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Summer Schools in Ireland 2007 & 2008
Photo by bloomsday616Summer Schools, in their meaning here, are for the most part based around the work of one of Ireland's well known writers, poets or artists. However their themes vary from those rigidly based on the subject's work, often in a quite academic sense, to those who use the artist's work to define a theme of wider and more contemporary interest to society.
Although they may at first sound like somewhat stuffy events, they are anything but! There is invariably a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere and people become devotees of their favourite schools, returning year after year to renew old friendships and make new ones.
Most comprise a series of talks, workshops, organised outings and other events around a specified theme that changes annually. They attract an very varied audience - from academics to those with a only a passing or casual interest in the theme, from the learned and knowledgeable to students keen to expand their horizons.
All share one thing - as keen an interest in the social side of the summer school as in its topic!
John Hewitt International Summer School
Date: 19th - 25th July | Location: Armagh
The John Hewitt Summer School is a week of lectures, readings, discussions, writing, talks, drama, music & entertainment, held in Armagh in honour of John Harold Hewitt, a Belfast...
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Dublin James Joyce Summer School
Date: July 6th-12th | Location: Dublin
This school is a joint effort by UCD, Boston College, The James Joyce Centre and the National Library of Ireland, as as such a distinguished list would suggest it is one aimed primarily...
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Trevor/Bowen Summer School
Date: May 23rd - 25th | Location: Westmeath
Celebrating the lives and work of local writers William Trevor and Elizabrth Bowen, this festival is organised by Westmeath Library. In 2008 a number of well known speakers will be...
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Yeats Weekend Winter School
Date: January 2009 | Location: Sligo
A Winter companion to the better known Yeats Summer School , this weekend event is an opportunity to learn more about one of Ireland's greatest poets in a friendly athmosphere...
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The Merriman Summer School
Date: Aug 17th - 23rd | Location: Clare
If you are planning to attend a summer school in Ireland for the first time, Merriman is the one to pick. It has plenty for anyone with an interest in Irish culture to enjoy and...
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Yeats Summer School
Date: July 26th - August 8th | Location: Sligo
Organised by the Sligo Yeats Society, this very popular school commemorates the life and work of W.B. Yeats in a series of workshops, lectures, seminars and readings. Attended...
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Hopkins Summer School
Date: 19th - 25th July | Location: Kildare
A highly rated literary Summer School in Monasterevin, Co Kildare, based around the life and works of the well known poet who was born locally. Participants from more than 25 countries...
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The MacGill Summer School
Date: July 13th - 19th | Location: Donegal
A truly political event this, and one of the oldest Summer Schools in Ireland - it is always popular and provocative and frequently makes the news as politicians take...
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Goldsmith Summer School
Date: | Location: Longford
Taking its theme this year from a line of Goldsmith's poetry: “Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay” this...
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Byrne Perry Summer School
Date: June 27th - 29th | Location: Wexford
Founded in 1995 with a remit of examining Irish history and literature from the eighteenth century onwards, the school broadly considers topics around how the last two centuries of...
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Charles Macklin Autumn School
Date: 10th - 12th Oct | Location: Donegal
Charles Macklin was a noted player and dramatist, born in the Inisowen Peninsula in the 17th century. The festival held in his honour and the 2007 school held in his name will...
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Parnell Summer School
Date: August 2008 | Location: Wicklow
Charles Stewart ParnellWith many of its events taking place in Avondale, the ancestral home of Charles Stewart Parnell, this summer school has a strong sense of the man and his...
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Synge Summer School
Date: July 2008 | Location: Wicklow
An annual theatre and drama event held in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, which this year has the theme "Synge and His Contexts". Each year sees a gathering of worldwide Synge enthusiasts...
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McGlinchey Summer School
Date: June 2008 | Location: Donegal
Each year the Summer School take a different theme which is used to kick start conversation and debate on the past, present and future of Ireland. Last year's theme was...
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