Multicultural Ireland: immigration, community and societyin post-partition Ireland, 1921-2021
A major new research project is seeking to interview people from migrant backgrounds living in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland. This project, conducted by historians at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Strathclyde, aims to record the experiences of anyone who moved to the island of Ireland before 2021, as well as their children or grandchildren.
We want to interview you about your experiences, both positive and negative, as Ireland has become a more diverse society. We are also keen to interview activists involved in migrant support and anti-racism.
Areas of Interest include:
• Feelings of identity and belonging
• Experiences of education and employment
• Activism, community and social change
• Experiences of discrimination and racism
The project will generate a new resource: an archive of around 90 interviews illuminating the depth and breadth of experience of migrant and migrant-descended people in Ireland over the decades between Irish partition in 1922 and the withdrawal of the UK from the EU in 2021. The project will also chart the work of anti-racist organisations which attempted to combat the effects of both political and everyday racism in Ireland.
Outputs from this project will include a travelling exhibition and accompanying public history workshops in collaboration with project partner, Ulster Museum Belfast. The oral histories and photographs will be donated to the Ulster Museum’s permanent collections and made accessible to future researchers.
There will also be a witness seminar with anti-racist activists, and a podcast which will share key findings from the research, adding nuance and depth to public understandings of what has become one of the most pressing issues of our time.
The team:
Project Lead (PL): Prof Kieran Connell (Queen’s University Belfast)
Project co-lead (UK) (PcL): Prof Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde)
Researcher co-lead (RcL): Dr Jack Crangle (Queen’s University Belfast)
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING, PLEASE CONTACT
All inquiries and information will be treated in the strictest confidence.
