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 Dublin in 1869 occurs on January 30th.
There will be a reading by the Carleton Players of extracts (edited by Liam Foley) from one of Carleton’s stories about the Irish peasantry, “The Emigrants of Aghadarragh”, a townland close to the Co. Monaghan border near Augher/Clogher.
There will also be an exhibition of paintings by local artist Sam Craig who produced one every year for the summer school and used them to illustrate the front cover of many of the summer school programmes. More illustrations can be found elsewhere on the website by pressing the tab on the home page about our summer schools.
Admission is free and tea/coffee will be available. Copies of Carleton’s (unfinished) autobiography will be on sale at £5 with proceeds going to the Society. Also a number of other books.