PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
TREVOR / BOWEN LITERARY WEEKEND.
Except where indicated otherwise, ALL events take place at Conference Centre, Paki Fitz’s, Lr Cork St, Mitchelstown.
| FRIDAY 1st MAY 2009 |
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Official opening by locally born writer, Maura Richards.
Jack Lane, Aubane Historical Society, explains
“Bowen’s Further Espionage Reports to Churchill”.
Short story reading: Chani Anderson reads her prize- winning short
story from Mitchelstown Short Story Competition 2008.
Frank O’Connor: ‘The Man Behind the Writer’.
Lecture by his official biographer, Jim McKeon
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| SATURDAY 2nd MAY 2009 |
| 10.30 – 1pm C.B.S. Secondary School. |
Short story – Creative Writing workshop; Part 1
Directed by: Vincent McDonnell.
| 11.00a.m. C.B.S. Secondary School. |
Teenage Essay/Short Story workshop
Directed by John Quinn.
Place, Identity & Realms of Imagination’
Lecture by Cláir Ni Aonghusa.
Screening of ‘The Ballroom of Romance’;
John Quinn interviews its director, Pat O’Connor.
Brendan Behan – Genius!/?
Lecture by Ulick O’Connor |
| Sunday 3rd of May 2009 |
| 10.30 – 1pm - C.B.S. Secondary School |
Short story – Creative Writing workshop; Part 2
Directed by: Vincent McDonnell
‘Bones of Contention and Frank O’Connor’
Lecture by Hilary Lennon
‘The Well of Memory - from Fanahan to Tunbridge’
Lecture by: Maura Richards.
| 8.30pm Firgrove Hotel Conference Room. |
‘Love’s Civil War’ – Charles Ritchie & Elizabeth Bowen.
Lecture by: Victoria Glendinning.
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Admission (excluding Workshops);
Individual events €15.00 per person.
Weekend ticket €60.00 per person.
Creative Writing Workshops: €60.00 per person for both sessions.
Teenage Essay / Short Story Workshop €10.00 per person.
Available from The Mouse Pad Lower Cork Street Mitchelstown Co.Cork
Tel :025 85972 or 086 2420411 |
