Glucksman Ireland House Records
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The Glucksman Ireland House, established in 1993, is the center for Irish Studies at New York University. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses in history, Irish language, literature, music, and politics. The Glucksman Ireland House Records roughly span from 1907 to 2002, with the bulk of the materials dating between 1993 to 2002. The collection documents various aspects of the 1995 International Conference on Hunger sponsored by Glucksman Ireland House, social and educational events hosted by the Irish Studies Department, as well as Glucksman Ireland House's administrative activities.
Biographical Note
The Glucksman Ireland House, established in 1993, is the center for Irish Studies at New York University. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses in history, Irish language, literature, music, and politics. In addition to pursuing an undergraduate minor, a B.A./M.A., or an M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies, students at Glucksman Ireland House also have the ability to spend a summer studying abroad in Dublin, which is arranged through Glucksman Ireland House. When not convening classes, the Glucksman Ireland House also hosts weekly events and speakers on topics related to Irish politics, culture, and academia.
Arrangement
This collection has been arranged into the following series:
Series I: International Conference on Hunger
Series II: Glucksman Ireland House Activities and Administrative Files
Within each series, materials are arranged in alphabetical order.
Scope and Contents
The Glucksman Ireland House Records roughly span from 1907 to 2002, with the bulk of the materials dating between 1993 to 2002.
In 1995, to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Great Famine in Ireland, Glucksman Ireland House sponsored the International Conference on Hunger, which examined the history of famine on a global scale. Series I: International Conference on Hunger contains various materials including press releases, newspaper advertisements, budgets, meeting minutes, grant proposals and applications for conference funding, solicitations to outside corporate sponsors for conference funding, conference pre-registration and registration confirmation cards, memorandum, newspaper clippings, correspondence, profiles about conference presenters, mailing lists, as well as conference brochures and programs. This series also contains printed copies of papers presented at the conference, as well as 3 floppy disks holding digital copies of some conference papers.
Series II: Glucksman Ireland House Activities and Administrative Files focuses upon social and educational events hosted by the Irish Studies Department, as well as Glucksman Ireland House's administrative activities. These events include lecture series, commemoration dinners, and film festivals. Materials in this collection include postcards, event calendars, memorandum, course listings, brochures, ciruculars, event programs, audiovisual tapes, zip drives, floppy disks, photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
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Open for research without restrictions.
Use Restrictions
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection are held by Glucksman Ireland House. Permission to publish or reproduce materials to which they hold copyright must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Tamiment Library for assistance.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The provenance of this collection is unknown.
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596 with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Born-Digital Access Policies and Procedures
An access terminal for born-digital materials in the collection is available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Researchers may view an item's original container and/or carrier, but the physical carriers themselves are not available for use because of preservation concerns. Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted.
Separated Materials
Materials related to the Museum of the City of New York's "Gaelic Gotham: A History of the Irish in New York" exhibition were relocated to the New York Irish History Roundtable Records (AIA.018). Materials related to Claire Grimes were relocated to the Grimes Family Films and Other Materials collection (AIA.040).
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Processing Information
The Glucksman Ireland House Records were processed and described by an archivist in the fall of 2021. During processing, duplicate materials and sensitive financial documents were removed from the collection.
Materials were placed in new acid-free folders and boxes. Original folder titles were retained when available. Media labels with unique identifiers were placed on all audiovisual and born-digital items.
New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the content. Two optical discs, four zip disks, and four floppy disks were forensically imaged, analyzed, and arranged.
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Series I: International Conference on Hunger, 1993-1996, inclusive
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In 1995, to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Great Famine in Ireland, Glucksman Ireland House sponsored and hosted the International Conference on Hunger, which examined the history of famine on a global scale. Glucksman Ireland House also coordinated the creation of a small exhibition focused on the Great Famine that was displayed concurrent with the conference.
Series I: International Conference on Hunger contains various materials including press releases, newspaper advertisements, budgets, meeting minutes, grant proposals and applications for conference funding, solicitations to outside corporate sponsors for conference funding, conference pre-registration and registration confirmation cards, memorandum, newspaper clippings, correspondence, profiles about conference presenters, mailing lists, as well as conference brochures and programs. This series also contains printed copies of papers presented at the conference, as well as 3 floppy disks holding digital copies of some conference papers.
It should be noted in this series, although folders 18-21 contain the word "video" in the title, these folders do not contain any audiovisual materials. These folders only contain papers.
