The Centre for Migration Studies is managed by the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster through a sub-committee called CMS Management Committee. The following partner institutions are represented on the Management Committee:

Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (formerly the Department of Education); Libraries NI; The Queen's University of Belfast; The University of Ulster.

The Irish Emigration Database is a computerised collection of primary source documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA and Canada) in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains a variety of original material including emigrant letters, newspaper articles, shipping advertisements, shipping news, passenger lists, official government reports, family papers, births deaths and marriages and extracts from books and periodicals.

The project is ongoing and documents are being added on a regular basis. It is a vital research resource for historians, teachers, students and genealogists with interests relating to Irish emigration to North America.

Currently the Irish Emigration Database is available through the Centre for Migration Studies, the Public Records Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) and in Northern Ireland libraries through the Local Studies Departments and public access terminals in the branch libraries. We have temporarily withdrawn individual access because the system is no longer able to support the current volume of use.

Click here to visit the Centre for Migration Studies Web Site