OBJECTIVES To develop a deeper insight into the writings of Oliver Goldsmith To promote Goldsmith Country thth as a major tourist attraction 2929 AnnualAnnual For further information please contact: GoldsmithGoldsmith www.goldsmithfestival.ie InternationalInternational Goldsmith Literary Tour LiteraryLiterary FestivalFestival Bus Tour featuring readings from selected works of Goldsmith at well known locations including May 31stst - JuneJune 22nd Forgney Church, Lissoy and Kilkenny West 2013 Beginning at 11.00 am and returning to the Goldsmith Monument, Ballymahon Library Admission €10 GOLDSMITH LITERARY FESTIVAL COMMITTEE Theme: Chairman: Seamus McCormack Secretary: Adrian Duncan Treasurer: Niall Nally The Gathering - Committee: Joe Farrell, William Dowler, Cecil English, Are Faraway Hills Greener ? Teddy McGoey, Sean Ryan, Dr. Pat Kelly, Willie Flanagan, Anne Tully “Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam, Produced with Financial Assistance from His first, best country ever is, at home.” The Traveller (1764)- Oliver Goldsmith Longford County Council Designed and printed by Arthur Conlon, Ballymahon - 086 8716763 st Sally Mulready is an elected Labour Party Councillor in the London Borough of Friday May 31 Rustic Inn, Abbeyshrule Adm. €10 Hackney and was appointed to the Irish Council of State in January 2012 by President Michael D. Higgins. She has a solid history of community politics, long 8.00 pm Recital by Innyside Singers term union involvement and championing human rights in Britain and abroad. She is a founder member, and current Chair, of the Irish Women Survivors Network and 8.30 pm Chair: Ciaran Mullooly is the Director of the Irish Elderly Advice Network, a charity supporting older Irish people living in and around London. Official Opening: Sally Mulready Tom McGuire is a native of Killoe, Co. Longford and is now resident in Mount The Gathering - Are Faraway Hills Greener ? Temple, Co. Westmeath. He is Editor of Current Affairs & Regions at RTÉ Radio. A journalist with the national broadcaster since 1994, in his current role he has editorial Symposium: Andrew Carpenter responsibility for the stations flagship programmes including ‘Today with Pat Kenny’, Sally Mulready ‘Liveline’, ‘Drivetime’, ‘The Late Debate’, ‘The Marian Finucane Show’ and ‘Saturday with Claire Byrne.’ He has worked as a presenter/reporter on the local radio service, Tom McGuire national news and ‘Nationwide.’ He was editor of ‘The Election Book’ (2007) ahead of that year’s national poll. Ciaran Mullooly Prof. Andrew Carpenter was educated at Oxford and UCD and is a former Associate Musical Entertainment by the Campbells Professor in the English Department at UCD and since 2006 a full Professor. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, in 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the English st Association. He was founding president of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and Saturday June 1 Goldsmith Room, Ballymahon Library Adm. €10 founding editor of its journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland. He has a long association with scholarly publishing through his Irish Texts from the Age of Swift and through 11.00 am Goldsmith Literary Tour Adm. €10 (See over for details) various scholarly texts and anthologies. He has lectured in many universities across the world and has delivered papers at conferences in many countries. 2.30 pm Chair: Adrian Duncan Ciaran Mullooly is a native of Lanesboro, Co. Longford. He is a senior RTE News Chris Wheatley "Goldsmith as Prophet” Correspondent and a former winner of the AT Cross National Media Awards. He "Poets and the Return” has worked as RTE Midlands Correspondent since 1996 and his first book 'Death 3.15 pm Des Egan on Holy Thursday - the shooting of John Carthy in Abbeylara' was published by Blackwater Press in 2006. He was Irish Medical Journalist Of The Year in 2007. He is also involved in external voluntary community work in the areas of suicide 7.00 pm The Three Jolly Pigeons prevention and looking after the 24/7 carers of Ireland Goldsmith Barbecue with music by the Henshaws. Dr. Chris Wheatley is a Professor of English, Vice Provost and Dean of nd Undergraduate Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington. His Sunday June 2 Goldsmith Room, Ballymahon Library Adm. €5 research interests include: 17th- and 18th-century English and Irish drama, 20th- century American and Irish drama, rhetorical concerns in literature and philosophy. 12.00 pm Chair: Niall Nally He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles including the “Irish Plays of the Seventeenth and Eighteen Century” and "Poland Is Not Yet Lost": Goldsmith Miscellany featuring: Heroic and Tragic Tales for the Polish Diaspora (2004), and Thornton Wilder and Jimmy Casey Ciaran O’Hanlon Ruairi Stafford Amos Wilder: Writing Religion in Twentieth Century America (2011). Des Egan is from Athlone and began his education in Tang, where his mother Philip Butler Michael McDonald Valerie Masters taught. Now a full-time writer, author of some 15 books of Poetry; 2 of Prose; 2 of Musical Contributors: Plays translated from the Greek of Sophocles and Euripides. 23 Collections of his work have been published in translation across Europe, Japan, China and USA. He Olive Kilbane Siobhan McCormack has won various Literary Awards in USA, France, Macedonia, Italy etc. and is Artistic nd Director of The Gerard Manley Hopkins International Literary Festival which takes Sunday June 2 Pallas (Goldsmith’s Birthplace) place in July in Newbridge College. He is married to Mullingar native Viv Abbott; they have 2 daughters and live near Newbridge 3.30 pm Chair: Anne Tully Rita Kelly was born in Galway 1953 and lives in the South East. Her work has been Poetry Readings by Acclaimed Poet Rita Kelly widely published and translated and has been placed on University Courses here and abroad. She has won many awards and is very proud of the fact that her first Poetry Results literary award was adjudicated and granted by John B Keane. Recently she has been awarded a Patrick & Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship. She has had many Arts Adjudicated by Heather Brett Music by Gerry Bohan Council Bursaries and holds an MA. Her work is thoughtful, rarely fashionable, Joe’s Cheese & Wine sometimes challenging and provocative. Her sixth collection of poetry, Further Readings of Winning Entries Thoughts in a Garden is published by Salmon in May 2013. .