Tim Pat will be giving a lecture on Michael Collins on 25th of August in the Glasnevin Museum at 7.30pm. The lecture is free and part of Heritage Week.
Booking is essential to ensure a seat. For more information and bookings, please contact Glasnevin Museum on 01-8826550 or email bookings@glasnevintrust.ie
Glasnevin Museum is located inside the main gates of Glasnevin Cemetery.
This year sees Féile come of age, celebrating it’s eighteenth birthday with the theme Past, Present, Future. In 1993 residents of the Bogside and Brandywell came together with community organisations to organize a community festival that has become the biggest community celebration in the North West. Now 18 years since it’s inception, Féile is taking the opportunity to look at its history, celebrate its achievements and look confidently to a better future.
As always, Féile features an extensive Political Talks and Debates section. Highlights include lectures from two of Ireland’s most respected political/historical writers, Fintan O’Toole and Tim Pat Coogan.
Féile 2011 takes place at various venues in Derry from Friday August 5th – Monday August 15th. Tim Pat will deliver a lecture ‘Ireland. Yes We Can?’ at An Cultúrlann on Wednesday, August 10.
For more information or to request a programme, contact the Féile office on 02871262812.
Catch the podcast of last Wednesday’s RTÉ Radio 1 ‘Late Debate’, with Tim Pat Coogan, Kevin Humphries TD, Luke Flanagan TD, Brenda Power and Shaun Connolly.
Tim Pat will be speaking at the 2011 Percy French Summer
School, to be held at Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, from 11th–15th July
The Athlone Advertiser reports that the headline talk “… is one of many that aims to address current socio-economic issues… Some of Ireland’s leading academics will gather to celebrate the work of Percy French and debate issues such as ‘The Irish conscience’, ‘The Female education debate in 18th century’, ‘Trades, crafts and people of old Fuerty’, to name but a few…. Tim Pat’s talk is of course taken from Percy French’s well known song ‘The West Clare Railway’”
Question and Answer Session – Thursday 14th July, 12.15pm
Sure we’re not right Michael, Sure we’re not!
A reflection on the contemporary political and economic crises with apologies to ‘The West Clare Railway’ by Percy French
Tim Pat Coogan
Luke Ming Flanagan TD CHAIR
Tim Pat will take part in a commemorative debate in Cork this Friday on the subject of two of the city’s former lord mayors - Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney – who both died in the turbulent events of 1920, MacCurtain shot by members of the RIC, MacSwiney on hunger strike in Brixton Prison.
The debate is organised by their alma mater, North Monastery secondary school, and will be held in the concert hall, City Hall, Cork, on Friday 11th March at 7.30pm. It is being chaired by Pat Cox and is free to the public.
On the 21st November 1920 events outside of the GAA brought politics into the heart of the Association when troops opened fire during a challenge football match between Dublin and Tipperary.
The GAA Museum will mark the 90th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday 1920 with a special commemorative lecture featuring Tim Pat Coogan and Dr. William Murphy, at 2pm on Saturday 20th November.
As part of a series of talks to coincide with The Hugh Lane Gallery’ s John Lavery: Passion and Politics exhibition, Tim Pat will be speaking on Sunday 5th September (1.30pm) on ‘Painting Politics‘. Admission free, first come first served.
Tim Pat Coogan will preside over the official opening of the 2010 Parnell Summer School – ‘Gotcha! The Role of Media in Politics and Society’.
The six-day event, which is celebrating its 20th year, will take place from August 8th-13th at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow – the birthplace of politician Charles Stewart Parnell.
Sessions include: ‘Press Freedom’, ‘Corruption in Politics’, ‘History of Irish Media’, ‘Parnell and the Origins of Modern Day Press in Ireland’, and ‘Citizen Journalism and Beyond’.
RTÉ 1 Tuesdays 2nd and 9th March, 10.15-11.15pm
Featuring extensive interviews with Bob Geldof, President Mary McAleese, Tim Pat Coogan, President Peter Pinda of Tanzania and John O’Shea of Goal, ‘On God’s Mission’ examines why the Irish joined the missions in such great numbers, what impact they had on the people to whom they dedicated their lives, and reveals how their work has impacted on Ireland’s international reputation.
On Sunday 7th March, a symposium at the Ennis Book Club Festival entitled ‘Reading History’ will bring together Tim Pat Coogan, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Diarmaid Ferriter and Senator Eoghan Harris in an event chaired by Caimin Jones. Tickets, priced €12, are now on sale.
More information at www.ennisbookclubfestival.com
