JohnHewitt - The Centre for Cross Border Studies

26th 

JohnHewitt 

the 

International Summer School 

L i v i n g A m o n g S t r a n g e r s : 

t h e l o s t m e a n i n g o f h o m e 

Monday 22 July to Friday 26 July 2013 

A Five-Day Festival of Culture & Creativity 

The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh 

Box Office 028 3752 1821 

www.johnhewittsociety.org

P r i n c i p a l F u n d e r s 

S u m m e r S c h o o l S p o n s o r s 

BANBRIDGE 

DISTRICT 

COUNCIL 

P a t r o n s 

Eilish Clerkin, Margaret D’Arcy, Seamus Deane, Brian Garrett, Maurice Hayes, Seamus 

Heaney, Fred Heatley, Marie Jones, Edna Longley, Michael Longley, Terence McCaughey, 

Carmel McGuckian, Keith Millar, John Montague, Tom Paulin

26th 

the 

JohnHewitt 

International Summer School 

We l c o m e 

The 26th JHISS brings together in Armagh's Market Place Theatre 

high-profile writers, artists, performers, speakers and critics to consider 

this year's theme, inspired by John Hewitt's poem, The Search: 

It is a hard responsibility to be a stranger; 

to hear your speech sounding at odds with your neighbours[…] 

Often you will regret the voyage, 

wakening in the dark night to recall that other place… 

Poets have long celebrated 'place' in poetry of landscape, community, and 

tradition. John Hewitt affirmed both the richness and severities of Belfast, 

and the beauty and familiarity of the Antrim Glens where he saw himself as a 

welcomed, but strange, migratory bird. Despite his long settled antecedents, 

he was to find himself an 'incomer' when he moved to the English Midlands 

in his fifties. 

People have always travelled, for work or love, in fear and in hope, but no era 

witnessed as much movement of populations as the past century. What is the 

place, 'the local' in the twenty-first century In a world of globalised 

entertainment and communication, and increasingly migratory labour, is there 

room for sentiment about place in our art 

Is the 'living among strangers' that allowed separate, mutually opposed 

cultures to develop here over four hundred years to be the norm for future 

populations Will diversity reduce conflict, or increase antagonism between 

hosts and guests Can those of different backgrounds and histories share 

increasingly fragmented spaces 

You are invited to join the celebrations at this 26th JHISS at the Market Place 

at the end of July – for a week, a day or an individual event or more – for a 

feast of arts and literature provided by another impressive line-up of writers, 

academics and performers and for a chance to reflect on ‘living among 

strangers’.

h 10.45am 

Official Opening Lord Diljit Rana, MBE h 

Diljit Rana is a very successful Belfast-based businessman 

and former President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce. 

h 11.15am 

Talk: ‘e Twentieth Century – e Century of Violence’ 

by Baroness Williams of Crosby 

Tickets: £8.00 

Shirley Williams has been one of the best known names in British Politics for almost 50 years. 

In 1964 she was elected Labour MP for Hitchin and went on to serve as a member of both the 

Wilson and Callaghan governments in the 1960s and 1970s. After 35 years in The Labour 

Party Williams became disillusioned and, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill 

Rodgers, became one of the 'Gang of Four' who founded The Social Democratic Party. She 

supported the establishment of the Liberal Democrats in 1987 and stood down as their leader 

in the House of Lords in September 2004 after three years of service. Her outstanding 

autobiography, Climbing the Bookshelves, was published in 2009. 

h 1.05pm 

Lunchtime Reading with Salley Vickers 

Salley vickers is the author of the word-of-mouth 

bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel and several other 

bestselling novels including Mr Golightly's Holiday, 

The Other Side of You and Dancing Backwards as well as a 

collection of short stories, Aphrodite's Hat. Salley will read from and 

talk about her latest novel, The Cleaner of Chartres. 

h 2.15pm 

Creative Writing Workshops 

with Carlo Gébler (Short Story), James Byrne & Eoghan Walls (Poetry), Heather Richardson (Historical 

Fiction), Nessa O’Mahony (Memoir), Kimberley Lynne (Playwriting) and Stuart Neville (Crime Fiction). 

The poetry, prose, memoir and writing for stage courses will be directed by established writers 

and practitioners who are also experienced tutors. 

(Limited number of places in each workshop. 

