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URL:https://methodisthistoryireland.org/events/spring-lecture-2025/
SUMMARY:Spring Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION:Dr Andy Bielenberg\n\nIn person and online Zoom lecture\n\nTher
 e is no dispute that a significant share of the Protestant minority left t
 he south of Ireland in the years between 1911 and 1926. The question of wh
 en and why they left remains a matter of significant controversy. This lec
 ture sets out to provide the context and reasons explaining this major exo
 dus\, utilising a range of historical sources including annual membership 
 records of the Methodist community\, which include figures for emigration 
 during the years in question. It considers evidence on the timing and vari
 ation in the annual outward flow of Protestant emigrants\, including confl
 ict migration between 1919-23\, economic migration\, regime change and Bri
 tish withdrawal in 1922 in addition to other factors which affected popula
 tion decline during these years.\n\nAndy Bielenberg has recently retired a
 s senior lecturer in social and economic history at UCC. He has published 
 extensively on Irish industrial history\, emigration and aspects of the Ir
 ish revolution. He has just completed a project which has identified and a
 nalysed all fatalities during the Irish civil war which has been published
  in the Atlas of the Irish Revolution.\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
LOCATION:Edgehill House\, 9 Lennoxvale\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT9 5BY\, Unite
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