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Irish American Ferriters

Friday, April 13 10:10 AM - 12:05 PM at The Blasket Centre

Michele Farritor McMurray:  Irish Emigration Experience
“To The Waters And The Wild” will highlight the causes, challenges, and social struggles that Irish Emigrants to North America faced; profiling stories of Ferriters and other Dingle emigrants.

Ten Minute Break

George Ferriter:  The Story of a Bad Boy:  An Immigrant Tale of Hardship.  insight into what it took for everything to have gone wrong in the life of an Irish American who turned to crime.  George Ferriter will explore what we can learn from this story.

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2012 Gathering Sessions

• Wednesday

• Registration
• Dinner and Lore

• Thursday

• An Irish and American Welcome
• The Early Ferriters
• Settlement on the Blaskets with Reference to the Ferriters
• The Poetry of Piaras Ferriter
• Castle Walks Day One
• Thursday Craic Night

• Friday

• Finding Irish Roots Under American Trees
• Irish American Ferriters
• Keynote Address
• Castle Walks Day Two
• Ferriter Art Expo

• Saturday

• Final Gathering and Walk