Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Researching the History of the Peoples of Ireland Worldwide

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Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies is located at the Ulster American Folk Park, outside Omagh. The Centre (MCMS) was established in its present form in 1998, and comprises three main elements – the Library, the Irish Emigration Database and a teaching and research programme.

 

 

24th Ulster-American Heritage Symposium

The XXIVth Ulster American Heritage Symposium took place at the Ulster American Folk Park  between 19-21st June 2024 hosted by the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies in association with our colleagues from National Museums NI.

Click on the following link to view a video record of the complete Symposium. https://www.youtube.com/@LiamCampbell-i2c/videos

Twenty-Third Annual Lecture

February 2025 Details to be announced soon

 

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The Irish Emigration Database (IED)

The Irish Emigration Database is a computerised collection of primary source documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA and Canada) in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains a variety of original material including emigrant letters, newspaper articles, shipping advertisements, shipping news, passenger lists, official government reports, family papers, births deaths and marriages and extracts from books and periodicals.

Podcast Episode 5: Bad Bridget

Podcast Episode 5: Bad Bridget

Dr Paddy Fitzgerald with Drs Elaine Farrell and Leanne Mc Cormick on their research and book ‘Bad Bridget, Crime, Mayhem and the lives of Irish Emigrant Women’ and Dr Liam Campbell with Victoria Millar of National Museums NI on their exhibit of the project and the...

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Podcast: Episode 4

Podcast: Episode 4

Dr Angela Byrne in conversation with Dr Liam Campbell about the migration story of her grandmother and her four sisters to America and back.  Mellon Migration Centre · Angela Byrne Women In Migration...

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