Course fee for 3 Workshops: £30.00. Details on page 15) 

Writing workshops by Eoghan Walls, Heather Richardson and Nessa O’Mahony 

are sponsored by The Open University 

h 4.15pm 

e Centre for Cross Border Studies 

Annual Talk at JHISS: ‘14 years of crossborder 

collaboration: the usefulness of 

outsiders’ by Andy Pollak 

Andy Pollak retires as the founding director of the Centre for Cross 

Border Studies (with offices in Armagh and Dublin) in July 2013. He 

was formerly Belfast reporter, religious affairs correspondent, education 

correspondent and assistant news editor with the Irish Times. With a Czech 

father, a County Antrim mother and a Dublin wife and daughters, he considers 

himself to be an ‘Irish/Northern Irish insider/outsider’. 

Sponsored by the Centre for Cross Border Studies 

h 5.30pm Reception Hosted by the north South Ministerial Council 

Opening of Exhibition: John Hewitt: Home Words 

Launch of John Hewitt autobiography, A North Light Twenty-Five Years in a 

Municipal Art Gallery, edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White and 

published by Four Courts Press. Details on page 14. 

h 7.00pm 

Opening of Exhibitions: ulster Arts Club Visual Artists’ Summer Exhibition 

and ‘Heads, Hats and Beards (Mostly)’ Details on page 14. 

h 8.00pm 

Poetry Reading with Simon Armitage and Medbh McGuckian 


Simon Armitage is undoubtedly the most popular and 

widely known poet of his 1960s-born generation. 

Renowned for his technique, versatility and passion, he 

has won both critical and popular acclaim for his highly 

accessible poetry which often combines slang and 

immediacy with a sardonic wit. 

Medbh McGuckian has earned significant critical acclaim 

and many awards over the course of her distinguished 

career as one of Ireland’s finest living poets. Among the 

prizes she has won are the National Poetry Prize and, in 

2002, The Forward Prize for Best Poem. Her most recent 

collection, The High Caul Cap, was 

published to much acclaim last Autumn. 

Presented in association with Poetry Ireland 

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PHOTO CREDIT: 

AvID BARKER 

PHOTO CREDIT: 

PHILIP O’NEILL 

h 10.00pm Music in e Footlights Bar

h 9.45am 

Talk: ‘John Hewitt & e Bell Magazine’ 

by Dr Kelly Matthews 

Kelly Matthews teaches English at Framingham State university in Massachusetts, uSA. She 

wrote about John Hewitt's early poetry, commentaries and reviews in her 2012 book, The Bell 

Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity. In this talk, she will discuss Hewitt's 

work for The Bell, a Dublin literary magazine edited by Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, and 

Peadar O'Donnell in the 1940s and 1950s. 

h 11.15am Poetry Reading: Penelope Shuttle and Julian Stannard 

PHOTO CREDIT: 

JEMIMAH KuHFELD 

Penelope Shuttle’s 2006 poetry collection, Redgrove’s Wife, 

was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best Single 

Collection and for the T S Eliot Award, and her 2010 collection, 

Sandgrain and Hourglass, was a Recommendation of The 

Poetry Book Society. Her most recent publication is Unsent: 

New and Selected Poems 1980-2013. 

Julian Stannard is the author of three 

volumes of poetry: Rina’s War, The 

Red Zone and in 2011, The Parrots 

of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis 

Lazuli. He was awarded the 

Troubadour Poetry prize in 2010. 

h 4.15pm 

Talk: ‘Challenges faced by the 

Somali community in 

northern Ireland’s education sector’ 

by Suleiman Abdulahi 

Originally from Somalia, Suleiman Abdulahi is co-founder of Horn of 

Africa People’s Aid Northern Ireland (HAPANI) and co-ordinates the charity’s 

fundraising and project activities. He is a passionate and relentless advocate for 

the Horn of Africa community, with fifteen years experience as an activist and social 

entrepreneur. 

h 7.00pm 

Play: ‘e Duck Variations’ by David Mamet, 

presented by e Lurig Drama Group, Cushendall 


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Following their memorable visit to JHISS 2011 with their uK One-Act Finals winning 

production, Melody, Lurig Drama Group returns to Armagh, having been nominated for this 

year’s uK finals, with Mamet’s heartbreaking comedy/drama, The Duck Variations. Through 

fourteen variations, two estranged brothers meet in the park to scatter their mother’s ashes. 

