Spring Term 2025

JANUARY
Monday 13th / Tuesday 14th January	Dr James Heaney Javier Cercas. Soldiers of Salimas
Monday 20th / Tuesday 21st January	Dr James Heaney Maggie O’Farrell. Hamnet
Monday 27th / Tuesday 28th January	Dr James Heaney Maggie O’Farrell. Hamnet
FEBRUARY
Tuesday 4th February	(Dr James Heaney no class Monday / Bank Holiday) Michael Coady Going by Water
10th/11th February	Dr James Heaney Michael Coady Going by Water Course Review
Tuesday 18th February	Prof Seamus O Mahony “The Way We Die Now” based on his award winning book
Tuesday 25th February	Blaise Smith R H A “An illustrated talk about making paintings in County Kilkenny for 25years”
MARCH
Monday 3rd March	Supreme Court Justice Peter Charleton “Truth and Fiction in Portraying a Historical Event : The Assassination of Reinhart Heydrick”
Tuesday 11th March	Catriona Crowe -Archivist and Author “Reflections on The Decade of Centenaries”
Tuesday 18th March	Patrick Mason – Director, Teacher and Writer “Attention must be paid: life in the rehearsal room”
Monday 24th March	Dr Oona Frawley – Writer and Lecturer “Recent Australian Extractivist Narratives”
APRIL
Tuesday 1st April	Nelofer Pazira Fisk – Director,Actress, Journalist and Author. “The Age of Chaos and the New World Order”
Wednesday 9th April Annual Liberal Studies Lunch – River Court Hotel	John McKenna “A Butcher’s Dozen Views of Home – thirteen writers in search of lodgings!”