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Theme: Educating Ireland
The 2008 Parnell Summer School will concentrate on the issue of education, and mark the centenary of the Irish Universities Act. The summer school will include a mix of lectures and round table discussions around the theme. There will be historical papers examining the development of education in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at all levels. There will also be discussions centring on some of the main contemporary issues in education such as the place of religious schooling, the impact of the ‘New Irish’ on education and the politics of education in Northern Ireland.
Please note that due to the on-going re-construction of the Avondale 'Big Shed' there will no car-parking near the entrance to the Conference Hall. All School attendees will have to park in the Visitors Car Park to the right of the entrance road.
Programme of events
Sunday
10 August
15.00 -16.00
Registration
16.00:
Reception at
Avondale House
16.30:
Official Opening:
Sir Anthony O’Reilly
followed by the
keynote address:
Educational Reform as an Issue, 1898-1908
Prof. John Coolahan (NUI Maynooth)
Chair: Prof. Mike Cronin (Boston College)
20.30: Informal social evening at the Woodenbridge Hotel, Avoca
Monday
11 August
09.30: Lecture
Education and the Revolution– Prof. Tom Garvin (University College Dublin)
Chair: Dr Pauric Travers (St Patrick’s College)
11.00: Roundtable:
Making Irish Citizens? Education in Irish History
Dr Elaine Sissons (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology)
Dr John Walsh (Trinity College, Dublin)
Chair: Prof. Mike Cronin (Boston College)
14.30: Lecture
William Henry O’Shea: The Last of the Irish Whigs,Myles Dungan (RTE)
Chair: Dr Pauric Travers
20.30: Woodenbridge Hotel
Evening Illustrated talk:Parnell through the unpublished diary of contemporary: Charles Davis Guinness,
Selina Guinnes IADT.
Tuesday
12 August
09.30: Lecture
The History of the Universities in Ireland
Prof. Tom Dunne (University College Cork)
11.00: Roundtable:
Universities in Ireland: Past, Present and Future
Prof. Jim Ward (Deputy President and Registrar, NUI Galway)
Tom Boland (Chief Executive, Higher Education Authority)
Chair: Prof. Mary Daly (University College Dublin)
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Guided coach tour with local historian Pat Power:
The Royal School at Macreddin, Aughrim Co Wicklow and Fr Farrelly and Fr Manning - Land War firebrands.
Evening of Irish music with PJ Mathews and friends in Woodenbridge Hotel.
Wednesday
13 August
09.30: Lecture
Teachers and the future of education
John Carr, (General Secretary, INTO)
Chair: Dr Carmel Mulcahy (Dublin City University)
11.00: Roundtable:Education and Religion
Most Reverend Dr John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin
Paul Rowe (Educate Together)
Chair: Patsy McGarry (Religious Affairs Correspondent,Irish Times)
14.30: Lecture
Who are we Now? Education, Language and Identity in 21st Century Ireland,
Dr Niamh Hourigan (University College Cork)
Chair: Dr Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (Coláiste Phádraig)
20.30:
Woodenbridge Hotel
The Wicklow Gold Rush:
an historical entertainment by Avonmore Musical Society artistes.
Thursday
14 August
09.30: Lecture
The New Irish and Integration Through Education
Conor Lenihan
(Minister of State with special responsibility for Integration Policy)
Chair: Dr Fionnuala Waldron (Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education, St Patrick’s College)
11.00: Roundtable:
The New Irish and Education
Philip Watt
(National Consulatative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism)
John Haskins
(Office of the Minister for Integration)
Prof. Aine Hyland (University College Cork)
14.30: Parnell Lecture: Dermot Meleady -Parnell and Redmond
Chair: Prof. Donal McCartney
20.30:Summer School Annual Dinner,
Woodenbridge Hotel, Avoca
Friday
15 August
09.30: Lecture
Education, the troubles and the peace process
Prof. Bob Osbourne (University of Ulster)
Chair: Dr Ivar McGrath (University College Dublin)
11.00: Roundtable:Education in the North
Caitriona Ruane (MLA and Minister for Education)
Michael Wardlow (CEO, Northern Ireland Integrated Schools).
Fred Brown (President, Northern Ireland NASUWT)
Seán Ó Coinn (Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta)
Chair:Jarlath Burns
The Parnell Society has organised
annual Spring Days and Autumn Weekends at
Avondale as well as an annual Summer School,
inaugurated in 1991.
These activities have attracted hundreds
of scholars, academics, writers and politicians
to Avondale and have contributed to a heightened
public consciousness of its importance.
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