George, a uS soldier, and Emil, a beatnik poet, slowly come to terms with life, death, and the 

choices each has made. Discussion turns to love, loneliness and…a lotta ducks! 

h 1.05pm Lunchtime Reading with Gavin Corbett 

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and raised in Dublin. His first 

novel, Innocence, was published in 2003 and there has been huge critical 

acclaim for his latest novel, This is the Way, which 

was published by Fourth Estate earlier this year and 

was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the 

Year Award 2013. 

h 2.15pm 

Creative Writing Workshops with Carlo Gébler, 

James Byrne, Eoghan Walls*, nessa O’Mahony*, 

Kimberley Lynne, Heather Richardson* and Stuart neville. 

*Sponsored by The 

Open University 

h 8.00pm 

e Wireless Mystery eatre presents 

‘e Play of the Book’ written by and starring Ian Sansom 


Theatre meets novel and a live musical score in The Play of the Book 

which follows the frustrations of creation and the effort that go into genius, 

as Ian Sansom, author of the highly entertaining series of Mobile Mystery 

novels, leads the audience, in his own inimitable style, through the making 

of a book! (And his latest book, The Norfolk Mystery, is the first in a 

thrilling new detective series, The County Guides, which will offer plenty of 

murder, mystery and mayhem for years to come!) In this show Ian will be 

accompanied by a live new score/soundscape provided by Wireless 

Mystery Theatre, using everything from cellos to toy pianos and tearing 

paper as percussion!

h 9.45am 

Talk: ‘ulster through Polish Eyes: Reconsidering the Stereotypes’ 

by Professor Jan Jędrzejewski 

Jan Jędrzejewski was educated at the university of Łódź, Poland, and Worcester 

College, Oxford; he is now a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and 

the Head of the School of English and History at the university of ulster. He has published two 

monographs, Thomas Hardy and the Church (1996) and George Eliot (2007), and several 

papers on victorian literature and Anglo-Polish and Hiberno-Polish literary relations. 

h 11.15am 

Poetry Reading with James Byrne & Órfhlaith Foyle 

James Byrne is the editor of The Wolf, an 

internationally-renowned poetry magazine. An 

award-winning poet, his most recent collection, 

Blood/Sugar, was published to much acclaim in 

2009 and his Selected Poems: The Vanishing 

House was published in Belgrade. His poems 

have been translated into several languages including Arabic and Burmese. 

Órfhlaith Foyle’s first novel, Belios, was published in 2005 and an anthology of 

her poetry and short fiction, Revenge, was published by Arlen House, also in 

2005. Her first full poetry collection, Red 

Riding Hood's Dilemma, appeared in 2011, 

as did her short story collection, Somewhere 

in Minnesota. 

PHOTO CREDIT: BOBBY HANvEY 

h 2.15pm 

Portrait Demonstration: 

neil Shawcross 

Neil Shawcross is one of Ireland’s most 

acclaimed and influential artists. He has recently 

been working on a series of ‘Heads, Hats and 

Beards (Mostly)’, some of which are on show in 

The Market Place during JHISS 2013 and today 

he will add to that collection following this public portrait 

demonstration when his model will be a well-known figure in the arts! 

Sponsored by the Ulster Arts Club 

h 4.15pm 

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Readings: ieiMedia Armagh 

Project Reflections and Echoes: Plays, Poems and Prose Inspired by northern 

Ireland 

By the end of July nine young American students – aspiring journalists, creative writers and 

playwrights - will have completed a month-long residency at the AmmA centre in Armagh, 

using writing to explore the human condition, understand thermselves, their relation to others, 

and their relationships to society. This Summer School session will give them an opportunity 

to showcase and talk about their work. 

h 1.05pm 

Lunchtime Reading with Pat McCabe 

Pat McCabe, Clones-born novelist and playwright, is one of Ireland’s 

most extraordinary and versatile writers. He is the author of several 

acclaimed novels including The Dead School, Winterwood and The 

Holy City, as well as The Bucher Boy 

and Breakfast on Pluto, both of 

which were shortlisted for the Booker 

Award. His next novel, Hello and 

Goodbye, is due from Quercus in 

October. 

