Cumann agus Cileachas:
Love and Marriage Revisited

• Dates: 12 to fifteen August (Wednesday to Saturday).
• Theme: Cumann agus Cileachas: Love and Marriage Revisited.
• Location: Ennis, County Clare.
• Summer time School 2015 Director: Dr Linda Connolly,
  Director, Institute for Social Science these days (ISS21), UCC.

Thanks for visiting the college

Beidh filte romhat!

Venues

All occasions will occur at glr in Ennis.

glr box office

• Throughout the School, tickets for those our occasions is going to be offered by Glr in addition to from Cumann Merriman directly.
• The Glr box office could be contacted on 00 353 65 684 3103 or at boxoffice@ null glor.ie.

Programme

Note: There is no need to join up for the entire School anybody wanting to book for individual days or individual sessions on world wide web.glor.ie very welcome.

Wednesday twelfth

• Opening from the School.
• Introduction by Linda Connolly.
• Guest speaker: Catherine McGuinness.

• Lecture: Divorce Two Decades On: What really happened? by Tony Fahey.

Thursday 13th

• Seiminer 1.
  • Tromlu an phsta in Cirt an Mhen-Oche. le Mire N Annrachin.

• ‘Love and Marriage in Irish Writing’ 1.
  • &#8220Passionate Encounters&#8221? Irish Literature after Independence: the Writing of Sexual Interest. with Patricia Coughlan.

• Cirt an Mhen-Lae.
  • Poetry Studying with Ailbhe N Ghearbhuigh.

• Panel: Love and Marriage Revisited.
  • Bridesheads revisited: Love and Marriage in Rural Ireland 1850s to 1960s. with William J. Smyth.
  • &#8220Why not provide the capacity to the wife? She most likely cannot resist him otherwise&#8221: Ladies and fertility control in twentieth century Ireland. with Sandra McAvoy.
  • Representations of Single Women in Irish Cullture. with Anne Byrne.
  

• Book launch: Eleven Versions of Merriman (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2015).
  • Author: Gregory A. Schirmer.
  • Speaker: Tom Dunne.

• Plenary Panel: Love and Marriage within the Irish Revolution.
  • ‘Hens to moorcocks call’: Flirtation and Courtship in 1916 with Lucy Mc Diarmid.
  • Love and Affection One of the Revolutionary Generation with Roy Promote.

Friday 14th

• Seiminer 2
  • An Gr agus an Ghruaim? Mn, Fir agus an Psadh sa Bhaloideas. le Diarmuid Giollin.

• ‘Love and Marriage in Irish Writing’ 2
  • Love OR Marriage. with Conal Creedon.

• Cirt an Mhen-Lae with Rita Ann Higgins.

• Panel: Love, Marriage and Equality.
  • The Household and also the Irish Metabolic rate: A Lot Change, A Lot Still exactly the same. with Conor O’Mahony.
  • Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship. with Risn Ryan-Ton.
  • Glare on Love: Marriage and Equality two decades following the 1995 Divorce Referendum. with Carol Coulter.

• Musical Gala Evening and Highlighted Lecture.
  • ‘Bms ag l is ag Pgadh na mBan’: Love and Marriage within the Musical Landscape of Co. Clare. with Gearid hAllmhurin.
  • Other performers:
  • Geraldine Cotter (piano)
  • Joan Hanrahan (Radio/fiddle)
  • Tim Collins (concertina)
  • Anthony Quigney (Kilfenora Cil Band/flute)
  • Emer Howley (Kilfenora Cil Band/fiddle)
  • rfhlaith N Bhriain (sean-ns songs)
  • The Crusheen Half Set: Strawboy Wedding Dance
  • This highlighted lecture and recital will explore the styles of affection and marriage as reflected in Ireland’s traditional soundscape. While keeping focused around the lifeworlds of musicmakers and the way they chronicle the universal styles of affection and marriage, the presentation will focus especially on marriage rituals as celebrated within the traditional music, song and dance of Clare.
  

Saturday 15th

• Seiminer 3.
  • Galar nch fir luibh n liaigh: Galar an ghr i ndnta gr na Gaeilge. le Sle N Mhurch.

• ‘Love and Marriage in Irish Writing’ 3.
  • Author interview and studying
  • Doireann N Bhriain in conversation with Donal Ryan, author from the Spinning Heart and also the Factor About December .

• Cirt an Mhen-Lae.
  • Poetry Studying with Doireann N Ghrofa.

• Plenary Panel: Love and Marriage: Feelings, Closeness and Identity.
  • The Triumph of affection. with Tom Inglis.
  • Love and Marriage: Searching Back and Forward. with Linda Connolly.

• History Ireland: Hedge School.
  • Love and Marriage Because the Famine.
  • Chair: Tommy Graham, Editor, History Ireland .
  • Panel: William J. Smyth, Sandra Mc Avoy, Linda Connolly and Tom Inglis.

History Ireland editor Tommy Graham is host of a number of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table public discussions with historians and well-known personalities. Podcasts and videos of those occasions are published around the History Ireland website.

Cumann Merriman is definitely an Irish cultural organisation. It’s named after John Merriman, author from the celebrated 18th century Rabelaisian poem, Cirt an Mhen Oche (The Night time Court). Its aims since its foundation in 1967. Find out more .