WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8th
Except where stated, all events will take place at
Corick House Hotel, Clogher.
www.corickcountryhouse.com
Cost
£50/€60 including lunch, dinner and tea/coffee break;
concession £40/€50
Morning: £13/€16 or one session £7/€8 including tea/coffee;
concession £10/€12 or one session £4/€5
Afternoon: £16/€20 or one session £8/€10 including tea/coffee;
concession £12/€15 or one session £4/€5
Lunch £9/€11 Dinner £13/€15
Evening events: £5/€6
Season ticket £175/€240/$270 or concession £145/€185/$225
10.00am Registration
10.30am Jane Austen's Irish Nieces
Sophia Hillan
Dr Sophia Hillan was Assistant Director of the Queen’s University of Belfast’s Institute of Irish Studies. Her publications include, In Quiet Places: Uncollected Stories, Letters and Critical Prose of Michael McLaverty (1989);The Silken Twine: A Study of the Works of Michael McLaverty (1992) and The Edge of Dark: A Sense of Place in the Writings of Michael McLaverty and Sam Hanna Bell (2001). As a writer of fiction, she has been published in David Marcus’s New Irish Writing, and his first Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories, 2004–5. She was a finalist for the Royal Society of Literature’s first V.S. Pritchett Memorial Award (1999), and her short story, Roses, was featured as part of BBC Radio 4’s Defining Moments series. She was short-listed for a Hennessy Award in 1981. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published both in the late David Marcus's New Irish Writing in The Irish Press and his Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories, 2004-5. She will be speaking to us about her new book, May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen’s Nieces in Ireland. Sophia Hillan's story uncovers a rich new seam of material on Jane Austen and her family, providing a new and intriguing link between Regency England and the turbulent world of nineteenth-century Ireland: including famine times in Gweedore, Co.Donegal.
11.45am
Tea/Coffee Break
12.00 Carleton on the stage:
forgotten popular plays
adapted from "Traits & Stories"
Christopher Fitz-Simon
Christopher Fitz-Simon was born in Belfast. He studied Modern Languages & Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. After working in the theatre and broadcasting in North America he became a drama director with RTÉ televison. Since then he has been Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Irish Theatre Company and the National Theatre Society (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). He was Visting Professor in Drama at the University of Ulster, whence his Doctorate in Letters. He is the author of a large number of broadcast plays as well as dramatisations of, among others, Boucicault, Bowen, Colum, Forzano, Giraudoux, Joyce, Forrest Reid, Somerville & Ross, Stoker and Wilde. He lectures throughout the world on Irish theatrical and literary topics. He is the author of an acclaimed childhood memoir, Eleven Houses (Penguin 2007) that deals with the theme of internal migration. He was born into an extraordinary family, with Daniel O’Connell on one side and Ulster Protestants on the other. Eleven Houses deals with the period of World War II when his family lived in a series of homes in all four provinces of Ireland. He is a member of the Clogher Historical Society and recently gave a reading in Monaghan based on a collection of over fifty letters written home to Smithborough by his great great uncle Ben Elliott, who at the age of 17 emigrated to America when famine was at its worst in Ireland. He is a member of the Clogher Historical Society and recently gave a reading in Monaghan based on a collection of over fifty letters written home to Smithborough by his great great uncle Ben Elliott, who at the age of 17 emigrated to America when famine was at its worst in Ireland.
1.15pm Lunch
2.30pm Play Reading
"Phil Purcel the Pig Driver"
Adapted by Liam Foley
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.
3.45pm Audience Discussion
Gordon Brand
Gordon Brand from Enniskillen is Secretary of the William Carleton Society and the summer school committee. He edited the school’s volume William Carleton: The Authentic Voice. He gives occasional lec¬tures on Oscar Wilde, Anthony Trollope, William Allingham and Patrick MacGill.
4.30pm
Tea/Coffee Break
4.45pm William Carleton's position in 21st Century Irish Literature
Owen Dudley Edwards
Owen Dudley Edwards is Honorary Director of the William Carleton summer school. He has been a regular contributor since it began in 1992. An Honorary Fellow in the School of History at the University of Edinburgh, Owen is a contributor to all major historical joumals. In keeping with that University's treasured tradition of 'generalism', he is very much a polymath. Dudley Edwards' natural brio and mastery of words confer on his most scholarly contributions a spirit of entertainment. He was born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College and UCD, where he was auditor of the illustrious L+H debating society. He has been acknowledged as 'a distinguished Irish scholar and man of letters, whose pan-Celtic spirit comprehends a Welsh name, a university post in Scotland and several important books on Irish history’.
6.00pm Close
Michael Fisher, Summer School Director
6.30pm Dinner
8.00pm Concert
with Fermanagh Choral Society
Musical Director Don Swain
at St. Patrick's Church, Clogher
Admission £5/€6.
Fermanagh Choral Society is a cross-community organisation with over 60 members from all areas of the county. Entrance is open to all ages, abilities and backgrounds and the choir seeks to encourage local musical talent. Founded in the early 1970’s, it has been under the guidance of Musical Director Donald Swain for the past few years.
Rehearsals are held weekly in the music room of Portora Royal School in Enniskillen on Tuesday evenings.