PHOTO CREDIT: 

JEAN LuC MORALES 

h 8.00pm 

In Concert: e Voice Squad [ Phil Callery, Gerry Cullen and Fran McPhail] 


The critically acclaimed Voice Squad, a group of traditional a capella 

close harmony singers, have performed all over Ireland, on many 

occasions in The National Concert Hall, Dublin, and in most of the 

major cities of Europe. They have also toured extensively in North 

America and Canada. Phil, Gerry and Fran have carefully brought a 

unique harmony sound to a tradition which is known worldwide. 

There is sure to be a warm welcome for them when they return to 

perform in this not-to-be-missed concert in Armagh after an absence 

of many years! Book early to avoid disappointment.

h 9.45am 

Talk: ‘Aspects of the northern Ireland 

Peace Monitoring Report’ by Dr Paul nolan 

Paul Nolan is the Research Director on the Northern Ireland Peace 

Monitoring Report, a project supported by the Community Relations 

Council, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The 

report, the second in a series, provides regular commentary on Northern Ireland as a 

post-conflict society. 

h2.15pm 

Creative Writing Workshops with Carlo 

Gébler, James Byrne, Eoghan Walls*, 

nessa O’Mahony*, Kimberley Lynne, 

Heather Richardson* 

and Stuart neville. 

*Sponsored by The Open University 

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h11.15am 

Poetry Reading with Pat Boran & noel Monahan 

Pat Boran has published five collections of poetry, most recently 

The Next Life (2012), while his New and 

Selected Poems (2005), has been translated 

into a number of languages. He received the 

Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1989 and the 2008 

Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award in the uS. 

Award-winning Cavan writer, 

Noel Monahan, has published 

five collections of poetry, the 

most recent of which was 

Curve of The Moon, published 

in 2010. His literary awards 

include The SeaCat National Award, The Irish Writers’ union 

Poetry Award and The William Allingham Poetry Award. 

h1.05pm 

Presented in association with Poetry Ireland 

Lunchtime Reading with Deirdre Madden 

Deirdre Madden, one of the most important 

voices in Northern Irish writing, is originally from 

Co Antrim. Her acclaimed novels include The Birds of Innocent 

Wood, Nothing is Black, Authenticity, as well as One by One 

in the Darkness and Molly Fox's Birthday, which were both 

shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Deirdre will read from and talk 

about her new book, her first adult novel since 2008, Time 

Present and Time Past. 

h4.15pm 

Panel Discussion: ‘Aftermath’ 

- the relationship between displacement and hospitality 

Will Glendinning, Co-ordinator, Diversity Challenges, will chair 

this discussion on the Aftermath Project, which looks at victims 

and survivors of conflict and with persons displaced by conflict 

in Ireland and elsewhere. Contributors include Laurence 

McKeown, former hunger striker and Coordinator of the Project, 

Tosin Omiyale of the Integration Centre, and Anthony Haughey, 

photographer and lecturer in the School of Media 

at the Dublin Institute of Technology. 

h8.00pm 

Sponsored by Diversity Challenges 

Bardic eatre presents Affluence by Wesley Burrowes 


Set against the backdrop of a tiny island off the Co Down coast 

comes Affluence, from one of Northern Ireland’s leading amateur 

companies, The Bardic Theatre, Donaghmore. This laugh-a-minute 

comedy, returning to the Market Place in response to popular 

demand, takes a light-hearted look at some issues surrounding the 

island’s Catholic and Protestant communities. 

The lack of flushing toilets in their respective reading rooms causes problems. Having lobbied 

their curates for years, the toilets arrive on the same day. However, when a man from ‘The 

Department’ arrives and informs them they will have to share the same sewage pipes, things 

begin to happen! 

h 10.00pm Music in e Footlights Bar

PHOTO CREDIT: EvE O'CALLAGHAN AND THE GALLERY PRESS 

h 9.45am 

Talk: ‘Religion and Politics in northern Ireland’ by Professor 

Lord Paul Bew 

Paul Bew is Professor of Politics at Queen’s university and is a crossbench 

peer in the House of Lords. He is one of Northern Ireland’s most renowned 

academics and his most recent book is Enigma: A New Life of Charles 

Stewart Parnell. In his talk he will ask if the Troubles have ended because we no longer 

believe in religion the way we used to do. 

h 11.15am 

Poetry Reading with Julia Copus & Conor O’Callaghan 

Award-winning poet Julia Copus, who lives in 

Somerset, has won First Prize in the National 

Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for 

Best Single Poem in 2010. Her acclaimed third 

collection, The World's Two Smallest Humans, 

(2012) was shortlisted for The TS Eliot Poetry 

Prize and for the Costa Poetry Award. 

