Location: Emyvale

4:00pm
Assemble at Emyvale Leisure Centre
(refreshments available) or Edenmore school.
4:30pm
Walk to Blue Bridge, Emyvale
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Carleton commemoration at the Blue Bridge Emyvale and restored plaque unveiled by Michael Fisher, Director, William Carleton Summer School. In conjunction with Emyvale Development Association
6:30pm
Gather at Emyvale Leisure Centre
7:00pm
‘Fair of Emyvale‘ dramatised reading of Carleton's story adapted by Liam Foley and preformed by the Carleton Players at Emyvale Leisure Centre.
FREE. All Welcome.
8:00pm
Refreshments.

Michael Fisher
is Director of the William Carleton International Summer School since 2011. A freelance journalist and blogger, he retired from RTÉ News in Belfast in September 2010, having joined the broadcaster in Dublin in 1979. He is a former BBC News Trainee in London and worked in Birmingham as a local radio reporter. A native of Dublin, Michael has family connections with the Clogher Valley, as well as County Monaghan. He is a graduate of UCD and QUB (MA) and is a previous contributor to the Summer School.

Liam Foley
was formerly headmaster of St. Brigid’s Primary School, Augher. He is a member of the Summer School Committee and the principal organiser of the week’s evening activities. In 2010 he wrote a very successful adaptation of Carleton’s ‘The Midnight Mass’ which was presented in the form of a radio play. Last year Liam turned his hand to Carleton’s ‘The Party Fight and Funeral’. For the 2012 Summer School he has adapted Phil Purcel the Pig Driver.

Unveiling of Plaque by Emyvale Development Association in 1997 at Glennan, site of former Hedge School

All Monaghan events are part funded by the EU’s ERDF through the Peace III programme, financed through Monaghan Peace III Partnership