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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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