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The William Carleton Society Corick House, Clogher 6-9 August 2012

Cover photo: Irish Memorial Penn's Landing Philadelphia by Glenna Goodacre

www.williamcarletonsummerschool.org The William Carleton Society

Society President Jack Johnston and Chair Michael Fisher laying a wreath at Carleton’s Grave in .

FÁILTE! Welcome to the 21st William Carleton JOIN THE WILLIAM CARLETON SOCIETY summer school. If it's your first visit to the scenic If you would like to continue to receive Clogher Valley, I hope you enjoy the proceedings information about our activities, please contact and will want to return for more. Those who have any committee member. The membership fee to attended previously will notice a few changes. cover the costs of administration will be £5 or We have listened to your comments and are €6. The Society hopes to run a series of events now putting some of them into practice. The over the next twelve months, culminating in the most important difference is that the summer summer school on August 5th-8th 2013. Among school committee has been reorganised into the activities we organised earlier this year was a what is once again the William Carleton Society. visit to Dublin. We were welcomed at Sandford Originally founded in 1962, it provided the blue Church of parish church in Ranelagh, plaque for Carleton's cottage at Springtown and which Carleton attended in his last years. We ran successfully until 1972. The first Chair was also visited Carleton's grave at Mount Jerome Master Murray (Éamonn Ó Muirí) a national cemetery in Dublin, where a wreath was laid and school principal from Tydavnet. Our tour there the Society President Jack Johnston addressed last August re-established the Carleton link the gathering. We hope to repeat this trip in with . It included the site of January. the hedge school attended by a young Carleton at Glennan chapel, where Seamus McCluskey Michael Fisher delighted the tour group with his stories. Chair, William Carleton Society

2 William Carleton Summer School William Carleton Society Patrons Dr Joseph Duffy Jim Cavanagh William Professor Maurice Harmon Sam Craig Noel Monahan Carleton Director Michael Fisher Summer Deputy Director Frank McHugh School Honorary Director Owen Dudley Edwards Corick House Hotel Secretary Clogher Gordon Brand August 6th-9th 2012

Treasurer Tom McKeagney

Summer School Committee For booking and accommodation contact: Jack Johnston, Patrick Boyle, Jim Cavanagh, Malcolm Duffey, Aidan Fee, Liam Foley,  Killymaddy Tourist Information Centre Billy McCrory, Michael Murphy, Ballygawley Road, Sean Skeffington, Patricia Cavanagh, Isabel Orr, Dungannon, Beverley Weir, Seamus McCluskey. Co. Tyrone, BT70 1TF Themes and Focuses  028/048 8776 7259 • Carleton and Famine • Carleton’s Biographer  [email protected] • Carleton and Family History • Carleton’s Contemporaries

