Management Committee
Sir Peter Froggatt Chairman, Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster
Mr Russell Farrow /
Mrs Rosemary Adams Western Education and Library Board
Professor Leslie Clarkson* The Queen's University of Belfast
Professor Bernard Cullen* The Queen's University of Belfast
Professor Tom Fraser
Mr John Gilmour
Ms Geraldine Keegan
University of Ulster
Ulster-American Folk Park
Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster
Mr Dan McCall*
Mr John McKinney
Mr Eric Montgomery*
Mr Gary Sloan*
Professor Jack Smith
Dr Brian Lambkin
Department of Education, NI
Omagh District Council
Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster
The Queen’s University of Belfast
Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster
Director
*
(Professor Clarkson from 30/3/98)
(Professor Cullen from 25/3/99)
(Mr McCall from 30/3/98)
(Mr Montgomery until 10/9/98)
(Mr Sloan until 8/1/99)
The Committee met on the following occasions:
January 8
March 30
April 28
June 18
September 10
November 26
January 28
March 25
Staff
Dr Brian Lambkin, Director
Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, Lecturer
Ms Christine McIvor, Librarian
Mrs Christine Johnston, Senior Clerical Officer
Mr John Winters, Emigration Database Manager
Mrs Lorraine Tennant, Emigration Data Collection Project Manager (Belfast)
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The main challenges in our first full year of operation, following the appointment of the director, Dr Brian Lambkin, in January 1998, have been to establish and promote our new corporate identity, to plan our programme of strategic development, and to generate the additional income necessary to support our development activities.
After careful consideration of current developments in the field of migration studies, and in line with our aspiration to be a leading international institution, we decided to change 'Emigration Studies' in the name of our centre to 'Migration Studies'. This is to make clear that we are concerned not only with emigration but also with the related processes of immigration and internal migration - in other words, the whole phenomenon of migration. The three elements of our logo – the globe, the island of
Ireland and the compass point at Omagh – are designed to express our mission: to promote understanding of ‘human migration and the peoples of Ireland world-wide’.
We passed a major landmark this year with the graduation of our first MSSc students in Irish Migration Studies at Queen’s University and we look forward to extending our teaching commitment to both Queen’s and the University of Ulster at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the coming year. Through partnership with the Western Education and Library Board in the EU-funded ISTAR project, we will be extending electronic access to our library and emigration database resources. And having secured support through the Millennium Festival Heritage Lottery Fund, we are now well positioned to proceed with three major projects for 2000: a conference on ‘The Literature of Irish Exile’; an international virtual exhibition on ‘The Art of
European Migration'; and the international Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, as well as with our on-going commitments to research, teaching and publication.
The development of the Centre makes considerable demands on the staff and requires the continued interest and support of its many and varied users. It also requires the steadfastness of the members of the Management Committee and of the Scotch-Irish
Trust. As this Annual Report documents, these key qualities have been much in evidence during the first full year of operation. Particularly important has been the support of the Department of Education in this initial year and of the Ulster American
Folk Park in the year in which it merged with the Ulster Museum and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum to form the National Museums and Galleries of Northern
Ireland. On this sound foundation of strong partnerships, therefore, we look forward to realising together the Centre's mission in the years ahead.
Sir Peter Froggatt
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1.
Introduction
The 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 CMS
Management Committee. The Centre is headed by the Director who is responsible to the Management Committee. The following partner institutions are represented on the
Management Committee: the Department of Education for Northern Ireland; the
Western Education and Library Board; the Queen's University of Belfast and the
University of Ulster.
The Centre was established in its present form in accordance with the 1997/8
Business Plan, agreed with the Department of Education. The first Director, Dr Brian
