To Begin and Begin Again

Are you a Middle-aged Adventurer with a Passion for the Creative Arts?

The overall aim of this workshop series is to promote a creative engagement with the possibility of new beginnings and to open up a path through participants accumulated experience, knowledge, habit and inertia to new approaches to beginning and being in the moment.

Our exploration will be grounded in philosophical thinking, mainly from the western tradition and creative writing, in particular Irish fiction and memoir which documents and captures the Irish experience of socio-cultural identity construction. While the sessions will use these as discussion reference points, the course will seek to engage widely with many different and diverse cultural reference points, provided by the facilitator and the group.

All welcome.

Biog

Tomás Lally is a philosopher and writer. He graduated from the University of Galway in June 2024 with a practice-based PhD in English and Philosophy. His PhD project involved the completion of a philosophy thesis on the origins of human subjectivity and a novel on the theme of beginning again. He has presented academic papers at international conferences across Europe and has written a number of chapters /articles for academic books and journals. He previously tutored in Philosophy and English at the University of Galway and has presented and facilitated philosophy courses for adults. He has a passion for making philosophy accessible to everyone.

“Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin”. Brendan Kennelly