A Building to save Bodies and Books

Monday 22 September, 2008: A conference to mark the 275th anniversary of the Foundation of Dr. Steevens' Hospital and the Edward Worth Library.

The 2008 Worth Library Seminar Series

Friday, 25th January

Dr. Marie Coleman, Queen's University, Belfast.

'The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake abd the Dublin Voluntary Hospitals, 1930-1987'

Chair: Mr. Kieran Hickey.

Friday, 25th April

Professor Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, University of London

'Robert Boyle and the Uses of Print'

Friday, 9th May

Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of the Ligatus Research Unit of the University of the Arts, London

'Looking under the Covers: Book Bindings in the Edward Worth Library

The 2007 Worth Library Seminar Series

Friday 26 January
 Dr James Kelly (Saint Patrick’s College, Drumcondra):
‘I was right glad to be rid of it.’: Dental Medical Practice in
18th century Ireland.
Chair:  Dr Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)

Friday 23 February
Dr Toby Barnard (Hertford College, Oxford)
Learning from Books in the Early Eighteenth-Century
Chair: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)

Friday 23 March
Dr Magdalene Kozluk (University of Lodz, Poland):
Ancient Medicine in the Edward Worth Library: Introducing
an Exhibition (delivered in French)
Chair: Dr Sylvie Kleinman (Dictionary of Irish Biography)

Friday 27 April
Dr Julia Walworth (Merton College, Oxford)
Merton College and its Books During Edward Worth’s Undergraduate Years
Chair: Dr Bill Mc Cormack (Edward Worth Library)

Friday 25 May

Professor Graham Parry (university of York, retired) author of The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour (Woodbridge, 2006)

'Sir James Ware (1594-1666) Revisited'.

Chair: Dr. Elizabethanne Boran (The Edward Worth Library, Dublin)

Wednesday 21st November

Joseph Plunkett 1887-1916: Poet and Patriot.

A Seminar to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Joseph Plunkett's birth will be held in Dr. Steevens' Hospital, Dublin at 7.00pm.

Speakers: Carla King, Honor O'Brolchain, Bill McCormack and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain.

The 2006 Worth Library Seminar Series

French Books and Irish Research

A one-day seminar on French Books and Irish Research was held on the 18th December, 2006. This was accompanied by a related exhibition on French Book bindings.

PROGRAMME

9.30 - 10.00am:  Registration and Welcome.

10.00am: Dr Charles Benson, Keeper of Early Printed Books, Trinity College Dublin:ACQUISITIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH.
Moderator: Dr Maire Kennedy, Dublin City Library.

11.00am: Coffee.

11.30am: Professor Pierre Aquilon, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, François Rabelais Université, Tours: - INCUNABLES
Moderator: Dr Sylvie Kleinman, Dictionary of Irish Biography.

12.30-2.00pm BREAK FOR LUNCH (not included).

2.00pm: Dr Kathleen Shields, Department of French, National University of Ireland, Maynooth: - FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCES AT THE WORTH.
Moderator: Dr Marion Lyons, Saint Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.

3.00-3.15pm: Technical Intermission

3.15pm: Professor Jean-Paul Pittion, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance: - PARISIAN TITLE-PAGES IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Moderator: Dr Derval Conroy, University College Dublin.

4.15pm: Round Table and Open Discussion (in the chair Dr Kleinman)
5.00-6.00pm: Wine Reception Hosted by the French Cultural Service.

CONVENORS: W. J. Mc Cormack (Librarian-in-charge, and Elizabethanne Boran (Assistant Librarian).