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TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND CARLOW COLLEGE
THE MICHAEL SLATTERY LECTURES, 2009
‘Irish Reputations’’
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Following on from the great success of last year’s lecture series, this year Trinity College Dublin and Carlow College are offering a new lecture series entitled ‘Irish Reputations’. The programme will consist of twelve evening lectures in Carlow College to be offered by members of the Departments of History, English, History of Art and Architecture at TCD and the Humanities Department at Carlow College.
This weekly series will re-visit a dozen iconic names in Irish history, literature and art, some with lustrous reputations, some notorious. This series of specially commissioned lectures is part of the new partnership between Trinity College Dublin and Carlow College. The speakers are all experts in their fields; several have published recent studies on the figures they will be scrutinizing. There will be an opportunity for discussion after each lecture, and a small reading assignment in preparation for each session.
The lectures will run on Tuesdays from 20 Jan. to 31 March (there will be no lecture on 17 March) with the final two sessions on 21 and 28 April 2009. The lectures will take place from 6.30-8.30 pm. The first hour will be a formal lecture. The second hour will be given over to a question and answer session. The fee for the series is 120 euro [10 euro for each two hour session], discounted to 90 euro [7.50 euro for each session] for unwaged, old age pensioners, etc. A season ticket to twelve lectures cost €100. All enquiries in relation to the course should be addressed to the Front Office at Carlow College (phone 059-9153200 or email infocc@carlowcollege.ie). The series is named after Michael Slattery who graduated from Trinity College in 1804 and became a student and professor in Carlow College, 1805-15. He was later Archbishop of Cashel and Emly.
The lecturers will include: Dr Micheal O Siochru, Dr Niav Gallagher,
Dr Sylvie Kleinman, Prof Ciaran Brady, Dr Patrick Geoghegan, Myles Dungan, Prof. David Dickson,
Dr David Butler, Dr James Heaney, Dr Yvonne Scott, Dr Derek Coyle
The lectures
- 20 Jan: Oliver Cromwell and Ireland
- 27 Jan: ‘The destroyer of all Erinn’: Edward Bruce in Ireland 1315-18
- 3 Feb: Wolfe Tone
- 10 Feb: Lecky v. Froude
- 17 Feb: Daniel O’Connell
- 24 Feb: Parnell and Captain O’ Shea
- 3 Mar: The first Arthur Guinness
- 10 Mar: James Joyce
- 24 Mar: Pádraig Pearse
- 31 Mar: Elizabeth Bowen
- 21 Apr. Jack B. Yeats
- 28 Apr. Seamus Heaney
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