Centre for Migration Studiesat the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh

Fourth Annual Report2001 – 2002

Cover Photo: Guests who attended the Centre for Migration Studies on 6 December on the occasion of the visit of President MaryMcAleese.

Included in the photograph from the left: Ms Kate Christie, Mr Paddy Harte, Ms Helen Osborn, Mrs Rosemary Adams, Mrs MarySullivan, Mr Bill Allen, Mrs Christine Johnston, Ms Sinéad Ayre, Mr Pat Scanlon, Mrs Doreen Brown, Rev Patrick Arkinson, Mr GerryKelly, Dr Brian Lambkin, Mr Philip O’Connell, Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, Mr John Winters, Mrs Bríd Kelly, Mr Peter McCloy, President MaryMcAleese, Mr John Hamill, Mrs Beatrice McNulty, Dr Susan Mannion, Mr Dessie Doyle, Miss Alice Hamill, Mr James Tuff, Mrs DeirdreGillespie, Mrs Roisín Kelly, Ms Ruth Olphert, Ms Christine McIvor, Mr Stephen Perrott, Mr Packie Brogan, Mrs Lorainne Tennant,Ms Kathleen O’Kane, Mr Liam Burns.

(Photo courtesy of Mr P McSorley)

CONTENTS

Management Committee ..................................................................................................................................... 2

Staff ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Chairman’s Foreword ............................................................................................................................................ 3

Remarks by President Mary McAleese .............................................................................................................. 4

1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 7

2.0 Vision, Mission and Aims ....................................................................................................................... 9

3.0 Facilities and Services (Aim 1) .............................................................................................................. 9

4.0 Research, Teaching, Publication (Aim 2) ............................................................................................ 12

5.0 Cultural Tourism (Aim 3) ....................................................................................................................... 16

6.0 Collection, Preservation, Access (Aim 4) ........................................................................................... 18

7.0 Partnerships (Aim 5)................................................................................................................................ 21

8.0 Investing in People (Aim 6) ................................................................................................................... 22

Appendix 1: Indicators of Performance ............................................................................................................ 23

Appendix 2: 2nd Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School Programme ....................................................... 25

Appendix 3: MSSc Dissertations ........................................................................................................................ 27

Appendix 4: Lectures, Talks and Teaching Programmes................................................................................ 28

Appendix 5: Publications..................................................................................................................................... 30

Appendix 5: Donations and Loans..................................................................................................................... 31

Annual Accounts 2001-2002 .............................................................................................................................. 32

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CMS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

ChairmanSir Peter Froggatt Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

MembersDame Geraldine Keegan Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster

Professor Jack Smith Scotch-Irish Trust of UlsterMr John Gilmour Ulster-American Folk Park, MAGNIMr Dan McCall Department of Education, NI (for DCAL and DFHETE)

Ms Helen Osborn Western Education and Library BoardMrs Rosemary Adams Western Education and Library BoardMr Joe Eagleson Enterprise Ulster

Professor Leslie Clarkson The Queen’s University of BelfastProfessor Bernard Cullen The Queen’s University of BelfastProfessor Tom Fraser The University of Ulster

Dr Brian Lambkin Director

The Committee met on the following occasions:

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October 12December 7February 22

Staff

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

Lecturer and Development Officer Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, BA, PhDLibrarian Ms Christine McIvor, BA, ALA, MSSc*

Mr Patrick Brogan, BA, DipLIS, ALA, MSSc**

Senior Library Assistant Mrs Christine Johnston, BAIrish Emigration Database Manager †Mr John Winters, BSc, DipLISIrish Emigration Data Collection

Project Manager (Belfast) Mrs Lorraine Tennant, BA, MPhilLibrary Assistant (temporary) Ms Belinda Mahaffy, BA, HDip***

* on secondment to WELB Headquarters January 2000 to August 2001** on secondment from WELB Library Headquarters from January 2000 to August 2001*** from 15 May to 30 September 2000

† died 29 May 2002

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CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD

Our fourth Annual Report reflects a year of important consolidation, exciting developments and not a littlesadness. We are delighted at the positive outcome of the independent review carried out by Research andEvaluation Services on behalf of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL), which has resulted inthe stabilising of our financial situation and some significant investment in new resources, particularly in theequipping of our Data Collection project office in Belfast. We were pleased to welcome the Permanent Secre-tary, Dr Aideen McGinley and the Minister, Michael McGimpsey, when they visited in August, and we havebeen greatly encouraged by the commitment which the Department has given to the long-term developmentof the Centre. We were also delighted to welcome President Mary McAleese in December. This was a returnvisit for she had been instrumental in establishing the Masters degree in Irish Migration Studies in 1996 whilePro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University. In her Remarks, the full text of which is given below, she de-scribed the Centre as ‘a vital link to our global community and a crucial resource for those who want access tocredible, scholarly information about their heritage’. There is much evidence here of how the Centre is doingthis and ‘creating new networks of friendship and solidarity in the contemporary Irish and Scottish-Irishdiasporas’.

Highlights of the year were the Irish Emigration Database going on-line in April for the first time, albeit on anexperimental basis; the second Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School in October; and the publication inDecember of Atlantic Crossroads. Throughout the year the Centre provided a larger number of programmesthan ever before for visiting students from the United States – the students from Radford University, Virginiabeing particularly pleased in May when their stay happened to coincide with the visit to the Folk Park byPresident Clinton! While building up this aspect of its work, it remains a central concern of the Centre tosupport the Ulster-American Folk Park in its aim of becoming a Museum of Emigration and the seminar inOctober on ‘Studying Issues in the Irish Diaspora’ by Patrick O’Sullivan was an important contribution in thisregard.

The sadness of the year attaches generally to the events of Tuesday, 11 September. Many American visitorscame into the Centre that afternoon to watch the events on television and make use of the e-mail facilities.More recently, we have been saddened greatly by the death of our colleague John Winters, the CMS IrishEmigration Database Manager, on 29 May 2002. Our condolences go to Monica, his wife, and children Evin,Kerill, Niamh and Odhrán. John’s obituary will appear in the next Annual Report and appreciation of his finecontribution will be given there. He leaves a team determined to carry forward the work to which he gave somuch.

On behalf of the Management Committee, may I take this opportunity to thank the Centre’s staff and all ourpartners and friends for their hard work and support throughout the year, with good wishes for the coming year,one of the highlights of which will be the XIV Ulster-American Heritage Symposium in South Carolina. Asever, Brian Lambkin was a vigorous and inspirational Director; all connected with the Centre and who wish itwell, are deeply in his debt.

Sir Peter Froggatt

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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT MCALEESE

CENTRE FOR MIGRATION STUDIESULSTER-AMERICAN FOLK PARK, OMAGH

Thursday, 6 th December, 2001

Thank you for your very warm welcome to me, I am delighted to be back here today to meet with you all andto see for myself how the Centre for Migration Studies has developed since my last visit. My thanks to BrianLambkin for inviting me.

I am also glad to be in Omagh, an area which has special reason to understand the need to respect memory, tocreate space for the stories of those who are gone and to hold the past up to scrutiny.

It is worth reminding ourselves this Christmastide of the many lonely people whose enjoyment of life was socruelly overwhelmed by violence and for whom memory of happier times and hope for better days to come istheir only comfort.

This Centre is a place which values the story of the individual, the man, woman or child, whose name nevermade the news headlines but whose lives layered up the landscape we inherited. One of the defining stories ofthis island’s history is the story of emigrations and it is that story which your Centre so eloquently documentsand helps us to access. It is not of course one unified story but rather a series of responses to the demands andimpulses of their times.

The tradition of emigration is found in both the Irish and Ulster Scots strands of life on this island and so,regardless of which claims us, there is an opportunity to draw on the deep, collective memory of emigration, toshare our understanding of the forces which made people leave and to share our admiration for the fortitude,ingenuity and courage of our ancestors.

Unveiling the plaqueLeft to right: Dr Brian Lambkin, Dr Martin McAleese, President McAleese and Sir Peter Froggatt.

(Photo courtesy of Mr P McSorley)

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They left for many reasons but for themajority those reasons were simple –poverty, hunger and social and politi-cal exclusion had closed down theirlife’s chances on this island, had wastedtheir talents and made little of theirlives. Emigration was their only hope.For others the impulse was driven byreligious or political oppression.

There were the adventurers too, whoembraced the opportunities a widerhorizon offered and there were the mis-sionaries motivated by the desire toevangelise, who brought health careand education to the poor of other cul-tures and continents.

We have tended to see emigration as atragedy, as a mark of failure and ofcourse that is what it was, particularly in the wake of the Great Famine. But the leaving of so many did not cutthe ties with Ireland. The emigrants brought the face and hands and hearts and minds of Ireland to manyplaces around the world. They themselves were the face of Ireland to people who had never and would nevervisit this island.

They brought their music, dance, literature, language, religion, customs and with these and other tools, theychanged the experiential landscape of their new homes. They kept in touch with home, sending back theirhard-earned cents and dollars, opening up the vista of their small island home, to a much greater world beyondit. They created structures to make the experience of emigration less harrowing for the next generation.

Today Ireland knows the strength of a global family which has turned the tragedy of emigration into a hugesuccess story. So many lives were vindicated once their talents met opportunity. And so they moved the storyon from hardship to hope.

I have been privileged in my work as President of Ireland to travel to many parts of the world where thoseemigrants of all traditions on this island have created a new history. This Centre, through its work, is itself avital link to our global community and a crucial resource for those who want access to credible, scholarlyinformation about their heritage. Many of the visitors who come here do so to search out and affirm theirheritage of descent and to reinforce their unique sense of identity – an identity which time and distance never

seem to obliterate.

If you were not here, what a hugeimpoverishment there would be forthe individual and for all of us whoshare these islands. I congratulateyou for what you do to conserve ourrich heritage and also for how youhave created new networks of friend-ship and solidarity in the contempo-rary Irish and Scottish-Irishdiasporas.

In the painstaking construction ofthe Peace Process it was very heart-ening to see the ready support whichcame from that global family allaround the world. They willed us onwith their prayers and with their

The President accepts a picture from the past from Dr Brian Lambkin.(Photo courtesy of Mr P McSorley)

The President with Peter McCloy, Beatrice McNulty and Deirdre Gillespie.(Photo courtesy of Mr P McSorley)

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funding to make the shift from a culture of conflict to a culture of consensus. Many of them live in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic societies. Their experience of living comfortably with diversity challenged us to do thesame. They take pride in the fact that Ireland has for the first time in centuries reversed the tide of emigrationas a result of phenomenal economic success.

Suddenly we find ourselves experiencing net inward migration. People who left are returning to build theirlives anew here bringing with them skills, expertise and a new self-confidence. And for the first time we seepeople of many different nationalities coming here to live and work or seek refuge because they see this islandnow as a land of opportunity.

With these winds of change come fresh challenges for us to come to grips with. As we adjust to the newrealities, as we make space for new ethnic groups we have a collective memory of emigration to draw on. Weknow what it is to be strangers, to be excluded, to be lonely for home, to feel lost. We know what it is to be thebutt of racism and sectarianism.

We also know because we have the evidence from our own people’s experience across the world, that gener-ously and humanely addressed inward migration brings the chance to create a culturally richer and moredynamic society in the years ahead.

