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The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh

Sixteenth Annual Report

2013-2014

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CONTENTS

Management Committee

Staff

Chairman’s Foreword

Highlights

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Vision, Mission and Aims

3.0 Facilities and Services (Aim 1)

4.0 Research, Teaching and Publication (Aim 2)

5.0 Cultural Tourism (Aim 3)

6.0 Collection, Preservation and Access (Aim 4)

7.0 Partnerships (Aim 5)

8.0 Investing in People (Aim 6)

Appendix 1: Business Plan Performance Targets

Appendix 2: MSSc Dissertations

Appendix 3: 12th Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School Programme

Appendix 4: Lectures, Talks and Teaching Programmes 2012-2013

Appendix 5: Publications

Appendix 6: Donations and Loans

Appendix 7: Training

Annual Accounts 2012-2013

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MCMS Management Committee

Chairman

Sir Peter Froggatt Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

Members

Dame Geraldine Keegan Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

Professor Jack Smith Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

Mr John Gilmour Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster (formerly Ulster-American

Folk Park and National Museums Northern Ireland)

Ms Helen Osborn Libraries NI

Mrs Patricia Walker Libraries NI

Ms Anne Peoples co-opted (formerly Western Education and Library

Board)

Mr Stephen Scarth Public Record Office

Mr Joe Eagleson co-opted (formerly Enterprise Ulster)

Ms Catherine Thompson Education and Training Inspectorate (for DCAL and

DEL)

Professor Keith Jeffery Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Olwen Purdue Queen’s University Belfast

Dr William Kelly University of Ulster

Dr Brian Lambkin Director

The Committee met on the following occasions in 2013-2014: June 13, October 24,

February 20.

Staff

Director Dr Brian Lambkin, MA, Dip Ed, MA, DPhil

Lecturer and Development Officer Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, BA, PhD

Heritage Services Manager Ms Deirdre Nugent, BA, BSc, ACLIP,

MInstLM: Ms Ann Duffy, BA, PGCE, DipLIS

Senior Library Assistant Mrs Christine Johnston, BA

ICT Manager Mr Ian Nethery, BSc

UAFP Guide Library Assistants Mrs Sarah Cathers, BSc, Mr Frank Collins,

MBE, Mrs Nuala MacSherry BA, Mr Alisdair

Moran, BA

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Chairman’s Foreword

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (MCMS) is one of the ‘family’ of agencies

funded by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), which includes the

National Museums of Northern Ireland (NMNI), Libraries NI (LNI), and the Public

Record Office (PRONI). This year we have again responded very positively to the

ministerial priorities of tackling poverty, deprivation and social exclusion; promoting

equality, mental health and well-being; and increasing north/south co-operation, and

are pleased to report here on how we have been playing our part.

So far as tackling poverty, deprivation and social exclusion is concerned, the Centre

has continued to give strong support to the work of its Ulster-American Folk Park

colleagues engaged in both its ‘Live and Learn’ and ‘Treasure House’ projects, which

are part of a major initiative across all sites of the Learning and Partnership

Directorate of NMNI. A series of visiting groups, organized by Briege McClean

(‘Live and Learn’) and Deirdre Mullan (‘Treasure House’) have made very good use

of the facilities and expertise of the Centre. The year of 2013 was of special

international significance for Northern Ireland as host of the World Police and Fire

Games, for Derry-Londonderry as host UK City of Culture, and for many

communities and families around Northern Ireland as hosts of events held as part of

‘The Gathering’, promoted by Tourism Ireland. We are pleased that our Centre was

able to make contributions to each: giving talks about our family migration history

resources at the major Family History Fair held at PRONI, giving lectures in the

libraries of Derry-Londonderry on the migration history of the city and county, and

organizing a major international conference, ‘Crossing Borders’, which explored sites

of migration history interest on both sides of the Border, in counties Cavan, Tyrone

and Monaghan.

A major achievement this year was the publication of Leaving the North: Migration

and Memory, Northern Ireland 1921-2011 (see front cover) by Dr Johanne Devlin-

Trew, who is Lecturer in the University of Ulster and associate research fellow of the

Centre. We see her book as complementing and extending Migration in Irish History,

1607-2007 (2008) by our Director and our Lecturer and Development Officer, and are

delighted that her work as associate research fellow of the Centre continues, not least

in connection with a new project relating to commemoration of the First World War

which is planned for next year.

We were also pleased this year to welcome Mr Arthur Sullivan to speak at our

Fourteenth Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School in October 2013, and Dr Gerard

Moran of Maynooth University to give our Thirteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies

lecture in February 2014. We continue to play in important role in the Association of

European Migration Institutions (AEMI). Our Director still serves on the editorial

board of the Association’s Journal, and both he and the Lecturer and Development

Officer gave papers at the annual conference held this year at the Swedish-American

Center in Karlstadt, Sweden. The Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster (SITU) has enabled the

Centre to develop further its partnership with both Queen’s University (QUB) and the

University of Ulster (UU). In the case of QUB this has been through supporting the

MA programme in Irish and American History where students can elect to be based as

‘interns’ at MCMS for their module in ‘Public History’. This support will also be

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important for the contribution of MCMS to the new Master of Research (M.Res.)

degree in Irish Local History which will involve teaching a new module on ‘Family,

Community and Migration History’ from October 2014.

In the coming year we look forward to participating in the Twentieth Ulster-American

Heritage Symposium in June 2014, which will be hosted by both Quinnipiac

University Connecticut and the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. This

ambitious two-venue symposium will be an appropriate way of celebrating this

twentieth meeting in the biennial series which began in 1976.

Once again I am pleased to compliment the Director and staff in maintaining a high

level of activity and quality, and their increasing involvement in relevant activities

throughout Northern Ireland and beyond.

Sir Peter Froggatt

Chairman, MCMS Management Committee and Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

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HIGHLIGHTS

2013-2014

DCAL priorities: contributing to ‘Live and Learn’ and ‘Treasure House’ projects of

National Museums of Northern Ireland based at Ulster-American Folk Park

2013 Programme: contributing to DCAL-supported programmes of

Derry~Londonderry UK City of Culture, the World Police and Fire Games and ‘The

Gathering’, including the organization of international conference ‘Crossing Borders’

in partnership with Cavan County Council

Fourteenth Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School (October 2013): keynote

lecture given by Arthur Sullivan, followed by ‘Walking the Bounds of the Mellon

Farm’

Thirteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture (February 2014): given by Dr

Gerard Moran (NUI Maynooth), ‘The Poor Law and Assisted Emigration during the

Great Famine’

Teaching: module in ‘Family, Community and Migration History’ planned for the

new Queen’s University postgraduate degree in Irish Local History (M.Res. - Master

of Research), to be taught from October 2014

Training: visit to National Archives and General Register Office, Dublin

Book launch: ‘Leaving the North: Migration and Memory, Northern Ireland 1921-

2011’ by Johanne Devlin-Trew (Liverpool Press, 2012)

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (MCMS) was named as such in September

2011. Previously it was known as the Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-

American Folk Park (CMS), which was established in January 1998. CMS developed

from the embryonic Centre for Emigration Studies which was established in 1996 to

bring together three elements based at the Ulster-American Folk Park: the Irish

Emigration Database Project, begun in 1988; the specialist reference Library,

established in 1990; and the Master of Social Science degree in Irish Migration

Studies (MSSc, QUB), first taught in 1996.

1.1 Migration and Migration Studies

We define ‘migration’ simply as ‘moving home’ and take it to include immigration,

internal migration, seasonal migration, and return migration, as well as that dominant

feature of the Irish experience - emigration. The discipline of migration studies is

about advancing our understanding of the human experience of movement and

settlement, from the earliest times to the present. Its approach to the whole

phenomenon of migration is both multi-disciplinary and comparative. It is multi-

disciplinary in that it includes history, geography, archaeology, politics, economics,

language, literature, art, music, religion etc; and it is comparative in that it seeks to

understand the similarities and differences between the migration history, culture and

heritage of different human groups.

1.2 Migration History, Culture and Heritage

Migration history, culture and heritage are distinguished as follows: ‘migration

history’ refers to the ‘whole story’ of human migration so far as we can know it;

migration ‘culture’ refers to the distinctive ‘way of migrating’ associated with a

particular group; and ‘migration heritage’ refers to surviving material and non-

material traces of migration history and culture which, to a greater or lesser extent, are

‘treasured’ by the present generation, particularly in libraries, archives and museums.

1.3 Irish Migration Studies

MCMS is committed to advancing migration studies in general and Irish migration

studies in particular by focusing on the movement and settlement of the peoples of

Ireland world-wide from about the year 1600 to the present, including the history,

culture and heritage of the Scotch-Irish or Ulster Scots and their links with North

America and other parts of the world.

Since the publication of Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 (Palgrave Macmillan,

2008), MCMS is committed to advancing a new approach to migration history, based

on the three-way model of migration: 3 stages (leaving, crossing, arriving); 3

directions (in-within-out); 3 outcomes (segregation, integration, modulation). Key

concepts are ‘home’, ‘diaspora’, ‘family’, and the ‘throughotherness’ of ‘the-world-

in-Ireland’ and ‘Ireland-in-the-world’. Emphasis is placed on the reconstruction of

individual and family migration stories within their local community, regional and

national settings. This approach has been further elaborated in a joint article,

‘Migration in Belfast History’ by Brian Lambkin, Patrick Fitzgerald and Johanne

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Devlin-Trew (respectively Director, Lecturer and Development Officer, and Associate

Research Fellow of MCMS), in Belfast: the Emerging City, 1850-1914, edited by

Olwen Purdue (Irish Academic Press 2012). MCMS is therefore committed to

cooperating with local community and family history organisations in the research,

teaching and publication of ‘family, community and migration history’

1.4 Vision and Mission

The MCMS vision is therefore of ‘an informed community, confidently and creatively

engaged with its migration history, culture and heritage’ and the MCMS mission is

‘to serve the community as a leading international institution for the study of human

migration, focusing on the peoples of Ireland world-wide’.

