The launch of the 2025 yearbook detailing all the events and talks at the 2025 Summer School with the theme Diaspora & Homecoming; Deoraithe ag Filleadh ar ais go hÉireann, will be launched in McGinley’s pub in Ballyshannon next Friday evening at 7’30 pm. Everybody welcome and there will be some food and light refreshments. See you there!
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 organising of the 2026 summer school begins this month, September 2025.
So mark the dates in your diary and we hope to see you in May 2026
2025 History Summer School
The 2025 Mícheál Ó’Cléirigh Summer School took place in Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal over the weekend of the 9th to 11th May. The theme was “Diaspora and Homecoming / “Deoraithe ag filleadh ar ais go hÉireann””
Each year the three-day Summer School event celebrates the legacy and work of Mícheál Ó’Cléirigh and the chroniclers who wrote the Annals of the Four Masters.
The event started on Friday evening, 9th May with a reception at 6.30 p.m. in the Friary Hall, Rossnowlagh. Joe Mahon officially opened the 2025 History Summer School.. The results of the Primary Schools art competition were announced. This year there were over five hundred entries from eight local schools in Counties Donegal, Leitrim and Fermanagh. The evening continued with music from Coláiste Cholmcille Choir and Ballyshannon Phil Rooney Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.
On Saturday, 10th May the speakers were: Professor John Mc Cafferty Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD. Mr. Pierce Ferriter (his talk was read by Fergus Cleary due to Pierce being unable to attend), Professor Thomas O’Connor, Professor Charles Ivar McGrath, Ms Bridget Brennan and Professor Marian Lyons. This stellar list of speakers delivered content that informed, challenged, and stimulated conversations and discussions. The evening l finished with the Summer School dinner in the Sandhouse Hotel, Rossnowlagh, with music by Bel Canto The Summer School concluded on Sunday 11th May with Aifreann as Gaeilge in the Friary and a tour of Cultural / Historical tour o local sites.
For more information on the weekend see: Home – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School
Below are the sponsors of the Mícheál Uí Cleirigh Summer School
