| Throughout Weekend | Heritage Sites in the Fermoy Area Photographic Exhibition by Fermoy Camera Club |
Fermoy Community Youth Centre |
| FRIDAY APRIL 29th |
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| 6:30 pm | Conference launch and reception at AIB bank, Pearse Square. The silver and plate of the Church of Ireland, Fermoy Union of Parishes. Exhibition of Church Silver from the Fermoy area and talk by noted silver expert. Due to space and security restrictions the reception will be by invitation only. |
John R. Bowen |
8.15pm |
Fermoy Community Youth Centre | |
Long Divisions on O’Rowrk Encounters between English and Gaelic poetry in Ireland 1650-1750 |
Professor Patrick J Crotty | |
| 9.30pm |
Aferwards adjourning to Elbow Lane Inn for an evening of poetry and music. | |
| SATURDAY APRIL 30th |
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| 8.30-9.30 | Registration | |
| 9.30 | Ireland in exile and in hiding in the literary tradition |
Dr. Pádraig Ó Macháin |
| 10.10 |
Restoration houses and the origins of Georgian architecture. The view from the Cork region |
Dr. Tadhg O’Keefe |
| 10.50 | Discussion | |
| 11.00 | Break. Tea/coffee provided | |
| 11.30 |
The most celebrated Irish tunes The first published collection of Irish music |
Dr. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin |
| 12.10 |
The Fermoy blast-furnace An archaeological and historical detective story |
Dr. Paul Rondelez |
| 12.50 | Discussion | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Lunch break | |
| 2.00 |
Making Glanworth modern The making of the early modern world at Glanworth Castle |
Dr. Raymond Gillespie |
| 2.40 | A habit of return The Irish Franciscans and the Tudor Dissolution of Religious Houses |
Dr. John McCafferty |
| 3.20 | Break. Tea/coffee provided | |
| 3.50 |
Sport in Ireland before the GAA
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Dr. James Kelly |
| 4.30 |
Carolan’s Harp |
Anja Bakker |
| 5.15 | Discussion and summing up | |
| 5.30 | Conference closing | |
| Abstracts | ||
| SUNDAY MAY 1th |
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| 9.30-14.00 |
The conference will end with a field trip to Doneraile. The trip will include guided tours of Doneraile Court gardens (the house can only be viewed from outside), the Georgian town, the Church of Ireland church and the beautiful Georgian Creagh House in the town. The trip will include tea/coffee in the Georgian splendour of the Townhouse café on Doneraile’s Main Street. |
Tickets available from Barnes Jewellers, Patrick Street, Fermoy
Tickets also available at registration
Dinner Venue - Grand Hotel
Field Trip DepartureVenue - Pearse Square
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