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Henry Grattan Lecture - British and Irish Relations with a Changing EU

  • Speaker: Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament, Charles Grant, Director of The Centre for European Reform and Antoin E. Murphy, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin 

  • Date: Thursday 2 May 2013 from 6.30 to 8.00pm

  • Venue: Embassy of Ireland, London

Grattan Lecture London

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the UK Trust for TCD it was possible to host a Henry Grattan Lecture outside of Dublin for the first time. Trinity College Dublin would also like to acknowledge the invaluable support and assistance of the Embassy of Ireland in London in organising and hosting this event.
The inaugural London lecture in the Henry Grattan Series addressed the very different relationships with the EU that Britain and Ireland have pursued since membership over forty years ago.  Ireland's decision to adopt the euro was a decisive moment in these contrasting evolutions of policy.  The speakers also explored the equally significant change a British withdrawal from the EU could represent, were it ever to occur, in the relationship between Britain and Ireland resulting from membership of the EU.
The evening was opened the Ambassador of Ireland, Mr Bobby McDonagh and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Prof James Wickham. Charles Grant, Director of The Centre for European Reform chaired the proceedings.

Presentations

Speaker Biographies

     

    Pat Cox

    Pat Cox
    Pat Cox graduated and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. He has worked as an academic with the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin and the National Institute for Higher Education, now the University of Limerick and as a current affairs broadcaster with RTE. He was the first general secretary of the Progressive Democrats, elected three times to the European Parliament, twice there to the presidency of the Liberal Democrat Group and once to Dáil Eireann. He served a term as President of the European Parliament. Subsequently he was twice elected to the presidency of the European Movement International.
    Today he is engaged in a diverse portfolio of pro bono activities in the education and ageing fields, co-ordinates a major transport project for the EU, serves on a number of advisory boards and is a special European representative on selective justice issues in Ukraine.


    Charles Grant

    Charles Grant
    Charles Grant is Director of the Centre for European Reform, which he helped to set up in 1996.  The Centre for European Reform is an independent think-tank that is dedicated to promoting a reform agenda within the European Union.
    Charles Grant worked for Euromoney and The Economist in London and Brussels.  His biography of Jacques Delors - 'Inside the house that Jacques built' - was published by Nicolas Brealey in 1994.
    He was a director and trustee of the British Council from 2002 to 2008. He is a member of the international advisory boards of the Moscow School of Political Studies, the Turkish think-tank EDAM and the French think-tank Terra Nova. He is chairman of the Ditchley Foundation's programme committee. In 2004 he became a chevalier of France’s Ordre Nationale du Mérite, and in 2013 a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) "for services to European and wider international policy-making". His most recent CER report was on the impact of Russia and China on global governance. Charles is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune and many other publications.

     

    Antoin E. Murphy

    Antoin Murphy
    Antoin E. Murphy is a retired Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, the Institut d’Etude Démographiques in Paris, the Hoover Institution and the Department of Economics at Stanford University.
    He is a joint managing editor of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. In 2001, the European Society of the History of Economic Thought awarded him the Jerome Blanqui prize for his editing of Du Tot Histoire du Systeme de John Law (1716-1720) published by I.N.E.D./P.U.F., Paris 2000.
    His books include the following Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist (Oxford University Press, 1986); John Law's Essay on a Land Bank (Aeon Publishing, Dublin, 1994); John Law: Economic Theorist and Policymaker (Oxford University Press, 1997); The Genesis of Macroeconomics (Oxford University Press, 2009). His latest book, co-authored with Donal Donovan, The Fall of the Celtic Tiger: Ireland and the Euro Debt Crisis will be published by Oxford University Press in May.

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