29th John Hewitt Society International Summer School 2016

Monday 25th ~ Saturday 30th July 2016 The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh

JHISS 2015 Photo: Conor Greenan Photography

A Festival of Culture & Creativity

International Summer School

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poetry | ďŹ ction | exhibitions | talks | debates | drama | creative writing | music | workshops

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Booking Information Book online: www.marketplacearmagh.com Book by phone: The Market Place Theatre Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Book in person: The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Market Street, Armagh, BT61 7BW Box Office Opening Hours: Monday – Saturday 9.30am – 4.30pm. Open until 7pm on performance nights.

Tickets: Individual events:

£7, or otherwise specified

Day ticket: (Entrance to all events on any specified day, except workshops)

£40 includes tea/coffee/refreshments

Weekly ticket: including Creative Writing Workshop

£225 includes tea/coffee/refreshments

Weekly ticket: excluding Creative Writing Workshop

£175 includes tea/coffee/refreshments

Creative writing workshop programme

£50

Publishing Workshops

£15 each

Events run for approximately 60 minutes unless otherwise stated.

Creative writing workshops run for 90 minutes.

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“A Role in History: the Rising, the Great War, and a Shared Past” A man may objectively inherit a role in history, reluctantly or with devotion, soldier, functionary, rebel….

– John Hewitt, Mosaic Welcome to the 29th John Hewitt International Summer School, a celebration of culture and creativity – which this year for the first time has been extended to six days.

During the week we will feature talks, readings, theatre, performances, discussions and workshops. We will look at the influences – cultural , political, economic and historical – that led both men and women, Nationalist and Unionist, to choose various ‘roles’ in 1912, 1914, 1916, and consider the factors old and new on those who have enlisted in numerous conflicts since then.

We will explore how historical narrative, media, culture, literature and the arts have kept the record straight, or have been harnessed to politically and culturally divisive ends.

In response to feedback from previous years, audiences now have the opportunity to purchase and enjoy lunch from The Market Place Theatre Bistro or the local facilities of Armagh during an extended lunch break. The Summer School has been extended into the weekend to include a major event on Friday night, with new workshop offerings on Saturday morning as well as optional opportunities to take a walking tour of the city with Visit Armagh.

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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS Monday 25th, Tuesday 26th & Thursday 28th July 2.45pm | 90mins £50 for three-day workshop

Carlo Gébler: The Short Story A highly regarded fiction writer, screenwriter, memoirist and commentator, Carlo has taught Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin and Queen’s University, Belfast, as well as in the Maze and Maghaberry Prisons.

Sheena Wilkinson: Writing for Young People Sheena’s novels include the multi-award-winning Taking Flight and Grounded. She won the Brian Moore Award and her short story, ‘Each Slow Dusk’ is in Walker’s The Great War anthology (2014). She is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.

Matthew Francis: Poetry

Siobhán Campbell: Poetry

Matthew has four poetry collections with Faber and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. He was selected as a New Generation Poet in 2004 and has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize.

Siobhán received the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, 2016. Her most recent collection is Cross-Talk (Seren, 2010). She lectures in Creative Writing with the Open University and her new collection, That Other Island, is forthcoming from Seren in 2017.

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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS Develop your writing skills under the direction of one of our eight tutors who are all experienced facilitators and published authors. Each workshop runs over three days, and each intensive session lasts for 90 mins.

Spaces are limited – advance booking is essential.

Nessa O'Mahony: Getting Started

Maureen Boyle: Memoir

Nessa’s sessions will not be genre-specific and will focus on developing the creative impulse. Nessa has four poetry collections, won the National Women’s Poetry Competition (1997), and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize. She teaches with the Open University.

Maureen won the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize and the Strokestown International Poetry prize in 2007. In 2013 she was awarded the Fish Short Memoir Prize. She teaches with the Open University.

Kimberley Lynne: Writing for Stage & Screen Over thirty of Kimberley’s plays have been produced in New York, Washington DC, Baltimore and Minneapolis, from American magic realism to historical drama. She teaches playwriting throughout Baltimore, USA and screenwriting at the University of Baltimore.

Supported by the Open University

Claire McGowan: Writing a Crime Novel Learn the tricks for creating a gripping, page-turning story that readers can't put down from the critically-acclaimed author of the Paula Maguire crime series (most recently A Savage Hunter), whose books have been optioned by the BBC. Claire also writes women's fiction as Eva Woods. She runs the UK's first MA in Crime Writing, at City University London.

