21st Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival July 19 - 25, 2008 Don't miss our 21st Celebration!!! Check out our Advance Programme here

July 19 - 25, 2008 21st Annual Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer School

Come to Monasterevin, Ireland for the 21st Gerard Manley Hopkins Literary Festival. Each year, since 1987, scholars and lovers of Hopkins's poetry have come from all over the world to Monasterevin to celebrate the work of this great Victorian poet. Not to be missed!

21st International Summer School

Saturday 19 - Friday 25 July 2008

The best literary festival in Ireland (R .Welch Ed . The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

25 countries represented Here is our Daily Programme 9.30 a.m. Art Exhibitions; Workshops Lectures daily. Conference Themes: Hopkins and the World; John Henry Newman 16.00 Special events 18.00 Hopkins Society Evening Meal 20.00 International Poetry Readings 22.00 Festival Club, with Readings (nightly Bar extension) More details of our packed 21st Annual Festival

FACTFILE. Check these links What it all costs Why Monasterevin Register immediately How to get here Accommodation

Classical Concert in Baronial Hall, Moore Abbey Sat. 19 July with Ireland's leading Pianist, Miceal O'Rourke. Watch this page for details of Micael's amazing Programme.

Organ Recital Thursday July 24th with Lee Dunleavy, Organist at York Cathedral

Irish Music Night with Cómhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann Tuesday July 22nd

Poetry Readings with Shizue Ogawa (Japan); (US) Tammy Nuzzo Morgan; David Axelrod; Vit Janota (Czech Republic);Alan Riach (Scotland); Dragan Dragojlovic (Serbia); Enrique Juncosa (Spain); Xenophon Papanastassiou (Greece); Niels Hav (Denmark); Hatif Janabi (Iraq); Salah Niazi (Iraq); Anatoly Koudriavitsky (Russia); Vicki Rhomberg (Austria) Michael O Conghaile; Desmond Egan (Irl);... and more

Lectures including Ian Ker (Oxford); Catherine Phillips; Hannah Loach; Michael Woods; Joseph Sweeney; Peter Milward SJ (UK); John Geary (Canada); Christopher Hodgkins; David Axelrod; George Wallace; Leonara Obed; Frank Flinn; Alice Bloch; Evelyn Wilson; Ben Howard; Joseph Feeney SJ (US); Aleksandra Kedzierska (Poland); Una Agnew; Sean Bagnall; Patrick Murray; Ciaran O'Hare; John Donoghue (Irl); Sakiko Tagaki; Kumiko Tanabe (Japan); Alla Savtchenko (Russia) ... and more

Song and Dance with Alice Bloch; Catherine Lilbit Devine; Debra, Casey, Allen and friends (US); Kreshimir Galen (Croatia); Diarmuid Johnson; Conor Mahony(Irl).

Maynooth University Day Sunday July 20th with Lectures, Reception, Music, Banquet.

Field Trip: Wed. July 23rd

Art Exhibitions: Alice Hantratty(Ireland); Wilhelm Fockersperger (Germany); John Hughes (Irl.); Gil Berry(Irl.); Tanya Eliott Nyegaard; Liam Fox(Irl.); Patricia Casey(Irl.); Padraig O Flannabhra (Irl.); Bernard Canavan (UK).

Workshops:
(a) Creative Writing (Poet David Axelrod)
(b) Words and Music - a pratical course in Song Writing (Conor Mahony with Ben Howard and Shane (C) Multi-lingual Translation Workshop led by Aleksandra Kedzierska
(Advance booking for Workshops advisable)

