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One is Matthew Plowman, "Irish Republicans and the Indo- German Conspiracy =
of World War I," New Hibernia Review 7.3 (Autumn 2003): 81-105

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f Of Jay Roszman
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Dear List Members,

In my Irish History course I've run across a question from a student that I=
didn't know the answer to, and thought I'd solicit the list for wisdom and=
reference to secondary sources.=20

Has any one written about, or encountered in the press, anger directed agai=
nst Irish Republicans during 1916 specifically because of their attempted c=
ollaboration with Germany? I had a student ask me if the Irish public gener=
ally were angry with the writers of the Easter Proclamation and the referen=
ce to "gallant allies in Europe" when so many had sent their sons or father=
s to fight, and die, against Germany. I know that Fearghal McGarry's The Ri=
sing does mention anti-German feeling among much of the Irish public during=
the war, as well as the anger generally expressed by "separation women", b=
ut I didn't see anything about reaction among the public to collusion with =
Germany.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

Best,

Jay
_____________________________
Jay Roszman
Dept. of History
Doctoral Candidate=20
jroszman[at]andrew.cmu.edu

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Hello Anelise=2C

I am the artistic director of AnNua who create new Irish theatre in Derry a=
nd use digital forms of audio and video to create sets/script etc. You can =
find out about us at the web site http://annuaproductions.com/ .We have jus=
t completed our Derry Story project as part of the Derry City of Culture pr=
ogram through which we combined many artists work=2C archivalmaterial=2C et=
hnography within the depiction of one day passing in the city.=20

At any rate=2C this work may be of interest. I also publish academically on=
the sociology of the arts.

Lat us know....

Thanks
Paul Moore (Director AnNua/PhD Sydney University)



> Date: Sat=2C 26 Oct 2013 13:05:17 -0400
> From: shrouta[at]GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [IR-D] Digital projects at ACIS
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>=20
> Hello all=2C
> I'm thinking about putting together an ACIS panel that showcases digital =
Irish studies projects - I was thinking 3 or 4 presentations that introduce=
d the projects=2C talked about their history=2C plans for the future=2C and=
introduced the kinds of sources available for Irish studies scholars. I'v=
e been involved with the Digital Almshouse Project out of Glucksman Ireland=
House at NYU=2C which is still in the early stages=2C but would be open to=
a panel that includes projects at all stages of development.
>=20
> If anyone is interested=2C please drop me a line at anshrout[at]davidson.ed
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
> Anelise Hanson Shrout=2C PhD
> Visiting Assistant Professor of History
> Davidson College
>=20
> E-mail: anshrout[at]davidson.edu
> Phone: 704.894.2134
> Office: Chambers 2139
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List members will be familiar with the work of William Jenkins from
several articles he has published. We now have a book and is most
welcome.

Dear Bill,
I'd like to bring the publication of my book on the Irish in Buffalo and
Toronto to the attention of the IR-D community.

It is entitled "Between Raid and Rebellion: the Irish in Buffalo and
Toronto, 1867-1916". I must say that in working on the book over the years,
I have profited from topical discussions and notices of publications on the
IR-D list, so I am especially glad to bring news of its publication to
those on the list.

More information about the book is available from the website of the
publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press) through the following link:
http://www.mqup.ca/between-raid-and-rebellion-products-9780773540958.php

(http://www.mqup.ca/between-raid-and-rebellion-products-9780773540958.php)

In case the link does not work for some people, I am pasting in the
description here:

In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and
allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and
one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter
Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto
and from Munster to Buffalo, he distinguishes what it meant to be Irish in
a loyal dominion within Britain's empire and in a republic whose
self-confidence knew no bounds.
Jenkins pays close attention to the transformations that occurred within
the Irish communities in these cities during this fifty-year period, from
residential patterns to social mobility and political attitudes. Exploring
their experiences in workplaces, homes, churches, and meeting halls, he
argues that while various social, cultural, and political networks were
crucial to the realization of Irish mobility and respectability in North
America by the early twentieth century, place-related circumstances linked
to wider national loyalties and diasporic concerns. With the question of
Irish home rule animating debates throughout the period, Toronto's unionist
sympathizers presented a marked contrast to Buffalo's nationalist
agitators. Although the Irish had acclimated to life in their new world
cities, their sense of feeling Irish had not faded to the degree so often
assumed.