1.5 The MCMS Management Committee

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh is

managed by the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster through a sub-committee called the

Management Committee. The following partner institutions are represented on the

Management Committee: the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (formerly the

Department of Education of Northern Ireland), the Ulster-American Folk Park

(NMNI), Libraries NI, the Queen’s University of Belfast, the University of Ulster, and

the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. The Centre is headed by the Director,

who is responsible to the Management Committee.

The Centre was established in its present form in accordance with the Business Plan

for 1997/8, as agreed between the Scotch-Irish Trust and the Department of Education

for Northern Ireland. Its first Director was appointed in January 1998. As of 1 October

1998, the Trust ceased to own and manage the Ulster-American Folk Park, which is

now merged with the Ulster Museum and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum as

part of the National Museums of Northern Ireland (NMNI), formerly the Museums

and Galleries of Northern Ireland (MAGNI). The main focus of the Trust’s work is

now the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies.

The main aim of that work is to promote migration studies by maintaining and

developing the complementary relationship between the Centre and the Ulster-

American Folk Park. This is assured in two main ways: through membership of the

MCMS Management Committee by John Gilmour who until June 2010 was Director

of Development of NMNI and previously Director of the Ulster-American Folk Park,

and through representation of the Scotch-Irish Trust on the Board of Trustees of

NMNI, currently by Dame Geraldine Keegan. Ms Anne Peoples, co-opted member,

was formerly a Trustee of NMNI and representative of the Western Education and

Library Board on the CMS Management Committee. The Northern Ireland Library

Authority, known as Libraries NI, which was formed from the five Education and

Library Boards of Northern Ireland in April 2009, continues to support the Mellon

Centre for Migration Studies Library. Libraries NI is represented on the MCMS

Management Committee by Ms Helen Osborn, Director of Service Delivery, and from

February 2011 by Ms Patricia Walker, Specialist Manager for Heritage and

Digitisation. The interest of the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure (DCAL) is

represented by a nominee of the Education and Training Inspectorate, Mrs Catherine

Thompson. The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) was represented

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on the Committee by Ms Valerie Adams, Head of Strategic Development until her

retirement in December 2009, from June 2010 by Mrs Heather Stanley, and presently

(from June 2012) by Mr Stephen Scarth, Head of Public Services. The University of

Ulster was represented by Professor John Wilson, Director of the Institute of Ulster-

Scots Studies, to October 2010 and presently by Dr William Kelly. Queen’s

University is represented by Professor Keith Jeffery and until recently by Professor

Liam Kennedy, both of the School of History and Anthropology. Professor Kennedy

retired in 2011 and was replaced by Dr Olwen Purdue (from February 2013).

1.6 MCMS Staff

The staff are based at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, which is located in the

Library building at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh. They are the Librarian,

the Senior Library Assistant, the ICT Manager, the Lecturer and Development Officer

and the Director. The Centre is committed to working closely with its partners within

the DCAL ‘family’, including the Ulster-American Folk Park as it develops within

NMNI to become a national museum of migration, Libraries NI, and PRONI, and also

UU and QUB, and to taking account of their strategic analysis and policy objectives

as set out in their Corporate and Business Plans.

THE MELLON CENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIESat the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

The University

of Ulster

Dr William Kelly

DCAL, DENI, DEL

Education and Training

Inspectorate

Mrs Catherine Thompson

Public Record Office

(PRONI)

Mrs Heather Stanley

Ulster-AmericanFolk Park (NMNI)

Lecturer

& Development OfficerDr Patrick Fitzgerald

ICT ManagerMr Ian Nethery

Senior Library Assistant

Mrs Christine Johnston

Senior Librarian

Mrs Deirdre Nugent

DirectorDr Brian Lambkin

MCMS

Management

Committee

Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

Sir Peter Froggatt (Chair)Mr John Gilmour(formerly NMNI)

Dame Geraldine KeeganProfessor Jack Smith

Libraries NI

Ms Helen Osborn

Ms Patricia Walker

Mr Joe Eagleson

co-opted,

formerly Enterprise

Ulster

Ms Anne Peoples

co-opted,

formerly WELB

The Queen’s

University of Belfast

Professor Keith Jeffery

Dr Olwen Purdue

Associate Research

Fellow

Dr Johanne Devlin Trew

2013-2014

UAFP / MCMS Guide Library

Assistants

Mrs Sarah Cathers, Mr Frank Collins,

Mrs Nuala MacSherry, Mr Alisdair

Moran

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2.0 VISION, MISSION AND AIMS

With regard to the museums, libraries and archives of Northern Ireland, the

Department of Culture Arts and Leisure (DCAL) is committed to ensuring ‘the

highest standards for our museums and that they continue to develop as attractions

both for the local population and our ever increasing visitors’; to supporting ‘a

flexible and responsive library service which provides a dynamic focal point in the

community and assists people to fulfill their potential’; and to developing PRONI as

the official archive for Northern Ireland whose aim is to ‘identify and preserve

records of historical, social and cultural importance and make them available for the

information, education and enjoyment of the public’. The vision of DCAL, which is

of ‘a confident, creative, informed and vibrant community’, and its mission, which is

‘to protect, nurture and grow Northern Ireland's cultural capital’ are reflected in those

of CMS.

The MCMS Vision is of ‘an informed community, confidently and creatively engaged with its migration history, culture and heritage’. Its Mission is ‘to serve the community as a leading international institution for the study of human migration, focusing on the peoples of Ireland world-wide’.

MCMS has six Aims, which correspond to the six ‘Strategic Goals’ of DCAL. The

aims of MCMS have been re-worded in accordance with the Goals of DCAL as

revised in its Corporate Strategy for 2004-07 and 2008-11.

AIM 1 – FACILITIES AND SERVICES

Enable as many as possible to experience and appreciate the excellence of our

facilities and services for migration studies.

[To increase participation in migration studies through enhancing the quality of CMS

facilities and services and access to them]

AIM 2 – RESEARCH, TEACHING AND PUBLICATION

Promote creativity and innovation and lifelong learning in the study of

migration.

[To promote and celebrate cultural diversity, individual creativity and mutual

understanding by providing an educational service for learning and teaching about

the migration history, culture and heritage of the peoples of Ireland world-wide]

AIM 3 – CULTURAL TOURISM

Encourage respect for and celebration of diversity by providing an academic and

cultural tourism service in partnership with the Ulster-American Folk Park, and

by networking with institutions for migration studies world-wide, particularly

between Europe and North America.

[To contribute to a positive image of Northern Ireland at home and abroad by

providing an academic and cultural tourism service in partnership with the Ulster-

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American Folk Park, and by networking with institutions for migration studies world-

wide, particularly between Europe and North America]

AIM 4 – COLLECTION, PRESERVATION, ACCESS

Ensure the sustainable management of our cultural infrastructure for the study

of migration.

[To preserve and make available the cultural and information resources for Irish

migration studies to the widest possible audience]

AIM 5 - PARTNERSHIPS

Reform and modernise our service delivery through partnerships both within

and outside Northern Ireland.

[To lever resources to maximise positive social, economic and educational impact

through partnerships both within and outside Northern Ireland]

AIM 6 – INVESTING IN PEOPLE

Develop and deliver quality cultural products and services by investing in our

people.

[To provide a quality work environment in which all members of staff are valued for

their contribution to helping us to do our business in a customer- focused way]

3.0 FACILITIES AND SERVICES (Aim 1)

Enable as many as possible to experience and appreciate the excellence of our

facilities and services for migration studies.

The Library

The service level agreement established between the Ulster American Folk Park and

Libraries NI continued to facilitate the provision of a team of Folk Park Guides to

work in the MCMS Library as trained Guide Library Assistants between April and

October, under the supervision of our Senior Library Assistant, Christine Johnston.

This arrangement was concluded at the end of March. We are grateful to our Folk

Park colleagues for the support that they have provided in the Library over the last

few years. We look forward to new arrangements being introduced in the coming

year.

The full range of targets used to indicate performance over the year is given in

Appendix 1. One main indicator of access to our facilities is the number of visitors to

the Library. Since 1 April 2009 visitors are recorded automatically by the electronic

gate at the main entrance to the Library, according to Libraries NI practice. The total

figure for 2009-2010 (20,434) is therefore our baseline against which to measure

performance. In 2011-2012 there were 22,028 visitors, the highest number to date.

The actual number of visitors recorded for 2013-2014 was 18, 257, a decrease of 5 per

cent compared with the previous year (19,295). At the same time there was an

increase in the number of remote queries being dealt with by MCMS staff, up by 14

per cent on the previous year (Appendix 1). Organised groups visiting the Library

over the course of the year are listed in Appendix 4.

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4.0 RESEARCH, TEACHING, PUBLICATION (Aim 2)

Promote creativity and innovation and lifelong learning in the study of

migration.

Teaching partnership with Queen’s University, Belfast

The Centre continued to provide migration-related teaching at Queen’s University

through the School of History and Anthropology. There are five main elements to this

partnership:

teaching two seminars annually on ‘The historiography of Irish migration and

the Irish diaspora’ and‘ ‘Diaspora and Identity’, as part of the modules on

‘Historiography’ and ‘Culture, Politics and Identity’ in the Irish History MA

Programme, and marking and supervising migration-related essays

dissertations

facilitating fieldtrips for MA students

supervising students of the ‘Public History’ module in the MA programme

who opt to undertake their internship at MCMS

teaching a module on ‘Family, Community and Migration History’ in the new

Master of Research (M.Res.) in Irish Local History (from October 2014)

teaching a session on ‘Migration in Irish History’ and facilitating a day visit to

MCMS and UAFP for the annual QUB International Irish Studies Summer

School

On 18 April Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin delivered a seminar on Diaspora and

Identity as part of the MA module on Culture, Politics and Identity. Two MA interns

(Tamsin Reilly & Patrick Pollock) undertook their internship at MCMS over 15 days

Visit of Clonmany Genealogy Group, Inishowen, Co. Donegal

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during the Spring semester. On the weekend of 3-4 May Dr Fitzgerald organized a

fieldtrip for MA students on the Public History module. The students explored living

history interpretation at UAFP on the Friday and enjoyed a quiz and barbeque at the

Residential Centre and on the Saturday visited Omagh bomb memorial, Drumragh

graveyard, Mullaghmore house, McClintock estate, Seskinore, Knockmany cairn, US

Grant ancestral homestead, Dergenagh, Caulfield house at Castlecaulfield and

Ranfurly House, Dungannon. Four students attended and thanks are due to Dr Olwen

Purdue (QUB) for her assistance with the fieldtrip. On 13 April Dr Fitzgerald attended

a Federation of Ulster Local Studies (FULS) seminar at Ranfurly House, Dungannon

in order to promote awareness of the new M.Res degree in Irish Local History.

