract: This paper examines the Irish language revival in America in
the post-Famine decades in its composition, extent, activities and
achievements. The history of the revival has barely been tapped. Thus,
this contribution is based heavily on primary sources, most especially
An Gaodhal. This bilingual journal ran from the 1880s to the early 1900s
and was the national organ of the language societies throughout the
United States. It acted as co-ordinator and unifier for the
geographically split movement and as such was crucial to its
development. The revival offers many important insights into the
mentality of Irish emigrants and is an essential subject in the study of
the Irish in America. The ethos underlining the movement and the
intellectual justification offered by its protagonists will be analysed.
Finally, the reasons for the success of the movement in the short-term
and ultimate inability to achieve its long-term objectives will be
explored in an attempt more fully to understand the Irish-American
experience.

Keywords: Irish, revival, emigrants, Irish-Americans, language
societies, An Gaodhal.

Chronicon 2 (1998) 6: 1-34
ISSN 1393-5259

P.O'S.


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From: Mary.Doran[at]mail.bl.uk (Mary Doran)
Subject: British Association for Irish Studies Research Register 2000


I am in the process of updating the British Association for Irish
Studies Research Register. The only criterion for inclusion in the
Register is that each entrant must be a current BAIS member. The
form
for entry (or updating) was printed at the back of the last issue
of
the BAIS Newsletter (October 1999). The form will be printed again
in
the next issue of the BAIS Newsletter which is due out very soon. I
can also accept entries by e-mail but I need the format of the form
to
be followed [see below]. The closing date for entry to the Register
is
1st March 2000. I hope as many as possible of you will want to be
in
the Register. I have had much positive feedback about the first
edition (which was issued in the Spring of last year to all then
current BAIS members).

BAIS membership costs £20.00 (waged) and £12.00 (unwaged) per annum
and represents good value for money including the receipt of three
issues of the Irish Studies Review, four issues of the BAIS
member's
Newsletter, discounts for BAIS conferences, events, etc. If you are
not yet a BAIS member and/or need more information about the
Research
Register please contact me:

Mary Doran
Curator, Modern Irish Collections,
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.
Tel: 020 7412 7538 Fax: 020 7412 7557
E-mail: mary.doran[at]bl.uk

Please also pass on this message to anyone you think should be in
the
Register.

Many Thanks
Mary

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BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES
Entry form for the BAIS Research Register

If you are currently a paid-up member of BAIS and you would like to
have an entry in the BAIS Research Register, or update your
existing
entry, please fill in the details below. The extent of the
information
you supply is at your own discretion but please only supply
information you want published. Members with entries in the 1999
Register which require no change do not need to send an update.

-- Surname
-- First name(s)
-- Preferred title
-- Address
-- Telephone
-- Fax
-- E-mail
-- Research Interests
-- Teaching [please indicate level,e.g. Primary,Secondary,FE,Adult,
Higher]
-- Publications [no more than 4 please]. Please supply FULL
details:
Book: Title, Place of Publication, Publisher and Date
Periodical: Title of article, Title of periodical, Volume
number,
Date, Page numbers

Please submit details by: 1 March 2000

Mary Doran, Modern Irish Collections,
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7538 Fax: 020 7412 7557
E-mail: mary.doran[at]bl.uk
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Forwarded on behalf of Leon Litvack...

- -----Original Message-----
From: L.Litvack[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK
[mailto:L.Litvack[at]Queens-Belfast.AC.UK]

Subject: Special offer on new book from Four Courts Press

Special Offer! Order now directly from Four Courts Press
(info[at]four-courts-press.ie) and pay IR£20.00 (inclusive of
surface postage) Normal retail price is IR£35.00.

Offer ends on 28 February 2000.

Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity
Leon Litvack & Glenn Hooper, Editors

This fourth volume in a series focusing on 19th-century Ireland
provides multi-disciplinary, as well as interdisciplinary,
observations on how the concept of 'region' can be used to
illuminate literature, travel writing, politics, legal studies,
economic and social history, geography, and cartography.

