CLÁR COMÓRTHA CÉAD BLIAIN CILL CHOMHGHAILL PROGRAMME – Bob Monteith Summer School – Druids Glen Golf Club An Clár Scoil Samhraidh Bob Monteith Thursday, 2nd June 7:30pm

Ben Fagan Wicklow Historian and Writer

Wicklow Men Fighting for Ireland's Freedom

8:00pm

Adrienne Brown Dance Ireland Founding Member and Dance Choreography.

The Seal of Love and Death

8.45pm

Michael Kenny Keeper Emeritus, National Museum Of Ireland – Art & Ind. Division

Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: Some Forgotten Heroes of 1916

9.15pm

Mary Marmion Women's Studies, UCD Questions and Answers

Housemaids, Hussies and Women in High Places; Remembering Forgotten Women.

4.00pm

Peter Murtagh Irish Times Journalist

Softly March Away: Greystones and the Great War. The Greystones Church of Ireland Fallen named on World War memorial

4.30pm

Philip Orr Northern Ireland Writer, Teacher and Community Activist

The Battle of the Somme and the Ulster Protestant Imagination

5:15pm

James Curry Irish Labour History Society Questions and Answers

Ernest Kavanagh: Liberty Hall's Artist of the Revolution

Gregori Meakin Graduate of Sociology and local Historian Kevin Keogh Grandson of Michael Keogh

Monteith's Legacy; Consigned to History or Contemporary Voice?

12:00am

Helen O'Carroll Curator, Kerry Museum, Tralee

Ardfert Witnesses at the Trial of Roger Casement

12.45pm

Questions and Answers

9.30pm

Friday, 3rd June

5.45pm Saturday, 4th June 10:30am

11:30am

Michael Keogh: With Casement's Irish Brigade

For full details see www.kilcooleremembers1916.com Directions: Entry to Druids Glen Club House in on the Kilcoole to Newtown Road at the Gate Lodge Gates There is no admission charge to any of the lectures – however donations on the door are welcome Kindly Sponsored by Druids Glen Golf Club at Woodstock Demesne, birthplace of Robert Monteith

CLÁR COMÓRTHA CÉAD BLIAIN CILL CHOMHGHAILL

PROGRAMME An Clár

All Weekend

Get involved by dressing up and being part of the event.

All weekend

1916 Shopfronts Competition

Throughout the Village

Wander throughout the village and admire the Shopfronts that have gone back in time.

Sat 4th to Monday 6th 11.00am-7.00pm

Victorian Carnival

Upper Green

The carnival is geared towards children with a Carousel, Helter Skelter etc

Opposite Nicky’s Market

Thursday, 2nd June

Bob Monteith Summer School

7.30pm – 10.00pm

Druids Glen Golf Club

Friday, 3rd June 4.00pm – 6.00pm

Bob Monteith Summer School

Druids Glen Golf Club

7.00pm - 9.00pm

1916 Women Rising Up - Art Exhibition

Luisne

Luisne will host artist Francis Noel Duffy’s exhibition of paintings to celebrate the women who participated in the 1916 Rising.

9.30pm – 9.45pm

Women Rising Up

Luisne Walled Garden

Actress Brenda McSweeney & Musician Sarah Franklin will perform short readings and performances highlighting the struggle of women in the context of 1916.

9.45pm – 10.00pm

Kilcoole Outdoor Volta Cinema Presents ‘I See His Blood’ – A Dance Film

Luisne Walled Garden

I See His Blood. A Dance Film conceived as a meditation on the Irish Nationalist rebellion of 1916 and on the conflict between love and sacrifice. Starring: Roisín Whelan, Kevin Malone, and Robbie Overson. Directed by: Adrienne Brown and Eoghan O'Reilly

10.00pm – 11.30pm

Kilcoole Outdoor Volta Cinema Presents ‘A Terrible Beauty’

Luisne Walled Garden

A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand and of the innocent men and boys, executed because of what transpired in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.

Wrap up well, bring your own blanket & chair… 10.00pm

Live Music

Lees of Kilcoole The Mollys

CLÁR COMÓRTHA CÉAD BLIAIN CILL CHOMHGHAILL

PROGRAMME An Clár

Saturday, 4th June 9.30am – 12.30pm

Kilcoole Women’s Group Seminar The Values of the Women of 1916 & their Relevance 100 Years Later (Booking essential)

Luisne

Revisiting the social justice role that Irish women played in the Easter Rising and its relevance to the underlying values of social justice today.

