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Humor, in various forms, can be found expressed in the Irish language =
from
generation to generation =96 in poetry, proverbs, song, drama, prose and
unique forms of performance art. One only needs to consider a handful of
examples from the epic poem C=FAirt an Mhe=E1n O=EDche and the novel An =
B=E9al Bocht
to television programs, Paddywhackery, the award winning Sc=E9al na =
Gaeilge
and the various short films and animations available to all via the web.

Examples of humor may be read in myriad ways, whether as instances of =
the
spirit of the Irish-speaking community, or as counterweights to =
predominant
treatments of the language as an object of ambivalence, distrust, or
downright disregard. The resilience of the Irish personality has been
represented through humorous creativity in the language, which permeates =
the
linguistic barrier into English often with humorous intent, frequently =
seen
in macaronic songs and stage Irish characters.

As part of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Glucksman =
Ireland
House, New York University is hosting a year of celebration of its Irish
Studies program. This event, An Greann agus an Ghaeilge, will focus on =
the
Irish language and will include analysis and performance with =
contributions
from academia, members of Irish language cultural organizations and the
performing arts. It will commence on Friday, March 7 and continue on
Saturday March 8, 2014.

Submissions in Irish are invited which investigate, explain and/or
demonstrate humor in the Irish language. These might include, but are =
not
limited to:

Academic presentations on:

=95 Humor in Irish literature and poetry.
=95 Folk Narratives
=95 Song
=95 Performance Art

Demonstrations of humor through the arts:
=95 Agallamh Beirte
=95 L=FAb=EDn=ED
=95 Song
=95 Drama
=95 Short Films

Presentations will be in the Irish language, although bilingual
demonstrations and performance will also be accepted. Glucksman Ireland
House will seek to publish a selection of written submissions from this
event as part of the celebration of its 20th year. With permission
performance art may be filmed. Abstracts of 250 =96 300 words may be =
forwarded
to greann.irishstudies[at]nyu.edu by
Friday, January 10th 2014.

Conference Concert: Friday 8 pm March 7
Iarla =D3 Lionaird and Friends

Brian =D3
Conchubhair, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature,
University of Notre Dame, will deliver the Barra =D3 Donnabh=E1in =
Memorial
Lecture as part of this conference. 7p.m. on Saturday, March 8th 2014.

Conference Accommodation
Rooms at a discounted rate will be available at the Washington Square =
Hotel
for participants in the conference. Code: Humor and the Irish Language.
WSH (212)777-9515 n=F3 (800)
222- 0418 Group Code 4438
reservations[at]wshotel.com

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T=E1 teacht ar ghreann sa Ghaeilge leis na cianta, sna =
l=E1mhscr=EDbhinn=ED, d=E1nta,
amhr=E1in agus seanfhocail, gan tr=E1cht ar sc=E9alta b=E9aloidis. =
Feictear chomh
maith =E9 i gcuid d=92=FArsc=E9alta an ch=E9id seo caite, in amhr=E1in =
mhacar=F3nacha,
agus i gcarachtair bhr=E9ag-ghaelacha. Ar chomhartha =E9 seo do spiorad =
na nGael
agus iad ag natha=EDocht le barr=FAlacht fad=F3? N=F3 an strait=E9is =
f=E9inchosanta =E9 in
aghaidh an namhad? An raibh neamhaird agus d=EDmheas ar na naimhde is =
m=F3 a bh=ED
ag an teanga agus a cuid cainteoir=ED san am thart? Agus cad faoin l=E1 =
at=E1
inniu ann? B=EDonn pearsantacht an Ghaeil le feiscint i gc=FArsa=ED =
grinn i
nGaeilge, i ndr=E1ma=ED comhaimseartha, i gcl=E1ir theilif=EDse na linne =
seo agus i
gcl=E1ir ghearra ar an idirl=EDn.

Mar ph=E1irt d=E1r gcom=F3radh fiche bliain, beidh =C1ras Glucksman na =
h=C9ireann,
Ionad An L=E9inn =C9ireannaigh in Ollscoil Nua Eabhrac, ag ceili=FAradh =
na Gaeilge
leis an gcomhdh=E1il seo. Is =E9 cusp=F3ir na comhdh=E1la n=E1 =
scol=E1ir=ED agus
cainteoir=ED Gaeilge a thabhairt le ch=E9ile chun acmhainn=ED grinn na =
teanga a
ch=EDoradh agus sampla=ED =F3 eala=EDn na teilif=EDse, na scann=E1n, =
agus na dr=E1ma=EDochta
a thaispe=E1int agus a chur chun cinn.

Is f=E9idir d=EDri=FA ar na h=E1bhair seo a leanas ach n=ED g=E1:

=95 Greann i Litr=EDocht agus i bhFil=EDocht na Gaeilge
=95 B=E9aloideas
=95 Amhr=E1na=EDocht
=95 Agallamh Beirte
=95 L=FAib=EDn=ED
=95 Dr=E1ma
=95 Scann=E1in Ghearra

Is =ED an Ghaeilge pr=EDomhtheanga na comhdh=E1la.

