Camden Court Hotel, Camden Street, Dublin 2

This conference, organised by Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests,(SNAP) will be opened by Colm O’Gorman (CEO Amnesty International Ireland) who will give the keynote address. Other prominent contributors include Maeve Lewis (One In Four), Mari T. Steed (Justice for Magdalenes), Fr. Tom Doyle (Dominican Priest), Pam Spees (attorney at Centre for Constitutional Rights, New York), Juan Carlos Cruz (Campaigner,Chile), Pat Wall (Canon Lawyer) Paddy Doyle (author/campaigner), Marie Collins (campaigner), Jeff Anderson (Lawyer, NY), Sandrau Fernau (Sociologist at Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony) Bruce Arnold (author and senior political correspondent, Irish Independent), Patsy Mc Garry (chief religious affairs correspondent, Irish Times), Marco Politi (Papal biographer), Bishopaccountability.org

Cllr Mannix Flynn will be the facilitator for this event.

Registration Fee: €65 Survivors/Relatives  €150 Professionals/Organisations

Schedule of Speakers: Camden Court Hotel, Camden Street, Dublin

Friday April 26th to Sunday April 28th 2013

Friday 26th April 2013

1:00 – 3:00

Colm O’Gorman   “It’s Not About Faith”  (Keynote address)

Patsy McGarry      ”Why Ireland?”

3:00–3:30      Break

3:30—5:30

Mari Steed             “Justice for Magdalenes: The Little NGO That Could”

Paddy Doyle          ‘Before and after the writing of ‘The God Squad”

Marie Collins           ‘Child abuse images – A Worldwide plague

5:30-7:30        Dinner Break

7:30                 Performance:  James X  by Gerard Mannix Flynn

Saturday 27th April 2013

9:00-11:15

Pam Spees    ’Seeking justice through highter authorities: An update on the    filings to the international criminal and human rights bodies’

Marco Politi     ’The Vatican and the Abuse Scandal’

Bruce Arnold     ‘The Irish Gulag: How the State betrayed it’s innocent children’

11:15-11:30                Break

11:30-12:30               Breakout session one

12:30-2:00                 Lunch Break

2:00-4:15

Maeve Lewis       ”Ireland After the Clerical Abuse Reports: A Safer Place For Children?”

Sandra Fernau    ‘Sexual child abuse by Catholic priests – regarding the failure of a large scale research project and the persepectives for continuation of the victimological study’

Juan Carlos Cruz   ‘Experience in Chile: Violated as a child protecing others now’

BishopAccountability.org (Terry McKiernan, Anne Barrett Doyle)

4:15-4:30                    Break

4:30-5:30                   Breakout session two

5:30-7:30                   Dinner

7:30                            Social Activity

Sunday 28th April 2013

9:00-12:00

Patrick Wall              ‘Why the deafening silence?  Lessons from Irish Bishops that came to America: Manning, O’ Connell and Curry’

Fr. Tom Doyle           ‘Why the institutional Church does what it does – a look inside institutionalized narcissism’

International Panel Discussion – facilitated by Dave Beckwith

Leona Huggins – Canada

Badara Ndaw – Senegal

Juan Carlos Cruz – Chile

Fabio Herrera – Columbia

Barbara Dorris – United States

Barbara Blaine  ‘Grateful and inspired: Where do we go from here?

Friday, April 26: 1 PM – 10 PM.

1:00 – 3:00:
Colm O’Gorman
Patsy McGarry
3:00–3:30: Break
3:30—5:30:
Mari Steed
Paddy Doyle
Marie Collins

5:30-7:30: Dinner Break
7:30 Performance: “James X”

Saturday, April 27: 9:30 AM – 10 PM.

