Tuesday 16th June 2015 8pm Official Opening & Welcome - Fintan O’Toole Percy French Hotel ‘What Happened to our 1,490’ & ‘Collective Voices Project’ Project Update – Dr Mark McGowan – University of Toronto Trad Music Session – Percy French Hotel – 10 pm 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 3.30 pm ‘Blas na Gaelige’ – Learn a few phrases of Irish Percy French Hotel - Free Town Library - Free 4.00 pm Secret Areas of Strokestown Park House Tour Woodland Walk Cafe - Reception Desk - €5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8.00 pm ‘The Great Hunger’ – Peter Duffy’s dramatisation of Patrick Kavanagh’s famous poem . Bare Bodkin Theatre - Gallery Kitchen - € 10 Trad Music Session – Beirne’s Bar – Bridge St. – 10 pm Thursday 18th June 2015 9.30 – 1.00pm The Great Irish Famine Abroad Strokestown Park House 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, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------2.30-5.30pm Tour of Rindoon Deserted Medieval Village Bus departs - Event Tent - Bawn St Booking Required - €12 1.30–3.00 pm Costumed Croquet Display Victorian Walled Garden - Free 2.30pm Genealogy Centre Workshop Genealogy Centre, Church St - Free 4.30 – 5.00 pm Kieran Furey – Poetry Reading The Hub, Church St. - Free 5.45 – 6.00 pm - Tour & Introduction to the Strokestown Archive ‘The gem at the heart of Strokestown Park and becoming acknowledged worldwide as the most important Famine Archive.’ Meet Café ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8pm Drama- The murder of Major Mahon, 1847 Strokestown Folk Group Strokestown Park House, Library €5 Unveiling of Terrestrial & Celestial 19th Cent. Globes Trad Music Session – Sportsmans – Elphin St – 10 pm Friday 19th June 2015 9.30 – 1.00pm The Great Irish Famine Remembered Strokestown Park House ‘Community Commemoration and the Great Famine’ Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald – U.C.D, Ireland ‘Black withered stalks’: Recollecting Wastelands in Early Irish and Irish Diaspora Famine Fiction’ Dr Marguerite Corporaal - Radboud, 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 - Spud Project Upstairs in the Woodland Walk Restaurant - €5 2.30 – 5.30pm Tour - Roscommon Workhouse & Quaker Meeting Hse 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 - €10 'The Great Irish Famine: Past, present and future' - Professor Christine Kinealy - Dr Emily Mark Fitzgerald 9.30 pm - Professor Mark McGowan - Dr Susan Murphy Website Launch – Dr Jason King Book Launches - Pat Holland & Prof Christine Kinealy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9.30 pm Easy Listening – Billy Garvin - Sportsman Inn - Elphin St. 10.00 pm Craft Beer Tasting @ Hanly’s Bar 10.00 pm Folk & Trad Session - Jimmy Whelan - Willie’s Bar – Bridge St Trad Music Session – Mc Hugh’s Bar - Elphin St. - 10 pm 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, Director & Curator, Strokestown Park & the Irish National Famine Museum 9.30 – 10.45: Session 1 Bryan MacMahon, Rob Goodbody, Michael Murphy, Munster 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 11.15 - 12.30: Session 2 Ciaran McCabe, Peter Connell, Seamus O’Brien, Leinster (1) ‘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 12.30 - 1.45: 1.45 - 3.00: Tea & Coffee Session 3 (a) Lunch Panel - Ulster Anne Casement, Robyn Acheson, Pat Holland, The management of the Londonderry estates in Ulster during the 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 1.45 Session 3 (b) - 3.00: Gerry Daly, Regina Donlon, Fiona White, Panel - Connaught 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 Saturday, 20th June 2015 (continued) 3.00 3.15 - 4.30 Session 4 (a) Gerard MacAtasney, Croná Cassidy, Richard McCready, 4.30 - 5.30 Short Break 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) Saoirse Reynolds, Kay Caball, Sean Neary, - 3.15 Panel - Britain and Australia '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 Keynote Address Professor Peter Gray (Queens University Belfast), ‘Locality and Region in the Making of British Famine Policy’ 5.45 – 6.00 pm - Tour & Introduction to the Strokestown Archive ‘The gem at the heart of Strokestown Park and becoming acknowledged worldwide as the most important Famine Archive.’ Meet Café -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8.00pm Conference & Summer School Dinner Strokestown Park House - Woodland Cafe Booking Required - € 50 Percy French - Easy Listening with Frank Dempsey 10.30 pm Willie’s Bar – Country & Western with Gerry Carney - 10.30 pm Trad Music Session – Hanly’s Bar – 10 pm Sunday 21st June 2015 5.30am (Sunrise) Darkness to Light 5 Km Walk to the Tye/Tighe Grave In memory of the ‘Missing 1490’ Meet at the 1,490 Glass Memorial Wall -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 MacNamara, 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) Panel: Leinster (2) Brendan Matthews, Jacqueline Crowley, ‘Drogheda & the Ottoman Ships of 1847: Unravelling this extraordinary tale’ ‘Famine and the transfer of property ownership in Ireland’ 11.15 – 12.30: Session 2 (b) 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, ‘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 Sunday, 21st June 2015 12.30 - 1.15 (continued) 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 ‘Best Costume Competition’ Children’s Old Time Costume Show Crafts, Sheep Shearing, Wheelers & Dealers Vintage Cares +++ All the atmosphere of days of yore. 3.00pm History Walk of the Town (Meet at the Event Tent) – Free Trad Music Session – Willie’s Bar – 5 pm Daily - At your leisure ‘Welcome to our Community’ Event Tent – Bawn St - for all Information Missing 1,490 Exhibition & Town Trail – start at the Event Tent Famine Emigrant Walk Re-enactment - Slideshow – Strokestown to Dublin 150 km – April 2015 The Hub Café - continuous loop Art & Flower Exhibition –Ivy Rose Florists – Elphin St Woodland Sculpture Walk World Hunger Exhibition – Famine Museum Town Library Exhibition – Workhouses of Roscommon Town Sculpture Trail – various windows on all Streets Horse Drawn Carriage Town Tours ‘in style’ Strokestown Golf Club Genealogy Centre – Open 2.00 – 5.00 pm Weds – Fri. Saturday & Sunday Children’s Events Face painting Fancy Dress Ice Cream Nightly Music Sessions in the local Pubs Around 10.00 pm – See Daily Schedules 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 Register 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 Daily Rate – Wed / Thurs / Fri € 35 More information & Updates www.irishfaminesummerschool.com Contact [email protected] Bookings Call Danielle 00 353 1 648 6274 [email protected] FAMINE EMIGRANT WALK – April 2016 Interested in taking part? Email Liz on – [email protected]
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