William Carleton and the William Carleton Programme Summary 2-5 August 2010 Registration Card Summer School Further detail about speakers, their contributions and William Carleton The world of the Ireland’s small farmer’s before the Great more precise times for each event will be published Famine of the mid 1840s was the world in which William in the Summer School handbook. Cost Carleton spent his childhood and early manhood in Co Ty- Summer School rone’s Clogher Valley. It was also the world to which Car- - The fee for the entire Summer School, including meals, is - leton gave literary form in his two volumes of short stories, £200 or the equivalent in euros. Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 1829 and 1833, and One day tickets are available at £55 per day. in a succession of novels which include Fardorougha the Mi- Concessionary rates are available on request. ser (1839), Valentine McClutchy (1845), The Black Prophet Cinnte Music by Music 7.00-9.00

Evening events are paid for separately. 9.00-11.00 (1847), The Emigrants of Aghadarra (1848), The Tithe Proc- 8.00-10.00 Corick House Corick

tor (1849) and The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852). Walk: Carleton A 7.00 Rathmore Bar, Clogher Bar, Rathmore with the with Traditional Music Night: Music Traditional ily, Poetry: Kate Sutcliffe Kate Poetry: ily, Accommodation His last project, uncompleted when he died in 1869, was his Fam Maguire the Music:

Hotel and Guest House accommodation can be arranged Autobiography, which was re-issued through the efforts of Dinner Closing Followed by Dancing by Followed

through Killymaddy Tourist Information Centre. the Summer School Committee in 1996. Quartet Jazz Quick Bob

If you are interested in attending the Summer School Dinner Dinner

The William Carleton Summer School has been held in the 5.30-7.00 5.30-7.00 Clogher Valley each August since 1992. It aims to celebrate Please fill in the reply slip below the life, times and writings of William Carleton; present Car- leton as a writer of international significance; foster critical Name...... examination of Carleton’s work; present the best of today’s writing by Irish writers. Amongst the School’s fringe events Address: 4.00-4.45 Address ...... are exhibitions, drama productions, musical events and read- Carleton’s Squire Story Comet: Comet: Address: Jack Johnston 3.45-4.45 4.00-4.45

ings. Particularly popular are tours of the Carleton country, Bailey Mark Overview and Overview

...... Address: Closing led by historian, Jack Johnston. 1800-1850 Ireland, Carleton and Halley’s Halley’s and Carleton Scientific Awareness in Awareness Scientific Owen Dudley Edwards Dudley Owen Telephone No...... Carleton’s stories and novels, although written in Dublin, are

Date(s) attending ...... mostly located in the Clogher Valley, a fertile area of County - Tyrone, lying between the Sperrin Mountains to the north 10.00 am- 8.00 pm pm 8.00 am- 10.00

and the Slieve Beagh hills to the south. Running through 2.15-3.30 Mass worth Cliona Cliona Symposium: Address: 2.15-3.45 2.45–4.15 Liam Foley Liam Ó Gallchoir Ó Exploring a Exploring it is the main road from Belfast to the West with a string of Edwards Dudley Damian Gorman, Gorman, Damian Maria Edge Maria Carleton and and Carleton The Midnight Midnight The David Park, Emma Emma Park, David Carleton Text: Carleton Do you require accommodation? Brand Gordon Corick House Hotel well-appointed villages. Within easy reach are the towns Chair: Heatherington, of Dungannon, Omagh, Monaghan and Enniskillen (see Yes No (tick) map), none of them more than twenty miles from the town of Clogher at the heart of the Valley. Lunch Lunch Lunch

Do you require additional information? 1.00-2.00 1.00-2.00 1.00-2.00 Clogher The district is rich in archaeological remains: these include Yes No (tick) the ring fort – near which the small classical cathedral and - 2-5 August 2010 its predecessors were built – and many other military and ec- Ulster Ulster clesiastical features. Of particular interest is the Bronze Age dress: Tyrone Please Return to Should Themes and Focuses Address: Address: 11.30-1.00 Some West West Some 11.45-12.45 11.45-12.45 Keynote Ad Keynote worth (Mullingar) - Lunch at the Greville Arms, Mullingar, dinner on return leg: venue to be confirmed be to venue leg: return on dinner Mullingar, Arms, Greville the at Lunch - (Mullingar) worth 19th Century Century 19th

passage grave on the summit of Knockmany which is given Writers Minor Linde Lunney Linde Historians Still Still Historians Sean Connolly Sean Read Carleton? Carleton? Read Emigration from from Emigration Killymaddy Tourist Information Centre frequent affectionate mention in Carleton’s work and whose Fitzgerald Paddy Should Historians still read Carleton?

