The Cumann Merriman Summer School 2000

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Five Territories: These Islands at the Turn of the Millennium

  • Location: Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare
  • Saturday 19 – Saturday 26 August 2000
  • Director: Liam Ó Dochartaigh, University of Limerick

Programme

Saturday 19

17.00
Registration at Spa Wells
19.30
Reception at Spa Wells
20.15
Opening of School
By Miriam Hederman O’Brien
Lecture — Ethnic identities in the Five Territories
Chair: Patrick Crotty.
22.30
Club Merriman — Dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Sunday 20

12.00
Set dancing class
With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
15.00
Lecture — Imperial Scotland — the Scottish role in the British Empire
T.M. Devine
20.30
Lecture — Stands England where it did?
Ferdinand Mount
22.30
Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Monday 21

10.00
Seimineáir Ghaeilge 1
An Ghàidhlig agus an Ghaeilge i gcóimheas
Roibeárd Ó Maolalaigh
Cathaoirleach: Seán Mac Réamoinn
10.00
a) Renew Your Irish 1
Eoghan Ó hAnluain
b) An Introduction to Gaelic Clare 1
Michael Mc Mahon
12.00
Set dancing class 2
15.00
Lecture — Whiteness and Belonging: Irish Women in England
Breda Gray
20.30
Lecture — Spioradáltacht Cheilteach agus Spioradáltacht Dhúchais
Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
22.30
Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Tuesday 22

10.00
Seimineár Ghaeilge 2
An Ghàidhlig i Saol an Lae Inniu
Roibeárd Ó Maolalaigh
10.00
a) Renew your Irish 2
Eoghan Ó hAnluain
b) An Introduction to Gaelic Clare 2
Michael Mc Mahon
12.00
Set dancing class 3
15.00
Lecture — Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales — The Post-British Phase
Kevin Whelan
20.30
Lecture — Ulster Protestants and the Question of Culture
Edna Longley
Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Wednesday 23

10.00
Turas — Bus trip to Corcomroe and Coole Park via the Burren, led by Kevin Whelan, Michael Mc Mahon & Mary Angela Keane
Returning to Lisdoonvarna by 5.00 p.m.
20.30
Lecture — Degrees of Separation: The Irish Poet and Britain
Seamus Heaney
22.30
Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Thursday 24

10.00
Seimineár Ghaeilge 3
Gnéithe de Phrós Breatnaise na hAimsire Seo
Robin Llywelyn
10.00
a) Renew your Irish 3
Eoghan Ó hAnluain
(b) An Introduction to Gaelic Clare 3
Michael Mc Mahon
12.00
Set dancing class 4
15.00
Léacht — Modern Wales: Land of the Runaway Pig
M. Wynn Thomas
20.30
Reading — Degrees of Separation: the Irish Poet and Britain
Seamus Heaney
22.30
Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Friday 25

10.00
Seimineár Ghaeilge 4
An Bhreatnais sa Phatagóin ó 1865 go dtí an Lá Inniu
Robin Llywelyn
10.00
a) Renew Your Irish 4
Eoghan Ó hAnluain
b) An Introduction to Gaelic Clare 4
Michael Mc Mahon
12.00
Set dancing class 5
15.00
Lecture — What’s Stalking Through the Post Office Now?
Susan Mc Kay
20.30
Symposium — Neighbourhood Watch: Ireland’s relations with England, Scotland and Wales
With Hugh Kearney, Edna Longley & Kevin Whelan
Chair: Brian Farrell.
22.30
Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band

Saturday 26

11.00
Poetry Reading
Presented by Seán Mac Réamoinn, Doireann Ní Bhriain, Eoghan Ó hAnluain and Patrick Crotty
Researched by Máire Ní Mhurchú
Clabhsúr na Scoile

Speakers

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).

Press release

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