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The Irish Emigration Database at the Centre for Migration Studies,
Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh contains almost 4000 transcribed,
digitized emigrant letters which are keyword searchable. Of these 234
date from the period between 1/9/1845 and 1/9/1850. If you are
interested in remote access to the database just email our librarian at
Christine.Johnston[at]NI.Libraries.NET

Best,
Paddy Fitzgerald
CMS UAFP
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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Anelise Shrout
Sent: 27 August 2008 02:09
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Subject: [IR-D] The famine and letter collections

Dear all,

I am a graduate student in history at NYU, working on a dissertation =0D
that examines the circulation of information about the Irish famine =0D
of the 1840s. I am finding plenty of available periodical sources, =0D
but am somewhat lacking in evidence of the famine in personal =0D
communication - outside of the few published collections of immigrant =0D
letters. In particular, I am looking for contemporary letter =0D
collections which contain correspondence to or from Ireland in the =0D
mid to late-1840s. I am hoping to use these letters to reconstruct =0D
the networks which carried news of the famine out of Ireland. Any =0D
references to Ireland would be helpful, although specific references =0D
to the famine would be ideal. Can anyone on the list suggest =0D
archives that might contain such collections?

Thanks for your time,

Anelise

Anelise Shrout
Atlantic World History
New York University
ahs4[at]nyu.edu

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From: "Patrick Fitzgerald"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

I think the comments by McBride relating to the '74 Lions tour to S. Africa=
had a great deal more to do with justifying a very controversial tour than=
describing any reality in Ireland. It is important to remember that=
essentially outside Limerick, Irish rugby was traditionally a middle class=
sport and that in Ulster the vast majority of players were Protestant. Yes=
one can point to the initiative of Trevor Ringland (Ballymena, Ulster,=
Ireland and the Lions) and Hugo McNeill (TCD, Leinster, Ireland and the=
Lions) who after their playing days came together to organize a special=
Peace international match between Ireland and the Barbarians at Lansdowne=
Rd. in 1996 but we should also remember internationals like David Tweed=
(Ballymena and Ireland) who noted his cap (or was it two?) for Ireland but=
set it against the 70 odd caps for "his COUNTRY" - ie. Ulster!

Perhaps an interesting place to look for evidence about the IRA take on=
this would be the aftermath of the IRA border roadside bomb which killed=
Lord Chief Justice Maurice Gibson and his wife Cecily but also injured=
three Ulster international players (headed to Dublin to train) in the car=
behind.

This happened on 25 April 1987 and I doubt if the IRA statement to the=
media made any reference to the latter. For the reasons for an all Ireland=
team the obvious if somewhat dry source is Edmund Van Esbeck, The Story of=
Irish Rugby (Hutchinson, 1986). Paddy Johns, who played second row for=
Ulster and Ireland 20 years after McBride offers a somewhat more candid=
view of cross border tensions within Irish rugby in what admittedly=
represents one of the worst written sports biographies of all time - Quiet=
En4cer: The Authorised Biography of Paddy Johns (Sportswrite, 2002).

Paddy Fitzgerald

=0D

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On=
Behalf Of Carmel McCaffrey
Sent: 26 August 2008 17:45
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=0D

* *Let's not forget that rugby is far from being the "unifying" force=0D

that it is portrayed as being in the original post here. The non=0D

playing of /Amhr=E1n na bhFiann/ - the Irish National Anthem - at=0D

international rugby matches is certainly not without critics and=0D

sometimes downright anger amongst Irish rugby fans. When the rugby=0D

internationals were played recently in Croke Park -- Landsdown Rd is=0D

being renovated - the GAA insisted that /Amhr=E1n na bhFiann /must be=0D

played inside the stadium and it was sung loudly by both fans and team. =0D

Most fans that I know think that it should be permitted at every match=0D

but the fact that the Irish rugby team includes players from Northern=0D

Ireland precludes this for apparently sensitive reasons. This whole=0D

Ireland team has little to do with contemporary politics -- or a=0D

unifying ethos - but goes back to the founding of the Rugby Union which=0D

was before partition. But just sit in a group of rugby fans in Ireland=0D

and you will get a heated discussion going about the non playing of the=0D

Irish Anthem!

=0D

Soccer in Ireland has developed under FIFA and so the Irish teams are=0D

divided along "state" lines. Incidentally one of the the reasons that=0D

the British do not send a soccer team to the Olympics has to do with not=0D

giving FIFA ideas that Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are not in=0D

fact countries and that maybe a UK soccer team ought to be organized for=0D

FIFA internationals.