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Paul Brush writes from Australia: The Genealogy of William Carleton I've been delving through the Australian National Archives records and can proudly say that two of William Carleton's Unlike the usual search for an ancestor born at the end of descendants fought in WW1 & WW2. William Carleton the eighteenth century, there are numerous sources relating in WW1 and Frederick Lloyd Carleton in WW2. William, to Carleton’s genealogy. His unfinished Autobiography, DJ son of John Robert Carleton, enlisted in 1915 aged 25 and O’Donoghue’s biography and the extensive UCD archive unfortunately lost a leg. There was always a family story papers are a rich source of family history material. They about a mystery relative in South Africa and in doing this include family letters, stories of migration and Carleton’s research a William Carleton Brush bobbed up trying to Will. The Will shows Carleton’s special affection for his enlist in Melbourne in 1919 for homeland duties at the age eldest daughter Mary Anne and reveals his daughter Susan of 57, ie born 1862 in Dublin. I felt there was little doubt Brush as a widow. Yet there is no mention of his daughter he was a descendant of the writer William Carleton by the Margaret or his sons William, James and John. Irish Civil fact he used Carleton as a middle name before the surname Registration records reveal that Carleton died from cancer Brush so I decided to investigate further. There is no further of the tongue in 1869, which had been diagnosed three record of him in the records other than a William Brush years earlier. The death of Carleton’s wife Jane in 1882 lists who died in Queensland in 1944 and in the 1921 census her sister, Margaret Anderson as the informant. worked as a logger in Northern New South Wales. I think he was an adventurer type who never married and left his Irish Genealogy Church Records www.irishgenealogy.ie native Ireland to enlist in the Australian Army, coming over provide a valuable source of information on Carleton, as he had family here. So I guess we weren't the first Brushes such as the births of his children and the locations of the to migrate to Australia! Interestingly the family residence Carleton family in Dublin. for William Carleton at 368 Punt Rd South Yarra is a place I would have passed hundreds of times, as it is one of the 1821 – Britain Street - St Mary’s Dublin – Mary Anne busiest roads in Melbourne on the way to the famous Cricket Ground. He is buried in Warrandyte cemetery, a 1826 – No address - St Mary’s Dublin - Rose Hanna quiet outer suburban area near me in Melbourne. Frederick L Carleton was buried in Bendigo cemetery, Victoria, in 1994. During my research I also had access to a family tree 1829 – Bolton Street - St George’s Dublin – William my uncle compiled and this helped to resolve the ancestry of William Carleton Brush. It showed Susan Brush having 1841 – Dollymount - Parish of Clontarf – John a third son William; I thought there had been only two, James (born 1864 in North America) and Hiram. On the 1849 – Crescent - Parish of Clontarf – Susan – (born 1834) tree there is a notation for William "died in South Africa". I have just received the military records for William Carleton 1849 – Crescent - Parish of Clontarf – Margaret (born 1838) Brush and can now confirm it is the same person. William went to South Africa as a prospector and joined the South 1849 – Crescent - Parish of Clontarf – James (born 1844) African Army in 1894 for eight years (Boer War years). He turned up in Australia and joined the Australian Army in 1919 but was discharged the following year. On the military There are unanswered questions. Why does Carleton wait records he nominated his brother Hiram Brush as next of until 1849 to baptise Susan, Margaret and James? Where kin, c/o Admiralty Drafting Office Devonport (Plymouth) and when was his daughter Jane born? England. Hiram according to census records lived in Plymouth. Unfortunately when William Carleton Brush When examining sources on the online database went to Sydney he was probably unaware he had any family Ancestry, there is extensive information on Carleton’s in Melbourne. He died in Queensland in 1945. One census relatives in the USA, Canada, England and Australia. described him as a timber worker. I'm so glad I know about We have made contact with one of Carleton’s Australian this person as he was a missing branch from the family tree. relatives, Paul Brush. Susan Brush returned to London after the death of Crane Brush in 1866. He died in Florida from gastroenteritis Frank McHugh having worked as a Hospital Steward in the Union Army. I hope all this is of interest. With best wishes for a successful Vice-Chair, William Carleton Society summer school.Glenn Carleton adds that there was another relative killed in WW1 - John Robert Botten. He was the son of Anna Maria Botten (née Carleton). She was the youngest daughter of William Carleton (junior) and migrated to Australia with her parents in 1864.