Cuirtear achoimr=ED (250 focal) ar ph=E1ip=E9ir acad=FAl as Gaeilge, =
n=F3 ar shaothar
eala=EDne a bhaineann le t=E9ama na comhdh=E1la chuig
greann.irishstudies[at]nyu.edu roimh =
D=E9
hAoine 10 Ean=E1ir 2014.

C=E9 go mbeidh an bh=E9im ar an nGaeilge beidh f=E1ilte roimh =
dh=E1theangachas i
gc=E1sanna =E1irithe m=E1 bh=EDonn s=E9 riachtanach. T=E1 s=E9 i gceist =
ag =C1ras Glucksman
na h=C9ireann rogha p=E1ip=E9ar a fhoilsi=FA tar =E9is na comhdh=E1la =
agus f=EDse=E1in a
fhoilsi=FA ar shu=EDomh poibl=ED an ionaid.

Ceolchoirm na Comhdh=E1la: O=EDche D=E9 hAoine, 7=FA M=ED an Mh=E1rta =
2014
Iarla =D3 Lionaird agus a chairde. 8 =
i. n.


L=E9acht: D=E9 Sathairn, an 8, M=ED an Mh=E1rta, 2014.
Beidh Brian =
=D3
Conchubhair, Ollamh teanga agus litr=EDocht na Gaeilge, Ollscoil Notre =
Dame,
p=E1irteach mar aoichainteoir na comhdh=E1la. Tabharfaidh s=E9 an =
l=E9acht bliant=FAil
i gcuimhne ar Bharra U=ED Dhonnabh=E1in.
[at] 7 i.n. D=E9 Sathairn, 8=FA, M=ED an Mh=E1rta, 2014.

L=F3ist=EDn:
T=E1 roinnt seomra=ED ar f=E1il sa =

Washington Square Hotel (WSH) ar lascaine NYU do rannphairtithe na
comhdh=E1la. (D=E9ardaoin, D=E9 hAoine agus D=E9 Sathairn ar $210 + =
c=E1in + $3.50/ an
o=EDche. Bricfeasta beag in =E1ireamh). M=E1 bh=EDonn suim ag =
rannphairtithe na
comhdh=E1la fanacht sa WSH ba ch=F3ir seomra a chur in =E1irithe gan =
mhoill. Code:
Humor and the Irish Language. C=F3d 4438.
WSH (212)777-9515 n=F3 (800)
222- 0418
reservations[at]wshotel.com

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Miriam Nyhan Ph.D.
Program Coordinator
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Co-director, Archives of Irish America Oral History

Glucksman Ireland House=20
New York University=20
One Washington Mews
New York
NY 10003
Tel.: 212.998.3953
Email: miriam.nyhan[at]nyu.edu

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Forwarded from H-Net. The theme would seem to lend itself well to papers on
the Diaspora.


Bill Mulligan


Dear Colleagues,

The History Graduate Student Association at the University of Nebraska -
Lincoln would like to invite you all to join us at the ninth annual James A.
Rawley Conference in Humanities, on March 14-15, 2014 at the University of
Nebraska - Lincoln's City Campus. This year's conference theme is "The
Impact of Interaction: Exploring Cultural Convergence" and will include a
keynote address by Dr. Bernadette Andrea, a professor of English at the
University of Texas at San Antonio. We invite all interested students-both
senior undergraduate and graduate students-to submit a 250-word abstract and
one page C.V. for topics covering historical encounters between communities,
cultures, classes, or individuals, from sharing and exchange to conflict and
misunderstanding. Send the abstract and one-page C.V. to
rawley[at]unl.edu no later than January 10, 2014.


More information, including the full CFP, is available at the UNL HGSA
website (which will soon be updated with the new deadline)
http://www.unl.edu/historygsa/rawley/cfp.shtml





Sincerely,

Andrea Nichols

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A second article on the same topic.



Skype and cheap calls give an illusion of closeness, but homesickness is
still real



People are keener than ever to leave for new and faraway places; does
technology keep them close to what they have left, or make them pine for it
all the more?



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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/20/skype-cheap-calls-illus
ion-closeness-homesickness





William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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An article on migration in Ireland today by Piaras MacEinri from the =
Irish
Times

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It=92s a time of year when many of us, myself included, will welcome =
diasporic
family members home for a brief stay. Perhaps it=92s also a good =
occasion to
reflect on the impact of modern emigration on those who leave and those =
left
behind.

