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Twenty William Carleton Summer Schools Contributors to the first William Carleton Summer School in 1982 were Sam Burn- side, John Campbell, Polly Devlin, Owen Dudley Edwards, Len Graham, Jack John- ston, Benedict Kiely, Seamus MacAn- naidh, John Montague, Frank Ormsby, Ei- leen Sullivan and Padraigin ni Uallachain. Musicians, storytellers, poets, historians, novelists, antiquarians; they were all rep- resented, and in English and in Irish. The intention from the very beginning was to be cross-community and cross-cultural.

Robin Marsh, Director, Pat John Rafferty, Secretary, and Breda Heaney, Treasurer, guided the William Carleton Summer Some of the visitors, patrons and original committee members who at- School superbly during most of its ex- tended the first summer school at Corick in 1992. Names, reading from istence and we should remember them left to right: Nuala Morris, Tess Hurson, Ian Frazer, Tom Flanagan, Polly Devlin, Pat McDonnell, Jean Maclagan, Benedict Kiely, Stephen McK- now. Jack Johnston, who had been the enna, Owen Dudley Edwards, Michael McLoughlin, Arthur Quinn, Ken first Chairman and supported Robin as his Maginnis, Jim Cavanagh, Seamus McAnnaidh, Anthony McGonnell, deputy, stepped up after Robin’s untime- Jack Johnston, Sean Skeffington, Pat John Rafferty ly death and over the last two years has steered the ship with diplomacy and skill. two hundred years ago left the Clogher Valley in pre: From the very beginning of the Summer School Jack Famine Ireland and walked to Dublin where he dis- has organized the very enjoyable field trips and bus covered that he had the ability to write stories which tours in the Clogher Valley and further afield. All of revealed his society to a new and avid readership in the Committee members have contributed to the Sum- Ireland and England and further afield. Carleton’s in- mer School’s successes over the years; nevertheless, it fluence and legacy cannot be over-stated. As senior would be wrong not to highlight the huge contribution Committee member Arthur Quinn reminds us, Wil- of Sam Craig. Without Sam’s artwork and technical liam Carleton almost single-handedly resurrected the skills the event would have been greatly impover- Dublin publishing industry, and he most certainly had ished, and the Committee would not have been able to an influence on our great writers, from W. B. Yeats to produce William Carleton: the Authentic Voice. Our Seamus Heaney. Honorary Director, Owen Dudley Edwards, always provides help, advice and new contacts to ensure that This year interest in the life of William Carleton and the programmes are imaginative. in the Ireland of his lifetime leads us to find out about Carleton’s Dublin, Irish hedge schools, the method- Inspired by the Carleton Society of the 1970’s, Dun- ology of genealogical research, a legendary weather gannon District Council instigated the William Car- event and Irish secret societies. We will tour parts leton Summer School. Their financial support and of Tyrone and Monaghan which will be unfamiliar to genuine interest in the event remains crucial, and they most of us. We will hear new writing in prose and often say that they see the William Carleton Summer poetry and take part in discussions about creative pro- School as one of the most prestigious and successful cesses and about one of Carleton’s works. Most of all, enterprises in County Tyrone. Councillor Jim Cava- we will have the opportunity to socialize at the vari- nagh has been our link with them from the start. ous evening events, meeting old acquaintances and renewing friendships. All of this is predicated on a penniless peasant who Gordon Brand 3

SUMMMER SCHOOL PATRONS The Most Reverend Joseph Duffy Dr Eileen Sullivan Professor John Montague William Mr Jim Cavanagh The Lord Maginnis of Drumglass Professor Maurice Harmon Carleton DIRECTOR Jack Johnston Summer DEPUTY DIRECTOR Michael Fisher School HONORARY DIRECTOR Corick House Hotel, Owen Dudley Edwards Clogher, SECRETARY Gordon Brand 1-4 August 2011

TREASURER Tom McKeagney

SUMMER SCHOOL COMMITTEE Patrick Boyle, Jim Cavanagh, Malcolm Duffey, Aid- an Fee, Liam Foley, Billy McCrory, Marie McGrath, Frank McHugh, Michael Murphy, Arthur Quinn, Conor Rafferty, Sean Skeffington, Beverley Weir

ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Sam Craig, Sonja Lawrenson, Seamus McCluskey, Patrick McDonnell

Themes and Focuses Carleton’s Dublin Irish Hedge Schools Irish Secret Societies Genealogical Research For booking and accommodation contact Killymaddy Tourist Information Centre Ballygawley Road, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone BT70 1TF Tel: (028) 8776 7259 Email: [email protected] 4

William Carleton & The William Carleton Summer School

Born and brought up in a cottier’s home in Co hicle for his father’s stories and his mother’s tradi- Tyrone’s Clogher Valley, William Carleton (1794- tional songs, he makes liberal use of local idioms in 1869) seems to have forged his distinctive narra- the dialogue he provides for his characters. tive voice from his memories of his father’s telling The world of the Irish peasant is also the setting for of ‘old tales, legends and historical anecdotes’, in Carleton’s succession of novels which includes Far- Irish, and his eclectic if unsystematic reading of such dorougha the Miser (1839), Valentine McClutchy classics as Defoe’s History of the Devil, Fielding’s (1845), The Black Prophet (1847), The Emigrants Tom Jones and, famously, Smollett’s translation of of Aghadarra (1848), The Tithe Proctor (1849) and Lesage’s Gil Blas which he claimed to have particu- The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852). In these larly influenced him. As he progressed as a writer, works Carleton addresses many of the issues affect- Carleton was not totally outside the main stream of ing the Ireland of his day such as the influence of literature. He earned the respect of such revered fig- the Established Church, landlordism, poverty, fam- ures as Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Ferguson, William ine and emigration. Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens and was considerably gratified by the prospect of an English Carleton’s writings brought him limited commercial readership. His initial opportunity to write about the benefit and he suffered periods of neglect, despite Irish peasants came from the task, entrusted to him an abortive attempt in the late nineteenth century by by a Church of Ireland clergyman, Caesar Otway, of W B. Yeats to restore his status as a major writer. In exposing their so-called Catholic superstitiousness. more recent times a second rediscovery owes much Carleton obliged with, amongst a number of short to such writers as Patrick Kavanagh, Benedict Kiely, pieces, ‘The Lough Derg Pilgrim’. Later, however, John Montague and Seamus Heaney, to critics like he purged the story of its anti-Catholic material and, Barbara Hayley, Thomas Flanagan, David Krause, although he became a member of the Established Eileen Sullivan and Maurice Harmon, and, in his Church of Ireland in his twenties, he did not share own Clogher Valley, to the efforts of the Carleton the strident evangelicalism and prosletysing activ Society founded in the 1960s. ties of both Otway and the movement in the Church of Ireland known as ‘The Second Reformation’. The most sustained effort to celebrate Carleton, however, must surely be the annual summer school, Although Carleton lived in Dublin for most of his inaugurated in 1992. Encouraged by patrons such as adult life, the world of his imagination remained the Benedict Kiely, Eileen Sullivan, Owen Dudley Ed- Clogher Valley of his youth and young manhood wards and John Montague, the committee, from the and he remains best known as the interpreter of ‘a beginning, avoided an unduly localised focus and class unknown in literature’ in his two volumes of presented Carleton as a writer who produced from short stories, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peas- his Clogher Valley roots a body of work that mer- antry (1829 and 1833). In these stories, he draws on its serious critical attention. Papers by a range of comedy, farce, melodrama and tragedy to present a distinguished scholars have, at successive Summer tapestry of the life of the country people of the north Schools, deconstructed, contextualised, reassessed of Ireland before the famines of the 1840s altered and celebrated Carleton’s work and in 2006 the their pattern of existence forever. He also presents Summer School Committee published a selection these people in a language they might recognise as of these papers in William Carleton, The Authentic coming from a bilingual family in which English Voice. was the language of daily transactions, Irish the ve- Robin Marsh 5

Breda Heaney the local Community Police Liaison Committee As expected there was an enormous attendance at her funeral on 28th December, the Feast of the Holy Inno- cents. Breda knew the whole countryside and they in due course came to pay their respects to her. The homily in St Mary’s Catholic Church was given by the Anglican Dean of Kilmore, the Very Rev Raymond Ferguson. He had been Rector of Carnteel (Aughnacloy) some years previously and had come to know and value Breda’s role in that community. Dean Ferguson spoke of Breda’s concern for bridge-building and of her earnest wish for an end to the Troubles.

