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April's Climate Café Book Club: Birnam Wood

03/05/2026

Greg Sheaf

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Join the Library and Dr Clare Kelly for a special Climate Café Book Club Collaboration on Thursday 2nd April, 2-4pm in the North Training Room of the Eavan Boland Library.

We will be discussing Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton's nail-biting satirical eco thriller, Birnam Wood. Joined by UCD Professor of English, Adam Kelly, our conversation will connect with the book's themes of ecological activism, power, morality, and what exactly we should do with those billionaires.

The book is an engrossing and quick read. It's strongly recommended that you finish it before the meeting, since the discussion will inevitably contain spoilers!

There are print and e copies in the Library, and it is widely available in paperback and audiobook.

This is an in-person café and is open to all members of the College community: students, staff - professional, research, academic, so please spread the word.

Featured image - The Birnam Oak, W. L. Tarbert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.