Lambkin, was appointed in January 1998. As of 1 October 1998, the Trust ceased to own and manage the Ulster-American Folk Park, which since then is merged with the
Ulster Museum and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum to form the National
Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland. The main focus of the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster's work is now the 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
CMS Management Committee by the Director of the Ulster-American Folk Park; and through representation of the Scotch-Irish Trust on the Board of Trustees of the
National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland.
The staff of the Centre is based mainly at the Ulster-American Folk Park. They are the
Librarian and Senior Clerical Officer, the Irish Emigration Database Manager, and the
Lecturer (seconded from the Ulster-American Folk Park). The Data Collection Project
Manager, who is responsible for a team of Enterprise Ulster trainees, is based in
Belfast.
The Centre is committed to working closely with the Ulster-American Folk Park and with the new National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, taking account of its strategic analysis and policy objectives.
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2. Library
The Library's reputation as the foremost research library for Irish migration studies in
Ireland is enhanced by the development of its collection. In the course of the year 749 titles were added. This brought the total book stock to 8,936. As well as continuing to build up the collection of North American material, a greater emphasis is now being given to acquiring material relevant to the other parts of the Irish diaspora, and also to
Irish migration in the twentieth century. The Library continues to take over fifty journals, periodicals and newspapers. Several donations of books were received during the year and these are gratefully acknowledged in Appendix 1.
The number of visitors to the Library continued to increase significantly over the year.
Visitors
January
February
1999 1998 (1997)
122 93 (69)
214 112 (107)
March
April
May
June
July
August
134 215 (169)
188 130 (140)
377 (239)
333
372
354
(332)
(355)
(380)
September
October
November
December
494
301
304
149
(455)
(322)
(119)
( 56)
3,234 (2,743)
(+17.9%)
There was also a significant increase in the number of queries dealt with by CMS staff. It is increasingly evident that an important route into migration studies for many people is through interest in their own family. A large proportion of queries and requests for assistance relate to family history. It is hoped in the coming year to provide additional support for such users, both those who visit the Centre in person and those who visit remotely by telephone, e-mail and the CMS website.
Queries
January
1999 1998 (1997)
February
March
April
May
June
208 138 (83)
140 130 (144)
176 175 (109)
193 150 (187)
251 (225)
262 (260)
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July
August
September
October
November
December
266 (239)
232 (244)
297 (292)
217 (211)
164
100
(111)
( 63)
2,382 (2,168)
(+9.87%)
3.
Emigration Database
The number of documents on the Emigration Database was significantly added to throughout the year. There were major increases between January and March 1998 and September and November as a result of dealing with a backlog of a large number of documents which had accumulated during illness of the Database Manager in
1997.
Emigration Database Documents
1998 1999
Jan 17,000
Mar 20,000
Sep 21,500
Nov 25,000
25,846
All Year 2000 compliance issues affecting the Emigration Database were identified and application made to the Department of Education for assistance in addressing them. The Database has been incorporated in plans for development of the National
Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland new Collections Management System.
The data collection procedure was reviewed and a need for new scanning equipment identified. It is hoped that development in this area will be funded in the coming year.
Scanning of documents will not only speed up the data collection procedure greatly, it will also enable facsimile images of documents, to be made available alongside the existing transcripts to the ever increasing number of Database users.
An earlier form of the Database may still be consulted in the library headquarters of the five Education and Library Boards. However, this holds only 15,000 documents. It is planned to make the current Database more widely accessible through the Internet as a result of participation in the ISTAR Information and Technology project in which
CMS is a partner with the Western Education and Library Board.