A groundbreaking comparative analysis, Between Raid and Rebellion draws
upon perspectives from history and geography to enhance our understanding
of the Irish experiences in these centers and the process by which
immigrants settle into new urban environments.

Thanks in advance, and best wishes,
William



William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
1-270-809-6571 (phone)
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This may be of interest to some on the list.


16th Annual "History Across the Disciplines" Conference

Barriers and Bridges: Movement in the Atlantic World

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society invites faculty and graduate
students from all disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences to
submit papers for Dalhousie University’s 16th annual “History Across the
Disciplines” conference to be held March 21-23, 2014 in Halifax, Nova
Scotia.

The conference is intended to embrace all scholarship that explores the
dynamics of interaction between and within Atlantic communities. Of
particular relevance to this theme are discussions of demographic,
cultural, economic, religious, linguistic, legal, material and gendered
change in a variety of historical contexts.

The geography and chronology of the Atlantic World are defined broadly and
open to debate. As such, all proposals will be given due consideration.
Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one
page CV to the conference committee no later than Friday January 10, 2014.
Successful applicants will be notified within three weeks and must provide
the conference committee with a final paper no later than Friday February
28, 2014 in order to be considered for the John Flint Prize ($250
honourarium). The committee recommends final papers be 20-30 pages in
length, though no strict limitation will be imposed.

The conference opens on the evening of Friday, March 21 with a reception
and keynote address by Dr. Daniel Vickers, Professor of History at the
University of British Columbia. Following panel discussions on Saturday,
presenters are invited to experience local Halifax culture with us in an
informal setting, details to follow.

Kindly direct any comments, queries, and applications to the conference
committee at dalconference2014[at]gmail.com.

Thank you for your consideration and assistance in this matter,

Katie Sue Gallant, Chelsea Hartlen & David Martin
Conference Organisers

Dalhousie Graduate History Society
Department of History
Dalhousie University
PO Box 15000
Halifax NS B3H 4R2
dalconference2014[at]gmail.com
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Dear Bill,
=20
I would like the IR-D community to know about two of my recent books on =
Irish dance. Here are the details:
=20
Step Dancing in Ireland: Culture and History. Published by Ashgate =
Publishing Ltd. in 2013 and can be purchased in hardback or in =
electronic format directly from Ashgate. See =
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409448921
=20
Irish Traditional Step Dancing in North Kerry: a Contextual and =
Structural Analysis (Hardback book and accompanying DVD). Published by =
North Kerry Literary Trust in 2012 and can be purchased directly from =
The Seanchai, Kerry Literary and Cultural Centre, in Listowel, Co. =
Kerry. See =
http://kerrywritersmuseum.com/index.php/kerry-literary-centre-listowel-ev=
ents-guide/122-irish-traditional-step-dancing-in-north-kerry
Best wishes to all,
Catherine

Dr Catherine Foley=20
Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
Course Director MA Ethnochoreology=20
Course Director MA Irish Traditional Dance Performance=20
The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance=20
University of Limerick=20
Limerick=20
Ireland=20
Tel: 00 353 61 202922=20
Fax: 00 353 61 202589=20
Email: catherine.e.foley[at]ul.ie=20
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From: Patrick Maume
In relation to this old thread I have found another example of an Irish
nationalist taking a dismissive attitude towards the 1890s Armenian
massacres on the grounds that if the British condemn it there must be an
ulterior motive.

National Library of Ireland MS 43,312/16 Alice Stopford Green Papers, part
of the correspondence from JF Taylor the barrister/orator familiar to
readers of ULYSSES and Yeats' memoirs to Green, has a letter dated 11 June
1895 which jeers at British condemnation of the massacres as cheap
imperial philanthropy over Armenia, predicts the Turks will not be robbed
quietly,and declares that while Egypt was a nice stroke of burglary taking
Armenia would be a more formidable prospect for Britain.

