Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival
July 19 - 25, 2008
Don't miss our 21st Annual Hopkins Celebration!

Maynooth Day 2009

Generously Sponsored by Professor John Hughes,
President National University of Ireland Maynooth

Field Trip: Maynooth University. The programme includes guided tour of the magnificent Pugin Chapel; field trip to Castletown House; Readings; Poetry; Sherry Reception and Banquet in Pugin Hall. Join in the Hopkins Celebration!

10.00 noon

MASS - College Chapel.
Celebrant: Conon Raymond Murray
Kildare Local Authorities' Choir

11.00 pm Coffee in Pugin Hall
  Immediately after Coffee, a SHORT Guided TOUR of the beautiful College Chapel led by Séamus MacGabhann, NUIM

12.00 pm

12.30

Group Photograph

Lunch in Maynooth Town. (O'Neill's, on left side beyond Gates, suggested); you option.
14.15 Bus for Castletown House from College Front Gates
15.00 Guided Tour of Castletown House . More about Castletown House
15.45 Group Photo (Entrance) Jim Kelly KCWU, Washburn University

16.00 Readings and Lecture:
2 poems: Raymond Murray;
In Other Words: Desmond Egan.
Lecture: The Psychological Landscape of Hopkins's Ireland;Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea).
20.00 Bus back to Maynooth
20.30

Sherry Reception (Renahan Hall, beside Pugin Hall) kindly sponsored by Prof John Hughes, Presdident of NUI Maynooth.

Flute: Diarmuid Johnson (Wales).

>6.30 pm HOPKINS SOCIETY BANQUET 2009(Tickets from Committee or at entrance: €35
Dress Smart Casual)
Banquet in The Pugin Hall

Address: Prof. John Hughes, President NUI Maynooth
Sean Power, TD., Geralding Byrne, President, The GM Hopkins Society.
MASKED RECITAL Shane McGrath.

MC: Elaine Murphy, The GM Hopkins Society



20 . 50

22.00

leaves from Front Gate

Nightcap in Boland's (opposite Church in Monasterevin)


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