We can learn lessons from the successful co-operative ventures pursued in this Centre, which operates in anetwork of partnerships at community, academic, national and international level. That openness has broughtto the Centre great success in developing new fields of study and excellent academic standards in partnershipwith other peer institutions in Ireland, Britain and America.

A few years ago I was privileged to be drawn into that open embrace and to have a hand in the development ofthe Masters program in Migration Studies. I know some of the students, past and present, are here today andI’m really looking forward to meeting them. I congratulate all those associated with the Folk Park and Queen’sUniversity whose vision led to the founding of the Centre for Migration Studies and whose hopes for it havebeen repaid many times over in the short few years of its existence. May it long continue to do so.

Once again, my thanks for your warm welcome to me today. I have greatly enjoyed renewing old acquaint-ances, old friendships.

Thank you.

President McAleese meets Doreen Brown and Sinéad Ayre.(Photo courtesy of Mr P McSorley)

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1.0 INTRODUCTIONThe Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) was establishedin 1998. It developed from the previous Centre for Emi-gration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, bring-ing together and building on three main elements: theIrish Emigration Database Project, begun in 1988; theLibrary, established in 1990; and the Masters degree inIrish Migration Studies (QUB), taught since 1996.

1.1 Migration and Migration Studies‘Migration’ is defined simply as ‘the movement and set-tlement of people’. It includes immigration, internal mi-gration, seasonal migration, and return migration, as wellas that dominant feature of the Irish experience - emigra-tion. The discipline of migration studies is about advanc-ing our understanding of the human experience of move-ment and settlement, from the earliest times to thepresent. Its approach to the whole phenomenon of mi-gration is both multi-disciplinary and comparative. It ismulti-disciplinary in that it includes history, geography,archaeology, politics, economics, language, literature, art,music, religion etc; and it is comparative in that it seeksto understand the similarities and differences between themigration history, culture and heritage of different hu-man groups.

1.2 Migration History, Culture and HeritageMigration history, culture and heritage are distinguishedas 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’ asso-ciated with a particular group; and ‘migration heritage’refers to surviving material and non-material traces ofmigration history and culture which, to a greater or lesserextent, are ‘treasured’ by the present generation, particu-larly in archives and museums.

1.3 Irish Migration StudiesCMS is committed to advancing migration studies in gen-eral and Irish migration studies in particular by focusingon the movement and settlement of the peoples of Ire-land 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 Americaand other parts of the world.

1.4 Vision and MissionThe CMS vision is therefore of ‘an informed community,confidently and creatively engaged with its migration history,culture and heritage’ and the CMS mission is ‘to serve thecommunity as a leading international institution for the studyof human migration, focusing on the peoples of Ireland world-wide’.

1.5 The CMS Management CommitteeThe Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-Ameri-can Folk Park, Omagh is managed by the Scotch-IrishTrust of Ulster through a sub-committee called the CMSManagement Committee. The following partner institu-tions are represented on the Management Committee:the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (formerlythe Department of Education of Northern Ireland), theWestern Education and Library Board (on behalf of thefive Education and Library Boards of Northern Ireland),

the Queen’s University of Belfast; the University of Ul-ster, and Enterprise Ulster. The Centre is headed by theDirector, who is responsible to the Management Com-mittee.

The Centre was established in its present form in accord-ance with the Business Plan for 1997/8, as agreed betweenthe Scotch-Irish Trust and Department of Education forNorthern Ireland. Its first Director was appointed in Janu-ary 1998. As of 1 October 1998, the Trust ceased to ownand manage the Ulster-American Folk Park, which is nowmerged with the Ulster Museum and the Ulster Folk andTransport Museum as part of the Museums and Galleriesof Northern Ireland (MAGNI). The main focus of theTrust’s work is now the Centre for Migration Studies.

The main aim of that work is to promote migration stud-ies by maintaining and developing the complementaryrelationship between the Centre and the Ulster-Ameri-can Folk Park. This is assured in two main ways: throughmembership of the CMS Management Committee by theDirector of the Ulster-American Folk Park and throughrepresentation of the Scotch-Irish Trust on the Board ofTrustees of the Museums and Galleries of Northern Ire-land (MAGNI).

Professor Leslie Clarkson and Professor Bernard Cullen,both of Queen’s University, resigned from membership ofthe Committee in the course of the year. We are gratefulto them for their support and look forward to welcomingin their places Mr Paul Nolan, recently appointed Direc-tor of the Institute of Lifelong Learning, and ProfessorLiam Kennedy of the Department of Modern History. Ourcongratulations to Professor Jack Smith who was awardedan O.B.E. in the New Year’s Honours List.

1.6 CMS StaffThe staff of the Centre are based mainly at the Centre forMigration Studies, which is located in the Library build-ing at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh. They arethe Director, the Librarian, the Senior Library Assistant,the Irish Emigration Database Manager, and the Lecturerand Development Officer. The Database CollectionProject Manager, who is responsible for a team of Enter-prise Ulster trainees, is based in Belfast. The Centre iscommitted to working closely with the Ulster-AmericanFolk Park as it develops within MAGNI to become a na-tional museum of emigration and to taking account of itsstrategic analysis and policy objectives as set out in itsCorporate and Business Plan.

This year we were pleased to welcome back for the monthsof May to October Ms Belinda Mahaffy. We had expectedthe return in March 2001 of our Librarian, Ms ChristineMcIvor, from secondment to the Western Education andLibrary Board, but her secondment was further extended.We were pleased to welcome her back at the end of Au-gust 2001 and at the same time sorry to say goodbye toMr Patrick Brogan, who returned to the Local StudiesDepartment in Library Headquarters, Omagh.

A sadness of the year was the continuing serious illness ofour Irish Emigration Database Manager, John Winters.We regret to record that, after more than five years of abattle with leukaemia, John died on 29 May 2002. A fullobituary will appear in next year’s Annual Report.

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2.0 VISION, MISSION AND AIMSThe strategic aims of the Centre derive from its Visionand Mission. Its Vision is of ‘an informed community, con-fidently and creatively engaged with its migration history, cul-ture and heritage’. Its Mission is ‘to serve the community asa leading international institution for the study of human mi-gration, focusing on the peoples of Ireland world-wide’.

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

AIM 1 – FACILITIES AND SERVICESTo increase participation in migration studies throughenhancing the quality of CMS facilities and services andaccess to them

AIM 2 – RESEARCH, TEACHING ANDPUBLICATION

To promote and celebrate cultural diversity, individualcreativity and mutual understanding by providing aneducational service for learning and teaching about themigration history, culture and heritage of the peoples ofIreland world-wide

AIM 3 – CULTURAL TOURISM

To contribute to a positive image of Northern Irelandat home and abroad by providing a cultural tourism serv-ice in partnership with the Ulster-American Folk Park,and by networking with institutions for migration stud-ies world-wide, particularly between Europe and NorthAmerica

AIM 4 – COLLECTION, PRESERVATION, ACCESS

To preserve and make available the cultural and infor-mation resources for Irish migration studies to the wid-est possible audience

AIM 5 - PARTNERSHIPS

To lever resources to maximise positive social, economicand educational impact through partnerships both withinand outside Northern Ireland

AIM 6 – INVESTING IN PEOPLETo provide a quality work environment in which allmembers of staff are valued for their contribution tohelping us to do our business in a customer focusedway.

3.0 FACILITIES AND SE RVICES(Aim 1)

To increase participation in migration studies throughenhancing the quality of CMS facilities and services andaccess to them

3.1 The LibraryThe full range of targets used to indicate performance overthe year are given in Appendix 1. One main indicator ofaccess to our facilities is the number of visitors to theLibrary. Our target number of visitors for 2001-2002 (April– March) was 4,500. The actual total number of visitorswas 4,778 (+6%). This represents an overall increase onthe previous year of 10% (3,750). There was a decreasein the early part of the year, especially April (-30%), May(-12%), June (-23%) and July (-12%), due mainly to thecontinuing effects of the Foot and Mouth Disease emer-gency. This was more than offset by an increase in thelater part of the year, especially August (+10%), Septem-ber (+36%), December (+281%) and January (+371%),due mainly to the provision of additional events, includ-ing training in January for UAFP staff.

Visitors

2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 (1997)

Jan 278 59 68 122 93 ( 69)

Feb 291 188 150 214 112 (107)

Mar 227 133 291 134 215 (169)

Apr 177 251 188 130 (140)

May 458 521 302 377 (239)

June 549 711 672 333 (332)

July 411 469 512 372 (355)

Aug 579 524 496 354 (380)

Sept 747 550 663 494 (455)

Oct 519 575 444 301 (322)

Nov 332 310 175 304 (119)

Dec 244 64 76 149 ( 56)

Total 4,396 4,484 3,998 3,234 (2,743)(-2%)(+12%) (+24%) (+18%)

The number of enquiries dealt with by CMS staff is shownin the following table. Our target number of queries for2001-2002 was 3,700. The actual total number of recordedqueries was 3,154.

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Queries2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 (1997)

Jan 161 197 180 208 138 (83)

Feb 160 184 179 140 130 (144)

Mar 199 144 276 176 175 (109)

Apr 234 257 193 150 (187)

May 386 558 269 251 (225)

June 368 484 434 262 (260)

July 307 285 395 266 (239)

Aug 296 285 355 232 (244)

Sep 446 498 478 297 (292)

Oct 295 487 307 217 (211)

Nov 192 198 148 164 (111)

Dec 110 99 94 100 ( 63)

Total 3,159 3,786 3,197 2,382 (2,168)(-17%)(+18%) (+34%) (+10%)

Thanks to the support of the Western Education andLibrary Board, we again had the services of an additionalmember of staff, Belinda Mahaffy, for the busiest periodof May to October. An important aspect of her work wasas Development Officer for a pilot project in Family,Community and Migration History in collaboration withthe Ulster Historical Foundation.

VISITORS2001-2002

A M J J A S O N D J F M TotalUAFP STAFFCuratorial 10 38 0 14 8 2 14 36 19 19 14 27 201Museum Services 11 4 12 0 1 8 44 28 26 164 40 49 387Administration 13 4 0 1 3 1 21 16 12 17 11 17 116

34 46 12 15 12 11 79 80 57 200 65 93 704

VISITORSResearchers CMS 14 60 6 12 2 9 22 28 9 14 13 15 204Family History 48 72 109 72 55 109 57 28 3 2 13 22 590Organised Groups 0 152 60 14 56 123 56 86 80 10 40 0 677MSSc and other courses 1 18 0 1 2 23 63 82 17 18 66 36 327

63 302 175 99 115 264 198 224 109 44 132 73 1798

Total 97 348 187 114 127 275 277 304 166 244 197 166 2502

The table above shows the results of our monitoring of the visitors who use the Library and Database and indicates therange and relative proportions of our different types of user.

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The following table is based on entries made in the Visitors Book which is kept in the Library. It shows that the main partsof the Irish diaspora – the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - together accountfor two thirds of our visitors. The homeland of Ireland, north and south, accounts for most of the other third, with 2%coming from other parts of Europe and the rest of the world.

