Eleventh ‘Literature of Irish Exile’
Autumn School
Guest Speakers: Dr Fred Freeman,
Sean McCartan, Walter McFarlane
Date: Saturday 16 October 2010
Venue: Centre for Migration Studies
at the Ulster American Folk Park
Time: 11.00am (tea/coffee & registration from 10.30am)
Admission: £20.00 stg (£15.00 concession for students, unwaged and senior citizens)
Includes: registration, morning tea/coffee, lunch, afternoon tea/coffee and drinks reception.
For further information or to book:
E: Christine.Johnston@librariesni.org.uk
T: 028 8225 6315
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Programme for the
Event
see below
-- Saturday 16 October 2010 --
10.30 Registration (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, Patrick 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