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    11th Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School: Omagh, 16 October 2010

    By Noreen Bowden | September 10, 2010

    Here’s a note from the Ulster-American Folk Park in Omagh on their most excellent annual summer school:

    Eleventh Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School: Saturday 16 October 2010

    If you don’t already have the date in your diary, we hope you may take a
    look at what is on offer and consider putting it there now:

    http://www.qub.ac.uk/cms/events/LIE_Oct_2010.htm

    The day, Saturday 16 October, will have the usual shape of a keynote lecture
    in the morning in the Library of the Centre for Migration Studies; after
    lunch a guided walk in the outdoor museum of the Folk Park; and a concluding
    lecture and discussion in the Library.

    Dr Fred Freeman, our keynote lecturer, is based at Edinburgh University and
    an expert on Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), the Scottish weaver poet, hailed
    as a successor to Burns, whose bicentenary is being celebrated this year. We
    look forward to hearing about Tannahill’s spirited defence of Irish
    immigrant weavers in Scotland.

    The focus of the walk in the outdoor museum, growing out of Paddy
    Fitzgerald’s lecture this summer to the William Carleton Summer School, will
    be, with the help of Folk Park guide Walter McFarlane, on the role of
    hedge-schools in preparing migrants.

    Sean McCartan, one of our distinguished Irish Migration Studies graduates,
    received a signal honour this year in being invited to France to speak about
    his researches on the Irish ancestry of President de Gaulle. We look forward
    to finding out how he fits into the migration story of the McCartan family.

    We do hope you may be able to join us.

    Brian Lambkin
    Director

    Christine Johnston
    Senior Library Asst
    Centre for Migration Studies
    Ulster American Folk Park

    Tel: 028 8225 6315
    Fax: 028 8224 2241
    Email: christine.johnston@librariesni.org.uk

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