The Irish Diaspora List

The Irish-Diaspora list is an email discussion forum, dedicated to the scholarly study of the Irish Diaspora, and its social, economic, linguistic, cultural and political causes and consequences.

The Irish-Diaspora list is hosted, as a service to world-wide Irish Diaspora scholarly community, by the

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

The Irish-Diaspora list is run by a small team of volunteers, led by

Patrick O'Sullivan,
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit

The list is a moderated list. The ethos of the list is scholarly. We think we need to stress this - at the risk of sounding prim and ivory-tower-ish - because we feel there are already places on the Web and the Internet to support, for example, Irish family and social networks or discussions of current political debates and crises. And we ourselves follow those discussions with concern and interest.

But what is missing is a forum which hosts scholarly discussion of the Irish Diaspora, and is able to support theoretical, methodological and comparative perspectives - this forum is provided by the Irish-Diaspora list.

Irish-Diaspora list members can post recent book reviews they have written, fragments of work in progress, brief discussion papers, and reports on conference papers - thus we envisage something that would be of special help to the more isolated Irish Diaspora scholar. Occasionally material is taken from the Irish-Diaspora list and given wider circulation by being placed on the Irish Diaspora Studies Web site at http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/

Membership of the Irish-Diaspora list tends to expand through introduction and invitation. In the first instance send an email message, telling us something about your self and your interests, to the irish-diaspora@bradford.ac.uk

Patrick O'Sullivan
Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit
Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
University of Bradford
Bradford BD7 1DP
Yorkshire
England