Trinity College Dublin

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UPCOMING EVENTS
Dante’s Passionate Intellect: The Divine Comedy’s Journey of Desire
Nov 20
Dante’s Passionate Intellect: The Divine Comedy’s Journey of Desire

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. George Corbett (University of St. Andrews)

Location TBA

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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PAST EVENTS
Flirting with Happiness: Aquinas on the Good Life
Oct 23
Flirting with Happiness: Aquinas on the Good Life

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Alan O’Sullivan, O.P. (Trinity College Dublin)

Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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The Measure of All Things: Aquinas on Truth in Nature, Thought, and Art
Sep 18
The Measure of All Things: Aquinas on Truth in Nature, Thought, and Art

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P. (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas)

JM Synge Lecture Theatre, Trinity Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Aquinas & Liturgical Tradition | An Intellectual Retreat for Ireland
Jun 17
Aquinas & Liturgical Tradition | An Intellectual Retreat for Ireland

Glencomeragh House | Co. Tipperary, Ireland

With Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) and Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. (Univeristy of Galway)

For current university students in Ireland

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Causal Reasoning and God's Existence
Apr 9
Causal Reasoning and God's Existence

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Gaven Kerr (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth)

Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre (Room 2043 in Trinity Arts Block)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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What Can an Adulteress Teach Us about Happiness?: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina & the Project of Literature
Mar 11
What Can an Adulteress Teach Us about Happiness?: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina & the Project of Literature

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P. (Aquinas College)

Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre (Room 2037 in Trinity Arts Block)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Rebuilding Civilization: Irish-American Catholic Humanitarianism, 1943–1958
Feb 20
Rebuilding Civilization: Irish-American Catholic Humanitarianism, 1943–1958

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Patrick Houlihan (Trinity College Dublin)

Thomas Davis Theatre (Room 2043 in the Arts Block)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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My Flesh Indeed: On the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
Nov 13
My Flesh Indeed: On the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception)

Location TBD

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Is Faith Rational?
Oct 30
Is Faith Rational?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception)

Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Should Catholics run (away) from secular politics?
Oct 10
Should Catholics run (away) from secular politics?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. John Harris, O.P.

Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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How to Live a Happy Life | An Intellectual Retreat for Ireland
Jul 3
How to Live a Happy Life | An Intellectual Retreat for Ireland

Glencomeragh House | Co. Tipperary, Ireland

With Fr. Michael Sherwin, O.P. (Angelicum) and Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P. (Angelicum)

For current university students in Ireland

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Do We Need Marian Apparitions?
Apr 25
Do We Need Marian Apparitions?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception)

Edmund Burke Theatre (Room 1008 in the Arts Block)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Christ vs. Secularism: The Ethics of the Day
Feb 23
Christ vs. Secularism: The Ethics of the Day

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Ezra Sullivan, O.P. (Angelicum)

JM Synge Theatre

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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God and Suffering: How Could a Good God Allow Evil?
Jan 25
God and Suffering: How Could a Good God Allow Evil?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Rik Van Nieuwenhove (Durham University)

Location TBD

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Should I Believe that Jesus is God?
Nov 30
Should I Believe that Jesus is God?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P.

Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Friendship with God | An Intellectual Retreat
Nov 3
Friendship with God | An Intellectual Retreat

The Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.

With Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. (Catholic University of America) and Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies)

For current university students

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Rethinking Economic Equality: A Thomistic Perspective
Oct 19
Rethinking Economic Equality: A Thomistic Perspective

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Mary Hirschfeld (University of Notre Dame)

Uí Chadain Theatre (Room 2041B) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Georges Lemaître: The Catholic Priest Who Proposed the Big Bang Theory
Oct 4
Georges Lemaître: The Catholic Priest Who Proposed the Big Bang Theory

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Jonathan Lunine (Cornell University)

Uí Chadain Theatre (Room 2041B) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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The Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas | An Intellectual Retreat for Ireland
Jun 16
The Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas | An Intellectual Retreat for Ireland

