Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School 2024 Talks

The theme for second Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School programme is “Revival and Rebellion: Politics and the Arts – Ireland in Review”

The Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School will mark the 110th anniversary of the closure of this influential publication. Issue No. 1 of the Irish Review was dated March 1911 and the final issue No. 42 was dated Sept-Nov 1914. The Irish Review contained within its pages poems, stories and essays by some of the key figures of that era; from George Moore to James Stephens; W.B. Yeats to P.H. Pearse; Lord Dunsany to James Connolly; William Orpen to Jack B.Yeats.

• 1000 Registration and Coffee
• 1100 Dan Mulhall Keynote
• 1230 Lunch
• 1400 An Interview with Fergal Keane
• 1600 Discussion – Arts, Politics and The Irish Review
• 1800 Ends

Ticketing –Tickets at €35/€25 are available now from Eventbrite

Dan Mulhall

Thomas MacDonagh Museum is grateful for funding for the Hedge School 2024 from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media’s  Local Authority Commemorations Fund to support commemorative initiatives in 2024.