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4. Enterprise Ulster
Two Enterprise Ulster trainees, Mr Sean McKay and Ms Ambre Burt were based at
CMS, Omagh from September 1997 until May 1998 when both left to take up positions with the Ulster American Folk Park and with Irish World, Dungannon respectively. They were replaced briefly by Mr Rory McGlinchy, who left in August, since when there has been no further replacement in Omagh.
Since January 1998 the Data Collection Project in Belfast has had thirteen Enterprise
Ulster trainees with up to seven at any one time. Mr Tony Graham, who completed two years with the project, brought a great deal of knowledge and expertise to his work and was a valued team member. We regret to report his death at Christmas. Mr
Shaun Cheyne who has been with the project on and off for ten years left temporarily before Christmas. Ms Mary McKendry left at the end of the summer to begin teacher training at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. Mr Philip Livingstone obtained an
ACE post with Shankill Heritage. Mr Bruce Morton, who was with us for three years, left at the beginning of the summer to concentrate more fully on job-seeking. Ms
Paula Kernaghan transferred to another training project that was more businessorientated. Mr Ultan Devine obtained a post in a clothes retail shop. Mr Peter Doran left to retrain as a travel agent. Mr Stephen Higgins has been with the project for almost two years. He was joined after Christmas by Mr Paul Aiken, Ms Aveen
McManus, Mr James McCudden and Mr Alex McGuigan and Mr Shaun Cheyne.
The introduction of the New Deal and new regulations have made recruitment of new trainees difficult. Project vacancies have been advertised on the notice-boards at the
Training and Employment Agency offices, at the University of Ulster and Queen's
University and on the university websites. Under the New Deal scheme, Enterprise
Ulster may now only take on unemployed people over twenty-five years of age. This has seriously affected our numbers, as the majority of our trainees have been recent graduates.
In October 1998 a further exchange took place between our trainees and the trainees of a similar type of project run by Dublin Heritage. It was organised Mrs Lorraine
Tennant and Ms Fiona Brennan. The groups met together in our Belfast office and then visited the Public Record Office, the Linenhall Library, Belfast City Hall and then toured Belfast. They spent the next day in Omagh in the Centre and in the Folk
Park. A fortnight later the groups met together in the office Dublin Heritage and then over two days visited the National Archives, the Civic Museum, the Dublin
Corporation Exhibition, Kilmainham Jail, Marsh's Library, Dublinia, Christchurch
Cathedral, and the National Library.
The Chief Executive of Enterprise Ulster, Mr Joe Eagleson, and the Director met with the International Fund for Ireland to discuss extending the data collection project. A subsequent application to the European Peace and Reconciliation fund to extend the data collection project to the county libraries and archives of the border counties was unsuccessful. However, extension of the collection of data to repositories throughout the island remains a central aim of the project to ensure that the Irish Emigration
Database eventually becomes fully comprehensive.
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5. CMS Website
Through the teaching partnership with Queen's University, CMS now has an internet website on the Queen's server which may be visited at: www.qub.ac.uk/cms/ . There the visitor may find, for example, the Call for Papers for the next Ulster-American
Heritage Symposium. The site is also linked to the Folk Park web site: www.folkpark.com
and to other sites of interest. When work on the ISTAR project is complete, visitors will be able to consult on-line the Library catalogue and the Irish
Emigration Database.
6. PRONI
One of the main partners in the development of the Emigration Database is the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland. PRONI holds a large proportion of the original documents which are available electronically on the Database and therefore monitors the use made of the Database as part of its outreach programme. CMS was particularly pleased this year to be able to contribute something in return as a partner in the new virtual exhibition by Dr Anne McVeigh on the PRONI website
( http://proni.nics.gov.uk
), called, 'From North to South', which tells the story of Irish emigration to Australia.
We were also pleased to welcome staff from the Search Room at PRONI on a day visit in November. Further co-operation was developed in the area of acquisition of new documents. Several donors approached CMS with material of interest to migration studies, notably emigrant letters. The Smyth papers, the Weir papers and the James papers are in the process of being copied, catalogued and added to the database. The original documents will be returned to the owners, who have agreed to deposit them, or copies, with PRONI.