During the course of the past year I and my colleagues Irial Glynn and =
Tom=E1s
Kelly knocked on more than 2,400 doors in every corner of
Ireland, surveyed more than 2,000 emigrants and would-be =
emigrants
online and at jobs fairs and interviewed more than 50 emigrants around =
the
world. Our goal was to conduct the most representative survey of Irish
emigration ever, using methodologies and data not previously available. =
We
wanted to understand who was leaving, from where and why, where they =
were
going and whether they were likely to return. We also wanted to =
understand
what it felt like for today=92s generation. It proved a fascinating and =
often
challenging journey.

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The rest of the article is at:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/pain-of-emigration-felt-as-=
muc
h-by-those-left-behind-as-by-those-who-have-gone-1.1634882

=20

Bill

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William H. Mulligan, Jr.=20

Professor of History

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Murray State University=20

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Interesting article on contemporary Irish immigrants in New York City.
Thanks to Piaras MacEinri for calling it to my attention.

America's new Irish immigrants

By Aidan Lewis BBC News, New York

Ireland may no longer need bailout money as its economy emerges from
recession, but a wave of emigration that began in 2008 is continuing. And as
in the 1980s, many thousands of those moving to the US may be becoming
illegal immigrants.

Of America's Irish neighbourhoods the one that spans the border between the
Bronx and Yonkers in New York may be the most colourful.

Rest of article at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25360424





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This article has just come to our attention and may be of interest to the
list.


American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 12,
Issue 3, 2011


Filibusters, Fenians, and a Contested Neutrality: The Irish Question and
U.S. Diplomacy, 1848-1871



David
Sim



The period from the late 1840s to the early 1870s represented a distinct one
in Irish-American politics. This article frames Irish-American nationalists
active in this period as nonstate actors seeking to influence the course of
U.S. foreign relations to serve their own interests. In particular, it
focuses on the activities of the Fenian Brotherhood and an earlier, less
well-known organization, the Robert Emmet Club. The actions of both
highlighted the looseness of U.S. neutrality legislation and, ultimately,
provided a compelling argument for Anglo-American rapprochement.
Simultaneously, in the immediate postbellum years, U.S. statesmen had reason
to manipulate the Irish question to further their own ends. As
Anglo-American relations improved, however, the geopolitical value of Irish
nationalism declined; Irish-American nationalists were left marginalized in
the calculations of U.S. diplomats.



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American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 11,
Issue 3, 2010



David T. Gleeson, Securing the "Interests" of the South: John Mitchel, A.G.
Magrath, and the Reopening of the Transatlantic Slave Trade



Abstract

Traditionally scholars have downplayed the importance of southern calls to
reopen the transatlantic slave trade in the 1850s. Those who have paid
serious attention to this effort see it as another endeavor by aristocratic
planters to enshrine their social, economic, and political power in the
antebellum South. The advocates were, as one puts it, "no champions of the
common white man." Two Irish-American leaders who supported the reopening,
John Mitchel and Andrew Gordon Magrath, complicate this view of the attempt
as just a planters' plot. Their actions and opinions indicate that some
proponents did see importing African slaves as something that would benefit
all whites and not just the elite, and, as a result, protect the overall
"interests" of the South. Mitchel and Magrath's support of Ireland and Irish
immigrants and their opposition to British power influenced their positions
on the matter.



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American Nineteenth Century History Volume 5, Issue
1, 2004



Archbishop John Hughes and the New York Schools Controversy of 1840-43




MARTIN L. MEENAGH


Abstract


The New York School controversy of 1840-43 has often been treated as simply
an event in the history of Catholic parochial education with some
ramifications for New York City's antebellum politics. However, a fresh
analysis suggests that it illuminates key themes in Atlantic, American, and
cultural history as well as providing a model of how the Catholic church
responded to sex scandal and media problems by allowing activist bishops and
archbishops to centralize power and to wield community authority. A study of
John Joseph Hughes, first Archbishop of New York during the crisis, also
begins to suggest his importance as an American figure, engaging with
governors, presidents, senators, and mayors. This article revisits the
controversy, details the major events in its development, and seeks to place
it in a context of modern political styles, rhetoric, and Irish$B!>(BAmerican
assimilation.

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American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11,
Issue 1, 2010




The Negotiated Hibernian: Discourse on the Fenian in England and America



James H. Adams



Abstract

During the 1850s and 1860s, the British Empire faced a threat from
nationalists advocating self$B!>(Brule for Ireland. Known as the Fenians, the
English press quickly identified them as a monolithic terrorist organization
and blamed them for all manner of threats against the Empire; furthermore,
they argued that elements in the United States, for reasons of their own,
supported the separatists. However, the image of the Fenian was far more
complex than the simple rhetorical image constructed in the British press,
especially when an alternate stream of pro$B!>(BIrish rhetoric is considered.
Indeed, the Fenian was as much a rhetorical cultural construct as it was a
transnational independence movement.