FOR FULL DETAILS (and a photo of the cover image) POINT YOUR
BROWSER TO

http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/fcp-offer.htm


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

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction


I CORES

Leon Litvack (QUB)
Exhibiting Ireland, 1851-53: Colonial Mimicry in London, Cork
and Dublin

Elizabeth Tilley (NUIG)
Charting Culture in the Dublin University Magazine

A. Jamie Saris (NUIM)
Imagining Ireland in the Great Exhibition of 1853

Eva Maria Stöter (NUIM)
Region vs. Nation: Nineteenth Century ?Germany? as a Mirror
for Irish Regional/National Politics


II PERIPHERIES

Jacqueline Belanger (U. of Kent at Canterbury)
The Desire of the West: The Aran Islands and Irish Identity in
Grania

Patrick Maume (QUB)
The Papish Minister: Shan Bullock, John Haughton Steele, and
the Literary Portrayal of the Nineteenth-Century Clergyman

Brian Caraher (QUB)
Edgeworth, Wilde and Joyce: Reading Irish Regionalism Through
?the cracked lookingglass? of a Servant?s Art

Frances Botkin (U. of Illinois at Chicago)
Edgeworth and Wordsworth: Plain Unvarnished Tales

Richard McMahon (NUIG)
The Regional Administration of a Central Legal Policy


III NATIONS

Seán Ryder (NUIG)
The Politics of Landscape and Region in Nineteenth-Century
Poetry

Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame)
Writing Ireland: Reading England

Michael McAteer (QUB)
?Ireland and the Hour?: Paternalism and Nationality in Standish
James O?Grady?s Toryism and the Tory Democracy

Glenn Hooper (U. of Aberdeen)

The Pursuit of Signs: Searching for Ireland after the Union

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

Forwarded on behalf of Liam Harte
hartel[at]smuc.ac.uk
Subject: Re: April Conference on Irish Fiction at St Mary's

Dear Paddy,

Here are details of a forthcoming conference I'm organising at St Mary's
which might be of interest to you and other Ir-D list members.
I'd be grateful if you could give it a mention.

The details are as follows:

Irish Fiction in Transition

A one-day conference on contemporary Irish fiction hosted by
the Centre for Irish Studies, St Mary?s College, Strawberry Hill
on Friday 28th April 2000


Conference Programme


9.00 Registration & Coffee
10.00 Plenary I: ?Reviewing Contemporary Irish Fiction?,
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
11.15 Morning Coffee
11.30 Anne Enright
Robert Welch
Colm Tóibín
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Plenary II: ?Placing Fiction?, Eamonn Hughes
Queen?s University, Belfast
3.15 Afternoon Tea
3.30 Seamus Deane
Emma Donoghue
Bernard Mac Laverty
5.00 Close

Registration Form

Name ________________________________

Institution/ Occupation ___________________

Mailing Address: ________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________



Telephone: _____________________________


Conference Fee £60
(includes lunch, coffees, tea)

Student/ Unwaged £40
(includes lunch, coffees, tea)

Please send completed form together with a cheque for the
appropriate fee (made payable to St Mary?s College, Strawberry Hill)
to the conference organiser:


Dr Liam Harte, Centre for Irish Studies
St Mary?s College, Strawberry Hill,
Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX
Tel: 020 8240 4000 Fax: 020 8240 4255
e-mail: hartel[at]smuc.ac.uk }hartel[at]smuc.ac.uk


If you require overnight accommodation, please contact
Noreen Evans on 020 8240 4114 or
Michelle Rodrigues on 020 8240 4311
before Wednesday 19 April 2000.

Best Wishes,

Liam Harte

From Patrick O'Sullivan

The latest issue of Transcomm News, Issue No. 3, has reached us.

Transcomm News is the official newsletter of the ESRC Research Programme
on Transnational Communities.

I have never disguised my annoyance and pique that this important
Research Programme has so resolutely ignored Irish Diaspora Studies. I
can only assure the Ir-D list that there have been some intense
behind-the-scenes exchanges of views.

