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Exiles and Strangers: Immigrants to and from Ireland
- Location: Ennistymon, Co. Clare
- Saturday 17 – Saturday 24 August 2002
- Director: Liam Irwin, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
Programme
Saturday 17
- 17.00
- Registration at Falls Hotel
- 19.00
- Reception
- 20.30
- Opening of School
- 22.30
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Sunday 18
- 12.00
- Clare/Polka Sets and Two-Hand Dances 1
- With Johnny Morrissey and Betty Mc Coy
- 15.00
- Lecture — The Celtic and Roman “Invasions” of Ireland: Fact or Fiction?
- Richard Warner
- 20.30
- Lecture — Beyond Tolerance: Towards Irish Models of Multiculturalism?
- Piaras Mac Éinrí
- 22.30
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Monday 19
- 10.00
- Seimineáir Ghaeilge 1
- Ionnarbadh agus Imirce in Éirinn sa Luathré
- Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
- Cathaoirleach: Liam Ó Dochartaigh
- 10.00
- a) Renew Your Irish 1
- Eoghan Ó hAnluain
- b) Local History 1
- The Macnamaras of Ennistymon
- Michael Mc Mahon
- 12.00
- Sets and Two-Hand Dances 2
- 15.00
- Lecture — Identity and Imperialism: The Irish in Spain, Austria, and Flanders
- Declan Downey
- 20.30
- Lecture — The Politics of Asylum and Immigration in Ireland: Justice Delayed or Injustice Expedited?
- Donncha O’Connell
- 22.30
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Tuesday 20
- 10.00
- Seimineár Ghaeilge 2
- An Imirce go hAlbain: Imirce an Riachtanais
- Pádraig Ó Baoighill
- 10.00
- a) Renew your Irish 2
- Eoghan Ó hAnluain
- b) Local History 2. The Craic was Good in Cricklewood: Songs and Poems of the Irish Navvies
- Ultan Cowley
- 12.00
- Sets and Two-Hand Dances 3
- 15.00
- Lecture — Re-thinking the History of the Irish of London: Patterns and Sources
- Patrick O’Sullivan
- 17.00
- EU Reception for participants
- Host: Peter Doyle (EU)
- 20.30
- Lecture — The Irish in Australia
- Ruán O’Donnell
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Wednesday 21
- 10.00
- Turas — Tour to Killaloe led by Liam Irwin, Michael Mc Mahon, Pat Wallace & Seán Kierse
- 15.00
- Lecture — Brian Ború
- Pat Wallace (Venue: Killaloe Cathedral)
- 20.30
- Lecture — Connaughtmen and Horned Cattle to the Far Platform: Irish Navvies and the Culture of Migration
- Ultan Cowley
- 22.30
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Thursday 22
- 10.00
- Seimineár Ghaeilge 3
- Mac Amhlaigh agus a Chomrádaithe: na Fir Shluasad Deiridh
- Proinsias Mac Aonghusa
- 10.00
- a) Renew your Irish 3
- Eoghan Ó hAnluain
- (b) Local History 3. GAA Ballads of Munster
- Jimmy Smyth
- 12.00
- Sets and Two-Hand Dances 4
- 15.00
- Léacht — Gaelachas agus Gaeilgeoireacht – Na Gaeil i Meiriceá
- Úna Ní Bhroiméil
- 20.30
- Lecture — Me and Mamie O’Rourke: The Irish in NY
- Maureen Murphy
- 22.30
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Friday 23
- 10.00
- Seimineár Ghaeilge 4
- Aniar thar na Bánta
- Seosamh Ó Méalóid
- 10.00
- a) Renew Your Irish 4
- Eoghan Ó hAnluain
- b) Local History 4. The Famine in West Clare
- Matthew Lynch
- 12.00
- Sets and Two-Hand Dances 5
- 15.00
- Lecture — Emigration: Then and Now
- Fr. Paul Byrne
- 20.30
- Lecture — The Changing Irish Mind: An Immigrant Psychiatrist’s Viewpoint
- Moosajee Bhamjee
- 22.30
- Club Merriman — dancing to the Four Courts Céilí Band
Saturday 24
- 11.15
- Poetry Reading
- Presented by Eoghan Ó hAnluain and Doireann Ní Bhriain
- Researched by Máire Ní Mhurchú
Speakers
- Dr. Moosajee Bhamjee
- A native of South Africa. Consultant Psychiatrist in Ennis and former TD for Clare.
