Location: Corick House Hotel, Clogher

Corick House Hotel, Corick,
CLOGHER, Co. Tyrone BT76 0BZ
10.00am
Registration, tea & coffee
11.00am
Photocall
11:30am
Opening by Mayor of Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council

Carleton's cottage Springtown.

11:40am
Summer School Honorary Director:
Prof. Owen Dudley Edwards on 'Carleton, Caesar Otway and Irish Literature'
1.00pm
Lunch
2:30pm
Keynote address: Professor Thomas O’Grady on
'The Geography of the Imagination:
Carleton's 'The Donagh''
3:30pm
Tea/coffee break & bookstall
3:45pm
Author Gerry McCullough
& Raymond McCullough
4:45pm
Broadcaster & commentator Tom McGurk in conversation with Aidan Fee: ‘Northern Ireland: past and present‘
6.00pm
Close of session
8.00pm
Traditional Music session with female Irish traditional group Síoda & singer Seosaimhín Ní Bheaglaoich, Rathmore Bar, Main Street Clogher 8pm
FREE Admission.

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".

Thomas O’Grady
was born and grew up on Prince Edward Island. His father Professor Brendan O'Grady from Charlottetown helped to establish the twinning between PEI and Emyvale, with the help of Seamus McCluskey. He was educated at the University of PEI, UCD, and the University of Notre Dame. He is currently Professor of English, Director of Irish Studies and Director of the undergraduate Creative Writing Programme at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and three daughters.

He has taken a particular interest in the works of William Carleton, Benedict Kiely and the poet Patrick Kavanagh. His first book of poems, 'What Really Matters', was published in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series in April 2000 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He has just finished a second volume of poems, 'Makeover', and is completing a manuscript for a volume of short fiction, 'The Great Antonio and Other Stories'. His poems have been published in journals and magazines in North America and on both sides of the Atlantic.

His articles, essays and reviews on literary and cultural matters have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly
journals and general-interest magazines, including: 'Éire-Ireland', 'James Joyce Quarterly', 'Études Irlandaises', 'Irish University Review', 'New Hibernia Review', Studies: 'An Irish Quarterly Review', 'The Irish Review' and 'The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'.

Raymond McCullough
Raymond McCullough from Co. Down has been writing songs in the Celtic folk/rock style since 1973. He has travelled and performed in Israel, China (Beijing), Canada, USA, Scotland and Ireland, playing in pubs, concerts, churches and on the street, if required! At the Rostrevor ‘Fiddler’s Green International Festival’ he was described by one of the organisers as "the discovery of the festival".

Gerry McCullough
Gerry McCullough lives in Newtownards and has been writing poems and stories since childhood. Brought up in North Belfast, she graduated in English and Philosophy from Queen's University, Belfast, then went on to gain an MA in English. She has four grown up children and is married to author, media producer and broadcaster, Raymond McCullough, with whom she co-edited the Irish magazine, 'Bread', from 1990-96. In 1995 they published a non-fiction book called 'Ireland – now the good news!' Over the past few years Gerry has had more than fifty short stories published in UK, Irish and American magazines, anthologies and annuals – as well as broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster – plus poems and articles published in several Northern Ireland and UK magazines. She has read from her novels, poems and short stories at several Irish literary events. Gerry won the Cúirt International Literary Award for 2005 (Galway); was shortlisted for the 2008 Brian Moore Award (Belfast) and for the 2009 Cúirt Award; and commended in the Seán O’Faolain Short Story Competition. ‘Belfast Girls‘, her first full-length Irish novel, was first published in November 2010; 'Angel in Flight' (the first Angel Murphy thriller) in June 2012 and 'Lady Molly and the Snapper' – a young adult time travel adventure novel set in Dublin (August 2012). She has just published 'Angel in Belfast', the second Angel Murphy thriller (Precious Oil Publications, Kindle Edition).

Tom McGurk
Tom McGurk from Brockagh in Co. Tyrone is one of Ireland's most distinguished journalists and broadcasters; he has been over thirty-five years working in newspapers, radio and television in Ireland and for a decade in the UK.

His RTE television credits include presenting programmes like 'Tangents', 'Last House', 'Folio' and he currently anchors major RTE sports coverage especially rugby. In the UK he fronted 'Granada Reports' and reported for 'Channel 4 News' and 'Newsnight' on BBC2. In the late 1980s he was Foreign Correspondent with 'The Mail On Sunday' (London) reporting from Latin America, Africa and the USA and he covered the end of the 'Cold War' in Europe.

His extensive radio credits include presenting 'Start the Week' on BBC Radio 4 and a wide variety of interview and current affairs programmes with RTE. His screen writing credits include the television dramas 'Dear Sarah' (Thames TV/RTE) and 'The Need to Know' (BBC TV). He is also a poet and is a columnist with The Sunday Business Post in Dublin. Like his interrogator Aidan Fee, and last year's guest Barry Devlin, he is a past pupil of St. Patrick's College, Armagh.

Síoda

are a young and vibrant Irish traditional band. They have been making waves on the traditional music scene throughout Ireland for the last year and have played many gigs throughout Ireland.

The band is comprised of Emma Robinson on flute, whistles and vocals, Joanna Boyle on banjo, guitar and vocals, Alana Flynn on bodhran, vocals and dancing, Rosie Ferguson on fiddle, vocals and dancing and Connor Murphy on guitar and vocals.

Coupled with the singing and playing, the band contains an all Ireland champion Irish Dancer, creating an all-round exhibition of Irish culture.

The band has gained support from many renowned members of the Irish traditional music community and they have recently won a prestigious competition for ‘busking’ in which there were over 30 entrants. Support for the band has also come from members of the Broadcasting media and the group have featured on numerous radio and television programmes, including BBC Radio Ulster’s 'Blas Ceoil', UTV, U105 and TG4’S 'Geantrai'.

Seosaimhín Ní
Bheaglaoich
is a traditional singer from Corca Dhuibhne, a Gaeltacht area in West Kerry. She lectures in Amhránaíocht (traditional singing) in the Conservatory of Music, D.I.T. Dublin. Singer-in-residence at the annual Harp Festival 'Cáirde na Cruite'. She has travelled widely and has a special interest in Scots Gaelic and Welsh traditional songs.

Seosaimhín has worked in radio and television in Ireland for many years. One of a large family of traditional singers and musicians, most notably Seamus and Breandán, Seosaimhín recorded a CD 'Suailcí Sona: Songs from a Gaeltacht Childhood', with her sister Caitlín and brother Seamus. She presented 'Siamsa', a programme of classical music on TG4 and 'Mountain Lark' on RTE.