Our Summer School gave her a good send off and most of the Committee were there. Carleton delegates came from far and near- Belfast, Cavan and even Dublin. Sam’s painting of Breda and Mary on one of our tours stood on an easel in the Church sanctuary. It was all most appropriate. I am sure she smiled down on us and as usual had the last word on what was a very sad day. May she rest in peace.

Jack Johnston Breda Heaney took her leave from us at Christ- mas time. Although her health had not been good for a few years she had only been seriously ill for a matter of weeks. Her death was sudden in the end and took every- one by surprise. She was the Treasurer of the Summer School for over 17 years.

Breda was not just our Treasurer. For many people she was the face and voice of the Summer School. She was the person who each year greeted delegates as they ar- rived and registered. She knew most by name and more often than not handed them their badge without as much as a question as to who they might be. She made people feel at home and was our greatest ambassador.

Breda Goodwin grew up in Pomeroy as one of a large family and in due course became a primary school teach- er. She taught in Killybrone near Emyvale and it was there that she met her husband, Tom. She and Tom and Bridin made their home in Aughnacloy where she soon became an integral part of that community. Indeed there was little happened in Aughnacloy without Breda. She was Treasurer of the Development Association and part and parcel of the many and varied initiatives that the group organised. She was involved with the town’s festival, with its history group and with the senior citizen par- ties at Christmas. She was also involved in local cross- border activities with other groups. Breda was chair of 6

Monday, 1st August lar contributor to “Sunday Miscel- lany” on RTÉ radio, Iggy’s awards 10.45 a.m. Official Opening include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and the Hennessy Literary 11.30 a.m. Keynote Address: ‘Carleton’s Dublin’ by Award for Poetry. A first collection Prof. Jacqueline Hill NUI (Maynooth) in 2005, The King of Suburbia, re- ceived the inaugural Glen Dimplex 1.00 p.m. Lunch New Writers Award for Poetry. A second collection, Safe House, was 2.00 p.m. Ignatius McGovern, poet published last year by Dedalus Press.

3.oo p.m. ‘The Night of the Big Wind’ by Peter Carr Peter Carr founded the White Row Press in 1987. This small Belfast- 4.30 p.m. Maurice Harmon, poet based publishing house brought out a new edition of Carleton’s Autobi- 6.00 p.m. Evening Meal ography in 1996. Peter specializes in local history: particularly in the 8.30 p.m. Wine and Cheese in Fardross Country Ards Peninsula. His own book on Park [Somer’s Café]. Music provided by members Dundonald, The Most Unpretend- of Murley Silver Band. Local cheese sponsored by ing of Places, was published in Fivemiletown and Augher Dairy Societies. 1990. White Row’s greatest achievement has been the double volume work Portavo : An Irish townland and its peoples (2003 & 2005) – the second volume Jacqueline Hill is Associate Pro- of which narrowly missed the Wolfson History Prize. fessor in the Department of History Peter’s research for this monumental work, which ex- at NUI Maynooth. She gained her tended over 15 years, set new bench marks in local PhD from the University of Leeds history. He also researched and published The Night in 1973 with a thesis on ‘The of the Big Wind (Belfast, 1991), an event (1839) which Role of Dublin in the Irish Na- figured in the life of Carleton and which has been tional Movement 1840-48’. She etched in folk memory ever since. has written widely on the history of Dublin and in 1997 produced Maurice Harmon is a patron of From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and the William Carleton Summer Irish Protestant Patriotism 1660-1840 (Clarendon School. Professor Harmon is a Press, Oxford). Her discussion on ‘Religion, Trade distinguished critic, biographer, and Politics in Dublin, 1798-1848’ appeared in Cit- editor, literary historian, and poet. ies and Merchants 1500-1900 (T.C.D., 1986). Dr Hill He has edited No Author Better was editor of volume vii of A New History of Ireland: Served. The Correspondence be- Ireland 1921-1984 (Oxford, 2003) and edited (with tween Samuel Beckett and Alan others) Religion, Conflict and Co-Existence in Ireland Schneider (1998) and has trans- (Gill & MacMillan, 1990). She has contributed essays lated the medieval Irish compendium of stories and to about 20 books and has had articles published in poems The Colloquy of the Old Men (2001). He has journals that include Irish Historical Studies, Past and written studies of Seán O’Faoláin, Austin Clarke, and Present and Archivium Hibernicum. Thomas Kinsella, and edited the ground-breaking an- thology Irish Poetry After Yeats. His Selected Essays Iggy McGovern was born in Coleraine and is Associ- (2006) contains articles on William Carleton, Mary ate Professor of Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. He Lavin, John Montague, and contemporary Irish po- is also a poet and his work has appeared widely in both etry. His poetry collections include The Last Regatta journal and anthology formats, as well as in the “Poetry (2000), The Doll with Two Backs (2004) and The Mis- in Motion” series on DART trains in Dublin. A regu- chievous Boy (2008). 7