=0D

Carmel

=0D

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From: Michael Kenneally [mailto:michael.kenneally[at]concordia.ca]=20
Sent: 27 August 2008 15:52
To: 'Patrick O'Sullivan'
Subject: Position in Irish History

Hi Paddy,

I would be grateful if you would post the attached announcement for a
position in Irish History at Concordia.

Many thanks, and all good wishes as always,

Michael

=A0
__________________________________
Michael Kenneally, Professor
Research Chair in Canadian Irish Studies
Director, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield
Montreal QC H3G 1C5
514-848-8711

The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal

Over the past several years, Canadian Irish Studies has developed
significantly as a multidisciplinary area of study at Concordia =
University.
The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies currently offers an average of =
sixteen
courses annually in ten departments across two Faculties. The Centre
coordinates Minor and Certificate programs in Canadian Irish Studies,
sponsors a prestigious annual lecture series, hosts Visiting Scholars,
provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students, presents =
an
Irish Studies Seminar Series, and organizes various community-outreach
events.=20

Subject to the creation of a new academic unit in Canadian Irish =
Studies,
Concordia University invites candidates for a position in any period of
Irish and/or Irish Diasporic History, especially social and cultural
history. The ideal candidate will have a strong research and teaching
profile, and possess a demonstrated multidisciplinary approach to =
his/her
own subject as well as a broad interdisciplinary conceptualization of =
Irish
Studies.=20

Applications must consist of a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae,
copies of recent publications, a statement of teaching =
philosophy/interests,
a statement of research achievements, and evidence of teaching
effectiveness. Candidates must also arrange to have three letters of
reference sent directly to=20

Dr. Michael Kenneally, Director, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies
Concordia University=20
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8
Michael.Kenneally[at]concordia.ca

Subject to budgetary approval, we anticipate filling this position, =
normally
at the rank of Assistant Professor, for July 1, 2009. Appointments at a =
more
senior level may also be considered for some of the positions =
advertised.
Unless otherwise stipulated above, candidates should have a PhD. Review =
of
applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position =
is
filled. All applications should reach the department no later than =
November
17, 2008. All inquiries should be directed to the departmental contact.=20

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian =
citizens
and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. Concordia
University is committed to employment equity.


=A0

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Subject: ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies) Mid-Atlantic
Regional , LaGuardia Community College,
Enabling/Disabling Ireland
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ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies) Mid-Atlantic Regional
conference

Enabling/Disabling Ireland:
Law, Literature, Politics, and Historical Change.

October 10/11
LaGuardia Community College=20
The City University of New York

Please join us on October 10 and 11 for the Mid-Atlantic Regional yearly
meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies.=A0 This year's =
topic
focuses on the various enabling and/or disabling forces that have =
affected,
and continue to influence, Irish history, literature, and culture.=A0 =
Our
keynote speaker will be Dr. Mark Mossman of Western Illinois University.

Topic Description:

When the Republic of Ireland joined the European Union in 1973, the =
nation
was required to enact human rights legislation ensuring equal protection =
and
equal access for all its citizens. As such, this legislation focused
attention on the various ways Ireland enables and supports its =
citizens.=A0
This conference investigates the various ways Irish culture, literature, =
law
and society enable identity and politics.=20

A Note about our Plenary:

Dr. Mark Mossman is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate =
Studies
at Western Illinois University.=A0 His research interests include =
Nineteenth
Century British Literature, Disability Studies, and Irish Studies.=A0 =
Dr.
Mossman has had his work published in such journals as College English,
Nineteenth Century Feminisms, Postmodern Culture, Post Identity and the
European Romantic Review.=A0 In his work, Dr. Mossman has examined such =
issues
as autobiography and disability, representation of physical difference =
in
the Nineteenth Century, disability as it exists in the postmodern =
university
classroom, and the intersections between disability and Modern =
Ireland.=A0
Currently, Dr. Mossman is working on a project that interrogates =
Nineteenth
Century Irish cultural practices through the framework of Disability
Studies, to be published by Palgrave in the near future.=A0 Dr. =
Mossman's talk
will examine the various ways Irish Studies meets, interacts, and =
benefits
from, Disability Studies.

For further information, please contact:=A0 Ken Monteith=A0=A0
enable.irish[at]gmail.com

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Subject: Radharc: A Journal of Irish and Irish-American Studies,
vol. 5-7 (2004-2006)
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The new issue of Ireland House's journal, Radharc, has just been =
published
by Wordwell. It is a catch-up issue, edited by Marion Casey, containing =
3
volumes covering 2004-2006.

TOC and web address pasted in below...

