Upcoming events

Tuesday 14^th February
No sex please, we’re Irish
Though the politician Oliver J. Flanagan insisted that there was no sex in Ireland before television, Diarmaid Ferriter, author of the ground-breaking ‘Occasions of Sin’, proves otherwise in an eye-opening examination of Modern Ireland’s complex attitude towards the birds and the bees.

Thursday 15^th March
Catholicism on Show: the 1932 Eucharistic Congress
In advance of the return of the Eucharistic Congress to Ireland, NCAD Lecturer in Design and Material Culture Dr. Lisa Godson discusses performing, displaying and showing off at the 1932 Congress in a fascinating look at the visual spectacle of Irish Catholicism.

Thursday 29th March
Dublin One Hundred Years Ago
To celebrate the choice of ‘Dubliners’ for One City, One Book 2012, Catriona Crowe of the National Archives revisits Dublin at the beginning of the last century.  Census forms, photographs, newspaper articles and advertisements bring the period back to life in what promises to be a fascinating lecture.

(click here for the full Dublin Lectures programme for 2012)