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This is an excellent snapshot of the exhibition currently on view in Bobst
Library, New York University:

http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue21/FEA_2.html

It marks the publication of *The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757:
**Correspondence
of an Irish Community Abroad*, Edited by Louis Cullen, John Shovlin, and Thomas
Truxes*, *OUP/British Academy |
Records
of Social and Economic
History
Vol. 53, 330 pages | 5 maps and 4 colour plates |

This exhibition is also one of several public history initiatives to mark
the twentieth anniversary of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University.

Best wishes to all for 2014,
Marion R. Casey

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This has come to our attention and will be of interest to many on the =
list.
Please note the close deadline.=20

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Call For Papers =91Reading Brian O=92Nolan=92s Libraries=92

The Parish Review The official journal of the International Flann =
O=92Brien
Society

Essay proposals of no more than 300 words to be submitted to
theparishreview[at]gmail.com by 31 January 2014

The expanding field of Brian O=92Nolan (Flann O=92Brien/Myles na =
gCopaleen)
scholarship has undergone a remarkable transformation in the wake of the
writer=92s 2011 centenary. This renewed scholarly interest has given =
rise to a
range of Cultural Materialist, Deconstructionist, and Genetic =
approaches,
amongst others, that have explored the representation, and indeed the =
limits
of, knowledge within O=92Nolan=92s oeuvre. His writing continues to =
resonate
within the public sphere, as is attested by the many reissues, =
adaptations,
and collections of his works, including the recent publication of his
dramatic works and short stories by Dalkey Archive Press. As Flann =
O=92Brien
(At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman) and Myles na gCopaleen =
(Cruiskeen
Lawn, An B=E9al Bocht), O=92Nolan is celebrated, in part, for his savage
parodies of academic institutions, erudite individuals, and pedagogical
methods; a reputation that appears to rest uneasily alongside this
increasing scholarly attention.

The John Burns Library at Boston College acquired Brian O=92Nolan=92s =
papers and
personal library in February 1997, yet a complete inventory of the =
latter
has only just been compiled and published for the first time in the most
recent issue of The Parish Review (2.1, Fall 2013), guest edited by =
Maebh
Long. (A copy of the issue, including the full inventory, is available =
from
the International Flann O=92Brien Society by contacting the general =
editors at
viennacis.anglistik[at]univie.ac.at). This is an important and exciting
resource for O=92Nolan scholars: the library contains over four hundred =
books,
periodicals, and newspapers in French, German, Greek, Irish, and Latin =
on
subjects as diverse as archaeology, philosophy, politics, psychology,
science, and theology. Additionally, there are literary texts from the
Classical, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Due to =
the
complexity of this collection, its potential as a resource for =
scholarship
is only beginning to be examined.

A forthcoming issue of The Parish Review (October 2014) will take up the
question of how to assess Brian O=92Nolan=92s personal library, =
particularly in
light of the representation of archives, marginalia, and scholarship =
across
his oeuvre. We will encourage dialogue between frequently polarized =
critical
approaches, asking which O=92Nolan we might find between these shelves. =
Is
O=92Nolan=92s work invigorated or exhausted by questions of influence? =
Does the
representation of scholarship within his work mark a point of potential =
or
resistance for archival approaches? What might be gathered from the
annotations and marginalia within this wide-ranging collection of texts? =
Or
should O=92Nolan scholarship be spared from such lines of inquisition?

The editors invite proposals on any aspect of O=92Nolan=92s writing, but =
are
especially interested in papers that explore the holdings at the Burns
Library and/or investigate the wider epistemological issues that arise
within his work. Potential topics for papers include, but are by no =
means
limited to:

v How models of influence are sustained by and/or undermined by =
O=92Nolan=92s
work

v The complexities of O=92Nolan=92s national and intellectual contexts=20

v The representation of libraries and/or scholarship within modernist =
and
post-modernist texts

v O=92Nolan=92s engagement with, or response to, specific literary =
movements=20

v How emerging methodologies and technologies might inform our use and
understanding of O=92Nolan=92s library

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Essay proposals of no more than 300 words should be submitted to
theparishreview[at]gmail.com by 31 January 2014.

Essays will be limited to 5,000 words and adhere to the MLA style guide.
They will be submitted for peer- review to the editors by 31 May 2014.
Contributors can expect to receive feedback by 31 July 2014.

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William H. Mulligan, Jr.=20

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*Exhibition Launch*

To mark the launch of this exhibition in Trinity College Dublin, Daphne
Dyer Wolf will give a talk on the concept and research underpinning the
exhibition on *Wednesday, 15 January 2014 at 5.45pm* in the Trinity Long
Room Hub. Ms Wolf is a PhD Candidate in History and Culture at Drew
University and curated the exhibition with Prof Marion Casey, faculty
member at Glucksman Ireland House, NYU.

*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.*

*Details on the exhibition at:*

https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/events/details/labor_and_dignity_exhibition.php

and at:

http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/ne.laboranddignity

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Postcolonial Legacies Special Issue of Historical Geography
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Hi all,

Just a quick note- the journal Historical Geography recently published a sp=
ecial issue on=20
Irish Historical Geographies: Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies e=
dited by Gerry Kearns.