I came across this because I am working on Taylor's entry in a "Missing
Persons" online supplement of the DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY (Royal
Irish Academy and Cambridge UP)
Best wishes,
Patrick Maume



On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Patrick Maume wrote=
:

> Re;Gladstone
> Gladstone's 1896 speech on Armenia does get a fair amount of attention,
> but attitudes tend to reflect attitudes towards Gladstone - e.g.
> PArnellites dismiss it as more British hypcrisy. This article by JJ
> O'Kelly may be of interest in this context:
>
> IRISH DAILY INDEPENDENT 24 January 1896 p.5 A RUSSO-TURKISH ALLIANCE BY
> JAMES J. O=92KELLY MP
>
> If the =93Pall Mall Gazette=94 correspondent at Constantinople can be
> trusted, an alliance, offensive and defensive, has been effected between
> the Russians and their old enemies the Turks. The news is probably true=
,
> because it is the logical outcome of the campaign against Turkey by the
> Anglo-Armenian Committee and the British Government. The unfortunate
> Armenian people were the first victims of the manoeuvres organised in
> London, and which culminated in the massacres of Erzerum and
> Constantinople. Against the advice of their trusted friends the Armenia=
n
> leaders allowed their movement to be given an anti-Russian character, and
> from that moment it was doomed to failure. The late demonstration of the
> Powers against Turkey came to nothing, because Russia would not consent t=
o
> the use of force against the Sultan=92s Empire. The game played by the
> Russian Government was perfectly clear to anyone even slightly acquainted
> with the rather complex politics of Eastern Europe, and it does not redou=
nd
> to the honour of either Lord Rosebery or Lord Salisbury that both of them
> walked into the net which was before their eyes. Russia encouraged
> England to bring pressure on Turkey in favour of the Asiatic Christians,
> and secretly encouraged the Sultan to reject the demands put forward by t=
he
> English Government. This simple device was sufficient to convince the
> Sultan that he would be safer leaning on the support of Russia than in
> depending on the British fleet. Without the expenditure of a soldier or=
a
> shilling the St Petersburg Government succeeded in convincing the Sultan
> that without the aid of Russia England was powerless to attack Russia,
> however strong her fleet might be, and that he had only to come to an
> arrangement with Russia and close the Dardanelles to make the Turkish
> Empire safe from attack from any quarter. The Russian diplomatists must
> have had a comparatively easy task to convince the Sultan that his best
> hope of safety lay in an alliance with Russia. It is much more easy to
> close a long and narrow waterway like the Dardanelles against the most
> powerful fleets than to defend a wide, extended empire, with a frontier
> stretching from the Adriatic Sea to the Persian Gulf. The weakness of
> Turkey is not wholly caused by her enormous frontier, but by the fact tha=
t
> there is no great central mass or nation on which the Sultan can rely. T=
he
> Empire is a patchwork of tribes, peoples and religions, having no central
> principle or policy, and merely held together by the sword of the |Turki=
sh
> soldier for the benefit of the Turkish tax gatherer. So long as the
> central Government of such a kingdom is overwhelmingly strong, it can
> compel obedience within and respect form without, but once let the centra=
l
> power be broken and it will fall in pieces like a barrel from which the
> hoops have been knocked off.
>
> The action of the British Government was based on the selfish
> calculation that the time had come for setting Europe by the ears over th=
e
> division of the Turkish Empire. In the scramble England proposed to sei=
ze
> Arabia, and thereby obtain control of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf,
> with the view later on of adding to her possessions the whole coast line =
of
> Southern Persia. This extensive scheme of plunder would, of course, hav=
e
> been carried out while the other European powers were quarrelling over th=
e
> possession of Constantinople. It was a pretty scheme, but it was one no=
t
> likely to deceive the men who directs the destinies of the Russian Empire=
,
> and who differ widely from the elegant idiots who paraded at Versailles
> before his Catholic Majesty, and lost for France the Empire of the Americ=
an