'95 Famine Conference, 1993
Address List, undated
Advertising, 1994-1995, inclusive
Allan Cubbit, 1995
American Express, 1994
Archer Daniels Midland, 1994
Art Exhibits, undated
Articles on Famine, 1994
Asbjorn Eide, 1995
Bibliography, undated
Bookselling at Conference, 1995
British Council, 1994
Brochure Design/Printing, 1994-1995, inclusive
Budget (incl. codes), 1995
Clinical Aspects of Famine (Kevin M. Cahill, MD), undated
Compassion Fatigue and Famine Relief in Imperial China (Peter C. Perdue), 1995
Computer Files related to Hunger Conference, 1995
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The Condition of Famine Immigrants in Antebellum New York (Alan M. Kraut), 1995
Conf. 2 Page Description, undated
Conf. Contact List (Master), 1994
Conf. Correspondence - NOT re: speakers, 1994-1995, inclusive
Conf. Detailed Narrative, 1994
Conf. General Proposal, 1994
Conference Planning Mtgs, 1994
Conference Presentation List, undated
Conference Schedule, 1995
Conference Transcripts Inquiries, 1995
Conference Work Plan, undated
Diet, Subsistence, Crises and Hunger before the Great Irish Famine (David Dickson), 1995
Dr. Deborah Toler, 1995
Dr. Ellen Messer, 1994-1995, inclusive
Dr. J. Larry Brown, 1994-1995, inclusive
Dr. Kevin M. Cahill, 1994-1995, inclusive
Dr. Kevin Whelan, 1994-1995, inclusive
Dr. Laurence M. Geary, 1994-1996, inclusive
Dr. Martin H. Geyer, 1994-1995, inclusive
Dr. Peter Gray, 1995-1996, inclusive
Dr. Sophia Hillian King, 1994-1995, inclusive
Famine Conference Funding, 1994
Famine Conference - General Correspondence, 1994
Famine Conference Masters, undated
Famine - Correspondence Panels, 1994-1995, inclusive
Famine, Disease, and Famine Mortality: lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850 (Joel Mokyr), 1995
The Famine in Dublin City (Cormac O Grada), 1995
Famine, Entitlements, and Seduction: Captain Edmond Wynne in Ireland, 1846-1851, undated
Famine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Psychological and Social Impact (Laurence M. Geary), 1995
The Famine and Its Discourse (Denis Donoghue), undated
Famine Museum of Ireland, 1995
The Famine Process and the Phasing of Interventions (John Osgood Field), 1995
Famine Relief in Comparative Perspective: Ireland, Scotland, and North-Western Europe, 1845-50 (Peter Gray), undated
Ford Foundation, 1994-1995, inclusive
The Great Famine and Women's Emigration from Ireland (Janet Nolan), 1995
Heinz Co. Foundation, 1994
Hotels - Other/general, 1995
Hunger Conference: Press Clippings, 1995
Hunger and History: The Great Irish Famine in Global Context, Proceedings of the Ireland House International Conference on Hunger, 1995
Hunger and Human Rights (Asbjorn Eide and Wenche Barth Eide), 1995
Hunger Project, 1994
Income/Expense Report, 1995
International Conference on Hunger 19/20 May 1995 Selected Audience Comments, 1995
International Conference on Hunger Booklet, 1995
International Conferene on Hunger Confirmation of Participation, 1995
International Conference on Hunger Folder Pack, 1995
International Conference on Hunger Keynote Address by President Mary Robinson, 1995
International Conference on Hunger Pre-Registration Card, undated
International Conference on Hunger Program, undated
International Conference on Hunger Stickers, 1995
Ireland House/International Conference on Hunger May 19 & 20, 1995, 1995
Irish Americaqn Heritage Museum, 1994-1995, inclusive
Irish Cultural Relations Cttee, 1995
Joel Charny, 1995
Letters of Support, undated
Liverpool in Black '47 (R Scally), 1995
Local Response to the Great Famine: a questions of competence? (Mary Daly), 1995
Loeb Student Center, 1994-1995, inclusive
Luke Dodd, 1994-1995, inclusive
Mailing List, 1994-1995, inclusive
Mailing List Memos/Orders, 1994
Malnutrition and the Culture of Food Consumption in Brazil: a Historical View (Robert Levine), 1995
Master List of Speakers, 1995
The Memory of Hunger (David Lloyd), undated
Michael Quigley, 1995
Michael Sheridan, 1994-1995, inclusive
"The Most Irish City in the Union": The Era of the Great Migration 1844-1877 (Hasia Diner), 1995
Mr. Michael Lally, 1995
Mr. Peter Quinn, 1995
Museums, 1994
Names in the News, 1993-1994, inclusive
NEH - Draft Application, 1994
NEH Final Application, 1994
NEH Follow-Up, 1995
NEH Guidelines, 1991-1996, inclusive
New York Times Foundation, 1994
NYCH - Grant Acceptance, undated
NYCH - Grant Application, 1994
NYCH - Guidelines, 1994
NY Council on Humanities, 1994
NYU Guest Services, 1995
The Origins of Hunger in Latin America: An Overview (Robert Marx Delson), 1995
Other Potential Funds, 1993-1995, inclusive
