Truth and Lies’ – the teller and the tale. (The transmission of a Fermanagh folktale from c1910 to the present day.)
Séamas Mac Annaidh is a Fermanagh-based historian, novelist, broadcaster and Irish-language writer. He has served as a writer-in-residence at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Ulster at Coleraine, and NUI Galway. He has authored and co-authored a range of history books, covering social, cultural and political topics in Ireland from pre-history to modern times. He is particularly interested in books and other print material from Fermanagh. He spent time as a television and radio presenter with BBC Northern Ireland, as arts editor of Lá, and filmed a series on Irish prisoners in the Tower of London for TG4. He is now a full-time free-lance writer and storyteller. His talk is titled ‘Truth and Lies’ – the teller and the tale. (The transmission of a Fermanagh folktale from c1910 to the present day.)
The 2026 History Summer School will be held over the weekend of the 8th to 10th May.
Below is the full Programme of Events
The Míchéal Ó Cleirigh Summer School book collection launch
Friday 6th February
Since the founding of the Mícheál Ó Cleirigh Summer School in 2014, we have been collecting books. These mainly the books written by the many esteemed historians who have given talks over the last eleven summer schools.
We have presented our collection to the library in Ballyshannon where they will remain as reference books available to everyone visiting the library. The collection will in the future rotate around Ballyshannon, Bundoran and Donegal town libraries
We had the handover of the book collection in Ballyshannon library on Friday 6th February at 11am.
Pride of place is our complete set of the Annála Ríochta na hÉirinn (Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland ) better known as the Annals of the Four Masters, the version compiled by Dr. John O’Donovan in Irish and English in the 1850s.
Funding from Donegal County Council
Micheál O’Cléirigh Summer School Committee would like to acknowledge and thank Donegal County Council for funding received through the Local Enhancement Programme 2025. This is the first time the Summer School received funding for equipment, and we are appreciative of this.
Through this funding we were able to purchase a laptop. The laptop will be used to carry out the day to day work of the Summer School that begins to organise the next 2026 school which will be held over the weekend of the 8th to 10th May.
The 2025 Yearbook is still available.
Contact email: info@mocleirigh.ie
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