P.O'S.=20


Radharc: A Journal of Irish and Irish-American Studies, vol. 5-7 =
(2004-2006)

Contents

A Word from the Director
J.J. Lee

In Memoriam Lewis L. Glucksman:

Conferring of the Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree on Lewis L. Glucksman
The National University of Ireland, University College Cork
May 11, 2002
Introductory remarks by J.J. Lee

Announcement of the Glucksman International Fellowships
Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
November 27, 2006
John O'Donoghue, Minister of Art, Sport, and Tourism for the =
Republic of
Ireland

William Sampson, a Republican Constitution and the Conundrum of =
Orangeism on
American Soil, 1824-1831
Walter J. Walsh

The Nun Who Stopped Traffic and The Patrick Henry of the Classroom: =
Justitia
Coffey, Margaret Haley, and Chicago's School Wars
Janet A. Nolan

From the Emerald Isle to the Copper Island: The Irish in the Michigan =
Copper
Country, 1845-1920
William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Print and Irish, 1570-1900: An Exception among the Celtic Languages?=20
Niall O'C=EDos=E1in

Rambling in the Field of Modern Identity: Some Speculations on Irish
Traditional Music
Martin Dowling

Reflections on the Irish Constitution
Ronan Keane

Church, State, and Sexual Crime against Children in Ireland after 1922
Anthony Keating

Ireland=92s Spectacular, If Delayed, Convergence
Daniel McCoy

Ulster Evangelicalism and American Culture Wars
David W. Miller

Remembering Skibbereen: Writing an Irish American Memoir
Sharon O=92Brien

Mike Quill, de Valera=92s visit to the German Legation and Irish =
American
Attitudes to World War II
Brian Hanley=20

Ireland and Europe: A Dutch Perspective
Joost Augusteijn

Reporting from America: The Challenges of Reporting America to Ireland
Conor O=92Clery

The Genealogy of Scholarship: An Oral History with Kerby A. Miller, =
David N.
Doyle & Bruce Boling

Spring 2004-Fall 2006: List of Public Events at Glucksman Ireland House =
NYU

=20
Copies of Radharc: A Journal of Irish and Irish-American Studies, volume =
5-7
(2004-2006) will be available from Wordwell Books.


Copyright =A9 2007 Glucksman Ireland House, New York University
ISSN 1531-7293

http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/radharc5-7.html

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From: "Patrick Fitzgerald"
To: "The Irish Diaspora Studies List"

Just to clarify - there is not at present full public access online to
the Irish Emigration Database. It is accessible across the NI Library
network and at PRONI. Bona Fide scholars are welcome to email CMS
requesting password protected remote access for which there is no
charge.
Paddy Fitzgerald
CMS UAFP

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Kerby Miller
Sent: 27 August 2008 14:33
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [IR-D] The famine and letter collections

I've found a fair number of such immigrants' correspondence, most=0D
(but not all of them) from public archives in Ireland or the US and=0D
Canada.

A few of them are typed on files in my computer and I can send them=0D
as e-mail attachments. Most, however, are not.

If you go through the Famine chapter in my EMIGRANTS & EXILES, you=0D
can identify some of the pertinent letters and (in the notes) find=0D
their archive sources.

I'm too busy to hunt through my letters and send you materials, but=0D
you'd be more than welcome to visit and hunt yourself (I have=0D
annotated lists of most of them, which will speed your work). Many=0D
scholars, grad. students, etc., have done this profitably.

You've checked with Marion Casey at NYU's Ireland House? Her=0D
Irish-American Archive at NYU may contain additional materials.

Also, I think (for a small fee?) you can get access on-line to the=0D
letter collections typed into a data base at archives at the=0D
Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Co. Tyrone.

Kerby Miller
University of Missouri

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I have pasted in, below, the TOC of the latest issue of NATIONAL IDENTITIES.
There are a number of articles of interest to IR-D members - homage to
Catalan football, the Breton move to the left, New Zealand citizenhip, food
ways. There is a specific Irish item, the article by Nadav Morag. I have,
for completeness, pasted in the Abstract at the end of this page. I don't
know what to say about this article - it is one of those 'summarise all
Irish history in 15 pages' pieces, and therefore an oddity in NATIONAL
IDENTITIES. It is not entirely comfortable with the terminology - at one
point it makes a distinction between 'Ulstermen' and 'Irishmen'. There does
seem to be some sort of agenda here.

P.O'S.

