TUESDAY AUGUST 2nd

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

Morning:
Dr Antonia McManus on Irish hedge schools www.fourcourtspress.ie/reviews.php?intProductID=204
Antonia McManus lectured in the education department, Trinity College, Dublin. She was Academic Director of Hibernia College, Dublin, Ireland's first online third level institution. Her study of hedge schools, The Irish Hedge School and its Books, 1695 – 1831, was published by Four Courts Press in 2002. For over 136 years the hedge school masters were the dominant educators in Ireland. For most of that time, they worked underground due to the strictures of the Penal Laws. Her work profiles the hedge school and its books.

Frank McHugh on the genealogy of William Carleton.
Frank McHugh was born in Belfast in 1963. Both his parents are from Fermanagh and he has researched both sides of his family back to the early 19th Century. He set up the Fermanagh Family History Society in 2008. He is currently Head of Drama at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. He is a committee member of the William Carleton Summer School. Frank has led genealogy trips to all of the major archive centres in Ireland and he has contributed to the Maguire history weekend at Fermanagh County Museum. Over the last two years, he has been responsible for running a genealogy course in Lisnaskea. His article ‘Researching your Family History in Fermanagh’ was published in The Fermanagh Miscellany in 2010.

Afternoon:
Creative writing symposium with City of Bohane author, Kevin Barry. He will be joined by Fermanagh writer and historian Séamus MacAnnaidh, Felicity McCall the journalist, writer and campaigner from Derry and local author Paul Clements. Chair: Michael Fisher.

Kevin Barry The City of Bohane (Book) by Kevin Barry (2011): Waterstones.com
Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as Shannonside’s answer to Roddy Doyle. He lives in Co. Sligo but is originally from Limerick, where he worked as a freelance journalist before devoting himself full-time to writing. His first novel, City of Bohane, was published in April. His collection of short stories, There Are Little Kingdoms, (2007) was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, Best European Fiction 2011, and many other journals and anthologies. He also works on plays, screenplays, graphic stories and essays. A distinguished travel writer, his accounts on destinations across the world have made it to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. He lists Valencia in Spain as his favourite destination.

Felicity McCall
www.inspiricom.net/felicitymccall/about.html
Felicity McCall who lives in Derry is an award winning novelist, dramatist, writer of screenplays, and a miscarriage of justice activist. The former BBC journalist has written several novels, plays and films. Originally from South Armagh, she graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1979 and began work as a journalist with the Ulster Gazette in Armagh and the Portadown Herald. For twenty years she worked for BBC news and current affairs programmes in Belfast & London. Her first novel Reckoning was published in 2006. The same year she won the Tyrone Guthrie Award for script/play writing. She is also a campaigner for miscarriages of justice and in 2010 published Justice for John, the story of a former RUC officer from Co.Tyrone, John Torney, who died in prison. Her first collection of short stories has just appeared and she is also working on her first novel for teenagers to be published next year.

Séamas Mac Annaidh
Séamas Mac Annaidh is a writer, broadcaster and historian who spoke at the first William Carleton Summer school in 1992. He has published fifteen books since 1982 when his first novel, Cuaifeach Mo Lon Dubh Bui appeared. His latest Ar ais go Keriolet was published in March. His novels in Irish have now been translated into many other languages. He has been Writer in Residence in several universities, most recently in UCG. He was a founder of the Fermanagh Authors’ Association and has edited The Fermanagh Miscellany, their yearly collection of new writings from Fermanagh. His work, Fermanagh Books, Writers and Newspapers of the Nineteenth Century (1999) is a valued reference for many of the county’s lesser known writers. He is married to violist Joy Beatty and they live in Belcoo.
tinyurl.com/3fwxq4z

Paul Clements
http://www.paulclementswriting.com/default.shtml
Paul Clements is a writer, journalist and tutor born in Augher Co. Tyrone. He had a long career with the BBC in Belfast and London before becoming a freelance writer in 2007. He is the author of three travel books about Ireland, Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland (1993), The Height of Nonsense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip (2005), and has just published Burren Country: Travels through an Irish Limestone Landscape. He is a contributing editor to two travel guidebooks: Insight and Fodor’s. Paul has also written widely about the writer and historian Jan Morris and his work includes a critical study published in 1998, and a Festschrift, Jan Morris, Around the World in Eighty Years, published in 2006. Paul is a member of the National Union of Journalists and the Society of Authors.

Michael Fisher
Michael Fisher is deputy director of the William Carleton summer school and a freelance journalist. He is a former television news reporter with RTÉ News in Belfast and Dublin, and also worked for the BBC in London as a trainee journalist and in Birmingham as a local radio reporter. A native of Dublin, he has family connections with the Clogher Valley and Co. Tyrone as well as Co. Monaghan. He is a graduate of UCD and QUB and is a previous contributor to the summer school. His MA dissertation was on the big house in Co. Fermanagh and Co. Monaghan.

Evening:
Guided walk led by Clogher Valley walking club.
8pm Liam Trainor & traditional music group. Rathmore Bar, Clogher.