Lectures
Future Lectures
19 April 2024 Professor Kirsten Schaffer -Antimicrobial Resistance
Earlier Lectures
February 2024 Professor Fran O'Rourke - Irish Poets and Greek Philosophers
Nov 2023 UCD President Orla Feely - "My UCD Journey"
Nov 2023 Professor Harry White - "Imagining Ireland Musically: Some Problems and Challenges
Sep 2023 Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty - "Expanding Agency: House Beautiful and the Dimension of Modern Architecture and Design"
May 2023 Professor Cormac Taylor - "Into Thin Air - How we survive when Oxygen drops"
Mar 2023 Professor Judith Devlin - "Russian Nationalism"
Mar 2023 Professor Owen Lewis "UCD - A Pioneer in Building Energy Research"
Oct 2022 Professor Joe Carthy - "Cybersecurity and Cyber Scams"
Oct 2022 Professor Michael Laffan - "The Irish Civil War"
Apr 2022 Professor Emeritus Fergus D'Arcy - "Leopardstown Racecourse"
Mar 2022 Professor Tom Bolger - "Biodiversity & Human Wellbeing"
Feb 2020 Professor Fran O'Rourke - "The Three Aristotles of James Joyce"
Nov 2019 Simon O'Connor - "Newly-opened MOLI on St. Stephen's Green"
May 2019 Professor Judith Devlin - "An Inevitable Failure? Russia's experiment with democracy"
Apr 2019 Professor Paula Murphy - "An American and not an Irish Statue"
Feb 2019 Vic Connerty - "Virgil and Me"
Nov 2018 Professor Margaret Kelleher - "The Maamtrasna Murders"
Sep 2018 Professor Michael Cuddy, NUIG - "China Revisited"
May 2018 Professor P.P. Walsh - "Universities & U.N. Sustainable Development Goals"
Apr 2018 Professor Emma Teeling - "Bats hold the Secret of Everlasting Youth"
Mar 2018 Professor Christine Casey, TCD - "Ornament & Craftmanship in Architecture"
Dec 2017 Professor Andrew Carpenter - Jonathan Swift
Oct 2017 Professor Eunan O’Halpin - Kevin Barry
May 2017 Professor Jerusha McCormack - “Ireland Through a Chinese Mirror”
Mar 2017 Dr. Diarmuid Ó Gráda - Georgian Dublin
Jan 2017 Professor Tom Garvin - “The Lives of Daniel Binchey, Irish Scholar, Diplomat and Public Intellectual”
Dec 2016 Professor Maurice Manning - “Professor Tom Kettle remembered on the 100th anniversary of his Death”
Oct 2016 Professor Howard Clarke - Maps & Texts in the Historic Towns Atlas
May 2016 Professor Alistair Rowan - St Bartholomew’s Clyde Road – Ireland’s Most Splendid Victorian Church
Mar 2016 Dr Conor Mulvagh - Defending Enemies – John Redmond & the Aftermath of the 1916 Rising
Jan 2016 Dr Matthew Jebb - The Extra-Ordinary World of Plants
Dec 2015 Professor Andrew Deeks - What it means to be a Global University
May 2015 Dr. John Feehan - The Burren: Flora and Archaeology
Mar 2015 Professor David Farrell - Why Political Reform is Important
Dec 2014 Professor Pat Shannon - Oil, Gas and Fracking
Oct 2014 Professor Desmond Swan - Psychology and Patrick Kavanagh's Poem 'The Great Hunger'
May 2014 Professor Aidan Moran - Staying Sharp: Practical Tips on Memory and Concentration