MCMS hosted a two day fieldtrip for Public History students from QUB and TCD on

29 & 30 November 2013. We are grateful to the Scotch-Irish Trust for financial

support. The fieldtrip was attended by nine students from Queen’s accompanied by Dr

Olwen Purdue and 13 students from Trinity College Dublin, accompanied by

Professor David Dickson and Dr. Ciaran O’Neill. On the Friday students toured the

Ulster American Folk Park site and in the evening enjoyed a ‘University Challenge’

Public History quiz. On Saturday 30 November we travelled to Derry~Londonderry,

visiting the Free Derry Museum, Apprentice Boy’s Hall, The War Memorial in the

Diamond, the City Walls, The Tower Museum, Peace Bridge and Ebrington Barracks.

Grateful thanks to the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster for their generous sponsorship of

this successful event. Three students from Queen’s (Amy Britton, Sorcha Clarke and

Sharon Paul) completed their Public History internships at MCMS during the Spring

semester. The major project they worked on was providing background research for

the Spring 1914 Fair Day event in the Folk Park over the Easter weekend. On 26

Federation of Ulster Local Studies visit with Roddy Hegarty

(first on left) and John Dooher (third from left), 26 July

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February Drs Purdue and Fitzgerald made a presentation at the ‘Expanding Horizons’

lunchtime forum at Queen’s on the Public History module and internship programme.

(from left) Brad Gaunce , visiting researcher from the University of New Bruswick,

Canada, with QUB MA Public History students, including our intern student Tamsin

Reilly (third from left)

Visit of west Ulster Methodist ministers and spouses, 7 May

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QUB MA teaching award

The MA Public History internship module was shortlisted for a teaching award and on

23 May Drs Fitzgerald and Purdue presented to the selection committee, chaired by

Professor Ellen Douglas-Cowie, in the Old Common Room at Queen’s. The team of

Dr Olwen Purdue, Dr Marie Coleman (QUB School of History & Anthropology) and

Dr Fitzgerald would be presented with the award at the Summer graduation

ceremony.

QUB International Irish Studies Summer School

On Wednesday 24 July Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin delivered an afternoon seminar to

the Institute of Irish Studies International Summer School at Queen’s and on the

following day a party of 64 students and staff from the Summer School visited

MCMS and UAFP for a day-long programme of activities.

On 18 April Dr Lambkin, and also Professor Jeffery (QUB) and Mr Ian Montgomery

(PRONI), attended a workshop and roundtable convened by Dr Keith Lilley (Reader

in Geography QUB) entitled ‘Thinking forward through the past: Digital Content for

the First World War – Developing an Agenda for New Research’. On 30 April Drs

Lambkin and Fitzgerald, and also Dr Johanne Devlin-Trew (UUJ) and Ms Janet

Hancock (PRONI), attended a workshop and roundtable convened by Dr Keith Lilley

(Research Fellow with the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities)

entitled ‘locating Lives – Mapping Urban voices through multimedia Environments’.

The intention of both these events was to gather stakeholders who might be interested

in contributing to bids for funding for major research projects on these themes, which

are both migration-related.

Dr Fitzgerald continues to act as part supervisor to Elaine Ní Bhraonain who is

enrolled as a doctoral student with the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB and undertaking

research on the history of the Irish in New York City. Claire Lawn, a QUB History

Visit of Queen’s University International Irish Studies Summer School, 25 July

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final year undergraduate, completed her dissertation upon a migration-related topic

following 4 days research based at MCMS. Stephen Maclaine, another final year

undergraduate will commence work experience in MCMS in early July.

On 2 March Dr Fitzgerald chaired a panel on early-modern Migration at the Irish

Students Association Conference held at QUB. Dr Fitzgerald acted as tutor on a new

QUB OL multidisciplinary course on ‘A Sense of the Sperrins’ and attended Saturday

sessions held at the Kilcronaghan Centre near Tobermore on 22 February, 29 March

(further session to be held on 26 April and 31 May).

NUI Maynooth and MCMS

On 13 May Dr Fitzgerald was invited to a dinner at Carton House, Maynooth by Prof.

Philip Nolan, President of NUI Maynooth in honour of Prof. Christine Kinealy,

Visiting Scholar in Residence at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut. He will also

present a paper entitled ‘Irish hunger, migration & denomination, 1550-1850’ at a

conference on Famine emigration organised by Maynooth NUI and being held at the

Irish Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Co. Roscommon in July 2013. On 19 July

Dr Fitzgerald present a paper entitled ‘Irish hunger, migration & denomination, 1550-

1850’ at a conference on Famine emigration organised by Maynooth NUI and held at

the Irish Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Co. Roscommon.

TCD and MCMS

On 25 May Dr Fitzgerald delivered an MA seminar on Public History to 14 students

at TCD. Out of this meeting with the convenor, Dr Ciaran O’Neill were developed

plans fo a joint fieldtrip with QUB in 2014. MCMS was visited on 6 November by an

MA student (Rosy Golding) undertaking research related to emigrant letters and

supervised by Professor David Fitzpatrick.

University of Manchester and MCMS

Dr Fitzgerald was invited by Professor Keith Brown to give a presentation at a two

day colloquium held at the University of Manchester on 31 October/1 November. The

colloquium (funded by the AHRC) is exploring Scottish migration to early modern

England. The third and final colloquium of the series at the same venue will take

place in June 2014.

Visiting university groups

On 7 June Marian University, Wisconsin visited MCMS and Dr Fitzgerald presented

a talk on Famine and Migration. There were further university group visits from

Butler University (Indianapolis) on 8 November, Slippery Rock University

(Pennsylvania) on 6 December and Elon University (N. Carolina) on 15 December.

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Publications

A full list of publications is given in Appendix 5.

Lectures, Talks and Teaching Programmes

Places visited this year by MCMS staff to give lectures to local historical and family

history societies and other groups included: Ballycastle, Ballymoney, Belfast (east,

south), Clogher, Coventry, Dún Laoghaire, Enniskillen, Gartan (Donegal),

Greencastle (Tyrone), Kilcronaghan (Derry), Kilkenny, Lancaster, Lisburn,

Monaghan, Newry, Omagh, Strabane, Strokestown (Roscommon), Utrecht.

A full listing of lectures, talks and teaching programmes given by MCMS staff in the

course of the year can be found in Appendix 4.

Visit of Elon University, North Carolina, 15 January

Visit of Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, 6 December

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5. CULTURAL TOURISM (Aim 3)

Encourage respect for and celebration of diversity by providing an academic and

cultural tourism service in partnership with the Ulster American Folk Park, and

by networking with institutions for migration studies world-wide, particularly

between Europe and North America.

Fourteenth Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School, Saturday 12 October 2013

The keynote speaker at this year’s Autumn School was Arthur Sullivan who gave an

outstanding presentation on media representations of Irish emigration, entitled

‘Breakfast time back home’.

This is now available online: http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/about/events.htm.

For the full programme, which included ‘Walking the Bounds of the Mellon Farm’,

under the guidance of UAFP curator Liam Corry, see Appendix 2.

Arthur Sullivan presenting at the

Literature of Irish Exile Autumn

School (top left and right), with Ian

Nethery (bottom left) ensuring a top

quality recording of the event

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Thirteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture, 2014 The Thirteenth Annual MCMS Irish Migration Studies Lecture, ‘Assisted Emigration from

Ireland’, was given on Saturday 2 February by Dr Gerry Moran, Maynooth University (see

Appendix 3). This presentation is also available online at our website:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/Reunion_Lecture_2014/Thirteenth_Annual_Lecture_2014.

htm. As part of the programme we were delighted to welcome back Sean McCartan, one of

our graduates in Irish Migration Studies, to launch the new book which he has co-authored

with Thérèse Ghesquiére-Diérickx on The McCartans of Kinelarty:

http://smccartankinelarty.com/

MCMS and UAFP

On 25 March interpretative staff from UAFP attended a training event in MCMS

organized in co-operation with Catherine McCullough (NMNI Learning &

Partnership). On 8 April Dr Scott Stephenson (Revolutionary War Museum,

Philadelphia) and Mark Hutter (Colonial Williamsburg) gave a seminar in the Library

for UAFP staff relating to textiles. On 20 May Dr Nini Rogers (QUB emeritus) gave a

seminar in the Library on American slavery for UAFP staff involved in interpretation

of the Rogan house. On Saturday 21 September MCMS hosted a lecture by visiting

scholar James Auld from Wyoming, relating to the early American fur trade and the

rendezvous attended by migrants from Ulster such as Robert Campbell and Thomas

Fitzpatrick. On Saturday 31 August the annual Tony McAuley memorial lecture was

delivered in the Library by Rodney McIlrea as part of the UAFP Bluegrass Festival.

On 22 November Drs Fitzgerald & Lambkin presented a short talk in the Library

related to the history of Thanksgiving Day, complementing the re-enactment

presented to the public in the Folk Park on the same day. Drs Fitzgerald & Lambkin

also contributed to the ‘UAFP Vision’ meeting held on 23 January 2014.

Liam Corry (on wall left) preparing to guide walk of the bounds of the Mellon Farm

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MCMS and UAFP ‘Live and Learn’ and ‘Treasure House’ Projects

The Live and Learn project operates across all the National Museums Northern

Ireland sites, developing and delivering outreach programmes. Live and Learn

programmes are designed to increase accessibility and engagement with museums and

collections specifically for the over 50s. Treasure House is a Big Lottery funded

project delivered by National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) in partnership with

Clanmil Housing Association to provide social and learning opportunities for older

people within all four of our museums. It is running for five years from August 2013.

