Autumn Term 2019

Theme – Heaven and Hell

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday 17th Dr. Meave O Riordan
(UCC)
Women of the Country House in Ireland 1860-1914
Monday 23rd
David Milne
Kilkenny College
The golden age of polyphonic

OCTOBER

Tuesday 1st Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Archaeologist
Death in Medieval Kilkenny
Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th
Monday 14th &Tuesday 15th

Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd

28th & 29th Break

Mark Roper

CATCH-22, Joseph Heller.

Vintage Classic, ISBN 9780099529125.

Published 1961. The story of World War 2 bombardier Yossarian. Catch-22: if he flies, he is crazy, and so he doesn’t have to; but if he doesn’t want to, he is sane, and so …

NOVEMBER

Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th Mark Roper
TENTH OF DECEMBER, George Saunders.
Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781408894811.
Published 2013. A prize-winning collection of short stories from this funny, inventive, original American author
Monday 11th & Tuesday 12th

Monday 18th & Tuesday 19th

Mark Roper
TENTH OF DECEMBER, George Saunders.
Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781408894811.
Published 2013. A prize-winning collection of short stories from this funny, inventive, original American author
Monday 25th & Tuesday 26th Mark Roper
GHOSTS, John Banville.
Picador, ISBN9780330371858.
Published 1993. A party of castaways arrives on a sparsely populated island … One of the best novels by one of the greatest living authors.

DECEMBER

Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd

Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th

Mark Roper
GHOSTS, John Banville.
Picador, ISBN9780330371858.
Published 1993. A party of castaways arrives on a sparsely populated island … One of the best novels by one of the greatest living authors.
Thursday 12th Tony Patterson
Local historian and archivistChristmas Lunch