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MARY O’ROURKE RIP
We note with sadness the passing of one of our summer school contributors from 2013 former Irish Minister Mary O’Rourke who had just published her memoir ‘Just Mary’. In her speech she mentioned the possibility of a future Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael Coalition that eventually came to pass in 2020 (with the Green Party). Click here…
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Summer School 2018
PROGRAMME 2018 ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT The Valley Hotel, Main St, Fivemiletown, Co Tyrone BT75 0PW Supported by Mid Ulster District Council Monday 6 August: 7.00 pm – Exhibition of young Artwork and Creative Writing – FREE admission. Tea/Coffee and biscuits available. 8.00 pm – ‘The Language of Carleton Country” – A talk by Seamas Mac…
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Summer School 2017
26th WILLIAM CARLETON SUMMER SCHOOL: PROGRAMME FRIDAY 15th September 11.00 am – Official opening of 2017 William Carleton Summer School by Councillor Kim Ashton, Chair of Mid-Ulster District Council.followed by Ian McElhinney: reading from Seamus Heaney’s ‘Station Island’ 12.00 Brian Lambkin – ‘Funeral and Wake Customs with Reference to Carleton’. Lunch 1.00 – 2.15pm 3.15 – 3.45 pm – Mary…
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Summer School 2016
Highlights In true Carleton tradition the Summer School intends to cast its net wide in this, its 25th year. We begin on Sunday 31st July with a taste of a contemporary of Carleton. We recall a figure who also profoundly influenced views of Irishness. For the while of that evening in the hallowed walls of…
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Summer School 2012
Retrospective FÁILTE! Welcome to the 21st William Carletonsummer school. If it’s your first visit to the scenic Clogher Valley, I hope you enjoy the proceedings and will want to return for more. Those who have attended previously will notice a few changes. We have listened to your comments and are now putting some of them…
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William Carleton Summer School 2010
Summer School 2010 Programme The nineteenth William Carleton Summer School was held from Monday 2 to Thursday 5 August 2010. Please click on the image of the cover to read the full programme.
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Summer School 2010
Retrospective THEMES The themes of the 2010 Summer School were: Will Modern Historians still read Carleton?; Emigration from 19th Century Tyrone; Carleton and the Established Church; and Modern Ulster Writers. Contributors Sean Connolly Professor of Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast; previously taught at the University of Ulster and worked as an archivist in the…