21st Gerard Manley Hopkins International Literary Festival

21st Hopkins Literary Festival
July 19 - 25, 2008
We've had a wonderful Celebration!

We have some of our 2008 Lectures already in the GM Hokins Online Archive
Check out some terrific Lectures from Hopkins Literary Festival 2008

Check out some of our 2008 Lectures here

We hope all our visitors had a pleasant trip home

Hopkins Monument Group
Visitors group around the James McKenna Hopkins Monument in Monasterevin

Our unique 2008 Youth Programme was bigger and better than ever! Check it out here

Each year, since 1987, scholars and lovers of Hopkins's poetry have come from all over the world to Monasterevin to celebrate the work and creativity of this great Victorian poet. Not to be missed!

22nd Gerard Manley Hopkins
International Literary Festival

July 25 - 31, 2009

(Still, the 'best literary festival in Ireland')

Call for Papers (before November 30, 2008)

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The best literary festival in Ireland (R .Welch Ed. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature)

Wow Events of 2008 Festival

Classical Music Concert in Moore Abbey Baronial Hall with leading Irish pianist, Míceál O'Rourke
The Maynooth Day (Sunday July 20, 2008), a real high-light, with Lectures, Guided Tours, Reception and finishing up with Banquet. See what was organised here.

Enjoying the NUI Maynooth Day

Traditional Irish Music Concert
Find out more about Camross Traditional Irish Music Group here

Multi-lingual Workshop under the able leadership of Aleksandra Kedzierska. Visitors from eleven different linguistic backgrounds analysed and deepened their understanding of a Hopkins poem, No Worst, there is none .... They brought unique cultural and linguistic insights to help achieve a better understanding of a great Hopkins poem. See some of the results of this deliberation here.
Poetry Readings daily including Vit Janota (Czech Republic); Li Li (China); Shizue Ogawa (Japan); David Axelrod (US); Peter Masters (Greece);Alan Riach (Scotland); Dragan Dragojlovic (Serbia); Kirsti Simonsuuri (Finland); Anatoly Kudriavitsky (Russia); Vicki Rhomberg (Austria) Brian Keenan; Michael O Conghaile; Diarmuid Johnson; Desmond Egan; Neil Donnelly; Ruairi Gough (Ireland) and more.
Check out our special Literature Programme for 2008

2008 Youth Programme

We are proud of our unique Youth Programme which runs parallel and interacts with the Hopkins International Literary Festival.

Check out our Youth Programme here