The project builds on the success of the Live and Learn project (also Big Lottery

funded), and we are pleased to continue working closely with the project officer at the

Ulster American Folk Park, Briege McClean. A particularly exciting programme was

the series of Creative Writing Workshops with facilitator Pheme Glass on the theme

‘A Window on Emigration’ which ran between February and March 2013. Live and

Learn supports outreach activities across Northern Ireland, whereas Treasure House

will bring older people into museums on a regular basis and offer involvement for the

life of the project. Clanmil tenants join monthly groups that meet in our museums.

They engage in creative and cultural activities inspired by our collections and led by

project staff and other facilitators. These sessions will be responsive to the interests

and abilities of participants, and include art, craft, object handling, local history and

traditions, reminiscence, music, dance and drama. A key aim of the project is to

enhance older people’s quality of life and to counter social isolation. There are

opportunities for some older people other than Clanmil tenants to participate in

workshops, and for volunteering. The project is delivered at the Ulster American Folk

Park by Deirdre Mullan and we are pleased to have been able to provide support for

her visiting groups over the year.

Nick Brannon, archaeologist, revisiting Castletown where he

conducted an excavation in 1982, pointing out a surviving

cottage ‘outshot’, 2 May

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MCMS and Libraries NI

As part of the Libraries NI programme for Derry~Londonderry City of Culture 2013,

the Director gave a lecture, ‘Emigration – the Derry Story’ on 17 April in the

Waterside Library. Also as part of the Derry City of Culture programme, on 10 July

Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin gave lectures on the Derry Diaspora as part of a one day

conference on that theme held at the Playhouse in the city. On 1 August Dr Fitzgerald

delivered a talk in Newry library entitled ‘Migration in Down History’. He also met

with Anthony Russell of Newry Arts Committee to discuss participation in the

commemoration of John Mitchell during 2015, which will probably involve an

international conference and an exhibition based in Newry Library. On 27 June Dr

Fitzgerald gave a talk on Irish-Scottish migration patterns at the Colmcille Centre,

Gartan, Co. Donegal as part of a cross-border libraries initiative.

MCMS and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in its new Titanic Quarter Building

played a major role in the programme of the ‘World Police and Fire Games 2013’.

MCMS had a stand at the weekend Family History Fair hosted at PRONI 3-4 August.

This included talks given by Dr Lambkin and Dr Fitzgerald on the resources of

MCMS, emphasising particularly the work of collecting, conserving and giving public

access to migration-related documents. Dr Fitzgerald continues to serve on the

PRONI Users Forum.

‘Treasure House’ project visiting groups, 15, 27

November and 6 December

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MCMS and the University of Ulster

This was an important year for Dr Johanne Devlin Trew, Lecturer in the School of

Criminology, Politics and Social Policy at the University of Ulster, with the

publication of her book, Leaving the North, by Liverpool University Press. Johanne

remains an associate fellow of the Centre and we were delighted to see her project

come to fruition and help launch her book at our Literature of Irish Exile Autumn

School 2013.

Visit of advance delegation on behalf of World Police and Fire Games 2013 , 15 January

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MCMS and the Ulster Historical Foundation (UHF)

As well as assisting as usual with the programme of the UHF annual summer school,

on 16 June Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin delivered talks at Church House in Belfast in

the opening session of a week-long conference organized by the UHF and entitled

‘Return to the Cradle of Irish Presbyterianism, commemorating the four-hundreth

anniversary of the establishment of Presbyterianism in Ireland.

Dr Devlin Trew preparing to field questions after her presentation to the

Knowledge Transfer Seminar at Parliament Buildings, Stormont

Dr Johanne Devlin Trew at the launch of her new book, Leaving

the North: Migration and Memory , Northern Ireland 1921-2011,

with Sir Peter Froggatt, Chairman of MCMS Management

Committee and Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

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MCMS stand at the conference in the Europa Hotel Belfast, ‘Ulster & Scotland: Ulster-

Scots Contributions to a Shared Inheritance’, organised by the Ulster Historical Foundation

with QUB MA intern students (from left): Amy Britton, Sorcha Clarke and Sharon Paul

Visit of Ulster Historical Foundation’s ‘Searching for the elusive

Irish or Scots-Irish ancestor’ Summer School, 26 June

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MCMS and ‘The Gathering’

On 2 April Dr Fitzgerald delivered a keynote address on ‘Emigration through the

Ages’ at a ‘Gathering’ in Rothe House, Kilkenny. On 4 June Dr Fitzgerald chaired a

panel on emigration from Donegal to the American west and New Zealand at a

Donegal Diaspora conference held in the Letterkenny Institute of Technology as a

central part of the county’s ongoing ‘Gathering’ programme. On 6 September Dr

Fitzgerald gave a talk at Greencastle, County Tyrone at a McCullagh family

‘Gathering’ event attended by over 50 delegates.

The largest commitment which the Centre made during the year of ‘The Gathering’

was in partnership with Cavan Libraries and Cavan County Council, between 12 and

15 September, in running a major conference at the Slieve Russell hotel, Ballyconnell,

Co. Cavan, exploring the theme of ‘Crossing Borders’. With the support of Peace III

funding the conference attracted over 70 delegates and featured 10 speakers who were

involved in offering lectures or guiding fieldwork. Over the three days itineraries

were explored north and east towards Monaghan/Tyrone, south and east towards

Cavan, Virginia and Kells and west into Cavan/Fermanagh. Very positive feedback

was received in a closing reflective session and it is hoped that the innovative design

for such an event can be repeated in the future.

MCMS and Omagh District Council

On 25 May MCMS hosted a ‘hedge school’ entitled ‘West Tyrone and World War

One: Remembering, Reconnecting, Re-storying’. The event was organised in

partnership with the Good Relations officer of Omagh District Council, Christine

Rogers, with funding from the Peace III programme. The event was chaired by Dr

Fitzgerald and Drs Devlin-Trew and Haldane Mitchell spoke. A second event in this

programme (also involving Drs Fitzgerald and Devlin-Trew) focussing on the

Women’s Suffrage Movement was held in Strabane Library on 6 June. The Director

spoke at the launch of the Exhibition ‘From Plantation to Partition’, which was a joint

project of Donegal, Derry, Strabane and Omagh Councils, held in the Strule Arts

Theatre Omagh on 1 May. Some of the participants had visited MCMS the previous

summer as part of the project. Working with with the Arts and Cultural Officer of

Omagh District Council, Bernie Kirrane, Dr Fitzgerald participated in a public

discussion on ‘Migration, Culture and Identity’ in the Strule Arts Centre on Tuesday

11 March 2014 as part of the St. Patrick’s Day programme.

Near the MCMS stand (left), Catherine Morrow and Janet Atherton at the Libraries NI stand,

and (right) Dr Brian Trainor formerly Deputy Keeper PRONI and Research Director UHF

meets up with a former QUB student, Professor Frederick Boal

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MCMS and local schools

On 15 November Ms Brenda Kerrins from the History Department at Drumragh

Integrated College brought a group of 6 A level history students to MCMS to have a

seminar on The Great Famine. On 29 January Mrs Martina McCauley, also from the

History Department, Drumragh Integrated College brought 6 year 10 students to an

evening presentation, jointly run by WTHS and NMNI entitled ‘West Tyrone and

World War One’. On 11th

February Drs Fitzgerald & Lambkin met with the group in

Drumragh to discuss a project relating to an all island schools competition related to

the decade of commemorations. On 29 January Mrs Martina McCauley, also from the

History Department, Drumragh Integrated College brought 6 year 10 students to an

evening presentation, jointly run by WTHS and NMNI entitled ‘West Tyrone and

World War One’. It was gratifying to learn that the group had won a prize in the

competition, to be presented at Parliament Buildings, Stormont on 9 September 2014.

MCMS and University of the Third Age (U3A)

A branch of the University of the Third Age was established in Omagh this year and

we were pleased to welcome on a visit their Family History group. We were also

pleased to welcome back on a further visit the Foyle Family History group.

Ms Brenda Kerrin, Head of History, with students

from Drumragh College (above)

Drumragh College students

attending lecture on Omagh and the

First World War at the West Tyrone

Historical Society (right)

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MCMS and William Carleton Society

On 23 April (St. George’s Day) Dr Fitzgerald delivered a lecture for the William

Carleton Society on ‘Whither the Ulster-English? He also participated in readings

from Carleton’s works at Donaghmore on 8 April and Sixtowns on 7 May. On 14

May he attended the official launch of the 2014 William Carleton Summer School at

Ranfurly House, Dungannon. On Sunday 3 August at 7.00pm Dr Fitzgerald

participated in a play reading of the Fair of Emyvale in Emyvale, County Monaghan

as part of the William Carleton Summer School. Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin attended

some of the sessions during the School between 5-8 August. We congratulate Dr

Fitzgerald on having been elected as deputy Director of the Summer School for 2014.

On 19 November Dr Fitzgerald attended the launch at Ranfurly House/Hill of The

O’Neill, Dungannon of a booklet entitled Shared History, Shared Future which was

the outcome of a PEACE III partnership project between the William Carleton

Society and four local history groups. On 28 February the Director gave a talk at the

same venue to the six participating groups (Donaghmore Historical Society, Caledon

Regeneration Partnership, South Lough Neagh Historical Society, Killeeshil and

Dr Haldane Mitchell speaking at the ‘hedge school’ on ‘West Tyrone and

Word War One: Remembering, Reconnecting, Restorying’

Visiting U3A groups from Omagh (left) and Derry-Londonderry

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Clonaneese Historical Society, O’Neill Country Historical Society and William

Carleton Society), on ‘Shared History, Shared Future: what do we tell the children?’

MCMS and Irish International Diaspora Centre Project, Dún Laoghaire

The Director contributed to a workshop at the Global Diaspora Forum in Dún

Laoghaire 14 -15 May, hosted by the Irish International Diaspora Centre Project. He

spoke on ‘Understanding the “roots tourist”: the challenge for Ireland’s museums,

libraries and archives’.

