Special
Announcements
This very succesful conference was held in Monaghan town, November 7th and 8th 2008.
Across The Narrow Sea: Plantations in Ulster
Ulster Local History Trust
Patron: Seamus Heaney
A national conference at the Four Seasons Hotel,
Monaghan Town, November 7 and 8, 2008.
An action of the Monaghan County Heritage Plan
Supported by Monaghan County Council
The Conference has been organised by the Ulster Local History Trust, a charity
established in 1981 which supports local studies work throughout Ulster.
Monaghan County Council, through the County Monaghan Heritage Plan is
generously grant-aiding the Conference.
Friday, November 7, 2008
8.00 Introductory remarks by Aidan Walsh, Trustee ULHT and conference
organiser
Welcome and opening remarks by Lord O’Neill, Chairman, ULHT
Welcome from Councillor Matt Carthy, Mayor of County Monaghan
Welcome by Monaghan County Council Heritage Officer, Shirley Clerkin
8.15 Professor Patrick Duffy, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth
Colonial consequences in seventeenth-century south Ulster - within fowre
years next, plant and estate twelve families of British men and women”:
9.15 Discussion chaired by Lord O’Neill, Chairman, ULHT
9.45 Entertainment introduced by John Cunningham, Trustee, ULHT
Gaelic & Irish, Scottish & English; a mix of music, poetry & song. The
Ballyshannon Singers directed and accompanied by Angela Currid on
harpsichord. Harp soloist Ellen Cunningham, Carrickmacross and Pipe Major
Alistair Virtue, Killen Pipe Band, Co. Tyrone & featuring King Henry VIII - the
Elvis of the 16th Century
Throughout the conference, Monaghan County Museum will be displaying
part of their successful Maps and Mapping exhibition.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
10am Registration, tea / coffee. Bookstall opens until conference end
.
10.30 Professor Raymond Gillespie, Department of Modern History, NUI
Maynooth
The native Irish and the plantation of Ulster
11.15 Discussion chaired by John Dooher, Trustee ULHT & Chair of
Federation for Ulster Local Studies
11.30 John Cunningham author and historian, Beleek, County Fermanagh,
From the Broads to the Lakelands; English settlers in Fermanagh.
11.45 Dr. William Roulston, Research Director, Ulster Historical
Foundation, Belfast,
The archaeology of a plantation manor, Dunnalong, County Tyrone
12.00 Discussion chaired by Evelyn Cardwell, Trustee ULHT
12.15 Lunch and bookstall
Lunch is not included in your conference fee. The hotel offers a selfservice
carvery lunch. Individual courses, soups, sandwiches and wraps.
2pm Dr. Paddy Fitzgerald, Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh
The chronology of migration in early modern Ireland
2.15 Siobhan McDermott, NUI Galway
"Sr. Thomas Ridgway knight, thr'er at warres, hath erected a fforte or
bawne at Lurgan-glaslough..and meanes to buyld a castle".
2.30 Discussion chaired by Graham Mawhinney, Trustee, ULHT
2.45 Professor Emeritus James Stevens Curl
A Reluctant Coloniser: The City of London and the Londonderry
Plantation
3.30 Discussion chaired by Graham Mawhinney, Trustee, ULHT
3.45 Tea / Coffee and bookstall
4pm Professor Mary O’Dowd, Professor of Gender History, Queen’s
University, Belfast.
Women and the Colonial Experience in Ireland, c.1560-1660
4.45 Plenary discussion chaired by Jack Johnston, Trustee, ULHT
5.30 Closing remarks by Lord O’Neill
5.35 Reception by the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster and launch of book
“Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007” by Dr. Paddy Fitzgerald and Dr.
Brian Lambkin.
BOOKS ON LOCALITY IN ULSTER
The Proceedings of the Trust's 2005 conference
The Ulster Local History Trust,
in partnership with Cavan Monaghan Rural Development Coop Society
Migration and Myth
Ulster's revolving door
Keynote contributions:
Prof Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth,
Seventeenth century migration myths-some Ulster stories.
Bryan Gallagher, teacher, author and broadcaster,
The map in the ashes: a view from the hearthstone.