Tuesday, 2nd August ogy trips to all of the major archive centres in Ireland and he has appeared as a regular contributor to the 10.30 a.m. ‘Hedge Schools’ by Dr Antonia McManus Genealogy section of the Maguire history weekend at Fermanagh County Museum. Over the last two years, 11.45 a.m. “William Carleton–—who do you think he has been responsible for running a six week Geneal- you are?” The Genealogy of the Carleton Family by ogy course in Lisnaskea. His article ‘Researching your Frank McHugh Family History in Fermanagh’ was published in The Fermanagh Miscellany in 2010. 1.00 p.m. Lunch Kevin Barry has been acclaimed 2.00 p.m. Creative Writing Symposium with Kevin as Shannonside’s answer to Rod- Barry, Seamus MacAnnaidh, Felicity McCall and Paul dy Doyle. He lives in Co. Sligo Clements. Chaired by Michael Fisher though he is originally from Lim- erick, where he worked as a free- 5.30 p.m. Evening Meal lance journalist before devoting himself full-time to writing. His 7.00-9.00 p.m. Guided walk with Clogher Valley first novel, City of Bohane, was Walking Club published in April. His collection of short stories, There Are Little 9.30 p.m. Traditional music in the Rathmore Bar, Kingdoms (2007), was awarded the Rooney Prize for Clogher Irish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, Best Antonia McManus, formerly a European Fiction 2011, and many other journals and lecturer at Froebel College of Edu- anthologies. He also works on plays, screenplays, cation, Sion Hill, Dublin, currently graphic stories and essays. A distinguished travel writ- teaches in the Education Depart- er, his accounts on destinations across the world have ment, Trinity College, Dublin. A made it to The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sydney native of Co. Mayo, she comes Morning Herald and many other publications. Kevin from a family with a strong teach- lists Valencia in Spain as his favourite destination. ing tradition, spanning five generations of her family. Dr McManus was educated at Our Lady’s Convent of Séamas MacAnnaidh is a writer, Mercy, Belmullet, and later at St. Patrick’s College, broadcaster and historian who Maynooth, following which she taught at second level spoke at the first William Carleton before pursuing her Ph.D at Trinity College, Dublin. Summer School in 1992. He has Her study of hedge schools, The Irish Hedge School published fifteen books since 1982 and Its Books, 1695-1831, was published by Four when his first novel,Cuaifeach Mo Courts Press in 2002. She is currently working on a Lon Dubh Bui appeared. His nov- book on Irish education policy from 1919-1999. Dr els in Irish have now been trans- McManus lives in Trim, Co. Meath. lated into many other languages. He has been Writer in Residence Frank McHugh was born in Bel- in several universities, most recently in UCG. He was fast in 1963. Both his parents are a founder of the Fermanagh Authors’ Association and from Fermanagh and he has re- has edited The Fermanagh Miscellany, a yearly collec- searched both sides of his family tion of new writings from Fermanagh. His work, Fer- back to the early 19th Century. He managh Books, Writers and Newspapers of the Nine- set up the Fermanagh Family His- teenth Century (1999) is a valued reference for many of tory Society in 2008. He is cur- the county’s lesser known writers. Seamus is married rently Head of Drama at Portora to violist Joy Beatty and they live in Belcoo. Royal School, Enniskillen. He is a committee member of the Wil- Felicity McCall who lives in Derry is an award win- liam Carleton Summer School. Frank has led geneal- ning novelist, dramatist, writer of screenplays, and a 8 miscarriage of justice activist. The Co. Fermanagh and Co. Monaghan’. former BBC journalist has written Wednesday, 3rd August several novels, plays and films. Originally from South Armagh, she 10.30 am. Wednesday Tour: graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1979 and began work as Hedge School to High School a journalist with the Ulster Gazette in Armagh and the Portadown Her- Tour led by Jack Johnston taking in sites of ald. For twenty years she worked Carleton’s hedge schools in both Tyrone and for BBC news and current affairs Monaghan. We will visit other school sites programmes in Belfast and London. Her first novel along the way, including the 1780 school built Reckoning was published in 2006. The same year she by Bishop Garnett (Carleton named it the ‘Blue won the Tyrone Guthrie Award for script/play writing. Coat school’), the Cave school at Aughnacloy She is also a campaigner for miscarriages of justice and and Cornagilta National School in County in 2010 published Justice for John, the story of a former Monaghan. Tour will conclude with a visit to RUC officer from Co.Tyrone, John Torney, who died in the new Fivemiletown College where the for- prison. Felicity’s first collection of short stories has just mer VP Mrs.Beverley Weir will show the party appeared and she is working on her first novel which is round. Lunch en-route and evening meal in the to be published next year. Valley Hotel at 5.00pm.