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ART EXHIBITION DIS-EASE Foyer Walls, 25 July – 13 August When the poet Moyra Donaldson and photographic artist Victoria J. Dean became interested in each other’s work, they expanded and challenged their individual practices, collaborating across the disciplines of poetry and the visual arts.

They agreed on the theme, Dis-Ease, which spanned concepts of disease, unease or discomfort. The collaboration took an organic course and the result was a publication and exhibition consisting of a series of images combined with poetry.

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ART EXHIBITION Waypoint: Vessels by Jack Doherty THE GALLERY, 25 July – 17 September This solo exhibition will present Jack Doherty’s individual soda-fired vessel forms and family groupings that embody his imagined stories, concepts and narratives drawn from a fishing community.

Currently based in Cornwall, Jack studied Ceramics at the Ulster College of Art and Design. After graduating he worked at the Kilkenny Design Workshops before establishing his first studio in Co Armagh. It is fitting that Waypoint will be travelling to the Market Place Theatre and Gallery in Armagh as the launch event for Craft NI, August Craft Month 2016.

Presented by The Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre in association with The John Hewitt Society and in partnership with Craft NI, AmmA Creative Learning Centre and Education Authority.

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Monday 25th July OFFICIAL OPENING 10:45am FREE

OPENING ADDRESS

Dáithí O’Ceallaigh Perspectives of 1916: the Rising and the Trenches 11:15am £8 Dáithí O’Ceallaigh’s diplomatic career spans more than 35 years, with postings in Moscow, Belfast, New York, Finland and Estonia, before serving as Ambassador to London for six years. He also served as Ambassador to the UN, World Trade Organisation and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He retired from the Foreign Service in 2009 and is currently Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin.

FICTION

Jo Baker 1:30pm £7 Jo Baker was born in Lancashire and educated at Oxford and Queen's University Belfast. Her novels include Offcomer, The Mermaid's Child, The Telling, and the international best-seller Longbourn, with a film adaptation due in 2017.

Her latest offering is A Country Road, a Tree (Doubleday 2016). She is married to Armagh-born playwright and screenwriter Daragh Carville.

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 2:45pm Three day course: £50

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a lecturer at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast.

RECEPTION Hosted by the North South Ministerial Council 5:45pm

LECTURE

The Heaney O’Driscoll Memorial Lecture Creativity in the Digital Revolution 4:30pm £7 Leontia Flynn has published three collections of poetry with Jonathan Cape: These Days (2004), Drives (2008) and Profit and Loss (2011).

She has been awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award and the AWB Vincent Award. She has also written a monograph on the poetry of Medbh McGuckian, and is

POETRY

Sinéad Morrissey & Sarah Howe 7pm £10 Sinéad Morrissey is a central figure in contemporary Irish poetry and is the winner of the T.S Eliot Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, shortlisted four times for the Forward Prize, and this year nominated by the National Book Critic Circle (USA) for Parallax and Selected Poems (Farrar 2015). Sarah Howe’s debut collection, Loop of Jade (Chatto 2015), has been a

poetry-publishing sensation, shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the first ever debut to win the T S Eliot Award. Howe is the current Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute.

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Monday 25th July STORYTELLING AND MUSIC

Liz Weir and Ciaran Mulholland: All for the Dead Man’s Penny 8:30pm £9 Celebrated storyteller Liz Weir and fiddle player Ciaran Mulholland tell a tale that spans the generations. A teenage girl delves into her family history a century after The First World War. 200,000 Irish soldiers fought, but this is the story of just one young Donegal man who took part. Like the warrior Oisín, his world will be transformed utterly during his absence.

Music in The Market Place Theatre Bar 10pm

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Tuesday 26th July POETRY

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Linda Connolly 1916 and Women: Unfinished Business 9:45am £6 In this talk, Dr. Connolly argues women's roles and rights in Irish society deserve much fuller attention, in relation to the 1916 Rising itself and in terms of its historical legacy. Dr Connolly is Director of the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at UCC. Her publications include the monographs, The Irish Women's Movement: From Revolution to Devolution and Documenting Irish Feminisms. She recently edited The 'Irish' Family (Routledge 2015).

FICTION

Matthew Francis and Jane Yeh

Glenn Patterson

11:15am £7 Matthew Francis has four collections with Faber, most recently Muscovy (2013). His debut, Blizzard (1996) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and he was a 2004 Next Generation Poet. Also a novelist, he lives in Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.

