17th -21st June 2015 Last Updated 14th April 2015 Tuesday 16th June 2015 8pm Official Opening & Welcome, Library, Strokestown Park House Wednesday 17th June 2015 9.30 – 1.00pm The Great Irish Famine: New perspectives Strokestown Park House Paul Strzelecki: a Polish Count and the Great Famine Prof Christine Kinealy - Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA How people survived the Great Irish Famine, Dr Ciaran Reilly - Maynooth University, Ireland “A bioarchaeology of the Great Irish Famine: The Kilkenny Union Workhouse mass burials” Dr Jonny Geber - University College Cork, Ireland 2.30-5.30pm Tour of Cruchain Ai- Royal Celtic Site, Tulsk & the 18th Century Windmill, Elphin. Bus departs - Event Tent - Bawn St - 2.30pm Booking Required - €12 2.00-3.30pm Local Craft Display Percy French Hotel - Free 3.30 pm ‘Blas na Gaelige’ – Learn a few phrases of Irish Town Library - Free 4.00 pm Secret Areas of Strokestown Park House Tour Woodland Walk Cafe - Reception Desk - €5 Free Evening Thursday 18th June 2015 5.30am (tbc) Darkness to Light 5 Km Walk to the Tye/Tighe Grave In memory of the ‘Missing 1490’ 9.30 – 1.00pm The Great Irish Famine Abroad There Is More to America than America: The Famine Migration to Canada and the United States Compared Professor Mark McGowan - University of Toronto, Canada Irish Famines and Irish Families: Continuity and Change, 1550-1850 Dr Patrick Fitzgerald - Mellon Centre for Migration, Omagh NI Remembering and commemorating the Famine in Australia Dr Perry McIntyre - Global Irish Studies Centre, University of New South Wales lunch 2.30-5.30pm Tour of Rindoon Deserted Medieval Village Bus departs - Event Tent - Bawn St Booking Required - €12 2.30pm Genealogy Centre Workshop Free 8pm Drama- The murder of Major Mahon, 1847 Strokestown Park House, Library Booking Required - €5 Friday 19th June 2015 9.30 – 1.00pm The Great Irish Famine Remembered Community Commemoration and the Great Famine Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald - University College Dublin, Ireland Black withered stalks’: Recollecting Wastelands in Early Irish and Irish Diaspora Famine Fiction Dr Marguerite Corporaal - Radbound, Nijmegen, Holland Tracing Irish Famine Orphans in Ontario and Quebec: Remembrance and Return to Strokestown Dr Jason King - NUI, Galway, Ireland 1.00 – 3.00pm Secret Tour of Strokestown Park Estate & a ‘Taste of Famine Times’ - Soyer Soup & Maize Bread, upstairs in the Woodland Walk Restaurant, Booking Required - €5 2.30 – 5.30pm Tour of Roscommon Workhouse & Quaker Meeting House Bus departs - Event Tent - Bawn St - 2.30pm Booking Required - €12 3.30pm Sliabh Ban Walk through the Ages (Meet at the Event Tent) 8.00pm History Hedge School Percy French Hotel – Ballroom Booking Required - €10 'The Great Irish Famine: Past, present and future' [Title tbc] Professor Christine Kinealy Professor Mark McGowan Dr Emily Mark Fitzgerald Saturday, 20th June 2015 4th International Famine Conference The local and regional impact of the Great Irish Famine 9.00 9.20 - 9.20 - 9.30 Registration Welcome, John O’Driscoll, General Manager & Curator, Irish National Famine Museum 9.30 – 10.45: Session 1 Munster Bryan MacMahon, Rob Goodbody, Michael Murphy, Heroes in word and deed: some priests of the Tralee area in 1847 Limerick Quakers and the Great Famine Famine in North East Cork, through a cartographers eye 10.45 - 11.15 Tea & Coffee 11.15 - 12.30: Session 2 Ciaran McCabe, ‘Apparently very decent and deserving: Quaker relief efforts among the Famine poor of Dublin city’ ‘Starvation in the midst of plenty’: Famine in county Meath, 1845-51 Spatial and social impact of the Great Famine in Mullingar Poor Law Union 1845-49 Peter Connell, Seamus O’Brien, 12.30 - 1.45: Lunch 1.45 Session 3 (a) - 3.00: Anne Casement, Robyn Acheson, Pat Holland, Leinster (1) Panel - Ulster The management of the Londonderry estates in Ulster during the Great Famine Charity, disease and the workhouse: the Famine in Belfast Miss Johnston's diary of the Great