Twenty-third Annual Lecture Saturday 22nd February 2025

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies
Ulster American Folk Park
Twenty-third Annual Lecture
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 – see below

To attend in person contact:
Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Email: liam.campbell@librariesni.org.uk or paddy.fitzgerald@librariesni.org.uk

Tel : 028-82256315

Barney Devine On Location

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 lives in Arney, County Fermanagh, from where in 2014, he worked with his local
rural community to develop and deliver a history and heritage programme called Battles,
Bricks and Bridges which received the British Archaelogy Award for Best Community
Engagement in 2016. From 2018-21 he was the coordinator of Cuilcagh to Cleenish: A Great
Place which was a landscape-scale and community-led heritage programme supported by
strategic partners including Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Outdoor Recreation NI
and Cuilcagh Lakeland Geopark. In December 2021 his Cuilcagh to Cleenish Memory Map
won the Best Dissemination Category and the Outstanding Achievement Award Category of
the Archaeological Achievement Awards (AAA) for the UK and Ireland. Its community-led
archaeological dig on Clontymullan Fort was also shortlisted for the AAA Engagement and
Participation Category.
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.

Barney Devine