NATIONAL IDENTITIES
VOL 10; NUMBER 3; 2008
ISSN 1460-8944

pp. 329-343
Place, identity and football: Catalonia, Catalanisme and Football Club
Barcelona, 1899-1975.
Shobe, H.

pp. 345-351
BOOK REVIEWS.

pp. 247-261
Revision required: Reconciling New Zealand citizenship with Maori
nationalisms.
Humpage, L.

pp. 263-280
The emerald isle: Ireland and the clash of Irish and Ulster-British
nationalisms.
Morag, N.

pp. 281-293
The rise of militant Bretonite.
Boomgaard, M. C.

pp. 295-312
Indian identities in the 'rainbow nation': Responses to transformation in
South African schools.
Lemon, A.

pp. 313-327
Constructed national food and meal archetypes at international exhibitions
from Paris 1867 to Aichi 2005.
Tellstrom, R.; Gustafsson, I. B.; Lindgren, H. x.


The emerald isle: Ireland and the clash of Irish and Ulster-British
nationalisms
Author: Nadav Morag a
Affiliation: a American Jewish University, Los Angeles, California, USA

Abstract
This article will focus on the development of Irish and Ulster-British
nationalisms through examining five factors that had the greatest impact on
the creation and growth of these nationalisms: the geographic and
topographic setting; demographic changes; sociocultural factors; economic
and class factors; and the impact of the colonial power. The article will
show that nationalism is driven by variables that originate from broader
processes extending beyond the national group.
Keywords: Ireland; Ulster-British; Catholic; Irish geography; demography;
class; education; economy; Britain

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A number of IR-D members will wish to see Seamus Heaney's Obituary of David
Hammond, in today's Guardian.

David Hammond
A 'natural force' for good in Irish life with a gift for television
film-making and song

* Seamus Heaney
* The Guardian,
* Thursday August 28 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/28/ireland.folk

' David, who has died aged 79, was a singer, film-maker and broadcaster
whose unique combination of passion and insouciance made him a force for
good in Irish life, public and private, north and south, for the past 50
years. He was in the widest sense an educator, an Ulsterman who was at ease
with being an Irishman, a lifelong resident of Belfast immune to its
constricting ideologies, free from its sectarianism, exultantly and
resolutely his egalitarian self.'

See also

Conor O'Brien

* Michael O'Sullivan
* The Guardian,
* Wednesday August 27 2008

'In 1983 Conor O'Brien, who has died aged 77, was the Labour party candidate
for the safe Conservative seat of Southend East; he came second, losing to
the Scottish rightwinger Sir Teddy Taylor, during the high tide of
Thatcherism.

Before that, in 1979, Conor had been the Labour Party's European election
candidate for Essex. Yet national and European politics were not really
Conor's stamping ground. It was on his adopted home turf in the county that
he excelled...

Conor was a twin in a family of four boys, and was born in the village of
Drimoleague in west Cork. His father had fought alongside Michael Collins'
forces in the Anglo-Irish war of independence, and later served as a
district magistrate. Conor attended one of Ireland's leading schools,
Farranferris Catholic seminary in Cork, where contemporaries included the
composer Sean O'Riada.

In the early 1950s he moved to Dagenham, east London, and took a
teacher-training course at what is now St Mary's University College in
Twickenham. This led to a post at a local primary school, St Teresa's, in
Vange.

In 1955 he married Joan, a miner's daughter from the north east. Summer
holidays were usually spent in his beloved west Cork. They had two
daughters, Debbie and Katherine.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/aug/27/4

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Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, October 11th
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Colonial Connections: Ireland, India and Education
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
October 11th*
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Education bound Ireland and India together in complex ways, none more so
than in the field of education, as Irish institutions of higher education
trained hundreds of civil servants, doctors, lawyers, engineers,
missionaries and others who pursued careers in colonial India-including in
the domain of education. This symposium will bring together renowned
scholars of Irish and Indian history to explore the mutual imbrications
between Ireland, India and colonialism in two key areas of colonial
education: language and linguistics; and medicine and science.

Speakers include Professor Saurabh Dube (El Colegio de Mexico), Professor
Luke Gibbons (University of Notre Dame), Professor Richard Jarrell (York
University, Canada), Professor Greta Jones (Ulster University), Dr. Joseph
Lennon (Manhattan College), Dr. Jim Mills (University of Strathclyde),
Professor Dhruv Raina (Delhi University), and Professor Harish Trivedi
(Delhi University).

*Programme*

*10: 00-10:15** Introduction and Welcome*

*10:15-12:45** Panel I: Language and Linguistics *

*2:15** -5:00 Panel II: Medicine and Science*

*This event is free and open to the public*

*For further information contact Christopher Shepard at c.shepard[at]qub.ac.uk*

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Subject: Conference, Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester,
September 27 2008, 'Out of the Archives'
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Forwarded on behalf of
Margot Ryan
Irish Diaspora Foundation


Out of the archives

This year=92s annual One Day Conference will take place at the Irish =
World
Heritage Centre on Saturday the 27th of September.

