Upcoming Events at the MCMS:
West Tyrone and WWI: 'Remembering, Reconnecting, Restorying' - Saturday 25th May 2013
Past Events at the MCMS:
The Twelfth Annual Irish Migration Studies Lecture - 2nd February 2013 Watch Video SlideshowLiterature of Irish Exile Autumn School - 13th October 2012
XIX ULSTER-AMERICAN HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM 27th - 30th June 2012
The Eleventh Annual MSSc Reunion Lecture, Saturday 28th January 2012 with guest speaker - Professor Liam Kennedy
The Twelfth Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School was on Saturday 15th October 2011
* The Tenth Annual Irish Migration Studies Reunion Lecture was on Saturday 5 February 2011 with guest speaker Professor Marianne Elliott of Liverpool University, author of The Catholics of Ulster (2000) and When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History (2009). http://www.liv.ac.uk/irish/staff/elliott.htm
She spoke about 'Religion and Identity in Ireland: A Belfast Historian's Journey'.
Foodfest at the Centre for Migration Studies and the Ulster American Folk Park
on Saturday 1 May 2010. There was a free talk given at 11:00am, entitled "Spice of Life", followed
by a book launch of "Polly of Bridgewater Farm" by Catharine Fleming McKenty at 12 noon. ![]()
The 9th Annual Irish Migration Studies Reunion Lecture was on Saturday 30 January 2010,
guest speaker was Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin).
Jane's lecture is entitled 'Ireland’s Aristocracy and British Migration to Seventeenth century Ireland’
Programme for the MSSc Annual Reunion Lecture -
30 January 2010
** View the Powerpoint presentation and listen to the Audio for this event ** ![]()
Local Family & History Open Day in Omagh Library on Saturday, 24 October 2009 from 11am - 4pm.
October 17, 2009 - Tenth 'Literature of Irish Exile' Autumn School ![]()
May 2009 - Foodfest at the Ulster American Folk Park
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 - Event to mark the launch of the new Northern Ireland Library Authority
Saturday 31 January 2009 - Annual MSSc Reunion Lecture by Sir Peter Froggatt
October 18, 2008 - Ninth 'Literature of Irish Exile' Autumn School
June 25-28, 2008 - Ulster-American Heritage Symposium at the Centre for Migration Studies
January 26, 2008 (Saturday) - Seventh MSSc Annual Reunion lecture, entitled "Human Agency and an Irish Diaspora"
October 20, 2007 (Saturday) - Eighth 'Literature of Irish Exile' Autumn School
June 30, 2007 - Centre for Scotch-Irish Studies Fourth Scotch-Irish Identity Symposium
27 January 2007 - Sixth MSSc Annual Reunion lecture
14th October 2006, 11am - 4:30pm - Seventh 'Literature of Irish Exile' Autumn School
28th June - 1st July 2006 - XVI Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, in Knoxville, Tennessee
28th January 2006 - Fifth MSSc Annual Reunion Lecture
10th March 2005 - Celebrating Ethnicity - Home and Away
19th February 2005 - Fourth MSSc Annual Reunion Lecture
16th October 2004 - Fifth Autumn School 'Literature of Irish Exile'
23-26 June 2004 XV Ulster-American Heritage Symposium at the MCMS
Saturday, 7th February 2004 Third MSSc Annual Reunion Lecture
18th October 2003 Fourth Autumn School 'Literature of Irish Exile'
February 2003 Second MSSc Annual Reunion Lecture
26th October 2002 Third Autumn School 'Literature of Irish Exile'
