Lectures
Upcoming Lectures
2024
10 October 2024
Industrial archaeologist Dr. Colin Rynne will provide a presentation on the topical subject of ‘R. & H. Hall’s silos and the industrial archaeology of Cork’s docklands.’
17 October 2024
Dr. Connie Kelleher, Senior Archaeologist with the National Monuments Service, will explore
‘Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Site – a maritime world within the wide Atlantic’.
24 October 2024 – no lecture due to Jazz Festival events held at the hotel.
31 October 2024
Maritime author Cormac Lowth will examine the story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in
his talk ‘A History of the R.N.L.I. in Ireland: Celebrating 200 Years.’
7 November 2024
Dr. James Rohan, Principal Scientist at the Tyndall National Institute, will discuss a very relevant
topic in ‘Electricity – from Volta to modern EVs and clean energy’.
14 November 2024
‘Telling stories about trees: the science and culture of Ireland’s tree collections’ is the subject of the
presentation by Dr. Eoin Lettice, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC.
21 November 2024
Writer and director Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon looks at a key event in the history of Cork in ‘Facts, Fictions
and Families: songs for a burning city and the challenge of writing a historical novel.’
28 November 2024
The rich history of an island in Cork harbour will be described by author John Crotty in ‘Spike
Island – Military, Monastic and Penal legend’.
2025
16 January 2025
‘Lessons in Resilience with the Iberian Wolf: Tales from the Spanish Countryside’ is the title of the
presentation by Emma Dennehy.
23 January 2025
Jim Wilson and Mark Carmody will talk on ‘Birds of Ireland – A Field Guide’, focussing on their
best selling photo identification guide to the birds of Ireland and the story of how it came about.
30 January 2025
Dr. Michael Waldron, Crawford Art Gallery, will examine the lives of a celebrated author and a
pioneering artist in ‘The same burning wish: Elizabeth Bowen, Mainie Jellett, and Irish
Modernism’.
6 February 2025
Military historian and author Gerry White continues his Civil War trilogy in ‘From Treaty to
Turmoil’.
13 February 2025
Kevin Kenny, Shackleton Museum, Athy, will give an overview of the life of a renowned figure in
‘Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer: “…get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton”’.
20 February 2025
Dr. Michael Nolan, Tyndall Head of Group and Interim Chief Scientist, will examine ‘Why Carl
Sagan was Right: Fighting Back Against the Pseudoscientific Bamboozle’.
27 February 2025
The story of the UC-42 German submarine which sank off Cork harbour in 1917 and the recent
recovery of a propeller will be told by Julianna O’Donoghue (Mizen Archaeology) and Timmy Carey (Blackwater Sub Aqua Club).
6 March 2025
Dr. James Cronin, College Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Enhancement, UCC, will explore
‘The politics of erasure: Lehmann James Oppenheimer and the Honan Chapel, Cork’.
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