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SUMMER CONFERENCE 2019

The 2019 Summer Conference, organised by the Irish Freethinkers and Humanists and the Humanist Association of Ireland, will be on 7th and 8th September in the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore, Co. Offaly (below).
The theme is Humanism and the New Ireland

SUMMER SCHOOL FORM

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME

Welcome and Close by HAI and IFH speakers on Humanism in the New Ireland
In between, Speakers (alphabetical by surname):

Siona Cahill 
President of the Union of Students in Ireland  
What Young People want in the New Ireland

Martina Fitzgerald 
former Political Correspondent RTE; author of Madam Politician: Women at the Table of Irish Political Power
The Role of Women in the New Ireland 

Colin Harvey 
Professor of Human Rights Law at Queen’s University, Belfast, a Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute of Global Peace, Security and Justice, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies
Uniting Our Shared Island

Liam Herrick 
Executive Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties  
The future for Civil Society organisations, including humanist ones

Patsy McGarry 
Irish Times Religious Affairs Correspondent since 1990s  
Church/State Relations

 Kelly O’Dowd 
Co-Chair, Alliance for Choice NI  
Is Northern Ireland at risk of being excluded from the New Ireland?

Eamon Ryan 
Leader of the Green Party in Ireland 
Ireland's Environmental Obligations

Catriona Twomey 
Co-ordinator, Cork Penny Dinners  
Diversity and Inclusion in the New Ireland

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HEADING OH, OH, HEAVENWARDS

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Thursday 14th February
Speaker Brian Pelan, centre front, who talked inter alia about the View magazine,
http://viewdigital.org
and some of the audience (photo: Bertie McCullough)

 

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Speaker Stuart Bailie gave a fascinating talk on 13th December about his new book ‘Trouble Songs: Music and Conflict in Northern Ireland’. Trouble Songs involves over 60 interviews and conversations with the likes of Bono, Christy Moore, the Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Orbital, Kevin Rowland, Terri Hooley, the Rubberbandits, Dolores O’Riordan and the Miami Showband survivors. It’s an account of how music has been a persuader, agitator and peacemaker.

 

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