Audio Resources

This is the eight lecture in the series ‘The Many Guises of European Catholicism,’ hosted by the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, and the Centre for European Studies at Lund University. And on the 25th of September - 2019, assistant Professor of the Loyola Institute (Dublin) Dr. Fainche Ryan, talked on the topic: ‘Consumerism replaces Christianity? The Case of Ireland.’

Prof. Deirdre Raftery delivered a lecture in the Loyola Institute lecture series March 27th 2019.

Deirdre Raftery is Professor of the history of education, at the School of Education, University College Dublin. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has held visiting fellowships at several universities, including the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A Fulbright Alumna, Deirdre has eleven book publications and has contributed to television and radio documentaries in Ireland and the UK. Her work on the history of women religious has won several awards (Irish Research Council; Ireland-Canada University Foundation; University of Notre Dame Hibernian Award). Her latest and much acclaimed book is Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy (written in association with Catriona Delaney and Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck).

The story of St Patrick banishing snakes for Ireland is fake according to our Director Dr Fáinche Ryan who was interviewed by RTE News at one about St Patrick in advance of St Patrick's Day