MCMS and Belfast Mental Health Trust

Mental institutions are not often thought of in terms of migration but they may be

thought of as new ‘homes’, especially for long-term patients, and accordingly Dr

Fitzgerald advised on the preparation of a temporary exhibition on the history of

psychiatric care in Northern Ireland, held at Knockbracken Health Park, Belfast.

MCMS and History Ireland

Dr Fitzgerald continues to sit on the Editorial Board of History Ireland and on the

evening of 10 December attended its ‘hedge school’ on Volunteering and 1913 in

Belfast City Hall.

6.0 COLLECTION, PRESERVATION, ACCESS (Aim 4)

Ensure the sustainable management of our cultural infrastructure for the study

of migration.

The Library

The Library’s reputation as the foremost research library for Irish migration studies in

Ireland is enhanced by the ongoing development of its collection. In the course of the

year 208 books were added to stock (232 in 2012-13). These included donations to the

library which are gratefully acknowledged in Appendix 6, bringing the total book

stock to 17,215 (2012/2013: 17, 072).

The Jonathan Swift panel at the launch of the

Knockbracken Health Park exhibition

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MCMS Library

The last year has seen the beginning of significant changes in IT provision for

Libraries NI. The project which is known as E2, replaced ELFNI (Electronic Libraries

for Northern Ireland), the computer services which provided IT solutions to Libraries

NI, until the contract ran out in April 2013. E2 has selected IT systems for the next

five to seven years. The contract for E2 is with Fujitsu and will include practically

everything to do with ICT within Libraries NI, delivering much improved bandwidth,

Wi-Fi in all 98 libraries, so customers can access the internet on their own portable

devices; RFID in 20 libraries, so customers can issue their own items; improved

Mobile Library access to IT; creative labs in larger libraries which will have iMACs,

audio and video recording equipment and the software to use them available for users,

Mr Frank Collins donating copies of research files relating to the

migration stories of the Mellon, Campbell and Buchanan

families

Mr and Mrs John McDonagh of New York (right), presenting a

donations for the Folk Park collection, with (left) Janine

Diamond, UAFP intern with the Collections Skills Initiative

training programme

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and a virtual learning environment as well as all staff ICT systems including HR,

Finance etc. The new Library Management System, which is used at the issue desk, is

‘Symphony’, went live on 16 December, and work was on-going to upgrade and roll

out the E2 programme throughout all the libraries of Libraries NI during the early

months of 2014.

With E2 Libraries NI aims to address people’s diverse information needs and make

the best possible use of changing technologies, and this has exciting implications for

the 9 Heritage collections, which includes MCMS. The Heritage Libraries are aware

of the potential the E2 offers particularly through the introduction of the creative lab

and virtual learning environment, and recognise that digitisation offers a powerful

mechanism for increasing access to Libraries NI’s unique collections and for Libraries

Ni to offer digital access to other heritage resources.

Since 2009 Libraries NI has developed the main heritage collections in nine locations.

Spread across the library network, these collections reflect the geographical locations

in which they are situated and the interests of local communities. There have been

some changes in the themes Staff Structure 2013 /14, with geographical areas being

revised slightly to align more closely with county boundaries. This has resulted in a

change of personnel at MCMS, with Deirdre Nugent now having responsibility for

Tyrone and Fermanagh Heritage Services and Ann Duffy taking up the post of

Heritage Service Manager for MCMS and County Londonderry in January 2014.

On 22 January we were pleased to welcome on a visit Margaret Kane, Digital Officer

LNI, who is based in Omagh. We look forward to items from the MCMS Library

collection being highlighted on the Libraries NI website in the coming year.

Alisdair Moran, UAFP Guide Library Assistant, with an Omagh Academy work-

experience student

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Irish Emigration Database and ICT

The Director attended a two-day workshop on ‘Digitising experiences of migration:

the development of interconnected letter collections’ in Utrecht University, the

Netherlands, 29-30 May as part of an AHRC Research Networking Project being led

by Emma Moreton (Coventry University). For the programme see Paper (3 e). A

second workshop will be held in Lancaster University on 21 July and will be attended

by Dr Fitzgerald and Dr Devlin-Trew. MCMS will host the final workshop in the

series in January 2014.

Omagh Oral History Project

A start was made this year in recording local historian Dr Haldane Mitchell talking

about his unrivalled collection of historic photographs of Omagh and district, in

conversation with fellow local historians Michael Pollard, Desmond Graham and John

Gilmour. It is planned to make a selection of these photographs with linked audio files

available to the public online.

‘Digitising Emigrant Letters’ Project

The Centre is a partner in a new project being headed by Professor Hilary Nesi and

Emma Moreton of Coventry University called ‘Digitising Experiences of Migration’.

This project has been successful in receiving funding from the Research Networking

Scheme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The purpose of the project is to

bring together the various stakeholder groups working with emigrant letter collections

to discuss issues and challenges surrounding digitization, build capacity relating to

correspondence annotation and the use of corpus tools and initiate the process of

interconnecting resources to encourage cross-disciplinary research. There were three

two-day workshops, each focusing on a specific set of research questions. The first

was held in June in Utrecht, the second in Lancaster in July and third at MCMS

Omagh in January 2014. The main aim was to develop a system of correspondence

annotation and markup to represent the linguistic, structural, discoursal, contextual

and physical properties of the letters, thus offering different layers of meaning and

‘ways in’ to the texts. This will allow for more sophisticated searches and also the

presentation of the material through visualisations which will encourage the interest

of novice students, the general public and the creative industries. For full details of the

project see: http://www.lettersofmigration.blogspot.co.uk/.

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Patrick O’Sullivan, doyen of Irish Migration Studies, addressing the third seminar

of the international ‘Digitising Migrant Letters’ project, hosted by MCMS

Seminar participants at the Mellon cottage:

Principal Investigator Emma Moreton (Coventry University) on left

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7.0 PARTNERSHIPS (Aim 5)

Reform and modernise our service delivery through partnerships both within

and outside Northern Ireland.

DCAL Accountability Meetings, 2013-14

The Chairman, Mr Gilmour and the Director attended Accountability Meetings

DCAL on 16 April, 26 September 2013 and 12 March 2014.

Ulster-American Folk Park

MCMS staff contributed to a one-day training programme for Folk Park Guides held

in the Library on Monday 24 March. The focus was on two exhibit shop buildings in

the Ulster Street to be opened shortly, Murray’s and O’Doherty’s. Both families have

interesting migration stories which have been researched by UAFP curator Liam

Corry.

Visiting members of the Royal Irish Academy Historic Towns Atlas Project,

Dr Jennifer Moore, Dr Sarah Gearty and Professor Annagret Simms (centre),

with Patrick Fitzgerald (left), and Catherine McCullough (NMNI) and

Christine Johnston (right)

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Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI)

The Annual Meeting of AEMI took place at the Swedish Emigrant Centre, Karlstad,

Sweden, 2-6 October. The Director and the Lecturer and Development Officer both

attended and gave papers. The next Annual Meeting of AEMI will be hosted by the

Latvians Abroad Museum and Research Centre in Riga, Latvia in October.

‘Audit of Ulster Scots-Heritage and Culture relating to the Omagh District Council

Area’

MCMS was commissioned by the Ulster Historical Foundation to undertake a series

of consultations in Omagh District as part of this project. The final report was

submitted at the end of March 2014.

The ‘Scottish Diaspora Tapestry Project’of the Grange quilters from

Newtownstewart, Tyrone, with UAFP curator Pat O’Donnell

Fieldwork in County Donegal: Dr Fitzgerald with Dr William Roulston (UHF) at (left)

the site of the first Monreagh Presbyterian Church, 1644, and (right) Church of Ireland

parish church of Taughboyne, near the Ulster-Scots Heritage Centre at Monreagh

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8.0 Investing in People (Aim 6)

Develop and deliver quality cultural products and services by investing in our

people.

[To provide a quality work environment in which all members of staff are valued for

their contribution to helping us to do our business in a customer focused way]

8.1 Staff

Staff training

A full list of training received is given in Appendix 7.

6.1 Staff

Following a reorganisation of Heritage Managers within Libraries NI, we said

farewell in January to Deirdre Nugent who, having had oversight of the MCMS

Library since the retirement of Chris McIvor in 2008, left us in January 2014 to take

over responsibility for heritage collections in Tyrone (including Omagh) and

Fermanagh. We are most grateful to Deirdre who was an excellent colleague and wish

her well in her new post. We were also pleased to welcome as our new colleague Ann

Duffy who took over responsibility for the MCMS Library as well as heritage

collections in County Londonderry. We look forward to maintaining our strong

connection with Omagh Library and developing a stronger connection with Derry. In

January we were also delighted to welcome Mrs Kathleen Martin as our new cleaner

in place of Mrs Pat Walker.

Welcome and farewell to incoming and outgoing Heritage Services

Managers Ann Duffy and Deirdre Nugent (third and fourth from left)

with Eileen McVerry (LNI)

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Dr Phil Mowat, Head of Emigration in the Ulster-American Folk Park, retired on 31

January and we wish him well for the future. We welcomed Mr Robbie Hannan, Head

of Folklife and Agriculture at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, who has taken

over Dr Mowat’s duties, on a visit to the Centre on Friday 7 February. We also said

goodbye to UAFP colleague Trevor Miskelly at his retirement reception on 5 April,

wishing him well on his migration to Scotland.

MCMS worked with a tutor at South West College, Omagh, Linda Clarke, to provide

a placement for their student John Colhoun. He completed his placement with us on

15 March having received an offer of employment. We wish him well for the future,

particularly with his ambition to complete an MA degree in History at the University

of Ulster with a dissertation on a migration-related topic. We are delighted that

Andrew Moore continues his voluntary work with us on the Irish Emigration

Database.

John Colhoun on student placement (left); and (right) visiting artist Tara Murphy

(six-week research visit), Alan MacFarland, Richard P. Nangle (grandson of John J.

