The Edward Worth Library 2025 Seminar Series
Unless otherwise stated, all lectures take place at
3.00pm in the Worth Library.
Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for lectures taking place in the Library itself please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie
27 March: Dr Jason McElligott (Director of Marsh’s Library, Dublin): ‘The libraries of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1684-1929’.
10 April: Dr Peter Murray Jones (University of Cambridge): ‘Friars and Healing in Fifteenth-Century York’. This is the joint Trinity College Dublin–Worth Library lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine and Science. Please note that it will be a hybrid lecture, taking place at 4.15 pm in the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre Seminar Room (Room PX2.1), 7-9 South Leinster St. Those wishing to register for the online lecture, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr Philippa Byrne: e-mail: phbyrne1@tcd.ie
7 May: Dr Cathy Scuffil (Dublin City Historian in Residence): ‘Rialto Buildings – the place and the people’. This is the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2025 series.
16 July: Professor Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews): ‘Bookselling. Writing the History of a Restless Trade’. This is the Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History.
26 September: Dr Priscilla Sonnier (University College Dublin): ‘“Of Her Charity”: The Visual and Material Legacy of Grizelda Steevens’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture.
9 October: Dr Brendan Twomey (Independent Scholar): ‘From Office-holding to Civil Service: managing the nation’s finances in eighteenth-century Ireland ‘. This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture.
29 October: Professor Pierce Grace (University of Limerick): ‘Medicine in medieval Ireland, 1200-1650’. This is the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History.