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2008 Summer Schools

The Seamus Heaney Summer School, Belfast

'Irish theatre and the World Stage': the 2008 Synge Summer School, Rathdrum Co Wicklow

Twelfth Annual TRIESTE JOYCE SCHOOL, 29 June to 5 July 2008 University of Trieste .

see Summer Schools for 2007 here

This page lists summer schools and other special events on Irish literature, Irish drama and theatre studies, and Irish film. If you think a conference should be listed here, please tell us.

The Heaney Summer School 2008

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Irish Theatre and the World Stage: the 2008 Synge Summer School
29 June - 5 July 2008
Rathdrum, Co Wicklow
http://www.syngesummerschool.org/

The programme for the 2008 Synge Summer School has now been announced.

Highlights include:

• Lectures, seminars and workshops on many Irish dramatists: Brian Friel, Stewart Parker, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson – and, of course, JM Synge. Faculty includes: John P. Harrington, Emilie Pine, Ondrej Pilny, Ros Dixon, Nicholas Grene, Shaun Richards, Mark Phelan, Patrick Lonergan, Melissa Sihra, and Mary Luckhurst.

• A reading by award-winning writer Sebastian Barry, author of The Steward of Christendom, The Pride of Parnell Street and A Long Long Way;

• A talk by Bisi Adigun, who will discuss the updated version of The Playboy of the Western World which he and Roddy Doyle wrote for the production at the Abbey Theatre in 2007.; and

• A lively social programme, including a visit to the Abbey Theatre and a tour of Synge Country in County Wicklow.

Applications for this year's School are now being accepted. Visit the Synge Summer School website for more information.

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Twelfth Annual TRIESTE JOYCE SCHOOL
29 June to 5 July 2008
University of Trieste .

Website: http://www.univ.trieste.it/~nirdange/school/index.html

Speakers will include: Valérie Bénéjam (Université de Nantes), Tim Conley ( Brock College, Canada ), Claudia Corti ( University of Florence), Renzo S. Crivelli ( University of Trieste), Ron Ewart ( Zurich James Joyce Foundation), Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dieter Fuchs ( University of Vienna), Cheryl Herr ( University of Iowa), Clare Hutton ( University of Loughborough), Patrick McCarthy ( University of Miami), John McCourt (Università Roma Tre), Fran O?Rourke ( University College Dublin ), Vike Martina Plock ( Cardiff University), Fritz Senn ( Zurich James Joyce Foundation), Sam Slote ( Trinity College Dublin), Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), Derval Tubridy ( Goldsmiths College, University of London)

A special Genetic Joyce seminar will be held each afternoon and run by Sam Slote and Patrick MacCarthy. Other seminars will be on Ulysses (Fritz Senn), Dubliners (Vike Plock), Finnegans Wake (Tim Conley), an Contemporary Irish poetry (Ron Ewart).

SPECIAL GUEST: Irish novelist and booker prize winner ANNE ENRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE (Closing date 15 March 2008)

For further information e-mail: mccourt@units.it Director: Renzo S. Crivelli; Programme Director: John McCourt

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