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CARLETON AND KIELY
Celebrating singular voices that savoured the memories and melodies of this place Exploring the ties between people born into very different worlds, yet whose works still resonate Paul Clements discusses the connection between the writer Benedict Kiely and the Clogher Valley novelist William Carleton For the full article please purchase a copy of this week’s…
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CARLETON & COUNTY MONAGHAN TOUR
Join us on Saturday 9th August for a coach tour focusing on Carleton & County Monaghan. Departing from the Valley Hotel rear car park, Fivemiletown at 10:00am and picking up in Clogher old P.O. car park c.10:15am. The tour will be led by our President, Jack Johnston. We look forward to seeing you there! Visit…
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ULSTER VOICES
We are pleased to announce our programme for August 2025. On Friday 8th August a one-day session ‘Ulster Voices‘ in association with Libraries NI will offer an opportunity to explore landscape and linguistic diversity in County Tyrone, including a sense of place. It will include discussions on four Ulster writers and poets: William Carleton, Benedict…
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NEW COMMITTEE
Our Society’s committee for 2025/26 elected at our annual general meeting in Augher in March is working actively on new projects. They include a two-day Carleton event in August. More details will be posted later. In the meantime keep free Friday August 8th for a day in Fivemiletown on Carleton connections and Saturday 9th August…
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ALICE CAVANAGH RIP
The committee and members of the William Carleton Society were deeply sorry to learn of the death last month in Enniskillen of Alice Cavanagh, a stalwart of the Society and its summer schools over many years. With her local knowledge and love of the Clogher Valley she was always attentive to the speakers and would…
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ANNUAL MEETING
Are you interested in the history and heritage of the Clogher Valley? Join us for the annual general meeting of the William Carleton Society. New members will be very welcome to join our committee to help us prepare events for the coming year including a one-day event in Fivemiletown. The Society’s AGM will be held…
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CARLETON EVENING IN FIVEMILETOWN
Visit the new library in Fivemiletown main street on Tuesday 28th January to join us for a Carleton evening at 6:30pm lasting just over an hour. President of the William Carleton Jack Johnston from Clogher will speak about the author and his importance in the history of Irish literature. The anniversary of his death in…
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CARLETON NIGHT
A date for the diary: Tuesday 28th January at Fivemiletown library (main street) at 6:30pm for a Carleton based evening including a reading of extracts from “The Emigrants of Aghadarragh” (Liam Foley producer) and an introduction by Jack Johnston.