Seán Mac Diarmada

SUMMER SCHOOL 2022

KILTYCLOGHER, CO. LEITRIM

– Presents –

Reflections on the Irish Civil War
1922-1923

Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2022

2022 Summer School Theme: Reflections on the Irish Civil War 1922-1923

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Friday June 17th

5.30 – 9.45 pm.
5.30 pm.
Official Opening at the Sean MacDiarmada Cottage by
Maura Mylonas, Patricia Walsh and Padraig Mac Diarmada
Shuttle Bus in operation from Community Centre from 5.00 p.m.
Light Refreshments at the Community Centre
6.45 – 7.45 p.m.
Dr. Jackie Uí Chionna
Orla Parkinson Memorial Lecture – Title:“… Miss Ryan, she who in all probability, had I lived, would have been my wife”: Min Ryan, Love and Loss in the Revolutionary Generation.
7.45 – 8.45 p.m.
Prin Duignan
Title: The Dennison Murders, Drumkeerin(December 1922): A North Leitrim Episode in the Irish Civil War.
8.45 – 9.45 p.m.
Ronan McGreevy
Title: Ireland’s Sarajevo: The assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP started the Irish Civil War and changed the course of Irish history. Why was he shot and what role did Michael Collins play in this event?

Saturday June 18th

10.30 am. – 4.30pm.
Tea/Coffee on arrival
10.30 – 11.30 a.m.
Danny Morrison
Title: The Consequences of Signing
11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m
Tom Elliott
Title: The disastrous impact of the Irish Civil War on Unionists & Protestants of the Irish Free State
12.30 – 1.30 p.m.
Senator Mark Daly
Title: The Centenary of Seanad Eireann – Minority Voices, Major Change – Past, Present & Future.
1.30 – 2.30 p.m.
Lunch
2.30 – 3.30 p.m.
Catriona Crowe
Title:”Civil War: how are we doing at the end of the decade of centenaries?”
3.30 – 4.30 p.m.
Tommie Gorman
Title:“Now that Northern Ireland’s Assembly elections are over, what next?” Journalist, Tommie Gorman, assesses the political landscape, North and South, after the Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

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