Trevor Parkhill - Keeper of History
Area of Expertise:-
Social, political and industrial history of the north of Ireland; photographs; coins, medals and militaria.
Biography
Trevor Parkhill has responsibility for the history collections and his special interests include the Famine, emigration, industrial and Trades Union history.
Publications
Parkhill, T. 1994. A Life in Linenopolis. Diary of a Belfast Damask Weaver. Belfast.
Parkhill, T. 1997. The Famine in Ulster. Belfast.
Parkhill, T. 1998. 'Up in Arms!' The 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Gallagher, C., Kinealy, C. & Parkhill T. 1990. Making Sense of History. Belfast.
Pollock, V. & Parkhill, T. 1997. Britain in Old Photographs: Belfast. Sutton Publishing.
Pollock, V. & Parkhill, T. 2000.
Britain in Old Photographs: Coleraine and the Causeway Coast. Sutton Publishing.
Pollock, V. & Parkhill, T. 2001. A Century of Belfast. Sutton Publishing.
O'Connor, E. & Parkhill, T. 2002.
Loyalism and Labour in Belfast: The Autobiography of Robert McElborough,Cork.
Pollock, V. & Parkhill, T. 2005. Belfast at Work. Sutton Publishing.
Collins, B., Ollerenshaw, P. & Parkhill, T. 2005.
Industry, Trade and People in Ireland 1650-1950. Essays in honour of W. H. Crawford. Belfast.
Parkhill, T. 1997. 'Philadelphia Here I Come'. Letters from Ulster Emigrants to Pennsylvania.
Transatlantic Perspectives: The Ulster American Heritage Experience. Tennessee.
Parkhill, T. 1999. Emigration and the Great Famine: The Ulster Experience. Folklife No. 37.
Parkhill, T. 2000. Pour Encourager Les Autres. Emigration from Ulster to Canada 1725-1900.
Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies Vol. 1.
Parkhill, T. 2000. Emigration from Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America. University of Notre Dame Press.
Parkhill, T. 2001. God Help Them, What is going to become of them? Famine Emigration from Ulster. Atlantic Crossroads, Historical Connections between Scotland, Ulster and North America. Colourpoint Books.
Parkhill, T. 2003 That's Their History. Can a Museum's History Exhibitions Inform a Reconciliation Process in a Divided Society? Folk Life. Journal of Ethnographic Studies Vol. 41.
Parkhill, T. 2003. The Wild Geese of 1798: Emigres of the Rebellion. Seannachas Ard Macha No. 50.
Parkhill, T. 2004. With a little help from their friends: assisted migration schemes 1700-1845.
To and From Ireland. Planned Migration Schemes c.1600-2000. Geography Publications.
Parkhill, T. 2005. Pre-Famine Protestant, Post-Famine Catholic: Does the evidence support the stereotype?
Industry, Trade and People in Ireland 1650-1950. Essays in honour of W. H. Crawford. Belfast.
Contact Details
Telephone +44 (0)28 9039 5160
Fac +44 (0)28 9039 5003
e-mail: trevor.parkhill@nmni.com
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