Visitors monitored by country

1997- 1998 1999- 2000- 2001- Total %1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

US 722 703 739 717 714 3595 51*Ireland 472 440 421 169 162 1664 24*Northern Ireland - - - 344 123 467 7Canada 98 102 107 126 110 543 8Australia 54 44 64 52 37 251 4England 43 32 55 50 39 219 3New Zealand 17 8 18 7 13 63 1Scotland 14 18 9 18 8 67 1France 16 5 3 4 9 37 0.5Netherlands 1 12 5 9 3 30 0.5Germany 1 4 7 4 2 18 0.3

Austria 1 2 3Belgium 3 1 2 4 10Channel Islands 1 1China 1 1Czech Republic 1 1Costa Rica 1 1Egypt 1 1Finland 1 1 2Greece 1 1Honduras 1 1Hong Kong 3 1 4India 1 1Isle of Man 1 1Israel 1 1 2Italy 1 1 1 2 5Japan 1 1Kenya 1 1Luxembourg 1 1Mexico 1 1Norway 2 6 1 9Poland 1 2 3Portugal 3 2 5Russia 1 1 2San Marino 1 1Saudi Arabia 1 1South Africa 1 2 5 2 10Spain 2 1 1 4Sweden 1 1Switzerland 1 1Zambia 1 1Zimbabwe 1 1

Total visitors monitored 1451 1381 1455 1510 1235 7032

Total visitors 2,743 3,234 3,998 4,484 4,396 18,855

* disaggregated from 2001-2002 onwards: Northern Ireland 13%, Republic of Ireland 12%

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4.0 RESEARCH, TEACHING,PUBLICATION (Aim 2)

To promote and celebrate cultural diversity, individualcreativity and mutual understanding by providing aneducational service for learning and teaching about themigration history, culture and heritage of the peoples ofIreland world-wide

4.1 The Second Literature of Irish Exile AutumnSchool, 20 October 2001

The second Literature of Irish Exile Summer School tookplace on 20 October. The full programme is given inAppendix 2. A total of 45 were enrolled and gave veryencouraging feedback. Particularly memorable, followingProfessor Coughlan’s presentation, was the resolution ofthose who had not already done so to read the novelCharming Billy by Alice McDermott. The walk throughthe Outdoor Museum after lunch with stops at the Na-tional School, the Post Office and Reilly’s Spirit Grocergenerated lively discussion. We have clearly hit on a richtheme which catches the public imagination, so a thirdAutumn School is planned for 2002.

4.2 Seminar on ‘Issues in the study of the IrishDiaspora’

CMS with UAFP held a seminar for MAGNI staff on‘Issues in the Study of the Irish Diaspora’ on Monday 22October in the Library. It was given by Mr PatrickO’Sullivan of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit at theUniversity of Bradford, who is editor of the six volumeseries The Irish Worldwide (Leicester University Press) and

moderator of the Internet Irish Diaspora Discussion List.The Respondent was Mr Piaras Mac Éinrí, Director ofthe Irish Centre for Migration Studies at University Col-lege, Cork. The seminar was intended to help inform theplanning of the MAGNI project to develop the Ulster-American Folk Park into a Museum of Emigration. It wasattended by representatives from both the Ulster Museumand the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and also byProfessor John Wilson, newly appointed Director of theInstitute of Ulster-Scots Studies, UUM.

4.3 MSSc in Irish Migration Studies (QUB)The Queen’s University Masters degree in Irish Migra-tion Studies continues to be taught at the Centre onMonday evenings by Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, the Centre’sLecturer and Development Officer, and Dr John Lynch,Lecturer in History at the Institute of Lifelong Learningat Queen’s University. The course attracts students froma wide catchment area throughout Northern Ireland andthe border counties and they range widely in age fromrecent young graduates to those returning to higher edu-cation in retirement. Most tell us they are taking up thecourse out of interest in Irish history and the theme ofmigration rather than for a further professional qualifica-tion. For some however, like Mary Sullivan who is Man-ager of the County Cavan Genealogical Research Cen-tre, the course is of main professional relevance.

Congratulations to those who completed their second yearwith end of module examinations on Saturday 2 June:Bernie Campbell (Letterkenny), Liam Burns (Belfast),John Hamill (Crumlin), Isobel Hughes (Lisburn), Brendan

Participants attending Literature of Irish Exile autumn school visit the Castletown National School at theUlster-American Folk Park.

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McCarthy (Omagh), Allison Moore (Belfast), PhilipO’Connell (Dundalk), Kathleen O’Kane (Derry), andPatrick Scanlon (Sligo).

Our congratulations to the following students who re-ceived their degrees at the Winter Graduation on 13December: Liam Burns, John Hamill, Brendan McCarthy(Distinction), Susan Mannion, Philip O’Connell (Dis-tinction), Kathleen O’Kane, and Patrick Scanlon.

Part of the requirement of the degree is completion of a20,000 word dissertation. A sense of the variety of topicswhich have been investigated can be gained from the listof dissertations completed which is given in Appendix 3.Their high quality can be appreciated by consulting themin the CMS Library.

Congratulations to those who completed their first yearand proceeded to their second year in October: PatrickArkinson (Strabane), Dessie Doyle (Ballyshannon),Roisín Kelly (Derry), Colin McCormick (Enniskillen),Gillian McGee (Belfast) and Ruth Olphert (Castlerock).

We welcome also the new intake of September 2001:William Allen (Belfast), Rosemary Brown(Newtownards), Jack Foley (Cootehill, Cavan), JosephGallagher (Belfast), Mary Jo Gill (Derry), Paddy Harte(Raphoe), Seán McCartan (Belfast), James Muldoon (Bel-fast), and Mary Sullivan (Kilnaleck, Cavan),

The field trip in the second semester of the academic year2000-2001 was to the Ards peninsula on the weekend of21-22 April. Staying overnight at Barholm, Portaferry theyvisited Ballywalter, Moville, Greyabbey, Kirkubbin andCastle Ward. The group was joined for dinner on Satur-day evening by Mr Paul Nolan, the newly appointed Direc-tor of the Institute of Lifelong Learning at Queen’s Uni-versity.

six students. The Second Year Field Trip to the Irish Fam-ine Museum, Strokestown, and related emigration sitesin Counties Roscommon and Leitrim took place on Sat-urday and Sunday 3-4 November. It was led by DrFitzgerald and seven students attended. The field trip ofthe second semester in April will include a visit to theIrish Centre for Migration Studies at University College,Cork.

An innovation this year was the MSSc Reunion Lectureand Lunch, held on Saturday 9 February 2002, to whichour students, past and present, were particularly invited.Mr Steve Ickringill of the University of Ulster, and jointeditor of the newly published Atlantic Crossroads, gave alecture entitled ‘Reflections on a career in studying Ul-ster Migration’. The event proved successful and a fur-ther Reunion Lecture and Lunch is planned for February2003.

4.4 Scotch-Irish Trust Bursaries and Merit AwardsStudent fees for the MSSc course are currently about£2,200 over two years. Concerned that students shouldnot be prevented from accessing the course for reasons offinancial hardship, the Scotch-Irish Trust has establishedbursaries. Students who have been offered a place on thecourse may apply for financial assistance.

There were two field trips in the first semester of the aca-demic year 2001-2002. The First Year Field Trip to Plan-tation-related sites in East Tyrone took place on Saturday13 October. It was led by Dr Lynch and was attended by

Second year MSSc students at the Irish FamineMuseum, Strokestown.

The Scotch-Irish Trust has also established Merit Awardsto recognise and encourage excellence in Irish MigrationStudies. The first awards in the form of book tokens weremade this year by Sir Peter Froggatt, Chairman of theTrust, at the Centre on 6th December. We congratulateGillian McGee and Philip O’Connell, who were the topstudents of Year 1 and Year 2 respectively.

4.5 CMS and UAFP InternshipWe had hoped to provide a further internship this yearbut arrangements in the end did not prove possible. In-ternational students interested in placement at CMS aspart of programmes organised by Queen’s University Bel-fast or the University of Ulster should contact the Direc-tor. We were pleased to welcome Ms Caroline Quinn andMs Claire Swan undergraduates at the University of Dun-

Philip O’Connell (centre) receives his Merit Awardfrom Sir Peter Froggat (left) and Dr Brian Lambkin

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dee, who each spent a week in April 2001 and February2002 respectively, working in the Library for their disser-tations.

Immigration Archives of the Balch Institute, Philadel-phia, which will involve partnership with Derry CityMuseum Services and the Public Record Office of North-ern Ireland. Links with several US universities throughthe University of Ulster have been maintained. CMS pro-vided programmes on 18 and 26 June for students fromthe University of Missouri-Columbia and the Universityof North Carolina. In June, Dr Fitzgerald gave a lectureentitled ‘Black ’97?: Scottish Migration to Ulster in the1690s’ to the second international conference on ‘TheIrish, the Scottish and the Scotch-Irish: connections andcomparisons’ at the University of Ulster at Magee.

4.8 Irish Centre for Migration Studies, UniversityCollege, Cork

The Irish Centre for Migration Studies has a major oralhistory project underway called ‘Breaking the Silence’,which is aimed at exploring the effects of emigration fromIreland in the 1940s and 1950s on those who were leftbehind. One of our MSSc students, Mr Pat Scanlon, andthe Director have each conducted interviews on behalfof this project. The Director of the project, Dr Breda Grayalso interviewed one of our MSSc students, Mr Jack Foley.This project is also breaking new technological ground inthat the interviews are being made available on theInternet, see: http://migration.ucc.ie/oralarchive/lifenarratives/. The Irish Centre for Migration Studies haskindly agreed to host a seminar for our MSSc students aspart of their field trip to Cork in April 2002.

4.9 Migration Studies and the University of Aber-deen

Dr Fitzgerald gave a paper entitled ‘“Come back PaddyReilly”: Irish Return Migration, 1600-2000’ to a confer-ence on ‘Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movementof Emigrants, c.1700-2000’, held at the University ofAberdeen in June. We congratulate him on being madean honorary Fellow of the Research Institute of Irish andScottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. In Marchwe were pleased to welcome Dr Aileen Stockdale (origi-nally from Omagh) of the Geography Department of theUniversity of Aberdeen, who is engaged in a project todevelop a new Centre for Migration Studies on the Isle ofSkye.

4.10 Migration Studies and Carleton University, Ot-tawa, Canada

We maintained our video-conferencing teaching link withProfessor Bruce Elliott of Carelton University, Ottowa,who has been appointed Director of the university’s newlyformed Centre for the History of Migration. CMS hasbeen invited to send speakers to a major conference on‘Using Emigrant Letters’, which the new Centre will behosting in August 2003.

4.11 Migration Studies and University College, Gal-way

University College Galway has recently established aResearch Centre on Human Settlement and HistoricalChange under the directorship of Professor NicholasCanny. Dr Lambkin has been invited to serve on theAdvisory Board, which will have its first meeting in Oc-tober 2002.