I think that we, in the Irish Diaspora Studies, have much to contribute
to these Research Programmes ? for, in many ways, we are ?ahead of the
crowd.? At the same time we have much to learn ? for we need to stay in
touch with wider research on diasporas, transnational communities and
scattered peoples. And through things like the ESRC Research Programme
we can see ways to widen and strengthen our own research agenda
particularly, in this case, in the area of the social sciences.

For these reasons I have stayed in touch with this Research Programme.
Most of the material from the Transcomm News newsletter tends to
re-appear on the web site http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

One item I have taken from Transcomm News, Robin Cohen?s report on the
completion of his International Library of Studies of Migration ? I have
posted this to the Ir-D list as a separate email.

If you or your organisation wishes to be placed on Transcomm News
mailing list contact Anna Winton,
tel: 01865 274711, fax: 01865 274718,
email: anna. winton[at]anthro.ox.ac.uk
or write to her at Transnational Communities, Institute of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE.
Or visit the web site http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

P.O'S?S.


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Some news from Piaras Mac Einri...

From: Piaras Mac Einri [mailto:maceinri[at]tinet.ie]

We have updated our website http://migration.ucc.ie

We've done a lot of work on it to make it easier to navigate and have
been gradually uploading a lot of new
material (more than a million words, in fact, but the bulk is not on
open
access until copyright issues have been addressed).

The latest initiative is to put our current seminar series on-line. The
first one was last Monday (Catherine Nash was the victim, on the subject
of
'genealogical identies') and anyone with RealAudio and an average (say,
28.8) modem can listen. I've posted a pointer to it from our homepage.
It
occurs to us that it might be a service to the community to build up a
range
of on-line teaching resources of this kind.

The website homepage gives details of everything else that's going on -
from
a policy paper on asylum seekers' rights in Ireland today to a newletter
which gives an overview of current and future projects. There are
comprehensive links, a press digest and various on-line articles. All
suggestions, criticisms and ideas would be very welcome.

Regards

Piaras

Piaras Mac Einri, Stiurthoir/Director
Ionad na hImirce/Irish Centre for Migration Studies
Ollscoil Naisiunta na hEireann, Corcaigh/National University of Ireland,
Cork
Faics/Fax 353 21 903326 Guthan/Phone 353 21 902889
Idirlion/Web http://migration.ucc.ie Post Leictreonach/Email
migration[at]ucc.ie

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Congratulations to Robin Cohen, whose series, The International Library
of Studies of Migration, is now (almost) complete, with the forthcoming
publication of Gender and Migration..

I have pasted in below, Robin Cohen?s message about the series. I think
that Robin?s message says it all ? including acknowledged misgivings
about the price?

Further information can be found on the publisher's Web site...
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk


From Robin Cohen?

The International Library of Studies on Migration, Edward Elgar
Publishing Series Editor: Robin Cohen, University of Warwick

The Transnational Communities Programme has been closely associated with
the development and imminent completion of the International Library of
Studies on Migration. With the publication of Volume 1O on Gender and
Migration in April 2000, the series will be completed. The series
comprises reprints of existing articles (and occasionally book
extracts), preceded by an original essay provided by the editor/s.
Though the original introductions vary from the prosaic and descriptive
to highly ambitious syntheses of the fields, all the volumes contain
material that no one university library (however well-established) is
likely to contain. The series as a whole provides a baseline reference
point for students, researchers and professionals in the field of
migration studies. Themes like diasporas, gender and transnationalism,
which are intrinsic to the transnational communities programme, are
especially well represented. Five of the editors are on the advisory
committee or are fund-holders under the programme.

The statistics on the series are impressive. The books contain 275
articles written by 295 authors. When complete, readers will have some
6,352 pages to browse or study. The series will not provide light
reading in another sense - the 11 books (volume 4 is a double volume)
weigh several kilos.