Nangle, commissioner of the St Louis Court who interviewed claimants to the

Campbell fortune in 1938/9), and Frank Collins, 25 July

Left: Dr Phil Mowat (far left) with visitors Professor Christine Kinealy and Turlough

McConnell (fourth and fifth from left); Right: Trevor Miskelly at the Literature of Irish

Exile Autumn School

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MCMS Staff Development Day 2014

This year the MCMS staff development day on Monday 24 February was an

expedition to Dublin, visiting a range of migration-related sites, including the North

Wall, which was the major site of emigration from Dublin city in the nineteenth and

twentieth centuries, the National Archives of Ireland, the General Register Office, and

the Shelbourne Hotel, which has a special connection with Thomas Mellon.

Arrived at Connolly Station, Dublin: (from left) Christine Johnston, Anne Duffy, Patrick

Fitzgerald, Frank Collins, Sarah Cathers, Amy Britton, Sorcha Clarke

On Dublin’s North Wall, inspecting (left) the Jeannie Johnston, replica Great Famine

emigrant ship and (right) the group of Great Famine emigrant figures by Rowan Gillespie

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Inside Dublin Castle

At the National Archives of Ireland, Bishop Street and inside at Reception

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Stopping (left) at the memorial to John Field (1782-1837), Irish emigrant and originator of the

Nocturne, St Patrick’s Cathedral in background, and (right), at the museum of the Shelbourne

Hotel, St Stephen’s Green, where Thomas Mellon spent the night of 23 August, 1882 on his

only return visit to Ireland

Arrived for exploration of the General Register Office, Werburgh Street, Dublin

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APPENDIX 1

Business Plan Performance Targets, 2013-2014

Over the year the Centre used the following targets as an indication of performance.

[Note that numbers of visitors to the library in person are no longer recorded manually by staff. Since 1

April 2009 they are recorded automatically by the electronic gate at the main entrance to the Library,

according to Libraries NI practice. The figure for 2009-2010 (20,434) should therefore be treated as the

baseline. It is planned that a new electronic gate counter will be installed in September 2013.]

MCMS STATISTICS 2013-2014

Visitor Numbers

April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Totals

2013-2014 1439 1757 1834 1924 1644 1973 1677 1437 863 1299 1201 1209

18257

Remote Queries

Total 130 133 125 129 133 149 185 121 78 120 140 116

1559

Indicator Year Target Actual

Visitors (in person)

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

20,500 20,500 21,000

18,257 19,295 22,028

Enquiries from remote users

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

1,000 600 350

1,559 1,372 965

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Indicator Year Target Actual

Irish Emigration Database Library users (Intranet)

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

1,000 1,000 1,000

1,303 1,207 705

Irish Emigration Database (DIPPAM on-line users)

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

* * *

*Data not yet available.

Indicator Year Target Actual

CMS Library Bookstock

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2010/2011

18,000 18,000 17,000

17,215 17,072 16,840

CMS Irish Emigration Database Documents

203/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

33,250 33,250 33,250

33,200 33,200 33,200

Indicator Year Target Actual

Teaching university courses

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

2 2 2

2 2 2

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Indicator Year Target Actual

Conference Papers, seminar / teaching programmes/ lectures to local history societies etc

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

30 30 30

41 31 45

Indicator Year Target Actual

Other self-generated income (£s) IFHM Pilot Project

2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012

6,000 5,000 11,000 6,000 5,500 5,000

7,761 7,153 5,561 8,816 7,705 9,707

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APPENDIX 2

The Fourteenth Literature of Irish Exile

Autumn School Mellon Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

Saturday, 12 October 2013

The focus of the Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School, now in its fourteenth year,

remains on how emigrants from Ireland have given expression in words to feelings

of exile. Part of the programme will take place in the stimulating setting of the

Outdoor Museum of the Ulster-American Folk Park. The rest will be in the warmth

of the Library of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies. The aim is to give

members of the public a friendly opportunity to meet and mix with experts on some

of the less well-known aspects of 'exile' in Irish literature.

“Breakfast time back home”: Media Representations of Irish Emigration

Arthur Sullivan is an expert on the history of Irish film and television who has a

particular interest in the theme of emigration, one of the true grand narratives of Ireland’s

cinematic, televisual and media culture. From the very first cinematic renderings of

Ireland in the early 1900s to the various strands of today’s wide-ranging media climate,

emigration remains a theme as engaging to audiences as it is lucrative to advertisers. This

presentation is a broad study of media representations of migration to and from Ireland,

and the development of that theme over time. There is a specific focus on the cinematic

and the televisual, including the medium of advertising.

‘Walking the Bounds of the Mellon Farm’ With Arthur Sullivan’s presentation in mind, and in particular his focus on an extract from

‘The Field’, Jim Sheridan’s film adaptation of John B. Keane’s play of the same name, the

walk after lunch in the Outdoor museum will be to the Mellon Farm. Liam Corry, who is

Curator of Agriculture at the Ulster-American Folk Park, and Ronan McShane, who is

Director of A5 Ecology, will guide us round the bounds of the Mellon Farm, drawing our

attention to various points of interest that should stimulate good conversation related to the

morning’s presentation. Also participating in the walk and contributing with their expertise

will be Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson, former curators of agriculture at the Ulster

Folk and Transport Museum and distinguished co-authors of A History of Irish Farming,

1750-1950, and

Peter Archdale, local landowner and environmentalist.

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Leaving the North: Migration & Memory, Northern Ireland, 1921-2011

Leaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey of Northern

Ireland migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal memories of emigrants who

left Northern Ireland from the 1920s to the 2000s, the book traces their multigenerational

experiences of leaving Northern Ireland and adapting to life abroad, with some later

returning to a society still mired in conflict. Johanne Devlin Trew was born in

Montreal, Quebec, Canada of emigrant parents from Belfast. She is lecturer in the School

of Criminology, Politics & Social Policy, University of Ulster in Belfast and an associate

of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies.

Saturday 12 October, 2013 10.30 Registration (MCMS Library at Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh)

Tea / Coffee on arrival

11.00 Welcome (MCMS Library), Sir Peter Froggatt, Chairman Mellon Centre for

Migration

Studies Management Committee and Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

11.05 Arthur Sullivan, ‘“Breakfast time back home”: Media Representations of Irish

Emigration’

Chair: Dr Patrick Fitzgerald

12.00 Discussion

12.30 Lunch (Ulster-American Folk Park Strule Cafe)

1.30 Walk in the Outdoor Museum

Liam Corry and Ronan McShane: ‘Walking the Bounds of the Mellon Farm’

3.00 Afternoon Tea (Library)

3.20 Johanne Devlin Trew, ‘Leaving the North’

Chair: Brian Lambkin

4.00 Book Launch

Sir Peter Froggatt, Leaving the North: Migration & Memory, Northern Ireland,

1921-2011 by Johanne Devlin Trew (Liverpool University Press, 2013).

4.15 Reception

4.45 Close

Fee: £20.00 stg (£15.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)

Includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon

tea/coffee and drinks reception.

Contact Tel: 028 8225 6315; Fax: 028 8224 2241

Email: Christine.Johnston@librariesni.org.uk

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APPENDIX 3

The Thirteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture

Saturday 1st February 2014 - 11:00am

Main Speaker:

Dr Gerry Moran, author of Sending Out Ireland’s Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin, 2004) will focus in this lecture upon the years of the Great Famine (1845-51) and the role of the Poor Law Unions in assisting large numbers of paupers to cross the Atlantic. Dr Moran will include evidence drawn from workhouses within Co. Tyrone.

Fee: £12.00 stg (£10.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens) Includes: registration, morning tea/coffee and finger buffet lunch For enquiries contact Christine Johnston on: Tel: 0044 28 8225 6315; Fax: 0044 28 8224 2241 or by email at Christine.Johnston@librariesni.org.uk

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APPENDIX 4

Lectures, Talks and Teaching Programmes 2013-2014

2/4/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered keynote presentation entitled ‘Emigration through the

Centuries’ at Kilkenny Family History Centre ‘Gathering’ event (30)

8/4/13 Presentation in MCMS by Scott Stephenson, Museum of the American

Revolution and Mark Hutter, Colonial Williamsburg. (20)

11/4/13 Dr Lambkin delivered presentation entitled ‘Townlands of East Belfast and

Migration” to East Belfast Historical Society in Belmont Tower (84)

13/4/13 Fermanagh Family History Society day visit to MCMS (14)

Dr Fitzgerald attended FULS Local History workshop at Ranfurly House,

Dungannon

17//4/13 ‘The Green Fields of America’ creative writing workshop in MCMS; part of

NMNI Live and Learn Making Connections programme (23)

Dr Lambkin delivered presentation entitled ‘Emigration – The Derry Story’

in Waterside Library as part of Libraries NI Derry~Londonderry City of

Culture programme (14)

18/4/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald conducted Diaspora and Identity MA seminar at

QUB (6)

23/4/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation entitled ‘Whither the Ulster English?’ in

St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher; part of William Carleton Society

programme (45)

26/4/13 Bradford Gaunce, postgraduate student at University of New Brunswick,

embarked on 4-week research trip based at MCMS

30/4/13 Drs Lambkin, Fitzgerald and Devlin-Trew conducted AHRC workshop

entitled ‘Moving Forward Through the Past’ at QUB

1/5/13 Dr Lambkin delivered keynote presentation at Omagh District Council

‘Plantation to Partition’ event in Strule Arts Centre (30)

2/5/13 Visit from Omagh Ladies Probus group accompanied by guests from

Dungannon Ladies Probus group for introduction to MCMS and its resources

by C Johnston followed by presentation on emigration from

Tyrone/Dungannon by Dr Fitzgerald (42)

3-4/5/13 QUB MA Public History students’ fieldtrip (residential). Included visit

to MCMS, UAFP, Clogher Valley and Ranfurly House, Dungannon (5)

7/5/13 Visit from group of Methodist ministers and spouses from North West

District for introduction to MCMS and its resources by C Johnston followed

by talk entitled ‘Methodism and Migration’ delivered by Dr Fitzgerald

(15)