4.6 Migration Studies and The Queen’s Universityof Belfast

A new five-week course called ‘Reading Tyrone Historyand Society’ was organised by the Director through theInstitute of Lifelong Learning in October and November.It was based on the idea of a reading club. Tyrone Historyand Society was published in 2000 and launched at CMSat the conclusion of the Literature of Irish Exile AutumnSchool on 20 October. It is a mighty volume of over 800pages, containing articles by 26 contributors. The aim ofthe course was to encourage people to read and discussthe book. On three successive weeks the group was ad-dressed by an author of one of the chapters. The maineditor of the book, Dr Henry Jefferies, spoke about ‘HughO’Neill, Earl of Tyrone c. 1550-1616’, Dr Patrick Fitzgeraldspoke about ‘From the Flight of the Earls to the Famine:Tyrone’s Migration History’, and Dr William Macafeespoke about ‘The Population of County Tyrone, 1600-1991’. Mr John Bradley, Vice-Chairman of the WestTyrone Historical Society chaired the final session wherediscussion ranged over the experience of the previousweeks and plans for future reading.

Dr Fitzgerald gave a lecture in May on ‘Sources forMigration History’ to students on the Local StudiesDiploma course in the Institute of Lifelong Learning. Thelink with Boston University through Queen’s has also beenmaintained. Two further residential visits were made byBoston University students to CMS and the Folk Park on14 September 2001 and 1 February 2002. CMS alsocontributed to the inaugural Queen’s University IrishStudies Summer School, organised by the Institute of IrishStudies, by providing a programme for its students on 20July 2001.

4.7 Migration Studies and the University of UlsterA major development for the University of Ulster wasthe launch of its new Academy of Irish Cultural Heritagesand Institute for Ulster Scots Studies at which CMS wasrepresented. The Director is working with Dr WilliamKelly, Research Officer of the Institute for Ulster-ScotsStudies, on preparing a funding application for a projectfor digitising passenger lists currently held in the National

Ms Claire Swan (Dundee University placementstudent) with Dr Patrick Fitzgerald (CMS).

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4.12 Migration Studies and other UniversitiesWe were pleased to learn of the successful grant applica-tion, which CMS supported, to the Economic and SocialResearch Council by the AHRB Centre for North EastEngland History by the University of Durham in collabo-ration with the Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria,Sunderland and Teesside for their Isonymy Project. Thisinvolves the application of isonymy (i.e. statistical analy-sis of genetic patterns in population groups through sur-name records) to historical data. This project will focusparticularly on Irish surnames and CMS looks forward toassisting in the dissemination of the results to the public.

4.13 Centre for Scotch-Irish Studies, PhiladelphiaThe Centre for Scotch-Irish Studies in Philadelphia,which published the second volume of its Journal ofScotch-Irish Studies, held a symposium on 31 May inPhiladelphia. Dr Fitzgerald attended and gave a lectureon ‘Reconsidering Scottish Migration to Ireland in theseventeenth century and the Scotch-Irish in America’.A further symposium is planned for May 2003 on ‘TheScotch-Irish in Industrial America’ (e-mailcntrsis@aol.com ).

4.14 ‘Gatherin’ Together: Scotch-Irish Lifeways in theCarolina Piedmont, 1740-1820’

York County Museum, Rock Hill, South Carolina, whichwill be co-hosting the next Ulster-American HeritageSymposium in June 2002, is also planning an exhibitioncalled ‘‘Gatherin’ Together: Scotch-Irish Lifeways in theCarolina Piedmont, 1740-1820’. CMS has been support-ing Mr Sam Thomas and his team in gathering materialfor this exhibition which will be on display as part of theSymposium.

4.15 Comenius Thematic NetworkOut of the SOCRATES ‘Affirming Diversity ThroughMigration’ Project, 1999-2001, for which CMS acted asNorthern Ireland Co-ordinator, a Thematic Network hasbeen developed with funding from the EU Comenius pro-gramme. Details of the Network can be found atwww.migrationhistory.com. CMS will be contributing toa conference for teachers on ‘Comparative Mi-gration Studies’ which will be hosted by theEducation Department of the Folk Park on be-half of the Network in October 2002.

4.16 Migration Studies and Local HistorySocieties

An important aspect of the Centre’s work con-tinues to be giving talks to local historical soci-eties. Increasingly, thanks to the resources avail-able from the Irish Emigration Database, we areable to focus these talks on migration from theparticular area, as for example when DrFitzgerald spoke in Armagh, Fivemiletown,Bellaghy and Coleraine.

4.17 Lectures, Talks and Teaching Pro-grammes

A full listing of lectures, talks and teaching pro-grammes given by CMS staff in the course of

the year can be found in Appendix 4. A first this year wasproviding in co-operation with the UAFP Education De-partment a programme in June for the CastlereaghIntergenerational Group. The innovative idea of thisgroup of senior citizens was to bring together two groupsof secondary school children from Belfast and Castledergand engage with them in a joint activity focused on his-tory and migration. We were also pleased to welcome inNovember a group from the Portnoo (Co Donegal) LocalTraining Initiative and provide a programme based onthe Irish Emigration Database.

4.18 PublicationsDetails of publications by CMS staff are given in Appen-dix 5. The highlight of the year was the publication inDecember of Atlantic Crossroads: Historical connectionsbetween Scotland, Ulster and North America, jointly editedby Patrick Fitzgerald of CMS and Steve Ickringill of theUniversity of Ulster (see back cover for details of con-tents). This is the second volume of essays to come out ofpapers given at the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium(the first volume, Ulster and North America: TransatlanticPerspectives on the Scotch-Irish, edited by Tyler Blethenand Curtis Wood, University of Alabama Press (1997)has recently been issued in paperback). A formal launchfor Atlantic Crossroads was held at the Centre on Satur-day 9 February, where the main speaker was Professor TomFraser of the University of Ulster. The launch was pre-ceded by a guest lecture by one of the editors, Mr SteveIckringill, and followed by refreshments for all and a re-union lunch for MSSc Irish Migration Studies students,past and present. A further launch is planned for the otherside of the Atlantic in June at the next Ulster-AmericanHeritage Symposium.

4.19 XIV Ulster-American Heritage Symposium,19-21 June 2002

CMS will be represented at the XIV Ulster-AmericanHeritage Symposium in June 2002 in Rock Hill, SouthCarolina. It will be co-hosted by the University of SouthCarolina, Aiken and York County Historical Commis-sion.

Launch of ‘Atlantic Crossroads’Left to right: Patrick Fitzgerald and Steve Ickringill (Editors),Cllr Barry McElduff (Chair of Omagh District Council) and

Professor Tom Fraser (UU).

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5. CULTURAL TOURISM (AIM 3)To contribute to a positive image of Northern Irelandat home and abroad by providing a cultural tourism serv-ice in partnership with the Ulster-American Folk Parkand by networking with institutions for migration stud-ies world-wide, particularly between Europe and NorthAmerica

5.1 The Ulster-American Folk Park and MAGNIAn important development this year was the closure ofthe Folk Park in the first week of January to facilitate stafftraining in which CMS played a major part. Over thecourse of three days all staff participated in sessions in theLibrary designed to develop familiarity with the Centre’sresources, especially use of the Irish Emigration Database.

CMS continues to be represented on the Museum ofEmigration Planning Team. Its main contribution this yearwas the organisation of the seminar given by PatrickO’Sullivan in October on ‘Studying Issues in the IrishDiaspora’ and in the drafting of a Development Plan.

5.2 Residential Programmes for US StudentsIn addition to the programmes already mentioned for vis-iting US students provided in partnership with Queen’sUniversity and the University of Ulster, we also ran threeresidential programmes in May. A group of twelve stu-dents from Radford University, Virginia with ProfessorRichard Straw stayed from 17-30 May. Their programmeincluded daily lectures on Irish migration history given

by Dr Fitzgerald, individual research projects based onCMS resources and a field trip. A highlight of their visitwas meeting President Clinton when he visited the FolkPark on 24 May. Overlapping with this group were 22students from Mont Saint Clair Kimberley Academy, NewJersey led by Mr Geoff Brannigan, who stayed from 18-22May. This was a return visit for Mr Brannigan, whosegroups are making pioneering use of information tech-nology to communicate directly reports on their activi-ties to fellow students back home. A further group of 27students from Wesleyan College, University of Illinoiswith Professor April Schulz stayed from 28-30 May. Welook forward to welcoming all three leaders back withnew groups in the summer of 2003.

5.3 CMS/UHF Family Community and MigrationHistory Pilot Project

This pilot project in partnership with the Ulster Histori-cal Foundation was run over the month of September byBelinda Mahaffy. It aimed at providing an enhanced serv-ice to visitors with a main interest in family history andpromoting the use of migration records for family and lo-cal history. Belinda received two days training in Augustat the Ulster Historical Foundation in Belfast in their fam-ily history enquiry procedures and in the use of theirdatabases. The project confirmed the need for specialisedprovision in this area. We receive increasing numbers ofboth those who are complete beginners in the field offamily history and those who are highly experienced andsophisticated in their use of historical records.

President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton with Professor Richard Straw and students from Radford University,Virginia, May 2001.

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5.4 ‘Reconnect’ Project: Peace and ReconciliationII

CMS has been invited to be a partner in ‘Reconnect’, across-border project with a Scottish dimension aimed atinvestigating the theme of migration through the use ofinformation and communication technology in secondlevel schools in history, geography and cultural aspects ofthe curriculum. The project leaders from East AyrshireCouncil and Kilmarnock College, the University of Ul-ster and the Western Education and Library Board vis-ited CMS and UAFP in September. Dr Fitzgerald tookpart in a video-conference between the partners in Octo-ber and we await the outcome of the resulting fundingapplication.

5.5 The Association of European Migration Institu-tions (AEMI)

The Annual Meeting of the Association of EuropeanMigration Institutions was hosted this year by the CentroStudi sull’Emigrazione of San Marino. The central partof the programme was a seminar on 27 September on ‘Emi-gration Agents’. Papers were given by Knut Djupedal(Norwegian Emigrant Museum), Gianmario Maffioletti(Centro Studi Emigrazione Roma), Maddalena Tirabassi(Altreitalie), Amoreno Martellini (Universitá di Urbino),Antonius Holtmann (Research Center German Emigrantsin the USA), Marjan Drnovsek (Institute for SloveneEmigration Studies), Ulf Beijbom (Swedish Emigrant In-stitute), Adam Walaszek (Polonia Institute), and ErcoleSori (Universitá di Ancona). The meeting also heard aresearch proposal from Sasa Bozic of the Institute for Mi-gration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb on ‘The Role ofDiasporas in the Transnationalisation of Europe’.

5.6 Northern Ireland Assembly and CulturalTourism

Cultural tourism, including ‘Roots’ tourism is increasinglybeing seen as a high priority in Irish tourism, north andsouth. The Director gave oral evidence on 22 May to theNorthern Ireland Assembly Committee for Culture, Artsand Leisure Inquiry into Cultural Tourism and the Arts.The Report, Proceedings of the Committee, OralEvidence and Written Submissions Relating to the Reportwill be published in May 2002 by the Stationery Office.

5.7 New Zealand LinksIn addition to its North American and European links,CMS has been developing links with New Zealand. Amember of the Management Committee, Dame GeraldineKeegan, visited the Museum of New Zealand Te PapaTongarewa at the end of May and made contact with itsDirector, Dame Cheryll Southeran. In June John Gilmourand Brian Lambkin met with Mrs Jill McIvor, Chairmanof the Ulster-New Zealand Trust, at the Ballance House,Glenavy. As well as being the birthplace of New ZealandPrime Minister, John Ballance (1839-93), who launchedmajor land reforms, paved the way for women’s votes andintroduced the world’s first welfare state(www.johnballance.com), it is a centre for promoting thehistorical, cultural and economic links between Irelandand New Zealand.

