Annual Patrick Kavanagh Weekend 2012
The Annual Patrick Kavanagh Weekend 2012 will take place from Friday, 28th - Sunday, 30th September 2012.
Friday, 30th September 2011 - Sunday, 2nd October 2011
Incorporating the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards
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On an apple-ripe September morning
Through the mist-chill fields I went
With a pitch-fork on my shoulder
Less for use than for devilment.
The threshing mill was set-up, I
knew,
In Cassidy’s haggard last night,
And we owed them a day at the
threshing
Since last year. O it was delight
To be paying bills of laughter
And chaffy gossip in kind
With work thrown in to ballast
The fantasy-soaring mind.
As I crossed the wooden bridge I
wondered
As I looked into the drain
If ever a summer morning should
find me
Shovelling up eels again.
And I thought of the wasps’ nest in
the bank
And how I got chased one day
Leaving the drag and the scrawknife
behind,
How I covered my face with hay.
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The wet leaves of the cocksfoot
Polished my boots as I
Went round by the glistening bogholes
Lost in unthinking joy.
I’ll be carrying bags to-day, I
mused,
The best job at the mill
With plenty of time to talk of our
loves
As we wait for the bags to fill.
Maybe Mary might call round….
And then I came to the haggard
gate,
And I knew as I entered that I had
come
Through fields that were part of no
earthly estate.
Patrick Kavanagh
(1904 - 1967)
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Programme of Events 2011
Friday, 30th September 2011
7.00pm Wine Reception
Recital by local Uilleann piper Patrick Martin
7.15pm The Annual Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards
Introduction by poet Brian Lynch, Adjudicator
Readings by the winners from their work
7.45pm Primary Schools Poetry Award
Organised by the Patrick Kavanagh Society
8.00pm Keynote Address: “Meeting Patrick Kavanagh”
Speaker: Paul Durcan
Chair: Brian Lynch
Followed by Questions & Answers with Paul Durcan
10.00pm “Beckett in Inniskeen” (a one-hour show) “Chuckles and chills in life’s Departure Lounge!”
Drumlin Players present two Beckett shorts, “Krapp’s Last Tape” (performed by Larry McCluskey) and “A Piece of Monologue” (with Hugh O'Brien). This show won rave reviews at Edfringe - “achieving Beckett’s plays - and even bleaker humour - with finesse”- British Theatre Guide. PK and SB in very different, but equally profound ways, illuminated the second half of the 20th Century.
Saturday, 1st October 2011
9.30am Patrick Kavanagh Literary Trail
Conducted walking tour of Patrick Kavanagh Literary Trail in Carrickmacross with Larry McDermott. Assembly point: The Valley Lodge - opposite St. Joseph’s Church.
11.15am “Reminiscences of the Kavanagh Family”
Speaker: Kieran Markey (Patrick Kavanagh’s nephew)
12.15pm “A True Note on a Slack String The Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh as a Basis for Self Awareness and Personal Change”
Speaker: Reamonn O’Donnchadha
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm “The Meaning of Missing”
Speaker: Evelyn Conlon
3.15pm “Following this extraordinary light”
Speaker: Vincent Coyle
4.30pm Interpretations of Kavanagh's Characters
Interpretations of Kavanagh's characters Miss Cassidy (Green Fool), Mrs. Flynn, Aggie (Tarry Flynn) and many others. This will be a humorous, entertaining dramatic presentation adapted by Margaret Martin.
Programme performance takes place by kind permission of
the Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh
through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency.
7.00pm Commemorative Mass for Patrick Kavanagh & Deceased Family Members.
Church of Mary Mother of Mercy
Concelebrated by: Fr. Martin
Treanor, P.P. and Fr. Aidan Lehane
Homilist: Fr. Aidan Lehane
9.00pm Man of Inniskeen’s Green Journey
Written by Boston playwright Peter Holm. A new play chronicling the contemporary Irish experience in America. Performed by Inniskeen’s own Brendan Crawley & actress Lindsay Garvey.
