About MacGill
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Live Webcasts Today: Tuesday 24 July
First up, at 11am is a panel discussion on public service reform. Watch it here. At 2.30pm listen to Dr Diarmuid Martin speak about the future of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Watch it here. The last session for today is A Broad Agenda of Reform for the Constitutional Convention at 8.30pm. Watch it here.
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About MacGill School
The MacGill Summer School has been in existence for thirty three years. It was founded in 1981 in Glenties, Co. Donegal to celebrate the memory of local writer, Patrick MacGill. MacGill wrote in the early 20th century on the social conditions in Donegal, the plight of migrant workers in Britain and the horrors of the Great [...]
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About Patrick MacGill
Patrick MacGill became known as the ‘Navvy Poet’ when a slim little volume of poetry which he had mostly written when working on the railways in Scotland and which he called ‘Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrapbook’ came to the notice of the literary critics in Britain. It was at the end of the first decade [...]
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