4 William Carleton Summer School Monday 6th August

9.30am Registration Melissa Fegan Tea / Coffee 10.30am Official Opening is a Reader in English at the University - Introduction by William Carleton of Chester. Born in Lisburn, she spent Society President Jack Johnston her childhood in Shannon, Co. Clare - Opening by Mayor of Dungannon & South before moving back to Lisburn in her Tyrone Borough Council, Cllr Phelim Gildernew early teens. She did her BA and DPhil 10.45am Keynote address: at St Hugh's College, Oxford; her Carleton & others on famine's DPhil thesis was on representations of the in literature, and darkest secret was supervised by Roy Foster. Dr Fegan teaches nineteenth- Professor Cormac Ó Gráda century literature and , and is programme 12.00 Carleton and the famine era leader of the MA in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Dr Melissa Fegan Culture. She has written extensively about the famine 1.15pm Lunch period. Her publications include Literature and the Irish 2.15pm Carleton's Biographer Famine 1845-1919 (Oxford University Press, 2002) and ‘William Carleton and the Great Famine’ in Peter Gray DJ O'Donoghue (ed.), Victoria’s Ireland?: Ireland and Britishness, 1837- Michael Fisher 1901 (Four Courts Press, 2004). 3.30pm Interval Margaret Skeffington (harp) Michael Fisher Book stall open and Tea / Coffee break 4.30pm Life after Horslips is Chair of the William Carleton Barry Devlin Society and this is his first summer 6.00pm Evening Dinner school as Director. A freelance 9.00pm Rathmore Bar, Clogher journalist, he retired from RTÉ News in in September 2010, having P. J. Kennedy, Poet joined the broadcaster in Dublin and Maguire Family (Traditional Music) in 1979. He is a former BBC News Trainee in London and worked in Cormac Ó Gráda Birmingham as a local radio reporter. A native of Dublin, Michael has family connections with the Clogher Valley as is a professor in UCD’s School of well as Co.Monaghan. He is a graduate of UCD and QUB Economics. Most of his research has and is a previous contributor to the summer school. been on the economic and further afield. He is the author or co-author of many books Barry Devlin and scholarly articles. His books include Famine: A Short History is originally from Ardboe in County (Princeton, 2009); Jewish Ireland in Tyrone. He is the third member of the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History (Princeton, 2006); his family to visit Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Dublin, the William 2006); Black 47 and Beyond: The Great in C a r l e t o n History, Economy and Memory (Princeton, 1999); Ireland: A Summer New Economic History (Oxford, 1994); and An Drochshaol: S c h o o l , Béaloideas agus Amhráin (Dublin, 1994). He was awarded in the the ’s Gold Medal for the Humanities in footsteps of his sisters Polly 2010. Cormac’s work involves a lot of travel, and has brought (who addressed the first him to places as far afield as Australia and (frequently) North school in 1992) and Marie, America, but he lives with his family in Dublin 14. Much of wife of . He is his current research is collaborative, and focuses on topics best known as a musician for such as the interaction between economic and demographic his part in the legendary Irish change in pre-industrial England and the Little Ice Age. In his rock band Horslips, who spare time he likes to take to the hills. He is a keen follower of have recently enjoyed championship hurling and Dublin football. renewed fame.

