The programme for the 21st John Hewitt International Summer School is now available. This year’s theme is “Let There Be No Wall” and the school will run in the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, between Monday 28th July until Friday 1st August, 2008.
There is the usual mix of politics, literature, music and debate. Literary participants include writers and poets Seamus Heaney, Andrew O’Hagan, Glenn Patterson, Hugo Hamilton and Maureen Boyle. On the political side, former Senator Maurice Hayes and journalist Conor O’Clery will be giving talks. There are two panels: one including Bernadette McAliskey, Paul Bew and Eamonn McCann (chaired by journalist Malachi O’Doherty) will consider “Reflections on 1968” while a second (chaired by poet Anne Marie Fyfe) will debate literary matters and will include writers Lisa Appignanesi and Imtiaz Dharker. Apart from that, comedian Kevin McAleer will host an evening, there will be an exhibition of artwork by artists from Armagh, book launch and music nightly.
Full contact details and programme are available at http://www.johnhewittsociety.org/
Monday, May 19, 2008
‘Let There Be No Wall’
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Should be interesting for those interested in Civil Rights and a few revisionists should attend just to get the correct story!
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