Events
Trust, Virtue, and Late-Night Conversations: Aquinas on Friendship
A lecture by Dr. Robert McNamara (St. Patrick's Pontifical University)
When:
October 1, 2026 | 5:00 PM GMT+1
Chapter:
University College Cork
Location:
West Wing 9, Quad Building, UCC Main Campus | Cork City
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Dr. Robert McNamara is lecturer in philosophy and department head at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Ireland, adjunct professor of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA, while also tutoring periodically at the ITI Catholic University, Austria, and the Maryvale Institute, England. Robert is an associate series editor of Edith Stein Studies, an associate scholar of the Hildebrand Project, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Man and Woman, and a founding member of the Aquinas Institute of Ireland (currently suspended). Having studied physics, computing, philosophy, and theology, Robert brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work while exploring anthropological and metaphysical themes in ancient, medieval, and phenomenological thinkers, with a defined focus on philosophical personalism in the Christian tradition. He currently resides in Carlow, Ireland, with his wife, Caroline, and their five children.