Jane Yeh was born in America and lives in London. She is published by Carcanet and Marabou (2005) was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward, and Aldeburgh prizes. The Ninjas was published in 2012.

1:30pm £7 Glenn Patterson has published ten novels, a memoir and two collections of articles and essays for, among others, the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Independent and Irish Times. His plays and stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, and with co-writer Colin Carberry he was nominated for a BAFTA for the film Good Vibrations.

His most recent novel is Gull (Head of Zeus, 2016): 'Colourful ... If anyone can tell the curious DeLorean story in Northern Ireland, it's Patterson' – The Observer.

Box Office: 028 3752 1821

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Tuesday 26th July CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 2:45pm Three day course: £50

DISCUSSION

Reflections on Remembrance

Ruth Dudley Edwards is a leading commentator on Irish affairs. Her latest book is The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic (Oneworld 2016).

4:30pm £7 Peter Osborne (panel chair), John Concannon, Jeffrey Donaldson MP, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Tom Hartley Peter Osborne was previously Chair of the Parades Commission and now chairs the Community Relations Council. Jeffrey Donaldson MP is Chief Whip of the DUP in the House of Commons and Chair of the Northern Ireland WWI Centenary Committee.

Previously with Fáilte Ireland, John Concannon is now the Director of Ireland 2016. Tom Hartley was the General Secretary and National Chairperson of Sinn Féin. In 1993 he was elected to Belfast City Council and chaired the Arts and Tourism sub-committees.

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Tuesday 26th July MUSIC

An Evening with Duke Special 8:30pm £13 Duke Special is one of the most significant Northern Irish musical talents to emerge in years. His diverse career has seen him move from Belfast to London's Royal National Theatre to the New York Met; from his concept album ‘The Silent World of Hector Mann’ based on Paul Auster's Novel The Book of Illusions, to shows inspired by Harry Nilsson and Belfast legend Ruby Murray, and collaborations with Clannad. In addition to his acclaimed most recent album ‘Look Out Machines’ and sell-out tours, he has recently written an adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, staged in Belfast by Youth Music Theatre NI. Supported by Cunningham Coates

Box Office: 028 3752 1821

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Wednesday 27th July TA L K

POETRY

Catriona Crowe How Have We Remembered 1916?

9:45am £6 Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland and Manager of the Irish Census Online Project, which placed the 1901 and 1911 censuses online free of charge. She is an Editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, and editor of Dublin 1911. She is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Limerick and a member of the Royal Irish Academy and contributes regularly to broadcast and print media on cultural and historical matters.

Supported by The Centre for Cross Border Studies

Caitriona O'Reilly and Andrew McMillan 11:15am £7 Caitriona O’Reilly has three collections with Bloodaxe: The Nowhere Birds, shortlisted for the Forward Prize and awarded the Rooney Prize; The Sea Cabinet, a PBS recommendation; and Geis, a PBS recommendation and winner of the 2016 Irish Times Poetry Now Award.

Andrew McMillan’s debut, physical (Cape 2015), was the first poetry collection to win The Guardian First Book Award, also winning the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and Forward Prize for First Collection. He lectures in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.

FICTION

Belinda McKeon 1:30pm £7 Belinda McKeon is the author of two acclaimed novels, Solace (2011) and Tender (2014). Her awards include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Irish Book of the Year. She is also the editor of A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, published last year by Tramp Press. She lives in New York and teaches at Rutgers University.

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and daily life. He will talk about his recent work and the Waypoint exhibition in relation to growing up in a fishing port on the north Antrim coast.

Presented by the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, in partnership with Craft NI, AmmA Creative Learning Centre and Education Authority

INTERVIEW

Malachi O’Doherty In conversation with Eimear O’Callaghan

TA L K

Jack Doherty Waypoint: marking place and time 2:45pm FREE An internationally renowned maker, Jack Doherty trained in Ceramics at the Ulster College of Art and Design and set up his first studio in Co Armagh. Embedded with ancient stories and contemporary narratives his pieces reference domestic space

4:30pm £7 Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams is one of the most recognisable figures in Irish and British politics, but how well do we know him? Author, journalist and broadcaster Malachi O’Doherty has written a biography on the man (forthcoming from Faber) and is joined by noted freelance writer and author Eimear O’Callaghan.

Box Office: 028 3752 1821

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Wednesday 27th July STUDENT SHOWCASE

Plays, Prose and Poems inspired by Northern Ireland 7pm FREE We welcome the opportunity to showcase the work of American students who have been in Armagh for a month, exploring ideas of place through prose, poetry and drama. A wine reception will follow.