Glencomeragh House | Co. Tipperary, Ireland

With Prof. Adam Eitel (Yale Divinity School); Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Dublin); and Fr. Alan O’Sullivan, O.P. (Trinity College, Dublin)

For current university students in Ireland

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Does God Exist?
Mar 29
Does God Exist?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Gaven Kerr (St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth)

Ui Chadhain Theatre in the Arts Block (Room 2041B)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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RESCHEDULED | Rethinking Economic Equality: A Thomistic Perspective
Mar 15
RESCHEDULED | Rethinking Economic Equality: A Thomistic Perspective

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Mary Hirschfeld (University of Notre Dame)

Ui Chadhain Theatre in the Arts Block (Room 2041B)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Does God Create Through Evolution? Thomas Aquinas and Species Transformism
Feb 16
Does God Create Through Evolution? Thomas Aquinas and Species Transformism

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P. (Thomistic Institute at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome)

Uí Chadain Theatre (Room 2041B) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Fire in the Head: Paganism in Irish Christianity
Jan 26
Fire in the Head: Paganism in Irish Christianity

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Dublin)

Uí Chadain Theatre (Room 2041B) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Does Tradition Live? Do Doctrines ‘Develop’?
Nov 17
Does Tradition Live? Do Doctrines ‘Develop’?

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Lewis Ayres (Durham University)

Uí Chadain Theatre (Room 2041B) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Woman: A Man-Made Artifact or a Divine Creation? Two Feminisms, Two Anthropologies
Oct 12
Woman: A Man-Made Artifact or a Divine Creation? Two Feminisms, Two Anthropologies

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Michele Schumacher (University of Fribourg)

'Uí Chadain' theatre (Room 2041B) in the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Was Galileo a Heretic? The Galileo Affair with the Church and Why It Still Matters Today
Sep 27
Was Galileo a Heretic? The Galileo Affair with the Church and Why It Still Matters Today

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Dr. Nuno Castel-Branco (Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)

Swift Theatre room 2041A of the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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The Friars' Tales: Dominican and Franciscan Storytelling in the Middle Ages
Mar 23
The Friars' Tales: Dominican and Franciscan Storytelling in the Middle Ages

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Dublin)

2041B, Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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The Perennial Importance of Plato
Mar 3
The Perennial Importance of Plato

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Dr. John Rist (Emeritus, University of Toronto)

Location TBD

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Samuel Beckett & Christianity
Nov 30
Samuel Beckett & Christianity

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Prof. Erik Tonning (University of Bergen)

4050B of the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Creation and the Origin of the Universe
Nov 11
The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Creation and the Origin of the Universe

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Dr. William Carroll (Oxford University)

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Aquinas and John Paul II on Human Action: Passions, Self-Determination, and the Will
Apr 15
Aquinas and John Paul II on Human Action: Passions, Self-Determination, and the Will

Trinity College Dublin

A lecture by Fr. Alan O’Sullivan, O.P. (Trinity College Dublin, Chaplain)

Zoom

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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OTHER EVENTS

Featured
Virtuous Friendship | Intellectual Retreat
Oct 24
Virtuous Friendship | Intellectual Retreat

Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.

An Intellectual Retreat for current university students from Duke, UNC, and NCSU.

With Prof. W. Scott Cleveland (University of Mary) and Sr. Mary Ignatius Nesbit, O.P. (Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist)

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Who Am I? The Catholic Answer to the Crisis of Meaning
Oct 27
Who Am I? The Catholic Answer to the Crisis of Meaning

Universidad Panamericana

A lecture by Prof. Adam Eitel (University of Dallas)

J5 Classroom

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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Suffering and the Problem of Evil
Oct 27
Suffering and the Problem of Evil

University of North Texas

A lecture by Prof. Ross McCullough (George Fox University)

Time TBD

Union 341

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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