Naturally, a reference library of this type does not come cheap and
there are few individuals who would be able to afford the massive price
tag - well over £100 for most volumes. As editor of the series and a
sometime book buyer I was at first horrified at the cost. However, as
the publisher explained, reprint rights for nearly every one of the 275
articles have to be paid. Moreover the cost of subscribing to the many
journals that provided the articles would be out of the reach of nearly
every institution, except perhaps the wealthiest. The virtue of the
collection from a teacher's point of view is that they are able to point
to original, refereed, research- quality material - which students will
not find on the Internet or in the often bland and vacuous textbooks
that now provide the grist to many teaching mills.

As the series editor, I am rather relieved to have finished this very
long assignment. However, I did not do this alone. I want to take the
opportunity to thank the editors and authors, Anna Winton, and the
excellent and professional staff at Edward Elgar Publishing for their
help and support in bringing this plan to a successful conclusion.

Robin Cohen, Series Editor

Theories of Migration
Professor Robin Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Series No.1 1996 544pp Hardback I 858898001 I £120.00

Geography and Migration
Dr Vaughan Robinson, Director Migration Unit and Senior Lecturer in
Geography, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Series No.2 1996 616pp
Hardback 1858981174 £135.00

Sociology of Migration
Professor Robin Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Series No.3 1996 576pp Hardback 1 858980003 £130.00

Migration in European History (Vols I and II)
Professor Coling Holmes, Professor of History, University of Sheffield,
UK Series No.4 Two volume set 1996 1,280pp Hardback 1 85898 421 1
£270.00

The Politics of Migration
Professor Robin Cohen, Professor of Sociology and Professor Zig
Layton-Henry, Professor of Politics and Director Centre for Research in
Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK Series No.5 1997 36Opp
Hardback 1 858980143 £80.00

Law and Migration
Selina Goulbourne, Principal Lecturer School of International Studies
and Law, Coventry University, UK Series No.6 January 1998 488pp Hardback
1858980399 £110.00

Migration and Social Cohesion Dr Steven Vertovec, Research Reader Social
Anthropology, University of Oxford and Director of ESRC Transnational
Communities Programme Series No.7 1999 576pp Hardback I 858988683
£125.00

Migration and Public Policy
Dr Vaughan Robinson, Director Migration Unit and Senior Lecturer in
Geography, University of Wales, Swansea, UK Series No.81999 68Opp
Hardback 1 85898922 1 £150.00

Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism
Dr Steven Vertovec and Professor Robin Cohen Series No.9 1999 704pp
Hardback 1 85898869 1 £150.00

Gender and Migration
Dr Katie Willis, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool and Dr
Brenda Yeoh, Center for Advanced Studies, National University of
Singapore Series No.10 April 2000.528pp Hardback 1840640731 £110.00

END

From Patrick O'Sullivan

This is an Irish-Diaspora list 'Housekeeping' item...

Generally our new computers and software have made life easier here.
But there is a recurring problem which needs to be regularly
acknowledged...

Mailing lists, like Ir-D, work through email to email transfer. We try,
here, to send out tidy emails. But in this the new software is,
predictably, not as easy to work as the old.

In any case it is quite impossible to predict exactly how the appearance
of an email will be changed by various copying, email gate, filter, and
software systems. The recurring problem is line breaks - what was a
matter of convenience on one computer becomes a solid extra line break
in another computer. Which may then insert its own line breaks.
Leading to an email with a ragged appearance.

The simplest answer is to send to the Ir-D list messages that do not
have too long lines - a maximum of about 60 characters and spaces. And
(Are you listening, Mary Doran?) without a left-hand margin... But,
generally, in the email list world, people put up with a little
raggedness. As long as the sense is clear.

There is a sub-problem with URLs - Web site addresses. The email
software - somewhere along the distribution route - may fracture an URL,
by inserting a line break somewhere in a long Web site address. If your
email package allows Web sites to be launched by clicking on an address
in an email, note that a fractured Web site address is unlikely to work.
Look back at the email and make sure that you are not trying to launch a
fractured URL.

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan

The Irish Sword, the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland,
is now - as it were - catching up with itself under its new Editor,
Kenneth Ferguson.

