Catherine McCullough FRHistS

@catherinemuseum.bsky.social

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Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid

Black sign on the wall surrounding a restaurant car park.. It reads "WARNING Beware of birds nesting in trees (possible droppings)"
Printed menu from restaurant in Santander featuring Sacrificial meat plate and homemade entrails!
Short film showing chunky hedgehog, vigorously pulling up grass to make her nest, May 2025
Two Christmas trees, one made from dozen of colourful pompoms, and the other from crocheted squares, complete with crocheted decorations
Bare tree covered in thick lichen
Photo of 6 cards made by silver pebble of arrangements of gorgeous flowers along with a handwritten winter nature guide
Brown leather spine of the "Historical memoirs of the City of Armagh", 1819 with gold lettering
A photo of an embroidered map of Northern Ireland and Donegal with the border, Lough Erne and Lough Neagh; worked alongside my PhD: "The EU and the museum: an investigation of cross border museum projects in Ireland". Includes all the names used for Ireland and NI, with a list of relevant counties. I'm adding the titles of the museum projects I researched as I go, along with all the annoying academic words that aren't used in normal working life!
Two hard back books published by David and Charles with orange dust covers: A history of the Scottish coal industry and The early factory masters
Coloured pen and ink drawing of Armagh County Museum by Stephen Conlin showing the classical frontage
Dust jacket of the Hamlyn Children's History of the world
Oil portraits of Carl Linnaeus and his wife in the Gustavianum, University Museum, Upsala, Sweden
Clear blue skies in Enniskillen, county Fermanagh
Photograph of ginger cat, stretched out in sunshine
Photograph of book cover "The Biscuit: the history of a very British indulgence" by Dr Lizzie Collingham showing a woman dunking a biscuit in a patterned teacup
Stack of reference books on my desk including books on oral history, qualitative research, peace building, the EU and the Lough Foyle catchment
Page from chapter 12 Illegal, immoral and unpatriotic " cross border smuggling
Dust jacket of A Century of Courts showing a drawing of the rebuilt Supreme Court 1930s
A buzzard flying high in a grey sky, far above the trees
Contents page of 'Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-century Ireland, page 2
Interstate fungus on a tree stump
Close up of stable block archway at National Trust property, Castle Coole, Enniskillen