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For our next Loyola Lecture we are delighted to welcome Prof. Deirdre Raftery, Professor of the history of education at UCD, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Prof. Raftery is author of Nano Nagle; the Life and the Legacy (2018). Deirdre Raftery was Fulbright Scholar in the Humanities (2015-2016), at Boston College and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford in 2010. She is a Life Member of the University of Cambridge. We look forward with great interest to the opportunities for research and innovation Deirdre will share with us.

Lots going on at the Loyola Institute – read the Winter Newsletter to get a flavour of our activities.

Please see the Tablet Journal for the latest article from Prof. Ryan. Also available is a free, online course, developed by academics from Trinity College Dublin including the Loyola Institute Director, Fáinche Ryan. Learners on the four week long course will explore the art, theology and materiality of the manuscript and the meanings that it holds. The course will commence on March 19, 2019. Register at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/book-of-kells/1

Join us to learn more about the Loyola Institute - degrees, short courses and evening lectures - followed by a wine reception. The evening will include a short lecture on Fake News – Why Truth Matters by Dr Fáinche Ryan, Director of the Loyola Institute.

Conor McDonough lead us in a very stimulating, and interesting seminar on John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas: Christ”s headship of the Church