The papers are below- together with link to the SI.

Cheers

Dave=20
=20

https://ejournals.unm.edu/index.php/historicalgeography/issue/view/462/show=
Toc

Irish Historical Geography: Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies=20

Gerry Kearns=20
22-34
=20
Mapping worlds? Excavating Cartographic Encounters in Plantation Ireland th=
rough GIS
Keith Lilley, Catherine Porter=20
35-58
=20

Geographies of Communality, Colonialism, and Capitalism: Ecology and the Wo=
rld-System=20
Eoin Flaherty=20
59-79
=20

The Linguistic Geography of the Contact Zone: The Complementarity of Oralit=
y and Literacy in Colonial Ireland
Kevin Keegan=20
80-93
=20

Revising Whelan's Model of Tridentine Catholicism in Ireland: The Experienc=
e of Cloyne Diocese, Co. Cork, c.1700 - 1830.
Martin Millerick=20
94-119
=20

=91We Will Have Equality and Liberty in Ireland=92: The Contested Geographi=
es of Irish Democratic Political Cultures in the 1790s
David Featherstone=20
120-136
=20

Writing the Colonial Past in Postcolonial Ireland: an Anglo-Irish Response
Mary Kelly=20

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Ma=
rion Casey [marion.casey[at]NYU.EDU]
Sent: 29 December 2013 23:04
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Exhibition: Signed, Sealed, Undelivered

This is an excellent snapshot of the exhibition currently on view in Bobst
Library, New York University:

http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue21/FEA_2.html

It marks the publication of *The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757:
**Correspondence
of an Irish Community Abroad*, Edited by Louis Cullen, John Shovlin, and Th=
omas
Truxes*, *OUP/British Academy |
Records
of Social and Economic
History
Vol. 53, 330 pages | 5 maps and 4 colour plates |

This exhibition is also one of several public history initiatives to mark
the twentieth anniversary of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University.

Best wishes to all for 2014,
Marion R. Casey=

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This may be of interest to members of the list.

=20

Quinnipiac University: Call for Papers: =20


Since 1976, the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium has met every two =
years,
alternating between co-sponsoring universities and museums in Ulster and
North America. The twentieth meeting of the Symposium will be hosted at =
two
venues in the United States. The first program will be hosted by =
Ireland's
Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, 18 -21 June
2014, and the second program will be held at the University of Georgia, =
25 -
28 June 2014.

The theme of the Quinnipiac Conference is: Irish Hunger, Poverty and
Migration: A transatlantic
Perspective.

Keynote speakers: Dr Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED, Cork University; Dr Maureen =
Murphy,
Hofstra University; Professor Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University.

Included activities: visiting Ireland's Great Hunger Museum in CT, the =
Yale
Centre for British Art in New Haven, and the Famine Memorial in NYC.

The organizers will be pleased to receive offers of individual papers or
panels of papers from both established and new scholars in the field.
Please send abstracts (no more than 250 words) by 15 February 2014 to:

=
Christine.kinealy[at]quinnipiac.edu
and
gerard.moran[at]gmail.com

Overseas attendees will be given free accommodation at Quinnipiac
University.

=20

William H. Mulligan, Jr.=20

Professor of History

Moderator, Irish Diaspora Discussion List [IR-D[at]jiscmail.ac.uk]=20

Murray State University=20

Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

office phone 1-270-809-6571

dept phone 1-270-809-2231

fax 1-270-809-6587

=20

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Forwarded from H-Albion

David T. Gleeson. The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate
States of America. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill University of
North Carolina Press, 2013. 336 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-1-4696-0756-6.

Reviewed by Cian McMahon (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Published on
H-Albion (December, 2013) Commissioned by Nicholas M. Wolf

David T. Gleeson has written another fantastic book about the Irish in the
Southern United States--or the Confederate States of America, as southerners
called it during the Civil War of 1861 to 1865. Based on careful reading of
a wide range of primary sources, Gleeson's _The Green and the Gray_
contributes to recent scholarship on the Irish in the Civil War by such
historians as Susannah Ural Bruce (_The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American
Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 _[2006])and Christian G. Samito
(_Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the
Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era _[2009]). This
well-written, carefully crafted monograph is suitable for undergraduate and
graduate seminars on migration, nationalism, and war. Specialists of the
Irish in America will particularly find this full-length analysis of the
Confederate Irish revealing.