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10.00am Registration Josephine Treanor 10.30am Carleton's Australian Relatives Frank McHugh is originally from Clogher, Co. Tyrone 11.00am The Miller's Daughter, Anne Duffy but has lived in North Monaghan for the past twenty five years where she Josephine Treanor was nominated for the Monaghan 11.30am Break Person of the Year in 2003 for Tea / Coffee her contribution to Community 11.45am Poetry Reading Development and Peace Building Projects within the County. A graduate John F. Deane of Queen's University, Belfast she is 1.00pm Lunch currently employed by Clones Regeneration Partnership and 2.00pm One man show on Charles Dickens Castleblayney Arts & Community Development Company. Laurence Foster Josephine is a great great gand daughter of Anne Duffy and has 3.00pm Break always been fascinated by the link with William Carleton. She has had several short stories published in national publications Tea / Coffee and her contribution to this year's Summer School is a short 3.15pm Literary Symposium story based on Anne Duffy's account of William Carelton's Carlo Gébler, Mary Guckian, Mary O'Donnell visit to her marital home in Ballyscally, Clogher, in 1847. 4.15pm Break 4.20pm Discussion John F Deane Chaired by Michael Fisher 5.30pm Dinner was born in Achill Island in 1943. He 6.30pm Walk and Talk Carleton founded - the National to Fardross Forest Park with Clogher Valley Walking Club Poetry Society - and The Poetry Ireland 8.30pm Reception at Clogher Valley Country Review in 1979. He has published several collections of poetry and some Park, Clogher. fiction; he won the O’Shaughnessy Sponsored by Daly’s Super Valu, Aughnacloy Award for , the Marten Music by The Mountain Lark, Tydavnet Toonder Award for Literature and poetry prizes from Italy and Romania. Elected Secretary-General of the Frank McHugh European Academy of Poetry in 1996. Shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot prize and The Irish Times , won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris. He is a member of was born in Belfast in 1963. Both his Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour parents are from Fermanagh and he artists “whose work had made an outstanding contribution to has researched both sides of his family the arts in Ireland”. In 2007 the French Government honoured back to the early 19th Century. He set him by making him “Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres”. up the Fermanagh Family History In 2008 John F. Deane was visiting scholar in the Burns Library Society in 2008. He is currently Head of Boston College. 2010 brought the publication of a new of Drama at Portora Royal School, novel, "Where No Storms Come" and a new collection of Enniskillen. He is Vice-Chair of the essays, "The Works of Love". His new collection of poems,"The William Carleton Society. Frank has led genealogy trips Eye of the Hare" came from Carcanet in June 2011. The poems to all of the major archive centres in Ireland and he has of John F. Deane have been translated and published in book contributed to the Maguire history weekend at Fermanagh form in a number of countries. His new collection is due in County Museum. Over the last two years, he has been October 2012: "Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New & Selected responsible for running a genealogy course in Lisnaskea. His Poems", selected by the teacher Thomas Dillon Redshaw. article ‘Researching your Family History in Fermanagh’ was published in The Fermanagh Miscellany in 2010. Photos courtesy of Glenn Carleton, Australia via Paul Brush

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6 William Carleton Summer School Laurence Foster Mary O'Donnell

was born in Wolverhampton and was born in Monaghan. She has studied acting at Birmingham published poetry, novels, short stories Theatre School, where he gained the and a good number of critical essays Outstanding Student Award and a and literary reviews. O’Donnell moves Diploma in Theatre Studies. Seasons deftly and at ease between different at various English theatres were a forms of literary expression, allowing prelude to a lifelong career in Irish the subject matter to direct her towards theatre, radio, television and films. its most adequate medium. He was Chairperson for the Prix Italia and represented Irish Broadcasting in Europe. He was also a Birmingham League She is a previous visitor to the summer school in 1997 and and Leinster League cricketer. In England he performed in a has published five volumes of poetry so far. The first two wide variety of shows, from the classics to pantomime, before collections – Reading the Sunflowers in September (1990) joining the RTÉ Players in 1968, with whom he acted and and Spiderwoman’s Third Avenue Rhapsody (1993) – were directed many plays and radio ‘soaps’, including Lee Dunne’s nominated for The Irish Times Literature Award; then came Konvenience Korner and eventually being appointed Unlegendary Heores (1998), September Elegies (2003) and head of RTÉ Radio Drama. Along the way, he would work The Place of Miracles: New and Selected Poems (2006). with many famous actors and entertainers, both Irish A sixth volume, The Ark Builders, was published in 2009. and international, including Micheál Mac Liammóir, Jack Cruise, Dennis Waterman, Michael Gambon and Donovan. She is also the author of three novels: The Light-makers the More recently he has received acclaim for his solo performance Sunday Tribune’s Best New Irish Novel of 1992, Virgin and the as Dickens in Dublin. His one man show is, as far as possible, Boy (1996) and The Elysium Testament (1999). In 1991 she based on exactly the kind of one man show that Charles published her first collection of short stories, Strong Pagans. Dickens gave in Dublin exactly 150 years ago next year. Another, Storm over Belfast (2008), has been described as a “display of Mary O’Donnell’s immense talent”. Mary O’Donnell has been a member of Aosdana since 2001 and has presented several series of poetry programmes for RTE Radio. She has also been a teacher of creative writing and has participated in numerous poetry workshops as a facilitator.