Sunday, 2nd October 2011
10.00am Bus Tour
Visiting sites of local and historic interest with Art Agnew.
(Bus departs from car park opposite the Patrick Kavanagh Centre).
1.00pm Lunch
2.00pm Annual Graveside Commemoration
2.30pm - 5.00pm Exhibition
The life and work of Patrick Kavanagh. Including audio visual presentation.
11.00am - 5.00pm Heritage Events
In keeping with the theme of this year’s celebrations - “On an apple-ripe September morning” where Kavanagh recalls happy days spent at the threshing, local vintage clubs have been invited to re-enact a traditional threshing and other traditional events. A fun day for all the family.
Biographies of those taking part
Accommodation
Accommodation available in a variety of hotels and guest-houses in the Inniskeen and Carrickmacross areas.
Admission Charges
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Weekend Ticket
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€85
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or pay at the door for each event
Friday Evening
Saturday Morning
Saturday Afternoon
Saturday Night
Bus Tour
Sunday Afternoon
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€25
€15
€20
€15
€10
€5
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2011 Sponsors
Special Thanks To
We wish to apologise to our sponsors for the delay in acknowledging our thanks of their generous support of our Kavanagh Weekend event which was due to a problem with our web site. This acknowledgement will remain on our web site until April 2012.
Special Thanks to Our Sponsors
Town of Monaghan Co-operative Agricultural & Dairy Society,
Coolshannagh, Monaghan. T. 047 81400, E.
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To the following sponsors who generously donated spot prizes:
Total Mind Dynamics, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.
M. O86 3366 713, T. 01 2302125, E.
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Kilronan Castle Hotel, Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon
T. + 353 (0) 1 719618000, E.
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Bewleys Airport Hotel, Dublin
W. www.bewleyshotels.com/DublinAirport
Dergvale Hotel, 4, Gardiner Place, Dublin City Centre
T. + 353 (0) 1 8744753, E.
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Parkway Guest House, 5 Gardiner Place, Dublin
T. +353 (0) 1 8740469, E.
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Djangos Eco Hostel, Eco Village, Cloughgordan, Co. Tipperary
T. +353 (0) 87 256 9348, W. www.djangoshostel.com
Mary Gibbons Tours Newgrange
M. 086 355 1355 (within Ireland), +353 86 355 1355 (outside of Ireland
The Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship Museum
Docked at Custom House Quay, Dublin, just across the road from Jury’s Inn Hotel
T. + 353 (0) 1 4730111, E.
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W. www.jeaniejohnston.ie
National Wax Museum, 4, Foster Place, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
T. +353 (0) 1 671 8373, E.
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National Leprechaun Museum, Jervis Street, Dublin 1
T. +353 (0) 1 873 3899, W.
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Japanese Gardens, Irish National Stud, Tully, Co. Kildare
T. +353 (0) 1 45521617, E:
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Thunder Road Cafe, Fleet Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
T. +353 (0) 1 6794057, W. www.thunderroadcafe.com/contact
Fitzgeralds Bar, 22 Aston Quay, Dublin 2
T. +353 (0) 1 6779289, F. +353 (0) 1 6712586
Arigna Mining Experience, Arigna, Co. Roscommon
T. 071 9646466, E.
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W. www.arignaminingexperience.ie
National Sea Life Centre, Strand Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow
T. +353 (0) 1 2866939, E.
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Aillwee Cave, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
T. +353 (0) 657077036, E.
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GAA Museum, Croke Park, Dublin 3
T. +353 (0) 1 8192324, E.
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Viking Splash Tours, 64/65, Patrick St. Dublin
(Tours depart from St. Stephens Green North)
E.
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Ha’penny Bridge Inn, Battle of the Axe Comedy Show, 42, Wellington Quay, Temple Street, Dublin.
T. + 353 (0) 1 6770616, W. www.battleoftheaxe.com
Watters Electrical, Concession Road, Cullaville, Co. Armagh
T. 048 308 68296, E.
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For further information please contact
Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen, Co Monaghan
Tel: 042 9378560
Email:
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