10.00am – 11.00am

The Great Kilcoole 1916 Home-Bake Competition Get Baking! – Three categories; Fruit Cake, Victoria Sponge and Scones. Adjudicating will take place at 11am. Winners announced and prize giving at 5.00pm Including best children’s bake.

10.30am – 12.00pm

11.00am – 7.00pm

11.00am – 2.00pm

Mill Room Byrnes Irish House

Traditional Cookery Demonstration with Richenda

St Patricks Hall

Richenda Talbot is an award winning chef who will demonstrate how to cook and let you share Dublin Coddle, Irish Potato Cakes & Brotchan Foltchep (Leek & Oatmeal broth)

Upper Green

Victorian Carnival

Upper Green

The Carnival is geared towards children with Carousel, Helter Skelter etc

Opposite Nicky’s Market

1916 Women Rising Up - Art Exhibition

Luisne

Francis Noel Duffy’s exhibition of paintings to celebrate the women who participated in the 1916 Rising. The women depicted in the paintings were incarcerated during the Irish civil war in Kilmainham Gaol for their anti-treaty beliefs and perceived threat to the Irish government of the time.

11.00am – 5.00pm

Tony Clarke’s Art Exhibition ‘1916’

Kilcoole Community Centre

Tony Clarke’s exhibition features some of the 120 images from his 2016 exhibition. This represents some of the not so well-known people who took part with a focus on the Women of the Rising.

11.00am -5.00pm

Prison Service Museum

Kilcoole Community Centre

A unique exhibition of artefacts from prison life(on loan from Mountjoy Prison Museum)

11.00am – 5.00pm

Life Around Wicklow in 1916

Kilcoole Community Centre

Photography Exhibition on loan from Wicklow County Council

11.00am – 5.00pm

The Woodenbridge 1914 Exhibition (from UCD) Bob Monteiths Own Great Adventure Expo

Kilcoole Community Centre

CLÁR COMÓRTHA CÉAD BLIAIN CILL CHOMHGHAILL

PROGRAMME An Clár

11.00am – 2.00pm

The Irish Volunteers and World War One Living History Display

Luisne Grounds

Meet the volunteers (re-enactors) and discover information on their uniforms, guns and ammunition

11.00am– 12.00pm

Healing from the Hedgerows

Nicky’s Market & Café

A workshop hosted by the Medicine Garden, Hollywood. Increase your knowledge of our local medicinal herbs and how this tradition can be used to enhance your health and well-being.

12.30pm – 2.00pm

12.30pm – 5.30pm

Traditional Cookery Demonstration with Richenda

St Patricks Hall

Richenda Talbot is an award winning chef who will demonstrate how to cook and let you share Flapjacks with Honey, Country Apple Cake & Irish Fruit Scones

Upper Green

Chotah Victorian Tea Rooms

Mill Room Byrnes Irish House

Kilcoole Women’s Group hosts a unique afternoon tea experience with home baked delights traditional costumes and ambiance

1.00pm - 2.30pm

Féile Cluichí Sráide The grounds of the Holy Faith Convent and St. Brigid’s school will be thronged with children (of all ages) playing street games, run by KAPS – Kilcoole Area Play Space, with kind assistance from Kilcoole Youth Project. A competition was recently launched in the village and is accompanied by a booklet Naoi Déag Sé Déag. The final 7 teams will be judged during the event.

2.00pm – 6.00pm

Traditional Craft Demonstrations Entrance to Chotah Rooms

2.00pm

Kilcoole Primary School

Delgany ICA

Mill Room

Kilcoole 1916 Family Treasure Hunt

Meet at the Post Office

Prizes to be won

3.00pm

Kilcoole Gunrunning Re-enactment

Seafront Car Park

The story of the Kilcoole Gunrunning in 1914 & its vital role in the Rising. With Kilcoole’s own re-enactors and actors. Music performed by Bray & Roundwood Comhaltas. There will be no car parking at the beach. As a result a mini-bus will be leaving the Main Street car park every 15 minutes from 2.15

