Friday 27th November

7.00pm: Reception

Recital by local Uilleann Piper
Patrick Martin

             
‘Bluebells for Love’
Art Exhibition by Brigid Brady

                                                           
7.15pm: THE ANNUAL PATRICK KAVANAGH POETRY AWARDS
Organised by the Patrick Kavanagh Society.

7.45pm: Keynote Address:
‘A Stake in the Country’.
Frank McNally (Irish Times)

9.00pm: Ciaran Carson, Pádraigin Ni Uallacháin and harpist Helen Davies on a
journey of words and music
 ‘From Amergin to Kavanagh’.

Saturday 28th November 2009.

9.30am: Conducted walking tour of Patrick Kavanagh Literary Trail in Carrickmacross with Larry McDermott.

11.00am:  ‘My days with Patrick Kavanagh’ Godfrey Graham.

12.15pm: ‘A Little Book of Hours’ John F. Deane

1.15pm: Lunch at Inniskeen Social Club

2.15pm:‘Patrick Kavanagh: The poet as friend’.
Christine Dwyer-Hickey

3.30pm: ‘The G.A.A culture and post Lisbon Treaty’.
Sean Kelly.

7.00pm:  Commemorative Mass for Patrick and deceased Kavanagh Family.
Celebrant: Fr. Martin Treanor P.P. Homilist: Dr. Una Agnew
Church of Mary Mother of Mercy.

9.00pm: "Kavanagh" by Tom O’Brien. A dramatisation based on the life of Patrick Kavanagh.
Directed by John Dunne.

 Sunday 29th November

10.00pm: Bus tour – visiting sites of local and historic interest with Art Agnew.

 1.00pm:  Lunch at Inniskeen Social Club

2.00pm: Annual Graveside commemoration

 2.15pm:
‘Memories of Katherine Kavanagh’
Leland Bardwell

 3.15pm: Cherished Irish Songs from her hit TV series ‘Songbirds’
Fil Campbell

4.30pm: Launch of St. Daigh’s N.S. Poetry
Anthology ‘Garden of Golden Apples’.
Produced by the pupils under the
guidance of Noel Monahan (poet
and playwright), Kate Beagan (artist)
and school staff.
Supported by The Writers in School
Scheme, Poetry Ireland.

4.45pm: Annual Schools Poetry Award.
Primary Schools Poetry Award.
Monaghan V.E.C. Junior Poetry Awards.