The theme of the conference this year is =91Out of the Archives=92 and =
we plan
to take a look at key events and key figures in Irish history, with a =
view
to reassessing long-held historical interpretations of past events. The =
day
will consist of four lectures on this topic and all of the chosen =
speakers
have an interest in gathering information from first hand accounts of
historical events, previously unpublished historical documents or newly
presented information.

The ways in which researchers disseminate information will also be =
examined
in the course of the day. For example David Ryan=92s talk on =91Cromwell =
in
Ireland=92 will deal with the documentary-making process and the =
problems of
balancing historical accuracy with the need to follow a dramatic =
storyline,
and the use of first-hand accounts in this context.

Annie Ryan, author of =91Witnesses =96 Inside the Easter Rising=92 will =
speak
about her work on the collection of first hand accounts of the Easter =
Rising
and the Irish War of Independence, which are held in the Irish Military
Archives, and the work involved in preparing this information for
publication.

Dr. Billy Kelly will explore the provenance of the text of the =
Commentarius
Rinnuccinianus, the papal nuncio=92s account of his time in Ireland =
between
1645-1649. His talk will briefly outline the history of the period and =
will
also introduce the digitized text on the website.

Sin=E9ad McCoole is a historian, author, broadcaster, script-writer and
exhibition curator, presently curating the most impressive private =
library
of Irish material anywhere in the world which was discovered in Mayo. =
This
material was collected by Jackie Clarke over his lifetime, starting in =
his
youth and continuing until the year of his death in 2000.

There will be a bookstall courtesy of the Working Class Movement =
Library
and exhibitions of Irish Diaspora Foundation projects.

If you would like to attend the conference, please complete the booking =
form
(see below) and return it by post with your payment to Margot Ryan.

Conference Programme

Please return your booking form to:
Margot Ryan
Irish Diaspora Foundation
10 Queens Road
Cheetham Hill
Manchester
M8 8UF

http://www.iwhc.com/news/2008/conference.htm

http://www.iwhc.com/index.htm

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The following item has been brought to our attention...

P.O'S.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94071203&sc=emaf

Tracing The Roots Of 'Irish Madness'

Join the Discussion
Does your family have a history of schizophrenia?

Talk of the Nation, August 28, 2008 . For more than five generations,
Patrick Tracey's family has been plagued by what he calls "a perfect storm
of schizophrenia." In his new book, Stalking Irish Madness, he traces his
family lineage - and the roots of the disease - all the way back to Ireland.

"Unlike those Irish Americans who dig after genealogical clues," Tracey
writes, "I have no sentimental attachment to my forebears. Instead, I feel
I'm chasing much bigger game here, stalking the madness that stalks my
family in a direct line down to - but not including - me."

Excerpt: Stalking Irish Madness
Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia

by Patrick Tracey

Stalking Irish Madness Book Cover

Away with the faries

It's dark and murky inside Ireland's Cave of the Cat. A muddy abyss in the
heart of bog Ireland, the Cave of the Cat, or the Oweynagat, as it's known,
is no ordinary grotto. A royal shrine in the second century, this natural
limestone fissure was said to be a local doorway to the "otherworld" of the
fairies, a race of paranormal beings reputed, among other things, to possess
the minds of the insane.

More on

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'Imperium in Imperio': Irish Episcopal Imperialism in the
Nineteenth Century
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The English Historical Review 2008 CXXIII(502):611-650;

C The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights
reserved.

'Imperium in Imperio': Irish Episcopal Imperialism in the Nineteenth
Century*

Colin Barr

Ave Maria University, Naples, Florida

Correspondence: Professor Colin Barr, Department of History, Ave Maria
University, 1025 Commons Circle, Naples, Florida FL 34119-1376. USA.