4.00pm

Music Session with Inisfree

Byrnes Irish House

10.30pm

Bree Harris & Band

Byrnes Irish House

10.30pm

Live Music

Lees of Kilcoole

CLÁR COMÓRTHA CÉAD BLIAIN CILL CHOMHGHAILL

PROGRAMME An Clár 10.30pm

Live Music

The Mollys

SUNDAY 5th The Main Street will be closed to traffic from 11.00am – 6.00pm. Northbound traffic - Local access to whitethorn centre only. Diversions will be in place. Children can pick up a penny and a penny bag of sweets from the Heritage Children’s Street Games on Sunday All afternoon:

Garden of Ireland Vintage Car Exhibition Women on Horseback in costume, Stilt Walkers, Horse Drawn Vehicles

Main Street

11.00 - 7.00pm

Victorian Carnival

Upper Green

The Carnival is geared towards children with Carousel, Helter Skelter etc

Opposite Nickys Market

1916 Women Rising Up - Art Exhibition

Luisne

11.00am - 2.00pm

Francis Noel Duffy’s exhibition of paintings to celebrate the women who participated in the 1916 Rising. The women depicted in the paintings were incarcerated during the Irish civil war in Kilmainham Gaol for their anti-treaty beliefs and perceived threat to the Irish government of the time.

11.00am – 2.00pm

The Irish Volunteers and World War One Living History Display

Luisne Grounds

Meet the volunteers (re-enactors) and discover information on their uniforms, guns and ammunition

11.00am – 5.00pm

Tony Clarke’s Art Exhibition ‘1916’

Kilcoole Community Centre

11.00am - 5.00pm

Prison Service Museum

Kilcoole Community Centre

A unique exhibition of artefacts from prison life on loan from Mountjoy Prison Museum

11.00am – 5.00pm

Life around Wicklow in 1916

Kilcoole Community Centre

Photography Exhibition on loan from Wicklow County Council

11.00am – 5.00pm

The Woodenbridge 1914 Exhibition (from UCD) Bob Monteiths Own Great Adventure Expo

Kilcoole Community Centre

12.30pm – 4.30pm

Chotah Victorian Tea Rooms

Mill Room Byrnes Irish House

Kilcoole Women’s Group hosts a unique Afternoon Tea experience with home baked delights, traditional costumes and ambiance

12.30pm – 5.00pm

Irish Farmers Market Local Craft Market

Main Street

CLÁR COMÓRTHA CÉAD BLIAIN CILL CHOMHGHAILL

PROGRAMME An Clár 1.00pm – 5.00pm

Traditional Craft Demonstrations

Main Street Car Park

Pole Lathing, Hurley Making, Blacksmith, Spinning, Wood carving, Pottery Painting, Pottery Making, Crochet & Knitting

1.30pm

Cluiche Sráide Prizegiving

Luisne

2.00pm – 3.30pm

The 1916 Rising Re-enactment Part One – Early in the week

Luisne

Lord Edwards Own & Friends re-enactors, Square One Theatre, Bray Gerry Gill (Narrator), Maggie Murphy (Tessie) Aideen McLoughlin (Nurse O’Farrell) Kevin Macken (Roger). Kilcoole Primary School Choir Colaiste Chraobh Abhainn Secondary School Reading of the proclamation Kilcoole Youth Project remembers the youth of 1916 by playing music close to the era of 1916. This will include bodhran’s, tin whistle and singing.

2.30pm – 5.00pm

The Kilcoole Heritage 1916 Children’s Street Games

Luisne

With 5th Wicklow Scouts (Kilcoole)

4.00pm

Proclamation Parade United Nation Veterans, Lord Edwards Own Re-enactors and friends and the Community of Kilcoole,

Luisne Grounds to Kilcoole Post office

Reading of the Kilcoole Primary School’s 2016 Proclamation Music with Bray & Roundwood Comhaltas

Kilcoole Post Office

4.00pm

The Kelly Brothers Live Music

Byrnes Irish House

5.00pm

Kilcoole Camogie Club 1916 Demonstration

Kilcoole Primary School

6.00pm

The 1916 Rising Re-enactment Part Two – The Evacuation of the GPO

Luisne

Lord Edwards Own and friends re-enactors Square One theatre, Bray

6.00pm – 9.00pm

Outdoor Ceilí

Byrnes Irish House

10.30pm

Live Bands

Byrnes Irish House Lees of Kilcoole The Mollys