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/...
When he returned to Castletown in 1882 he again mentions the bridge, dismounting his horse to "do homage to both bridge and river".
Stone Bridge is a ten arch bridge with six spans over the River Strule. It is rubble stonework with V shaped voussoirs.
🌉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
Dr Robin Ussher explaining the Ulster plantation database which can be used to trace movements of people across ulster.
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.
Mellon died on his 95th birthday, also 3rd of February 1908, at his home in East Liberty. He was survived by his wife, who lived for about a year after his death, and three children. Thomas Mellon and his wife Sarah are buried in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery.
Thomas spent the first five years of his life here, before he and his family emigrated to America. In 1870 Thomas Mellon established his banking business which went on to become the Mellon Financial Corporation, one of the world's largest money management firms based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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
This is just one example of the textile links in migration that will be highlighted in our 24th Annual Lecture. Tickets are free, click here for more details. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mellon-cen...
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.
Link to Irish Emigration Database record - www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/...
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...
Tickets are free and available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mellon-cen...
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
