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At the launch of the 2023 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School which took place in November in Ballyshannon PHOTO: Siobhan McGowan
The Rossnowlagh based Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School will be held over the weekend of May 10-12, 2024.
It will also be a celebration of their tenth summer school, organisers have said.
The school itself was established in Rossnowlagh in 2013 with the first Summer School taking place on May 17, 2014.
This year’s theme is ‘Words, Language and Lore/ Focail, Teanga agus Seanchas’ and will examine how words and language collided in Mícheál Ó Cléirigh’s Ireland.
The launch of the 2023 Summer School book was held in early November in Ballyshannon; the book covered the many lectures that took place over the weekend in May 2023 as well as other organised events,
The main purpose of the yearly school is to celebrate the life and achievements of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and his colleagues, the other members of the ‘Four Masters.’
The school also commemorates the work of the Franciscan Friars of the period who lived in Donegal and in Louvain.
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh was born in Creevy, between Rossnowlagh and Ballyshannon and the Franciscan Friary today is located in Rossnowlagh.
It is entirely appropriate, then, that the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School is located in Rossnowlagh, in the Friary itself and environs.
The history school celebrates the contribution made by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and his team of annalists to preserving the ancient history of Ireland in a very turbulent time of the early 17th Century.
Although it was a time of relative peace, there were rumblings of what was to come and in the subsequent wars many of their source manuscripts were destroyed or lost.
The Summer School examines this period of Irish history and looks at the wider complexities.
They added in their announcement for 2024: “We are very fortunate to have a very knowledgeable and expert contribution each year from the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute UCD who provide the speakers and can assure up-to-date thinking on this important period of Irish history.”
Plans are in progress for their weekend programme which will be published in due course.
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