Mary Guckian Carlo Gébler is from County Leitrim and grew up on was born in Dublin in 1954 and one of the many organic farms dotting brought up in London. He now lives the local landscape. This harmony outside Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. with nature inspired her poetry. He is the author of several novels Among the many recognitions she has including The Eleventh Summer, The received are the Scottish Open Poetry Cure, How to Murder a Man, A Good award as well as the Leitrim Guardian Day for A Dog and The Dead Eight, Literary Award the short story collection W.9. & Other for Poetry. Mary's poetry can be read Lives, along with several works of non-fiction including the in her published works 'Perfume memoir Father & I, the narrative history, The Siege of Derry, of the Soil' and 'Road to Gowel' and two travel books, Driving Through Cuba and The Glass published by Swan Press, as Curtain. He has also written several novels for children as well as in many international well as several plays for both radio and the stage, including anthologies of poetry alongside Dance of Death (1998), an adaptation of Strindberg’s play Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare and cycle produced at the Tricycle Theatre, London, December Wordsworth. Mary toured the Bride, based on the Sam Hanna Bell novel and which was Boston area for the Irish cultural a Classic Serial broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 10 Rounds which exchange programme "Optimal was short listed for the Ewart-Biggs Prize, Henry & Harriet, a Avenues", reading her work in such site specific drama commissioned by Kabosh Theatre for the noted poetry venues as the Coop Belfast Cathedral Arts Festival, and, most recently, Charles & Bookshop at Harvard University, Mary a play for BBC Radio 3 about the lives of the brother Sheas Pub, and the Patrick and sister who wrote the classic children’s introduction to Pierce Gallery. Shakespeare, Tales from Shakespeare.

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10.00am Registration Nieces in Ireland. Sophia Hillan's story uncovers a rich new 10.30am Jane Austen's Irish Nieces seam of material on Jane Austen and her family, providing Sophia Hillan a new and intriguing link between Regency England and the 11.45am Break turbulent world of nineteenth-century Ireland: including famine times in Gweedore, Co.Donegal. Tea / Coffee 12.00 Carleton on the stage: Christopher Fitz-Simon forgotten popular plays adapted from "Traits & Stories" Christopher Fitz-Simon was born in Belfast. He studied Modern Languages & Literature at 1.15pm Lunch Trinity College, Dublin. After working 2.30pm Play Reading in the theatre and broadcasting in "Phil Purcel the Pig Driver" North America he became a drama Adapted by Liam Foley director with RTÉ televison. Since 3.30pm Break then he has been Artistic Director of Tea / Coffee the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Irish 3.45pm Audience Discussion Theatre Company and the National Theatre Society (Abbey Gordon Brand Theatre, Dublin). He was Visting Professor in Drama at the University of Ulster, whence his Doctorate in Letters. He 4.30pm Break is the author of a large number of broadcast plays as well 4.45pm William Carleton's position as dramatisations of, among others, Boucicault, Bowen, in 21st Century Irish Literature Colum, Forzano, Giraudoux, Joyce, Forrest Reid, Somerville Owen Dudley Edwards & Ross, Stoker and Wilde. He lectures throughout the world 6.00pm Close on Irish theatrical and literary topics. He is the author of Michael Fisher, Summer School Director an acclaimed childhood memoir, Eleven Houses (Penguin 6.30pm Dinner 2007) that deals with the theme of internal migration. He was born into an extraordinary family, with Daniel 8.00pm Concert O’Connell on one side and Ulster Protestants on the other. with Fermanagh Choral Society Eleven Houses deals with the period of World War II when Musical Director Don Swain his family lived in a series of homes in all four provinces of at St. Patrick's Church, Clogher Ireland. He is a member of the Clogher Historical Society and recently gave a reading in Monaghan based on a collection of over fifty letters written home to Smithborough by his Dr Sophia Hillan great great uncle Ben Elliott, who at the age of 17 emigrated to America when famine was at its worst in Ireland. was Assistant Director of the Queen’s University of Belfast’s Institute of Irish Studies. Her publications include, In Quiet Places: Uncollected Stories, Letters and Critical Prose of Michael McLaverty (1989);The Silken Twine: A Study of the Works of Michael McLaverty (1992) and The Edge of Dark: A Sense of Place in the Writings of Michael McLaverty Liam Foley and Sam Hanna Bell (2001). As a writer of fiction, she has been published in David Marcus’s New Irish Writing, and was formerly headmaster of St. his first Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories, 2004– Brigid’s Primary School, Augher. He 5. She was a finalist for the Royal Society of Literature’s is a member of the Summer School first V.S. Pritchett Memorial Award (1999), and her short Committee and the principal organiser story, Roses, was featured as part of BBC Radio 4’s Defining of the week’s evening activities. In 2010 Moments series. She was short-listed for a Hennessy Award he wrote a very successful adaptation in 1981. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC of Carleton’s ‘The Midnight Mass’ Radio 4 and published both in the late David Marcus's New which was presented in the form of a Irish Writing in The Irish Press and his Faber Book of Best radio play. Last year Liam turned his hand to Carleton’s ‘The New Irish Short Stories, 2004-5. She will be speaking to Party Fight and Funeral’. For the 2012 summer school he has us about her new book, May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen’s adapted Phil Purcel the Pig Driver.

