From Patrick O'Sullivan

Irish Studies Centre
University of North London

Public Lecture Series 2000-03-13


Thursday 6 April
Seamus Deane
'FROM THE GOTHIC TO THE MODERN: IRISH FICTION 1850-1930'

Friday 5 May
Fergal Keane
?Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies: An Agenda for Hope?

Wednesday 24 May
Helena Kennedy QC
'CHANGING IDENTITIES: IRELAND AND BRITAIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY'

All lectures are free and commence at 7.30 pm
Reception to follow

Entrance by registration ONLY
For more information and registration contact

Tony Murray
Irish Studies Centre
University of North London
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
Telephone: 020 7753 5018
Email: isc[at]unl.ac.uk

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of SABHAL MOR OSTAIG and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish
Studies, University of Aberdeen


Celtic Cultures in the Emigrant Context
Dualchas Ceilteach Nan Eilthireach

Sabhal Mor Ostaig
Skye
22-25 June 2000

This major international conference, with the support of Highlands and Islands Enterprise,
will explore the experiences and cultural traditions of Celtic peoples from Cornwall,
Wales, Ireland and the Scottish Highlands after their emigration to Australasia and North
America.

The conference at Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye, an island which experienced extensive
emigration in the nineteenth century to the New World, will also feature excursions to the
Isle of Raasay and a full programme of traditional entertainments including a conference
dinner and ceilidh.

Speakers include: Margaret Bennett (Glasgow) Ewan Cameron (Edinburgh) Jennie Coleman
(Otago) Tom Devine (Aberdeen) David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College) Norman Gillies (SMO)
Marjory Harper (Aberdeen) Jim Hunter (SMO) Robert Owen Jones (Cardiff) Allan Macinnes
(Aberdeen) Farquhar Macintosh (SMO) Andrew McKillop (Aberdeen) Hugh Dan Maclennan (SMO)
Bill Mcleod (BBC) John Norman Macleod (SMO) Wilson Macleod (SMO) lain MacPherson (SMO)
Philip Payton (Exeter) Donald William Stewart (BBC) Mark Wringe (SMO)

Booking information from:
Mr Norman Gillies or Dr Hugh Dan MacLennan,
Sabhal Mor Ostaig,
Sleat,
Isle of Skye, IV44 8RQ,
Scotland,

Tel: 01471 88800

or visit:
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss
or www.smo.uhi.ac.uk

From Patrick O'Sullivan

I thought that the following might be of interest, in the light of recent discussions on
the Irish-Diaspora list...

P.O'S.

TI: Ethnic inequality in England: an analysis based on the 1991 census
AU: Model_S
JN: Ethnic and racial studies, Nov 1999, Vol.22, No.6, pp.966-990
AB: Using data drawn from the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) of the 1991 UK
Census, this study uses multivariate analysis to examine the economic position of
immigrants and their children on six dependent variables. The research finds that, net
measurable individual characteristics, some non-white groups outperform native whites,
several non-white groups outperform the foreign-born Irish, and Pakistanis are not
uniquely disadvantaged. Native birth brings occupational improvement but does little to
mitigate unemployment. In addition, on several outcomes, Indian males outrank Black
Caribbean males, while Black Caribbean females outrank Indian females. The implications of
these and other patterns are taken up in the article's concluding section. Reprinted by
permission of Routledge
IS: 0141-9870
DT: Article
DC: Sociology
SD: Racial discrimination Inequality Racial differentiation Surveys Data analysis Social
systems Socioeconomic status Immigrant adaptation
GD: England United Kingdom

From Patrick O'Sullivan

Forwarded on behalf of
Alisdair Rogers
The Editor, Global Networks, ISCA, 51 Banbury Road. Oxford OX2 6PE.
[ali.rogers[at]geog.ox.ac.uk]


A NEW JOURNAL to be published by BLACKWELL
in conjunction with the TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME

Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs

Global Networks is a path-breaking journal devoted to the social scientific understanding
of globalization and transnationalism. In the 21st century emerging transnational actors
will play an ever more important role in both global and local affairs. They represent the
human face of globalization. Such actors enter into the spaces opened up by the
intersection of corporate capital and the new information, communication and
transportation technologies.

A feature of globe-spanning interactions of all kinds is the building and sustaining of
social, economic, political and cultural networks. These global networks are constituted
by dynamic and often flexible connections between individuals, family-members, firms,
social groups, and organisations. They transcend territorial borders, rupturing the
degrees of cultural and economic self-sufficiency once experienced by nations and
communities.