Three issues, 82, 83 and 84, have appeared in quick succession. I have
posted, as separate emails, the full list of Contents of these issues of
the journal.

No. 82 is a special issue on the Irish Civil War, 1922-23. I find that
not many people outside Ireland know that Ireland HAD a Civil War - and
the War has been remarkably little studied within Ireland, given that it
shaped Irish politics for the rest of the century. On this I would
particularly recommend Tom Garvin's article here. This is a very fine
collection, with enough military detail to satisfy the specialist - but
also a number of articles offering discursive overviews.

(My mother and my maternal grandmother were pinned down by crossfire in
their home in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, during one incident in the war.
My paternal grandmother could never forgive de Valera, both for the
manner of his starting and the manner of his ending the conflict...)

No. 83 has a number of articles if interest to Irish Diaspora Studies,
on Irish veterans in France (many of those listed were wounded at
Cremona), on Bantry Bay, 1796, and on Irish volunteers in the Australian
forces. Jack O'Donnell managed to survive April 25 1915 at Gallipoli -
and wrote a grim poem called 'My Mate and I'. The 'mate' is his
Lee-Enfield Rifle.

This issue includes yet another favourable review of John McGurk, The
Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland, Manchester UP, 1997. And the note on
George Croghan is yet another The Day-After-St Patrick's Day hangover
story - this one from 1763 Pennsylvania. Croghan's Swiss fellow officer
writes 'Nous avons fetes St. Patrick dans toutes les formes de facon que
Croghan n'a pu ecrire par cet expres...'

No. 84. Again much of interest. An article on Canada's World War I
Irish regiments, to put alongside the Australian above. An article on
Irish soldiers in the 1899-1900 Boer War. Elizabeth Malcolm continues
her important work on the history of policing - her study here of the
RIC clarifies intriguing Irish/British incongruities. And Patrick Jung,
on the Thompson gun and gun-running episodes in 1921 is an important and
careful piece of work - clarifying at last how it came to be that the
IRA were able to smuggle Thompson guns into Ireland before Colt started
manufacturing them in Connecticut. Patrick Jung can look at a
photograph of a Thompson gun and tell you its model number. In Irish
Sword the detail is always great.

Please note - confirming earlier Ir-D messages on this - that the only
contact information I have for The Irish Sword is
Honorary Editor. KENNETH FERGUSON, LL.B., PHD. Address: MILITARY HISTORY
SOCIETY OF IRELAND Newman House, University College, 86, St Stephen's
Green. Dublin, 2.

P.O'S.


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From Patrick O'Sullivan



THE IRISH SWORD
THE JOURNAL OF THE MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND
VOL. XX, No.82 WINTER 1997

CONTENTS
THE CIVIL WAR, 1922-23 A SELECTION OF THE PAPERS DELIVERED TO A
CONFERENCE BEGUN AT CATHAL BRUGHA BARRACKS, DUBLIN, ON 11-13 SEPTEMBER
1997, AND THERE RECONVENED AND CONCLUDED ON 31 OCTOBER 1998


Proceedings at the opening session 273

The British Military Evacuation Anthony Kinsella 275

The Civil War from the pro-Treaty Perspective Michael Hopkinson 287

The Irish Civil War 1922-1923: an anti-Treaty Perspective Brian P.
Murphy 293

Organisation and Development of the pro-Treaty Forces, 1922-1924 Patrick
Long 308

The Special Infantry Force Anthony Kinsella 331

The Pettigo - Belleek Triangle Incident (Illustrated) Anthony Kinsella
347

External Intelligence and the Civil War Eunan O'Halpin 367

Women and the Civil War Ann Matthews 379

The Aftermath of the Civil War Tom Garvin 387

Book Reviews 396

Proceedings 1997 398

Honorary Editor. KENNETH FERGUSON, LL.B., PH.D. Address: MILITARY
HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND Newman House, University College, 86, St
Stephen's Green, Dublin, 2.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

THE IRISH SWORD
The Journal of MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Vol XXI No. 83 Summer 1998