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Gordon Brand 10.00am Registration 10.30am Carleton and his Contemporaries from Enniskillen is Secretary of Tour of region lead by William Carleton Society the William Carleton Society and President Jack Johnston the summer school committee. He Lunch and Tea / Coffee en route. edited the school’s volume William Visit to birthplace of Archbishop Hughes of New York Carleton: The Authentic Voice. He and to Omagh. gives occasional lec¬tures on Oscar 6.00pm Return Wilde, Anthony Trollope, and Patrick MacGill.

Jack Johnston

Owen Dudley Edwards is President of the William Carleton Society and a former Director of the is Honorary Director of the William Summer School. He is Chairman of Carleton summer school. He has the Ulster Local History Trust. Jack been a regular contributor since has written and lectured widely on it began in 1992. An Honorary local history, and has a particular Fellow in the School of History knowledge of his native Clogher at the University of Edinburgh, Valley. His publications include Owen is a contributor to all major articles in a wide range of journals while he has edited historical joumals. In keeping with local studies in Cavan, Monaghan, Tyrone, Fermanagh and that University's treasured tradition of 'generalism', he is Sligo. One of his earliest articles was ‘The Hedge Schools of very much a polymath. Dudley Edwards' natural brio and Tyrone and Monaghan’ in Clogher Record, (1969). He has mastery of words confer on his most scholarly contributions planted over 100 trees and was one of the first to introduce a spirit of entertainment. He was born in Dublin and the Texel breed of sheep to . His tours of the educated at Belvedere College and UCD, where he was local area are a popular part of the annual summer school. auditor of the illustrious L+H debating society. He has been acknowledged as 'a distinguished Irish scholar and man of letters, whose pan-Celtic spirit comprehends a Welsh name, Archbishop Hughes Memorial Window a university post in Scotland and several important books St. Macartan's (Forth) Chapel on Irish history’. Photo by Michael Fisher

Fermanagh Choral Society

is a cross-community organisation with over 60 members from all areas of the county. Entrance is open to all ages, abilities and backgrounds and the choir seeks to encourage local musical talent. Founded in the early 1970’s, it has been under the guidance of Musical Director Donald Swain for the past few years. Rehearsals are held weekly on Tuesday evenings in the music room of Portora Royal School, Enniskillen.

Monday 6th - Thursday 9th August 2012 Notes

Guide to Photographs on Page 6 1 William Carleton Jr.

2 Jane Carleton (née Anderson)

3 John Robert Carleton

4 Daughter William Carleton

5 Paul Henry Nihill Carleton, a son of John Robert & father of Glenn.

6 Anna Maria Carleton (née White)

Photos courtesy of Glenn Carleton, Australia via Paul Brush

10 William Carleton Summer School Contributors 1992-2011

1992 Jim Cavanagh Darragh Gallagher Eileen Sullivan Norman Vance Patricia Craig Laurence Geary Declan Ford Patricia Craig Jack Johnston Patrick Maume Jack Johnston Brian Walker Seamus Macannaidh Ivan Herbison Pat McDonnell Owen Dudley Edwards Eamonn Hughes Frank Ormsby Robin Marsh Sam Craig Robin Marsh Polly Devlin Mary O’Donnell Owen Dudley Edwards Bert Tosh Eileen Sullivan Fred Johnston Barry Sloan 2005 Jack Johnston Paul Bew Owen Dudley Edwards Owen Dudley Edwards Anne Barnett Maura Johnston Jack Johnston Benedict Kiely Gene Carroll Michael Murphy 1998 Tom Bartlett John B. Cunningham Erno Klepoch A. Norman Jeffares Magdolna Aldobolyi Nagy 1993 Simon Gatrell Stephen McKenna Glenn Moore Sophia Hillan-King 2002 Terence Dooley Michael Longley Michael Longley Gearoid Ó Tuathaigh Maurice Harmon Pat John Rafferty Peter Denman Tess Hurson Raymond Murray Sinéad Morrissey Benedict Kiely Frank Falls Ian McDowell Marie Martin Patrick J. Duffy John Montague Colleen Lowry Cormac Ó Gráda Claire Millar Owen Dudley Edwards Thomas O'Grady Seamus Heaney Luke Dodd Margaret McCay Stephen McKenna Brian Ferran Margaret Skeffington Eileen Sullivan Frank Galligan Eugene McCabe Sean Collins 2009 Denise Ferran David Hammond Diarmaid Ferriter Benedict Kiely Robin Marsh Douglas Carson Sam Craig Eamonn O Ciardha Sam Craig Thomas Bartlett Gordon Brand Gordon Brand Patrick C. Power 1994 Adrian Rice Jack Johnston Ruth Illingworth Paul Clements Augustine Martin John Wilson Foster Seamus McCluskey Theo Dorgan Malachi Cush Seamus Heaney Clare Boylan Noel Monahan Sophia Hillan Alvin Jackson Bert Tosh Owen Dudley Edwards Owen Dudley Edwards Noel Monahan Owen Dudley Edwards Noel Monahan John Montague Michael Parker Gerry Hull 1999 Elizabeth Wassell Marie Louise Muir Heather Brett John Kelly Adrian Rice 2006 Jack Johnston Patricia Craig Sam McAughtry Adrian Fox Thomas Charles-Edwards The Ballyshannon Singers Malcolm Scott Sean Skeffington John McAllister Siobhan Kilfeather Robin Marsh James Simmons Norman Vance Gerry Burns Gifford Lewis Gerald Hull Owen Dudley Edwards Barry Sloan John McArdle Brian McCúrta Maurice Harmon Patrick McCabe Pat McDonnell Tommy McArdle Richard Warner Patrick Walsh Gerald Dawe Sam Craig John McGurk John Killen Brian Walker Noel Monahan Bernard McLaverty Sydney Aiken Owen Dudley Edwards 1995 Mary O'Malley Elizabeth McCrum Thomas Flanagan Mary McVeigh Brian McClelland 2003 Malachi O'Doherty 2010 John Montague Declan Kiberd R. B. McDowell Sean Connolly Robbie Meredith Gene Carroll John Montague Maurice Harmon Cliona Ó Gallchoir Jack Johnston Oliver Rafferty Gerry Hull Eileen Sullivan Mark Bailey Liam Kelly W. J. Smyth David Hammond John Breakey Emer Nolan Noel Monahan Brian Earls Edna Longley Noel Monahan Linde Linney Maurice Harmon Frank Ormsby Maurice Leitch Ruth Dudley