Such transnational processes, from below as well as above, present profound challenges and
opportunities to states, corporations, cities and territorial-based actors. They also
enable the imagination and construction of innovative forms of human solidarity and
citizenship. Embedded in global networks, some actors resist globalization, others search
for alternatives, both legal and criminal. Some places and communities are empowered,
others are switched off.

Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs will publish high-quality,
internationally refereed articles that seek to make sense of these transformative
processes. Global in coverage and outlook, the journal will be indispensable to informed
and critical thinkers everywhere.

Issue 1 due January 2001 (4 issues per year)

Editors: Alisdair Rogers (Oxford University, UK), Robin Cohen (Warwick University, UK) and
Steve Venovec (Oxford University, UK).

Regional Editors: Nancy Foner (State University of New York, USA), Luis Edward Guarnizo
(University of California Davis, USA), Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of
Singapore), Marco Martiniello (University of Liege, Belgium).

Associate Editors: Ayse Caglar (Free University Berlin, Germany), Katharyne Mitchell
(University of Washington, USA), Stephen Calleya (Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic
Studies, Malta), Robert C. Smith (Columbia University, USA).

Editorial Board: John Agnew, Manuel Castells, Stephen Castles, Jeff Crisp, Ulf Hannerz,
Jeffrey Henderson. Richard Higgott, Ravindra K. Jain, Paul Kennedy, David Ley, Richard
O'Brien, Alejandro Portes, Kevin Robins, Mari Sako, Leslie Sklair, Michael Peter Smith,
Steve Woolgar

Address for Further Details and Offers of Papers:
The Editor, Global Networks, ISCA, 51 Banbury Road. Oxford OX2 6PE.
[ali.rogers[at]geog.ox.ac.uk]

From: ppo[at]aber.ac.uk (Paul O' Leary)
Subject: India and Ireland


I came across references to connections between Irish nationalists and
Indian nationalists in London after the First World War in the Cabinet
papers at the Public Record Office (CAB 24/129). This source consists of
papers presented to the Cabinet on a weekly basis and includes reports by
the Directorate of Intelligence at the Home Office on 'revolutionary
organisations' in the UK. These confidential reports discussed subversive
elements ranging from the unemployed to the Communist Party and Sinn Fein.
There is a considerable amount of data on the Irish Self-Determination
League, and it is clear that the authorities were particularly perturbed by
appearance of Indian nationalists as speakers on ISDL platforms. The
prospect of these two movements unpicking the threads holding the Empire
together was not lost on the intelligence services.

Paul O'Leary





Dr. Paul O'Leary
Adran Hanes a Hanes Cymru / Dept. of History and Welsh History,
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth / University of Wales Aberystwyth,
Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 3DY

Tel: 01970 622842
Fax: 01970 622676

From Patrick O'Sullivan

UNLIKELY MONUMENTS

Irish Diaspora Studies has fairly been described as the history of the universe, from the
Irish point of view.

As we look around the universe we see that even the stars have their own Irish resonances.
In the southern hemisphere, for example, there is the Southern Cross which looked down on
Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade. In the northern hemisphere we have O'Ryan's Belt.

Throughout the world there are monuments of the Irish Diaspora, if we can only learn to
look at the world with Irish-Diaspora-awareness.

The theme of the Irish-Diaspora List Traditional St. Patrick's Day Competition for the
year 2000 is

UNLIKELY MONUMENTS

Competitors are invited to pick an item, an object, a thing or a whatsit and nominate it
as an UNLIKELY MONUMENT of the Irish Diaspora. You should imagine that you are taking a
visitor on an Irish-Diaspora-aware tour of your neighbourhood.

Marks will be awarded for

incongruity
ingenuity
plausibility
implausibility
bare-faced cheek
laziness
and
scholarship

I had better explain the last two...

laziness: the least physical effort will gain most marks. If I take my visitor to my
study window and point out my neighbour's prize catalpa that would gain more marks than
making the poor soul climb up to Ilkley Moor to look at 'the Celtic Rose'

scholarship: the scholarship must be genuine and supported by full scholarly references.

Competitors will need to bear in mind the conflicting and arbitrary demands of this
marking system. The decisions of the Irish-Diaspora List Traditional St. Patrick's Day
Competition Marking Sub-Committee (I-DLTSPDMS-C) will be arbitrary, and will be final.