Paul Clements is a writer, jour- 8.00 p.m. A concert with Armagh City Choir nalist and tutor who was born in and Margaret Skeffington (harp) in St. Ma- Augher, Co. Tyrone. He had a cartan’s Cathedral, Clogher long career with the BBC in Bel- fast and London before becoming a Jack Johnston is the Direc- freelance writer in 2007. He is the tor of the William Carleton author of three travel books about Summer School and Chair- Ireland, Irish Shores: A Journey man of the Ulster Local His- Round the Rim of Ireland (1993), The Height of Non- tory Trust. He has written sense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip (2005), and has and lectured widely on local just published Burren Country: Travels through an Irish history, and has a particu- Limestone Landscape. He is a contributing editor to lar knowledge of his native two travel guidebooks: Insight and Fodor’s. He has also Clogher Valley. He is cur- written widely about the writer and historian Jan Morris rently working on a new his- and his work includes a critical study published in 1998, tory of Clogher. Jack’s publications include ar- and a festschrift, Jan Morris, Around the World in Eighty ticles in a wide range of journals while he has Years, published in 2006 in honour of her 80th birthday. edited local studies in Cavan, Monaghan, Ty- Paul is a member of the National Union of Journalists rone, Fermanagh and Sligo. One of his earliest and the Society of Authors. articles was ‘The Hedge Schools of Tyrone and Monaghan’ in The Clogher Record (1969). He Michael Fisher is Deputy Director currently edits The Spark: A Local History Re- of the William Carleton Summer view – now also in its twentieth year. School and a freelance journalist. He is a former television news re- Beverley Weir was formerly porter with RTÉ News in Belfast Vice-Principal of Fivemi- and Dublin, and also worked for letown High School and Com- the BBC in London as a trainee munity College, where she taught journalist and in Birmingham as French English and Spanish. She a local radio reporter. A native of visited many local schools when Dublin, Michael has family connections with Co. Tyrone she was seconded as Advisory as well as Co. Monaghan. He is a graduate of U.C.D. Officer for Modern Languages in and Q.U.B. and is a previous contributor to the summer the SELB area. She is a member of the William Car- school. His MA dissertation was on ‘The Big House in leton Summer School Committee. 9

