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Ulster-American Heritage Symposium

Published in 18th–19th - Century History, 20th-century / Contemporary History, Issue 4 (Winter 1995), News, Volume 3

Papers are invited for the eleventh Ulster-American Heritage Symposium,jointly sponsored by the Ulster-American Folk Park and the Universityof Ulster, to be held at the Ulster-American Folk Park on 8-10 August1996. The symposium will be concerned with all aspects of emigrationfrom Ulster to North America: the religious groups which took part inthe process of migration and settlement itself; regional cultures andeconomies in Scotland, Ireland and North America; the wider political,social and economic background to Ulster-American emigration; andreligion, folklore, music and other aspects of Ulster-Americanheritage. Outlines of proposed papers and a brief CV should besubmitted before 31 January 1996 to John Walsh, Head of MuseumServices, Ulster-American Folk Park, 2 Mellon Road, Castletown, Omagh,County Tyrone BT78 5QY, tel: (01662) 243292, fax: (01662) 242241,e-mail: uafp@iol.ie.

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1871 John Millington Synge, key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre and playwright, notably of The Playboy of the Western World, born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.
1947 The expression ‘Cold War’, a war waged through proxies, was coined by the US statesman and millionaire financier Bernard Baruch.
1917 After twelve years in exile, the leading Russian Bolshevik, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (47), arrived in St Petersburg after a week-long journey from Zurich in a sealed train.
1862 Sir Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat and major player in the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, died in Athens.
1660 Sir Hans Sloane, physician and collector, whose natural history collection formed the foundation of the British Museum, was born at Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down.

Ulster-American Heritage Symposium

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