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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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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.
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TABLE QUIZ
Get ready for our next event: the annual William Carleton Society Table Quiz to raise funds for the Society including our revamped website that has been made possible with a grant from Mid Ulster District Council. TUESDAY 26th NOVEMBER at 8:00pm in McKenna’s bar Augher. Table of 4 £20. Raffle & team prizes to be…
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THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA
The William Carleton Society is performing via The Carleton Players a reading of extracts from Carleton’s story “The Emigrants of Ahadarra” adapted by Liam Foley. The townland near Augher Co. Tyrone is often spelled Aughadarragh. Join us at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh on: SATURDAY 2nd…