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.
The XXIVth Ulster American Heritage Symposium will be held between 19-21st June 2024 and once more will be hosted by the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies with our colleagues from National Museums NI here at the Ulster American Folk Park.
Please see attached the full programme of speakers and the link if you would like to book a place. We have to limit the public participation to 35, so it is on a first come /first saved basis. You can attend for one day or two with a fee of £35 per day or £60 for both days. This includes all teas / coffees and lunches.
February 10th, 2024 at 11.00am
Tea/Coffee and Registration from 10.30am
Registration details to follow later
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.
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...
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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The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies
2 Mellon Road
Omagh
County Tyrone
Northern Ireland
BT78 5QU
tel: 028 8225 6315
email: Liam.Campbell@librariesni.org.uk
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