WEDNESDAY 6th July | THURSDAY 7th July | FRIDAY 8th July
WEDNESDAY 6th July
10.00 am Talk • Questions & Answers
Brian Griffin
Percy French: A Portrait of the Artist as a Cycling Journalist
10.45 am Tea/Coffee
11.15 am Lecture • Questions & Answers
Jane Maxwell, Curator of Manuscripts Library TCD
‘Dear Giddy Brat’, The letters of Edward Synge,
Bishop of Elphin, to his daughter Alicia, 1746–52
12.10 pm Lecture • Questions & Answers
Eugene McGee
From French, and other letters, to Twitter.
Have Irish people lost the great arts of talking,
writing, and personal communication?
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
Michael Banaghan & The Castlecoote Ramblers
A Very French Seisiún
3.15 pm Gardens open
THURSDAY 7th July
10.00 am Illustrated Lecture • Questions and Answers
Maureen Beary Ryan
Art and Letter Writting
10.45 am Tea/Coffee
11.10 am Lecture • Questions & Answers
Karina Melvin
The Irish & Sex: once backward, now forward.
But should we really be upside-down?
12.10 pm Lecture • Questions & Answers
The Sean Freyne Memorial Lecture
Kieran O’Mahony
St Paul among the Philosophers:
from Seneca to Giorgio Agamben
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
Peader MacMahon and Friends
The Legacy of Percy French
3.15 pm Gardens open
8.00 pm Festival Talk at Roscommon County Library
Dr Brendan McEvoy
French’s Contribution to the Irish Literary Revival
FRIDAY 8th July
10.00am Lecture • Questions & Answers
Dr Teresa O’Donnell
Sisters of the Revolutionaries:
Margaret and Mary Brigid Pearse
10.45am Tea/Coffee
11.10am Lecture • Questions & Answers
Alan Tongue
The Love Letters of Percy French
12.10 pm Lecture • Questions & Answers
Dr Anne Byrne
McBreen’s Heifer? Single Women in Story and Society
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
The Mulligan Sisters
Musical Melodies
3.15 pm Gardens open