7. MSSc in Irish Migration Studies, Queen's University, Belfast
The first graduates of this new course, taught jointly at Omagh by Dr Patrick
Fitzgerald (CMS) and Dr John Lynch (QUB), received their degrees from the new
Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Professor George Bain, in July 1998. They were: Mrs Deirdre Gillespie, Mr Norman Johnston, Mr Patrick Brogan, Ms Gillian
Mayes and Mr Kent Williams. The other members of this pioneering group, Mr John
Walsh, Mr Brian O'Hanlon and Mr Philip McKelvey have completed, or are in the process of completing, their dissertations and are expected to graduate in July and
December 1999. We are pleased to note that the comments of the external examiner were very complimentary about the high quality of work and also to note that two of the first graduates are continuing their research with a view to further postgraduate work.
Later in July, Professor Bain, with his wife, Gwynneth, visited CMS and the Folk
Park and again met the new graduates, less formally this time over tea. He was presented with a copy of The Hungry Stream and a folder of documents taken from the Emigration Database.
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Highlights of the Masters course are proving to be the field trips in each semester. In
April students stayed in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Seminars were given by members of staff Dr Marian Lyons and Dr Enda Delaney and visits were made to Castletown House and estate, Kilmainham Jail and the National Gallery.
Formal teaching of the course concluded with a memorable debate on the motion:
'This House believes that migration has been a negative force in Irish life over the past four centuries'.
All six Year One students proceeded to Year Two. They were joined by a new intake of eight Year One students in October, including our first student resident in the
Republic of Ireland. The new Year One students had a very enjoyable, if chilly, field trip to Plantation sites in North Armagh and East Tyrone in October, led by Dr Lynch and accompanied by Dr Audrey Horning, an archaeologist from the National Parks
Service at Colonial Williamsburg and visiting fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies,
Queen's University. The Year Two students, focusing on nineteenth century migration, enjoyed rather more sunshine on their field trip to the Irish Famine
Museum in Strokestown and at Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon in November.
It is hoped that there will be significant developments for migration studies at Queen's over the next few years. A seminar was held on 16 October, chaired by the Vice-
Chancellor, with the purpose of promoting synergy and coherence within Irish Studies in the university. Both John Gilmour, Director of the Ulster American Folk Park, and the Director were invited to give papers outlining their vision for the development of partnership between UAFP and CMS and Queen's. In December, the Director and Dr
Fitzgerald also gave a seminar on 'Recent Developments in Irish Migration Studies' in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's.
8. Migration Studies at the University of Ulster
The University of Ulster continues generously support the Ulster-American Heritage
Symposium. Awards of travel grants through the university from the Garfield Weston
Foundation enabled the Director and Dr Fitzgerald to attend the Twelfth Symposium at the University of Western North Carolina at Cullowhee in August. Dr Fitzgerald is working with Dr Steve Ickringill of the University of Ulster in editing the next collection of Symposium papers.
A teaching partnership between CMS and the University of Ulster at Magee College has also been developed. In the second semester of 1998-9 the Director will teach a module on 'Migration and the Politics of Violence, 1945-98' for the MA in Irish
History and Politics. In the first semester of 1999-2000, Dr Fitzgerald will teach an undergraduate module on 'The Irish in Britain, 1600-2000' to third year students.
9. 'The Road from Castletown to Cultra'
This new course was offered by the Director through the Institute of Continuing
Education of Queen's University at CMS, Omagh in the autumn term and in Belfast in the winter term after Christmas. It was well attended at both venues. The focus was on investigating the migration history of the townlands passed through by the road between Castletown and Cultra (the townlands in which the Ulster American Folk
Park and the Ulster Folk and Transport Museums are situated).