Entries should be sent to this special St. Patrick's Day Competition email address


NOT to the Irish-Diaspora list email address.

The closing date is Friday March 31 2000

However, entries are welcome from this moment onwards. Regular reports will appear on the
Ir-D list, and really good examples of UNLIKELY MONUMENTS will be shared with the members
of the Ir-D list.

There will be prizes.

Good Luck, everyone.

Paddy O'Sullivan


- --
Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Email Patrick O'Sullivan
Irish-Diaspora list
Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England

From Patrick O'Sullivan

I spoke in an earlier Ir-D messsage about the fact that so many of the Irish Language Web
sites depend on the enthusiasm of enthusiasts...

One of these is Leona MacDonald at Solas Eireann. We have received a message, below, from
Leona. It is with very mixed feelings that I forward this message to the Irish-Diaspora
list - please, only do what Leona asks if you are comfortable with this use of the
potential of the World Wide Web. I can only flag it here as another example of the
struggles of Irish language enthusiasts to harness that potential...

P.O'S.



Forwarded on behalf of...
Leona MacDonald
Traditional Irish Culture Limited
Solas Eireann & Irish 100 at blackboard
http://www.solaseirann.com

This message goes out to the 1500 plus individuals who are students, friends and
supporters of Solas Eireann and Irish 100 at Blackboard. We have recently signed on as an
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What do you get?
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Note: You will receive an email after you join asking you to confirm your email address.
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It is my view that all concerned will flourish under an association with Suite 101. The
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via Celtic TV, and copyright purchases. This is one way for you to help keep lessons
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Sign up today and keep us growing!~Leona









Leona MacDonald
Traditional Irish Culture Limited
Solas Eireann & Irish 100 at blackboard
http://www.solaseirann.com

From: Don MacRaild
Subject: Book query

Has any list member happened across a [very recent?] book on Cromwellian Ireland by an
author
called James Scott Wheeler? I'd appreciate a title and publisher.

Thanks

Don MacRaild
Sunderland

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[This is just in, from Brad Patterson, in New Zealand. When we have more detailed
information we will share it with the Irish-Diaspora list.

P.O'S.]


Dear Patrick O'Sullivan,

Professor Patrick O'Farrell has suggested I bring to your attention a conference currently
being organised, The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. This is
an initiative of the Stout Research Centre, an interdisciplinary unit at Victoria
University of Wellington. The occasion will be hosted at the National Library of New
Zealand between 20-22 July 2000.

The stimulus for the conference is a return visit to the Centre by Don Akenson, who will
be delivering this year's annual Stout Lecture. In the light of Don's _Half the World from
Home-Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand_ (1990), and in particular the research
challenges thrown down, it seemed apposite to attempt a stocktake of recent and ongoing
research into the New Zealand Irish experience.

In addition to keynote papers by Professors Akenson and O'Farrell (and possibly another
overseas guest), 12-14 original papers by local scholars will be presented. Should this
conference be of interest for your website, I should be very happy to send details once
the programme is finalised. As far as we can establish, this will be the first such New
Zealand conference.

May I also express my appreciation of the contents of your site. Needless to say, I now
have an additional bookmark!
With all best wishes
Brad Patterson
Senior Research Fellow

[Further to Brad Patterson's message, about the Conference on the Irish in New Zealand...

I thought that this might be of interest to those who know James Belich's excellent book,
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders (1996). It is intriguing to see Berlich
now engaging with the historians of North America. It is possible to envisage a
Belich-influenced history of Ireland. Or is it the other way round - an
Ireland-influenced history of New Zealand?

P.O'S.]


- -----Original Message-----
Subject: ANN: Empire and Its Myth, Washington DC (Apr 27, 2000


The Georgetown University Law Center and the Center for Australian and
New Zealand Studies
cordially invite you to attend a symposium "Empire and Its Myth," on
Thursday, April 27, at 6:00 p.m., Twelfth Floor, Gewirz Student
Center,
Georgetown University Law Center, 120 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.

The symposium will compare European contact with indigenous peoples in
New Zealand and in North America. The principal paper will be
delivered by Professor James Belich of the University of Auckland, who
is currently Fulbright Visiting Professor of New Zealand Studies at
Georgetown's Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies.

