PARNELL SUMMER SCHOOL 2010
8 - 13 August
Gotcha! The Role of Media in Politics and Society
The 2010 Parnell Summer School will be the twentieth occasion that politicians, academics, journalists, historians and all other interested parties will meet in Avondale, Co.Wicklow and this year’s focus is highly appropriate not only to Parnell but also to the current ongoing story of Ireland. The theme of the summer school is Media – its role in the Ireland of today and its relevance in the life of Charles Stewart Parnell. As a newspaper owner himself as well as a victim of the slanderous Piggott forgeries, Parnell’s relationship with journalism and media was an important part of his story. Was Parnell’s demise in part contributed to by a hostile Press ? How does the Irish media 150 years later deal with politicians or public figures facing a private crisis ? Ireland is currently experiencing an economic crisis, a crisis within the Catholic Church and a looming media crisis with the rapid growth of online reading, Twitter and citizen journalism challenging the status quo of the hitherto tightly controlled and increasingly small concentration of media ownership – the Parnell Summer School will address these and other related issues as we turn the spotlight this year on the media themselves.
The Academic Director for 2010 is Eithne Hand – former Head of RTE Radio 1 and deputy MD of RTE Radio. Hand devised and set up the Today with Pat Kenny Programme and Rattlebag Arts show as well as winning a Prix Italia award for VoiceJazz. Now an independent consultant, she was the launch co ordinator of one of RTE’s digital radio channels, RTE Junior, in 2008. Eithne is the daughter of one of the Parnell Society's founding members, the late Máire Tobin. |
PARNELL SUMMER SCHOOL 2010 : THEMES
Gotcha - the Role of Media in Politics and Society.
Monday:
Lecture: Corruption in Politics
Panel: Irish Media and Scandal |
Tuesday:
Lecture:History of Irish Media
Panel: Reporting Irish Politics – cosy consensus or challenging voice? |
Wednesday:
Lecture: Parnell and the Origins of Modern Day Press in Ireland
Lecture: Parnell, O’Brien and Censorship
Drama: Re enactment of Piggott Forgeries case |
Thursday :
Lecture: Press Freedom
Panel: Censorship and Privacy issues in modern media. |
Friday:
Lecture: New Media/ Social Networking
Panel:Citizen Journalism and Beyond |
Lecturers/ Panellists to include the following :
Prof Chris Morash,
Press Ombudsman John Horgan
Dearbhail McDonald , legal editor Irish Indpendent
Patsy McGarry, Journalist
Felix Larkin, Historian
Kevin Rafter, author
Elaine Byrne - UCD
Dr. Rosemary Day - Univ Limerick
Fionnuala O Connor, Journalist
Mary McKeagney, BBC NI producer
Mark Little, Journalist
Helen Shaw, Athena Media Company Director.
Senator Alex White, BL
Myles Dungan, broadcaster.
Gerard Stembridge, author
Bride Rosney – Communications Professional
Emer Woodful, BL
John O’ Sullivan – DCU
Terry Prone - Communications Professional
Costs
€250 for the week's registration, if paid before the 1st August and €275 thereafter;
or €60 per day, including lunch.
Images from the 2009 Summer School
The 2009 Parnell Summer School was the Society’s eighteenth annual Summer School. Images below feature some of the highlights of the week including:
The official unveiling of two commerative seats, dedicated to two former founding members of the Society – Marie Toibin and Mairin Lindsay, by US Ambassador, Dan Rooney;
Guest speakers including Dairmaid Ferriter UCD, Christy Cooney GAA President, Michael O’Muircheartaigh, Broadcaster, Robert Fitzpatrick – CEO Odyssey, Jennifer Kelly and Tom Hunt.
Launch of two books from UCD Press - Words of the Dead Chief (eds, Donal McCartney and Pauric Travers); and J.J. Horgan (ed.), From Parnell to Pearse, by Mr Martin Mansergh, T.D.
Plus a review of the on-going redevelopment of the ‘Big Shed’ by the OPW at Avondale House.
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