Famine: A day by day account of the Famine in East Donegal, as seen by the teenage girl of the gentry Session 3 (b) Panel - Connaught Fiona White, The Famine in Kilchreest, county Galway 'A wild and miserable place': the forgotten famine in the west of Ireland and the origins of Mr Tuke's Fund, 1879-1884 The Moore Hall estate, county Mayo during the Famine 3.00 Short Break Gerry Daly, Regina Donlon, - 3.15 Saturday, 20th June 2015 (continued) 3.15 - 4.30 Session 4 (a) Gerard MacAtasney, Croná Cassidy, Richard McCready, Panel - Ulster & Scotland The Protestants of Ulster: Famine Denial? The Case of Stranorlar, (Co. Donegal) Poor Law Union The impact of the Great Irish Famine on Dundee Session 4 (b) Panel - Britain and Australia Saoirse Reynolds, Kay Caball, Sean Neary, 'Crime and Punishment: The Irish in Swansea, Wales ‘Was the Earl Grey Scheme an opportunity or a tragedy for the Kerry girls?’ Barefoot but not Pregnant! Emigration to Australia of 110 Roscommon Girls, 1849 4.30 Keynote Address - 5.30 Professor Peter Gray (Queens University Belfast), ‘Locality and Region in the Making of British Famine Policy’ 8.00pm Conference & Summer School Dinner Strokestown Park House Pre-Dinner Drinks in the Library Booking Required - € 50 Sunday 21st June 2015 9.30 – 10.45: Anne O’Leary, Charles Egan, Caroilin Callery, Session 1 (a) ‘The tribal imperative in Tom Murphy’s play, Famine’ Famine Roads in East Mayo. A true life story ‘Connection & Re-connection: Youth Arts & Community Theatre’ Session 1 (b) Brian Donavan, Jarlath McNamara, Michael Blanch, Panel: Theatre, fiction and commemoration Panel: New Sources & Projects Documenting the pre-Famine population of the West: micro-loan records ‘Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, Famine Refugee: his impact and influence on the music of America and the development of music of Ireland’ The CCIFV Marker Project: Remembering unmarked mass graves 10.45 - 11.15 Tea & Coffee 11.15 – 12.30: Session 2 (a) Brendan Matthews, Fidelma Byrne, Jacqueline Crowley, ‘Drogheda & the Ottoman Ships of 1847: Unravelling this extraordinary tale’ ‘The departed’: Famine footprints on a Wicklow townland ‘Famine and the transfer of property ownership in Ireland’ Session 2 (b) Panel: Leinster (2) Panel: Canada & USA Bernadette McDermott, ‘The emigration of women from the auxiliary workhouses of Strokestown Union to Canada in 1852’ Mark McGowan, Elizabeth McDermott, Julia Maher, Kiera O'Sullivan (University of Toronto), Francis Costello, 12.30 - 1.15 ‘Tracking the Missing 1490 of Strokestown: Preliminary findings of the Canadian research team’ The Famine and Boston: Of kind relief sent and a harsh welcome for many who came Keynote Address Tom Arnold (Director General, The Institute of International and European Affairs) Similarities in Past and Present Famines 1.15 -1.30 Closing Remarks Dr Ciarán Reilly (Maynooth University) & Pat Kenny (Executive Chairman, Westward Group of Companies) 1.00 pm - 5.00 pm Olde World Fayre Bawn St 3.00pm History Walk of the Town (Meet at the Event Tent) – Free Daily Saturday & Sunday Evenings At your leisure Woodland Sculpture Walk Town Library Exhibition Town Sculpture Trail Horse Drawn Carriage Town Tours ‘in style’ Roscommon Arts Centre Display Strokestown Golf Club Genealogy Centre – Open 2.00 – 5.00 pm daily Children’s Events Face painting Fancy Dress Ice Cream Music Sessions in the local Pubs Around 10.00 pm Or simply browse through our beautiful Heritage Town More information & Updates www.irishfaminesummerschool.com Contact [email protected] Bookings Call Danielle 00 353 1 648 6274 [email protected] Conference Prices; For detailed conference cost combinations please use the ‘Book now or Resister your interest’ button on our website. www.irishfaminesummerschool.com Full Conference (Wednesday – Sunday) €180 2 Day Registration ( Saturday & Sunday) €100 3 Day Registration (Wednesday – Friday) €100 Full Conference - Students/OAP’s/Unemployed €160
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