Previous Events in 2009-2010:

 

November 2009 – February 2010

 ANTIGONES & HUXLEYS;

BOOKS, MEDICAL HISTORY AND FREEDOM OF ENQUIRY

 

SEVEN LECTURES DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF

 

WILLIAM ELLIOTT MACKEY

(1924-1996)

 

RESEARCH LIBRARIAN, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

 

 

 

Lecture 1, ‘FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, FREEDOM OF INQUIRY’

Speaker: James Hamilton, Director of Public Prosecutions

Date: 18 November 2009, at 7.00pm:  Venue:Robert Emmet Lecture Theare, Arts Building, TCD; Chair: Dr Emer Lawlor (TCD, St James’s Hospital).

 

Lecture 2, ‘MARGARET HUXLEY (1856-1940), DUBLIN’S PIONEER OF  SCIENTIFIC NURSING’

Speaker: Susan McGann, Director of Archives, Royal College of Nursing. Date 25 November 2009 at 5.30pm.Venue: Newman House. Chair: Professor Mary E. Daly (UCD).

 

Lecture 3, ‘THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; SILVER DARLINGS; KING COD AND PROFESSOR HUXLEY IN 1883’

Speaker: Poul Holm, Director of the Long Room Hub, TCD. Date: 2 December 2009 at 7.00pm. Venue: Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD ; Chair: Desmond Dowling, (Department of the Environment).

 

 

SERIES TWO- February 2010

 

Lecture 4, ‘MEDICINE AND THE STATE: THE POOR LAW MEDICAL SERVICE IN IRELAND, 1851-1921’.

Speaker, Laurence Geary, Senior Lecturer in History, University College Cork. Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010 at 5.30pm. Venue: National Library; Chair: Dr Catherine Cox (UCD).

 

Lecture 5,‘DUBLIN’S FIRST ANTIGONES; FROM J-J BARTHÉLEMY (1795) TO HELEN FAUCIT (1845)’

Speaker: Fiona Macintosh, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. Date: Thursday 11 February 2010 at 5.30pm. Venue: Dr Steevens’s Hospital; Chair: Professor John Dillon (TCD).

 

Lecture 6, ‘LIBRARIES, READERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS’

Speaker: David McKitterick, Librarian, Trinity College Cambridge. Date: Wednesday 24 February at 5.30 pm. Venue: Dr Steevens’s Hospital; Chair: Dr Charles Benson (TCD).

 

Lecture 7, ‘SCHOLARSHIP AND SACRIFICE; CAN WE BANK ON A HUMANISTIC FUTURE?’

Speaker: W. J. Mc Cormack, Edward Worth Library. Date: 25 February, 2010 at 7.00pm. Venue: Robert Emmet Lecture Theare, Arts Building, TCD; Chair: Dr Eve Patten (TCD).

 

 

Co-ordinated by Bill Mc Cormack(for the Worth Library) and supported by The Long Room Hub (Trinity College, Dublin),the National Library of Ireland,   UniversityCollege Dublin,Irish Federation of University Teachers, and the Health Service Executive.

 

 

Previous Events in 2008:

A lunchtime lecture by the Librarian of the Worth Librarian, Prof. W. J. Mc Cormack, took place in the seminar room of the National Library on Friday 17th October at 1.00pm. The title of the lecture was follows: 'The Worth Library: What the researcher can expect.'

 

Previous Events in 2007:

 

International Conference on the History of Universities: 'Academic Mobility and Cultural Exchange', 25-26th October, 2007.

An international conference hosted by the International Commission for the History of Universities, Trinity College, Dublin, and the Edward Worth Library, was held in the Royal Irish Academy and the Worth Library on the 25th and 26th October, 2007. For the conference programme please click here.

Worth Books and Leonardo da Vinci

Six volumes from the Worth Library were included in a summer exhibition, in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, which celebrated the Codex Leicester, a notebook belonging to Leonardo Da Vinci containing notes on natural phenomena and technology. This exhibition was opened by the President of Ireland, her Excellency Mary McAleese, whose comments on the Worth loan and the exhibition as a whole may be found here.

Lectures

Dr. Elizabethanne Boran gave a paper on 'Science and Observation in the correspondence of James Ussher' at a colloquium on OBSERVATION IN EARLY MODERN LETTERS, 1500 – 1650 which was held at The Warburg Institute 29 - 30 June 2007. For further details click here.

Dr. Elizabethanne Boran gave a paper on 'Writing History in seventeenth-century Ireland: Dudley Loftus' Annals' at a conference to mark the 300th anniversary of the 1707 Act of Parliament establishing Marsh's Library. For further details of the conference, which was held in Marsh's Library, 18th-20th October, 2007, please click here.

Dr. Elizabethanne Boran gave a paper on 'Research in the Universities: The Historical Perspectives' at the International Conference: 'The Catholic University: Challenges of Yesterday and Today', Lisbon, 14-17th November, 2007. The programme of the conference may be found here. (Dr. Boran was asked to replace Professor Guy Neave's contribution).

Previous Events in 2006:

 

New appointment of Assistant Librarian

 

Dr. Elizabethanne Boran was appointed as Assistant Librarian in October, 2006. She is a specialist in the history of ideas in Early Modern Europe and teaches on the history of science and religion in Early Modern England. She is the editor of the correspondence of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (1625-56). See the Ussher Project here.