Programme for the 2005 Merriman Summer School

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Programme of Events for the 2005 Merriman Summer School

This page contains the full programme of events for the 2005 Summer School, containing comprehensive information on all the important dates, times and locations.

Brian Merriman 1805 – 2005 — a celebration

Venues

Reception: Pump Room, Spa Wells Centre
Seminars in English: Hall, Spa Wells Centre
Seimineáir as Gaeilge: Pump Room, Spa Wells Centre
Renew Your Irish: An Mheánscoil
Cúirt a’ Mheán Lae: Pump Room, Spa Wells Centre
Set dancing: Hall, Spa Wells Centre
Lectures: Hall, Spa Wells Centre
Reading on Thursday: Royal Spa Hotel
Book Launch: Pump Room, Spa Wells Centre
CD Launches: Royal Spa Hotel
Club Merriman: Royal Spa Hotel

Saturday 20

17.00: Registration
19.00: Reception
20.00: Opening of School; By Seán Donlon, Chancellor, University of Limerick
20.30: Lecture; The Summons of the Midnight Court; By Alan Titley; Chairperson: Máire Ní Neachtain
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Sunday 21

11.45: Cúirt a’ Mheán Lae; Poetry reading; With Gabriel Rosenstock
12.30: Clare/Polka Sets 1; With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
15.00: Lecture — Merry Man – The Afterlife of the Poem; With Declan Kiberd; Chairperson: Angela Bourke
17.00: Book launch; Orthodoxies and Heresies: The New Ireland and its Sacred Cows; Edited by Jim Malone; (Proceedings of the 2004 Summer School)
20.30: Lecture — Merriman’s Ireland?; With Úna Nic Éinrí; Chairperson: Des Geraghty
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Monday 22

10.00: Seimineár Gaeilge 1; Mionléamh ar Théacs na Cúirte; Le Liam P. Ó Murchú
10.00: Seminar 1; Of Poets and Scholarly Men: Tomás Ó Míodhcháin and the Courts of Munster Poetry 1750 – 1805; With Brian Ó Dálaigh
10.00: Renew your Irish 1; Le Merriman agus Eoghan Ó hAnluain
11.45: Cúirt an Mheán Lae; Poetry reading; With Sinéad Morrissey
12.30: Clare/Polka Sets 2; With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
15.00: Lecture; Merriman – Cadhan Aonair?; Le Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail
20.30: Lecture; Merriman’s Teaching Milieu and the Irish Teaching Tradition; With John Coolahan; Chairperson: Áine Hyland
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Tuesday 23

10.00: Seimineár Gaeilge 2; Mionléamh ar Théacs na Cúirte; Le Liam P. Ó Murchú
10.00: Seminar 2; Brian Merriman: Poet of a Single Poem; With Brian Ó Dálaigh
10.00: Renew your Irish 2; Le Merriman agus Eoghan Ó hAnluain
11.45: Cúirt an Mheán Lae; Poetry reading; With Pádraig Daly
12.30: Clare/Polka Sets 3; With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
15.00: Lecture; The Hoard of the Imagination; With John F. Deane; Chairperson: Eileen Battersby
20.30: Lecture; Ireland under Two Unions 1805 – 2005; With Garret FitzGerald; Chairperson: Ronan Fanning
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Wednesday 24

10.00: Turas — Guided tour to Feakle and Loch Gréine; Willie Smyth will speak in Feakle about Merriman’s countryside
20.30: Reading; A reading of A Week in Summer, a story specially written for the bicentennial celebrations; Written and read by Maeve Binchy
21.30: Traditional music from Clare
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Thursday 25

10.00: Seimineár Gaeilge 3; Mionléamh ar Théacs na Cúirte; Le Liam P. Ó Murchú
10.00: Seminar 3; Marriage in Gaelic Ireland; With Donnchadh Ó Corráin
10.00: Renew your Irish 3; Le Merriman agus Eoghan Ó hAnluain
11.45: Cúirt an Mheán Lae; Poetry reading; With Celia de Fréine
12.30: Clare/Polka Sets 4; With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
15.00: Readings from Cúirt an Mheán Oíche; Bríd Ní Neachtain; Ciaran Carson
16.00: CD Launch; Cúirt an Mheán Oíche; Read by Seán Ó Ceallaigh, iarTD; Launched by Pádraig Ó hIrghile
20.30: Lecture; Where should Marriage and Society meet – and Why?; With William Binchy; Chairperson: Michael Mac Dowell
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Friday 26

10.00: Seimineár Gaeilge 4; Mionléamh ar Théacs na Cúirte; Le Liam P. Ó Murchú
10.00: Seminar 4; Church and people 1750 – 1805; With Margaret Mac Curtain
10.00: Renew your Irish 4; Le Merriman agus Eoghan Ó hAnluain
11.45: Cúirt an Mheán Lae; Poetry reading; With Peter Sirr
12.30: Clare/Polka Sets 5; With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
15.00: Lecture; Social Change and the Family in Ireland Over the Last Century; Gabriel Kiely
17.00: CD launch; Cúirt an Mheón Oíche; Published by RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta; Launched by Muiris Ó Rócháin
20.30: Symposium; Marriage and the Family – Challenges for Ireland; Finola Kennedy; Linda Connolly; Denis O’Donovan TD; Cathaoirleach: Bob Collins
22.30: Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Saturday 27

10.30: Symposium; The Battle Largely Won? Women 200 years after Merriman; Nuala O’Faolain; Katherine Zappone; Eamon Ryan TD; Cathaoirleach: Doireann Ní Bhriain