Spring Term 2024

JANUARY
Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th	Dr. James Heaney Completion of Zadie’s Novel White Teeth
Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th	Dr. James Heaney – Poetry WB Yeats
Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd	Dr. James Heaney – Poetry WB Yeats / Maya Angelou
Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th	Dr. James Heaney – Poetry – Maya Angelou
FEBRUARY
Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th	Dr. James Heaney – Novel This is Happiness **** Deferred until the Autumn term**
Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th	Dr. James Heaney – Novel This is Happiness ** Deferred until the Autumn term
Tuesday 20th	Patrick O’ Riordan “Ireland EU 50.”
Monday 26^th	Nessa O Mahony “Emptying the house and setting it Alight: How writers have been responding to the climate crisis.”
MARCH
Monday 4^th	Raymond Burke. “The life and music of Puccini and Gershwin: a Century of Opera and Jazz.”
Tuesday 12^th	Dr. Maxine Keoghan. “Irish links with Newfoundland.”
Wednesday 20^th	Annual Lunch – Rivercourt Hotel, The Bridge, John street. Nuala Hayes and Aoife Granville. “The stories of Peig Sayers: The queen of Irish storytelling”
	Easter Break
APRIL
Monday 8^th	Ray Taylor. “Humanitarian Aid in War Zones.”
Monday 15^th	John McKenna. “Learning the World: The words of Mary Chapin Carpenter and Gretchen Peters.”
Tuesday 23^rd	Sarah Maguire Hale. “Velazquez: What to paint when your world is small.”
Tuesday 30^th	Professor Jane Ohlmeyer. “Did Ireland have an Empire?”