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.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 24th meeting of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium will be hosted by the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk park, Omagh, Co. Tyrone June 19-22, 2024.
The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, located at the Ulster-American Folk Park in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Part of the Libraries Ni Heritage service, it is the primary project of the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster. The Symposium has been closely associated with the Ulster-American Folk Park since it met for the first time in 1976 and with the Mellon Centre since 1996.
Saturday 14 October 2023 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...
Episode 3: Brian Lambkin On Thomas Mellon Mellon Migration Centre · Episode 3: Brian Lambkin On Thomas...
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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