> Continent between a few pinches of snuff and the smiles of a painted
> woman. The Russian statesmen allowed, and even encouraged both Lord
> Rosebery and the Marquess of Salisbury, to pitch into the Turk, to go for
> the =93Unspeakable=94 and when the diplomats of Downing street had exhaus=
ted
> themselves in insults and threats against the Turkish Government, the
> Russian Ambassador merely said to the Sultan, =93Don=92t mind John Bull, =
old
> man; me and my French pal will support you =96 on conditions.=94 What c=
ould
> the Sultan do except make the best possible arrangements with his new
> allies? Under the pretence of friendship England has seized from the
> Ottoman Empire Cyprus and Egypt, and her designs on Arabia and the Persia=
n
> Gulf are not unknown to the Pashas of the Turkish capital. It is,
> therefore, by no means to be wondered at that the Turks and Russians have
> come together in the defence of common interests. The Turk may feel tha=
t
> he is doomed to die, but like all men under sentence of death, he wishes =
to
> put off the day of execution to the latest possible moment. All
> intelligent Turks understand that Russia is the Power which, more than an=
y
> other, can hasten or delay the final doom of the Ottoman Empire. This i=
s
> especially the case now that the great northern empire can count on the
> help of France in the Mediterranean. By moving a couple of army corps
> into the KArs district Russia could, without firing a shot, compel the
> Turkish Government to mobilise its forces in Asia Minor, while a word fro=
m
> St Petersburg would cause Greece, Servia and Bulgaria to begin the divisi=
on
> of the Turkish territories in Europe.
>
> As these three small Powers, with Macedonia, could put something like
> 500,000 fairly trained combatants into the field, they cannot be regarded
> as =93negligible quantities=94. This is the trump card which Russia hol=
ds up
> her sleeve, and which all players in the diplomatic game know may be thro=
wn
> on the table at any moment. By coming to terms with Russia the Sultan
> postpones the evil day. He secures his throne for his lifetime, and he
> probably prolongs his own life. The reasons for an alliance with Russia
> are many and of great importance, and the news of it is probably true. T=
he
> =93Pall Mall Gazette=94 is owned by an American millionaire who can affor=
d to
> pay for important news, and as he has taken the British Empire under his
> special protection he is not likely to have spared his cash in so
> favourable a spot as Constantinople. The news will no doubt be
> contradicted, but it is well to keep in mind Bismarck=92s cynical dictum =
=96 =93I
> never believe a rumour till I see it contradicted=94.
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Patrick Maume wrot=
e:
>
>> from: Patrick MAume
>> Alice Milligan and Ethna Carbery's SHAN VAN VOCHT has a piece at the tim=
e
>> of the 1896 massacres saying an independent Ireland would have intervene=
d
>> on behalf of the Armenians. I'll look up the exact reference whenever I
>> find the time.
>> Best wishes,
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan > P.OSullivan[at]bradford.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Ivan Gibbons, Irish Studies, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry
>>> Hill,
>>> has posed a question on behalf of an Armenian colleague...
>>>
>>> Is there is any record of contemporary Irish nationalist comment on the
>>> Armenian massacres in 1915?
>>>
>>> I do remember that Lucien Millevoye spoke out in favour of the Armenian=
s
>>> in
>>> 1903 - but I don't think anyone is claiming Millevoye as any kind of
>>> Irish.
>>> In Gladstone's time you sometimes find Ireland and Armenia mentioned in
>>> the
>>> same breath - but usually it seems to be a fear that Gladstone will los=
e
>>> interest in Ireland...
>>>
>>> Present day independent Armenia was very interested in Ireland - I had =
a
>>> very good visit to Armenia a few years ago. But my feeling is that the
>>> Armenians are now less interested than they used to be...
>>>
>>> Can anyone help Ivan and his colleague?
>>>
>>> P.O'S.
>>>
>>
>>
>

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This essay may be of interest to colleagues in Irish Studies, esp those
investigating the history of Belfast. I regret not introducing the piece a
bit earlier, primarily for its attention to the important work of Mick
Gold, Sam McCready, and John McCavitt, all with strong ties to Belfast.

