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Author Brian McAvera and artist Patrick Pye at the Monaghan launch of Patrick Pye, life and work: a counter-cultural story.
The Sligo Field Club will hold their annual conference, 'A celebration of Sligo families’ on 10-12 May 2013 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Sligo Town. This event is supported by The Gathering 2013, Sligo Co. Council & Failte Ireland. For more information click here.
The eleventh John Hewitt Spring Festival in the Antrim Glens will take place on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 May 2013 in the Londonderry Arms Hotel, Carnlough. This 'readers-and-writers day' will feature creative-writing, panel discussions, interviews and readings from poets & novelists. For event details or booking info, please contact Patricia McCooe at 07835 073 616 or visit www.johnhewittsociety.org.
On Sunday 12 May the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement will host a seminar on ‘Landscape and Historic Settlement in Meath’ in the Trim Castle Hotel, Trim, Co. Meath. For more information, contact David Fleming, secretary@irishsettlement.ie.
The 15th Medieval Dublin Symposium, the annual conference of the Friends of Medieval Dublin, is being held on Saturday 25 May 2013 from 9am to 4pm. Lectures will take place in the Robert Emmett Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. For more information, contact Sean Duffy, sduffy@tcd.ie.
‘Crime, violence and the Irish in the 19th century’, the 21st Annual Conference of the SSNCI (Society for Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland), will be held 26-7 June 2013 at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Click here for more information.
Celebrating the launch of The minutes of the Antrim ministers' meeting, 1654–8 in Belfast (pictured, L to R): Professor Robert Armstrong (TCD), who launched the book; Bill Smith (Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Group - Ulster Scots Academy); author Mark Sweetnam. A launch will be held on Thursday 25 April 2013 at 7.00pm for Richard FitzRalph: his life, times and thought (Michael Dunne & Simon Nolan, eds). Br Colmán O Clabaigh of Glenstal Abbey will launch the book in Pugin Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare. All are welcome to attend.
Leaders of the City: Dublin's first citizens, 1500–1950 edited by Ruth McManus & Lisa-Marie Griffith will be launched by Lord Mayor of Dublin Naoise Ó Muirí at 5.30pm on Thursday 13 June 2013 in the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