As a professional historian, Gleeson was troubled by the stereotype, so
popular in Civil War literature, of Irish Confederates as unfailingly brave
warriors. In the shadow of this image, he argues, "the real and complicated
narrative of the Irish and the Confederacy disappeared" (p. 221). The goal
of his book is to embrace the complexities of Irish participation in the
Southern war effort. In so doing, Gleeson aims "not merely to outline the
Irish involvement with the Confederacy but to analyze its significance, for
both the Irish and the Confederacy" (p. 1). His overall argument holds that
while the Irish war effort highlighted "the ambiguities within Confederate
identity," it was also "crucial to the integration of Irish immigrants into
white society in the South" (pp. 8, 1). This integration was not
consolidated until after the war, however, when participation in "Lost
Cause" celebrations allowed the Irish to "banish memories of their ambiguous
support for the cause and remember only the 'glories'" (p. 9). Fans of David
W. Blight's _Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory_ (2001) will
enjoy Gleeson's approach to postbellum identity formation.

The book is organized into six chapters. Chapter 1, "Reluctant
Secessionists," shows that while most Irish immigrants living in the
Southern United States may not have objected to slavery itself (and some
were outright supporters of the institution), they nevertheless steadfastly
supported the Union during the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It was only
following Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860
that Irish immigrants hesitatingly abandoned the United States in favor of
the Confederacy. Gleeson also notes that tumultuous politics at home in
Ireland combined with opposition from nativists in America to leave the
Irish relatively politicized. The Democratic Party subsequently capitalized
on this energy, drawing the newcomers into the "cauldron of sectional
politics" (p. 14).

Chapters 2 and 3 look at Irish military participation. The former analyzes
their motivations for joining up. Taking issue with those who argue that
economic necessity or defense of slavery impelled immigrants into arms,
Gleeson suggests that "Confederate patriotism for the Irish ... was closely
tied to their experience of Ireland and America" (p. 46). In particular,
rhetoric and images, which drew parallels between Irish and Confederate
struggles for freedom (from Britain and the United States respectively) were
powerful motivating factors. Appeals to masculinity and to an Irish martial
heritage stretching back several centuries were important too. Chapter 3,
which focuses on Irish performance on the battlefield, returns to the book's
overall theme of ambiguity. "The story of the Irish Confederate soldier,"
Gleeson writes, "is filled with contrasting examples of bravery and
treachery" (p. 73). Some Irish units, such as Alabama's Emerald Guards, had
incredibly high casualty rates (suggesting courage in the face of danger).
Others, such as the Virginia Hibernians had a relatively high rate of
desertion. Gleeson effectively complicates the facile legend of the
"Fighting Irish."

The last three chapters focus on Irish Confederates off the battlefield and
after the war. In chapter 4, Gleeson investigates the home front, where he
finds mixed attitudes and opinions. For the most part, civilian leaders of
the Southern Irish population embraced secession after 1860 and advocated a
"hard-war" policy, yet as casualties mounted and civilians felt the pinch of
wartime deprivation, their enthusiasm waned. This decline culminated in the
ease with which many Irish accepted occupation by victorious federal forces
in 1865, "clearly indicating," concludes Gleeson, "the equivocal nature of
their new Confederate identity" (p. 112). Chapter 5 analyzes the effect that
religion, which for most Irish immigrants meant Roman Catholicism, had on
their attitudes toward the war. As role models of the Irish community in the
South, Catholic clergy, nuns, and prominent lay spokesmen left positive
impressions on the native community. Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston,
South Carolina, for example, publicly endorsed the Confederacy from early on
in the war and urged his fellow countrymen to defend secession (although he
subsequently attempted to downplay his vehemence after Appomattox).

Father John Bannon went so far as to travel to Ireland in October 1863 in an
effort to stump for the Confederacy and halt Irish migration into the Union
forces. Finally, chapter 6 "Another 'Lost Cause,'" focuses on the Irish in
the postbellum period. While initially willing to countenance
Reconstruction, they ultimately proved implacable enemies of African
Americans' political rights. By actively promoting the war effort as a
grand, "Lost Cause," the Irish ensured their privileged racial position in
the new South. The Irish "did not become southern 'under fire,'" concludes
Gleeson, "but rather in the commemoration of the Confederacy" (p. 221).

This book offers a fresh and intelligent approach to a subject that has been
long mired in myth and legend. Gleeson's synthesis of existing secondary
sources combined with his careful archival research offers a bold
reinterpretation of a popular chapter in Irish American history. Samito has
recently suggested that the Irish in the Union forces became American
through military service, but Gleeson complements and challenges this notion
by contending that, for the Irish in the South at least, it was the
postbellum period, rather than the war itself, that had the biggest impact
on immigrant integration. In these and other ways, _The Green and the Gray_
is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of Irish American
identity and to ethnic participation in the Civil War.