Visit by group of Canadian visitors with Ulster Scots interest for talk by

Dr Fitzgerald prior to visit to UAFP (30)

9/5/13 Dr Lambkin attended C2K meeting in Belfast and met with Eamon McAleer

and George Blackwood

13/5/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended meeting with Professor Philip Nolan at NUI,

Maynooth

14-15/5/13 Dr Lambkin attended Global Irish Diaspora Forum in Dun Laoghaire

16/5/13 Visit by group from Springwell House, Belfast for talk by Dr Fitzgerald (14)

17/5/13 Turlough McConnell visited to meet with Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald to discuss

XX UAHS

20/5/13 Talk for UAFP staff on Slavery presented in MCMS by Dr Nini Rodgers (20)

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22/5/13 Visit by Derry U3A Family History group (4)

23/5/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended QUB for presentations re teaching awards

24/5/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended RIA Historic Towns Atlas Seminar in Dublin

25/5/13 Hedge School on WW1 Commemoration entitled ‘West Tyrone and Word War

One: Remembering, Reconnecting, Restorying’ held in MCMS (Holywell

Consultancy in conjunction with LNI and MCMS). Speakers were

Dr Haldane Mitchell, Omagh, Dr Johanne Devlin-Trew, UU and Dr Patrick

Fitzgerald, MCMS (16)

28-30/5/13 Dr Lambkin attended workshop entitled ‘Digitising the Migration Experience’ in

Utrecht

31/5/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended MA Public History student end-of-module presentations at

QUB

1/6/13 Dr Lambkin delivered presentation entitled ‘Rathlin and the Migration Story

of Colum Cille’ in Ballycastle library (15)

4/6/13 Dr Fitzgerald chaired session at Donegal~Irish Diaspora conference held in

Letterkenny Institute of Technology (100)

5/6/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended Donegal~Irish Diaspora conference held in

Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Dr Lambkin attended meeting at W5, Belfast

6/6/13 Drs Fitzgerald and Devlin Trew, with Dr Cathy Higgins, participated in

Hedge School held in Strabane library entitled ‘Women’s Suffrage

Movement: Partition, Migration & Memory: Northern Ireland in the 1920s’

(Peace III Decade of Commemorations 1912-1922 Hedge School Series)

(21)

7/6/13 Group visit from students from Marian University, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

for introduction to MCMS and its resources, followed by presentation by Dr

Fitzgerald (16)

8/6/13 MCMS participated in Knitted Doll Trail organised by UAFP as part of

national ‘Knit in Public’ day

11/6/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald met with R Hurst, NMNI and Alan McFarland re

Three Worlds Meet project

12/6/13 MCMS/UAFP Finance meeting

Tom Reid, undergraduate history student at Queen Mary College, London,

commenced placement in MCMS (supervised by Dr P Fitzgerald)

15/6/13 MCMS participated in Knitted Doll Trail organised by UAFP as part of

Grandparents’ Day

21/6/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended PRONI Users Forum meeting

25/6/13 Visit to MCMS by NMNI Collections Skills Initiative group for short talk by

Dr Fitzgerald (14)

26/6/13 UHF Ulster History & Genealogy Summer School group visit to MCMS (22)

C Johnston attended Branch Library Managers’ meeting in Irvinestown

library

27/6/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation entitled ‘Intimate Strangers: Ireland,

Scotland and human migration across the Narrow Sea’ at Donegal County

Council Library Service’s Celebration of St Colmcille and Transnational One

Book project. Peace III project, held in Colmcille Heritage Centre, Gartan,

Donegal (40)

Dr Lambkin participated in Social History Curators’ Group Conference

debate held in Ulster Museum: ‘This Conference believes that local history

has had its day’ (40)

2/7/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended presentation of QUB MA Public History module

Teaching Award

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8/7/13 Placement meeting with Tara Murphy, Drs Fitzgerald and Lambkin and

UAFP Curatorial Department staff, (placement supervisor: Pat O’Donnell,

UAFP)

10/7/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald delivered presentations at ‘Derry~Londonderry

Goes Global’ , UK City of Culture Conference at Playhouse Theatre & Arts

Centre, Londonderry (Foyle Civic Trust) (50)

18-19/7/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended conference held at Strokestown House Irish Famine

Museum (Roscommon Gathering event) and delivered paper entitled ‘Irish

Hunger, Migration and Denomination 1550-1850’ (105)

20-22/7/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended AHRC Emigrant Letters workshop at Lancaster

University

24/7/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald delivered teaching to QUB Institute of Irish

Studies International Summer School (64)

25/7/12 QUB IIS International Summer School group visited MCMS for further

teaching and introduction to MCMS and its resources (64)

26/7/13 Visit from group from Federation for Ulster Local Studies (9)

31/7/13 Visit from Richard Nangle, grandson of John J Nangle, commissioner of the

St Louis Court who interviewed claimants to the Campbell fortune in 1938/9

1/8/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Migration in Down History’ at Newry

City Library Gathering 2013 event (8)

2/8/13 Visit from Boston College student group, accompanied by Professor Kevin

Kenny (13)

3/8/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Introduction to MCMS‘

and represented MCMS at World Police and Fire Games Family History Fair

in PRONI (10)

4/8/13 Dr Lambkin delivered presentation ‘Introduction to MCMS ‘ and

represented MCMS at World Police and Fire Games Family History Fair in

PRONI (10)

5/8/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘1718 And All That’ in Londonderry

First Presbyterian Church (30)

5-8/8/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended William Carleton Summer School in Corick House,

Clogher

7/8/13 Dr Lambkin attended William Carleton Summer School

28/8/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended QUB Open Learning planning meeting in

Kilcronaghan Conference Centre, Tobermore

31/8/13 McAuley lecture delivered in MCMS by Rodney McElrea ‘The American

Civil War in Folk, Bluegrass and Early Country Music’.

Part of UAFP 2013 Bluegrass Music Festival (72)

6/9/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation at McCullagh Gathering event in Eddie’s

Bar, Greencastle (53)

9/9/13 Dr Fitzgerald, assisted by Catherine Boyle, delivered presentation on Omagh

Historic Photograph project to Omagh U3A group in Omagh library

(45)

12-15/9/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended Crossing Borders Conference in Slieve

Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan

12/9/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Crossing Borders

Migrating Between Home and Abroad’ at above conference (71)

16/9/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended UHF Family History conference

‘Return to the Cradle of Irish Presbyterianism’ in Church House, Fisherwick

Place, Belfast. Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Presbyterian emigration

from Ireland’. Dr Lambkin delivered presentation ‘Presbyterian emigrant

experiences’ (30)

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21/9/13 Presentation in MCMS by James Auld, Project Director, Three Worlds Meet

– part of UAFP Three Worlds Meet Event (31)

Dr Fitzgerald attended History Ireland Editorial Board meeting in Dublin

25/9/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended meetings at Knockbracken and at QUB

27/9/13 Dr Lambkin and Dr Trew attended Emigré Project Report Launch and

Conference, ‘Emigration at a time of Austerity: Ireland and peripheral Europe

under the spotlight’, University College, Cork

28/9/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended UHF Plantation conference

1/10/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation at opening of MRes at QUB (6)

2/10/13 Visit by Turlough McConnell, Christine Kinealy, Grace Brady and Lynn

Bushnell, Quinnipiac University, CT

2-6/10/13 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended AEMI Annual Meeting in Karlstad,

Sweden

12/10/13 14th Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School. Guest speaker Arthur Sullivan

delivered presentation entitled ‘Breakfast Time Back Home: Media

representations of Irish emigration’ (57)

15/10/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation entitled ‘The Pattern of Emigration from

Monaghan’ at Come Home and Find Your Monaghan Ancestors conference

held in The Garage Theatre, Monaghan (70)

21/10/13 Dr Fitzgerald met with Dr Olwen Purdue for interview re QUB Public

History Teaching Award

22/10/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation entitled ‘‘The Pattern of Emigration

from Monaghan’ at Come Home and Find Your Monaghan Ancestors

conference held in Carrickmacross Workhouse (60)

26/10/13 Dr Lambkin represented MCMS at LNI Family History Fair held in Newry

City library (6)

31/10/13- Dr Fitzgerald attended Colloquium on Anglo-Scottish Migration held at

1/11/13 University of Manchester

1/11/13 Dr Fitzgerald attended Colloquium on Anglo-Scottish Migration held at

University of Manchester

2/11/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation to group of mature students from, led by

South Dublin Public Libraries Adult Education Officer (32)

5/11/13 Treasure House group visit (Magherafelt)

6/11/13 Treasure House group visit (Cookstown) (8)

9/11/13 Dr Lambkin attended conference of the Irish Text Society in Cork

11/11/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation to Derry Family History Society in

Derry Central library (18)

15/11/13 Drumragh Integrated College A-Level student group visit (5)

16/11/13 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation at Fermanagh Family History Society

Family & Local History Fair held in Killyhevlin Hotel

19/11/13 Treasure House group visit (Lurgan) (14)

Evening visit from Omagh Family History Society (10)

20/11/13 Treasure House group visit (Enniskillen) (10)

Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Irish-Scottish Migration

Patterns’ to North West Archaeological & Historical Society, held

in White Horse Inn, Londonderry (22)

22/11/13 Dr H Mitchell, Mr M Pollard, Mr J Gilmour and Mr Graham met

with Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald re Omagh project

26/11/13 Treasure House group visit (Coalisland/Dungannon)

27/11/13 Treasure House group visit (Newtownstewart) (17)

28/11/13 Thanksgiving Event at UAFP – 2 discussion sessions in MCMS (5)

29/11/13 QUB/TCD Public History students visit to UAFP and MCMS. (22)

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Evening quiz held in MCMS

30/11/13 Students undertook field trip to Londonderry

6/12/13 Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, student group visit (13)

10/12/13 Jane Nicholas, Senior Library Assistant, Derry Central Library, visited for

familiarisation

Dr Fitzgerald attended History Ireland and the Irish Association Hedge

School at Belfast City Hall entitled ‘Volunteers 1913: two traditions or one?’

