Sociology researchers secured two major European Research Council grants in a single academic year. Economics marked forty years of the Student Economic Review and took its research straight to the Oireachtas. Philosophy welcomed Oxford's Ruth Chang for the Donnellan Lectures and asked why time only runs in one direction. And in London, UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher delivered the 2026 Henry Grattan Lecture, moderated by Professor Gail McElroy of the Department of Political Science.

As Professor O'Grady writes in his welcome to this year's edition, Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the EU puts the School in a strong position to shape the conversation on Europe's future, a thread that runs through this year's newsletter and into the autumn public lecture series.

Four departments, one busy year, all captured inside.

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