This year’s speakers and lecturers
- Patrick Crotty
- Head of English at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Has published many articles and reviews on Scottish and Anglo‑Welsh literature. Editor of Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (1995).
- T.M. Devine
- University Research Professor and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at University of Aberdeen. Author of The Scottish Nation 1700 – 2000 (1999).
- Brian Farrell
- Emeritus Professor of Politics, University College Dublin. Broadcaster. Directed Merrriman Summer School 1997.
- Breda Gray
- Lecturer at Irish Centre for Migration Studies, University College Cork.
- Seamus Heaney
- Poet, critic and translator. Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard since 1996. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, 1984 – 96. Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 1989 – 94. Books include Death of a Naturalist(1966), Field Work (1979), The Redress of Poetry (1995), The Spirit Level (1996). Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, 1995.
- Mary Angela Keane
- Authority on the Burren.
- Hugh Kearney
- Amundsen Professor of British History at University of Pittsburgh (retired). Author of Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and society in pre‑industrial Britain 1500 – 1700 (1970) and The British Isles: A History of four nations(1989).
- Robin Llywelyn
- Manager of Port Meirion Village Hotel. Award‑winning novelist and short story writer. His novel Seren Wyn ar Gefndir Gwyn (1995) is a classic of modern Welsh literature.
- Edna Longley
- Professor of English at the Queen’s University of Belfast. Author of Louis Mac Neice: A Study(1988) and The Living Stream: Literature and revisionism in Ireland (1994).
- Betty Mc Coy
- Dance teacher.
- Susan Mc Kay
- Derry‑born journalist with the Sunday Tribune. Author of Northern Protestants: An Unsettled people (2000).
- Michael Mc Mahon
- Writer and local historian.
- Seán Mac Réamoinn
- Commentator on religious and cultural affairs. Honoured with membership of the Welsh Gorsedd in 1979.
- Johnny Morrissey
- Dance teacher.
- Ferdinand Mount
- Editor of Times Literary Supplement since 1991. Head of Prime Minister’s Policy Unit, 1982 – 83. Author of Of Love and Asthma (1991) and The British Constitution Now(1992).
- Doireann Ní Bhriain
- Broadcaster. General Manager of Millennium Festivals (Féilte na Mílaoise).
- Miriam Hederman O’Brien
- Chancellor of the University of Limerick.
- Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
- Parish priest of Dingle, Co. Kerry. Priest and teacher in Wales, 1953 – 59. Professor of Middle Irish and Welsh at St Patrick’s College Maynooth, 1961 – 81. Professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth, 1981 – 92. Editor / Chief translator of An Bíobla Naofa(1981).
- Eoghan Ó hAnluain
- Senior Lecturer in Irish, UCD. Directed Merriman Summer School 1992, and 24 Winter Schools (1969 – 1992).
- Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh
- Lecturer in Department of Celtic, Edinburgh University. Author (with Ian Mac Aonghuis) of Scottish Gaelic in three months (1998).
- M. Wynn Thomas
- Professor of English at University of Wales, Swansea. Author of The Lunar Light of Whitman’s Poetry (1987), Internal Difference: Twentieth century writing in Wales (1992), Corresponding Cultures: The two literatures of Wales (1999).
- Kevin Whelan
- Director of Keough Notre Dame Centre, Dublin. Author of The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the construction of Irish identity (1996). Directed two Merriman Summer Schools (1991 and 1994).
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