The Friends of the Library – Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce their next lecture. Admission is €5 (Members & Concessions €2.50). All welcome!
Charles Lysaght & Alyson Gavin
19:30, Thursday 19 February 2015
Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
on “Irish Scholars at Cambridge. The Strange Story of the Gardiner Scholarship”
At Cambridge, Charles Lysaght, barrister and biographer, held the Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship, which is open only to students and graduates of Irish universities with preference given to those from Trinity, gifted students of literature and descendants of Irish landed proprietors.
Alyson Gavin took her moderatorship in Russian and Spanish at Trinity and now works for the Labour Relations Commission. She has a diploma in genealogy from UCD.