THE CONTENTS PAGE

The Soldiers' Palace: a note on the history anid present use of the
Hotel National des Invalides 1

The influence of the Invalides on the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham 3

Irish veterans at the Hotel Royal des Invalides (1692-1769)
(Illustrated) Eoghan O hAnnrachain 5

The Picardy companies, 1598-99: an Elizabethan regiment in Ireland
Andrew Graham 43

Munro's Benburb army, 1646 Clive L.C. Hollick 51

The French expedition to Bantry Bay, 1796, and the boat from the Resolue
(Illustrated) Paul M Kerrigan 65

Some examples of Irish enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force, 1914
(Illustrated) John Connor 85

The Volunteer Reserve and the IRA Brian Hanley 93

Proposed Uniform Regulations for the Volunteer Force, 1933 99

Notes: The Tullamore incident, 1806: death of Christophe Koch; Captain
James Hamilton of Newcastle and the battle of Benburb; Captain George
Crogban and St. Patrick's Day in Pennsylvania, 1763 and 1768; Lieutenant
Michael Davern ( 1708-1771 ); The economic effects of withdrawal:
Buttevant and Ballyvonare 1922; Military background to the Lutheran
church in Marlborough Street, Dublin; Bere Island and Berebaven 1803-05
105

Queries 117

Book reviews 118

Honorary Editor. KENNETH FERGUSON, LL.B., PHD. Address: MILITARY HISTORY
SOCIETY OF IRELAND Newman House, University College, 86, St Stephen's
Green. Dublin, 2.

From Patrick O'Sullivan


THE IRISH SWORD
The Journal of MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Vol XXI No. 84 Winter 1998

CONTENTS


The second world war and the saga of the Irish Regiment of Canada
(Illustrated) Brian Horgan 121

Canada's Irish regiments Edward Atkinson 133

The Sack of Baltimore, 1538 (Illustrated) Edward O'Mahony 137

The Scottish Fencible Regiments in Ireland Allan L. Carswell 155

Guernsey and the '98: a fragment from the rebellion Stephen Wood 160

The Royal Guernsey Militia 162

From Light Infantry to Constabulary: the military origim of the Irish
police, 1798-1850 Eizabeth Malcolm 163

'Dear Mother - It's a terrible life': Irish soldiers' letters from the
Boer War, 1899-1900, Gary Owens 176

Casualties in Irish regiments, 1899-1900 Anthony Kinsella 188

The Thompson submachine gun during and after the Anglo-lrish war: the
new evidence (Illustrated) Patrick Jung 190

Notes: Second Lieutenant A. V.G. Killingley: a personal recollection;
Deserters 1704; Francis Patrick O'Neillan Baron Laimpruch zu Epurz;
Oughterard barrack and Iar-Connaught; The defence of Ireland 1797;
AthJone 1798; Office of Ordnance advertisements printed in Faulkners
Dublin Journal of Saturday October 2Oth 1810; Ophthalmia in the army in
Ireland 219

Book Reviews 228

Rembering 1798: a bibliographical essay Patrick McCarthy 232

Proceedings 1998 239

Honorary Editor. KENNETH FERGUSON, LL.B., PHD. Address: MILITARY HISTORY
SOCIETY OF IRELAND Newman House, University College, 86, St Stephen's
Green. Dublin, 2.

From Patrick O'Sullivan

This looks interesting...

From the publisher's advertisement...

P.O'S.


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Subject: Re: Ir-D Onward migration from England
From: Eileen A Sullivan

Dear Oliver,

You may be interested to learn that about 1815 a County Monaghan
Catholic
priest in Donagh, Father Moynagh was encouraging and assisting Irish
emigration to Canada. info is on the web under County Monaghan.
Seamus McCluskey, Main St, Emyvale can give you more details.

Noted your message on Irish/Brazil connections , I sent Peter O'Neill
an
article for Links on the ill fated emigrants brought over in 1828 from
Cork by Cotter to fight in a war that no longer existed.

