14th - 18th August | Courthouse | Free
A series of lectures on history, music and culture

Monday 14th

11:00 Dr. Ciarán Ó Murchadha Figures in a Famine Landscape

13:00 Dr. Patricia Lysaght ‘Tosnú maith: An Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann agus Bailiú an Bhéaloidis i gContae and Chláir sa bhliain 1942’

15:00 Pat Costelloe ‘A Century of Recorded Irish Music’

Tuesday 15th

11:00 Dr. Pádraig óg Ó Ruairc The East Clare By-Election 1917

13:00 Tomás Ó Cadhla Eolaíocht agus Teicneolaíocht sa CLG

15:00 Donnchadh Ó Cinnéide Talk on Commandant Tomás Malone Alias Seán Forde Vice O.C. East Limerick Flying Column

16:30 Dr. Áine Hensey ‘The Rebel Priests of Mullagh: Fr. Pat Gaynor, Fr. Michael McKenna and the War of Independence.’

Wednesday 16th

11:00 Martin Breen/Dick Cronin Castles and Towerhouses of Co. Clare

13:00 Mícheál Ó Móráin Saol Thomáis Ághais 1885 - 1917

15:00 Dr. Michael Griffin ‘Under the Influence: Tom Dermody and Robbie Burns’

Thursday 17th

11:00 Joe Queally The Fanore School Case

13:00 Joe Ó Muircheartaigh Toghchán de Valera in Oirthear an Chláir 1917

15:00 Dr. Geraldine Cotter ‘A Hub of the Tradition: Irish traditional music in Ennis 1950-1980’

Friday 18th

11:00 Dr. Tomás Mac Con Mara The Mountjoy Hunger Strike

13:00 Tim Dennehy An Dragún Dian – Dónall Ó Conaill sa Traidisiúin Amhránaíochta

15:00 Daithí Gormley Paddy Killoran

All talks will take place in the Family Law Courtroom, The Courthouse, Ennis

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14th - 20th August | Courthouse | Free

Exhibitions telling the story of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann