Events
Flirting with Happiness: Aquinas on the Good Life
The Thomistic Institute and Catholic Chaplaincy present a lecture by Fr. Alan O’Sullivan, O.P.
When:
October 23, 2025 | 7:00 PM GMT+1
Chapter:
Trinity College Dublin
Location:
Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Fr. Alan O’ Sullivan OP is an Irish Dominican. Ordained a priest in 2000 he studied at Blackfriars House of Studies, Oxford, where he obtained a Lectorate in Sacred Theology. His area of research focussed on “New Movements and Communities, Vatican II, and the Ecclesiology of Communion.” Having worked as a curate in a parish in Dublin for two years he went to study at the Angelicum, Rome, where he obtained a Licence in Sacred Theology. In 2012 he obtained his doctorate from Fribourg University, Switzerland. He specialises in moral theology, and lectures at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin. He is currently Chaplain to Trinity College Dublin and Spiritual Director to Pure in Heart, Ireland. His book Self-Giving, Self-Mastery was published by Peter Lang in 2017.
This event is made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this event are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.