IRELAND'S LARGEST COMMUNITY FESTIVAL - Féile an Phobail

Speak Peace
St Mary’s University College, Fri 10th Aug, 1pm
Bronagh Lawson spent 13 years working on development projects
on Peace lines in Belfast before returning to her artistic practice. She
has been working with Sue Ellen Semekoski (School of Art Institute,
Chicago) on different models where art has been used as a healing
tool. Recently returned from Chicago she will talk about work going
on there and how the learning resonates here. In partnership
with Oscailt.Mental Health Conference
’76 - ’81 – The Protest Years - International Perspectives
Felons Club, Andersonstown Road, Fri 10th Aug, 2pm
Italian Silvia Calamati and Frenchwoman Julie Duchatel
on the effects and influences the Armagh and H-Block
protests had on their lives. Calamati translated ‘One day
in my Life’ by Bobby Sands, and ‘I arose this morning… A
Biography of Bobby Sands for Younger Readers’, and is
the author of ‘Bobby Sands’ Comrade; Women and War in
the North of Ireland’. Duchatel work is in publishing and
focuses on North/ South relations and development
issues. She translated Denis O’Hearn’s biography on
Bobby Sands, ‘Nothing But an Unfinished Song’ into
French. Q & A. An historical exhibition of Irish and
international women in struggle will be on show. Chair -
Briege Brownlee. Organised by Tar Anall and Coiste na n-
Iarchimí.
Trauma in the Community
St Mary’s University College, Fri 10th Aug, 3pm
Speakers - Brid Keenan (Gestalt therapist) & Philip McTaggart.
Combatting the stigma of suicide within our communities;
highlighting mental wellbeing, resilience and suicide awareness. Brid
will speak about transgenerational trauma at the level of families,
communities and society. Oscailt in partnership with PIPS.
Madge Davison Memorial Lecture
‘An Undesirable Alien’
Speaker – Councillor Declan Bree, St Marys College, Sat 11th
Aug, 2pm
Declan Bree on the life of Jimmy Gralton, the great Leitrim
socialist born in 1886, who became involved in the labour
struggles in USA. He was active in New York’s Connolly Club which
included Jim Larkin, Nora Connolly and Liam Mellows. His activism
upon his return to Ireland in the 1930s resulted in a deportation
order being issued by De Valera’s new Fianna Fail government
against this “undesirable alien”. Jimmy snubbed the order and
went on the run, defended by the leading left-wing campaigners
of the time.
‘Peace Works’ – Lecture by Mairead Corrigan Maguire
The 9th Annual St. Oliver Plunkett Lecture, St Oliver Plunkett
Parish Hall, Sun 12th Aug, 7pm
Mairead Corrigan Maguire cofounded
the Peace People with
Betty Williams in 1976, both
winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lauded internationally for her
stance, opinions about Mairead
tended to be polarised in West
Belfast. Mairead’s campaigning
work on Palestine led to her arrest
in 2010 as part of an aid flotilla
defying the Israeli naval blockade
of Gaza. “Whilst some people’s
political viewpoints and attitudes
towards violence have changed
since 1976, Mairead Corrigan
Maguire has remained a pacifist and consistently promoted nonviolence.”
Refreshments in Parish Hall afterwards.
Contact - Glen, 90 618 180.
Discussion and Debate Plé agus Diospoireachtaí
Ag Labhairt faoi Shíocháin
Coláiste Ollscoile Naomh Muire, Dé hAoine 10 Lúnasa, 1i.n.
Chaith Bronagh Lawson 13 bliain ag obair ar thionscadail forbartha
ar na línte Síochána i mBéal Feirste sular thosaigh sí ar a cleachtas
ealaíonta arís. Bhí sí ag obair le Sue Ellen Semekoski (Institiúid na
Scoile Ealaíne, Chicago) ar shamhlacha éagsúla ar úsáideadh ealaín
mar ghléas leighis. Ar ais ar na mallaibh ó Chicago, labhróidh sí faoin
obair ag dul ar aghaidh ansin agus faoin dóigh a n-oibríonn an
fhoghlaim anseo. I gcomhar le Oscailt.
’76 - ’81 – Na Blianta Agóide – Peirspictíochtaí Idirnáisiúnta
Cumann na Meirleach, Bóthar Bhaile Andarsan,
Dé hAoine 10 Lúnasa, 2i.n.
