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Events at Carlingford Heritage Centre
August
Thomas D’Arcy McGee International Summer School 2013Monday 19th to Wednesday 21st AugustThe theme for the 2013 "Thomas D'Arcy McGee International Summer School" which will take place in Carlingford Co. Louth this August will be - "D’Arcy McGee: Orangism and Fenianism". |
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Thomas D’Arcy McGee was born in Carlingford, Co. Louth, Ireland on April 13th 1825 and at seventeen he emigrated to the United States. He returned to Ireland as a successful nationalist, journalist and enthusiastically supported the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion. He escaped to Philadelphia as ‘a traitor to the British Government’. Over the following years McGee moved to Canada and to the right of the political spectrum. He became one of the founding fathers of the Canadian Confederation, but was assassinated on April 7th 1868. Portrait: Young Irelander, Founding Father of the Canadian Confederacy, Poet, Journalist and Carlingford native Thomas D'Arcy McGee. |
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The Thomas D'Arcy McGee International Summer School will explore the life and times of Thomas D'Arcy McGee. His Excellency Loyola Hearn, Canadian Ambassador to Ireland. “A brilliant writer, outstanding orator and charismatic politician, Thomas D’Arcy McGee was one of the greatest Irishmen of the nineteenth century — a one-time revolutionary republican who wound up as a Father of Canadian Confederation, and whose career is endlessly fascinating”. Prof. David Wilson, Professor of Celtic Studies, University of Toronto and Biographer of Thomas D’Arcy McGee. “The Thomas D’Arcy McGee International Summer School allows us to focus on the very different geographical and political journeys of the Young Irelanders following the 1848 rebellion – like McGee many served under two flags”. Anthony Russell, Retired Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University. “From his early involvement in Ireland, to his political leadership in Canada which led to him being called a ‘Father of Confederation’, D’Arcy McGee has created his place in history. This contribution is fittingly recognised in the establishment of the Thomas D’Arcy McGee International Summer School in the home town of his birth”. |
The theme of this year’s school "D’Arcy McGee: Orangism and Fenianism" promises to attract a large target audience of Politicians, Senators and Councillors from the political spectrum at National, International and local level.It will be of interest to members of Historical and Cultural Societies, Historians, Journalists, Academics and the general public who have an interest in the life of Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the impact he made both in Ireland and Canada. The International Summer School is being organised by Carlingford Lough Heritage Trust and The Atlantic Academy of The Arts, a faculty of Dundalk Institute of Technology. The Atlantic Academy of the Arts is an organisation dedicated to enhancing the educational experiences of students in the Department of Music and Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT). It aims to achieve this by providing creative opportunities in America for young men and women at undergraduate and postgraduate level at DkIT. The vision of the Atlantic Academy is to promote the creative arts as a lifestyle and a career. Through this we hope to encourage a vibrant economy in the Oriel region, through music and the creative industries. |
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For more information please contact Tommy Fegan Facebook Carlingford Heritage Centre |
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