The Mackey Lectures
November 2009 – February 2010
Antigones & Huxleys;
Books, Medical History and Freedom of Inquiry
Seven lectures dedicated to the memory of William Elliott Mackey (1924-1996), Research Librarian at Trinity College Dublin
Co-ordinated by Bill Mc Cormack (for the Worth Library) and supported by The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin; the National Library of Ireland; University College Dublin; the Irish Federation of University Teachers; and the Health Service Executive.
SERIES ONE - November-December 2009
Lecture 1: ‘FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, FREEDOM OF INQUIRY’
Speaker: Mr James Hamilton, Director of Public Prosecutions
Date: 18 November 2009, 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
Venue: Robert Emmet Lecture Theare, Arts Building, TCD
Chair: Dr Emer Lawlor (TCD).
Lecture 2: ‘MARGARET HUXLEY (1856-1940), DUBLIN’S PIONEER OF SCIENTIFIC NURSING’
Speaker: Susan McGann, Director of Archives, Royal College of Nursing.
Date 25 November 2009 at 5.30pm.
Venue: Newman House.
Chair: Professor Mary E. Daly (UCD).
Lecture 3: ‘THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; SILVER DARLINGS; KING COD AND PROFESSOR HUXLEY IN 1883’
Speaker: Poul Holm, Director of the Long Room Hub, TCD.
Date: 2 December 2009. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
Venue: Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD.
Chair: Desmond Dowling, (Department of the Environment).
SERIES TWO - February 2010
Lecture 4: ‘MEDICINE AND THE STATE: THE POOR LAW MEDICAL SERVICE IN IRELAND, 1851-1921’.
Speaker, Dr Laurence Geary, Senior Lecturer in History, University College Cork.
Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010 at 5.30pm.
Venue: National Library of Ireland
Chair: Dr Catherine Cox (UCD).
Lecture 5: ‘DUBLIN’S FIRST ANTIGONES; FROM J-J BARTHÉLEMY (1795) TO HELEN FAUCIT (1845)’
Speaker: Fiona Macintosh, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.
Date: Thursday 11 February 2010 at 5.30pm.
Venue: Dr Steevens’s Hospital
Chair: Professor John Dillon (TCD).
Lecture 6: ‘LIBRARIES, READERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS’
Speaker: David McKitterick, Librarian, Trinity College Cambridge.
Date: Wednesday 24 February at 5.30 pm.
Venue: Dr Steevens’s Hospital.
Chair: Dr Charles Benson (TCD).
Lecture 7: ‘SCHOLARSHIP AND SACRIFICE; CAN WE BANK ON A HUMANISTIC FUTURE?’
Speaker: W. J. Mc Cormack, Edward Worth Library.
Date: 25 February, 2010 at 7.00pm.
Venue: Robert Emmet Lecture Theare, Arts Building, TCD.
Chair: Dr Eve Patten (TCD).
Biography of William Elliott Mackey
Notes on the participants in this lecture series
Funding Bodies
