SINN FÉIN SUMMER SCHOOL 3rd Annual Sinn Féin Summer School 2012 Friday 7th 1.45pm Keynote address Scoil Shamhraidh na Saoirse Mary Lou McDonald TD Introduction Senator Kathryn Reilly 2pm SEPT 7th - 8th Making a New Ireland: Can the 6.30pm-8.30pm Arts influence progressive political Campaigning for a United Ireland: change? Learning from the Experiences of ■■ Trisha Lambe Others. ■■ Ray Yeates ■■ Elaine Harrington aka ■■ Alfred Bosch MP Temper-Mental MissElayneus ■■ Brian Donohue ■ Martin Ferris TD ■ 3.45 pm | Special Guest Speaker: Brian Kennedy Saturday 8th 4.00pm | Tea and coffee break 10.30am – 12.30pm The Relationship between the 4.30 pm | National Media and Politics in Ireland. Reconciliation – Uncomfortable Healthy or Unhealthy? Conversations: Dealing with the Legacy of the Conflict ■■ Paul O’Brien ■■ Amanda Fullerton ■■ Rob Morrison ■■ Alan McBride ■■ Eoin Ó Murchú ■■

12.30 pm | Lunch 7.00pm | Dinner Paul O’Brien Temper-Mental Declan Kearney Paul O’Brien is Political Editor of MissElayneous Declan Kearney is the National The Third Annual Sinn Féin Summer School takes place in Baile Bhuirne in West Cork on the 7th the Irish Examiner, and a regular Temper-Mental MissElayneous is a Chairperson of Sinn Féin. He has and 8th September. The Summer School is a forum for debating progressive ideas about building contributor to current affairs talented and accomplished artist commenced a process of dialogue a better Ireland. We want to foster debate about advancing an alternative vision for Ireland, programmes on radio and television. from Finglas in Dublin. Although with unionism including church including with those who do not necessarily agree with Sinn Féin. It aims to bring together a wide Before joining the Examiner, he was MissElayneous has trained as an leaders and victims’ representatives range of speakers from different backgrounds. deputy editor of Magill. actor and performed in diverse roles as part of Sinn Féin’s commitment to amid strong casts, she is generally national reconciliation. This year there will hear debates and discussions on national reconciliation, the arts, the recognised as a rapper. Her work relationship between media and politics and campaigning for a United Ireland. is inherently political and her EP, Proletarian Revolution was received to much critical acclaim. Brian Kennedy Brian Kennedy is a critically Alan McBride acclaimed singer/songwriter from Alan McBride lost his wife and father- the Falls Road, in West Belfast. He has in-law in the Shankill bombing in Senator Kathryn Reilly Brian Donohue Rob Morrison performed with some of the legends 1993. He works with the WAVE Kathryn Reilly, elected to the Seanad Brian Donohue is an International Rob Morrison is the former Head of of the music industry including Trauma Centre (a grassroots, cross on 2011, is the youngest member Representative for the Laborers’ News and Content at UTV. He had Trisha Lambe Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Ray community charity offering care and of the current and the International Union of North editorial responsibility for UTV’s Trisha Lambe is Curator of the Gallery Charles, Bob Dylan, and others. In support to people bereaved, injured youngest ever person elected to the America (LIUNA). The Laborers coverage of every election since of Photography, Dublin. She has 2006 Brian represented Ireland at or traumatised as a result of the Seanad. She is a member of the Sinn represent over 500,000 construction 1992. In his 36 year career he also also directed one-off Artists in the the Eurovision song contest with his conflict in the North) in Belfast. Féin Ard Chomhairle. workers and public service worked for BBC and RTÉ. Community projects and a number own composition Every Song is a Cry employees, including his home of major cross-border projects, most for Help. He is currently a coach on local union, the “Sandhogs”, who Earlier this year Morrison was recently the Borderlines Archive RTÉ programme The Voice of Ireland. build New York City’s tunnels. He commissioned by RTÉ to undertake Project. Trisha has worked in the is involved in rolling out political a highly sensitive investigation into Gallery of Photography since 1992 campaigns for LIUNA. its editorial policies as a result of and she lives in County Louth. Amanda Fullerton Alfred Bosch MP the controversies surrounding the Amanda Fullerton is the daughter MP and leader of ERC-RCat in Presidential Election debate on of assassinated Sinn Féin councillor Spanish Congress (Republican Frontline broadcast in October 2011, Ray Yeates Eddie Fullerton. Since he was shot pro-independence Catalan Left) better known as ‘Tweetgate’. Ray Yeates is Dublin City Arts Officer dead in his Buncrana home in Alfred Bosch was spokesperson and a former Artistic Director of axis: 1991, the Fullerton family have for the popular Referendum on Martin Ferris TD Mary Lou McDonald TD Ballymun. Yeates led axis to local, sought to have an inquiry into the Independence held in Barcelona on Martin Ferris is a Sinn Féin TD for the Mary Lou McDonald is Vice national and international acclaim, role of collusion between loyalist April 10th 2011. constituency of Kerry North. He was President of Sinn Féin and a TD for overseeing a unique partnership paramilitaries and the security forces Novelist and author, his books in first elected to the Dáil in 2002 when the constituency of Dublin Central. of local people, the local authority in the killing. Catalan are among best-sellers and he topped the poll, after spending Eoin Ó Murchú She is spokesperson on Public and the community and voluntary have been translated into several a number of years on Kerry County Eoin Ó Murchú is the former Political Expenditure and Reform. She was a sectors in Ballymun. In the late 1980s languages. He has won the top and Town Councils. He was Editor of Raidió na Gaeltachta, a member of the European Parliament Yeates served as Deputy Artistic literary awards in Catalonia. re-elected to the Dáil in 2007 and position which he held for 17 years. from 2004 to 2009. Director of the Abbey Theatre. An academic specialising in History again in 2011. Martin was part of the He regularly appears on radio and of Africa and Europe he has lectured Sinn Féin negotiating team in the television as commentator and in the Universities of Barcelona- lead up to the signing of the Good political analyst. He is a columnist UPF, Madrid, London, Ibadan, Friday Agreement in 1998 and he with . Witwatersrand, Chicago and others. has travelled extensively in support of the peace process and Irish Unity.