2016-2017
13 October 2016
Michael Twomey with Linda Kenny and Alan Carney - ‘The Way We Were in 1916: a musical journey through the lives of the ordinary people of one hundred years ago’.
20 October
Dr. Kieran Hickey - ‘The natural and cultural history of wolves in Ireland.’
27 October
Michael Smith - ‘Ernest Shackleton – Ireland’s Greatest Explorer’.
3 November
Michael Lenihan - ‘Aspects of Cork Printing 1750-1900’.
10 November
David Edwards - ‘My Exploding World’.
17 November
David Creedon - ‘Ghosts of the Faithful Departed’.
24 November
Dr. Peter Deller - ‘Kevan Izod Leslie: a Cork Officer in Wellington’s Army’.
1 December
Chris Ramsden - ‘A Day in the Life of the Monard Spade Mills’.
12 January 2017
Jasper Winn - ‘The Water Roads - following Britain's canals afoot and afloat’.
19 January
Canon George Salter - interesting aspects of the West Limerick area.
26 January
Rachel Abraham - ‘Remembering Sgt. Myles Abraham DCM MM’.
2 February
Declan Hassett - ‘A Man for All Reasons’.
9 February
Dr. Mary Breen, - ‘The many pleasures of reading Molly Keane's novel Good Behaviour’.
16 February
John Pilkington - ‘Russia and Europe – what next?’
23 February
Prof. Des MacHale - ’Ripples in the Quiet Man’.
2 March
Mark Davies - ‘From Alice to Zuleika: a Literary Tour (with Irish diversion) of ‘river-rounded’ Oxford.’
2015-2016
15 October 2015
Tim O’Brien - ‘The River Lee hydroelectric scheme and St. Ann’s Hydro, Blarney’.
22 October
Godfrey Graham - ‘Seán Ó Faoláin’.
29 October
Canon George Salter - ‘Lough Derg and the historic city of Limerick’.
5 November
David Edwards - ‘Montserrat: Snake Hunting under the Volcano’.
12 November
David Creedon - ‘Behind Open Doors’.
19 November
Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon - ‘Shakespeare: The Man and the Works’.
26 November
Tim Severin - ‘The Sindbad Voyage’.
3 December
Dr. John Barrett - ‘The Internet of Things – a New Industrial Revolution?’
14 January 2016
Gerry White - ‘Order, Counter-order and Disorder – Cork and the 1916 Rising’.
21 January
Dr. Connie Kelleher - ‘From Spanish Armada Wrecks to Pirate Ships: The Work of the State Underwater Archaeology Unit’.
28 January
Shane Lehane - ‘The Irish Folk Year: New Perspectives on Irish Traditional Calendar Custom and Ritual.’
4 February
Professor Des MacHale - ‘Sherlock Holmes, James Moriarty and George Boole’.
11 February
Michael Twomey - ‘When Moby Dick came to Youghal’.
18 February
Keith Holmes - ‘Camera in the Cotswolds’.
25 February
Jim Fitzgibbon - ‘The First Nations and others’.
3 March
Dr. Alicia St. Leger - ‘Adam Buck: A Regency Artist from Cork’.
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2014-2015
16 October 2014
Dr. Bozena Cierlik - ‘God’s playground: Poland and East Central Europe’.
23 October
Prof. Rorke Bryan - ‘Antarctica Then and Now: The Legacy of Shackleton’.
30 October
Dr. Steven O’Connor - ‘Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45’.
6 November
Denis MacSweeney - ‘Henry Ford: The Cork Connection’.
13 November
Dr. Clíona O’Carroll - ‘Life, livelihoods and social history in Cork from the 1930s: an introduction to the audio archives of the Cork Folklore Project’.
20 November
Michael Loftus - ‘Engagement between Higher Education and Industry - Trends and Opportunities’.
27 November
Dr. John L. Quinn - ‘Studying Intelligence and Personality in Birds’.
4 December
Louise Harrington - 'Daniel Levie (1875-1963) : A Scottish Architect in Cork’.
15 January 2015
Jasper Winn - ‘The Art and Rewards of Slow Adventure’.
22 January
Darren Reidy - ‘The world’s first Green Flag university: journeys in creating UCC’s green campus’.
29 January
Helen Dillon - ‘Gardening’.
5 February
Canon George Salter - ‘Clonmacnoise: the bedrock of Christianity …. and other places.’
12 February
Paddy O’Sullivan - ‘The Forgotten Copper mines of West Carbery’.
19 February
John Pilkington - ‘A Balkan Adventure’.
26 February
Declan Hassett - ‘Hidden Heroines’.
5 March
Felicity Aston, - ‘Pole of Cold’.
2013-2014
17 October 2013
Dr. Paddy Sleeman - ‘Cork’s Otters, Badgers and Ireland’s Biodiversity’.
24 October
Dr. Mary Breen - ‘The Pleasures of Reading Jane Austen’.
31 October
Peter Murray - ‘Realism and Genre in nineteenth century Irish Art’.
7 November
James Cronin - ‘Exotic Envoy: a representation of race in a forge of empire’.
14 November
John Hooton - ‘Gathering Light on the Dingle Coast’.
21 November
Captain William Wells - ‘The Vikings’.
28 November
Dr. Connie Kelleher - ‘Piracy in early seventeenth century south-west Munster: Sea Sharkers and Land Pirates’.
5 December
Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil - ‘The Early Years of Beamish and Crawford – Merchant Princes to Brewers’.
16 January 2014
Gerry White - ‘The Victoria Cross and Cork VCs of the Great War’.
23 January
Frances McCarthy - ‘Solar System Astronomy’.
30 January
Canon George Salter - ‘Sunny South East: our Great Heritage’.
6 February
Daithi Fallon - ‘Innovative Trends in Biomedical Devices’.
13 February
David Edwards - ‘New Zealand – land of wonder’.
20 February
Michael Twomey - ‘John B. and me’.
27 February
Keith Holmes - ‘A Taste of Cornwall’.
6 March
Jim Fitzgibbon - ‘Darwin Revealed’.
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