Thursday, 4th August Belfast for 12 years. He is a member of the Peace Train and of the Ultacht Trust. He and his brother 10.30 a.m. ‘Ribbonism’ by Dr Jennifer Kelly Michael challenged the validity of the Anglo-Irish Agreement before the Irish High Court and in due 11.45 a.m. ‘Orangeism’ by Dr Chris McGimpsey course the Irish Supreme Court. They argued that the Agreement contradicted articles 2 and 3 of the 1.00 p.m. Lunch Irish Constitution. Dr McGimpsey has researched nineteenth century Orangeism in County Monaghan 2.00 p.m. Radio play followed by audience discus- and in 1982 published ‘Border Ballads and Sectarian sion of ‘The Party Fight and Funeral’, with Liam Affrays’ in the Clogher Record. Foley and Gordon Brand Liam Foley was formerly Head- master of St. Brigid’s Primary 4.00 p.m. ‘Overview of the Summer School’ by School, Augher and is a member Owen Dudley Edwards of the Summer School Commit- tee and the principal organizer 5.30 p.m. Evening meal of the week’s evening activities. Last year he wrote a very suc- 8.30 p.m. Supper Dance with Bob Quick Jazz Quar- cessful adaptation of Carleton’s tet, in Corick House Hotel ‘The Midnight Mass’ which was presented in the form of a radio play. This year Liam is turning his Jennifer Kelly is currently Proj- hand to Carleton’s ‘The Party Fight and Funeral’. ect Officer with An Foras Feasa: The Institute for Research in Gordon Brand is the Secretary of the Summer School Com- Irish Historical and Cultural Tra- mittee and previously edited the ditions at NUI, Maynooth. She Summer School’s volume Wil- was awarded her PhD from Mary liam Carleton: the Authentic Immaculate College, Limerick in Voice. He gives occasional lec- 2005 and had a Summer fellow- tures on Oscar Wilde, Anthony ship at Boston College in 2008. She is the Director Trollope, William Allingham and of the Sean Mac Diarmada Summer School. at Kilty- Patrick MacGill. clogher ( Co Leitrim) and is currently Secretary of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland. Owen Dudley Edwards is Hon- Dr Kelly has lectured on Ribbonism in Leitrim and orary Director of the William Sligo and has published articles on ‘Captain Rock’ Carleton Summer School. He and ‘The Molly Maguires’. Her book, The Downfall has been a regular contributor of Hagan: Sligo Ribbonism 1842 was published in since it began in 1992. An Hon- orary Fellow in the School of the Maynooth Local Studies series in 2008. History at the University of Ed- inburgh, Owen is a contributor to all major histori- Chris McGimpsey holds a BA cal journals. He has published works on Macauley, from Syracuse University, New de Valera, Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse and James York and a PhD in Irish history Connolly. He is also a recognised authority on Os- from Edinburgh University. He car Wilde. ln 1994 he reissued Burke and Hare, his has been a member of the Ul- study of the infamous nineteenth century providers ster Unionist Party for almost of corpses for anatomical research, and he has also 30 years and served as a Belfast written a play on this subject which was performed city councillor representing West in Edinburgh. 10