Supported by ieiMedia Armagh

MUSIC

Martin Hayes and David Power 8:30pm £15 A founder of internationally acclaimed ‘The Gloaming’, Martin Hayes is one of the most important Irish traditional musicians of the last fifty years. His unique sound, acknowledgement of the past, and his shaping of the future, create a

formidable artistic intelligence. The recipient of six All-Ireland fiddle championships, he has two acclaimed solo albums: Martin Hayes and Under the Moon. David Power is a leading exponent of the uilleann pipes. A member of ‘Fairweather Band’, ‘Gorumna’ and Martin Hayes’ ‘Masters of Tradition’ and ‘Pipers Union’, he also has three acclaimed solo albums, the latest being The Eighteen Moloney.

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Thursday 28th July POETRY

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Patrick Toland Willoughby Weaving: The Muse in Arms

Gallery Goes…

Ciaran Carson, Tom French and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

9.45am £6 Weaving, a WWI veteran and poet, founded Elm Park Preparatory School, Killylea, Armagh, and also taught at Rockport School, Co. Down, where Patrick now teaches.

Patrick is an Oxford graduate and is currently studying for his PhD in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, QUB. His pamphlet, Stockholm (2014), is published by Templar Poetry.

11.15am £7 We welcome three leading Gallery Press poets to Armagh. Ciaran Carson’s awards include the T S Eliot, Irish Times Poetry Now and the Forward prizes. His recent collection, From Elsewhere, was shortlisted alongside Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Boys of Bluehill for the 2015 Forward Prize. Eiléan’s many awards include the O’Shaughnessy and the International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Tom French’s debut collection, Touching the Bones won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and Midnightstown (2014) helped secure his 2016 O’Shaughnessy Award. His latest collection is The Way to Work (2016).

Supported by Arts Council Ireland Touring and Dissemination Scheme

FICTION

Martina Devlin 1.30pm £7 Martina Devlin has published nine books, including The House Where It Happened and her most recent novel About Sisterland, a dystopian fiction on sexism and misogyny. She has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book Award, and prizes include a Hennessy Literary Award and the VS Pritchett Prize, and she has also been named columnist of the year by the National Newspapers of Ireland.

Box Office: 028 3752 1821

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Thursday 28th July CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 2:45pm Three day course: £50

PANEL DISCUSSION

And where were the women when history was made?

4.30pm £7 Ruth Taillon (panel chair), Martina Devlin, Bernadette McAliskey & Dawn Purvis Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies Ruth Taillon discusses with the panel the role of women in the historical events commemorated in this year (and decade) of centenaries. Ruth is author of When History Was Made: the Women of 1916 and is currently a member of the Irish Government’s Oversight Group for the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. Martina Devlin is a novelist and current affairs commentator for the Irish Independent, and vice-chair of the Irish Writers Centre.

Bernadette McAliskey is co-founder and coordinator of South Tyrone Empowerment Programme and a human rights campaigner. Formerly leader of the PUP, Dawn Purvis left politics in 2011 and became Northern Ireland Programme Director with Marie Stopes International. She is involved in a number of community and voluntary initiatives aimed at tackling socioeconomic disadvantage and exclusion.

Supported by Stratagem

EXHIBITION LAUNCH Launch of August Craft Month 2016

Showcasing Waypoint: Vessels by Jack Doherty 6pm FREE The Gallery Alan Kane, CEO Craft NI, Artist Jack Doherty and Curator Sarah Frangleton will open the event in the Market Place Gallery.

Presented by the Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, in partnership with Craft NI, AmmA Creative Learning Centre and Education Authority

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Thursday 28th July T H E AT R E Loco and Reckless Productions present

The Man in the Woman's Shoes A one-man show written and directed by Mikel Murfi

T H E AT R E A N D M U S I C

Percy French: Melodies of Unforgotten Years Written and performed by Sam McCready and directed by Joan McCready Musician: Kyle Riley 7pm £12 Following its sold-out run at the Lyric Theatre Belfast in May, Percy French is brought to life in Sam McCready’s witty and lively one-man show, which celebrates the music and life of one of Ireland’s best loved entertainers.

McCready is joined by singer/guitarist Kyle Riley who brings a fresh interpretation to the songs.