- Fr. Paul Byrne OMI
- Director, Irish Episcopal Commission for Emigrants, servicing emigrants in all the major cities in Britain, the USA and Australia.
- Ultan Cowley M.Sc (Econ)
- Author of the highly acclaimed study of the Irish navvies, The Men Who Built Britain.
- Declan Downey
- Lecturer in the Department of History, University College, Dublin. His specialist research is on the Irish in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Liam Irwin
- Head of the Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Member of the National Archives of Ireland Advisory Council, Vice-President of the Thomond Archaeological Society, Chairman of the Limerick Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society and a Council member of An Taisce.
- Matthew Lynch
- Local historian. His research on the Famine period in West Clare will be published shortly.
- Prionsias Mac Aonghusa
- Journalist, author and broadcaster. Iar-Uachtarán, Conradh na Gaeilge, Iar-Chathaoirleach, Bord na Gaeilge.
- Seosamh Mac Donncha
- Chair, National Anti-Racism Awareness Campaign. Former president of GAA. Príomhfheidhmeannach, Foras na Gaeilge.
- Piaras Mac Éinrí
- Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies, at University College, Cork. Widely published on immigration policy, asylum seekers, racism and demography.
- Betty Mc Coy
- Long established dance teacher who has played a central role in the revival and popularity of set dancing.
- Michael Mc Mahon
- Highly regarded and popular Clare writer and local historian.
- Johnny Morrissey
- Dance master. Well known teacher and participant in set dancing and a concertina player.
- Maureen Murphy
- Professor in Education at Hofstra University, NY with a particular interest in the experience of Irish women immigrants in the United States. Instrumental in developing the Great Irish Famine curriculum for all schools in New York state. Consultant to the Famine Memorial in Lower Manhattan, NY.
- Doireann Ní Bhriain
- Arts consultant and broadcaster and regular contributor to Merriman poetry readings.
- Úna Ní Bhroiméil
- Lecturer in Department of History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Her doctorate thesis on America and the Gaelic Revival, 1890 – 1915,will be published later this year.
- Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
- Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge University and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Research interests include history and literature of medieval Ireland.
- Máire Ní Mhurchú
- Joint compiler with Diarmuid Breathnach of the acclaimed Beathaisnéis series, recognised recently by NUI Maynooth with the degree of D. Litt. Celt. Has researched numerous Merriman poetry sessions.
- Pádraig Ó Baoighill
- Short story writer, novelist, poet, biographer, researcher and journalist from Donegal Gaeltacht.
- Donncha O’Connell
- Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway specialising in Constitutional Law and European Human Rights. Completed a three year term as the first full time Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties in March 2002.
- Liam Ó Dochartaigh
- Director International Education, University of Limerick. Directed Merriman Winter Schools 1998 – 2002.
- Ruán O’Donnell
- Lecturer in History, Department of Government and Society, University of Limerick. His publications focus on the United Irishmen and the Irish in Australia. Currently completing a book on Robert Emmet.
- Eoghan Ó hAnluain
- Senior Lecturer in Irish, University College, Dublin. Directed Merriman Summer School 1992, and 24 Winter Schools (1969 – 1992).
- Seosamh Ó Méalóid
- From Camus in Conamara. He moved to Co. Meath as part of the Gaeltacht migration scheme. Former teacher and broadcaster.
- Patrick O’Sullivan
- Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit, Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies, University of Bradford. Editor of The Irish World Wide: History, Heritage, Identity 6 vols (Leicester, 1992 – 97). Consultant to the major television series, The Irish Empire.
- Jimmy Smyth
- A renowned Clare hurler. Has published three books on the GAA ballads of Clare, Cork and Tipperary.
- Pat Wallace
- Director, National Museum of Ireland. An acknowledged expert on the Vikings in Ireland. Well known as broadcaster and TV presenter of archaeological programmes.
- Richard Warner
- Keeper of Archaeology, Ethnography and Head of Human History at the Ulster Museum, Belfast. His research mainly focuses on the Iron Age and the early historic period. His views on a possible Roman presence in Ireland has aroused much debate.
Press release
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