The William Carleton Summer School: Contributors: 1992-2010 1992 John Montague Adrian Rice Noel Monahan John Montague Thomas Ó Grady Adrian Fox Maurice Harmon Jack Johnston Stephen McKenna John McAllister Len Graham Seamus Macannaidh Eileen Sullivan Gerry Burns John Campbell Frank Ormsby Denise Ferran John McArdle Susan McKay Polly Devlin Douglas Carson Tommy McArdle Owen Dudley Edwards Eileen Sullivan Thomas Bartlett John McGurk Owen Dudley Edwards Adrian Rice Bernard McLaverty 2007 Benedict Kiely John Wilson Foster Rolf Loeber Clare Boylan 2003 Tess Maginess 1993 Owen Dudley Edwards R. B. McDowell Arthur Quinn Sophia Hillan-King Maurice Harmon Maurice Harmon Anthony Cronin 1999 Eileen Sullivan Peter Denman Tess Hurson John Kelly John Breakey Jack Johnston Ian McDowell Sam McAughtry Noel Monahan Barry Sloan Cormac Ó Grada Sean Skeffington Ruth Dudley Edwards Tom Dunne Luke Dodd Norman Vance Paul Cullen Pat Joe Kennedy James Simmons Barry Sloan Malachi Ó Doherty Briege, Clare and Mary Hanna Eugene McCabe Pat McDonnell Poilin Ni Chiarain Robin Marsh Benedict Kiely Sam Craig Eddie McCartney Gordon Brand Noel Monahan Jack Johnston Mary Montague 1994 Mary Ó Malley Seamus McCluskey Michael Fisher Augustine Martin Mary McVeigh Owen Dudley Edwards John McGurk Seamus Heaney Declan Kiberd Clare Boylan Owen Dudley Edwards Bert Tosh John Montague Jude Collins Noel Monahan Gerry Hull Peter Hollywood 2008 Gerry Hull David Hammond Keith Anderson John A Murphy Heather Brett Edna Longley Seamus Ó Cathain Brian Earls Patricia Craig Maurice Leitch Theo Dorgan Gordon Brand Malcolm Scott Owen Dudley Edwards George Watson James Simmons 2004 Ronan Boyle Owen Dudley Edwards 2000 Patricia Craig James Cooke Patrick McCabe Robert Welch John Killen Norman Vance Gerald Dawe Ian Adamson Gordon Brand Patricia Craig Peter Fallon Martina Devlin Gerald Dawe 1995 Maura Johnston Hazel Dolling Eamonn Hughes Thomas Flanagan Tony MacAuley Terence Dooley Robin Marsh John Montague Tom Paulin Norman Vance Bert Tosh Gene Carroll Stewart J. Brown Ruth Beeb Jack Johnston Oliver Rafferty John A. Murphy Christopher Blake Maura Johnston W. J. Smyth Pauric Travers Maureen Boyle Michael Murphy Brian Earls David Norris Maria Mcmanus Erno Klepoch Frank Ormsby Richard Warner Sonia Abercrombie Magdolna Aldobolyi Nagy Heather Brett Leon McAuley Jack Johnston Glenn Moore Noel Monahan Tom McKeagney Roma Tomelty Michael Longley Una Agnew Gordon Brand Gordon Fullerton Edna Longley Frances Ó Hare Ruth McCabe Marianne Elliott Sinéad Morrissey Norman Vance Arthur Quinn Eileen Sullivan Patrick J. Duffy Eileen Sullivan Eileen Sullivan Declan Ford Owen Dudley Edwards Patrick Quigley Sam Craig Brian Walker Glenn Patterson Brian Fallon Owen Dudley Edwards 2009 Owen Dudley Edwards Owen Dudley Edwards Diarmaid Ferriter 2005 Eamonn O Ciardha 1996 2001 Paul Bew Gordon Brand Bill Maguire Maurice Harmon Jack Johnston Ruth Illingworth John Montague Edith Devlin John B. Cunningham Theo Dorgan Tom McIntyre Mary McKenna Michael Longley Sophia Hillan Diarmid Ó Doibhlin Bishop Joseph Duffy Stephen McKenna Noel Monahan Antoinette Quinn Bishop Brian Hannon Terence Dooley Michael Parker Terence Brown Brian Donnelly Maurice Harmon Marie Louise Muir Paul Muldoon Darragh Gallagher Raymond Murray Jack Johnston Desmond Fennell Laurence Geary Marie Martin The Ballyshannon Singers Colm Toibin Jack Johnston Claire Millar Robin Marsh Jude Collins Pat McDonnell Margaret McCay Gerald Hull Owen Dudley Edwards Sam Craig Margaret Skeffington Maurice Harmon Owen Dudley Edwards Sean Collins Patrick Walsh 1997 Barry Sloan Robin Marsh Brian Walker Roy Foster Anne Barnett Sam Craig Owen Dudley Edwards Eamonn Hughes Gene Carroll Patrick C. Power Ciaran Carson Tom Bartlett Paul Clements 2010 James Simmons 2002 Malachi Cush Sean Connolly John Montague Gearoid Ó Tuathaigh Alvin Jackson Cliona Ó Gallchoir Elizabeth Wassell Peter Denman Owen Dudley Edwards Mark Bailey Jim Cavanagh Frank Falls 2006 Emer Nolan Patricia Craig Colleen Lowry Thomas Charles-Edwards Linde Linney Patrick Maume Seamus Heaney Siobhan Kilfeather Damian Gorman Ivan Herbison Brian Ferran Gifford Lewis David Park Robin Marsh Frank Galligan Brian McCúrta Emma Heatherington Mary Ó Donnell David Hammond Richard Warner Jack Johnston Fred Johnston Sam Craig John Killen Kate Sutcliffe Owen Dudley Edwards Gordon Brand Sydney Aiken Noel Monahan 1998 Jack Johnston Elizabeth McCrum Ruth Illingworth A. Norman Jeffares Seamus McCluskey Brian McClelland Alan Acheson Simon Gatrell Noel Monahan Malachi Ó Doherty Paddy Fitzgerald Michael Longley Owen Dudley Edwards Robbie Meredith Liam Foley Pat John Rafferty John Montague Jack Johnston The Carleton Players Benedict Kiely Elizabeth Wassell Liam Kelly Gordon Brand 11