Conor O'Callaghan is one of the best-known Irish-born poets living in 

England. He has published four collections of poems, all with Gallery Press 

and the most recent of which is The Sun King 

(2013). His work has won several awards, 

including the 2007 Bess Hokin Prize from 

Poetry Magazine. 

h 2.15pm 

Reading: Creative Writers’ Reading 

An opportunity for some of those attending Summer School 

Creative Writing Workshops to read their work to others. 

Chaired by James Byrne. 

h 4.00pm 

Panel Discussion: ‘Ideals and Ideas: the difference between what we 

inherit and what we learn’ with Baroness May Blood, Arlene Foster, MLA 

and naomi Long, MP. 

Malachi O'Doherty, Belfast-based journalist, 

cultural commentator and author, hosts the annual 

Summer School discussion which this year invites 

the panel of three well-known politicians to reflect 

on the differences between what we inherit and 

what we learn. On the panel will be Baroness May 

Blood, MBE, a Labour Member of the House of 

Lords; Arlene Foster, MLA for Fermanagh and 

South Tyrone and Minister of Enterprise, Trade and 

Investment, and Naomi Long, Alliance Party, former 

Lord Mayor of Belfast and MP for Belfast East 

since 2010. 

Sponsored by Stratagem 

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h 1.05pm 

Lunchtime Reading with Anne Enright 

One of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, Anne Enright, was announced as 

winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her 

stunning novel, The Gathering, just after her last 

visit to JHISS in 2007! Two collections of stories, 

Taking Pictures and Yesterday's Weather, were 

published in 2008 and her most recent novel, The Forgotten 

Waltz, was for shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2012. 

PHOTO CREDIT: 

JOE O’SHAuGHNESSY 

h 5.45pm 

Reception by Lord Mayor of Armagh to mark the end of the 26th 

John Hewitt International Summer School.

S u m m e r S c h o o l E x h i b i t i o n s 

PHOTO CREDIT: 

BOBBY HANvEY 

Summer Exhibition by the Visual Artists 

of the Ulster Arts Club 

The Gallery 22 July – 17 August 

Begun in 1902, the Ulster Arts Club was set up as a centre 

point for Ulster artists of all descriptions to meet, exhibit 

and exchange ideas. Although it has embraced all of the arts 

disciplines in the past, it is the visual artists who are still 

most active. The Club is delighted to bring to Armagh, for 

the first time, their Summer Exhibition which will feature 

the work of established artists from throughout the province 

of Ulster and will offer a variety of styles and disciplines. 

‘Heads, Hats and Beards (Mostly)’ by Neil Shawcross 

Foyer Walls 22 July – 17 August 

Best known for full length portraits, the 

acclaimed artist, Neil Shawcross, has, for 

the past few years, turned his attention to a 

series of heads and this exhibition features 

a selection of 18 paintings. These sensitive 

and affectionate studies mirror Neil’s 

interest in people with a theatrical 

appearance and reflect a depth of warmth and good 

humour towards his subjects. Hence the heads, hats and 

beards (mostly)! 

CHARLIE LANDSBOROuGH 

John Hewitt: Home Words 

Gallery and other Market Place spaces 22 July – 17 August 

This exhibition celebrates the life, work and legacy of John Hewitt and has been created by 

Frank Ferguson, Kathryn White and John McMillan from the University of Ulster in 

partnership with Tony Kennedy from the John Hewitt Society and Helen Perry from the 

Causeway Museum Service. The project will also 

be launching John Hewitt’s eagerly awaited autobiography, 

A North Light Twenty-Five Years in a 

Municipal Art Gallery, which is edited by Frank 

Ferguson & Kathryn White and published by Four 

Courts Press. 

The project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. 

JOHN AND ROBERTA HEWITT TRAFALGAR SQuARE 1949

A Choice of Seven Writing Courses: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday [22, 

23 & 25 July] from 2.15pm – 3.45pm each day. 

Poetry: James Byrne 

James Byrne is the editor of The Wolf, an internationally-renowned poetry 

magazine. An award-winning poet, his most recent collection, Blood/Sugar, was 

published in 2009 and his Selected Poems: The Vanishing House was published 

in Belgrade. His poems have been translated into several languages including 

Arabic and Burmese. 

