CENTRE FOR EMIGRATION STUDIES
Ulster-American Folk Park, Mellon Road,
Castletown, Omagh, Co. Tyrone
Northern Ireland BT78 5QY
Telephone: 01662-243292; Fax: 01662-242241
Email: uafp(a)iol.ie
HOURS:
MON-FRI: 9:30am-4:30pm
ACCESS:
Open to the general public at no charge. Handicapped accessible.
Collection is catalogued on cards. Non-circulating collection. Advance
notification is preferred.
Access to the Centre's Emigration Database (see below) is also possible
by direct dial from the Local History Departments of the Education and
Library Boards in Armagh, Ballymena, Ballynahinch, Belfast, Enniskillen,
Omagh and Derry.
CONTACT PERSON:
Ms. Christine McIvor, Principal Librarian
DESCRIPTION:
The Library is primarily a reference centre for migration studies. It
supports the Folk Park's main activities by providing reference sources
for the study of the history of both the United States and Ireland in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the links between the two.
The Library contains some 6,000 volumes, 1340 maps, plus modest holdings
of journals, microfilm, and recordings. Collection emphasizes
agriculture, architecture, crafts and industry, social customs, religion
and history as they relate to the special interests of the Park.
The Centre offers a part-time MSSc. course in Migration Studies in
association with the Outreach Department at the Queen's University,
Belfast. This programme was inaugurated in September 1996.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS;
Emigration Database contains primary source documents on all aspects of
Irish emigration to North America, including Canada, from the early
1700s to the 1900s. The Database consists of ship passenger lists,
emigrant letters, family papers and diaries of emigrants, shipping
advertisements, newspaper reports, death and marriage records of former
emigrants, births of children of Irish parentage, government reports and
statistics of Irish emigration to America and illustrated material
showing ship types, ports, routes, and maps, shipboard conditions and
the cost of the voyage to America.
This is an ongoing project with documents being added on a regular
basis.
Source: 'Ulster Libraries'.
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John Caughey
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