Professor Belich's paper will be followed by comments from Gregory
Evans Dowd, Department of History, University of Notre Dame, who is
the
author of A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle
for
Unity, 1745-1815 (1992), and Dale A. Turner, Department of Government
and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College. Refreshments will be
served.

Professor Belich will explore what he terms "a basic myth of empire,"
that interaction and settlement were, or would quickly and necessarily
become, empire. Europeans, he will argue, inherently tended to
exaggerate the extent to which they had established an empire through
an initial, crippling impact, conversion, or conquest. This could
generate a situation of "False Empire," a state of affairs that
Europeans believed to be empire or the verge of it, but which in fact
was interaction with indigenous polities on the basis of some
parity. The shattering of this protective illusion by some contingent
circumstance was a common cause of wars of conquest. (Conquest, in
particular, was vulnerable to a structured, and therefore predicable,
mythologizing.) Belich will illustrate this dynamic with examples
drawn from New Zealand and the U.S. West in the 19th century.

James Belich's major work is Making Peoples: A History of the New
Zealanders (1996), which treated the country's history from Polynesian
settlement to the end of the nineteenth century." His earlier,
prize-winning books are The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian
Interpretation of Racial Conflict (1986) and "I Shall Not
Die": Titokowaru's War, 1868-9 (1989).

Professor Belich is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington
and
of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He has held a
personal chair as Professor of History at the University of Auckland
since 1997.

The symposium is open to the public, but seating is limited. To
reserve space, please telephone Professor Daniel Ernst, Georgetown
University Law Center, (202) 662-9475, ernst[at]law.georgetown.edu. For
direction to the Gewirz Center, please consult
www.law.georgetown.edu/topics/directions/html. For more information,
please contact Professor Ernst or the Georgetown Center for Australian
and New Zealand Studies, (202) 687-7464 or 687-7347.

[Here's a good one, just in - to start the ball rolling... Patrick Maume develops the
very announcement of the Irish-Diaspora list's St. Patrick's Day Competition...

P.O'S.]



From: Patrick Maume
Subject: Re: Ir-D St. Patrick's Day Competition
To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk

From: Patrick Maume


On Mon 13 Mar 2000 18:45:00 +0000 irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:

> From:irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk> Date: Mon 13 Mar 2000 18:45:00
+0000
> Subject: Ir-D St. Patrick's Day Competition
> To: irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk
>
>
>
> From Patrick O'Sullivan
>
> UNLIKELY MONUMENTS
>
> Irish Diaspora Studies has fairly been described as the history of
the universe, from the
> Irish point of view.
>
> As we look around the universe we see that even the stars have their
own Irish resonances.
> In the southern hemisphere, for example, there is the Southern Cross
which looked down on
> Peter Lalor at the Eureka Stockade. In the northern hemisphere we
have O'Ryan's Belt.
>
Thus is confirmed the disgruntled prediction by the Earl of Rosse (of
telescope fame) that under Home Rule astronomy would be subject to
compulsory hibernicisation and we would see the great O'Brien rising
westward from the deep.

(For the uninitiated - he is parodying a line from Tennyson's poem
"Locksley Hall" where the speaker says he has often roamed the hills
all night and "seen the great Orion rising westward from the deep".
William O'Brien was a leading Home Ruler and land campaigner, seen by
his political opponents as a demented demagogue. I got the Rosse
quote from an article by Greta Jones, but don't have the exact
reference.)
Best wishes,
Patrick

From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland

The title is Cromwell in Ireland by James Scott Wheeler. Publisher is Gill and Macmillan
Ltd. Their web site is www.gillmacmillan.ie The price listed is 19.99 Irish punts.
Carmel McC.

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

> From: Don MacRaild
> Subject: Book query
>
> Has any list member happened across a [very recent?] book on Cromwellian Ireland by an
> author
> called James Scott Wheeler? I'd appreciate a title and publisher.
>
> Thanks
>
> Don MacRaild
> Sunderland
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The title is Cromwell in Ireland by James Scott Wheeler.  Publisher
is Gill and Macmillan Ltd.  Their web site is www.gillmacmillan.ie  
The price listed is 19.99 Irish punts.
Carmel McC.
irish-diaspora[at]Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
From: Don MacRaild <don.macraild[at]sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject: Book query
Has any list member happened across a [very recent?] book on Cromwellian
Ireland by an
author
called James Scott Wheeler?  I'd appreciate a title and publisher.
Thanks
Don MacRaild
Sunderland
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From: "joan hugman"
Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland

Re James Scott Wheeler and his Cromwellian adventures:
paperback and
a hardback available with the title Cromwell in Ireland. PB, pub by
Gill &Macmillan Oct 1999 (ISBN 0717128598) and HB, Pub by St Martins
Press Jan 2000 (Isbn 0312225504)
Joan Hugman


From: Don MacRaild
Subject: Book query

Has any list member happened across a [very recent?] book on Cromwellian Ireland by an
author
called James Scott Wheeler? I'd appreciate a title and publisher.

Thanks

Don MacRaild
Sunderland


Joan Hugman
Department of History, Armstrong Building,
University of Newcastle NE1 7RU Tel 0191 222 6701

1.
From: jmcgurk[at]tinet.ie
Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland

Dear Don, The exact title is Cromwell in Ireland ( Gill & Macmillan, £19.99)
and is reviewed in the present issue of History Ireland by Micheal O
Siochru, pp.52/3. Best wishes, John McGurk
jmcgurk[at]eircom.net.


2.
From: Russell Murray
Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland

"Cromwell in Ireland" Gill & Macmillan ISBN 0717128849

There is a review of it in the latest issue ((Vol 8, No 1) of "History
Ireland" - generally favourable!


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

From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 02:25
Subject: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland


>
>
> From: Don MacRaild
> Subject: Book query
>
> Has any list member happened across a [very recent?] book on Cromwellian
Ireland by an
> author
> called James Scott Wheeler? I'd appreciate a title and publisher.
>
> Thanks
>
> Don MacRaild
> Sunderland
>
>

From: DanCas1[at]aol.com

Forwarded for information...

Danny Cassidy

>
>> ****************************************************
>> Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model
>> Denis O'Hearn
>> Pluto Press, 1998
>> Paperback - ISBN 0 7453 1283 7 - price - UKP 12.99; USD 22.50
>> Hardback - ISBN 0 7453 1288 8 - price - UKP 40.00; USD 59.95
>>
>> Reviewed for irl-comment by James Heartfield, author of 'Need and
>> Desire in the post-material economy', Sheffield Hallam University
>> Press.
>>
>>
>> American Investment Bank Morgan Stanley first suggested that Ireland
>> had become a Celtic Tiger, citing impressive growth figures in the
>> first half of the 1990s (Kevin Gardiner, 'The Irish Economy: a Celtic
>> tiger', MS Euroletter, 31 August 1994). In 1996 the Scottish National
>> Party leader Alex Salmond embarrassed the British government with by
>> eliciting figures from the House of Commons Library to the effect that
>> Ireland would 'become more prosperous that the UK and Scotland by the
>> year 2000' (O'Hearn, p.65).
>>
>> For a country that has lived for years in the shadow of the old
>> oppressor, Britain, the news was a boost, especially as it indicated
>> that the occupied North of the country, too, was falling behind
>> southern growth rates. What better rebuttal to the failed politics of
>> Unionism and British imperialism?
>>
>> Denis O'Hearn of Queen's University, Belfast and the West Belfast
>> Economic Forum is an Irish republican by instinct who takes no
>> pleasure from talking down Eire's economic success. His book is a
>> relentless demolition of the case that Ireland is a Celtic Tiger that
>> indicates the real story of the Irish economy: subservience to foreign
>> capital.
>>
>> O'Hearn shows that the South's growth falls well below that of the
>> East Asian tigers, averaging around 4 per cent a year in the first
>> half of the decade compared to an East Asian average in excess of
>> twice that. Moreover East Asian tigers earned the name for sustained
>> growth over thirty years where Ireland's growth follows decades of
>> poor economic performance. It is only relative to the slow growth of
>> Europe that Ireland stands out.
>>
>> But even the growth that has taken place, argues O'Hearn, is
>> deceptive. Alex Salmond's intervention drew on EU statistics that
>> showed Ireland's GDP per capita was outstripping Britain's and even
>> exceeded the EU average. But this estimation of GDP is not in one
>> currency, but what the Euro statisticians call 'purchasing power
>> parities', i.e. units that would purchase the same services and goods
>> in each country. This measure has a tendency to equal out inequalities
>> between poorer Southern European economies and richer Northern ones.
>> Measured in ECUs the equivalent figures show Ireland's GDP at about 82
>> per cent of the EU average in 1995, not quite the evidence of
>> convergence that was trumpeted.
>>
>> O'Hearn also argues that growth in Gross National Product, which
>> excludes 'profits, dividends and interest that are removed from the
>> country' (p62) would be a more telling measure than GDP. 'Ireland is
>> unique in Europe to the degree that its GDP exceeds is GNP' he points
>> out, indicating that a great deal of the surplus is being exported:
>> 'By 1996, southern Irish GNP was more that 13 per cent lower than GDP'
>> having consistently diverged since 1980 (p.63).
>>
>> Much of the recorded growth is due to foreign investment accounting
>> for half of Ireland's Industrial output and employment, and three
>> quarters of its maufactured exports and imports according to a 1994
>> OECD study (quoted in 'The Irish Economy' New Zealand treasury working
>> paper Sarah Box). But O'Hearn argues that this is deceptive, since a
>> lot of the recorded output of foreign firms is fixed to take advantage
>> of Ireland's low taxes on FDI (ten per cent according to Box) and
>> favourable government grants (around $69 million per annum according
>> to Box). O'Hearn shows that foreign firms import components and raw
>> materials at artificially low prices from parent companies, and
>> assemble them in Ireland to redistribute profits within her favourable
>> tax regime. O'Hearn notes that many US firms operating Irish
>> subsidiaries are investigated by US tax authorities for such price
>> fixing.
>>
>> The effect of this phantom growth - noted by Reuters under the
>> headline 'Elvis lives Irish trade data' - is that firms record growth
>> without any noticeable investment. Indeed income statistics show that
>> wages, investment, government spending all falling, while the value of
>> exports rises exponentially. This, suggests O'Hearn is the disguised
>> repatriation of profits through internal price-rigging by foreign
>> investors.
>>
>> The discussion of the Irish economy has been ill-informed in recent
>> years with most contributions impressionistically welcoming the
>> emergence of a modern Irish economy. O'Hearn has returned to a
>> critical examination of the subordination of the Irish economy to
>> international capital. In a country where the foreign share of fixed
>> capital investment rose from about 60 per cent in 1988 to 75-80 per
>> cent in the 1990s (p.70), this is a well-made point. O'Hearn's
>> highlighting of the problem is the first step to redressing it.
>>
>>
> >>