The heavily Irish character of the Roman Catholic Church in the United
States, United Kingdom, and much of the former British Empire is evident.
This was not, however, the necessary consequence of large-scale Irish
emigration in the nineteenth-century. Rather, it was the result of a
carefully-planned campaign to install Irish bishops in the several national
hierarchies, a campaign which began in earnest in the United States from
1830, before affecting the Maritime provinces of British North America, the
Cape of Good Hope, Australia, and New Zealand. Only Scotland was able -
temporarily - to repel the Irish. This phenomenon was directed by Paul
Cullen, in his successive roles as rector of the Irish College, Rome,
archbishop of Armagh, and, from 1852, archbishop of Dublin. Cullen was able
to use his influence at Rome to manipulate and control information regarding
English-language conflicts. This allowed him to secure the appointment as
bishops of a substantial number of his relatives, former students, and
diocesan priests around the world. In every case save the Cape of Good Hope,
this occurred in the face of determined opposition on the part of a
pre-existing national hierarchy: French and German in the United States,
Scots in Maritime Canada (and Scotland), English Benedictines in Australia,
French Marists in New Zealand. Excepting Scotland, Cullen's bishops largely
supplanted their predecessors. More than merely ethnically Irish, these
bishops and many of their successors shared a distinctive Hiberno-Roman
devotional and disciplinary model of Catholicism that became normative in
the areas to which they were sent.

* A number of friends and colleagues very kindly looked over all or part of
this article, and it has been much improved by their attentions. I would
like to record my thanks to P. J. Ayres, E. F. Biagini, R. V. Comerford, R.
P. Davis, G. Laragy, J. J. Lee, C. McGregor, C. L. Romens and R. Sweetman.

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The Road to Farndon Field: Explaining the Massacre of the
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Stoyle, Mark. 2008. The Road to Farndon Field: Explaining the Massacre of
the Royalist Women at Naseby. The English Historical Review CXXIII (503):895
- 923.


In June 1645 Parliament's New Model Army, under the command of Sir Thomas
Fairfax, shattered King Charles I's main field army at the Battle of Naseby.
It was a famous victory for the Parliamentarians, a victory which
effectively decided the outcome of the English Civil War, but, as one
historian has rightly observed, the lustre of the Parliamentarian triumph
was tarnished by an indelible blot'. In the wake of the battle, the
Roundhead cavalry launched a savage attack on the female camp-followers of
the Royalist army: killing over a hundred of them and mutilating many more.
The present article puts this notorious episode under the microscope and
places the Naseby massacre within its wider historical context. The article
begins by considering the chief theories which have been put forward by
previous historians to explain the massacre. It then goes on to advance some
new theories of its own, concentrating, in particular, on the way that
Parliamentarian pamphleteers had helped to pave the way for the atrocity
over the preceding years by portraying the king's camp-followers as a mob of
murderous, knife-wielding Irish and Welsh-women'. The article concludes by
arguing that - while the massacre was primarily explicable in terms of
xenophobia, anti-popery and a thirst for revenge for previous massacres
which had allegedly been committed by Celtic' women against the English -
fear of witchcraft may also have played its part in hardening the
Parliamentarian soldiers' hearts against the fleeing Royalist women whom
they killed and maimed on that bloody June day.

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JOURNAL: Advances in Gender Research
Volume 12, 2008, Pages 23-41
Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Harriet Martineau's Irish romance: The Lady Oracle and the Young Repealer

Deborah A. Logan

Available online 26 August 2008.

Abstract

Harriet Martineau's writing about Ireland spanned over 35 years of her
career and, as a topic of socio-cultural, political, and economic interest,
was second only to her prolific writing on the United States. Through the
contexts of her writing (fiction and nonfiction) and of 19th-century
Anglo-Irish history, this discussion examines a singular episode in
Martineau's life and work, one that highlights her complex views on Ireland
and challenges her assumptions about the relentless conundrum popularly
termed "the Irish Question." Martineau's brief epistolary relationship with
the young repeal advocate, Mr. Langtrey, helped shape and clarify her
thinking about Anglo-Irish relations; subsequently, she produced some of the
best writing of her career as a traveling correspondent for the Daily News,
reporting on post-famine Ireland. Although on a par with her better-known
sociological analyses of America, Martineau's writing about 19th-century
Ireland remains comparatively unexamined by scholars of the British Empire,
of Victorian intellectual and social history, and of the enduringly
contentious Anglo-Irish relations.

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Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 29 Issue 3 2008

Transnational Families: Emotions and Belonging

This special issue of Journal of Intercultural Studies has, as one starting
point, the conference "Transnational Families: Emotions and Belonging", May
2007, Queen's University Belfast.

I have pasted in the TOC below...

As ever Copy & Paste has played havoc with diacretics...

Many of the contributors are based in Belfast or nearby. All of the
articles will interest IR-D members - the basic model is 'Transnationalism'.
Thus Zlatko Skrbis' contribution looks back to Thomas and Znaniecki's The
Polish Peasant in Europe and America.

There are 3 articles with specific Irish Diaspora content and interest - by
Louise Ryan, Patrick Fitzgerald, and Brian Lambkin.

I have separated out the details and the Abstracts of these 3 articles, and
these will follow as separate emails in the usual way.

