The Bookmark The Monthly Newsletter for Cavan County Council’s Library Service

Issue 47, May 2015

Inside this Celebrate Bealtaine 2015 with us... Month’s Issue he Monthly Newsletter for Cavan County Council’s Library Service TRead about:

Issue Bealtaine 3, September 2015 2011  Charlotte Brooke  Success for Glór Bhréifne  Cootehill Community Engagement

 Cavan’s Great Railways – A talk

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[email protected] 12th May, 12pm - Oral Reminiscences: An intergenerational event focusing on ‘Folklore - or write to Editor, Myths and Tales’ Library Newsletter, Johnston Central Library, 14th May, 12pm - Hidden Talents: An intergenerational event with children and adults Cavan. sharing music, song, dance, crafts and much more

Subscribe to 21st May, 12pm - ‘Bealtaine na nGael’ Song & Rhyme Show Newsletter

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Newsletter, please th 14 May, 11am - "The Art of Sewing, Knitting & Fabric contact your local library Manipulation", a workshop by Karen McArdle, Textile or email your details to Designer & member of Design & Crafts Council of [email protected].

th 26 May, 7pm – A Reading by Author in Residence for the Bealtaine Festival 2015 Timothy O’Grady. Reading from his critically acclaimed novel ‘I Could Read the Sky’ and reflecting on the experience of Irish emigration. Author in Residence for the Bealtaine Festival 2015 Timothy Belturbet Library O’Grady

19th May, 10am - School Days Now and Then: This

Intergenerational Event will take place with Belturbet Library Craft Group & Local School Children

21st May, 3pm - ‘Bealtaine na nGael’ Song & Rhyme Show

Cootehill Library

th Connemara-based Tadhg Mac 20 May, 2.30pm - ‘Bealtaine na nGael’ Song & Dhonnagáin will perform lively material Rhyme Show during the Bealtaine na nGael sessions

All Bealtaine events are free! See www.cavanlibrary.ie for full event information.

Library Theme 2015 is to “Focus on Folklore”

Charlotte Brooke Comhghairdeas Glór Bhréifne

A woman without a face - at least in

history - as no portrait of this

pioneering 18th-century scholar and

literary translator is known to

exist. She was born circa 1740 at

Rantavan House, Mullagh and was

one of the two surviving children of

Henry Brooke and Letrice Digby who

had a family of twenty two. She was

educated at home by her father and

gained a wide understanding of

English, French and Italian literature.

There was a noted coterie of Gaelic scholars in the Mullagh area including Feardorcha O’Farrelly and Cathaoir MaCabe; and Charlotte picked up a love of the from them.

She studied the Irish language, collected Irish manuscripts, and recorded poems that she heard recited. Her father Sa phictúir: Aogán Ó Fearghaill, Carmel Ní Chíosóg Mhic Gabhann,Leabharlann Eamonn O’hArgain, Stiúrthóir staged a number of plays in Dublin where Charlotte was Seirbhísí Forbartha,Foras na Gaeilge, Pat Carey, Bellamnt Estate

introduced to literary and theatrical life, and where she Cathaoirleach ar Ghlór na nGael Rent Book

became acquainted with Muiris O’Gormain and Charles

O’Connor, a friend of her fathers who helped her in collecting Glór Bhréifne, a Cavan based Irish language group Irish manuscripts. has worked with Cavan Library Service to promote the

Her mother died at Rantavan in 1772, and Charlotte became Irish language throughout the county for many years, an isolated figure like the Brontes, devoting herself to her and this year received a prize worth €3,000 from Glór father until he died in 1783. She had nothing published until na nGael in the category Rannóg le Daonra. Aogán Ó 1786 when three of her translations of Irish poems were Fearghail, Uachtaráin- Chumann Lúthchleas Gael, included in Joseph Cooper Walker’s ‘Historical memoirs of presented the prizes to the award winners.

Irish bards’. Her most famous work ‘The Reliques of Irish Poetry’ was published in 1789. This was the first time that a Cootehill Community Engagement

wide selection of Irish verse appeared in print. In 1791 she

published a book on Christian doctrine for children entitled

‘The School for Christians in Dialogue for the Use of

Children’.

She was a forerunner for the literary movement for the

revival of the Irish language in the nineteenth century, and

for the formation of the Gaelic League. Charlotte’s health

was never robust and her financial circumstances in later life

were poor. She died on 29 March 1793.

Cavan’s Great Railways The ’Building Peace Through the Arts’ steering Committee, Cootehill, would like to invite interested Jonathan A Smyth will give a members of the public to attend a series of workshops talk on ‘The Railways of with Tony Stallard, who is the artist selected to deliver ’ in Belturbet the public art piece entitled ‘The Cootehill Harvester’ Library on Thursday May th for Halton’s Site Cootehill. 28 at 7.15pm. Workshop Dates are: Admission is free and  12th May 11.30am to 2pm everyone is welcome.  19th May 3.30pm to 6pm Contact Belturbet Library for  26th May 11.30am to 2pm

further information. Contact Cootehill Library for further information.

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