Here 'tis:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52914679/Belfast-ILS-Spring-2011

Best regards,


Maureen E. Mulvihill
NYC / Sarasota, Fla.
Guest lecture: http://www.floridabibliophilesociety.org/id2.html

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From: Patrick Maume
This piece from an American Catholic site on an 1871 controversy in Long
Island (New York) over Catholics resisting prayer in public schools as a
form of disguised Protestant proselytism should be of interest to members
of this list. Note in particular the prominent role of a Cork-born priest
in the civic reorganisation which (unexpected by him) led to the
controversy, and the sight of John Mitchel weighing in vigorously on the
Catholic side in the dispute

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2710/the_hunters_point_bible_war.aspx#.Uoqf8sTxpfg

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List members in the NYC area might find this lecture at NYU's Glucksman
House of interest.


Historian Rosemary Cullen Owens "A Turbulent Decade: Women Activists in
Social, Labour and Nationalist Movements in Ireland, 1912-1922"

Thursday, December 5th, 7:00 p.m.
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU

During the years before World War I, Ireland was alive with movements and
causes. The campaign for Home Rule, the emergence of a cultural and
national renaissance, formation of the Gaelic League, and the organization
of a vigorous labor movement by James Larkin and James Connolly — all of
these added to the melting pot that was pre –WWI Ireland. That melting pot
also contained an active women's movement.

Historian Rosemary Cullen Owens will examine the interaction of the
women's suffrage movement with contemporary developments from 1912 with
particular regard to the Home Rule campaign, the 1913 Labor strike and
Lockout in Dublin, the stark differences between Unionists and pacifists
on the outbreak of war in 1914, and the changing nature of the
relationship between suffragists and nationalists pre and post the 1916
Rising. As national and international political conditions became more
acute, women would take radically different approaches to such issues.

Rosemary Cullen Owens taught Women's History in the Women's Studies
Department in University College Dublin from 1991 –2012. Among her
publications are Smashing Times, A History of the Irish Women's Suffrage
Movement, 1889-1922 (Attic Press 1984 & 1995), Louie Bennett, A Biography
(Cork University Press 2001), A Social History of Women in Ireland,
1870-1970 (Gill & MacMillan 2005).

William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
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List members in the greater New York area may find this of interest.


Tammany & the New York Irish with Prof. Terry Golway

Saturday, December 7th, 2:00 p.m.
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU

The infamous New York Democratic political machine known as Tammany Hall
was founded in 1786 and over the next 150 years became an increasingly
important force in the politics and governmental operations of New York
City, New York State, and even the United States. Through manipulation of
political nominations, patronage, influence, and loyalties won (especially
among immigrant constituencies) Tammany and its leaders acquired great
power -- and among many a lurid reputation. Today, Tammany is remembered
as symbolizing bad government and gross corruption.

But is this a reasonable conclusion?

In a compelling new analysis about the organization's Irish connections,
historian Terry Golway makes the case that Tammany was more than a
self-serving machine. Tammany became, in fact, an effective advocate of
immigrants in a nativist culture notably suspicious and intolerant of
newcomers. He will demonstrate how, for example, Tammany helped to
implement New York's social welfare system in the early twentieth century,
and how 19th-century Irish New Yorkers achieved political clout through
the organization. He will also discuss how Tammany and its dynamics
successfully incorporated the Irish immigrant experience on both sides of
the Atlantic.

Terry Golway is well known among the Irish in the New York metropolitan
area. He is the author of many articles and books including "Irish Rebel:
John Devoy & America's Fight for Irish Freedom" and "For the Cause of
Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes." He is currently director
of the Center for History, Politics and Policy at Kean University.

Co-presented by the New York Irish History Roundtable and Glucksman
Ireland House NYU.