9/1/14 Dr Lambkin attended ‘Migration’ Knowledge Exchange Seminar at Stormont

14/1/14 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Migration in Derry History’ to Derry

Probus Club in Age Concern building, Londonderry (30)

15/1/14 Elon University, NC, student group visited for presentation by

Dr Fitzgerald followed by discussion. Group also used resources of MCMS

to pursue individual research interests (34)

Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended launch of ‘The Ulster scots of the North

West’ held in Alley Theatre, Strabane

22/1/14 Margaret Kane, Digital Officer LNI, visited for familiarisation and to

research images for potential use in LNI virtual exhibition

Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended UAFP Vision meeting

28/1/14 Martina McAuley, Drumragh Integrated College, visited to meet with Dr

Fitzgerald re class visit

29/1/14 Drs Fitzgerald and Devlin Trew, with Dr Haldane Mitchell, delivered

presentations to West Tyrone Historical Society entitled ‘West Tyrone and

World War One: Remembering, Reconnecting, Re-storying (71)

30/1/14 Dr Lambkin met with Dr Nonja Peters, Curtin University, Perth, Western

Australia, at PRONI

1/2/14 Thirteenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture delivered in MCMS by Dr

Gerard Moran ‘The Poor Law and Assisted Emigration during the Great

Famine’ (49)

1-2/2/14 Dr Fitzgerald attended 2nd

AHRC Networking Workshop ‘Digitising Letter

Collections’ held in Coventry

5/2/14 Dr Lambkin attended TCD Irish School of Ecumenics Interreligious Studies

conference ‘Islam and Muslim–Christian Relations’

6/2/14 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended launch of MA in Public History module

at QUB

11/2/14 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald visited Drumragh Integrated College re Decade

of Commemoration School History Project

12/2/14 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Whither the Ulster English?’ in the

Town Hall, Ballymoney (25)

13/2/14 3 QUB Public History module students began internship at MCMS

5/3/14 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald met with Kieran Fegan, Monreagh Heritage &

Education Centre, re Donegal Ulster Scots audit

6/3/14 Dr Fitzgerald delivered presentation ‘Irish Internal Migration – A Neglected

Aspect’ to Lisburn Probus group in Lisburn Golf Club (32)

Dr Fitzgerald attended book launch in Ó Fiaich library, Arma

7/3/14 Derek Reaney, Ulster Scots Agency Development Officer, visited to meet

with Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald

11/3/14 Dr Fitzgerald attended Moving Lives film on theme ‘Migration, Culture and

Identity’ shown in Strule Arts Centre, Omagh and participated in discussion

13/3/14 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald taught QUB MA seminar

14-15/3/14 3rd

AHRC Networking Workshop ‘Digitising Letter Collections’ hosted by

MCMS

15/3/14 Fermanagh Family History Society visit to MCMS (7)

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19/3/14 Presentations in MCMS by QUB MA in Public History intern students Amy

Britton and Sharon Paul re Decade of Commemorations

20/3/14 Declan Grimes, independent television producer, and Rose Mary Murphy met

with Dr Fitzgerald and undertook filming for programme on emigration from

Glenelly Valley

21/3/14 Visit by Stephen Patrick Clare, Managing Editor, CelticLife, Canada (part of

UAFP visit)

22/3/14 Dr Lambkin attended Belfast schools social inclusion programme at Ulster

Museum

24/3/14 Dr Lambkin attended DIPPAM meeting at QUB with Gavin Mitchell and

Andrew Wright

Dr Lambkin attended UHF ‘Ulster & Scotland: Ulster-Scots Contributions to

a Shared Inheritance’ conference dinner in Europa Hotel

26/3/14 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald represented MCMS at UHF conference in

Europa Hotel, Belfast ‘Ulster & Scotland: Ulster-Scots Contributions to a

Shared Inheritance’. 3 QUB intern students also attended

27/3/14 Drs Lambkin and Fitzgerald attended UAFP Vision meeting

28/3/14 Dr Mitchell, Michael Pollard and John Gilmour visited to continue work on

WWI photographic project

Dr Lambkin attended AGM of IFHF in Gresham Hotel, Dublin

29/3/14 Dr Fitzgerald lectured at A Sense of the Sperrins (QUB Open Learning short

course) in Kilcronaghan Conference Centre, Tobermore (20)

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APPENDIX 5

Publications 2012-2014

A full listing of publications is given at the MCMS Website.

Fitzgerald, Patrick,

(2012)

‘Migration in Belfast History’ in Olwen Purdue (ed.), Belfast: the Emerging City,

1850-1914, Irish Academic Press, 235-69

‘When the British came to Ulster: Migration, Memory and Myth’ in J.Dooher (ed.),

Across the Narrow Sea: Plantations in Ulster, Ulster Local History Trust, Belfast, 1-

13

(2013)

‘Migration in Donegal History, 1607-2007’, in Jim Mac Laughlin and Seán Beattie

(eds), An Historical, Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal, Cork

University Press, 274-718

Fitzgerald, P., ‘Whither the Ulster-English?’ in Shared History/Shared Future

(Fintona, 2013), 74-83

(forthcoming)

'Donegal Emigrant Letters and Material Culture' in Gallagher J. (ed.), The Material

Heritage of Donegal Communities Abroad, Lifford

Lambkin, Brian

(2012)

‘Irish Migrants and an Irish Migrant Object Aboard Titanic’, Journal of the

Association of European Migration Institutions, 10, 114-125

‘Migration in Belfast History’ in Olwen Purdue (ed.), Belfast: the Emerging City,

1850-1914, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 235-69

‘John Toland, 1670-1722’, in Rosemarie Doherty (ed), Hotels, Holidaymakers and

Heretics: an account of Ballyliffin, the Isle of Doagh and surrounding areas,

Inishowen Development Partnership

‘Migration as a Metaphor of Metaphor’, Metaphor and the Social World, 2:2, 180-

200

(2013)

The Migration Story of Micí Mac Gabhann, 1865-1948)’, in Jim Mac Laughlin and

Seán Beattie (eds), An Historical, Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County

Donegal, Cork University Press, 287-93

(forthcoming 2014), ‘The Historiography of the Conflict in Northern Ireland and the

Reception of Andrew Boyd’s Holy War in Belfast’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish

Academy, C.

(forthcoming 2014), ‘Migration as a Metaphor for Time: Past, Present and Future’,

Metaphor and the Social World.

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APPENDIX 6

Donations and Loans 2013-2014

Donations of books to the Library were gratefully received from the following:

Mr J C Auld

Mr L Burns, Belfast, Co Antrim

Ms E Cardwell, Ulster American Folk Park

Mr & Mrs S Culbertson, Evansville, Wisconsin

Mr J Cunningham, Belleek, Co Fermanagh

Mr R Davidson, Royston, Hertfordshire

Ms D Doherty, Reminiscence Network NI

Mr J Enzler, Dubuque, Iowa

Mr B Gallagher, Omagh, Co Tyrone

Mr Garvin

Mr W Handley, Rabun Gap, Georgia

Dr B Lambkin, Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Ms B McClean, Ulster American Folk Park

Mr D McMonagle, Co Cavan

Mr N Mathews, Fayetteville, Georgia

Mr B Mitchell, Londonderry

Dr H Mitchell, Omagh, Co Tyrone

Dr P Mowat, Ulster American Folk Park

Mr J Muldoon, Belfast, Co Antrim

Ms A Robinson, Belfast, Co Antrim

Dr William Roulston, Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast

Professor A Simms, University College Dublin

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MELLON CENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIES

INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Ulster-American Folk Park

2 Mellon Road, Castletown, Omagh,

County Tyrone, BT78 5QY, Northern Ireland

Telephone +0044 28 8225 6315 Facsimile +0044 28 8224 2241

Email mcms@librariesni.org.uk

Websites www.qub.ac.uk/cms/ and www.folkpark.com

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Accounts (Extract from The Scotch Irish Trust of Ulster)

for the year ended 31 March 2014

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014

Pages

Statement of financial activities 1

Balance sheet 2

Notes to the financial statements 3

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

1

Statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014

2014 2013

£ £

Income

Incoming resources from charitable activities

Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure – standard grant

74,000

76,000

Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure – additional grant 2,500 -

Incoming resources from generated funds

Sundry income

Other incoming resources

16,577

20,909

Contribution from Scotch Irish Trust 41,000 41,000

Total incoming resources 134,077 137,909

Resources expended

Salaries 92,948 92,072

Social security costs 8,366 8,293

Pension contributions 13,438 13,131

Administration charge – Folk Park 4,500 4,500

Travelling and subsistence 3,785 2,710

Computer and office costs 1,551 1,403

Professional fees 1,400 1,198

Printing, postage, stationery and advertising 657 693

Insurance 3,392 3,792

Sundry costs 288 247

Symposium expenses/events 2,183 6,455

Depreciation 3,903 4,078

Bank charges 183 156

Total resources expended 136,594 138,728

Net incoming resources for the year (2,517) (819)

Surplus brought forward 22,053 22,872

Surplus carried forward 19,536 22,053

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

2

Balance sheet as at 31 March 2014

2014 2013

Notes £ £

Fixed assets

Tangible assets 1 5,702 9,605

Current assets

Prepayments 8,895 9,266

Cash at bank and in hand 6,339 4,582

15,234 13,848

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Sundry creditors (1,400) (1,400)

Net current assets 13,834 12,448

Net assets 19,536 22,053

Funds:

Total funds 19,536 22,053

The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

3

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014

1 Fixed assets Computer

equipment

Office

Furniture

Total

£ £ £

Cost

At 1 April 2013 109,158 6,655 115,813

Additions - - -

At 31 March 2014 109,158 6,655 115,813

Depreciation

At 1 April 2013 100,783 5,425 106,208

Charge for year 3,471 432 3,903

At 31 March 2014 104,254 5,857 110,111

Net book value

At 31 March 2014 4,904 798 5,702

At 31 March 2013 8,375 1,230 9,605