What's On

A girl in a green jumper with yellow design on the sleeve and a boy in a blue t-shirt with white long-sleeve top, both with dark hair and their backs to the camera, looking through the window of a cottage exhibit building at the Ulster American Folk Park.

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22nd May to 31st August

Visit Ulster American Folk Park this summer and enjoy 50% off your next visit to the Ulster Transport Museum, Ulster Folk Museum, or return again.

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STORIES OF US

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Bluegrass BBQ: Niall Toner Band & Gormacha

Sunday 21st June

This summer, our Bluegrass BBQs bring together live Irish music and great American BBQ for a celebration of music and food.

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American Independence Weekend

Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th July

Discover the impact emigrants from Ulster had on American Independence at this anniversary weekend at the Folk Park

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Bluegrass BBQ: Pilgrim Street & Aiden Scott-Browne

Sunday 26th July

This summer, our Bluegrass BBQs bring together live Irish music and great American BBQ for a celebration of music and food.

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Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

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Ulster American Heritage Symposium | Ulster American Migrants and their relationship with others

Thursday 25th & Friday 26th June

Hosted by the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, the symposium explores the question of ‘Ulster American Migrants and their relationship with others’ in this landmark year.

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Exhibitions

Under The Hawthorn Tree animated image with three brown silhouettes under a green tree plus green text reading under the hawthorn tree

New Exhibition

Temporary Exhibition

Under the Hawthorn Tree

Now Open

A family-friendly exhibition based on the children’s novel, Under the Hawthorn Tree, by bestselling Irish author, Marita Conlon-McKenna.

Presidents Display Roosevelt - black and white drawn image

Temporary Exhibition

From Here to the White House: Presidential Portraits by Frank McKelvey

June to August 2026

Many American presidents have claimed ancestral links to Ulster. This unique exhibition features original drawings created around 1930.

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Exhibition

Emigrants Exhibition

Learn about emigration in the past two centuries

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Past Exhibitions

Past Exhibition

Bad Bridget

Ended on Sunday 25th January

Listen to the stories of thousands of women who left Ireland for North America between 1838 and 1918

What's On

Explore more this summer

STORIES OF US

Bluegrass BBQ: Niall Toner Band & Gormacha

American Independence Weekend

Bluegrass BBQ: Pilgrim Street & Aiden Scott-Browne

Bluegrass BBQ: Cool Hand String Band & Ian Alexander

Live from the Folk Park: Gareth, Niamh Noade, Meadhbh Walsh and others

The STORIES OF US

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies

Ulster American Heritage Symposium | Ulster American Migrants and their relationship with others

Exhibitions

Under the Hawthorn Tree

From Here to the White House: Presidential Portraits by Frank McKelvey

Emigrants Exhibition

Rural Ulster

The Journey

America

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Past Exhibitions

Bad Bridget