Information for evening entertainments and other events

Monday, 1st August Wednesday, 3rd August 8.30 p.m. Wine and Cheese in Carleton Summer School and The Friends of Clogher Cathedral Fardross Country Park [Somer’s Café]. present Music provided by members of Murley Silver Band. Armagh City Choir Local cheese sponsored conductor: Adrian Brunton by Fivemiletown and Augher Dairy Societies. and Margaret Skeffington (harp) Tuesday, 2nd August 8.00 p.m. in Saint Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher 7.00-9.00 p.m. A Carleton Walk with the Clogher Valley Walking Club Thursday, 4th August Walk (3.5 miles) begins at George Duffy’s Mill, 8.30 p.m. Supper Dance with the Augher. From there via Sessia Road to the Forth Bob Quick Jazz Quartet, Chapel (Grave of poetess Rose Kavanagh) and in Corick House Hotel from there to Clogher by way of Ballylaster Bridge and Rosey Lane. Patrons should park in the Rathmore Bar car park. A minibus will convey walkers from the car park to the starting point.

9.30 p.m. Traditional Music Night Rathmore Bar, Clogher with Liam Treanor and Friends Liam (banjo and vocals) Rita McKenna (guitar and vocals) Keiran Treanor (fiddle and bodhran) Peter McKenna (accordion and mandolin)

An Exhibition of Paintings by Angela Hackett Monday, 1st August, Flavour of Tyrone launch of the Clogher Valley Heritage Trail brochure

Twenty of Angela Hackett’s watercolour paintings have been used as illustrations in the new brochure. William Carleton Summer School 1-4 August, 2011 At Corick House Hotel, Clogher, County Tyrone, telephone 02885548216 For booking and accommodation contact Killymaddy Tourist Information Centre, tel. 02887767259 or email: [email protected] More about the Carleton Summer School online at www.williamcarletonsummerschool.org

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE The William Carleton Summer School Committee Jacqueline Hill, Iggy McGovern, acknowledges contributions made by the following: Peter Carr, Maurice Harmon, Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council Antonia McManus, Frank McHugh, The Precentor and Select Vestry of Kevin Barry, Séamas MacAnnaidh, Saint Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher Felicity McCall, Paul Clements, Proprietors of Corick House Michael Fisher, Jack Johnston, Tom Sheehy (Booksellers), Cookstown Ecclesville Printing Services Beverley Weir, Jennifer Kelly, Colin Slack @ www.csgwd.eu Chris McGimpsey, Liam Foley, Arts Council for Northern Ireland Gordon Brand, Owen Dudley Edwards Awards for All Northern Ireland Tourist Board

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