1. art and entertainment
2. music

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
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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
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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– 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)
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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
irishfaminesummerschool@irishheritagetrust.ie
Bookings
Call Danielle
00 353 1 648 6274
ifc@abbey.ie
Conference Prices:
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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
irishfaminesummerschool@irishheritagetrust.ie
Bookings
Call Danielle
00 353 1 648 6274
ifc@abbey.ie
FAMINE EMIGRANT WALK – April 2016
Interested in taking part?
Email Liz on – elizabeth.coffey@strokestownpark.ie