From: Donald MacRaild
Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwell in Ireland

Thanks to all who answered the Cromwell query. I knew the answer, of course,
and was merely testing you! (No I wasn't). Thanks again.

Don

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

> 1.
> From: jmcgurk[at]tinet.ie
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland
>
> Dear Don, The exact title is Cromwell in Ireland ( Gill & Macmillan, £19.99)
> and is reviewed in the present issue of History Ireland by Micheal O
> Siochru, pp.52/3. Best wishes, John McGurk
> jmcgurk[at]eircom.net.
>
> 2.
> From: Russell Murray
> Subject: Re: Ir-D Cromwellian Ireland
>
> "Cromwell in Ireland" Gill & Macmillan ISBN 0717128849
>
> There is a review of it in the latest issue ((Vol 8, No 1) of "History
> Ireland" - generally favourable!
>

Forwarded on behalf of Ian Chambers

Subject: 11th Irish Australian Conference

11th Irish Australian Conference

The last week in April will see a feast of Irish Studies when Murdoch
University, University Notre Dame Australia and the Australian Irish
Heritage Asociation host 'Acts of Union', the 11th Irish Australian
Conference.

The biennial conference is the principal vehicle for Irish Studies and
Irish Australian Studies in Australia. With speakers from Ireland, Britain,
the United States and New Zealand as well as interstate, it will offer more
than ninety papers on a fascinating variety of subjects.

The Conference takes it title from the 200th anniversary of the Act of
Union and this provides the subject for keynote addresses by Professor
Gearoid O Tuathaigh of National University Ireland at Galway and Professor
Tom Bartlett of University College Dublin.

Dr Ruan O Donnell of the University of Limerick and Professor Geoffrey
Bolton of Murdoch University will also be speaking on different aspects of
the Act of Union.

Other keynote addresses on different themes include Sr Veronica Brady on
'Celtic Spirituality and the Irish', Patrick Dodson on 'Aborigines and the
Irish' and Sean Doran on 'The Second Irish Renaissance'.

The Irish broadcaster and writer Siobhan McHugh will give the Mary Durack
Lecture as part of the Conference. In 'Creating "The Irish Empire"' she
will share her experiences in the making of the recent television
documentary series.

