Join me on Saturday 6th September at 11.30am for a Homes in Focus talk at Coshkib Hill Farm @ulsterfolkmuseum.org - last couple of tickets remaining! Visit: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/hom...

👋 BlueSky, meet Mrs. Mellon — a symbol of courage and hope as Ulster migrants built new lives across the Atlantic. Ordinary people, extraordinary journeys. Follow us for powerful stories of Ulster migration, resilience, and connection. 🔗 ulsteramericanfolkpark.org/stories/making-mrs-mellon

How do you say the number 'one'? Across Ulster, there's more than one (pun intended) way to say it! Our archives hold treasures like this map, which shows the different number of ways that people across 'Ulster' said the number 'one'. #UlsterDialectArchive

Thank you for inviting us to speak today! 🙂

Day 2 of our 2025 conference on Curating Communities (#SHCG2025) is exactly one week away! Speakers will include @vmillar.bsky.social‬ from National Museums Northern Ireland and Catherine Newley from @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social‬ & we'll travel virtually from Gdansk to India & Pakistan. Book at

Morning views at the Ulster Folk Museum. 🫶

Great to catch up with @rd71a.bsky.social and Geraldine from @museumsassociation.org earlier to discuss our new roles as MA Reps for Northern Ireland. Don't forget we have a Members Together event on 11th June - do come along and say hello! 👋 www.museumsassociation.org/events/membe...

What a day for the animals at the Ulster Folk Museum! ☀️

We have an exciting CDP studentship opportunity at the Ulster American Folk Park in partnership with Queen's University Belfast exploring Ulster immigrant life in an American city tenement, 1840-1910. For further details visit: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

We are delighted to announce that the theme of Conference 2025 will be Perthyn, the Welsh word for Belonging 🤝 Join us in Cardiff on 7-9 Oct to discuss how ideas of community and friendship bring people together in museums. Book by 31 March to save 10%: www.museumsassociation.org/events/confe...

Had a lovely day participating in the Womenfolk event at the Ulster Folk Museum on International Women's Day. 🙂

Men's names may well be above the doors of these premises but it is the women who helped to run them and/or their households that I'll be focusing on at the Womenfolk event at the Ulster Folk Museum on Saturday 8th March. Catch my tours at 12pm and 2pm: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/wom...

"Loved hearing how life was for the people living on the street." ❤️ It was lovely to meet lots of people with a connection to the Meeting Street Houses at the Ulster Folk Museum at today's Homes in Focus talk. 🏘️

The Meeting Street Houses at the Ulster Folk Museum are scrubbing up well in advance of my Homes in Focus talk on Saturday! 👞🚲🚂 Tickets available here: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/hom...

On Friday I attended a Frederick Douglass Day talk at the Ulster American Folk Park. It was very atmospheric to hear about his life whilst walking through the various exhibits.

As we near the celebration of St Brigid's Day, it seems appropriate to remind ourselves of Bad Bridget: crime, mayhem and the lives of Irish emigrant women by @elainefarrell.bsky.social & @leannemccormick.bsky.social - the subject of exhilarating exhibition www.irishhumanities.com/blog/exhibit...

Delighted to receive a couple of copies of Plastiquarian in the post from the Plastics Historical Society, containing an article I wrote about the volunteer project at the Ulster Folk Museum to research the history of Courtaulds in Carrickfergus, supported by The Courtauld. 👚

POV: Sitting down for tea in the parlour in the Old Rectory at the Ulster Folk Museum. 🫖 Read more about the building here: www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/stories/old-.... Photo taken by our photographer.

Lots of inspiration at Young V&A and @thestorymuseum.bsky.social for an upcoming temporary exhibition at the Ulster American Folk Park!

Love these photos of Christmas Eve in Belfast from 1984! ❤️From the Ulster Folk Museum's collection. View more Christmas themed collections here: collections.nationalmuseumsni.org/pro504965

Researching Drumnahunshin Farmhouse today, which opened at the Ulster Folk Museum in 1986. Lovely to hear the donor of the house speaking about her memories of visiting it as a child and her reasons for donating it courtesy of RTÉ Archives. ♥️ www.rte.ie/archives/201...

It may have been a rainy day at the Ulster American Folk Park but it didn't dampen the festive mood! The geese wanted to follow us into the Mellon Homestead but the half door helped to keep them outside!

Exciting to see this feathered, furry and prickly bunch earlier this week being prepared for a future exhibition at the Ulster American Folk Park!

Lovely to see new pony Jessie settling into her new life at the Ulster Folk Museum. 🐴

Looking into depictions of 19th century nuns' habits with a little help from @elainefarrell.bsky.social today!

What a shop front! 👠 McAfee Ltd. Chichester Street, Belfast, 1939. Available to view in detail (make sure to zoom in!) via National Museums NI's Collections Online portal: collections.nationalmuseumsni.org/object-belum...