Two Seán Doherty works premiered at National Famine Commemoration 2018 in UCC

UCC is honoured to host the National Famine Commemoration 2018. The state ceremony will take place on the Quadrangle, University College, Cork on Saturday, 12 May 2018.

The National Famine Commemoration will be attended by President Higgins and is hosted by An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, TD, on behalf of the Government.

The community programme will include performances by members of the Vanbrugh, Niall Vallely, Mary Mitchell-Ingoldsby, Bríd McGowan, Karan Casey and the Cork Penny Dinners/High Hopes Choir with the UCC Choir and UCC Choral Society. Composer Sean Doherty has composed two new works, Fr McCarthy’s Lament 1847 and Professor Boole’s Farewell. Professor Patrick O’Shea, President, UCC will read a poem collected in the US in ca. 1906, by Irish scholar and first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde recounting an emigrant’s forlorn trip from Galway to Baltimore, Maryland, USA. This manuscript is contained in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. The Lord Mayor of Cork and the Mayor of County Cork will also perform readings. Transition Year students from Coláiste Chriost Rí will display a project based upon the collections contained in the Cork Archives Institute. 

Further information on this event here.