{"id":1624,"date":"2026-01-30T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:09:50","slug":"february-meeting-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"February Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our next monthly meeting will take place on Wednesday, 11th  February at 7:00pm in the Observatory Library. Our speaker this month is <strong>Sean Hayes<\/strong> from the Public Record Office for Northern Ireland (PRONI), who will be discussing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Now We\u2019re Talking: An Exploration of the Archive of Michael J. Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talk will showcase the unique and rich archival collection left by folklorist, writer, and broadcaster Michael J. Murphy (1913-1996). A native of Dromintee in South Armagh, Murphy amassed a large collection of stories, phrases, and customs from across Ulster which informed much of his creative writing. This archive alongside that of his friend and collaborator, Sam Hanna Bell, are being made available to the public thanks to the Now We\u2019re Talking project. The project is funded by an Archives Revealed consortium grant and is led by PRONI and The Nerve Centre and is supported by Cuimhneamh, The National Folklore Collection, BBC NI, and NI Screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about the project on the Nerve Centre website at <a href=\"https:\/\/nervecentre.org\/culture\/now-were-talking\">Now We&#8217;re Talking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who are new to the group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?page_id=1429\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?page_id=1429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">this map<\/a> shows how to access the library at the Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next monthly meeting will take place on Wednesday, 11th February at 7:00pm in the Observatory Library. Our speaker this month is Sean Hayes from the Public Record Office for Northern Ireland (PRONI), who will be discussing: Now We\u2019re Talking: An Exploration of the Archive of Michael J. Murphy The talk will showcase the unique &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/?p=1624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.history-armagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}