Jul 28th -1st Aug 2008
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The Market Place Theatre,
Armagh


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Programme
 A Five-Day Festival of Culture and Creativity
Monday 28 July - Friday 1 August
 
'Let There Be No Wall' 

   

MONDAY
28 JUL
TUESDAY
29 JUL 
WEDNESDAY
30 JUL
THURSDAY
31 JUL
FRIDAY
1 AUG 

9.45am 

10.45am

OFFICIAL OPENING
Anna Lo, MLA

TALK
Prof WJ McCormack
'Breaking Through: The Publication of ‘No Rebel Word' '
TALK
Prof Freddie Rokem
‘The Violin Payer
at the Roadblock’
TALK
 Prof George Watson
'The other sides'
TALK
Dr Conor O’Clery
'The Paradox of Walls’

11.15am

TALK
 
 Prof Clair Wills
‘The Best are Leaving’
PUBLIC INTERVIEW
Billy Collins
In conversation with
Anne-Marie Fyfe
POETRY READING
Joan Newmann
Imtiaz Dharker
 

 

 

TALK
 
Salmon Poetry:
Six Poets


 

POETRY READING
 Maurice RIordan
Ruth Carr

1.05pm

LUNCHTIME READING
Hugo Hamilton

 

LUNCHTIME READING
Andrew O'Hagan

  

LUNCHTIME READING
Lisa Appignanesi

LUNCHTIME READING
Roisin McAuley

 

LUNCHTIME READING
Glenn Patterson

2.00pm

WORKSHOP OPTIONS:

Creative Writing
Reading Group

WORKSHOP OPTIONS:

Creative Writing
Reading Group

 

TALK
 
 
Rita Duffy
‘Place of Mind’

WORKSHOP OPTIONS:

Creative Writing
Reading Group

 

 CREATIVE WRITERS’ READING

4.00pm

STAGED READINGS

Daragh Carville

The Books of Armagh'

DISCUSSION

 
 ‘Beyond the Walls: Aspects of Migration & Interculturalism’
Piaras Mac Einri
Mary Fitzgerald
Rotimi Adebari
Philip Watt

 TOUR OF ARMAGH

HISTORIC BUILDINGS

INTERNATIONAL PANEL DISCUSSION
Lisa Appignanesi
Imtiaz Dharker
Anne-Marie Fyfe
 

PANEL
DISCUSSION

‘Reflections on 1968’  Bernadette McAliskey
Prof Paul Bew
Eamonn McCann
Malachi O'Doherty

5.30pm

NORTH SOUTH MINISTERIAL COUNCIL RECEPTION

TALK
 
Dr Maurice Hayes
’A Game of Two Halves'

 

POETRY READING
Jane Duran ‘Silences from the Spanish Civil War’

  

 FEEDBACK AND MAYOR’S RECEPTION

( 6pm)

 

 

7.00pm

 EXHIBITION OPENINGS
 ‘Artists of Armagh
 

 

BOOK LAUNCH
‘Magus Ballyrath’
Nuala Reilly

 

8.00pm

POETRY READING
Seamus Heaney
Billy Collins
POETRY READING
Seamus Heaney
Billy Collins
 
DRAMA

‘Dylan Thomas –
Return Journey’
Bob Kingdom

 

COMEDY

‘Chalk & Cheese’
Kevin McAleer

8.30pm

 

 

TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONCERT
Martin Hayes
Dennis Cahill 

 

9.30/10.00pm

MUSIC
The Stage Bar
MUSIC
The Stage Bar
MUSIC
The Stage Bar

 MUSIC
The Stage Bar

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

 
   
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