Edwards Damian Gorman Len Graham Heather Brett Owen Dudley Edwards Paul Cullen David Park John Campbell Noel Monahan Malachi O'Doherty Emma Heatherington Susan McKay Una Agnew Póilín Ní Chiaráin Jack Johnston 2000 Owen Dudley Edwards Frances O'Hare Robert Welch Eddie McCartney Kate Sutcliffe Norman Vance Ian Adamson Jack Johnston Noel Monahan Eileen Sullivan Peter Fallon Seamus McCluskey 2007 Ruth Illingworth Patrick Quigley Maura Johnston Owen Dudley Edwards Rolf Loeber Alan Acheson Glenn Patterson Tony MacAuley Clare Boylan Tess Maginess Paddy Fitzgerald Owen Dudley Edwards Tom Paulin Jude Collins Arthur Quinn Liam Foley Stewart J. Brown Peter Hollywood Maurice Harmon The Carleton Players 1996 John A. Murphy Keith Anderson Peter Denman Gordon Brand Bill Maguire Pauric Travers Seamus Ó Cathain Jack Johnston John Montague David Norris Theo Dorgan Barry Sloan Tom Dunne 2011 Tom McIntyre Richard Warner Jacqueline Hill Pat Joe Kennedy Diarmid Ó Doibhlin Leon McAuley Iggy McGovern 2004 Briege, Clare and Antoinette Quinn Tom McKeagney Patricia Craig Peter Carr Mary Hanna Terence Brown Gordon Brand John Killen Maurice Harmon Robin Marsh Ruth McCabe Gordon Brand Antonia McManus Gordon Brand Arthur Quinn Martina Devlin Frank McHugh Mary Montague Colm Toibin Eileen Sullivan Hazel Dolling Kevin Barry Michael Fisher Jude Collins Sam Craig Terence Dooley Séamus Mac Annaidh John McGurk Owen Dudley Edwards Brian Fallon Norman Vance Felicity McCall Owen Dudley Edwards Owen Dudley Edwards Ruth Beeb Paul Clements 1997 Christopher Blake Jennifer Kelly Roy Foster 2001 Maureen Boyle 2008 Chris McGimpsey Eamonn Hughes Maurice Harmon Maria Mcmanus John A Murphy Liam Foley Edith Devlin Sonia Abercrombie Brian Earls The Carleton Players James Simmons Mary McKenna Jack Johnston Gordon Brand Gordon Brand John Montague Bishop Joseph Duffy Roma Tomelty George Watson Armagh City Choir Elizabeth Wassell Bishop Brian Hannon Gordon Fullerton Ronan Boyle Brian Donnelly Marianne Elliott James Cooke

Monday 6th - Thursday 9th August 2012 11 Drink to the Bird

11th Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend

7th September - 9th September 2012 The 11th Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend 2012 will take place in the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh. The theme this year will be Drink To The Bird: Memoir.

Confirmed speakers so far include: Derek Hand, Leon Litvack, Gibbons Ruark, Martina Devlin, Malachi O Doherty and Bryan Gallagher.

There will also be a specially curated art exhibition, bus tour, memoir writing workshop and much more during this popular annual event.

Acknowledgements The William Carleton Society gratefully acknowledges the following contributions:

Monaghan County Council Comhairle Contae Weekend Mhuineacháin

Friday 28th - Sunday 30th Canon Lawrence Dawson P.P., September 2012 Clogher

Incorporating the Poetry Awards

The Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan. Tel/Fax: 00 353 (0) 42 9378560 Clogher Valley Friends of St. Email: [email protected] Country Park Macartan's Cathedral www.patrickkavanaghcountry.com