TUESDAY AUGUST 7th

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

Cost
£50/€60 including lunch, dinner and tea/coffee break;
concession £40/€50
Morning:  £13/€16 or one session £7/€8 including tea/coffee;
concession £10/€12  or one session  £4/€5
Afternoon: £16/€20 or one session £8/€10 including tea/coffee;
concession £12/€15  or one session  £4/€5
Lunch £9/€11  Dinner £13/€15
Evening events: £5/€6

Season ticket £175/€240/$270 or concession £145/€185/$225

Morning:

10.00am Registration

10.30am Carleton's Australian Relatives
Frank McHugh
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 Vice-Chair of the William Carleton Society. 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.

11.00am The Miller's Daughter,
Anne Duffy
Josephine Treanor
Josephine Treanor is originally from Clogher, Co. Tyrone but has lived in North Monaghan for the past twenty five years where she was nominated for the Monaghan Person of the Year in 2003 for her contribution to Community Development and Peace Building Projects within the County. A graduate of Queen's University, Belfast she is currently employed by Clones Regeneration Partnership and Castleblayney Arts & Community Development Company. Josephine is a great great gand daughter of Anne Duffy and has always been fascinated by the link with William Carleton. She has had several short stories published in national publications and her contribution to this year's Summer School is a short story based on Anne Duffy's account of William Carelton's visit to her marital home in Ballyscally, Clogher, in 1847.

11.30am
Tea/Coffee Break

11.45am Poetry Reading
John F. Deane
John F Deane was born in Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. He has published several collections of poetry and some fiction; Won the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T.S.Eliot prize and The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. Latest poetry collection “The Instruments of Art”, Carcanet 2005; “In Dogged Loyalty”, essays on religious poetry, Columba 2006; latest fiction “The Heather Fields and Other Stories,” Blackstaff Press 2007. His latest poetry collection, “A Little Book of Hours”, came from Carcanet in 2008. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland”. In 2007 the French Government honoured him by making him “Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres”. In 2008 John F. Deane was visiting scholar in the Burns Library of Boston College. 2010 brought the publication of a new novel, "Where No Storms Come", and a new collection of essays, "The Works of Love". His new collection of poems, "The Eye of the Hare" came from Carcanet in June of 2011. Poems of John F. Deane have been translated and published, in book form in a number of countries. His new collection is due in October 2012: "Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New & Selected Poems", selected and edited by the teacher, essayist and specialist in Irish poetry Thomas Dillon Redshaw.

1.00pm Lunch

2.00pm One man show on Charles Dickens
Laurence Foster
Laurence Foster was born in Wolverhampton and studied acting at Birmingham Theatre School, where he gained the Outstanding Student Award and a Diploma in Theatre Studies. Seasons at various English theatres were a prelude to a lifelong career in Irish theatre, radio, television and films. He was Chairperson for the Prix Italia and represented Irish Broadcasting in Europe. He was also a Birmingham League and Leinster League cricketer. In England he performed in a wide variety of shows, from the classics to pantomime, before joining the RTÉ Players in 1968, with whom he acted and directed many plays and radio ‘soaps’, including Lee Dunne’s Konvenience Korner and eventually being appointed head of RTÉ Radio Drama. Along the way, he would work with many famous actors and entertainers, both Irish and international, including Micheál Mac Liammóir, Jack Cruise, Dennis Waterman, Michael Gambon and Donovan.

More recently he has received acclaim for his solo performance as Dickens in Dublin. His one man show is, as far as possible, based on exactly the kind of one man show that Charles Dickens gave in Dublin exactly 150 years ago next year.

3.00pm
Tea/Coffee Break

3.15pm Literary Symposium
Carlo Gébler, Mary Guckian, Mary O'Donnell

Carlo Gébler
Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954 and brought up in London. He now lives outside Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
He is the author of several novels including The Eleventh Summer, The Cure, How to Murder a Man, A Good Day for A Dog and The Dead Eight, the short story collection W.9. & Other Lives, along with several works of non-fiction including the memoir Father & I, the narrative history, The Siege of Derry, and two travel books, Driving Through Cuba and The Glass Curtain. He has also written several novels for children as well as several plays for both radio and the stage, including Dance of Death (1998), an adaptation of Strindberg’s play cycle produced at the Tricycle Theatre, London, December Bride, based on the Sam Hanna Bell novel and which was a Classic Serial broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 10 Rounds which was short listed for the Ewart-Biggs Prize, Henry & Harriet, a site specific drama commissioned by Kabosh Theatre for the Belfast Cathedral Arts Festival, and, most recently, Charles & Mary a play for BBC Radio 3 about the lives of the brother and sister who wrote the classic children’s introduction to Shakespeare, Tales from Shakespeare.

Mary O'Donnell
Mary O'Donnell was born in Monaghan. She has published poetry, novels, short stories and a good number of critical essays and literary reviews. O’Donnell moves deftly and at ease between different forms of literary expression, allowing the subject matter to direct her towards its most adequate medium.
She is a previous visitor to the summer school in 1997 and has published five volumes of poetry so far. The first two collections – Reading the Sunflowers in September (1990) and Spiderwoman’s Third Avenue Rhapsody (1993) – were nominated for The Irish Times Literature Award; then came Unlegendary Heores (1998), September Elegies (2003) and The Place of Miracles: New and Selected Poems (2006).
A sixth volume, The Ark Builders, was published in 2009.
She is also the author of three novels: The Light-makers the Sunday Tribune’s Best New Irish Novel of 1992, Virgin and the Boy (1996) and The Elysium Testament (1999). In 1991 she published her first collection of short stories, Strong Pagans. Another, Storm over Belfast (2008), has been described as a “display of Mary O’Donnell’s immense talent”. Mary O’Donnell has been a member of Aosdana since 2001 and has presented several series of poetry programmes for RTE Radio. She has also been a teacher of creative writing and has participated in numerous poetry workshops as a facilitator.

Mary Guckian
Mary Guckian is from County Leitrim and grew up on one of the many organic farms dotting the local landscape. This harmony with nature inspired her poetry. Among the many recognitions she has received are the Scottish Open Poetry award as well as the Leitrim Guardian Literary Award for Poetry. Mary's poetry can be read in her published works 'Perfume of the Soil' and 'Road to Gowel' published by Swan Press, as well as in many international anthologies of poetry alongside Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare and Wordsworth. Mary toured the Boston area for the Irish cultural exchange programme "Optimal Avenues", reading her work in such noted poetry venues as the Coop Bookshop at Harvard University, Sheas Pub, and the Patrick Pierce Gallery.

4.15pm Break

4.20pm Discussion
Chaired by Michael Fisher Summer School Director

5.30pm Dinner

6.30pm Walk and Talk Carleton
to Fardross Forest Park with Clogher Valley Walking Club

8.30pm Reception at Clogher Valley
Country Park, Clogher.
Sponsored by Daly’s Super Valu, Aughnacloy

Music by The Mountain Lark, Tydavnet
Admission £5/€6.