8:30pm £13 Pope John Paul I is not long dead, autumn is closing in, and Pat Farnon has business to do in town. Set in Ireland in October 1978, we follow Pat as he walks to town and back again. Winner of the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama Award, this funny, tender and beautifully observed piece has toured the USA and Ireland, including a sell-out run at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

POETRY

The Lifeboat The Market Place Theatre Bar 10pm FREE Stephen Connolly and Manuela Moser’s highly influential and popular Lifeboat poetry reading series returns to the Hewitt for the third year. The evening will see an established poet paired with a promising new talent.

Box Office: 028 3752 1821

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Friday 29th July TA L K

Gerald Dawe Hewitt's Republic: John Hewitt's Poetry in the Decade of Commemoration 9:45am £6 Gerald Dawe examines Hewitt's poetic views of 20th Century Irish history in the context of cultural developments, post Good Friday Agreement. Gerald is Professor of English, Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and has eight collections with Gallery, including his Selected Poems. Earth Voices Whispering: Irish poetry of war, 1914-1945 appeared in 2008. Of War and War's Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing (2015) includes a chapter on John Hewitt based upon his lecture at a previous Hewitt Summer School.

POETRY

Rita Ann Higgins and Grace Wells 11:15am £7 Rita Ann Higgins has published ten poetry collections, most recently Tongulish (2016). Her many accolades include a Peadar O’Donnell Award and Arts Council bursaries.

She is a member of Aosdána. Grace Wells' debut, When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things, won the 2011 Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection. Fur was published in 2015. Also a children's author, she mentors writers for a number of Irish County Councils, and Poetry Ireland.

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Friday 29th July Fiction

Donal Ryan 1:30pm £7 Donal Ryan's first two critically acclaimed novels, The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December (Doubleday), were lavishly garlanded with awards. ‘A Slanting of the Sun’, won the writing.ie Short Story of the Year and is the title of his recent short story collection. His third novel, All We Shall Know, is forthcoming in September 2016. He is Writing Fellow at the University of Limerick.

Lecture

The 7th Annual Irish Pages Lecture Chris Agee 2:45pm £7 Chris Agee is editor of Irish Pages and has published three poetry collections, including Next to Nothing (Salt: 2009), nominated for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. In his talk, Chris distils 37 years as an immigrant in Belfast, focussing on the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement and drawing on pan-European parallels. He reflects on the dynamics that continue to “trouble” Belfast and speculates that the now-multicultural Belfast may be the most momentous of all the changes following the Troubles.

creative Writing shoWcase 4pm Free Always a highlight of the week, our annual showcase provides an opportunity for some of those attending the Summer School’s creative writing workshops to read their new work for you.

Lord Mayor’s Reception 5:30pm Market Place Theatre Foyer

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Friday 29th July PoetrY

An Evening with Paul Durcan Presented with Poetry Ireland 7pm £10 Paul Durcan is one of Ireland's most prominent and cherished poets.

Born in Dublin in 1944, he has more than twenty poetry collections, including The Berlin Wall Café (Poetry Book Society Choice), and Daddy, Daddy (Whitbread Award for Poetry). He was Ireland Professor of Poetry 2004-2007, is a member of Aosdána, and in 2014 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Irish Book Award.

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Percy French: Melodies of Unforgotten Years Written and performed by Sam McCready and directed by Joan McCready Musician: Kyle Riley 8:30pm £12 A second opportunity to view Sam McCready’s witty and lively one-man show, joined by singer/guitarist Kyle Riley.

oPen Mic

Armagh Theatre Group presents Open Mic Night - JHISS Special Poetry, Songs & Yarns Abbey Lane Theatre, off Thomas Street 9pm £5 (Tickets at venue)

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Saturday 30th July PU B L I S H I N G WO R K S H O P S

Build an Audience and Sell More books Stephen Gordon 9.45am – 12.15pm £15 Stephen Gordon is an Amazon bestselling author and digital marketer specialising in using story-telling and narrative to build audiences and increase sales for creatives and young companies. Following twenty years of corporate experience, Stephen formed his marketing consultancy while preparing the Autumn 2016 launch of his first novel, Constance and the Sum of All Things.

Getting Past the Blank Page Martin Tyrrell 9.45am – 12.15pm £15 A creative writing workshop for beginners and improvers. Martin is a published and prize winning author

with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. His Writing Fiction class is a regular and popular feature of the Queen’s University, Belfast Open Learning Programme and he has twice received an award under the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Support for the Individual Artist Programme.

Editing Your Manuscript for Submission Helen Wright 9.45am – 11.30am £15 Helen has worked in publishing for almost sixteen years in editorial roles, with publishing houses such as Harper Collins and Ebury Press.

