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Trim Swift Satire Festival - July 2 to 5

  • 17-06-2009 3:37pm
    #1
    oslosinclair
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    Thurs 2nd July
    Time
    Venue
    Launch Night
    6.30pm

    8pm
    Trim Castle Hotel
    Official launch of Trim Swift Festival, Champagne reception on arrival, followed by performances by The Trim Castle singers, Trim’s greatest characters “Paddy’s people”.

    Minister Noel Dempsey will officially open the festival
    Friday 3rd July
    11am
    1pm

    2pm
    Knightsbrook Hotel
    Professor Hermann Real, Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies, ‘The Dean and the Lord Chancellor
    Professor Hugh Ornsby-Lennon, Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA, "Swift's Impostures"
    Dr Robert Mahony, Catholic University of America, "Swift and the Irish Colonial Project"
    All Day
    Knightsbrook
    Art Exhibition by Brock
    7pm
    Knightsbrook
    Round Table Discussion: Title “The state we’re in and how we might get out of it”. chaired by Vincent Browne TV3 and other media and political figures
    Saturday 4th July
    12noon
    Trim
    Family day activities and street markets
    11am
    2pm

    3pm
    4pm
    Knightsbrook
    Dr Greg Lynall, University of Liverpool, "Swift's Satiric Alchemy"
    Dr Frank Ferguson, Institute of Ulster Scots Studies, University of Ulster, "Swift and Leinster - Scots"
    Professor Hermann J. Real, Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies, Munster, Germany "The Dean and the Lord Chancellor: or Swift Saving his Bacon"
    Followed by academic roundtable discussion on the lectures held over the two days

    5pm
    Market Square
    Open Air Tannoy Debate – chaired by George Hook and other media and political figures “The blame game”
    8pm
    Trim GAA Conference Centre
    Satire Presentation to Ireland’s leading satirists – featuring Ireland’s leading satirists and other media and political figures such as NOB NATION's, OLIVER CALLAN & NEWSTALK's, "THE EMERGENCY"
    Sunday 5th July

    12noon
    Trim
    Trim
    Meath Heritage Cycle Tour - www.meatlocalsportspartnership.ie
    10K Run in aid of Aware
    2pm
    Trim
    Join Richard Haworth on a guided tour of the sites associated Swift and Stella. Meeting point at the Castle car park
    7.30pm
    Knightsbook
    A swift Summer Night
    A literary and musical cabaret celebrating Swift’s legacy.
    Battle of the books - Boyne Writers and Meath Writers Circle
    Trim Drama group presents Gulliver's Travels and Dean Swift reveals all about himself and Stella!!!!


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