9:00-11:15:
Pam Spees
Marco Politi
Bruce Arnold
11:15-11:30: Break
11:30-12:30: Breakout session one
12:30-2:00: Lunch Break
2:00-4:15:
Maeve Lewis
Sandra Fernau
Juan Carlos Cruz
BishopAccountability.org (Terry McKiernan, Anne Barrett Doyle)
4:15-4:30: Break
4:30-5:30: Breakout session two
5:30-7:30: Dinner
7:30: Social Activity

Sunday, April 28: 9:00 AM – 12 Noon.

9:00-12:00

Patrick Wall
Jeff Anderson
Tom Doyle
International Panel

Barbara Blaine (SNAP – Survivors’ Network of Those Abused by Priests)

“Grateful and inspired: Where do we go from here?”

• Two major exhibitions and archive events are taking place in Limerick. Photographs taken by Franz Sebastian Haselbeck, which went on display at the Museum Hunt include pictures of Home Rule meetings, farmers’ demonstrations and meetings of volunteers leading up to the War of Independence.
  In another ceremony in Limerick yesterday, the diaries and photographs of Cecil Mercier, a former manager at Ranks Mills for over 40 years were presented to the Limerick City Archives. Limerick City Archivist, Jacqui Hayes, said it was an important addition to the city archives because Ranks Mills had such an impact on the economic and social development of Limerick.  Read more:
  http://tinyurl.com/3xme87j
  

• Corn Exchange Theatre Company are receiving sell out performances for their production of Freefall. Nothing new there you might rightly say. Well, these performances are in Mexico! Corn Exchange are taking part in the celebration of 200 years since Mexico’s independence and have set up residence in the city of Guanajuato. Reports so far from Corn Exchange say they are the first Irish company to perform in Mexico for forty years. Here is a video promo for Freefall.
  http://tinyurl.com/2wc4qm7
  
  http://www.cornexchange.ie/index.php
  

• This Saturday 16th October at 4pm the artist Gerard Mannix Flynn will give a talk about his work and practice at Dialogue Art Space, 43A Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ. Flynn’s talk will focus on the politics and culture of the ‘performance of inclusion’, a cause which he has championed through his art, his theatre and his work as a councillor. Always engaging and always powerful, Flynn commands his audience’s attention.
  http://tinyurl.com/35f5qwj
  

• The Abbey Theatre will tour to New York early next year when Frank McGuinness’s John Gabriel Borkman will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 12 Jan – 6 Feb 2011. McGuinness’s version of the cautionary tale by Henrik Ibsen is proving a huge success as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and is proving a huge point of interest for eager audiences at the Brooklyn Academy.
  http://tinyurl.com/2wyfvny
  

• Next week is Research Week at NUI Galway. Numerous events are taking place to mark this new event to promote new digital research resources and research and archive collection held by the NUIG James Hardiman Library and Archives. ARAN and RIAN are programmes that allow access to research at NUI Galway and a single portal for national research containing resources from the seven Irish universities and DIT. A series of talks and seminars are planned to help you maximise your research across all disciplines.

            
http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/support/supportforresearchers/researchweek/

• Irish Museum of modern Art (IMMA) will launch a new exhibition marking the contribution and works of Irish modernist artists and explore the development of modernity in Ireland through the visual arts in the period 1900 to 1975. Professor Luke Gibbons will hold a lecture to mark this event next Tuesday 19^th October at IMMA, Peripheral Visions: Rethinking Irish Modernism, which explores the transformations of visual culture in relation to Irish modernism and the Revival.
  http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_212281.htm
  

• A letter to The Irish Times this week highlighted the plight of the former residents of the Bethany Houses who suffered in these homes and suffered in their lives outside the homes. Exempt, like the Magdalene’s, from the 2002 Redress Board, a new resurgent call for all complete archives and records of these institutions and people be made available to scrutiny and research.

            
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2010/1014/1224281062031.html

• Finally, a national broadcaster has recently used a song as a backing track on a programme advertisement. The 1970 track, The Revolution will not be Televised by Gill Scott Heron is an aptly timed use of a powerful call to a people to stand up and be heard. An anthem certainly for our time and certainly worth a listen.