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The William Carleton Summer School 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 Dublin. 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 Ireland 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 County Monaghan. 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 Monday 6th - Thursday 9th August 2012 3 The William Carleton Summer School 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 DPhil thesis was on representations Carleton & others on famine's of the Great Famine in literature, and darkest secret was supervised by Roy Foster. Dr Fegan teaches nineteenth- Professor Cormac Ó Gráda century literature and Irish literature, 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 Belfast in September 2010, having P. J. Kennedy, Poet joined the broadcaster in Dublin and Maguire Family (Traditional Music) in 1979.
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