wooded path to the summit is a walk to be recommended to - Ballygawley Road, all visitors to the area. Carleton and the Established Church

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Venue Opening Address: Address: Carleton’s Carleton’s 10.30-11.30 10.30-11.30 Emer Nolan Emer lished Church lished Alan Acheson Alan Contemporary Otway Caesar Literary Critics Literary

The Summer School is held at Corick House, a seventeenth Illing Ruth and (Granard) Monahan Noel Johnston, Jack guides: Tour - Mullingar) and (Granard Midlands the in Carleton Tour: Carleton The and the Estab the and

Co.Tyrone. Carleton, William Modern Ulster Writers century country house, mentioned in Carleton’s writings, which

BT70 1TF is situated in scenic parkland. Corick is now an excellently ap- - pointed hotel and can provide accommodation for the Summer Discover more about William Carleton and the William Tel: (028) 8776 7259 day Carleton Summer School at

School week. It is off the main Dungannon to Enniskillen road, Monday Tuesday Wednes Thursday 4th August 4th August 5th 3rd August 3rd E-mail: [email protected] between Augher and Clogher, and is signposted. August 2nd www.williamcarletonsummerschool.org Contributors and eighteenth and nineteenth century Ulster poetry, Historical and Archaeological Society and President of the particuliarly the work of the Ulster-Scots weaver poets Westmeath Historical and Archaeological Society; author of Sean Connolly Damian Gorman Mullingar: History and Guide and contributor to Mullingar: Professor of Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast; Writer; his work has received awards as diverse as A Better Essays on the History of a Midlands Town previously taught at the University of Ulster and worked Ireland Award and an MBE; a Golden Harp and four Peacock as an archivist in the Public Record Office of Ireland; awards; a BAFTA and a major Individual Artist Award from the Alan Acheson editor of the Irish Economic and Social History journal; Arts Council; in 1994 he was founding director of the charity Historian: specializes in church history; author of A History principle publications include, as editor, The Oxford An Crann [The Tree] which worked to “Help people tell, and of the Church of Ireland, 1691-2001; currently researching Companion to Irish History, and, as author, Religion, hear, the stories of the Troubles”, through the arts the life of Bishop Jebb of Limerick; now retired, he was Law and Power: the Making of Protestant Ireland 1660- previously Headmaster of Portora and later of the King’s SUMMER SCHOOL PATRONS 1760, Priests and People in pre-Famine Ireland 1780- Emma Heatherington School, Parramatta, NSW, Australia; his memoirs Why the 1845, Religion and Society in Nineteenth Century Ireland Author of Crazy for You, Playing the Field and Beyond Whistle Went were published in 2009 The Most Reverend Joseph Duffy and Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630 Sin. The Truth Between and Behind The Scenes are to be The Right Reverend Michael Jackson published soon; scriptwriter/arts facilitator for Beam Creative Paddy Fitzgerald Clíona ÓGallchoir Network; writes educational drama pieces and films; Project Formerly Assistant Curator for Emigration History at the Dr Eileen Sullivan Teaches at University College Cork; research interests Manager of Imagine Action: a children’s theatre and sports Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh; since, 1998 is Lecturer Professor John Montague include Irish women’s writing, Irish and British 18th programme and Development Officer at the Centre for Migration Studies, Mr Jim Cavanagh and 19th century writing, post-colonial writing and Omagh; lectures in Irish Migration Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast; publications include, with Brian Lambkin, The Lord Maginnis of Drumglass children’s literature; author of Maria Edgeworth: Women, David Park Enlightenment and Nation; published essays include Novelist, teacher; author of Oranges from Spain, The Healing, Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 Professor Maurice Harmon ‘Orphans, Upstarts and Aristocrats: Ireland and the Idyll The Rye Man, Stone Kingdoms, The Big Snow, Swallowing of Adoption in The Work of Madame de Genlis’ in Ireland the Sun and The Truth Commissioner; has received many