Presentations

All of the available presentations from the current and past summer schools are listed on this page. You can filter the results by year by clicking on the appropriate heading.

Ireland’s native flora – is it in crisis?

Presented by: Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington Title: “Ireland’s native flora – is it in crisis?” Botanist Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington is the current President of the Botanical Society of Britain…

Orla Parkinson Memorial Lecture

Presented by: Patricia Groves Presentation Title:  ‘Lessons from the Ladies’ Land League: Managing a country in crisis during global upheaval’. Trish Groves is a communications professional and author of ‘Petticoat…

Ireland’s Sarajevo

Presented by Ronan McGreevy – Title: Ireland’s Sarajevo: The assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP started the Irish Civil War and changed the course of Irish history. Why…

Orla Parkinson Memorial Lecture

Presented by Dr. Jackie Uí Chionna – Orla Parkinson Memorial Lecture – Title:“… Miss Ryan, she who in all probability, had I lived, would have been my wife”: Min Ryan,…

Irish Revolutionary Women

Dr Mary McAuliffe, Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at University College Dublin, delivers the inaugural Orla Parkinson Memorial Lecture 2019.