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10. Publications
Publications by members of staff during the year are detailed in Appendix 3. As mentioned above, Dr Steve Ickringill of the University of Ulster and Dr Fitzgerald are editing the successor volume to Ulster and North America , a collection of papers given at the Ulster American Heritage Symposium since 1992. Dr Fitzgerald and Dr
Lynch have been contracted by Macmillan to write a book based on their MSSc lecture course with the working title 'Ireland's Migration History, 1600-2000'. The
Hungry Stream , which was published in 1997 has been well received and continues to sell steadily.
11. Visit to the United States
The Director visited the United States with Mr Gilmour in March, 14-23. They met in
New York with Diana Pardue, Director of the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, who is the outgoing Chairman of ANAII (Association of North American
Immigration Institutions) and with Eric Pumroy of the Balch Institute, Philadelphia, who is the present Chairman of ANAII. In Washington they attended a St Patrick's
Day lunch hosted by the Northern Ireland Bureau and a reception hosted by the Irish
Ambassador. Also in Washington they met with Dr Jane Aiken and colleagues at the
National Endowment for the Humanities. From Washington they went to Virginia to visit the Museum of American Frontier Culture at Staunton and to meet with the new
Director, John Walters, and other members of staff.
12. Durkan Fellowship
The Director was awarded the Durkan Fellowship for 1998 by the Ireland's Heritage
Preservation Foundation, an American foundation dedicated to promoting the development of archives in Ireland. The fellowship is named after Michael Durkan, director of the McCabe Library of Swarthmore College. It enabled Dr Lambkin to attend the Eighty-Fourth Modern Archives Institute in Washington DC, June 1-12.
This course is an introduction to modern archives administration. It is sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration in co-operation with the Library of
Congress. It was attended by thirty-seven members from across North America and
Europe, including a colleague from the National Archives in Dublin, Ms Patricia
Sleeman. The attention given to electronic archives was particularly relevant to development of the CMS Emigration Database and to the development of cooperation between the Centre and other archives in Ireland, north and south.
13. Twelfth Ulster-American Heritage Symposium
The twelfth symposium in the series, which began at the University of Ulster
Coleraine in 1976, was held at the University of Western North Carolina at
Cullowhee. The Director and Dr Fitzgerald both attended and gave papers relating to the development of micro-migration studies and the emigration history of County
Tyrone. It was a particular pleasure that the founding fathers of the symposium, Mr
James Stewart and Professor Frank Lelievre, were both present and pronounced the symposium to be in good shape. Attendance was good and many there expressed
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interest in attending the next symposium which CMS will host in June, 2000 when the theme will be 'The Challenge of Being 2 nd
, 3 rd
, 4 th
… Generation Immigrants'.
14. Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI)
Mr Gilmour attended the annual conference in Luxemburg, 24-26 September. Two new institutions were admitted to membership (Centro Italiano di Studi
Sull'Emigrazione and the Icelandic Emigration Center), bringing the total membership of the association to twenty one. The proposed CMS project, 'The Art of European
Migration', which is designed to promote co-operation, was well received by the membership.
15. Association of North American Immigration Institutions
No annual meeting was held in follow-up to the inaugural annual meeting of ANAII in 1997 but further discussions with colleagues in North America are planned about the best direction in which to now take the organisation and it is hoped that members will contribute to 'The Art of European Migration' project.
16. Visits and Talks
As in previous years, a large number of groups visited the Library and were given talks by members of staff. Members of staff also continued to go out to give talks about the work of the Centre and about migration studies. These are detailed in
Appendix 2.
17. UAFP Guide Training
This was a new venture at the request of the Education Officer, Evelyn Cardwell. On
13 January, CMS organised a morning programme for nine of the full-time guides of
UAFP. The guides already make good use of the Library. The main aims were to provide an update on the work of CMS and the services which it provides to visitors, and to provide hands-on experience of using the Emigration Database. The Director,
