Programme

• Barn room	Garden Marquee (Walled Garden)	Upstairs	Kitchen
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  SATURDAY (15th June)
  12am ‘The Bronze Age: Eire’s first gold rush 4, 000 years ago’ - with J.S. Dunne (chair & author of award-winning ‘Bending The Boyne’), Colm Moriarty (founder of archaeology.ie) & Charles Mount (Bronze Age archaeologist) ponder a world of megaliths, carving and precious metals.	12am Local History Presentations – Handling the Media and the Message – with Padraig Laffan (Federation of Local History Societies)  and Pat O’Neill, (President of the Carlow Archaeological & Historical Society)	12am Mrs Duckett, evangelical Protestantism, social history and the Bethany Home – Niall Meehan. , head of  Journalism & Media at Griffith College, Dublin, talks of the curious links between Duckett’s Grove & the Bethany Homes.
  	1pm ‘Richard Crosbie – Pioneer of Balloon Flight in Ireland’ – Bryan McMahon ,author of ‘Ascend or Die’, reveals the extraordinary story of the first Irishman to take to the skies.
  1:30pm ‘The Great Famine: A Series of Unfortunate Events or Genocide?’A History Ireland Hedge School with Tommy Graham (chair & founding editor of History Ireland magazine),  Conor McNamara (history lecturer in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra- check) / Liam Kennedy (Emeritus Professor of Economic History, Queen’s University, Belfast),  Robert Ballagh (artist & organizer of the  Irish Famine Tribunal),  Meredith Meagher (History Dept., University of Notre Dame) & Mike Murphy (UCC cartographer & editor of the ‘Atlas of The Great Irish Famine’).	1:45pm Carlow in the War of Independence’ – Elaine Callinan History lecturer at Carlow College, presents a 30 minute paper on how Carlow fared during the War of Independence. A Carlow 800 Celebration.	2pm Allegiance: Michael Collins v Winston Churchill   A dramatised account of a meeting at the time of the treaty negotiations in London, written by Mary Kenny  (1 hr 50 mins + 15 minute break. Requires an hour to set up)	Am an Ghátair (Troubled Times) – God’s Tear. The extraordinary story of a bleeding statue in Templemore which brought about a temporary ceasefire between the British and the IRA in Tipperary during the summer of 1920. The documentray won an IFTA award in 2013.
  2.45pm Carlow at War: Ireland in the 17th Century -  Myles Dungan (chair & presenter of ‘The History Show’ on RTE Radio One), Micheál  Ó Siochrú (Associate Professor of History at TCD),  Eamon Darcy (author of ‘Pogroms, Politics and Print: The 1641 Depositions and contemporary print culture’) & Jane Ohlmeyer (Professor of Modern History at TCD) examine the implications of maps, massacres and a fallen aristocracy in the wake of Cromwell’s conquest. A Carlow 800 Celebration.	2.30pm The Duckett Family - American genealogist and Eustace family historian Ronald Eustice adds some colour to the story of those who built Duckett’s Grove, focusing on the impact of DNA. A Carlow 800 Celebration.		Am an Ghátair (Troubled Times) II- In Anim An Mhic (In The Name of the Son) This 2013 IFTA award winning film examines the story of Josephine Brown who made a deal with the IRA to spy on the British in Victoria Barrack in Cork on condition they kidnap her son from her in-laws in Wales.
  4:15pm  Easter 1916: The American Connections  Michael Laffan (chair & former head of the School of History and Archives at UCD), Ruth Dudley Edwards (historian, satirical crime novelist & journalist) and Meredith Meagher (History Dept., University of Notre Dame) and Conor McNamara  (history lecturer in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra- check) consider the way in which the Easter Rising shaped Ireland’s future relationship with the USA & Canada.	3.15pm The Adventures of Patricia Horne -  Ida Milne tells the story of a young Irish lady doctor’s working adventures in Africa in the 1950s	4:30pm ‘Myles on Miles’ - Myles Dungan (presenter of ‘The History Show’ on RTE Radio One) talks about ‘Myles O’Reilly’ aka  Charles G. Halpine, an Irish journalist and author who came to prominence in New York during and after the US Civil War.
  5.15pm “Effects of the 70s’ - with Gerald Stembridge  (author, director & screenwriter) and Paddy Cullivan	4.15pm  Elizabethan Ireland: Explorations and Interrogations with Ciaran Brady (former head of  History at TCD) and John Cooper (Tudor historian at University of York & author of ‘The Queen’s Agent’ about spymaster Francis Walsingham).		A Terrible Beauty The docudrama from Tile Films centers on two linked events during the Irish Rebellion of 1916, the battles of Mount Street and North King Street culminating in the massacre of fifteen innocent young men and boys.
