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Lough Erne Spiritual Trail - Sharing Folklore, Histories and Stories! |
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Lough Erne Spiritual Trail - Sharing Folklore, Histories and Stories! Waterways Ireland in partnership with the Lough Erne Landscape Partnership, will be hosting a community outreach event on Monday 27th January 2020 between 1-8pm at Waterways Ireland HQ, 2 Sligo Road, Enniskillen, BT74 7JY. On this date the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University Belfast will provide an opportunity for the public to engage with their local history by sharing tales and folklore, as well as their memories and stories concerning selected spiritual sites around Lough Erne. Attendees are encouraged to drop in and share their memorabilia and photographs of these sites, along with any stories or folktales they may know. For more information please click here or click here to see full flyer. |
| North of Ireland Family History Society Saturday 7th March 2020 10.00 am - 4.00 pm Dungannon, 26 Market Square, BT70 1AB |
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The North of Ireland Family History Society, in collaboration with Queen’s University, invites you to explore your ancestors, family, and local history, to record and preserve their stories and memorabilia for the future. Bring your objects and artefacts (photographs, letters etc.) and share these with our experienced Researches, This Digital Roadshow, which is being run by the North of Ireland Family History Society, as part of our 40th anniversary year of celebrations, is being facilitated by the Centre for Digital Data Analysis (CDDA) at Queen’s University, Belfast. For more information please click here |
“Archaeology Unlocked!"
11 - 19 July 2020
Please join us in this year's digital CBA “Festival of Archaeology” for lots of new and exciting ways to discover our past.
Online events, activities and projects celebrate the value of archaeology in the broadest sense, our local landscapes, places, artefacts, folklore and culture.
"Archaeology Unlocked!" is all about 'unlocking' the past, and exploring local heritage on our doorsteps through five different themes during the Festival week:
People & Places --11-12th July #HeritageNIPeoplePlaces
Life & Death --13th-14th July #HeritageNILifeDeath
Rivers & Bogs --15th-16th July #HeritageNIRiversBogs
Health & Medicine --17th-18th July #HeritageNIHealthMedicine
Erosion & Erasure --19th July #HeritageNIErosionErasure
Please visit the HeritageNI.org website for more details and information of what’s on.
Get involved through our social media wall, using Twitter hashtags #HeritageNI and #archaeologyunlocked
"Archaeology Unlocked!" is sponsored by Heritage Hub @ QUB, Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, and Northern Ireland Museums Council.
“Archaeology Unlocked!"
11 - 19 July 2020
Please join us in this year's digital CBA “Festival of Archaeology” for lots of new and exciting ways to discover our past.
Online events, activities and projects celebrate the value of archaeology in the broadest sense, our local landscapes, places, artefacts, folklore and culture.
"Archaeology Unlocked!" is all about 'unlocking' the past, and exploring local heritage on our doorsteps through five different themes during the Festival week:
People & Places --11-12th July #HeritageNIPeoplePlaces
Life & Death --13th-14th July #HeritageNILifeDeath
Rivers & Bogs --15th-16th July #HeritageNIRiversBogs
Health & Medicine --17th-18th July #HeritageNIHealthMedicine
Erosion & Erasure --19th July #HeritageNIErosionErasure
Please visit the HeritageNI.org website for more details and information of what’s on.
Get involved through our social media wall, using Twitter hashtags #HeritageNI and #archaeologyunlocked
"Archaeology Unlocked!" is sponsored by Heritage Hub @ QUB, Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, and Northern Ireland Museums Council.
IWM - MAPPING THE CENTENARY
Mapping the Centenary is a digital portal containing information about projects and activities that marked the First World War Centenary from 2014 – 2019.
We invite organisations and individuals to tell us about their activity - from websites to events, to learning resources and historical research – to help us to understand how the centenary was marked. Launching in June 2020, we will create a searchable database, link to project websites where applicable, and provide guidance on archiving and digital preservation.
Mapping the Centenary is developed with the kind support of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
We would like to invite you/your contacts to complete a listing for inclusion, via https://www.iwm.org.uk/partnerships/mapping-the-centenary. The ‘Add Your Project’ Submission form takes roughly fifteen minutes to fill out, and will act to ensure that the legacy of projects is recorded within this national repository. Sharing the link will also help to raise awareness so that others can do the same, so please pass this on to anyone who may be interested.
PRESERVING DIGITAL PROJECTS
IWM cannot host or preserve websites, or digital or physical content, on your behalf. But we can recommend some resources to help you preserve your online project.
WW1 Community Platform A portal specifically for First World War Centenary projects funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Virtual EHOD will take place from 7 to 13 September.
Whilst this year’s EHOD looks a little different to previous years the main aim is still to allow people to visit properties and locations, albeit virtually. We are working hard on a timetable for the week-long event to deliver virtual visits to sites and properties, offer guided tours and host lectures and talks. You can keep up to date on what is happening across our social media channels and view all events on our Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/ehodni/
LAUNCHNG OUR LASTING LEGACY!
Between 2014 and 2019 the centenary of World War One saw a most amazing response. Across the land, local communities explored the impacts and legacies of the war, and from this terrible conflict emerged a fascinating, deeper understanding of what happened a hundred years ago.