Poetry: Eoghan Walls 

Eoghan Walls' first collection, The Salt Harvest, was published in 2011 with Seren. 

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006 and an Irish Art's Council Bursary in 2009. 

He completed a PhD in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in 2009, and he 

currently lives in Scotland, teaching Creative Writing for the Open university. 

Memoir Writing: Nessa O’Mahony 

Nessa O’Mahony is author of a verse-novel, In Sight of Home (2009), as well as 

two collections of poetry, Bar Talk (1999) and Trapping a Ghost (2005). She won 

the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the 

Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. 

Short Story: Carlo Gébler 

Carlo Gébler is the author of a range of books including The Eleventh Summer, 

How to Murder a Man and most recently, The Dead Eight (2011). In 2000 he 

published an autobiography, Father and I: a memoir. He teaches creative writing 

at QuB and at HMP Maghaberry, where he is writer-in-residence. 

Historical Fiction: Heather Richardson 

Heather Richardson’s first novel, Magdeburg (Lagan Press, 

2010) is set in Germany during the Thirty Years War. She is 

currently working on an historical novel, set in Edinburgh in 

1697. She is a former winner of the Brian Moore Short 

Story Award, and teaches Creative Writing for the Open 

university. 

Playwriting: Kimberley Lynne 

Kimberley Lynne is an American playwright, novelist and 

teacher. Over thirty of her plays have been produced in 

New York, Washington DC, Baltimore and Minneapolis, and 

range in genre from magic realism to comedy to historical 

drama. 

Crime Fiction: Stuart Neville 

Award-winning crime-writer, Stuart Neville’s first novel, The 

Twelve, was one of the most critically acclaimed crime 

debuts of recent years, and was the first of a trilogy which 

included Collusion and Stolen Souls. His fourth novel, 

Ratlines, was published to further acclaim, earlier this year. 

Workshops will take 

place at The Market 

Place and at the 

AmmA Centre. 

Each Creative 

Writing Course will 

have limited numbers 

and will consist of 

three workshops. It 

will not be possible to 

change from one 

course to another 

during JHISS. Cost 

per course: £30.00 

bookable in advance 

at Market Place Box 

Office. 028 3752 1821 

C r e a t i v e W r i t i n g W o r k s h o p s a t J H I S S 2 0 1 3

armagh 

ancient cathedral city 

www.armagh.co.uk

Welcome to the Armagh City Hotel 

Where past meets present. 

From Monday 22nd until Friday 26th July 2013 to 

coincide with e John Hewitt International Summer 

School we have an exclusive accommodation offer… 

Four night stay - 

£140.00 per person sharing includes full breakfast 

£239.00 for a single room 

One night - £65.00 (single) or £40.00 per person sharing 

(includes breakfast) 

To book call 028 9038 5050 or visit the hotel website 

www.armaghcityhotel.com 

We look forward to welcoming you. 

Tel: 028 3751 8888 armaghcityhotel.com 

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JHISS 2013 Bookstall 

at The Market Place Theatre 

Open Daily 22-26 July 

Books by all participating writers and speakers …. and much more! 

Courtesy of: No Alibis Bookstore 

83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast, BT7 1JL Tel: 028 9031 9601 

Stay at the Heart of Armagh 

SPECIAL RATES FOR JHISS 2013 

Single Rooms £49 per night Bed and Breakfast 

Doubles/Twins £75 per night Bed and Breakfast 

Four Nights Stay John Hewitt Summer School 

£180 per single room or £130 per person 

sharing Bed and Breakfast 

The Charlemont, 57-65 English Street, 

Armagh BT61 7LB 

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John Hewitt Society Committee: 

Director: 

Tony Kennedy, OBE 

Academic Advisor: Myrtle Hill 

Administrator: Hilary Copeland 

Desima Connolly, CL Dallat, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Stephen Gordon, Bill Jeffrey, Paul McAvinchey, 

Paul Maddern, Carmel Maguire, Peter Morgan-Barnes, Brian Scott, Pat Scott

e 26th John Hewitt International Summer School - A Five-Day Festival of Culture and Creativity 

