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Secret Histories,
Hidden Lives
The Kate O'Brien
Centenary Weekend

Limerick City Gallery of Art,
Pery Square, Limerick
St. Michael's Church,
Pery Square, Limerick


21, 22, 23 February 1997

 

The Kate O'Brien Weekend Archives - 1997
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Friday 27

8.00pm


9.00pm

St. Michael's Church, Pery Square

Official opening of the Kate O'Brien Weekend 1997
Her Excellency Mary Robinson - President of Ireland

As Music and Splendour ....
Concert with Marie Walsh
Accompanied by Collette Davis
Sponsored by Kleiser Pianos
Saturday 28

10.00am
Session 1

11.00am

11.15am
Session 2


12.00 noon
Session 3

1.00pm

2.30pm
Session 4

4.00pm

4.30pm
Session 5

Limerick City Gallery, Pery Square

'Fictionalising Fact or Factionalising Fiction?'
Mary Morrissy

C
offee

'A Howl Unheard':- Women Shoah survivors between
language and silence
Ronit Lentin

'Missing from the Picture:- Family memories and fictional history'
Aishling Foster

Lunch

Three Limerick writers talk about Kate O'Brien
Ciarán MacMathúna introduces Maeve Kelly, Michael Curtin & Jo Slade

Coffee

Seminar: Secret Histories, Hidden Lives
Chair: Patricia Coughlan
Mary Morrissy, Ronit Lenit, Aishling Foster, Ciarán MacMathúna,
Maeve Kelly, Michael Curtin & Jo Slade

Sunday 1

12 noon
Session 6

St. Michael's Church, Pery Square

The Kate O'Brien Lecture
Marina Warner