Do you have links to County Monaghan? Do you have family links to the surname Traynor, McKenna, McQuaid, Connolly, McMahon? Woods or McEneaney? If so, and your family have been Tyneside since the 1800s, you may have a connection to Co Monaghan in South Ulster. This event may be of interest to you.
Many families now settled around the Tyneside, Wearside, Tees-side and Consett came, in the 1800s, from Monaghan (and the surrounding counties of Tyrone, Armagh, Cavan and Fermanagh) to work in the shipyards, coal-mines and iron- and chemical-works. Other families arrived even earlier to work in the lead and coal-mines, scattered across rural Weardale and Tynedale
The Treinfhir Clan, a family clan based on the borderlands of south Ulster are hosting a gathering on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th September, based in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Friday September 19th Venue; Tyneside Irish Centre
7.30pm; Aspects of Migration between the South Ulster borderlands and Tyneside. Presentation by Seamus Treanor
9pm; Traditional music by the Tony Corcoran Ceili Band
Late bar and buffet
Members of the Treinfhir Clan will be travelling from Monaghan to Newcastle, and that there will be plenty of opportunity to chat informally over the buffet and a drink. If people attending have names, locations, old letters/certificates/photographs they might, if lucky, be matched up to a particular townland or family.
Saturday September 20th
2pm; . Guided walking tour of places of interest for Tyneside Irish.
Meet at Grey’s Monument. Guide, Stephen Taylor
Attendance at the event is free, but is ticketed. To register, please email tyneside@treinfhir.org or fill in the form below.