Chicago: an Irish-American Metropolis? Politics, Ethnicity, and Culture from 1830s
to the Present Time”
An International and Multidisciplinary
Conference
June 21-23, 2021
Below, I have pasted in the illustrations and references to accompany the paper...
1. This international and multidisciplinary conference was a partnership between the universities of Chicago, Caen Normandie and Paris.
The conference was brought to our attention by our friends in Caen. The conference was to have taken place in Paris, but in the end had to move to Zoom...
A good conference, a good survey of the present state of Irish Diaspora Studies - as seen from Chicago and Paris...
2. As ever, I moved forward with these things, cautiously, step by step - I want to get back into the habit of giving papers, and I wanted to give a coherent paper.
And spend no time quarrelling with technology.
So, I put the illustrations and references here on my blog... With a Tinyurl ready to put into Chat in Zoom. It worked.
This has revealed that many of the references in my database are a bit untidy - but I knew that. I tend to catalogue a resource quickly, get it done - and then tidy the reference in the database as it is called up.
So, here you see me halfway through that task...
3. The three paintings accompany some brief sections in my paper, as presented at this conference - where I look at the wider research literature on 'the letter', how letters appear, in theatre, literature and art - and life - and the place of the 'Emigrant Letter' in that research literature. Which, you will appreciate, is a big subject on its own...
These are my three favourite paintings of the 'Emigrant Letter' in action - in England, Ireland and Spain. Why are these three my favourites? You will see that in all three paintings the task of reading and writing is given to the child. Very telling, about the ways in which our people embrace and harness the technologies of the word.
4. Note that two of the important books I reference are Open Access - I am trying as much as possible to reference Open Access research material...
Briody, M. (2007) The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, Ideology, Methodology. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/66cac5d0-4aa2-4395-a8de-b384db4efc1f/617192.pdf
Vaughan, L. (2018) Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography. London: UCL Press
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/108697
Two fine books... And entry points as Irish Diaspora Studies thinks about 'the peasant' and 'the city'...
5. My thanks to the organisers of the Conference - and to the friends, rediscovered and new, who appeared on my screen, here in my attic in Yorkshire. Special thanks to Thierry Dubost and Alexandra Slaby, Caen Normandie.
James Collinson, Answering
the Emigrant's Letter, 1850
James Brennan, Letter from America, 1875
Maximino Peña Muñoz, La carta del hijo
ausente, 1887 -
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