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You
won't want to miss this great event!
The GM Hopkins Society is proud to host
A Gala John McCormack Celebration
on February 23, 2001 -
check here for details
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Advance Programme
- Hopkins 2001
'The
best literary festival in Ireland' -
Robert Welch,
Editor, Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
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26 countries represented ++
Theme
for Hopkins 2001
Hopkins
and Other Writers
Art
Exhibitions:
James
McKenna Retrospective; Benedict Byrne; Homage to James:
various artists; German Art PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS: Leo
Mahon; Rudi Freiburg
Poetry
Workshop::Saturday
21, July 9.30 am to 1.00 pm.
Translation
Workshop: Director,
Patrick Sheerin (Univ Valladolid) Lectures,
Poetry Readings
Writers
Groups Reading: Director: Michael Massey
Maynooth University Day Director:
Seamus Mac Gabhann (NUl Maynooth)
BOOK LAUNCHES * LECTURES FOR STUDENTS
* VIDEO SHOWINGS * BOOK FAIR * FAVOURITE HOPKINS POEMS * VISIT
TO MONASTEREVIN HOUSE * GUIDED TOURS * FESTIVAL CLUB with bar
extension: nightly from 9.30pm * GALA DINNER: 6.00 pm. each evening
(advance booking necessary) *
GRAND
OPENING with Art Opening,
visiting dignitaries and Embassy representatives: Sat. 21 st 5.00
pm Visitors welcome, for any event or for longer. Season ticket:
£130.00.
Enquiries
and advance bookings
WRITERS
AND PARTICIPANTS for HOPKINS 2001 INCLUDE
AUSTRIA:
Gerhard Kofler, Manfred Chobot
BELGIUM: Geert van Istendael
CHILE: Jorge Ariel Madrazo
CHINA: Hu Yun Huan
CROATIA: E. Cic
CZECH REPUBLIC: Jiri Votruba; Ivana
Bozdechova
DENMARK: Nicolaj Stochholm; John
Irons
FINLAND: Helena Sinervo
FRANCE: Gerard Roussel; Jean-Luc
Wauthier; Bruno Gaurier; Danielle Jacquin; Jean Poncet
GERMANY: Rudi Freiburg; Wilhem Fockersperger;
Michael Lange; Raiumd Weiter; Klaus Wiedmnn; Mi Sylvia Winter;
Uwe Boker; Thomas Rosenlocher; Ines Detmers; Edith Hallberg
GREAT BRITAIN: Roger McGough; Richard
Austin; Michael Schmidt; Patrick Bridgwater; Peter Milward S.J.
GREECE: Dimosthenis Kourtovik
HUNGARY: Peter Kantor
IRELAND: Enda McDonagh; Marie Heaney;
Gabriel Fitzmaurice; Desmond Egan; Brian Arkins
ITALY: Francesco Marroni; Franco
Marucci; Mariaconcetta Constantini; Renzo D'Agnillo; Giuseppe
Serpillo; Melita Cataldi; Dante Marianacci; Grazia Colli; Lara
Ferrini; Lara Ma trangelo.
JAPAN: Kunio Shimane;Sakiko Takagi;
Eiko Kamo; Sr. Tomiko Hirata; Kazuyoshi Enozawa
MEXICO: Francisco Serrano
N. IRELAND: Ciaran Carson; Robert
Welch; Rosemary Chambers
POLAND: Aleksandra Kedzierska
ROMANIA: Ana Olos
RUSSIA: Maria Popova; Alia Savtchenko;
Anatoly Kudriavitsky SOUTH AFRICA: Peter Rorvik; Gus Ferguson;
Tony O'Reilly; Zolani Mkiva
SPAIN: Teodoro Santana, Marcos Hormiga,
Jesus Pardo de Santayana, Patrick Sheerin, Maria Angeles Conde
SWEDEN: Thomas Tidholm
USA: Sr. Weir; Mary Ann Joyce; Victoria
McCabe; Dennis Gallagher; Joseph Feeney SJ; President Jerry Farley;
William Langdon; John Hunter; Jim Kelly; Evelyn Haller
YUGOSLAVIA: Stefka Smitran. And poetry
from: Israel, Slovak Republic, Belgium, The Netherlands ...(details
later).
Meanwhile,
browse in the PRESS ROOM - see what visitors thought about
HOPKINS 2000 the best literary festival.
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