Spring Term 2022

Theme: Odd Ones Out

FEBRUARY

Tuesday 8th February
SPEAKER:
OLIVIA O’LEARY

TITLE: Seamus Heaney – Part of what we are

Monday 14th February
SPEAKER:
MICHAEL B. BARRY

TITLE: Fake news and the Irish War of Independence

Tuesday 22nd February
SPEAKER:
DAVID MILNE

TITLE: From Renaissance to Baroque

MARCH

Tuesday 1st March
SPEAKER:
DR. UNA KEALY AND AARON KENT

TITLE: Odd Women Out: Writing Against the Grain.  They will discuss and explore the dramatic works of Waterford playwrights Teresa Deevy (1896-1963) and Rosamond Jacob (1888-1960)

Monday 7th March
SPEAKER:
ANGELA KEOGH

TITLE: Strong Women – the lives of women in Medieval Ireland.

Monday 14th March
SPEAKER:
JOHN MACKENNA

TITLE: Comrades fill no glass for me: Stephen Foster

Monday 21st March
SPEAKER:
DR. JENNIFER KAVANAGH

TITLE: Women and the Irish Constitution

Tuesday 29th March
SPEAKER:
SARAH MAGUIRE HALE

TITLE: William Hogarth: Painter of Vision or Painter of Vulgarity.

APRIL

Tuesday 5th April
SPEAKER:
MICHAEL DOORLEY

TITLE: Imperialism and Decolonisation

Monday 25th April
SPEAKER:
DR. KATHRYN MILLIGAN

TITLE: Painting Dublin, 1886-1949: Ireland’s Urban Art History