In March the Director made a visit to New Zealand wherehe was welcomed at a wide range of institutions. HowickVillage Museum (Director Alan La Roche) is an outdoormuseum on the outskirts of Auckland which presentsvillage life in a Fencible Settlement during the period 1840to 1880. Many of the pensioned soldiers who enlisted inthe Royal New Zealand Fencibles were Irish, likeGeorge Addison, who was born in Belfast in 1791.Auckland Museum (www.akmuseum.org.nz) has a largecollection of European migration-related artefacts, asdoes the New Zealand National Maritime Museum(www.nzmaritime.org), which also has a special exhibitionon one of the most remarkable migrations in humanhistory by Polynesian voyagers. Warkworth Museumpresents the lives and pursuits of pioneering families(www.wwmuseum.orcon.net.nz). The House of Memoriesat Waipu has a museum commemorating the settlementof Scots who first arrived from Nova Scotia in 1853 underthe leadership of Reverend Norman McLeod(www.waipu.co.nz).

At Katikati, the Athenree Homestead Trust is restoringone of the few remaining original settler houses of theKatiKati Special Settlement Scheme, 1875, that wasenvisaged and led by George Vesey Stewart, formerlyof  Martray Manor, Ballygawley, Co Tyrone. Itis  believed that Katikati is the site of the onlyplanned  Ulster   Irish  settlement in the world(www.katikatiheritagemuseum.nzhere.com/). PahiatuaMuseum, run by Mrs Jean Eddy, is one of the many smalllocal museums in New Zealand that commemorate thepioneering European settlers (www.nzmuseums.co.nz/museums/Pahiatuamuseum.html). Others visited werePetone Settlers Museum (www.hutt.city.govt.nz/council/services/recreation/settlers), and, on the South Island,Lawrence Museum (near Gabriel’s Gully), Cust Museum(near Christchurch) and Nelson Founders’ Park. At TePapa Tongurewa, the Museum of New Zealand inWellington, the Director met with Dame CheryllSoutheran (née Foley), Chief Executive and with Te TaruWhite, Kaihautü, and visited the ‘Passports’ exhibitionwhich deals with European immigration. Also inWellington he visited the National Archives(www.archives.govt.nz), the Alexander Turnbull Library(www.natli.govt.nz) and the Museum of Wellington Cityand Sea, and met with Dr Jock Phillips, Chief Historianin the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

On the South Island there were meetings with localhistorians John O’Connor, Brian Ryan and Dan Moloneyin Westport, a talk on CMS given in the O’Connor Roomof the Traveller’s Rest, Appleby, near Nelson, and visitsto Addison’s Flat gold mine, Shantytown, Greymouth(www.shantytown.co.nz), the West Coast HistoricalMuseum, Hokitika (www.westlanddc.govt.nz),Arrowtown Museum (Curator, Victoria Grey), theHocken Library, Dunedin (www.library.otago.ac.nz/hocken ), Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin, andQuarantine Island, Dunedin Harbour. There were alsomeetings with historians Dr Rory Sweetman and MsLyndal Hancock in Dunedin and Dr Lyndon Fraser inCanterbury University, Christchurch.

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Back on the North Island there were visits to the site ofthe John Ballance statue and the Moutoa Memorial inWanganui and to the Rangariri Battle Heritage Centre,managed by Mr Pat Gateley, where one of the artefactson display is a finely carved wooden Celtic cross inmemory of one Christie Higgins. This list may give someimpression of the potential for developing further linkswith New Zealand where Irish Studies is raising its profileas a university discipline. A major internationalconference on ‘Celtic Connections: Irish-Scottish StudiesDown Under’ is planned for October 2002, to be held atthe Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies inthe University of Wellington.

5.8 Migration Studies and TelevisionOur Librarian, Christine McIvor, was featured in anepisode of an exciting new BBC Northern Ireland localhistory series, Street Detectives, broadcast in January 2002.The ‘Street Detectives’ used resources in the CMS Libraryto investigate the migration story of two localpersonalities. The Centre also featured in the making ofanother television programme to be shown during thecoming year on Channel 4. It was part of a Channel 4Schools Education programme on agriculture, aimed at 9year olds and fronted by Tony Robinson of ‘Time Team’fame. The potato and its impact on Ireland was the themeof the programme filmed in the Folk Park. The fourchildren involved, with Mary Blake, Marketing Officerof the Ulster American Folk Park, saw and discussed thevarious aspects of growing potatoes in Ireland, how Irelanddepended on the potato almost exclusively to feed the

population and how the failure of the crop led to famineand emigration. In the Centre, the children searched theIrish Emigration Database for passenger lists of people whoemigrated during the Great Famine and for journals anddiaries written at the time, which described their reasonsfor emigrating and their experiences on the voyage. Theprogramme will be broadcast nationwide in April 2002.Dr Fitzgerald was interviewed by BBC Scotland for a twopart schools television programme on Irish-Scottishmigration broadcast in February 2002. Dr Fitzgerald willbe acting in the coming year as consultant to a newtelevision series on Scotch-Irish history to be producedby Chris Moser and Tony McAuley.

6.0 COLLECTION, PRESERVATION,ACCESS (Aim 4)

To preserve and make available the cultural and infor-mation resources for Irish migration studies to the wid-est possible audience

6.1 The LibraryThe Library’s reputation as the foremost research libraryfor Irish migration studies in Ireland is enhanced by theongoing development of its collection. In the course ofthe year 496 new titles were added to stock. This broughtthe total book stock to 10,377. As well as continuing tobuild up the North American material, a greater empha-sis is now being given to acquiring material relevant tothe other parts of the Irish diaspora and also to Irish

Tony Robinson (left) filming in CMS Library.

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migration in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. TheLibrary continues to take over fifty journals, periodicalsand newspapers. Several donations of books were receivedduring the year and these are gratefully acknowledged inAppendix 6. As an integral part of the Northern IrelandLibrary Service, the CMS Library will be involved in theNI Electronic Libraries Project which will be rolled out2002-2003. This will include additional public accessInternet PCs, a library management system and compu-terisation of our catalogue. The Librarian participated in‘Tomorrow’s Libraries’, a ‘Future Search’ conference, andwas a member of the action planning group on the futureof the public library service.

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death ofMr Bill McFarlane, a generous benefactor of the Ulster-American Folk Park. With his strong interest in emigra-tion history in general and his connection with theCampbell family in particular, he was a regular visitor tothe outdoor museum (in which the original Campbellfamily home now stands) and to the Centre. He be-queathed his large collection of books to MAGNI. A largeproportion of them are migration-related and we lookforward to these coming to the CMS Library in due course.

6.2 WELB Comments/Complaints Pilot ProjectA new Comments/Complaints Policy has been developedby the WELB. It was piloted by the Library Service, in-cluding CMS, from October to December 2001. Thepolicy has been developed through a consultation proc-ess with staff, board members and the Commissioner ofComplaints and is part of the Board’s commitment to pro-vide quality services to its customers – ‘quality serviceswhich will have a clear customer focus based on customerconsultation’. All libraries have been provided with cop-ies of the Policy, staff guidelines and training to operatethe Policy. Leaflets and leaflet collection boxes are promi-nently located in each library and procedures are in placefor dealing with Comments/Complaints received in per-son, by email and by post. A generic email addresscomments.complaints@welbni.org has been created. ThePolicy was launched Board-wide in January 2002.

6.2 The Irish Emigration DatabaseA substantial number of new documents were added tothe Irish Emigration Database in the course of the yearand new quality assurance procedures were introduced toensure that it continues to meet the highest standards ofaccuracy in presenting electronic, word-searchable ver-sions of original historical documents. As of March 2002the Database contained 30,670 documents.

Thanks mainly to support from Alan Rea and his col-leagues at Queen’s University we were able to make theDatabase available on-line, on an experimental basis, forthe first time from April 2001. We are grateful to thosewho have given us useful feedback and intend to con-tinue providing a restricted service until such time aspublic libraries and archives policy and resources enableus to offer wider access. In the meantime, anyone inter-ested in accessing the Database on-line should contact

CMS by e-mail. Considerable progress has been made inthe presentation of facsimile images alongside transcrip-tions of original documents and we look forward to fur-ther progress in this area in the coming year.

6.3 The Data Collection ProjectIn the course of the year 17 trainees have worked withthe Data Collection Project in Belfast under the direc-tion of the Project Manager, Mrs Lorraine Tennant, in-cluding: James Tuff (December 1999 – December 2001,end of contract); Anthony Flanagan (December 2000 -December 2001, end of contract); Michael McKnight(August 2000 - August 2001 end of contract); Sean Stitt(October 2000 – May 2001, left to take up employment);Nicholas Devlin (January 2001 – May 2001, left to takeup employment); William Skillen (January 2001 – May2001, end of contract); Katrina Black (June 2001, left totake up employment); Stephen Perrott (September 2001– April 2002, left to take up employment); Maxine Green(July 2001 to present); Owen Connor (December 2001to present); Peter Best (September 2001 - April 2002),left to take up employment); Jonathan Garrood (March2002 to present); Neil Toner (March 2002 to present);Peter Askew (April 2002 to present, volunteer, NewHorizon); Paul Leckey (September 2001 – October 2001,left to take up employment); Gerald McCarragher (July2001, volunteer); Chris Pilkington (October 2001, vol-unteer).

James Tuff finished his contract on 28 December havingcompleted two years on the project. We were very sorryto lose him due to his great interest, patience and skill inour work in Belfast. He organised the very large Cookeand McCorkell Shipping ledger into manageable sectionsfor individual trainees to transcribe. Two project workershave recently been employed under the new Worktrackscheme, Jonathan Garrood and Neill Toner. They are onsix month contracts for thirty-five hours per week andearn a minimum wage. This is similar to the old ACEscheme. Peter Askew has started as a volunteer, for oneday per week, through the New Horizon EmploymentService. Gerald McCarragher and Chris Pilkington cameto the Project on a voluntary basis for two days per week.

The introduction of new government training schemesmeans that project workers can only work on the Data-base Project in Belfast for a maximum of six months.Consequently there is now a much greater rotation ofworkers than in the past. The programme has lost someof the continuity which workers previously had when theywould gain up to two years’ experience. This is obviouslynot so beneficial either to them or to the project, as ittakes at least six months experience to efficiently inter-pret hand-written documents and organise the process-ing of them through the system.

However, new computer equipment has been deliveredand is now in use. This includes seven PCs and threelaptops all with Windows XP processing system. MicrosoftOffice XP software has been installed on all PCs andlaptops. Jonathan Garrood – who comes with a first class

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honours degree in Computer Science - is presently writ-ing a programme - in conjunction with the Project Man-ager - for use on these computers. This new programmewill set up templates for documents ie shipping lists andshipping adverts etc. It will automatically set up columns,insert text which is constantly repeated, catalogues etc.This programme is presently being tested and when sev-eral documents are completed they will be transferred tothe database to ensure that no problems occur. OwenConnor is designing a Database of Documents in Progresswhich will enable us to track documents electronicallyfrom start to finish of the collection process. We are grate-ful for the initiative and skill which they have shown inthese developments.

access to, for example,the Synonym List. Itwill also enable moresupervisory access todocuments and files onall PCs and somelaptops. This will resultin quicker detection ofmistakes or problemsand faster transfer ofdocuments to CMS.The equipment required will be a network hub to facili-tate seven workstations and possibly a few laptops in thefuture. It will also be possible to set up a website wherepotential candidates for the Training Scheme can log onand get information on the Belfast Project then fill in anapplication form if they wish to. The address will be: http://geocities.com/cms_ied/ .

