Kathryn G recommends this course, presented by the Bernard Osher Lifelong Learning Institute:

For a small country with a long, sad history of oppression and repression, Ireland has produced an astonishing number of great writers. In this 12-week course we’ll read and discuss six works of fiction. Four are recent, critically acclaimed novels, but first we’ll consider two classics that are central to the modern Irish tradition - James Joyce’s 1914 short story collection Dubliners and Edna O’Brien’s 1960 novel The Country Girls. The other works for this course are: Love and Summer by William Trevor (2000), Nora Webster by Colm Toibin(2015), The Green Road by Anne Enright (2015), A novel to be selected from works by John Banville, Molly Keane, John McGahern, or Sally Rooney. During class sessions between book discussions, we’ll watch a classic Irish film, drawn from the likes of Man of Aran, The Quiet Man, Young Cassidy, The Commitments, The Dead, Bloody Sunday, Michael Collins, and The Magdalene Sisters.