PATRICK FITZGERALD is Lecturer and Development Officer at the Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland, and has taught Irish Migration Studies at Queen's University Belfast since 1996. Formerly he was Assistant Curator for Emigration History at the Ulster-American Folk Park.BRIAN LAMBKIN is founding Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, Northern Ireland, and is Chairman of the Association of European Migration Institutions. Formerly he was Principal of Lagan College, Belfast.