Beidh an tIodálach mná Silvia Calamati agus an
Francach mná Julie Duchatel ag caint faoi na
héifeachtaí agus na tionchair a bhí ag agóidí Ard
Mhacha agus na H-Bhlocanna ar a saolta.
D’aistrigh Calamati ‘One day in my Life’ by Bobby
Sands, agus ‘I arose this morning… A Biography
of Bobby Sands for Younger Readers’, agus is
údar ‘Bobby Sands’ Comrade; Women and War
in the North of Ireland’ í. Oibríonn Duchatel i
Julie Duchatel
bhfoilsitheoireacht agus díríonn sí ar an
chaideamh Thuaidh/Theas agus ar cheisteanna
forbartha. D’aistrigh sí beathaisnéis Denis O’Hearn ar Roibeárd Ó
Seachnasaigh, ‘Nothing But an Unfinished Song’ go Fraincis. C & F.
Léireofar taispeántas stairiúil ar mhná na hÉireann agus
idirnáisiúnta i gcoimhlintí. Beidh Briege Brownlee sa Chathaoir.
Eagraithe ag Tar Anall agus Coiste na n-Iarchimí.
Tráma sa Phobal
Coláiste Ollscoile Naomh Muire, Dé hAoine 10 Lúnasa, 3i.n.
Cainteoirí - Brid Keenan (teiripeoir Gestalt) & Philip McTaggart.
Ag dul i gceann stiogma an fhéinmharaithe laistigh dár bpobal; ag
cur béime ar fholláine meabhrach, acmhainneacht agus ar
fheasacht fhéinmharaithe. Labhróidh Brid ar thráma trasghlúine
ag leibhéil teaghlach, pobal agus na sochaí. Ócáid Oscailt i
gcomhar le PIPS.
Léacht Chuimhneacháin Madge Davison
‘Eachtrannach Neamh-Inmhianaithe’
Cainteoir – An Comhairleoir Declan Bree, Coláiste Naomh Muire,
Dé Sathairn 11 Lúnasa, 2i.n.
Beidh Declan Bree ag caint faoi shaol Jimmy Gralton, an sóisialaí
iontach ó Liatroim a rugadh in 1886, a bhí páirteach sna streachailtí
lucht oibre i SAM. Bhí sé gníomhach i gClub Uí Chonghaile i Nua-
Eabhrac ina raibh Jim Larkin, Nora Connolly agus Liam Mellows
chomh maith. Mar gheall ar a ghníomhaíochas nuair a d’fhill sé ar
ais go hÉirinn sna 1930í, d’eisigh rialtas nua Fhianna Fáil De Valera
ordú díbeartha in aghaidh “an t-eachtrannach neamhinmhianaithe”
seo. Thug Jimmy gonc don ordú agus chuaigh sé ar
teitheadh, agus príomhfheachtasóirí den eite chlé ag an am á
chosaint.
‘Tá an tSíocháin ag Éiri Léi’ –
Léacht ag Mairead Corrigan Maguire
An 9ú Léacht Bhliantúil Naomh Oilibhéar Pluincéid, Halla Paróiste
Naomh Oilibhéar Pluincéid, Dé Domhnaigh 12 Lúnasa, 7i.n.
Chomhbhunaigh Mairead Corrigan Maguire na Peace People le
Betty Williams in 1976, agus bhain siad beirt Duais Nobel na
Síochána. Cé gur moladh í go hidirnáisiúnta dá staid, tá tuairimí
contrárthachta fá dtaobh di in Iarthar Bhéal Feirste. Mar gheall ar a
cuid oibre feachtasaíochta ar an Phalaistín gabhadh í in 2010 nuair
a bhí sí ar chabhlachán cabhrach a thug dúshlán an imshuí
Iosraelaigh ar Gaza. “Cé gur athraigh tuairimí agus dearcthaí roinnt
daoine i dtaca le foréigean ó 1976, tá Mairead Corrigan Maguire ina
síochánaí go fóill agus bhí neamhfhoréigean á chun cinn aici go
seasta.” Beidh sólaistí ar fáil sa Halla Paróiste ina dhiaidh.
Déan teagmháil le Glen ar 9061 8180.
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