Schedule
Please be seated 15 minutes before the first talk each day
July 19th
Wednesday
9.45 am
Cllr John Keogh Cathaoirleach of Roscommon County Council
Introduction and Welcome
10.15 am
Mike McCarthy
The Spiritual Landscape of Tulsk
10.50 am
Prof Luke Gibbons
Aliens of the West: Roscommon Women Writers and the Revival
11.40 am
Tea/coffee
12.10 pm
Dr Martin Mansergh
Outside the Pantheon: The place of Percy French, the Orpens and Moody-Manners in Irish art and culture at the turn of the 20th century, and the case for broadening the universe of discourse
12.45 pm
Brendan Kilty SC
101 Reasons Not to Execute Someone
1.30 pm
Lunch
2.45 pm
Afternoon Tours
Marie Gillooly: Hidden Gems of Roscommon Town (€10 extra)
or
Guided Tour of House & Grounds, includes the Percy French Room
Prebooking essential for either as limited places available.
3.30 pm
Gardens Open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
July 20th
Thursday
10.00 am
Dr Lusine Margaryan
Preaching Christianity and dealing with identity of indigenous people in Ireland, Armenia, and other peripheral areas of the Roman world
10.50 am
Alf Monaghan
Monastic Ireland – A Gift of The Nile
11.40 am
Tea/coffee
12.10 pm
Paul Kingsnorth
Saints of the Greenwood: looking back to look forward
12.45 pm
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Sean Freyne |
The Sean Freyne Memorial Lecture
Dr Alexander O’Hara
How can the Church in Ireland learn from the Early Irish Church?
1.30 pm
Lunch
2.45 pm
Afternoon recital
Cathy Jordan & Donogh Hennessy
Reawakening French
3.30 pm
Gardens open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
July 21st
Friday
Percy French, The Next Generation
10.00 am
Jeananne Crowley
More French Reflections
10.15 am
Allan Brennan
Technology and Children
10.50 am
Dr Keith Begley
Thinking about Artificial Intelligence
11.40 am
Tea/coffee
12.10 pm
Mary Kenny
Demographic Collapse in Ireland?
12.50 pm
Panel Discussion, Chaired by Paul Healy
Paul Kingsnorth; Mary Kenny; Charles Piecyk; Jeananne Crowley; Allan Brennan
1.30 pm
Lunch
2.30 pm
Afternoon Recital
Col Ceathair
Percy French Reworked
3.30 pm
Gardens Open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
THE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
