Cork Writers School Full Programme » Cork Writers School

21/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.00-9.30	Official Registration
	9.30-10.15	Welcome to students and brief introduction to the organisers/staff/health and safety arrangements of the Cork Writers’ School. Assessment for Credits: Information
	10.15-10.45 10.45-11.15	Official Opening of School by Liadain O’Donovan – daughter of writer Frank O’Connor Coffee break
	11.15-12.30	Opening session: Prof Maurice Harmon — Sean O’Faolain: The Life
	2.30-3.30	Dr Larry Geary — The Story of Mitchelstown
	4.00-5.00 Evening	Walking tour of Mitchelstown including historic St Fanahan’s Well and Kings’ Square Boating/ Canoeing at Ballyhass Lakes

22/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Hilary Lennon — Frank O’Connor: The Legacy
	10.45-11.15	Coffee break
	11.15-12.30	Dr Dolores MacKenna – The Achievement of William Trevor
	2.00-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan
	Evening	Opportunity to climb Galtee Mountains

23/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Willa Murphy — Gerald Griffin: The Man and His Work
	11.15-12.30	Thomas McCarthy – Fr Prout: The priest as a storyteller
	2.00-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan

	Evening	Visit to Booley House — Traditional Irish music, song & dance

24/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Eibhear Walsh – Teresa Deey and the Irish Theatre
	11.15-12.30	Dr Ruth Fleischmann — Canon Sheehan of Doneraile
	2.00-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan

	Evening	Night at the dogs — Greyhound Racing at Cork Dog Track followed by trip to Old Oak—Cork’s premier live music venue

25/07/2014

TIME

EVENT

9.30-10.45

Dr Ruth Fleischmann: The work of Aloys Fleischmann—Music, Art and Literature

11.15-12.30

Dr Sophia Hillan — ‘The Blessed Marcus’: David Marcus and Irish Writing of the Twentieth Century

2.00-3.30

Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan

3.45-5.15

Creative Writing Workshops: Writing a Novel with Mary O’Donnell and Making a Poem with Leanne O’Sullivan

Evening

Irish traditional music/ Folk session in local pub

28/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Emer Nolan – Charles Kickham and Knocknagow
	11.15-12.30	Dr Julie Ann Stevens — Somerville and Ross: Irish Cousins and Pioneering Women
	2.00-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ni Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna

	Evening	Trekking / Mountainbiking in the Ballyhoura Activity Centre.

29/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Patricia Craig — Elizabeth Bowen: Novelist and Short-Story Writer
	11.15-12.30	Thomas McCarthy — Molly Keane: The Phoenix in Irish Literature
	2.30-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna
*Please note change of time and venue	7.00-8.15	Dr Heather Laird — Elizabeth Bowen: Love and Politics This session will be held in Farrahy Church and a visit to the site of Bowenscourt can be arranged

30/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Maureen O’Connor — Edna O’Brien: The Country Girl
	11.15-12.30	Dr Eibhear Walshe — Kate O’Brien: That Lady, That Woman
	2.00-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna

	Evening	Irish music/ folk session in a local pub

31/07/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Dr Patrick Maume — Daniel Corkery and the Cork School
	11.15-12.30	Bernard O’Donoghue: The Cork Poets
	2.00-3.30	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna
	3.45-5.15	Creative Writing Workshops: Short Story Writing with Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Writing a Memoir with John MacKenna

	Evening	Readings by Bernard O’Donoghue and Mary Costellloe followed by Jim McKeon: One-man show on Frank O’Connor (Firgrove Hotel)

01/08/2014	TIME	EVENT
	9.30-10.45	Thomas McCarthy – The Cork Writers of Today
	11.15-12.30	Professor Paul Delaney — William Trevor and Post-Independence Ireland
	12.30-2.15	Group lunch in local restaurant
	2.30-4.00	Group readings and closing of School

	Evening	Indie-pendence — International Music Festival

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