Awaiting Munira's directions to send Joyce books for the students' use.
Don't expect to dig any further into Joyce, digging into the 19th
century: JJ's tap roots. Writing Carleton's bio. Do you have any info
on this Knockmany Giant?

Dr. Eileen A. Sullivan, Director
The Irish Educational Association, Inc. Tel # (352)
332
3690
6412 NW 128th Street E-Mail :
eolas1[at]juno.com
Gainesville, FL 32653

From: Cymru66[at]aol.com
Subject: Re: Ir-D Transcomm News, Issue No. 3


Dear Patrick,
It does not surprise me that this organisation, among many others,
does not
take us seriously. I think that part of the problem is that our
ancestors
have been so successful in achieving prosperity in the Diaspora,
including
Britain, that we are not deprived and suffering enough to warrant
attention.
During my research on the Irish in Chicago I interviewed the Rev. Fr.
Wall,
pastor of Old St. Patrick's church located in the city centre. Wall
told me
of the time when the Archdiocesan administrators decided to interview
representatives of all ethnic groups in the city to find-out their most
pressing needs. The one group they didn't even think to interview was
the
Irish - they have attended to any needs they may have had and now run
the
city and have Hibernicised the most influential section of the Church in
the
U.S. Wall also confessed to me that he'd never thought that there was
such a
group as 'poor Irish' until he'd visited Boston. He has turned Old St.
Patrick's into the most 'fashionable' church in the diocese with a
strong,
visiting congregation confined to members of the upper-middle class and
containing not one member of Irish birth.
The Irish here are regarded, in general, by other ethnic groups as
being
WASPS - part of the powerful 'establishment'. As my old friend Andrew
Greeley
claimed in a recent review, the Irish are the most successful gentile
immigrant group in the U.S. (What he omitted to say was that the most
succesful of all were the Ulster Protestants; he does not admit of
their
existence.).
Who wants, other than us, to investigate the history and development
of
very successful settlers in the diaspora?

Best,

John Hickey

From: Caitriona Ni Laoire
Subject: Conference of Irish Geographers 2000

Apologies for cross-posting!

Conference announcement and call for papers
Ir-D list members may be interested in our first conference theme
(see below) in particular.

Conference of Irish Geographers 2000
School of Geography
Queen's University Belfast
12-14 May 2000

Conference Themes:

Ireland: Outside / Inside
Ireland: Environment and Nature

Papers, posters and ideas for workshops are welcomed on the
conference themes or on other topics - open sessions will be
arranged.

Conference Structure

Friday: There will be a plenary session in the evening.
Saturday: Themed and open paper sessions, posters and workshops
will be held, followed by the conference dinner in the
evening.

Sunday: A field trip will be held during the morning.

A business meeting will be arranged to discuss the future
organisation of the Conference of Irish Geographers.

The Geographical Society of Ireland Postgraduate Prize will be
awarded to the best paper presented by a postgraduate at the
Conference of Irish Geographers.

Visit the conference website at http://www.qub.ac.uk/geosci/irish1.html

Conference Committee
Prof. James Anderson, Dr. Keith Lilley, Dr. Caitriona Ni Laoire,
Dr. Stephen Royle, Dr. James Ryan and Dr. Roy Tomlinson.

If you wish to attend the conference please return the reply slip
to the address below (by mail or email) or contact us by Friday
18th February 2000. Information on B&B / hotels will be available
later.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Contact: Mrs Lorna McCandless
School of Geography
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN

Telephone: (UK): (028) 9033 5140 (Int): +44 28 9033 5140
Fax: (UK): (028) 9032 1280 (Int): +44 28 9032 1280
Email: l.mccandless[at]qub.ac.uk

Reply slip

CONFERENCE OF IRISH GEOGRAPHERS 2000
School of Geography, The Queen's University of Belfast

Name:

Address:


Telephone:
Email:

Workshop: Yes No Poster: Yes No

Paper: Yes No

If yes, please supply a title and an abstract of 100 words
(preferably by email):


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Dr. Caitriona Ni Laoire
School of Geography
Queens University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN.

Tel. (01232) 273354