William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
1-270-809-6571 (phone)
1-270-809-6587 (fax)

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Exhibit: The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: The Voice of an Irish
Community Abroad

Friday, October 25th – Tuesday, April 1st
at NYU's Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery, The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70
Washington Square South

More than two hundred and fifty years ago—in the midst of the world's
first global war—an Irish wine ship returning home from the French port of
Bordeaux was captured at sea by a British warship.

In January 2011, the mailbag from that ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin,
was discovered by a New York University professor. These letters, most of
them only recently opened for the first time, are the basis of a major
exhibition in the Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery at New York University's Bobst
Library — The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: The Voice of an Irish
Community Abroad.

Drawing on world-class collections of art and never-before-seen historical
documents, The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters exhibition takes you back to a time
when thriving communities of Irishmen played a prominent role on the
European continent.

The exhibition at NYU's Bobst Library reconstructs the early years of the
Seven Years’ War, tells the story of the fateful voyage of the Two Sisters
of Dublin, and underscores the significance of the Irish presence in
Europe and America.

But the heart of the exhibit is the extraordinary collection of letters
discovered in 2011. Through them, the voice of an Irish community abroad
comes alive, and we enter into a private and intimate world inhabited by
ordinary men and women separated from their homeland by war.

The exhibition is open to the public 9am-6pm daily October 25, 2013 to
April 1, 2014. Photo ID required to enter the library.


William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
1-270-809-6571 (phone)
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Another publication by a list member. Thanks to Johanne Devlin Trew for
sharing this.


Hi Bill,


Perhaps you might post this message to the IR-D list. Uncomfortable as I
am with 'blowing my own trumpet' as it were, I should announce the
publication of my new book published a few weeks ago which may be of
interest to members of the list. I am certainly concious of the great debt
I owe Paddy O'Sullivan in particular and members of the IR-D list for
their contributions over the years which were invaluable to building my
own knowledge and interests, eventually leading to this volume. It is the
first book on NI migration, only available in hard cover at the moment
from the publisher or on Amazon, etc, though I am informed that an e-book
version will soon appear.

Trew, Johanne Devlin. 2013. Leaving the North: Migration and Memory,
Northern Ireland, 1921-2011. Liverpool University Press, xvi, 348p. ISBN:
9781846319402.

Book synopsis:
Leaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey
of Northern Ireland migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal
memories of emigrants who left Northern Ireland from the 1920s to the
2000s, the book traces their multigenerational experiences of leaving
Northern Ireland and adapting to life abroad, with some later returning to
a society still mired in conflict. Contextualised by a review of the
statistical and policy record, the emigrants’ stories reveal that contrary
to its well-worn image as an inward-looking place – 'such narrow ground' –
Northern Ireland has a rather dynamic migration history, demonstrating
that its people have long been looking outward as well as inward, well
connected with the wider world. But how many departed and where did they
go? And what of the Northern Ireland Diaspora? How has the view of the
‘troubled’ homeland from abroad, especially among expatriates, contributed
to progress along the road to peace? In addressing these questions, the
book treats the relationship between migration, sectarianism and conflict,
immigration and racism, repatriation and the Peace Process, with
particular attention to the experience of Northern Ireland migrants in the
two principal receiving societies – Britain and Canada. With the
emigration of young people once again on the increase due to the economic
downturn, it is perhaps timely to learn from the experiences of the people
who have been ‘leaving the North’ over many decades; not only to
acknowledge their departure but in the hope that we might better
understand the challenges and opportunities that migration and diaspora
may present.