A good read...

P.O'S.

Who Cares? Families and Feelings in Movement
213 - 230
Author: Maruka Svaek

Transnational Families: Theorising Migration, Emotions and Belonging

231 - 246
Author: Zlatko Skrbi

Missing Kin and Longing to be Together: Emotions and the
Construction of Co-presence in Transnational Relationships
247 - 266
Author: Loretta Baldassar

Exploring Transnational and Diasporic Families through the Irish
Emigration Database
267 - 281
Author: Patrick Fitzgerald

Historically Rooted Transnationalism: Slightedness and the
Experience of Racism in Mexican Families
283 - 297
Author: Mnica G. Moreno Figueroa

Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Families "Here" and "There":
Women, Migration and the Management of Emotions
299 - 313
Author: Louise Ryan

The Emotional Function of the Migrant's "Birthplace" in
Transnational Belonging: Thomas Mellon (1813-1908) and Andrew Carnegie
(1835-1919)
315 - 329
Author: Brian Lambkin

Intimacy and Affect in Turkish-German Writing: Emine Sevgi zdamar's
"The Courtyard in the Mirror"
331 - 345
Author: Margaret Littler

Volume 29, Number 3, August 2008
Journal of Intercultural Studies

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The Emotional Function of the Migrant's "Birthplace" in Transnational
Belonging: Thomas Mellon (1813-1908) and Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

Author: Lambkin, Brian

Source: Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 29, Number 3, August 2008 ,
pp. 315-329(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
Two migrant autobiographies (Mellon and Carnegie) are selected for
comparison of their detailed descriptions of return to the birthplace. It is
of added interest that both birthplaces are now public museums. The
narratives are analysed in terms of the sevenfold typology of Booker (2004).
Consideration is then given to a theory about the significance of the
migrant's birthplace advanced in a third migrant narrative by Edna O'Brien.
Finally, it is suggested that return to the birthplace has a therapeutic
function, especially in the case of those like Mellon and Carnegie whose
experience of emigration as children was traumatic. Their returns are found
to complete their migration narratives, in a circular rather than linear
way, with a kind of "rebirth" after which they experience a new, harmonious
sense of transnational belonging. "Roots tourists" who visit the birthplace
of an emigrant ancestor or, as a surrogate, an emigrant birthplace museum,
may experience similar emotion and, as a result, a similar enhanced and
liberating sense of transnational belonging.

Keywords: Carnegie; Emigrant Museum; Mellon; Migrant Autobiography;
Roots-Tourism

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Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Families "Here" and "There": Women,
Migration and the Management of Emotions

Author: Ryan, Louise

Source: Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 29, Number 3, August 2008 ,
pp. 299-313(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group


Abstract:
Based on interviews with 25 Irish nurses living and working in Britain, the
primary aim of this paper is to explore migration as an ongoing emotional
journey. Drawing on the work of Hochschild, the paper explores how migrants
discuss, describe and manage their emotions. In particular, the paper will
explore the role of "emotion culture" in shaping the appropriate management
and display of feelings. I discuss the women's early experiences of
migration and how they managed their emotions of loneliness and
homesickness. I examine how the women navigate the emotional terrain of
transnational families and expectations of support and obligation. The paper
focuses on how the stresses and strains of marriage and motherhood were
negotiated and what happens when "emotion culture" and "display rules" are
broken. Emotions are not just a topic of research; they also impact on the
research process. One way of trying to uncover the emotions underpinning
these interviews is by adopting a reflexive approach to the research
process. Hence, as a second aim, the paper employs a reflexive approach to
chart my own personal navigation of this emotional terrain both as an
interviewer but also as a migrant and mother.

Keywords: Emotion Management; Irish Nurses; Migrants; Transnational Families

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Exploring Transnational and Diasporic Families through the Irish
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Exploring Transnational and Diasporic Families through the Irish Emigration
Database

Author: Fitzgerald, Patrick

Source: Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 29, Number 3, August 2008 ,
pp. 267-281(15)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
I shall begin the paper by locating myself as a migration historian and
former museum curator in the area of particular attention here, that is,
migration and emotion. As the paper draws almost exclusively upon material
housed on the Irish Emigration Database I shall proceed with a brief
description of this "virtual archive". My particular attention will be
directed towards emigrant letters and I shall review some of the evidence
drawn from correspondence which particularly illustrates consciousness of
what I would refer to as "family diasporas" (scatterings of individual
family members worldwide who retain a sense of connection with the family
home in Ireland). Thereafter, my main consideration will be with the issue
of how emotion conditioned the timing of emigrant correspondence. I shall
review the evidence relating to the stimuli which encouraged emigrants to
"lift up their pens" to write home and present some evidence relating to
patterns in the rhythm of emigrant correspondence. The issues of identity
and belonging will also be addressed and I shall conclude by situating my
findings in relation to the theoretical work by social scientists in this
field. My paper will also point out some connections with the other papers
in the special issue.