The recent innovation of linking transcriptions to im-ages has enabled us to complete documents which havebeen donated to CMS. The Margaret Graham/Browneand Frederick Brown documents are two such sets. Eachhas been transcribed and all visually suitable documentshave been scanned. They now await entry into the Data-base. The OCR scanning has advanced considerably. Therecent acquisition of Windows XP has ensured that theOmnipage PRO 10 package has become much more effi-cient. Tables which were impossible to type are now pos-sible to scan in OCR. We hope eventually to upgrade toOmnipage Pro 11 which is recommended for WindowsXP and will increase the speed of processing even fur-ther.

The annual exchange with Dublin Heritage took placein March funded by Cooperation Ireland and EnterpriseUlster. The Database Project Team visited Dublin from

Tuesday 19 March to Friday 22March and the Dublin HeritageTeam came to Belfast from Mon-day 25 March to Thursday 28March. Highlights of the visit toDublin were tours of the NationalMuseum, Chester Beatty Library,Collins Barracks, The City Halland Dáil Éireann – where a discus-sion on the Border Referendumwas witnessed by both groups. Thevisit to Belfast consisted of toursof the Public Record Office,Northern Ireland, the LinenhallLibrary, the Ulster Museum and avisit to the Ulster American FolkPark and the Centre for MigrationStudies. A talk on the History ofthe Orange Order was given by DrPatrick Fitzgerald at the Centreand afterwards a discussion on im-pressions of the host cities and cul-tural differences took place.

Further improvements will be possible with our new equip-ment. It will be possible to network all PCs and the newlaptops together. Devices can then be shared such as print-ers, scanner and zip drives. Documents can easily be trans-ferred to the Project Manager’s PC and from that PC theProject Manager could check work on all other PCs. Thiswill reduce the cost of floppy discs and also give trainees

IED Project Team and Dublin Heritage Group outside Collins Barracks, Dublin.Lorraine Tennant (Database Project Manager) is pictured fourth from right.

Neil Toner using new equipment.

Maxine Green at work on anew laptop.

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6.4 The Art of European Migration Virtual Exhibi-tion www.qub.ac.uk/cms

We continue to maintain the Art of European MigrationVirtual Exhibition on the Internet. The Director gave ademonstration at the Annual Meeting of the Associationof European Migration Institutions in San Marino on 26September and appealed for more images which might besuitable for inclusion in order to provide as comprehensivea coverage as possible of the peoples of Europe. A furtherseries of presentations was given by Mr Brogan and theDirector, including the Eagle Wing Festival inGroomsport, the Cathal Buí Summer School in Belcoo/Blacklion and Bangor Historical Society.

6.5 ISTAR and the Northern Ireland People’s Net-work

The Centre continues to provide public access to theInternet through the EU-funded project, InformationSociety Technology Awareness Raising (ISTAR). Ambi-tious plans are in hand to develop Internet access in allthe libraries of Northern Ireland through the People’sNetwork project. As part of the Northern Ireland PublicLibraries service, we expect that in the course of the com-ing year CMS will be connected to the People’s Network.This will mean the installation of several new terminalsthrough which visitors will have access to the Internet. Itwill also mean in due course the digitisation of the CMSLibrary catalogue.

6.6 CMS WebsiteThe CMS website will be redesigned by Mr Des Donnelly(www.memeonics.com) in the coming year. The addresswill remain the same: www.qub.ac.uk/cms. There will alsobe a link between this and the UAFP website(www.folkpark.com) and a new Irish Emigration Data-base Data Collection project website (http://geocities.com/cms_ied/).

7.0 PARTNERSHIPS (Aim 5)To lever resources to maximise positive social, economicand educational impact through partnerships both withinand outside Northern Ireland

7.1 CMS Evaluation Report

In September 2000 the Department of Culture Arts andLeisure (DCAL) appointed independent consultants,Research and Evaluation Services (RES), to carry out anevaluation of CMS. The Final Evaluation Report waspublished in February 2001. The Permanent Secretary,Dr Aideen McGinley, visited CMS on Friday 17 Augustwith two of her officials, Mr Colin McGregor and Ms LizMcAuley. The Minister, Michael McGimpsey, visitedCMS and UAFP on Wednesday 22 August. We were verypleased at the implementation of Option 2 as recom-mended by the Evaluation Report, which has cleared ouroperating deficit and enabled much needed maintenancework and investment in new equipment to be undertaken,and at commitment in the medium term to implementa-tion of Option 3 which will involve some additional postsand more investment in infrastructure.

7.2 Peace and Reconciliation II Grant Application

The Nerve Centre, Derry has invited CMS to become apartner in its new project to produce an on-line gatewayto the cultural resources of Northern Ireland, to be calledCultureNorthernIreland. The task of CMS will be to pro-vide migration-related information. This will require anextension of the Data Collection Project and collectionof information from the local studies collections of thelibrary headquarters in Northern Ireland and in the south-ern Border Counties. Next year we plan to submit a grantapplication for the necessary additional resources fromthe EU Peace and Reconciliation II programme.

Mr Michael McGimpsey, Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure, centre, with CMS and UAFP staff.

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8.0 INVESTING IN PEOPLE (Aim 6)To provide a quality work environment in which allmembers of staff are valued for their contribution tohelping us to do our business in a customer focusedway

8.1 Staff TrainingThe Western Education and Library Board is committedto all library staff at all service points having the Euro-pean Computer Driving Licence (ECDL). The Librarianhas completed CLAIT and is due to complete ECDL inMay 2002.

On 20th December the CMS Omagh team visited theCMS Belfast team in their office in Mountpottinger. Astaff seminar was held on ‘Emigrant Tickets’, based onthe 1863-71 Passenger Book of J and J Cooke(CMSIED109001; PRONI T2713/2B/3), the transcrip-tion of which had just been completed mainly by Mr JamesTuff. We are especially grateful to him for his splendidwork on this massive document, which is a mine of de-tailed information about the local addresses of emigrantsleaving the catchment area of the port of Londonderryfor Philadelphia. Afterwards we visited the LinenhallLibrary where we were hosted very kindly by the DeputyLibrarian, Mr John Killen. It was of great interest to seearound the splendid new building and explore some ofthe inner recesses of the old building, and also to learnsomething of how they are managing matters of commonconcern, particularly the development of public accessthrough their website (www.linenhall.com).

8.2 UAFP Guide TrainingThe Centre contributed to training for all staff on theUAFP site on 2 and 3 January 2002. The programme,organised by the UAFP Education Officer, EvelynCardwell, took full advantage of the two day close downin order to address a whole range of training, interpreta-

tion and maintenance issues. CMS was able to invite allstaff into the Centre on the afternoon of 2 January inorder to explain more fully the work that we undertakeand answer any questions. On the 3 January Dr. Fitzgeraldtalked to interpretive staff about the history of Irish emi-gration, in the morning, and about interpretation of emi-gration through the particular experience of the Mellon,Campbell and Hughes families, in the afternoon.

8.3 Investors in PeopleThe Director and Mrs Tennant attended a presentationat Hillsborough Castle for recent Investors in Peopleaward winners on 4th May, 2001, the previous date hav-ing been postponed at short notice to facilitate a visit bythe Prime Minister.

The award, which we received in November 2000, is madeto organisations for a two year period and may be renewedfollowing a further assessment. We decided to apply forreassessment in February 2002 and were delighted thatthis was successful.

Presentation of Investors in People AwardDr Brian Lambkin (left) and Dr Seán Farren,Minister of Further and Higher Education and

Employment (right).

UAFP Guide training in CMS Library.

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APPENDIX 1

Indicators of PerformanceOver the year the Centre used the following targets as an indication of performance:

Over the period of the plan 2002-3 the Centre will use the following performance targets as an indication ofperformance:

Indicator Year Target Actual Increase/Decrease (%)

Visitors 2002/2003 5,000(in person) 2001/2002 4,500 4,778 +10

2000/2001 3,750 4,355 +1.61999/2000 3,500 4,288 +30.61998/1999 3,100 3,284 +19.71997 2,743

Enquiries 2002/2003 4,000(visitors in 2001/2002 3,700 4,035 +10person and 2000/2001 2,750 3,676 + 3.1remote users) 1999/2000 2,600 3,565 +44.7

1998/1999 2,500 2,463 +13.61997 2,168

Database 2002/2003 1,600Enquiries 2001/2002 1,600 1,125 -28.1*

2000/2001 1,500 1,565 + 4.31999/2000 1,400 1,514 +11.91998/1999 1,100 1,295 +31.61997 984

* (following introduction of experimental on-line access)

Indicator Year Target Actual Increase/Decrease (%)

CMS Irish 2002/2003 31,500Emigration 2001/2002 31,000 30,670 + 2.0Database 2000/2001 30,000 30,017 + 4.3Documents 1999/2000 30,000 28,772 +11.9

1998/1999 30,000 25,700 +33.91997 17,000

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Indicator Year Target Actual

MSSc in Irish 2002/2003 10Migration 2001/2002 10 9Studies: intake 2000/2001 10 6of students 1999/2000 15 10

1998/1999 15 81997/1998 61996/1997 8

MSSc in Irish 2002/2003 8Migration 2001/2002 10 7Studies: 2000/2001 10 6graduation of 1999/2000 6 5students 1998/1999 8 5

Indicator Year Target Actual

Other teaching 2002/2003 2courses (UUM, 2001/2002 2 2QUB ILL) 2000/2001 2 2

1999/2000 2 51998/1999 1 1

Indicator Year Target Actual

Conference 2002/2003 10Papers 2001/2002 10 8

2000/2001 10 191999/2000 10 101998/1999 10 10

Seminars/ 2002/2003 10Teaching 2001/2002 10 26programmes 2000/2001 10 6

1999/2000 10 121998/1999 10 11

Lectures to 2002/2003 10local history 2001/2002 10 9societies etc 2000/2001 10 27

1999/2000 10 81998/1999 10 8

Total 2002/2003 30Activities 2001/2002 30 43

2000/2001 30 521999/2000 30 301998/1999 30 29

Indicator Year Target Actual

Self-generated 2002/2003 5,000income (£s) 2001/2002 4,000 7,708

2000/2001 3,000 19,000*1999/2000 2,000 3,7731998/1999 2,000 2,500

[includes13,000 from

SocratesProject]

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APPENDIX 2

ProgrammeSecond Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School

Saturday 20 October, 2001

The Literature of Irish Exile autumn school is now in its second year. The focus will again be on how emigrants fromIreland have given expression in words to feelings of exile. Part of the programme will take place in the stimulatingsettings of the Castletown National School, the Mountjoy Post Office and Reilly’s Spirit Grocer in the Ulster-American Folk Park; the rest will be in the warmth of the library of the Centre for Migration Studies. The aim is togive members of the public a friendly opportunity to meet and mix with experts on some of the less well-knownaspects of ‘exile’ in Irish literature.

