Book launches and maritime research at PRONI

Forthcoming events at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni):

Ulster Society of Irish Historical Studies (USIHS) Lecture
PRONI are pleased to host the Ulster Society of Irish Historical Studies Beckett Lecture on the 9th June at 6pm. This will commence with a wine reception at 6pm followed by the Beckett lecture at 6.30pm delivered by Professor Robert Armstrong

Book Launch
Launch of ‘Titanic: Culture and Calamity’ by Dr John Wilson Foster at PRONI on 21 June 2016 at 1pm. Foster shows how the great ship as a vast symbol entered Western art, drama, poetry, fiction and film, as well as popular culture and folklore. Belfast writer, GlennPatterson, co script-writer of Good Vibrations will the launch the book. John Wilson Foster is a freelance writer and literary critic and an honorary research fellow at Queen's University Belfast. He has published three books on RMS Titanic.

Temperance Conference
23 June 2016 - Half day conference in conjunction with Open University Ireland on the theme of temperance and alcohol will be held in PRONI on 23rd June starting at 1.30pm. Speakers will include: Annemarie McAllister, Conor Reidy, Orfhlaith Campbell, Gillian McIntosh, Leanne McCormick and Maura Cronin.

Lunchtime Talk to conclude the showing of the Sailortown Maritime Exhibition.
On 24th June, the last day of the Sailtortown Maritime exhibition, PRONI will host two events to round off this survey of the sea-going people of Belfast. Firstly, Dr Desmond McCabe will supplement the work of Mr Snook with a short lunchtime talk on ‘The Forgotten Fishermen of Belfast Lough, 1680 to 1900’. This body of fishermen was made up of a group of trawler-men from Carrickfergus, who were among the earliest working such vessels in the British Isles, and groups of line-fishermen from most of the villages on the Lough.

Secondly Mr Snook will attend PRONI during the afternoon of the 24th June in order to give genealogical assistance to anyone who may have had an ancestor in the merchant marine in the early 20th century. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to get specialist advice from someone who knows this aspect of nautical genealogy inside-out!

Book Launch
PRONI would like to extend an invitation to the launch of John Wilson Foster's book ' Titanic: Culture and Calamity’ by Dr John Wilson Foster on 21 June 2016 at 1pm. Foster shows how the great ship as a vast symbol entered Western art, drama, poetry, fiction and film, as well as popular culture and folklore. Belfast writer, Glenn Patterson, co script-writer of Good Vibrations will launch the book. John Wilson Foster is a freelance writer and literary critic and an honorary research fellow at Queen's University Belfast. He has published three books on RMS Titanic.

Customer Notice:
There are two disabled parking spaces available to Blue Badge holders free of charge opposite to the main entrance to PRONI. In addition, there are sixteen parking spaces on Titanic Boulevard which are pay and display to all, including Blue Badge holders.

(With thanks to PRONI)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.