MONDAY 

22 JULY 

TUESDAY 

23 JULY 

WEDNESDAY 

24 JULY 

THURSDAY 

25 JULY 

FRIDAY 

26 JULY 

9.45am 

10.45am 

OFFICIAL OPENING 

Lord Diljit Rana 

TALK 

Dr Kelly Matthews 

‘John Hewitt and The Bell 

magazine’ 

TALK 

Professor Jan Jedrzejewski 

‘ulster through Polish Eyes: 

Reconsidering the 

Stereotypes’ 

TALK 

Dr Paul Nolan 

‘Aspects of the Northern Ireland 

Peace Monitoring Report’ 

TALK 

Professor Lord Paul Bew 

‘Religion and Politics in 

Northern Ireland’ 

11.15am 

TALK 

Baroness Shirley Williams 

‘The Twentieth Century – The 

Century of violence’ 

POETRY READING 

Penelope Shuttle 

& 

Julian Stannard 


James Byrne 

& 

Órfhlaith Foyle 


Pat Boran 

& 

Noel Monahan 


Julia Copus 

& 

Conor O’Callaghan 

1.05pm 

LUNCHTIME 

READING 

Salley Vickers 

LUNCHTIME 

READING 

Gavin Corbett 

LUNCHTIME 

READING 

Pat McCabe 

LUNCHTIME 

READING 

Deirdre Madden 

LUNCHTIME 

READING 

Anne Enright 

2.15pm 

CREATIVE WRITING 

WORKSHOPS 


WORKSHOPS 

ILLUSTRATED TALK 

Neil Shawcross 

‘Portrait Demonstration’ 


WORKSHOPS 

READING 

Creative Writing Groups 

James Byrne 

4.15pm 

TALK 

Andy Pollak 

‘14 years of cross-border 

collaboration: the usefulness 

of outsiders’ 

TALK 

Suleiman Abdulahi 

‘Challenges faced by the Somali 

community in Northern Ireland’s 

education sector’ 

DRAMA (4.15pm - 6.15pm) 

'Reflections & Echoes' 

US Students’ Creative Writing 

Showcase 

PANEL DISCUSSION 

‘Aftermath - the relationship 

between displacement and 

hospitality’ 

PANEL DISCUSSION 

4pm 

‘Ideals and Ideas, the difference 

between what we inherit and 

what we learn’ 

5.30pm 

NSMC RECEPTION 

Book Launch & 

Exhibition Openings 

(5.30pm & 7.00pm) 

DRAMA (7.00pm) 

The Duck Variations 

by David Mamet 

The Lurig Drama Group 

FEEDBACK & MAYOR’S 

RECEPTION (5.45pm) 

8.00pm 


Simon Armitage & 

Medbh McGuckian 

DRAMA 

The Play of the Book 

Ian Sansom/WMT 

MUSIC 

The Voice Squad 

DRAMA 

Affluence 

The Bardic Theatre Group 

9.30 / 

10.00pm 

MUSIC 

Footlights Bar 

MUSIC 

Footlights Bar

B o o k i n g i n f o r m a t i o n 

Booking 

Box Office: 

Opening hours are Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 4.30pm or until 

7.00pm on performance evenings. 

By telephone: 

Call the Box Office during opening hours. T: 028 3752 1821 

The easiest way to pay is by credit/debit card. 

By mail: 

Please mail written bookings, giving full address, telephone no., and 

request for weekly/daily or event tickets, to the Box Office, The Market 

Place Theatre, Market Street, Armagh, BT61 7BW. Please make cheques 

payable to Armagh City & District Council. 

By web: 

Evening & Lunchtime events only 

www.marketplacearmagh.com 

Bursaries: 

For information on available bursaries, contact JHS Administrator on 

078 3507 3616 or E: admin@johnhewittsociety.org 

Rates: 

Summer School Weekly Rate: 

£175 [includes lunch, tea/coffee, daytime & evening events] 

Daily Rate: 

£38.00 [includes lunch, tea/coffee, daytime and evening events] 

Weekly Workshops Rate £30.00 

Event Rates: £6.00 

[except events which are individually priced] 

Enquiries to Box Office for equivalent Euro rates. 

Accommodation: 

Book local accommodation through the 

Armagh Tourist Information Centre at The Market Place Theatre 

T: 028 3752 1800 E: tic@armagh.gov.uk W: www.armagh.co.uk 

www.johnhewittsociety.org 

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