Speakers

Patrick O’Sullivan is Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit at the University of Bradford and is editor of themonumental six volume series, The Irish World-Wide (Leicester University Press). He has a particular interest inliterature and is an accomplished playwright.

Professor Pat Coughlan teaches English at University College Cork. Her research interest in the theme of exileranges from the seventeenth century to the present.

Piaras Mac Éinrí is Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies at University College, Cork where the ‘Break-ing the Silence’ oral history project is investigating the effects of emigration on those left behind in Ireland in the1940s and 50s.

Dr Jason King has recently completed a doctoral thesis for Maynooth University on ‘exile’ in nineteenth centuryIrish literature.

Chairs

Brian Lambkin is Director of CMS; Paddy Fitzgerald is Lecturer and Development Officer at CMS; Sophia Hillan isDeputy Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast; John Lynch is Lecturer in the Insti-tute of Lifelong Learning at Queen’s University, Belfast; Trevor Parkhill is Keeper of History at the Ulster Museum

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Saturday 20 October, 2001

10.00 Registration (CMS Library at Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh)Tea / Coffee on arrival

10.45 Welcome (CMS Library)

11.00 ‘Discovering the literature of the Irish Diaspora’, Patrick O’SullivanChair: Brian Lambkin

11.45 Discussion

12.00 ‘Readings on the theme of exile’Chair: Paddy Fitzgerald

12.30 Lunch, Ulster-American Folk Park Restaurant

1.30 Walking Discussion in Outdoor Museum, stopping at: Castletown National School, Mountjoy Post Office,and Reilly’s Spirit Grocer (Emigration Agent)

2.00 Talks in the Lecture Room in the Ulster Street‘The work of the contemporary novelist Alice McDermott and the literature of Irish Exile’, Pat CoughlanChair: Sophia Hillan

2.30 ‘From emigration and exile to the new diaspora: Irish migrant voices’Piaras Mac ÉinríChair: John Lynch

3.00 Afternoon Tea (CMS Library)

3.15 ‘The theme of exile in Irish Literature of the Nineteenth Century’, Jason KingChair: Trevor Parkhill

4.00 Panel Discussion (including chairs)

4.30 Reception for speakers and participants

Fee: £20.00 stg (50% concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)This includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee and drinks reception.

Contact:

Tel: 028 8225 6315Fax: 028 8224 2241E mail uafp@iol.ie

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APPENDIX 3

MSSc DissertationsThe following dissertations have been successfully completed as a requirement for the degree of Master of SocialScience in Irish Migration Studies in the Queen’s University of Belfast and are available for consultation in the Libraryof the Centre for Migration Studies.

Ayre, Sinéad (2000), ‘A Study of Hiring Fairs and the Hiring System in North West Ulster: their contribution to theprocess of Migration’

Brogan, Patrick (1998), ‘Social Change and the Agricultural Economy of County Tyrone, 1870-1910’

Browne, Doreen (2000), ‘Aspects of Migration from the Barony of Tyrhugh, Co Donegal, 1800-1900’

Burns, Liam (2001), ‘An Irish Catholic Community in the South Yorkshire Coalfields’

Cardwell, Evelyn (1999), ‘Emigration from East Tyrone to Colonial America, 1700-1776’

Creighton, Frederick (2000), ‘Against the Tide: Church of Ireland Migration in the Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies’

Gillespie, Deirdre (1998), ‘Emigrant Letters: content and form’

Godfrey, Edward (1999), ‘Some Aspects of Irish Emigration to North America 1815-1820’

Hamill, John (2001), ‘Military Migrants, the National Army and the Irish Civil War’

Johnston, Norman (1998), ‘The Effects of Famine and Migration in North West Tyrone 1841-1851’

Kelly, Gerry (2000), ‘Frampton: The Growth And Decline of an Irish Immigrant Settlement in French Canada in theNineteenth Century’

McCarthy, Brendan (2001), ‘The Great Irish Famine, Diaspora and Commemoration’

McCaughey, Dermot (2000), ‘The Gaelic Athletic Association Abroad’

McCloy, Peter (1999), ‘The Irish Quakers Abroad’

McIvor, Christine (2000), ‘The Atlantic Voyage in the Nineteenth Century’

Mayes, Gillian (1998), ‘A Tale of Two Cities’: A Comparative study of Irish Migration and Crime Rates in Cork andLiverpool 1871-1901’

Mannion, Susan (2001), ‘A Study of the Architecture of Migration in County Tyrone during the Plantation Period,1610-1622’

O’Connell, Philip (2001), ‘An Embattled Minority – The Protestant Community of County Cavan from Settlement toFamine, 1610-1850’

O’Hanlon, Brian (1999), ‘Protestant Migration from the Border Counties 1911-1931’

O’Kane, Kathleen (2001), ‘The O’Cahans of County Derry’

Reid, Shirley (2000), ‘The Growth and Decline of Newry as an Emigrant Port’

Scanlon, Patrick (2001), ‘Entrepreneurial Aspirations of Non-Irish Nationals’

Walsh, John (1998), ‘American Civil War – Irish Experience: Emigration from Ireland to America in the Civil WarYears, 1861-65, a study of society, movement and motivation’

Williams, Ken (1998), ‘The Evolution of the Port of Derry as an Emigrant Port’.

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APPENDIX 4

Lectures, Talks and Teaching Programmes 2001-2002

April

21-22 MSSc Residential Field Trip, based at Barholm, Portaferry: Ballywalter, Moville, Greyabbey, Kirkubbin andCastleward

30 MSSc restarts

May

1 ‘Sources for Migration History’, Dr Fitzgerald to Local Studies students, ILL (QUB)17-30 Residential programme for Radford University, Virginia students (Professor Richard Straw)18-22 Residential programme for Mont Saint Clair Kimberley Academy, New Jersey (Mr Geoff Brannigan)28-29 Residential programme for Wesleyan College, University of Illinois students (Professor April Schulz)31-6 Dr Fitzgerald, ‘Reconsidering Scottish Migration to Ireland in the seventeenth century and the Scotch-Irish in

America’, Scotch-Irish Studies Symposium, Philadelphia

June

1 MSSc End of Year Examinations4 Programme for Lowell Massachusetts students12 ‘Ulster Emigration to North America’, talk by Dr Fitzgerald to party of 26 American visitors led by Mr Noel

French, Co Meath14 Castlereagh Intergenerational Group: programme with Castlederg schools18 Programme for University of Missouri-Columbia students (Professor Kurt Richter)26 Programme for students (11) from University of North Carolina with Dr Lazenbatt29 ‘Using the Art of European Migration’, Mr Brogan, Eagle Wing Festival, Groomsport30 ‘Using the Art of European Migration’, Dr Lambkin, Cathal Buí Summer School, Belcoo/Blacklion29-6 ‘Black ’97?: Scottish Migration to Ulster in the 1690s’, Dr Fitzgerald, second international conference on ‘The

Irish, the Scottish and the Scotch-Irish: connections and comparisons’ at the University of Ulster, Magee

July

11 ‘Ulster Scots Emigration: Its Relevance Today’, Dr Lambkin, Lincoln Courts Youth and Community Associa-tion, Londonderry

12-14 ‘“Come Back Paddy Reilly”: Irish Return Migration, 1600-2000’, Dr Fitzgerald at ‘Emigrant Homecomings:The Return Movement of Emigrants, c. 1700-2000’ Conference, University of Aberdeen

19-20 Programme for QUB Institute of Irish Studies Summer School visit to CMS

August

1 Programme for Groomsport Probus Group visit to CMS (40)8 Dr Fitzgerald interviewed for BBC ‘Blood Ties’ programme ( for broadcast April 2002)20 Programme for Cathedral Youth Club, Derry, visit to CMS led by Mrs Jeanette Warke22 Programme for Fermanagh Shadow Youth Council (14 students Years 12 and 13) visit to CMS26-27 CMS Bank Holiday Opening (Experimental)

September

5 Programme for Australian genealogists with Dr Richard Reid (40)9 Sunday programme for Sweeney Clan Reunion, Ms Belinda Mahaffy10 Dr Lambkin and Dr Fitzgerald, filmed interviews for PBS TV, Mr Tom Robinson14 Residential Programme for Boston University Students, with Dr Jerusha McCormack19 Programme for visitors (30) with Mr Noel French, Co. Meath24-28 Family History Week (B Mahaffy)

MSSc restarts26-30 ‘Using the Art of European Migration’, Dr Lambkin, Annual Conference of Association of European Migration

Institutions, San Marino

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October

2 ‘Reading Tyrone History and Society’ startsHotshot Films filming ‘Street Detectives’ for BBC in Library

8 Video-conference with East Ayrshire for Re-Connect (PF)13 MSSc Field Trip (East Tyrone)15 MSSc (Year 2) Video-conference with Carleton University16 ‘Emigration from County Tyrone’, Dr P Fitzgerald, Reading Tyrone History and Society course20 Second Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School22 CMS Seminar for MAGNI ‘Issues in the Study of the Irish Diaspora’24 CMS talk to Mr George Handran with group of 30 from National Genealogical Society, Arlington, Virginia

November

1 Programme for Portnoo Local Training Initiative (Mr Michael Cunningham)3-4 MSSc Field Trip to Strokestown, Co Roscommon23-21 Dec MA course in Magee – Migration and the Politics of Violence 1945-1998, Dr Lambkin

December

13 Programme for John Reagan with 13 students from University of Exeter, C McIvor and J Winters

January

19 Programme for group of 8 visiting Theology students (Rev Mark Gray)23 ‘Using the resources of CMS’, Dr Fitzgerald, Coleraine Reminiscence and Recall Group

February

1 Residential programme for Boston University students (38)6 ‘The Atlantic Voyage in the 19th Century’, C McIvor, University of the Third Age, Derry9 First CMS MSSc Guest Lecture, by Steve Ickringill, UU

Launch of ‘Atlantic Crossroads’ edited by Dr P Fitzgerald & S Ickringill followed by MSSc Reunion Lunchin Residential Centre.

14 ‘The Art of Irish Emigration 1600-2000’, Dr Lambkin, Bangor Historical Society.

