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- An exploration of landscape and migration in the poetry and music of the west of Ireland |
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During the 2003 conference we concentrated
in particular on Hyde's recognition of culture at the
heart of identity. From his own exploration of identity
through poetry, prose and playwriting, we looked at the
same areas through the writers and musicians of today.
Over the weekend we explored the rich tapestry woven between
Ireland and other countries as a result of the movement
and infleunce of Irish poets and musicians throughout
the world.
The weekend further looked at the distinct impression
that the landscape of the west of Ireland has etched onto
its literature and music. The weekend brought to the fore
the similar experiences of Irish language writers and
indeed the Irish language generally to that of other minority
laguages throughout the world.
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brian Farrell
and CathalO'Shearcaigh |
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Mairtín Davey with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Nuala's daughter |
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Programme director, Mary O'Malley with Conference organisers Philip Delamere and Orla Nic Shuibhne |
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| Liz Doherty with Gino from "Four Men and a Dog" and Oral Nic Shuibhne |
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18.07.03
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St
Nathy's College, Ballaghaderreen
6.00pm - 8.00pm Registration
8.00pm - 8.30pm Launch by Professor Brian Farrell
8.30pm - 10.00pm Cathal O'Shearcaigh and Lasarfhiona Ní Chonaola
Cathal is one of Ireland's quintessential poets with one of Ireland's foremost
sean nós singers Lasarfhiona Ní Chonaola.
10.00pm - 11.30pm Reception
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19.07.03
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Strokestown Park House
10.00am - 11.30am Dermot Somers
Roscommon born Dermot Somers reads from his
fiction and non-fiction in both Irish and English. He
also discusses the impression landscape has made on
his work through his extensive travels in Iran, Russia
and Nepal as well as throughout Ireland.
11.30am - 1.00pm Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, a poet of infinite variety
and brilliance as well as a marvellous reader of her own
work, reads her poetry and looks at the distinct nature
of the Irish and English languages.
1.00pm - 2.30pm Lunch
2.30pm - 4.00pm Panel Discussion
Brian Farrell chairs a panel discussion on
the subject of journeys and language, not alone in the
sense of the nature of the epic in poetry, but touching
on aspects ranging from the journeying of the collector,
as in the case of Hyde, to the threatened languages of
nomadic peoples as witnessed by Dermot Somers.
4.00pm - 5.00pm Douglas Hyde Irish Writers Bursary Award
This new award is offered to emerging writers
writing in the Irish language. This year Brid Ní Mhoirin,
Eibhlis Ní Lordan and Seamus O hUltachan read.
5.00pm - 6.30pm Dinner
7.00pm - 8.30pm Tony Mac Mahon &
Liam Owens
''The great Scottish folk singer Ewan McColl
once told me about his memories of London Irish pubs on
Friday nights in the 1950.... I remember a crush of musicians
on a small stage in the corner, playing jigs and reels
for all they were worth - and whenever one left for the
toilet, a few more would pull timber flutes or tin whistles
out of their pockets and storm up to fill the gap on stage....
It was glorious." Most of them worked in the building
trade, as tin whistle player & raconteur Liam Owens did
at that time - and still does today. Tony Mac Mahon was
there as a student and as a musician.
9.30pm - 1.00pm Concert Percy French Hotel
Donegal Fiddle player Liz Doherty and friends |
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20.07.03
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10.00am - 11.00am Service and graveside
commemoration
11.00am - 12.30pm Michael Gibbons
This illustrated Lecture will focus on the 9000-year
long settlement history of Roscommon from its beginning
in the early Mesolithic times to the destruction of Gaelic
Ireland in the late 17th Century.
12.30pm - 1.45pm Lunch
2.00pm - 5.00pm Field Trip Led by Michael Gibbons
One of the most erudite and entertaining talkers
and walkers in Europe, this field trip to North Roscommon
will visit one of Ireland's best preserved Portal Dolmens,
a late Neolithic Ceremonial enclosure and Barrow group
near Boyle and explore the extraordinary Doon of Drumsna
- a first century BC Border Fortification of international
importance. |
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