Participants

Austria Vicki Rhomberg Belgium Beatrice Libert; Eric Brogniet; Frédérique Longrée Canada John Geary; Gaston Bellemare China Li Li Czech Republic Anna Posmourna ; Vit Janota Croatia Ivo Dropulich; Kreshimir Galen; Drazen Katunaric; Emil Cic Denmark Niels Hav; Susanne Jorn; Morten Sondergaard Finland Vaino Kristina France Pierre Yves Soucy; Michele Duclos ; Cecile Oumhnai; Bruno Gaurier; Germany Wilhelm Föckersperger; William Adamson; Edith Hallberg Greece Xenophon Papanastassiou; Demosthenes Kourtovik Iceland Bragi Olafsson; Sigurdur Palsson Iraq Hatif Janabi; Salah Niazi Ireland Padraig O Flannabhra; Tanya Elliott Nyegaard; Michael O Flanagan; Celine Byrne; Liam Fox; Una Agnew; Bernard Canavan; Michael O Conghaile; Brian Arkins; Sara O'Rourke; Shane McGrath; Sean Bagnall; Desmond Egan; Patrick Murray; James Healy; Margaret Becker; Gil Berry; John Donoghue; Michael O'Dwyer; Michael Woods; Joseph Sweeney; Sara O'Rourkeitaly Italy Franco Marucci; Dante Marinacci; Giuseppe Serpillo; Donatella Badin Japan Shizue Ogawa; Miho Takashi; Sakiko Takagi; Hikaru Kitabayashi; Korea Youngmin Kim Luxembourg Nic Klecker; Jean Portante Macedonia Biba Ismael N. Ireland Robert Welch Norway Knut Odergard Poland Aleksandra Kedzierska Russia Alla Savtchenko; Anatoly Koudriavitsky Scotland Alan Riach Serbia Dragan Dragojlovic Spain Patrick Sheerin; Jose Maria Lopera; Isabel Miguel; Enrique Juncosa UK Ian Ker; Catherine Phillips; Colleen Wethered; Hannah Loach; Lee Dunleavy; Peter Milward SJ; Lawrence Sail USA Christopher Hodgkins; David Axelrod; Weston, Portia; Christopher Hodgkins; Leonara Obed; Alice Bloch; Frank Flinn; Evelyn Wilson; Joseph Feeney SJ; Evelyn Haller; Sean Kealey CSSp; James Kelly; Ed. Hunter; George Wallace; Lynn Cohen; Ben Howard; Edward Short; Catherine Lilbit Devine; Debra, Casey, Allen and friends; Patricia Cleary Miller; Pauline Griffith; Tammy Nuzzo Morgan Wales Diarmuid Johnson;

Season ticket: Euro 350.00 (does not include transportation, meals or accommodation)

NB: Early booking advisable. Day visitors welcome to any or all events

The Committee reserve the right of admission.

Breaking News

2007 Lectures available here.
Read Ian Ker, Aleksandra Kedzierska, Patrick Samway SJ , Joseph Feeney SJ, David Axelrod, Sister Jeanne Crapo and others on Gerard Manley Hopkins and his poetry.

Get an overview of the Hopkins Archive here. You can search by keyword, topic, name of lecturer etc.

'the best literary festival in Ireland'

- Editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish Studies

Poetry, Lectures, Music, Workshops, Field-trips and Friendship.

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Download our 2007 Summer School Programme Read about our 2007 Festival here Find out more: What it all costs Why is Hopkins celebrated in Monasterevin? GM Hopkins Youth Programme is available here 2007 Festival Highlights The 20th Gerard Manley Hopkins Society International Summer School, Monasterevin, has attracted an array of international poets, writers, artists, ambassadors and scholars. In all, some twenty countries will be represented. The Hopkins Summer School, has been described as ‘The best Literary Festival in Ireland' by Robert Welch, Editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.

Literature - poetry readings; read a favourite Hopkins poem; A very interesting line-up of writes will include leading Swedish poet, Thomas Tidholm; Mile Pesorda from Zagreb; Shizue Ogawa from Tokyo; and well-known Irish writers Dermot Healy and Desmond Egan. Our 2007 Literature Programme Youth Programme Exciting, innovative programme for young people. (Unfortunateley, this Programme is now booked out for 2007). Read the full 2007 Youth Programme here - an book now for 2008!. Drama: a performance of Yeats's The Only Jealousy of Emer by an American Theatre Company: The Pantaglaize Theatre Company. Lectures by noted scholars including Ian Ker from Oxford; Francis Fennell from Chicago; Polish writer Aleksandra Kedsierska; TP Dolan and Brian Arkins (NUI) and more. See our Online GM Hopkins Archive Workshops: Songwriting; Creative Writing; Multi-lingual Translation ... prepare your own version of this Hopkins poem for the Workshop Around this literary core, we have daily Festival Club each evening featuring visiting writers. Art Exhibitions: The line-up of Artists this year is impressive and includes, as well as Brian Bourke; John Behan; Benedict Byrne and others, the distinguished US painter, Edward Navone. Musical events, both classical and traditional, this year featuring prize-winning soprano, recent winner of the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens. This will take place on in the Baronial Hall of Moore Abbey, John MacCormack's former residence an has attracted enormous interest. The fine traditional fiddler, Malachy Bourke, will launch his new CD and star in a Concert featuring his Group. Find out more about and listen to Prize winning Soprano, Celine Byrne who sings on Saturday July 21st. Field Trips including one to NUI Maynooth and another to Newbridge Silver Style Museum. Convivial highlights – not to be forgotten! – will include the Annual Banquet in NUI Maynooth where President John Hughes will speak. To mark the association of Newbridge Silver, there will be a Gala Dinner in the famed Silver Restaurant. This latter will be preceded by a tour of the recently opened Silverware's Style Museum. Our 2007 Festival promises the best and most ambitious yet as we continue to expand and gain international attention.     Contact us tel. +353.(0)45.433613 St. Paul's Monasterevin Co. Kildare (Take the M7 from Dublin for c. 55 kms)