Keywords: Emigrant Correspondence; Irish Emigration Database; Irish
Migration

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Nursing Ethics, Vol. 15, No. 5, 643-655 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0969733008092873

Gender and Power: the Irish Hysterectomy Scandal
Joan McCarthy

University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland, j.mccarthy[at]ucc.ie

Sharon Murphy

University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland

Mark Loughrey

University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland

In April 2004 the Irish Government commissioned Judge Maureen Harding Clark
to compile a report to ascertain the rate of caesarean hysterectomies at Our
Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Republic of Ireland. The report came
about as a result of complaints by midwives into questionable practices that
were mainly (but not solely) attributed to one particular obstetrician. In
this article we examine the findings of this Report through a feminist lens
in order to explore what a feminist reading of the Report and the events
that led to the inquiry will bring to light. We consider how sex and gender
feature in the Lourdes case, draw attention to the deeply gendered
asymmetries of power and privilege that existed between the men and women at
the centre of this inquiry, and explore the impact such asymmetries had on
this particular situation.

Key Words: feminism . gender . hysterectomy . malpractice . moral . power

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The latest issue of the journal Slavery & Abolition is a special issue

Slavery & Abolition A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Volume 29
Issue 2 2008
Special Issue on Public Art, Artefacts and Atlantic Slavery

It is an especially strong issue... The editors' Introduction will interest
a number of IR-D members

Public Art, Artefacts and Atlantic Slavery: Introduction
Authors: Celeste-Marie Bernier; Judie Newman

'...In the past the problem of the memorialisation of slavery was the
absence of memorials. As recently as 1988, for example, the managing
director of Heritage Projects Ltd. dismissed the very idea of a Museum of
Slavery as unacceptable to the British public. He had rejected outright a
proposal to build one.1 With the exception of some pioneering work by the
Smithsonian, and Colonial Williamsburg, the silence on the other side of the
Atlantic was equally deafening. In 2007, however, the bicentennial of the
abolition of the British slave trade was commemorated by almost every major
British museum: the V&A, National Maritime Museum, National Gallery,
National Portrait Gallery, the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum - not
to mention other events including major exhibitions in London, Swansea,
Hull, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and Newcastle Upon Tyne. What had
changed? Factors cited as influential between the 1980s and today include:
the novel and television series Roots (1977), the influence of the Holocaust
Museum (1979), films such as Glory, Amistad and Beloved (though the two last
named flopped at the box office), well-made television documentaries and,
more generally, the increase in television programmes focused on history and
testimony, the rise of heritage tourism and the development of history as a
leisure pursuit from the late 1990s.2 History has become, in some senses, a
product to be consumed by the public. And history sells well, especially as
a means to urban regeneration, associated with the establishment of cultural
quarters in many cities...'

The specific Irish item is by Fionnghuala Sweeney. Fionnghuala Sweeney is
Lecturer in Comparative American Studies at the University of Liverpool. Her
research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish, American and
Caribbean literature. She is particularly interested in Atlantic exchanges
and postcolonial theory, and is the author of Frederick Douglass and the
Atlantic World (2007). The article begins to explore the space opened up by
Ninni Rodgers' Ireland, Slavery and Anti-slavery, 1612-1865, by Fionnghuala
Sweeney's own study of Frederick Douglass, and by Donal O Kelly's play...

Info and Abstract pasted in below...

Other Peoples' History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Donal O
Kelly's The Cambria

Author: Sweeney, Fionnghuala

Source: Slavery & Abolition, Volume 29, Number 2, January 2008 , pp.
279-291(13)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade has gone
officially unmarked in the Republic of Ireland. Although remaining outside
the historical narratives of all political traditions in the state, however,
both slavery and anti-slavery had significant impact on the economics of
this corner of what was the British Empire. Recently, following four
centuries of population haemorrhage, the state has sought to limit the
citizenship rights of its new immigrant population. Donal O Kelly's play,
The Cambria, is one of the few contemporary responses to the Irish
exceptionalist tradition. This article argues that the play seeks to insert
one peripheral memory of slavery into a contemporary narrative of Irish
republicanism. As an intervention, it presents a challenge to narrowly
defined narratives of citizenship. As importantly, it reconsiders the
meaning of the social contract within republicanism, and the degree to which
history may enable it.