THURSDAY AUGUST 4th

Except where stated, all events will take place at
Corick House Hotel, Clogher.
www.corickcountryhouse.com

Dr Jennifer Kelly on Ribbonism.
history.nuim.ie/staff/kellyjennifer
Jennifer Kelly is a lecturer in the Department of History, NUI Maynooth. She holds a Ph.D. from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She is currently the project fellow on the IRCHSS-funded

Associational Culture in Ireland research project in the Department of History.
Her publications include ‘The downfall of Hagan’: Sligo Ribbonism in 1842 (Dublin, 2008) and ‘A study of Ribbonism in Leitrim in 1841,’ in Joost Augusteijn & Mary Ann Lyons (eds.), Irish History: A Research Yearbook 2 (Dublin, 2003).

Dr Chris McGimpsey on Orangeism.
Chris McGimpsey holds a BA from Syracuse University, New York and a PhD in Irish history from Edinburgh University.

He has been member of the Ulster Unionist party for over 25 years and served for 12 years on Belfast City Council.

He served as a member of his party’s delegation to the constitutional talks on the future of Northern Ireland; provided evidence to the New Ireland Forum in 1983 and challenged the Anglo-Irish Agreement before the Irish High Court.

Afternoon:
Liam Foley
Liam Foley is a former teacher from Clogher. He is one of the original members of the Summer School Committee and the principle organiser of the week’s evening activities. Last year he wrote a very successful adaptation of Carleton’s ‘The Midnight Mass’ which was presented in the form of a radio play. This year Liam is turning his hand to Carleton’s ‘The Party Fight and Funeral’.

Closing address:
Owen Dudley Edwards
Owen Dudley Edwards is Honorary Director of the William Carleton Summer School.

He has been a regular contributor since it began in 1992. An Honorary Fellow in the School of History at the University of Edinburgh, Owen is a contributor to all major historical joumals. In keeping with that University's treasured tradition of 'generalism', he is very much a polymath.

He has published works on Macauley, de Valera, Conan Doyle, P. G.Wodehouse and James Connolly. He is also a recognised authority on Oscar Wilde. ln 1994 he reissued Burke and Hare his study of the infamous nineteenth century providers of corpses for anatomical research and has also had a play on this subject performed in Edinburgh. A frequent radio broadcaster and former contestant in Round Britain Quiz, Owen Dudley Edwards' natural brio and mastery of words confer on his most scholarly contributions a spirit of entertainment. He was born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College and UCD, where he was auditor of the illustrious L+H debating society.

He has been acknowledged as 'a distinguished Irish scholar and man of letters, whose pan-Celtic spirit comprehends a Welsh name, a university post in Scotland and several important books on Irish history’.

Evening: Supper Dance:
Bob Quick Jazz Quartet at Corick House Hotel. Tickets at door.