26th WILLIAM CARLETON SUMMER SCHOOL
FRIDAY 15th September
11.00 am – Official opening of 2017 William Carleton Summer School by Councillor Kim Ashton, Chair of Mid-Ulster District Council.
followed by Ian McElhinney: reading from Seamus Heaney’s ‘Station Island’
12.00 Brian Lambkin – ‘Funeral and Wake Customs with Reference to Carleton’.
Lunch 1.00 – 2.15pm
2.15 pm – Ciaran McKeown – ‘A Vision of the Future rooted in the Past’.
3.15 – 3.45 pm – Mary Montague reading from her Poetry.
Coffee
4.15 pm – Anthony Soares – ‘Creativity and its Limits in the Approaches to Brexit’.
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7.00 PM – ‘TREAD SOFTLY BEYOND BREXIT?’
A Symposium chaired by Michael Fisher
Panellists:-
Garrett Carr, Patrick Mulroe, Allison Morris and Eamonn McCann.
SATURDAY 16th September
11.00 am – Daragh Curran – ‘Crime and Criminals in Carleton’s Clogher’
12.00 pm – Aidan Fee – ‘Counsellor Marcus Costello 1800 – 1868: rising without trace.’
Lunch 1.00 – 2.15pm
2.15 pm – Noel Monahan – ‘Landscape as a major symbol in the poetry of John Montague’.
3.15 pm – Mark Bailey – ‘The McKim Observatory; Carleton and Clogher’.
Coffee
4.15 pm – Dramatised Reading from Carleton’s ‘The Party Fight and Funeral’ devised by Liam Foley.
SUNDAY 17th September
A Day Out in Carleton Country and beyond …
Coach Tour
Tea/coffee on arrival
Leaving Corick House at 10.30 am: return by 5.30 pm
led by Jack Johnston and Pat Montague.
Visiting sites associated with William Carleton, Rose Kavanagh, Archbishop John Hughes, Robert Bratton, Benedict Kiely and John Montague.
Lunch in Kelly’s Inn, Garvaghy at 1.30 pm
Booking advisable: cost £25
Enquiries to: wcarletonsociety@gmail.com
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An Evening of Music and Song – in St Patrick’s Church, Clogher
7.30 – 9.30 pm
featuring
Eilis Lavelle, harper:
David Bell, guitarist and singer;
Caroline Jones, soprano;
Gail Evans, piano;
Clogher Valley Area WI Choir.
Admission: £7.00/ £5.00 concession
I last attended the Summer school in 2006 as I was interested in Ned M’Keown the subject of stories in Carleton’s Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. Ned and Nancy are my great-great-great-grandparents.
Will Prof. Owen Dudley Edwards and Jack Johnston be present?
Best Wishes,
John McEwan
Thanks John. Hopefully we will see you back at Carleton again some time.
I would like to book a place for Friday’ssessions, whole day.
Thank you. A place will be reserved for you. Your booking has been passed to the Treasurer.
I wish to book 2 places for Friday , 15th, for Charles & Philomena O’Neill, Kingscourt,
Hi. I am tryingvto register. Cant find it online. I presume I can pay on the day. Planning to attend friday.
Thanks
Keith McNair
Dear Sir / Madam,
How do I become a member of the Society?
Best regards.
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Full details on the Awards are available on the Heritage Angel Awards NI Website: http://www.heritageangelawards-ni.org.uk
However should you require any further information please contact me.
Kind regards
Maura Ahern