Once again we have a great line-up of speakers, poets and musicians who will enlighten and entertain you in the unique atmosphere of St Clement's. Here you can get away from the world (mobile phones are out of range) and immerse yourself in the company of a group of interesting participants, some of whom have the distinction of having attended every Shamrock!
This year we are using the Galong shearing shed for the first time - for music, poetry, the odd good yarn and country hospitality. Saturday night will see us Live @ Ned Ryan's for an historical presentation with a difference. It will be a great weekend so please do register and support the museum, library and archive at St Clement's.
Thursday 31 July to Sunday 3 August 2008
Program
An
additional presentation has
been added to the advertised program with
Dr Jeff Kildea speaking
on
Billy Hughes and the Irish Question.
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Thursday 31 July |
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3.00pm
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Registration
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6.00pm
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Dinner
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7.30pm
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Welcome
to Shamrock in the Bush
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8.00pm
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Piccadilly and the Bush: the travels of an Irish con man. Dr Suzanne Rickard, keynote speaker |
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Friday 1 August |
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Family histories |
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8.45am
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William Charles Wentworth and biography. Dr
Peter Cochrane |
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9.45am
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Two Irish Towers: Remembering Uncle Jack. Dr Richard
Reid |
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10.30am
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Morning
tea
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Irish legacies |
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11.00am
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Frank Coen: The Golden Boy. Cheryl
Mongan |
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11.45pm
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What being Irish meant to my mother and those around her. Meg
Stewart |
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1.00pm
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Lunch |
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Desert places |
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2.00pm
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William Bede Dalley: The Road to Galong and the Sudan. Robert Lehane
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2.45pm
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The Irish Queen of the Australian Desert. Peter Bindon |
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3.30pm
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Afternoon
tea and free time
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7.30pm
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Shamrock
Dinner
in
Galong House with
official guests and entertainment by Sandy Gibbney
and
John
Dengate.
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Saturday 2 August |
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Women and war |
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9.00am
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Mary Tondut: the woman in the Catalpa story. Prof Richard
Cowan |
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9.45am
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'He was a good boy.': A mother's grief.
Caroline Newman |
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10.30am
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Morning
tea
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Political shenanigans |
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11.00am
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The 'pick
handle' election: Irish gold miners on the Araluen Dr Christine
Wright |
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11.45am
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Irishmen at the barricades in New South Wales, 1932. Prof Andrew
Moore |
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1.00pm
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Lunch
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Songs from the Shed |
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2.30pm
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Songs from the Shed. John Dengate
& Tim Hewlett |
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3.30pm
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Afternoon
tea and free time
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6.30pm
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Dinner
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Live @ Ned Ryan's |
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7.30pm |
Prof Jeff Brownrigg
will
introduce
'Barons, Rebels and Romantics': The Fitzgerald's First Thousand
Years, by
Alan Fitzgerald with
musical accompaniment by John
Dengate, Jen Kelson and
others.
Refreshments will be served. |
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Sunday
3 August
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Far-flung iconography |
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9.00am
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A strong attachment to stone: the extraordinary monuments of Morgan Jageurs. Dr Pamela O'Neill |
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9.45am
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From Cork to Cowra: Discovering the Sublime and Macabre Art of Harry Clarke. Tony Earls
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10.30am
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Morning
Tea
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Still the indomitable Irish |
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11.00am
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An Irish G'Day. Barney Devlin
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11.45am
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An Exile of the South: the life and opinions of Maurice O'Reilly.
Prof Jeff Brownrigg |
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12.30pm
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Wrap
up
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1.00pm
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Lunch
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Please note that times and speakers could vary should unforeseen circumstances arise.
A brochure forShamrock in the Bush events can be downloaded.
This page last updated: 1 July 2008