Christine Johnston and John Winters each gave short presentations, followed by a session using the Database. The exercises prepared by Dr Fitzgerald proved suitably stimulating and it was agreed that the programme had worked well. Strong interest was expressed in making return visits to make use of the Database. It is hoped to extend the programme to all part-time guides and to make it part of the guide induction programme in future.
18. 'The Irish Empire'
A major new television series on the history of Irish migration and the development of the Irish diaspora, entitled 'The Irish Empire' by the BBC, RTÉ and Australian TV is in production. Dr Fitzgerald was employed as a series consultant and was also interviewed as a contributor. The series is due to be screened in 2000.
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19. Book Launches
CMS was chosen as the venue for two important book launches. In December, the
Omagh Family History Society launched Tombstones of the Omey: 15 graveyards transcribed within Omagh District, Co. Tyrone, 1688-1900, by William McGrew in
December 1998. Mr John Gilmour was the main speaker. In February, the Ulster
Historical Foundation and the Federation for Ulster Local Studies launched their landmark joint publication, Townlands in Ulster: Local History Studies , edited by Bill
Crawford and Bob Foy. Both events were well supported and those attending expressed appreciation of the setting of the library as particularly appropriate and congenial for such occasions.
20. Local History Week
The Librarian continues to serve on the Northern Ireland Local History Panel. CMS participated in Local History Week, 12-20 September, by organising a Local History, which attracted over 30 enthusiasts, and an Open Afternoon to the Centre for invited post-primary schools in the area.
21. Northern Ireland Curriculum Review
The Northern Ireland school curriculum will be reviewed in the course of the next two years. The Director attended a number of the Curriculum 21 Conferences organised by the Northern Ireland Curriculum Council for Examinations and Assessment
(CCEA), beginning in December 1998. There is evidently an opportunity for promoting migration studies through local studies in a revised Northern Ireland
Curriculum. It is likely that Education for Citizenship will be introduced to the
Northern Ireland Curriculum and that it will be focused on 'active learning' based in the local community and will therefore require investment in resources to support local studies. A key to effective Education for Citizenship will be in making connections between the local and the global. There is great potential for local studies based on the theme of migration, which identify the 'micro-diaspora' of the local community and investigate the relationship between the two.
22. Irish Centre for Migration Studies, Cork
There have been two meetings between CMS and the Irish Centre for Migration
Studies at University College, Cork, in the course of the year to discuss co-operation and the development of joint-projects in the areas of data collection for the Irish
Emigration Database, teaching and publication and development of a gateway site on the internet for Irish Migration Studies to be called ERIN (Emigration Resources
Information Network). It is planned to follow up the initial seminar hosted by ICMS for our MSSc students in 1997 with a further seminar in April 1999. In the meantime,
CMS was pleased to host a visit by a group of UCC undergraduates in March 1998. A jointly edited collection of essays with the working title 'Hidden Diasporas' is planned.
23. Thomas Davis Lecture Series
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A joint proposal has been made by Queen's University, CMS and ICMS to RTÉ for a new Thomas Davis Lecture series on 'Irish Migration Past and Present'. It is hoped that this will be accepted for broadcast in 2000.
24.
Financial Overview
At the end of the first full year of financial activities, CMS showed a deficit of £1,948
(see Accounts, p.3). Our most important core funder is the Department of Education and the Department's grant planned for 1998-9, according to the first Business Plan was £50,000. This was cut by £10,000 in April. Fortunately, £5,000 was restored subsequently, leaving a requirement of £5,000. Despite exerting as much downward pressure on expenditure as possible, we were unable to avoid incurring a deficit.
The grant planned for 1998-9 from the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster, according to the first Business Plan was
In the event, the Trust increased its grant to £38,500.
Income
A range of grant applications for project funding were made in the course of the year.
The following were unsuccessful:

UAFP/CMS and Museum of American Frontier Culture, Staunton Multi-media
Project (Commonweath of Virginia)

Border Counties Emigration Data Collection Project (European Support Programe for Peace and Reconciliation)

'The Art of Emigration' Virtual Exhibition Project (Raphael Programme)

'The Northern Ireland Regional Diaspora Project', (Leverhulme Trust)

'The Omagh Diaspora Project' (Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust)
A joint application with the Irish Centre for Migration Studies at University College
Cork to the Ireland Funds to host a conference on the theme of migration is pending.
Grant applications have been successful for the following projects:

ISTAR (Information Society Technology Awareness Raising), through partnership to make the CMS library catalogue available on the internet

The Thirteenth Ulster American Heritage Symposium

A virtual exhibition on 'The Art of European Emigration'

An autumn school on 'The Literature of Exile'
The first project is in partnership with the Western Education and Library Board. The other three projects will be funded as part of a Heritage Lottery Millennium Festival
Fund grant to the Ulster-American Folk Park for its millennium festival programme.
Additional income was generated during the year from teaching the new course for the Institute of Continuing Education at Queen's University and from consultancy to
'The Irish Empire'.
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Donations of books to the Library were gratefully received from the following:
Mr Michael Clarke, Co. Down
Rev. D. Creighton, Co. Tyrone
Mr J. Durney, Naas, Co. Kildare
Mrs D. Henry, CT, USA
Professor Warren Hofstra, VA, USA
Mr C. Kelly, Ayr, Scotland
Dr J Lynch (QUB)
Dr S. Mannion, Belfast
Mrs I. McMullan, Omagh
Dr D. Ó Murchadha, (UCC)
Mr J. O'Loughlin, Co. Fermanagh
Mr William Ridley Will II, TN, USA
Ms Rhonda Strickland, WV, USA
Mr W. J. Wiggins, PA, USA
Loans of papers for copying and inclusion in the Irish Emigration Database were gratefully accepted from the following:
Mr X Broderick, Bangor, Co. Down
Mr Brendan, O'Reilly, Dromara, Co. Down
Mrs Linda Weir , Tirmacspurd , Co. Tyrone
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
Glens of Antrim Historical Society, P Fitzgerald, 16 January

Strabane Historical Society, 'P Fitzgerald, 22 January

US Librarians Study Tour, C McIvor and J Winters, 28 January

Lisburn Family History Society, P Fitzgerald, 10 February

Linenhall Library Belfast, 'Some Hidden Aspects of Irish Migration', P Fitzgerald,
12 March

Federation of Ulster Local Studies, Antrim, 'Using Computers for Local History, J
Winters, 14 March

Ladies Circle, Drumahoe, C McIvor, 24 March

UCC Undergraduate Field Trip, B Lambkin and P Fitzgerald, 25 March

Coleraine Family History Society, C McIvor, 28 April

BA General Studies students QUB, 'Sources for Migration Studies', P Fitzgerald and B Lambkin, 29 April

North West Archaeological and Historical Society, CMS visit and talk, C McIvor,
16 May

Coleraine Family History Society, CMS visit and talk, C McIvor, 6 June

Extra-mural Certificate in Archaeological and Historical Studies students at
Magee College, visit and talk, C McIvor, 11 June

Eagle Wing Festival Groomsport, 'The Emigration Story of the Road from
Castletown, Omagh to Groomsport', B Lambkin, 4 July

American College Dublin students, CMS visit and talk, C McIvor and P Fitzgerald

Twelfth Ulster American Heritage Symposium, University of Western North
Carolina Cullowhee, '"In and Out the Dusty Bluebells": Tyrone's Migration
History', P Fitzgerald,

As above, 'The Irish Townland Migration Project and other recent developments in Migration Studies in Ireland', B Lambkin, 30 July

Dublin Heritage Group, CMS visit and talk, 7 October

Beragh Day Care Centre (Help the Aged), B Lambkin, 13 October

Banbridge Historical Society, B Lambkin, 5 November

PRONI Search Room Staff, 'The work of CMS: common problems', CMS team,
24 November

Institute of Irish Studies (QUB), 'Some Recent Developments in Irish Migration
Studies', seminar, Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Director with Dr Fitzgerald, 10
December.

CMS, Border Counties History Collective visit, 19 January

Annual Conference of Irish Museums Association, Ulster Museum, 'Connecting up the Irish Townland Network', B Lambkin, 27 February
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Fitzgerald, Patrick, 'Tyrone's Migration Profile 1600-1850' in Jefferies, H. (ed),
Tyrone History and Society , forthcoming 1999
Lambkin, Brian, 'Taking Townland Studies into the New Millennium', Familia:
Ulster Genealogical Review , Number 14, 1998, 96-107
Lynch, John, 'Easy Come, Easy Go?', Causeway: cultural traditions journal , Spring
1999, 4-5
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