Clandeboye Reading Party: Heritage, History and Place

McConnell, G. (Member of the organising committee)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Reading Party at Clandeboye Estate with English and History students and staff from Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin, one day of which contributed to the programme of Aspects Festival.

Period	12 Sept 2017 → 14 Sept 2017
Event type	Other
Location	Bangor, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

literature
commemoration
war
poetry
history
environment

Documents & Links

On Thursday 14 September 2017, as part of the Aspects Bangor Literary Festival, Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast will host a sequence of events at the Clandeboye Estate, Co Down, as part the Clandeyboye Reading Party, a North-South joint research collaboration which aims to promote deeper cultural awareness and understanding of sensitive issues around war, commemoration, identity, memory and history.
Members of the public are invited to share their memories and memorabilia of the world wars as part of a ‘History and Literary Harvest’ event hosted by Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast next week at the Aspects Bangor Literary Festival.