  SUNDAY (16th June)
  12am. Is the Irish State Failing to Protect our Heritage? Manchán Magan (chair, writer and documentery-maker), James Maguire (chairman of Irish Manuscripts Commission),  Marie Bourke (Keeper and Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland) & Brian Crowley (chair of the Irish Museums Association).	12am “Court Room Drama: The Piggott Forgeries” - Myles Dungan (presenter of ‘The History Show’ on RTE Radio One)and Turtle Bunbury (curator of the History Festival) take on the roles of Richard Piggott and Charles Russell for a spoken reenactment of the inquiry into Charles Stewart Parnell’s alleged criminal activities.	12am. ‘The Great Hunger’  Peter Duffy presents a one-man show of Patrick Kavanagh’s masterpiece. Inspired by the Great Famine, this epic poem follows the life and struggles of the anti-hero and small farmer Patrick Maguire. A narrative poem, fully of lyrical beauty and mystical insight, it offers an unsentimental portrait of small farm life in 1930′s Monaghan.
  1.15pm A Future for Our Past: History in the 21st Century - Roisin Higgins (chair & author of ‘Transforming 1916′), Donal Fallon (co-founder of the Come Here to Me blog), Tommy Graham (founder of History Ireland magazine) and Neil Jackman (founder of Abarta Audioguides) on the way in which our understanding of history is being honed by technology.	1pm Carloviana -  A look at famous Carlovians both at home and abroad with Jimmy O’Toole (author of The Carlow Gentry, on a fair lady), Norm MacMillan (on the eminent scientist John Tyndall), Pat O’Neill (President of the Carlow Archaeological & Historical Society, on the encyclopaedia founder Peter Fenelon Collier) & Marc-Ivan O’Gorman (the Taylorfest director, on Carlow artist Frank O’Meara). A Carlow 800 Celebration.	1pm  ‘Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore’ a talk by Jarlath MacNamara, focusing on the Galway-born composer & bandmaster, the development of America as a Superpower in Entertainment and its importance to the Irish and  Home Rule.	The Rocky Road to Dublin’ - 70 minute documentary by Peter Lennon which was shot in 1967 & released the following year to great controversy. Includes the making of the film.
  	2.15pm Strike & Lock Out, 1913 – Francis Devine (Hon. President of the Irish Labour History Society) gives an overview, while Ida Milne and Mary Muldowney (co-organizers of the Lockout Alternative Visions oral history project) discuss collecting the legacy of the lockout and the memories it stirred. With music by Fergus Russell. (70 mins)	2pm Single Mothers & Infanticide in Ireland: 1900-1950 – A Talk by Cliona Rattigan, PhD, author of ‘What Else Could I Do?’	Mother Teresa, 123 Springhill Avenue’. This film tells the controversial story of Mother Teresa living in West Belfast in the early 70s and how, according to locals, she was forced to leave Belfast by the Catholic Church. (39 mins)
  2.30pm Ireland & the American Civil War: Selective Memory Loss   Ciaran O’Neill (chairman & Ussher Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century History at TCD), Catherine Clinton (chair in U.S. history at Queen’s University Belfast,& consultant for the Spielberg film, ‘Lincoln’), Úna Ní Bhroiméil (lecturer in American history at UL), Damian Shiels (conflict archaeologist and military historian), and discuss the 1860s Civil War in which over 200,000 Irishmen fought.		3pm ‘Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922’ – A Talk by Ronan Fanning (Professor Emeritus of Modern History at UCD)	The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish. Filmed in Dublin in 2005, this short silent movie tells the tale of an inventor whose love for a beautiful woman is thwarted by an evil cad.
  3.45pm The Ancestry of Nicky Byrne – History Festival curator Turtle Bunbury reveals the family history of Nicky Byrne of Westlife, live on stage, with Nicola Morris (director of Timeline Research). There will be a Genealogy Clinic at the Festival over the weekend.	3:30 Joyce, Parnell & the Hearing of the History Readings of James Joyce on Parnell & other matters historical and comical” A costumed performance by Deirdre O’Byrne (English lecturer at Loughborough University) and Brian McCormack (Nottingham Irish Studies Group), with accompaniment by the fiddler Micheál Bolton. (40 mins)	4pm The  Slashing Parson of 1798 – The Life & Death of Robert Rochfort  – A talk by Shay Kinsella, diarist for the online history magazine, ‘Scoláire Staire’. A Carlow 800 Celebration.
  4:30pm The 1960s. Did Ireland swing or snooze? A History Ireland hedge school with Tommy Graham  (chair & founding editor of History Ireland magazine),  Carol Holohan (Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD focused on youth and poverty in the 1960s), Robert Ballagh (artist & former bass player with the showband, The Chessmen), Tom McGurk + Ronan Fanning (Professor Emeritus of Modern History at UCD). This talk could yet become about JFK’s visit to Ireland if Ryan Tubridy comes on board.	4:30pm ‘Bloomsday: Awakeing from the Nightmare of History’. With Gerry Stembridge (author, director & screenwriter) and Paddy Cullivan.
  	5:30pm, ‘John Joyce in Fine Voice’ - a one hour show of songs by the father of James Joyce with Tom Cullivan	5pm. ‘The Great Hunger’ Peter Duffy presents a one-man show of Patrick Kavanagh’s masterpiece. Inspired by the Great Famine, this epic poem follows the life and struggles of the anti-hero and small farmer Patrick Maguire. A narrative poem, fully of lyrical beauty and mystical insight, it offers an unsentimental portrait of small farm life in 1930′s Monaghan.	close at 5