A short Curriculum Vitae
2007 to present: Editor and lead writer of the Ulster Heritage Magazine launched in fall of 2007
2008: Columnist with the Finn Valley Voice newspaper, Stranorlar, Donegal, Ireland and writer of the McCain's Corner Blog
2003 to present: Administrator of the Ulster Heritage DNA Project, the McCain DNA Project and Co-administrator of the Irish Heritage DNA Project.
1997 to 2006: Founded and performed in the successful folk music groups The Bush River Band and The McCains. These bands performed at many venues across the Mid South and even made it to Dublin and Belfast and beyond. Venues included pubs, festivals, concerts, private parties, dove hunts, and TV and radio shows. The Bush River Band also provided a series of Natchez Trace period music concerts for the United States National Park Service.
1981 to present: Investments: small portfolio, stocks, mutual funds, and royalty properties.
1984 to 1991: Small-holding farmer in Hind County MS with timber tracts, livestock, etc.
1979 to 1983: University student with various student jobs, such as law library assistant and pharmacy school assistant.
Education: 1983 University of Mississippi, Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude, History. 1987 Belhaven College, International Marketing Course work, 1992 University of Mississippi, Graduate School research project in Arts Administration, The Celtic Continuum in the Old South.
Honours: 1983 Phi Kappa Phi; 1982 Phi Alpha Theta, 1981 University of Mississippi Scholarship, 1980 Phi Theta Kappa.
Select Publications
Finding the McCains, A Memoir, November 2009
The Scots-Irish: The Rest of the Story, The Highlander, July/August 2009,
John McCain's Irish Roots, Ireland's Own Magazine, 5 September 2008
McCain’s Corner Blog, 2008-2009
Ulster Heritage Magazine, numerous weekly articles, 2008-2009
McKane’s Corner, monthly column, Finn Valley Voice, 2008
The Trouble With McCain, The Highlander Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007
The McCain DNA Project, the Electric Scotland internet magazine, 2005
The McCain DNA Project, The Family Tree Magazine, Feb 2004
The Stranger Gael, The Highlander Magazine, Sept 1993
The Bodachan, The Highlander Magazine, Nov 1993
The Gallóglaigh, The Highlander Magazine, Jan 1994
The Irish McDonnells, By Land By Sea Magazine, Spring 1995.
Select speaking engagements and performances:
17th Ulster American Heritage Symposium, speaker, Omagh, County Tyrone, N Ireland, June, July 2008
July 2006, Presenter at the Ulster American History Symposium, Knoxville TN
Traveller’s Way album, producer and performer, Dec 2005
With the Oak Ridge Boys, Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, Oct 2005, Oxford MS
Sin É program, Dublin, Ireland, , 28 Sept 2004
The Country Céili Show, with Tommy Sands 9 Oct 2004
Music on the Old Natchez Trace, 2002-2005, Interpretive talks and concerts for The National Park Service, Natchez Trace Visitor’s Centre, Tupelo Mississippi.
Samhain, A radio program on the Celtic traditions of Halloween, The Museum Matter’s Program, broadcast on WNAU, New Albany MS, -- 26 Oct 2003
Languages: intermediate level Gaelic
Barry R McCain is an independent scholar, writer, and genetic genealogy consultant living in
He is currently working on a book, a memoir, about the Mississippi McCains' long and ultimately successful search for their McCain kin in Ireland.
His speaking engagements include the 16th Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, held in Knoxville Tennessee in 2006, and also the 17th Ulster-American Heritage Symposium held at the Ulster American Folk Park, just north of Omagh, County Tyrone, N Ireland.
McCain's Corner
http://barryrmccain.blogspot.com/
The Ulster Heritage Magazine
http://uhblog.ulsterheritage.com/
The Ulster Heritage DNA Project
http://www.ulsterheritage.com/