Today we launch ‘Inclusive Heritage in Practice’ that draws on this rich community engagement with the centenary of WWI. A result of the collaborations between local communities and researchers in museums, universities and heritage organisations, our new publication offers new and exciting models for using the past to create partnerships and a shared understanding of conflict heritage.
‘Inclusive Heritage in Practice’ reflects the huge efforts made by those seeking new ways to remember the past, and to do so with a spirit and belief in cooperation and compassion. The projects featured in the publication all shared in having ‘inclusivity’ as a core theme. The result of this shared endeavour is now, appropriately enough, being shared more widely.
Supported by the ‘Living Legacies 1914-18’ public engagement centre based at Queen’s University Belfast, and funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), the centenary community projects in ‘Inclusive Heritage in Practice’ provide a lasting and fitting legacy to the commemoration of WWI. Our centre's legacy is captured too by a new web-site--livinglegacies1914-18.ac.uk--launched today to remember not only those who lived through the 'war to end all wars' but also to have a digital 'memorial' to all those who contributed to our centre's centenary collaborations between 2014 and 2019.
Legacy of Landscape: The People & Heritage of Lough Erne
The Lough Erne Landscape Partnership (LELP) invites you to join us at the virtual launch of our exciting new two-year engagement programme – Legacy of Landscape: The People and Heritage of Lough Erne on Thursday 19th May at 7:30 pm, with guest speaker Ciaran McMenamin – Fermanagh native, author and actor. This event will explore our new project, which is focussed on discovering, celebrating and preserving the culture and traditions of the Lough Erne region, both past and present.
Supported through funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Community Foundation Northern Ireland, this project will be delivered in collaboration with the Centre for Community Archaeology (CCA) and the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis (CDDA) at Queen’s University Belfast. The initiative focusses on the built and cultural heritage of Lough Erne, and volunteers can enrol to get access to a suite of FREE ‘at home’ learning opportunities where they can develop and learn new skills and share valuable stories, capturing and promoting the unique and special heritage of the Erne’s landscape and communities. Having completed their online training, our volunteers will have the opportunity to put into practice the skills they have learned in the virtual classroom through fieldwork and engagement.
Elmarie Swanepoel, LELP Programme Manager, says ‘We are really pleased to now launch this exciting suite of projects in partnership with QUB. It is going to be an exciting programme; working closely with the local communities that treasure the key heritage assets and special memories with opportunities for people to participate in various learning events and site based activities.’
There are 5 key heritage studies within the programme that are focused around the themes of:
Memories: Life on the Erne
Studying Vernacular Buildings
Enniskillen: The Development of the Island Town
Mapping the Built Heritage of the Islands
Power & Pageantry: Exploring Fermanagh in the Times of the Maguires
In order to address the current restrictions due to the pandemic, the collective QUB team have developed the LELP Online Heritage Campus. Spearheaded by Dr Siobhán McDermott, this exciting new online learning experience offers you a FREE course of five four-week long ‘toolkits’ or virtual learning experiences that enable you as volunteers to receive tuition from the safety of your own home! All we ask of you is your email address so we can enrol you and that you have a good internet connection to enjoy what we have prepared for you!
Perhaps you have always wanted to learn how to record a good oral history interview? Maybe you would love to know how to read the architecture of a building, even how to record a building? Would you like to know more about island life on the Erne? Have you got stories and memories to share with us? Throughout this two-year project (lockdown restrictions permitting), in addition to our learning sessions, there will be opportunities to participate in the field with archaeological excavations, site visits, buildings recording field schools, as well as a lecture series, online talks, and your chance to contribute towards the development of a dynamic and interactive ‘Memory Map’, showcasing the rich and unique cultural heritage of the Erne.
So, what do we expect from you? All we expect is an enthusiastic attitude and an interest in conserving and promoting the heritage of the region. Our online tutors will be available to help, advise, and support you from 10am-4pm Monday to Friday. You do not need to have any previous experience in any of our topics. We will see you through!
JOIN US!!
Please join us to hear more about our project on Wednesday 19th May. Our guest speaker, Ciaran McMenamin, will treat us to a reading from his latest book The Sunken Road, in addition to excerpts from his 2017 novel Skintown, sharing with us how the landscapes of Lough Erne have influenced his writing. Amongst musical interludes from Fermanagh singer songwriter Sean Magee, we are also delighted to be joined by Professor Eileen Murphy, Professor of Archaeology at the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s University Belfast, and a native of the county, who will provide more information about the innovative work we will be undertaking around Fermanagh.
To register visit https://www.lelp.org.uk/legacy-of-landscape/
For further details about the project, or how to register as a volunteer, please contact:
HAZEL LONG
Heritage Project Manager
Lough Erne Landscape Partnership
Email: hazel.long@rspb.org.uk
Tel: 07548155351
Dr Siobhan McDermott: “We’re delighted to be able to offer this resource to people of Lough Erne and Fermanagh. Having worked closely with local communities over the years we know that there is so much important local knowledge out there and we would love to see these toolkits help empower volunteers to connect with their heritage. There are so many exciting things to learn about from Oral History collection, recording old buildings, identifying the heritage of the island and of course, archaeological excavation. It is free and online which makes it all very accessible.”
For further information on any of our project partners, please visit:
Lough Erne Landscape Partnership,
Centre for Community Archaeology
Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis