Upcoming Event: The Eleventh 'Literature of Irish Exile' Autumn School
10.30 Registration (MCMS Library at Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh)
Tea / Coffee on arrival
11.00 Welcome (MCMS Library)
11.05 Fred Freeman, ‘Robert Tannahill: bicentenary lecture’
Chair: Sir Peter Froggatt
12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch (Ulster American Folk Park Café)
1.30 Walk in the Outdoor Museum:
Walter McFarlane, Paddy Fitzgerald, Brian Lambkin: ‘Thomas Mellon, William Carleton and the migrant hedge schoolmasters of Ireland’
3.00 Afternoon Tea (Library)
3.20 Sean McCartan, ‘From the drumlins of Kinelarty to the Élysée Palace –
the Irish ancestry of Charles de Gaulle’
4.15 Reception
4.45 Close
Fee: £20.00 stg (£15.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)
Includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon
tea/coffee and drinks reception.
Tel: 028 8225 6315; Fax: 028 8224 2241
Email: Christine.Johnston@librariesni.org.uk