Publisher website:
http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=65

Thanks!
Johanne


Dr Johanne Devlin Trew
Lecturer
School of Criminology, Politics & Social Policy
University of Ulster, Jordanstown (Belfast)
jd.trew[at]ulster.ac.uk


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Historical Journal of Massachusetts • Summer 2011
Senator Edward Kennedy and the “Ulster Troubles”:Irish and Irish-American
Politics, 1965- 2009
ANDREW SANDERS

Editor’s Introduction:

In 1921 Ireland was partitioned into two
sections: Northern Ireland was composed of the six predominantly
Protestant counties of Ulster, while Southern Ireland was made
up of the remaining twenty-six, predominantly Catholic counties.
Both Northern and Southern Ireland remained part of Great
Britain. The next year, Irish nationalist leaders negotiated two
treaties with Britain that created the Irish Free State, which had
“dominion” status within the British Commonwealth but fell short
of full independence. Northern Ireland chose to opt out of the Irish
Free State, choosing instead to remain fully a part of the United
Kingdom.
“The Troubles” refers to approximately three decades of violence
characterized by the armed campaigns of Irish republican and
Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups. The duration is conventionally
dated from the late 1960s to the Belfast “Good Friday” Agreement
of 1998. The conflict involved the constitutional status of Northern
Ireland and the relationship between the predominantly Protestant
unionist and predominantly Catholic nationalist communities there.
“The Troubles” had both political and military dimensions. .......

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Historical Journal of Massachusetts • Spring 2010

Young Patrick A. Collins and Boston Politics after the Civil War

LAWRENCE W. KENNEDY

Abstract: This article focuses on the involvement of the Irish in
Boston politics during the first decades after the Civil War, a period
when the Irish first began to organize and exert some political
influence in the city. Irish community leaders cooperated with the
Yankee leadership of the Democratic Party during these decades,
receiving a certain amount of patronage in return and the nomination
of several “respectable” Irishmen for political office. Although it was
not until the beginning of the twentieth century, after service in the
U.S. Congress and diplomatic corps, that Patrick Andrew Collins was
elected mayor (1902-05), his political significance dates back to the
1860s and 1870s. The article considers the nature of his leadership
in that era.
It was the Irish, notably ambitious young men like Patrick Collins,
who made the two-party system viable in Massachusetts during the
era of Reconstruction. As a young man, Collins joined the Fenian
movement (founded to overthrow British rule in Ireland). This work
led him into politics. He was quickly elected a state representative and
then a state senator.
As a legislator, Collins worked to ease restrictions on the practice
of religion for Catholics in state institutions and to earn public money
for Catholic charitable institutions. With the rapidly increasing number
of Irish voters in Boston in the 1870s, their vocal assertion of their
rights, and strong political organization, the Irish were beginning tobe
recognized as a power to be reckoned with. Collins was central to
these developments.

Author Lawrence W. Kennedy is a professor at the University of
Scranton. He has written extensively about the history of Boston and
the Boston Irish.

http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/pdfs/Young%20Patrick%20A.%20Collins.pdf

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Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 37, No. 1 (Spring 2009)

Black and Irish Relations in Nineteenth Century Boston: The Interesting
Case of Lawyer Robert Morris

WILLIAM LEONARD

Abstract: This article examines the life of Robert Morris (1823-82),
Boston’s first African American lawyer and a noted abolitionist. In
the 1850s Morris was active in efforts to desegregate Boston’s public
schools and aid fugitive slaves. His law practice had many Irish
Catholic clients at a time when relations between the two groups
were poor. After the Civil War, Morris converted to Catholicism,
dominated by the Irish in Boston, and became an active member
of the Jesuit-run Immaculate Conception church in Boston’s South
End until his death. His legal work on behalf of his Irish clients and
his conversion suggest the need to reexamine black and Irish relationships
during this period.

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Dear Colleagues,

Please note that the call for papers for the Canadian Sociological
Association is now open until January 31st.

I have again organized a session on the Sociology of Religion, and I
welcome your participation.

The call can be found at the following link:

http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-
conferences/call-for-papers/

Please feel free to contact me with any additional questions you might
have.

Kindly,
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Dear colleagues and friends,

MCMS Annual Report 2012-2013 and Christmas greetings

Please take a look at our latest Annual Report 2012-2013

.

Now available on Youtube as a video slideshow is Arthur Sullivan's lecture
"'Breakfast time back home': Media representations of Irish Emigration"

,
given at this year's Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School.

The Thirteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture 2014 will be given
on Saturday 1 February at 11.00 am when Dr Gerry Moran, author of Sending
Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth
Century (Dublin, 2004) will speak on 'The Poor Law and Assisted Emigration
during the Great Famine'

.

The Twentieth Ulster-American Heritage Symposium will be held next year in
the United States, at two venues:
The Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, 18-21 June.
Georgia University, Athens, Georgia, 25-28 June.
Call for Papers deadline: 30 December, 2013.



The Ulster Historical Foundation's Irish Genealogy Conference 'Searching
for that Elusive Irish or Scots Irish Ancestor'will visit us on 10 June,
2014



The Fifteenth Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School 2014 will be held on
Saturday 11 October.

The new Queen's University Belfast Masters by Research (MRes) degree
programme in Irish Local History has started and we are responsible for
the module on 'Family, Community and Migration History'



Finally, two new books with MCMS connections are published in time for
Christmas:

J. McLaughlin and S. Beattie (Eds) (2013), Atlas of County Donegal

(Cork
University Press), which includes chapters on migration by Patrick
Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin.

Johanne Devlin Trew (2013), Leaving the North: Migration and Memory,
Northern Ireland 1921-2011 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press).



With thanks from all of us here for your continuing interest and support,
and with all good wishes for the Christmas Season and New Year,

Yours sincerely,
Brian Lambkin
Director

5/12/13


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The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to host =91Labor & Dignity - James
Connolly in America',
an exhibition by New York University's Glucksman Ireland
House,
funded by the Government of Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade.

The exhibition explores the time that James Connolly, one of Ireland=92s
national icons, spent in the United States where he witnessed the successes
and failures of labor radicalism and unionization, and of working class
conditions resulting from unregulated corporate expansion.

Despite major advances made by Irish labor activists in the 19th century,
Connolly found that employers still had the advantage when he arrived in
America in 1902. Over the next eight years, he was among an influential
second generation of Irish American leaders in the United States who
rallied immigrants from all over Europe to press for the dignity of labor.
Turning homeward in 1910, he insisted that the fight for Irish nationalism
was inseparable from the battle for the rights of all workers, in factories
as well as on farms.

Connolly's experiences in the US influenced his actions during the Dublin
Lockout of 1913, which was part of a larger transatlantic effort to secure
the rights of the working class in the years before World War I.

The 'Labor & Dignity' exhibition is Glucksman Ireland House's first
contribution to Ireland's Decade of Commemorations, which was announced in
2012 by the Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny. It is also part of a year-long
series of special academic initiatives to mark the twentieth anniversary of
Glucksman Ireland House, established as the Center for Irish and Irish
American Studies at New York University in 1993.

Professor Marion R. Casey, a faculty member at Glucksman Ireland House, and
Daphne Dyer Wolf, a PhD candidate in History and Culture at Drew
University, curated the exhibition, which was designed by Hilary J. Sweeney=
.

*The Trinity Long Room Hub will host the exhibition until February 2014. It
is free and open to the public between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday. The
exhibition brochure can be downloaded at *
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Dear all,

List members might be interested in this article, in today's Irish Times,
on the health of the Irish in Britain:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/poor-health-of-irish-in-britain-linked-to-abuse-study-finds-1.1631770

Sean.

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This CFP was called to my attention and looks like something a good many li=
sters would wish to know about:

Florida English Call for Submissions for
Themed Irish-American Issue
Online submission deadline: May 1, 2014
For the 12th annual issue of Florida English, we invite submissions dealing=
with the Ideas for critical articles might include individual literary wor=
ks by Irish-American authors or directors, films, etc., and the influence o=
f these in shaping genres or the identities of the country at large, commun=
ities, or individuals. One might consider the issues of immigration, assimi=
lation, tradition or the loss of tradition, religion, or food. In addition,=
Florida English is also looking for original pieces of fiction, poetry, an=
d creative non-fiction that are rooted in the Irish-American experience or =
explore any facet thereof. Submit through Submishmash at: floridaenglish.su=
bmishmash.com/submit.


Merry Christmas , everyone,

Jim Rogers


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