Lectures
Future Lectures
Sprin 2025 - Some dates for your diary
Friday 28 March at 3:15pm in A105 Newman Building
Lecture entitled "European and US Conflict: The Road Ahead" by Professor Ben Tonra, School of Politics and International Relations
Earlier Lectures
November 2024 "Is It Wise To Change Your Health Insurance" by Dermot Goode of Total Health Cover
October 2024- Professor Paul Rouse, UCD School of History -“A Photographic History of Hurling”
September 2024- Dr Shane Bergin, UCD School of Education “Is there a Crisis of Trust in Science?”
April 2024 Professor Kirsten Schaffer - Antimicrobial Resistance
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