Western Australian speakers include Felix McKight on the Irish origins of
Australian Rules, writer Pat Jacob on the influence of Irish nuns in the
Kimberley and biographer Tony Evans on C.Y. O'Connor.

Western Australian academics will include Dennis Haskell and Tom O'Donoghue
(University of Western Australia), Neil Mcleod, Ian Chambers, Danny Cusack
and Ann Partlon (Murdoch University), Chris Griffin (Edith Cowan
Uhiversity), Michael Thorpe and Graham Seal (Curtin University) and Simon
Adams and Ainslie Roberts (Notre Dame).

Day sessions of the conference will be held at Murdoch University and
evening sessions will be at Notre Dame and other Fremantle venues.
Registration is available on a daily basis as well as for the whole
conference. Registration forms and other details can be obtained from the
Conference website at:

wwwsoc.murdoch.edu.au/cfis or from Ian Chambers at 9360 2366.
Please register now to be certain of a place

From: Dymphna Lonergan
Subject: Re: Ir-D Solas Eireann

I have a problem with this. I would need to know
something about solas before I would consider
responding. My poor old computer froze every time I
hit that URL however. Can anyone give a brief run down
on solas and why I should do what they ask - given
that I don't care about the 'prizes'?

Just a reminder that I provide a free translation
service on memoryireland.com It takes up a bit of my
time but my reward is the networking and the sense
that I'm doing my bit to maintain a public profile for
the language.

Dymphna Lonergan

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Good wishes for St. Patrick's Day to all the members of the Irish-Diaspora list.

Here is the St. Patrick's Day Message from President McAleese, the President of the
Republic of Ireland.

The Irish language version of the President's message can be found at
http://www.emigrant.ie/emigrant/stpat00.htm

P.O'S.


MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT McALEESE
FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2000

Warmest greetings to everyone for this, the first St. Patrick's Day of
the third Millennium.

Here in Ireland, and all across the world, this great national feast
day is being celebrated by the global Irish family and by the many
friends of Ireland. The name of Patrick evokes for all of us, no
matter where we are gathered, a sense of pride, of belonging and of
affection for Ireland. Patrick truly is Patron Saint not just of the
island of Ireland, but of Irish people and their descendants
everywhere.

The enduring freshness of Saint Patrick as symbol and icon is
remarkable but not surprising. His life, lived a millennium and a half
ago, is a story of emigration and exile familiar to many Irish right up
to recent times and it is the story of so many exiled peoples in our
modern world. Patrick came to Ireland, a stranger from a foreign land.
He had no capital but his faith in God, faith in himself, a profound
love of humanity and his determination to make a difference. In
Ireland, his vision and talents found the space to blossom and through
his life his adopted homeland was transformed. Ireland took Patrick to
its heart so much so that he became the personification of its very
identity. His journey was far from easy and many an Irish emigrant has
drawn hope and comfort from his experience. Today we remember with
gratitude the legacy of St. Patrick and we take pride in the
extraordinary accomplishments of so many Irish men and women, and their
descendants, who comprise today's global Irish family.

In St. Patrick's life and work, we can trace so much that remains fresh
and relevant for Ireland today, not least his capacity to accept
difference, indeed to embrace and celebrate it. As we look at the
challenges and opportunities that now face our society, may we continue
to be inspired by St. Patrick's ethos of respectful tolerance, summed
up in those words attributed to him so long ago. "Christ in mouth of
friend and stranger."

Saint Patrick's message to us is that all things are possible through
hope, patience, forgiveness and respectful dialogue with others. We
have seen how putting that message into practice has enabled the
landscape of relationships within Northern Ireland, and between the
people of these two neighbouring islands, to be transformed in recent
years. Much remains to be done, but Patrick's message continues to
guide us, as we work for lasting peace and reconciliation on the island
of Ireland.

I extend my best wishes to Irish people everywhere for a most enjoyable
celebration of this special day.


MAIRE MHIC GHIOLLA IOSA
UACHTARAN NA hEIREANN

From: Jill Blee
Subject: Introducing Brigid

Hello!

I now have my own web site. Please have a look. It is at

www.pchost.com/jillblee

Check it out and sample some extracts from my new novel Brigid as well
as my first one, The Pines Hold their Secrets.

Let me know what you think of them

Regards

Jill Blee