The Pauper and the Politician: A Tale of Two Immigrants and the Construction of Irish-American Society (Kerby A Miller & Bruce D. Boling), 1995
Photographer Fergus Bourke, 1994
Pictures Drawn from Memory: William Carleton's Experience of Famine (Sophia Hillan King), 1995
The Politics of the Famine in Eastern Ukraine, 1946-1947 (Amir Weiner), 1995
Postmodern Hunger: The United States (Marion Nestle), 1995
Proceedings of the Ireland House Hunger Conference (Draft), 1995
Prof. Alan M. Kraut, 1995
Prof. Amartya Sen, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Amir Weiner, 1995
Prof. Aristide Zollberg, 1995
Prof. Carl Riskin, 1994-1996
Prof. Christopher Mitchell, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Cormac O'Grada, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Cynthia Bouton, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. David Dickson, 1995-1996, inclusive
Prof. David Doyle, 1995
Prof. David Fitzpatrick, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. David Lloyd, 1995-1996, inclusive
Prof. Denis Donoghue, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Dorothy Nelkin, 1993-1996, inclusive
Prof. Hasia R. Diner, 1994-1996, inclusive
Prof. James S. Donnelly, 1993-1995, inclusive
Prof. Janet Nolan, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Joel Mokyr, 1994-1996, inclusive
Prof. John Bohstedt, undated
Prof. John Osgood Field, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Kerby Miller, 1993-1995, inclusive
Prof. Leslie Clarkson, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Liz Young, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Lucile F. Newman, 1994-1996, inclusive
Prof. Luke Gibbons, 1995
Prof. Marion Nestle, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Mary E. Daly, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Peter Perdue, 1994-1996, inclusive
Prof. Richard Hull, 1994-1996, inclusive
Prof. Robert Levine, 1994-1996, inclusive
Prof. Roberta Delson, 1995-1996, inclusive
Prof. Stephen Wheatcroft, 1995-1996, inclusive
Prof. Terry Eagleton, 1994-1995, inclusive
Prof. Walton Johnson, 1995
Prof. Yanni Kotsonis, 1995
Proposal Forms (Evan Newfeld), undated
Public Affairs/Barbara Jester, 1994-1995, inclusive
Public Policy, Private Lives: Famine Relief and Community in India (Lucile F. Newman), 1995
Requests for Papers, Tapes of Proceedings, 1995
Resumes, undated
Richard G. Robbins, 1995-1996, inclusive
The Russian Famine of 1891-1892: Administrative Response to Social Crises (Richard G. Robbins Jr.), 1995
Russian and Soviet Famines and Food Problems, 1890-1940 (Stephen G. Wheatcraft), 1995
Science and Hunger: The Problematic Promises of a Technological Fix (Dorothy Nelkin), 1995
Six Questions About the Chinese Famine of 1959-61 (Carl Riskin), 1995
Spaces for Famine: A Comparative Geographical Analysis of Famine in Ireland and the Highlands in the 1840s (Liz Young), 1995
Speakers -- Canceled, 1994-1995, inclusive
Special Events, undated
Sponsored Research - Correspondence, Codes, etc…, 1994-1995, inclusive
Starvation and Political Economy: Famines, Entitlements, and Alienation (Amartya Sen), 1995
Summary Preservation on the Cambodia Famine 1975-1981, 1995
Sylivia's "To Do" File, 1994-1995, inclusive
Three Great Famines: Causes and Consequences (Richard W. Hull), 1995
Tim Robinson, 1994-1995, inclusive
Transcription, undated
Travel, 1995
Veatch Program (U.U.), undated
Video - Correspondence, also videos rejected, 1995
Video - "The Hanging Gale", 1995
Video - Notes on Individual Places, 1995
Video - Technical and Ordering Info, undated
Washington Square Hotel, 1995
Weeping for Connemara (Tim Robinson), 1995
Wild Geese, 1994
Series II: Glucksman Ireland House Activities and Administrative Files, 1907-2002 (inclusive), inclusive; 1991-2002 (bulk), bulk
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This series focuses upon the many social and educational events hosted by the Irish Studies Department such as the Ballinglen Art exhibit, the "Framing Her Image: Women in Irish Film" festival, the "Gothic, the National, the Subversive" Symposium on the Irish Gothic, and the Seamus Heaney Dinner. This series also focuses upon Glucksman Ireland House's administrative activities such as seeking funding to sustain Ireland House, hiring new faculty, budgetary meetings, and curriculum development. Finally, this series includes a large number of interview and promotional audiovisual tape.
Materials in this series consist of postcards, event calendars, memorandum, course listings, brochures, ciruculars, event programs, VHS Tapes, miniDV tapes, Betacam SP tapes, DVcam tapes, zip drives, floppy disks, photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.