LECTURES 2020

Lectures and talks take place at 7.30pm in the Helen Roe Theatre, which is in the basement of Society House, 63 Merrion Square, unless otherwise indicated. All are welcome to attend.

23 January 2020
Rags, riches and recycling: material and visual culture of the Dublin Society 1731-1781
Dr Claudia Kinmonth, RIA

20 February 2020
Archaeological excavations at South Main Street, Cork: Hiberno-Norse to Beamish brewery
Dr Maurice F. Hurley, Archaeologist

26 March 2020
The annual Próinséas Ní Chatháin Lecture
Cnuasaigh de laoithe fiannaíochta i lámhscríbhinní iarchlasaiceacha na Gaeilge
Dr Síle Ní Mhurchú, UCC

23 April 2020
Saluting Ireland’s Antarctic explorers
Mr Michael Smith. author, polar historian & journalist

21 May 2020  Annual Helen Roe Lecture
Early Irish sculpture and the art of the high crosses
Prof. Roger Stalley, Fellow Emeritus, TCD

24 September 2020
Remembering Henry Joy
Prof. Jim Smyth, University of Notre Dame

22 October 2020 Annual Frank Mitchell Lecture
Forty years on: ‘The Irish Landscape’ revisited
Dr John Feehan, UCD

26 November 2020
Social life in Pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540
Dr Peadar Slattery, Historian, RSAI Member

10 December 2020
Investigating ancient foodways through environmental archaeology
Dr Meriel McClatchie, UCD