Gordon Brand DIRECTOR Abroad’ in Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth prestigious awards including The Authors’ Club First Novel Summer School Committee member; lecturers on writers including Jack Johnston Century Award, Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, The Christopher Patrick MacGill, Oscar Wilde, William Allingham and Anthony Ewart-Biggs Award and the American Ireland Fund Literary Trollope; editor of William Carleton: The Authentic Voice Mark Bailey Award for his contribution to Irish Literature DEPUTY DIRECTOR Director of the Armagh Observatory; taught at the Liam Foley Arthur Quinn Universities of Cambridge, Sussex, and Liverpool, Kate Sutcliffe Summer School Committee member; has rewritten Carleton’s currently Vice President of the Royal Astronomical related to the Barnett family at Ballagh, Clogher; she is a long short story ‘The Midnight Mass’ as a radio play for ten HONORARY DIRECTOR Society; publications include numerous articles and Software Development Engineer who writes poetry; other characters - it will be performed as part of the open-ended intrests include poetry as theatre, and performance, children’s discussion on Thursday afternoon Owen Dudley Edwards papers in scientific journals including those published on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society; author of poetry and writing, and humour and nonsense Tracing the Heritage of the City of Armagh and Monaghan Owen Dudley Edwards SECRETARY County Jack Johnston Honorary Fellow and former Reader in History at the University Patrick Boyle Historian; Director of the William Carleton Summer School; of Edinburgh; broadcaster and writer; Honorary Director of Emer Nolan editor of The Spark; A local History Review; published and the William Carleton Summer School since 1995; published TREASURER Teaches at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; edited and taught local history over much of south Ulster studies of Oscar Wilde, Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, research interests include nineteenth and twentieth- and north Connacht; editor of Studies in Local History: Co. James Connolly, Burke and Hare and Eamon de Valera; Breda Heaney century Irish writing, modernism, and literary/cultural Monaghan; other publications include chapters in Tyrone published British Children’s Literature and the Second World theory; author of James Joyce and Nationalism, Catholic History and Society and Fermanagh History and Society; War; editor of The Easter Rising, Conor Cruise Ó Brien SUMMER SCHOOL COMMITTEE Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to Chairman of the Ulster Local History Trust Introduces Ireland and Scotland, Europe and the American Gordon Brand, Jim Cavanagh, Sam Craig, Mal- James Joyce; editor of Thomas Moore: The Memoirs Revolution; contributed essays to a range of publications Noel Monahan including Scotland and Ulster and Fickle Man: Robert Burns colm Duffey, Aidan Fee, Liam Foley, Billy McCro- of Captain Rock; contributions to journals including The British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, Éire- Poet, dramatist and former teacher; poetry collections are in the Twenty-first Century ry, Marie McGrath, Frank McHugh, Tom McK- Ireland and Field Day Review Opposite Walls, Snowfire, Curse of the Birds and The Funeral eagney, Michael Murphy, Conor Rafferty, Sean Game and his plays include Half a Vegetable - based on the WILLIAM CARLETON, THE AUTHENTIC VOICE writings of Patrick Kavanagh and Broken Cups which won and Ben Kiely’s POOR SCHOLAR Skeffington, Beverley Weir Linde Lunney Editorial Secretary, since 1983 of the Royal Irish the P.J. Ó Connor R.T.E. radio drama award will be on sale at both reception and in the bookshop Academy’s monumental nine volume Dictionary of Sheehy’s Book Shop ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Irish Biography; contributed to over 550 entries to that Ruth Illingworth provides a wide range of Irish books Mary Hamilton, Michael Fisher, Seamus McClus- work; research interests include genealogy, the history Lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; including recent publications by the current year’s speakers key, Pat McDonnell of emigration from Ulster, eighteenth century science, writer, broadcaster and tour guide; Chair of the Mullingar