Helen is Senior Editor at Blackstaff Press (Belfast), and will be discussing how to (and how not to!) best present your work to a potential publisher.

Walking Tours of Armagh 11am-12noon & 1pm-2pm

Box Office: 028 3752 1821

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support the John hewitt society Ahead of our thirtieth anniversary in 2017, we want to offer even more opportunities for readers and writers of all ages to explore and celebrate literature and creative writing. We cannot do this without your help.

By donating to The John Hewitt Society, you can help us engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

There are several ways to support The John Hewitt Society: Make a donation online through Virgin Money Giving http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charities/TheJohnHewittSociety Send a text to 70070, including our JustTextGiving code TJHS30 and the amount the you would like to give (£1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10).

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25th WILLIAM CARLETON SOCIETY SUMMER SCHOOL CORICK HOUSE HOTEL, CLOGHER MONDAY 1st AUGUST 11am Professor Owen Dudley Edwards on ‘Carleton and 1916’ Archbishop Michael Jackson on Commemoration TUESDAY 2nd AUGUST Kevin Myers THURSDAY 4th AUGUST Coach tour to Seamus Heaney’s homeland. Details at: williamcarletonsociety.org SUNDAY 31st JULY Concert with Gemma Prince 7.30pm St Macartan’s Cathedral "Sing, Sweet Harp", the melodies of Thomas Moore £5

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board, committee & staff Chair: Tony Kennedy, OBE Board & Committee: Ryan Cornett | C.L. Dallat | Anne-Marie Fyfe | Stephen Gordon Jemma Greenlees | Myrtle Hill | Bill Jeffrey | Tony Kennedy | Paul Maddern Carmel Maguire| Paul McAvinchey | Patricia McCooe | Martin Tyrell General Manager: Hilary Copeland

John hewitt society Patrons Eilish Clerkin | Margaret D’Arcy | Seamus Deane | Brian Garrett | Maurice Hayes | Fred Heatley Marie Jones | Edna Longley | Michael Longley | Terence McCaughey | Carmel McGuckian Keith Millar | John Montague | Tom Paulin | Lord Rana MBE, Baron of Malone

Principal Funders

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summer school sponsors

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PrograMMe at a gLance Monday 25th

Tuesday 26th

Wednesday 27th

Thursday 28th

Friday 29th

Saturday 30th

9.45am

10.45am Official Opening

Talk Linda Connolly

Talk Catriona Crowe

Talk Patrick Toland

Talk Gerald Dawe

Publishing Workshops 9.45am-10.45am

11.15am

Opening Address Dáithí O’Ceallaigh

Poetry Matthew Francis & Jane Yeh

Poetry Catriona O'Reilly & Andrew McMillan

Poetry Ciaran Carson, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Tom French

Poetry Rita Ann Higgins & Grace Wells

Publishing Workshops 11am-12.15am

1.30pm

Fiction Jo Baker

Fiction Glenn Patterson

Fiction Belinda McKeon

Fiction Martina Devlin

Fiction Donal Ryan

2.45pm

Creative Writing Workshops

Creative Writing Workshops

Talk John Doherty

Creative Writing Workshops

Talk The Irish Pages Lecture Chris Agee

4.30pm

7pm

Talk Panel Discussion The Heaney Peter Osborne Interview O’Driscoll Memorial John Concannon Malachi O’Doherty Lecture Jeffrey Donaldson MP In conversation with Leontia Flynn Ruth Dudley Edwards Eimear O’Callaghan Tom Hartley 5.45pm NSMC Reception Poetry Sinead Morrissey & Sarah Howe

8.30pm

Words and Music All for the Dead Man’s Penny Liz Weir & Ciaran Mulholland

10pm

Music

iei Media Student Showcase

Music An Evening with Duke Special

Music Martin Hayes & David Power

Panel Discussion Ruth Taillon Martina Devlin Bernadette McAliskey Dawn Purvis 6pm Craft NI Exhibition Launch

Creative Writing Showcase 4.00pm-5.30pm Lord Mayor’s Reception 5.30pm

Theatre and Music Percy French: Melodies of Unforgotten Years Sam McCready with Kyle Riley

Poetry An Evening with Paul Durcan

Theatre Loco and Reckless Productions The Man in the Woman’s Shoes

Theatre and Music Percy French: Melodies of Unforgotten Years Sam McCready with Kyle Riley

The Lifeboat

9pm Open Mic Night Abbey Lane Theatre

Walking Tours of Armagh 11am-12noon 1pm-2pm