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 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
Mellon Centre for Migration Studies Ulster American Folk Park
Saturday 22nd February 2025 @ 11am(Tea/Coffee and Registration from 10.30am).
‘Notes from the Field : Visits to Known and Unknown places’
Barney Devine explores familiar landscapes and discovers forgotten places with surprising stories
Drawing on the writings of Tim Robinson, Henry Glassie and William Heat Least Moon, Barney will present a critical case for a popular re-attachment to our built and archaeological heritage and the landscapes around us from which we have become increasingly alienated.
This is a free event however booking is essential
To attend in person contact: Mellon Centre for Migration Studies
Tel : 028-82256315
Barney Devine has worked in the Northern Ireland voluntary sector for 45 years in developing and managing strategic projects in community development, post-conflict mental health, community relations, education & training, economic regeneration, and heritage. He was Director of a Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Derry, Manager of a multi-agency capital programme on the site of the Enniskillen Bombing, and the Business Manager of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation in Omagh following the Omagh Bombing tragedy. He was also Manager of Lough Erne Landscape Partnership where he developed its five-year funding programme and Heritage Conservation Action Plan.
Barney is a passionate practitioner of community-led archaeology and heritage activism. As a walker, cyclist and a small boat owner he explores the Fermanagh and border landscapes by land and water, visiting known built, archaeological and historical sites and monuments, and regularly discovers previously unknown monuments, thus adding to the current body of knowledge and re-interpretation of landscapes in the southwest. Barney continues to work with local communities and writes a popular monthly column for the Impartial Reporter newspaper on local history and heritage. His blog is entitled Notes from the Field.
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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