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IAHS Book Club "When All is Said" by Anne Griffin

  • 11/12/2020
  • 7:00 PM
  • Lower Lounge

Thank you to all who attended October’s Book club. Our Irish Authors book club meets the second Thursday of the month in the downstairs lounge.

We will meet on November 12 to discuss When all is said by Anne Griffin. This is the story of 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He’s alone, as usual ­- though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story. Over the course of this evening, he will raise five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him. Through these stories - of unspoken joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept hidden, a fierce love that never found its voice - the life of one man will be powerful and poignantly laid bare.

December Book Choices: We have 3 options for our December book club. Please read the descriptions below, and email apurcell-murray@sbcglobal.net with your choice.

My name is Bridget by Allison O’Reilly

In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls.

The secret scripture by Sebastian Barry

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates.

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

The novel opens on protagonist Hans van den Broek, a Dutch financial analyst living in London with his English wife Rachel, but quickly flashes back to the years Hans spent in New York City before and in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. At the beginning of the novel, Hans is preparing to return to Manhattan for the funeral of estranged friend Chuck Ramkissoon, who becomes the central figure of the novel.


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