Professor Patrick Duffy, NUI Maynooth,
Placing migration in history: geographies of Irish population movement.
Prof Jim Mallory, Queen's University Belfast,
Irish origins: the archaeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence.
Short stories of local history are also told by Dr Paddy Fitzgerald, Rev David Nesbitt, Noel Mitchel, Annesley Malley, Seamus McCluskey, Mary Sullivan, Dr Sinead Butler, Doreen Corcoran, Pastor Ayo Sanusi, and John Cunningham.
The illustrated book (120pp) can be ordered by post from The Ulster Local History Trust at :
PO Box 900, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland BT30 6EF
Price £9.50 sterling, including post and packing
For further information contact ulht@ulht.org
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The Proceedings of
the Trust's 2003 conference
The Ulster Local
History Trust,
in partnership with Cavan Monaghan Rural
Development Coop Society
The Heart’s
Townland
Marking boundaries in Ulster
Building
on the success of our 2001 meeting on The
Debateable Land: Ireland’s Border Counties,
our 2003 conference was about inspiration and
information for those who explore, or would like
to explore, their local history and its relevance
to our lives today. The theme was the defining of
space in Ireland. For most people for the past
thousand years this has been associated with our
unique townland system. Urbanisation both in
geography and in mind is bringing changes. Within
this context, the aim of this conference and the
resultant book is to explore both physical and
psychological boundaries; where they are, how
they have been created, and what they mean.
Keynote contribution: Patrick
Loughrey
Director
of Nations and Regions, BBC, and trustee of the
Ulster Local History Trust
Contents
Introduction:
Brian S Turner
The
Heart's Townland: Patrick Loughrey
Townlands:
territorial signatures of landholding and
identity: Patrick Duffy
Save our
townlands: Cahal Dallat
The
scholar on the stagecoach: John O'Donovan ...: Myrtle
Hill
What the
Ordnance Survey can do for you: Stan
Brown
Townland:
The hedged bet: Tess Maginess
Kilavoggy:
A lane in Leitrim: Bryan Gallagher
Locality
in literature: Eugene McCabe
Ulster
townlands on seventeenth-century maps:
Annesley Malley
Caughoo
and Cavan: Wendy Swan
Only a
sin if you're caught? Cross border smuggling ...:
Emer Ní Cheallaigh
The
Northern Ireland Place-Name Project:
Patrick McKay
Townland
diasporas: Brian Lambkin and Patrick
Fitzgerald
Townlands
and the local historian: Jack Johnston
The
graveyard shift: John B Cunningham
Labouring
towards the space to belong: identity, locality
and the townland in Northern Ireland:
Bryonie Reid
Notes on
contributors
Registered conference participants
Cavan-Monaghan Rural Development Co-op Society
The Ulster Local History Trust
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The
illustrated book (128pp) can be ordered by post
from The Ulster Local History Trust at :
Commons, Belleek, Co., Fermanagh, Northern Ireland BT93 3EP
Price £9.50 sterling, post and packing £3
For further information
contact adam4eves@aol.com
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The Proceedings of
the 2001 Monaghan conference are now out of print,
but may be available from second-hand booksellers.
The Debateable Land
Ireland's
border counties
Ajoint Ulster Local
History Trust/Heritage Council conference
It is frequently claimed
that local history can get to the heart of many
issues debated in contemporary Ireland. This book,
recording and commemorating a gathering of local
historians in Monaghan in 2001, demonstrates its
ability to do so. It was organised by the Ulster
Local History Trust in association with the
Heritage Council of Ireland and drew together 180
participants from right across the debateable
land of Ireland's border counties.
Keynote contribution: Seamus
heaney, Keeping the accent
Patron
of the Ulster Local History Trust
Other
contributors include: Patricia Donlon, Patrick
J Duffy, Aidan Walsh, Linda McKenna, Brian S
Turner, W John Bradley, Edward O'Kane, John Lynch,
Proinnsios Ó Duigeannain, Terence Dooley, Myrtle
Hill, Jack Johnston
Sorry, out of print
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