Citation: Cian McMahon. Review of Gleeson, David T., _The Green and the
Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America_. H-Albion, H-Net
Reviews. December, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=40638

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No
Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Immediately upon the discovery of gold in California, tens of thousands
of people from the eastern United States tried to get to California.
Their options were poor: the transcontinental railroad had not yet been
built so overland travel was difficult and dangerous, they could take a
ship around Cape Horn, or they could walk across the jungle of the
Panama Isthmus (virtually impossible). In response, some US
entrepreneurs endeavored to build a railroad across the Isthmus. It was
opened in 1855 (and was immensely profitable), but at the cost of
several thousand lives, mainly to yellow fever. Those who worked and
died were Americans, Chinese, Jamaicans and several shiploads of men
from Cork.

I have been unable to discover (and I have utilized every research tool
I know, and the help of world-class reference librarians) more than a
few paragraphs about the men from Cork. Most are disparaging: they
didn't work hard, they hated the Chinese, and they usually died. One
gets the impression that many accounts are merely copying some earlier
one. I recently went to Dublin and combed through back issues of the
Cork Times to see if there were any recruiting advertisements placed by
the railroad company. There were none. There are also very few
mentions in the contemporary English newspaper published in Panama.

If anyone knows of literature or archival material that would be
helpful, I'd appreciate learning of it. I have yet to look at the
archives of the Panama Railroad, which are in the National Archives in
Washington, DC but the volume of materials appears to be very small.
I would be very grateful for any leads.

--
Robert G. Healy
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy and
Public Policy Studies
Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
919-416-4543
healy[at]duke.edu


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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From: PAtrick Maume
There were three principal nineteenth-century Cork daily papers, the CORK
EXAMINER, CORK HERALD (both Catholic-nationalist) and CORK CONSTITUTION
(Conservative-Unionist). I've never heard of the CORK TIMES, but I am not
an expert on nineteenth-century Cork history, though I come from Cork. The
EXAMINER and CONSTITUTION certainly existed in the 1850s.
Best wishes,
Patrick


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Bill Mulligan
wrote:

> Immediately upon the discovery of gold in California, tens of thousands
> of people from the eastern United States tried to get to California.
> Their options were poor: the transcontinental railroad had not yet been
> built so overland travel was difficult and dangerous, they could take a
> ship around Cape Horn, or they could walk across the jungle of the
> Panama Isthmus (virtually impossible). In response, some US
> entrepreneurs endeavored to build a railroad across the Isthmus. It was
> opened in 1855 (and was immensely profitable), but at the cost of
> several thousand lives, mainly to yellow fever. Those who worked and
> died were Americans, Chinese, Jamaicans and several shiploads of men
> from Cork.
>
> I have been unable to discover (and I have utilized every research tool
> I know, and the help of world-class reference librarians) more than a
> few paragraphs about the men from Cork. Most are disparaging: they
> didn't work hard, they hated the Chinese, and they usually died. One
> gets the impression that many accounts are merely copying some earlier
> one. I recently went to Dublin and combed through back issues of the
> Cork Times to see if there were any recruiting advertisements placed by
> the railroad company. There were none. There are also very few
> mentions in the contemporary English newspaper published in Panama.
>
> If anyone knows of literature or archival material that would be
> helpful, I'd appreciate learning of it. I have yet to look at the
> archives of the Panama Railroad, which are in the National Archives in
> Washington, DC but the volume of materials appears to be very small.
> I would be very grateful for any leads.
>
> --
> Robert G. Healy
> Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy and
> Public Policy Studies
> Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford School of Public
> Policy
> Duke University
> Durham, NC 27708
> 919-416-4543
> healy[at]duke.edu
>
>
> 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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In the early 1850s 400 male paupers were sent out from Cork workhouse to
work on the Panama Railway, their passage having been paid by the company.
Most of them died from the extreme weather conditions, but one returned to
give evidence at a parliamentary inquiry. I came across this in one of the
Cork local newspapers. The male exodus was at a time when the Cork
guardians were trying to clear the workhouse of long-term pauper inmates.
Will see if I can dig out the reference. Hope this helps, Gerard

Dr Gerard Moran


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Patrick Maume wrote:

> From: PAtrick Maume
> There were three principal nineteenth-century Cork daily papers, the CORK
> EXAMINER, CORK HERALD (both Catholic-nationalist) and CORK CONSTITUTION
> (Conservative-Unionist). I've never heard of the CORK TIMES, but I am not
> an expert on nineteenth-century Cork history, though I come from Cork. The
> EXAMINER and CONSTITUTION certainly existed in the 1850s.
> Best wishes,
> Patrick
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Bill Mulligan
> wrote:
>
> > Immediately upon the discovery of gold in California, tens of thousands
> > of people from the eastern United States tried to get to California.
> > Their options were poor: the transcontinental railroad had not yet been
> > built so overland travel was difficult and dangerous, they could take a
> > ship around Cape Horn, or they could walk across the jungle of the
> > Panama Isthmus (virtually impossible). In response, some US
> > entrepreneurs endeavored to build a railroad across the Isthmus. It was
> > opened in 1855 (and was immensely profitable), but at the cost of
> > several thousand lives, mainly to yellow fever. Those who worked and
> > died were Americans, Chinese, Jamaicans and several shiploads of men
> > from Cork.
> >
> > I have been unable to discover (and I have utilized every research tool
> > I know, and the help of world-class reference librarians) more than a
> > few paragraphs about the men from Cork. Most are disparaging: they
> > didn't work hard, they hated the Chinese, and they usually died. One
> > gets the impression that many accounts are merely copying some earlier
> > one. I recently went to Dublin and combed through back issues of the
> > Cork Times to see if there were any recruiting advertisements placed by
> > the railroad company. There were none. There are also very few
> > mentions in the contemporary English newspaper published in Panama.
> >
> > If anyone knows of literature or archival material that would be
> > helpful, I'd appreciate learning of it. I have yet to look at the
> > archives of the Panama Railroad, which are in the National Archives in
> > Washington, DC but the volume of materials appears to be very small.
> > I would be very grateful for any leads.
> >
> > --
> > Robert G. Healy
> > Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy and
> > Public Policy Studies
> > Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford School of Public
> > Policy
> > Duke University
> > Durham, NC 27708
> > 919-416-4543
> > healy[at]duke.edu
> >
> >
> > 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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This has just come to our attention. University of Georgia Press. Cloth
$74.95; paper $24.95; ebook $24.95.

Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean
Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Jenny Shaw

A new examination of the experiences of Irish and Africans in the English
Caribbean

Reviews

“Jenny Shaw’s nuanced study illuminates how divisions originating in
Europe—especially those that distinguished Irish Catholic servants from
their English Protestant masters—shaped colonial society and ultimately
the hierarchies of race that came to be the most important markers of
difference. Shaw profitably lingers over the early period, when the early
English Caribbean was in the process of becoming, and as a result she
demonstrates that race and colonialism were negotiated, not preordained.”
—Carla Gardina Pestana, author of Protestant Empire: Religion and the
Making of the British Atlantic World

“A nuanced and fascinating account of how Irish Catholics shaped the
emergence of racial hierarchy in the English Caribbean. With meticulous
attention to the constraints and possibilities of everyday life, Shaw
explores the way that early settlers marked and ranked social difference,
finding that status distinctions were surprisingly malleable, even in a
society overwhelmingly organized by slavery and race. Offering close
readings of fresh sources, this is both an important study and an
impressive feat of the informed imagination.”
—Vincent Brown, author of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the
World of Atlantic Slavery


Description

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in
the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early
English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the
everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized
colonial subjects—Irish and Africans—contributed to these processes. By
emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group
persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish and Africans also worked
within—and challenged—the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw’s research
demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early
modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position
of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of
black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English
Caribbean.

The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources
constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the
constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to
fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical
record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records,
travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial
correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include,
Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that
would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink
the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more
expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave
societies.

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/everyday_life_in_the_early_english_caribbean


William H. Mulligan, Jr.
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Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA
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Dear Bill,

I would be grateful if you would share this message with friends and
colleagues on the Irish Diaspora list...

I have begun the rescue of my Irish Diaspora Studies material that was
heretofore trapped in pre-digital age print. In particular I have long felt
that I have a duty to the brave contributors to the my 6 volume series, The
Irish World Wide, 1992-1997.

I have begun to place material in various places on the web - notably here
on a free Mediafire web site...

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ooj5btdttc9y4/Documents

The Irish World Wide, 6 volumes, are ONLINE there, as not too enormous pdf
files, one pdf file for each volume...

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/f9ccfk929abbj/

THE IRISH WORLD WIDE
History, Heritage, Identity
6 Volumes
Hardback 1992-1997

Edited by
PATRICK O'SULLIVAN

The 6 volumes of The Irish World Wide are Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., 1.
PATTERNS OF MIGRATION 2. THE IRISH IN THE NEW COMMUNITIES 3. THE CREATIVE
MIGRANT 4. IRISH WOMEN AND IRISH MIGRATION 5. RELIGION AND IDENTITY 6. THE
MEANING OF THE FAMINE

As far as I am concerned anyone can download those pdf files, and use them
for scholarly or educational purposes.

There is a little more work to be done - in splitting the large files into
separate chapters and in making sure that the OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) works, so that the chapters can be saved as text.

All this solves a recurring problem, the steady stream of requests for
copies of specific chapters from younger or isolated scholars. The Irish
World Wide series rarely offered the last word on any subject. But often it
did offer the first word, as shown by - for example - repeated requests for
chapters by Ide B. O'Carroll on sexual abuse, Barry M. Coldrey on religious
orders and violence, Liam Greenslade on mental health, Kevin Rockett on
film, Karen P. Corrigan on the Irish language, my own chapter on jokes and
my chapter on Famine Theory... And so on...

If anyone needs to contact me with any technical query I can be contacted on
osullivan[at]villanous.ie

Patrick O'Sullivan
Bradford
England