March

12 ‘Emigration from Bellaghy and South Derry and the CMS Irish Emigration Database ‘, Dr Fitzgerald,Bellaghy Historical Society

26 Programme for CMS Database Team & Dublin Heritage visit to CMS‘Armagh Emigration and the CMS Irish Emigration Database’,P Fitzgerald, Armagh Philosophical & Natural History Society at Armagh MuseumProgramme for Omagh Family History Group evening visit to CMS, C McIvor & C Johnston

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APPENDIX 5

Publications 2001-2002

Books

Fitzgerald, Patrick and Ickringill, Steve (eds), (2001) Atlantic Crossroads: Proceedings of the Ulster-American Heritage Sym-posium, vol 2, Colourpoint PressFitzgerald, Patrick and Lynch, John, Migration in Irish History, 1600 - 2000, Macmillan, (forthcoming 2003)Lambkin, B.K., Migration and the Structure of Conflict in Northern Ireland, (forthcoming 2003)

Articles

Fitzgerald, Patrick, (2001) “A Sentence to Sail”: the transportation of Irish convicts and vagrants to Colonial Americain the eighteenth century’ in Fitzgerald and Ickringill (eds), Atlantic Crossroads

(forthcoming 2003), ‘Black ’97?: Scottish migration to Ulster in the 1690s’ in Kelly, W. (ed),The Irish, The Scottish and The Scotch-Irish: connections and comparisons

(forthcoming 2003), ‘Farewell to Fermanagh: aspects of emigration from Fermanagh, 1783-1920’ in Roulston, W. (ed), Fermanagh History and Society

(forthcoming 2003), ‘“Come back Paddy Reilly: Irish Return Migration, 1600-1845’ in Harper,M. (ed), Emigrant Homecomings: the return movement of emigrants

(forthcoming 2003), entries on ‘The Scotch-Irish’, ‘Famine and Subsistence Crises in Medi-eval and Modern Ireland’, ‘Plague’, ‘Transportation in the Seventeenth Century’, ‘The Ameri-can Wake’, ‘Emigrant Letters’, ‘American Presidents of Irish Origin’, ‘The Irish and theBritish Empire’ in Encyclopedia of Ireland, Gill and Macmillan

Lambkin, B. K., (2001) ‘On seeing schoolchildren as immigrants, citizens and emigrants: segregation, integrationand “the third way”’, in Gardner, J. and Leitch, R., (eds), A 2020 Focus: Issues in Education,QUB, Belfast

(2001) ‘Migration, linguistic diversity and the introduction of citizenship education to schools inNorthern Ireland’, in Kirk, J.M. and Ó Baoill, D. (eds), Dialect 2000: Language Links,Proceedings of a conference of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, Queen’s University,Belfast

‘Thomas Mellon’, Dictionary of National Biography, Royal Irish Academy, (forthcoming 2003)

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APPENDIX 6

Donations and Loans 2001-2002

Donations of books to the Library were gratefully received from the following:

Ms G Barry, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mr P Brogan, Omagh

Ms E Cardwell, Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh

Mr A Donelson, Kentucky, USA

Dr P Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh

Mr D Haddow, Omagh

Mr T Hall, W. Australia

Mr L E Love, Ontario, Canada

Dr J Lynch, Queen’s University of Belfast

Mr S McCartan, Belfast

Mr C McCormick, Co. Fermanagh

Mr P Mac Éinrí, Cork

Mr D Mullan, New Zealand

Mr P Rafferty, Co. Tyrone

Mr C Robinson, Co. Down

Mrs H Robinson, Co. Londonderry

Mr L Roulston, Florida, USA

Mr W Wiggins, Pennsylvania, USA

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Centre for Migration Studies

Individual accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2002

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Centre for Migration StudiesIndividual Accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2002

Pages

Trustees’ report .................................................................................................................. 34

Statement of financial activities .................................................................................... 35

Balance sheet ..................................................................................................................... 36

Cash flow statement ......................................................................................................... 37

Reconciliation of net cash flow ...................................................................................... 37

Notes to the financial statements .................................................................................. 38

Auditors’ report ................................................................................................................. 40

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Trustees’ report for the year ended 31 March 2002The trustees present their report and the audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2002.

Review and activities

The Scotch Irish Trust was set up by a Scheme of Incorporation under Section 10 of the Charities Act (NorthernIreland) 1964, dated 20 August 1969. The main objective of the Trust is to further research into the study of thehistory and culture of the Ulster Scots and their links with other countries, particularly the United States of America.

With effect from 1 April 1998, the Trustees have undertaken responsibility for the management of The Centre forMigration Studies located at the Ulster American Folk Park and these accounts deal solely with The Centre forMigration Studies.

The Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) is a major research and leading facility, located at the Ulster American FolkPart in Co Tyrone. In partnership with the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, the Western Education andLibrary Board (on behalf of the five Education Boards in Northern Ireland), The Queen’s University of Belfast, TheUniversity of Ulster and Enterprise Ulster, the Centre collects and records the history of the migration both into andout of Ireland from earliest times to the present day. It provides a research and information service to a wide variety ofusers, ranging from academic scholars, school teachers and students to family historians and passing tourists. Ofparticular significance is the Masters Degree programme in Migration Studies which is taught in association withQueen’s University and has to date produced some 30 graduates.

Staff in the Centre participate in an extensive range of outreach activities, including presentations to academicconferences; part-time teaching and lecturing; writing for historical and educational journals and responding to amultitude of enquiries from around the world.

Trustees

The Trustees are as follows:

Sir Peter Froggatt (Chairman)Sir Philip ForemanMrs J Hamilton StubberSir Robert PorterMr J TraceyDame Geraldine KeeganProfessor FJ SmithWM CarsonSir George Bain

Honorary President:Mr James Mellon II

Honorary Vice Presidents:Dr NA BurgesThe Duke of Abercorn

Secretary:JA Gilmour

Management Committee

Sir Peter Froggatt (Chairman)Mrs R AdamsProfessor B CullenJ EaglesonProfessor TG Fraser

JA GilmourDame Geraldine KeeganProfessor F J SmithDAW McCallMs H Osborn

DirectorDr BK Lambkin

Statement of trustees’ responsibilities

The Trustees are required to prepare accounts for each financial year. In preparing these accounts, the Trustees arerequired to use appropriate accounting policies, apply them consistently and make judgements and estimates that arereasonable and prudent.

The Trustees are also responsible for keeping proper accounting records, which disclose the financial position of theTrust. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for theprevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

By Order of the Trustees

JA GilmourSecretary6 June 2002

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Statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2002

2002 2001

£ £

Income

Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure – grant 91,000 58,016

Contribution from Scotch Irish Trust 40,000 40,000

Bank interest - 184

Sundry income 7,708 3,098

Total incoming resources 138,708 101,298

Resources expended

Salaries 73,112 65,306

Social security costs 6,225 5,741

Pension contributions 7,250 4,638

Recharge of cost of Folk Park employee - 4,157

Administration charge – Folk Park 3,500 3,825

Travelling and subsistence 3,350 4,022

Database 5,618 5,989

Professional fees 4,497 1,388

Stationery 4,948 2,278

Office consumables 2,417 141

Maintenance 2,090 -

Advertising 808 -

Insurance 2,399 2,165

Sundry expenses 2,221 837

Depreciation 7,869 6,188

Release from deferred government grants (5,000) (5,000)

Total resources expended 121,304 101,675

Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year 17,404 (377)

Deficit brought forward (15,375) (14,998)

Surplus carried forward 2,029 (15,375)

The notes on pages 38 and 39 form part of these accounts.

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Balance sheet as at 31 March 2002

2002 2001

Notes £ £

Fixed assets 2 14,678 10,234

Current assets

Prepayments 1,803 3,281

Cash at bank and in hand 817 43

2,620 3,324

Current liabilities

Bank overdraft - (2,801)

Sundry creditors (1,179) (7,042)

(1,179) (9,843)

Net current assets/(liabilities) 1,441 (6,519)

Total assets less current liabilities 16,119 3,715

Deferred government grants 3 (5,000) (10,000)

11,119 (6,285)

Financed by:

Unrestricted funds 2,029 (15,375)

Designated reserve 4 9,090 9,090

11,119 (6,285)

The financial statements on pages 35 to 39 were approved by the Trustees on 6 June 2002 and were signed on its behalf by:

Sir Peter Froggatt

Chairman

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Cash flow statement for the year ended 31 March 2002

2002 2001

Notes £ £

Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities 5 15,888 (8,945)

Capital expenditure

Purchase of fixed asset investments 12,313 -

(Decrease)/increase in cash in the year 3,575 (8,945)

Reconciliation of net cash flow to movement in net debt

2002 2001

Notes £ £

Increase/(decrease) in cash for the year 3,575 (8,945)

Net debt at 1 April 2001 (2,758) 6,187

Net funds at 31 March 2002 6 817 (2,758)

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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2002

1 Pensions

The Centre for Migration Studies is making payments into the NI Teachers Superannuation Scheme and the Universi-ties Superannuation Scheme on behalf of employees. The liability of the Centre for Migration Studies is limited to thepayment of the employers and employees contribution to the Schemes.

These are defined benefits schemes, but the Centre for Migration Studies is unable to identify its share of the underly-ing assets and liabilities of the schemes. In accordance with FRS 17, contributions to the scheme are accounted for ona defined contributions basis and are charged to income and expenditure as payments are made.

2 Fixed assetsComputer Officeequipment furniture Total

£ £ £

CostAt 1 April 2001 48,253 - 48,253Additions 10,143 2,170 12,313

At 31 March 2002 58,396 2,170 60,566

DepreciationAt 1 April 2001 38,019 - 38,019Charge for year 7,652 217 7,869

At 31 March 2002 45,671 217 45,888

Net book valueAt 31 March 2002 12,725 1,953 14,678

At 31 March 2001 10,234 - 10,234

Under the terms of the transfer of assets from The Scotch Irish Trust of Ulster to the Board of Trustees of the NationalMuseums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, the ownership of computer equipment relating to the Centre for MigrationStudies was transferred from the Ulster American Folk Park. Depreciation has been provided at rates expected to write offthe cost of the assets over the term of their useful lives.

The rates are as follows:Computer equipment 25% straight line.Office furniture 10% straight line.

3 Deferred government grants£

At 1 April 2001 10,000Less: released in period (5,000)

At 31 March 2002 5,000

Grants received in respect of capital expenditure are credited to a Deferred Government Grant Account and are released to revenueover the estimated useful life of the relevant assets.

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4 Designated reserve

This amount represents the value of assets transferred from the Ulster American Folk Park.

5 Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities2002 2001

£ £

Net outgoing resources for the year 17,404 (377)Depreciation charge 7,869 6,188Release from deferred government grants (5,000) (5,000)Decrease/(increase) in debtors 1,478 (1,812)(Decrease)/increase in creditors (5,863) (7,944)

Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities 15,888 (8,945)

6 Changes in net debt

Change2001 in year 2002

£ £

Cash at bank and in hand 43 774 817Bank overdraft (2,801) 2,801 -

Total (2,758) 3,575 817

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Independent auditors’ report to the Trustees of Scotch Irish Trust in respect of the Centre forMigration Studies

We have audited the financial statements, which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, thecash flow statement and the related notes.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and auditors

The trustees’ responsibilities for preparing the annual report and the financial statements are set out in the statementof trustees’ responsibilities.

Our responsibility is to audit the financial statements in accordance with the relevant legal and regulatoryrequirements and United Kingdom Auditing Standards issued by the Auditing Practices Board.

Basis of audit opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards issued by the Auditing Practices Board. An auditincludes examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.It also includes an assessment of the significant estimates and judgements made by the trustees in the preparation ofthe financial statements, and of whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Trust’s circumstances,consistently applied and adequately disclosed.

We planned and performed our audit so as to obtain all the information and explanations which we considerednecessary in order to provide us with sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements arefree from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error. In forming our opinion we alsoevaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of information in the financial statements.

Opinion

In our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Trust’s affairs at 31 March 2002 andof its income and expenditure and cash flows for the year then ended.

PricewaterhouseCoopersChartered Accountants and Registered AuditorsBelfast6 June 2002

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