‘The story we have so largely forgotten - the often difficult economic fortunes of the Irish in Britain over 200 years - told in a fascinating new exhibition now opened in Dublin - The Irish were an underclass, 50% poorer than the English’ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Excellent bit of research on Ernst Opik by @publichistoryqub.bsky.social student Maddy Kennedy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our director Liam Campbell was on @rteradio1.bsky.social Countrywide discussing Lough Foyle and its changes through history. Really good segment on emigration from Moville by historian Sean Beattie too. 1.30mins in for Liam and 22.2mins for Sean - www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

youtu.be/0QkDQPX4qHg?... Check out Iain Ross and his showstopper take on the Mellon Homestead in the latest Discover NI podcast, Postcards from Northern Ireland. Looks delicious!

🏆 Congratulations to Jessie Buckley for winning Best Actress at the #Oscars! No Hamnet spoilers, but we were excited to spot a straw knot during an emotional scene. We asked our talented Visitor Guide Margaret to see if she could help us recreate this Oscar-worthy knot. #HarvestKnot #HamnetKnot

Much to explore during LibrariesNI Heritage week. Full details of free events here: www.librariesni.org.uk/events/herit... Below just one fabulous event, a talk on the history of the churches at John Street and Church Street in Omagh.

Amazing recognition and a fascinting project. The Working Over By Project wins the inaugural Ceangal Local Heritage Award at the Local Authority Members’ Association (LAMA) All-Ireland Community and Council Awards. Check it out at the Donegal County Museum donegalnews.com/working-over...

🎙️We featured on BBC Radio Ulster Your Place and Mine on Saturday promoting the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies 24th Annual Lecture this time on Textile Links and Migration. We still have tickets available for this free event. Listen here - 36.30seconds in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🌉Cappagh Bridge/Stonebridge over the river Strule, north of Omagh. Judge Thomas Mellon writes on numerous occasions about Cappaigh Bridge. He remembers it as a child where he talks about his homeplace "It is a nice little place on the bank of the Strule about half a mile before Cappaigh Bridge."

Open to any discipline. 'Call for Speakers' for the conference 'Hidden Histories' organised by the amazing Andie Kristina and myself. It will take place on the 21st of May 2026 online. Please share with anyone who may be interested in submitting an abstract. All information is below 👇 #conference

Full house at PRONI @communitiesni.bsky.social for the Plantation Of Ulster Conference. @ulsterhistory.bsky.social

Looking forward to this tomorrow, fantastic range of speakers.

Thomas Mellon, judge, investor and banker was born on this day in 1813. "I was born in 1813, on the 3rd of February, at the Camp Hill Cottage on my father's farm, Lower Castletown, parish of Cappagh, county Tyrone, Ireland." @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org

Céad míle fáilte to the Derry Girls. This image appears in the Melbourne Advocate in July 1911 and relates to some 34 shirt workers who went to Melbourne to help set up the Welch Margetson Factory there. The workforce in Derry was unmatched and world leading in skill and quality.

Authentic voices of emigration in 1968. One interviewee notes the lack of prospects while another notes the lack of activity on the island. Between 145-1848 some 500 islanders left Rathlin. Correspondence from this time can be found on the Irish Emigrant Database - www.rte.ie/archives/201...

The talk will highlight different examples of migration in Ulster related to the textile industry looking at links to America with the "Gilford mill colony" in Greenwich, immigration of Huguenots and Quakers and emigration of 34 Derry shirt workers to Melbourne in 1911.

We have taken to Bluesky! linktr.ee/MellonCentre... mellonmigrationcentre.co.uk