Séminaire de l'Edward Worth Library

The Edward Worth Library 2024 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise stated, all lectures take place at  3.00pm in the Worth Library.



Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for lectures taking place in the Library itself please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie


27 March: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin): ‘Writing medieval Irish history in early modern Ireland: aims, annals and antiquities’. This is the Griselda Steevens’ Memorial Lecture.

11 April: Dr Iona McCleery (University of Leeds): ‘Turtles, oysters and quails: health and natural history in fifteenth-century west Africa'. This is the joint Trinity College Dublin–Worth Library lecture in Medieval and Renaissance Medicine and Science. Please note that it will be a hybrid lecture, taking place at 4.15 pm in the Trinity Medieval History Research Centre Seminar Room (Room PX2.1), 5‒7 South Leinster St. Those wishing to register for the online lecture, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr David Ditchburn: e-mail: ditchbud@tcd.ie

8 May: Dr Cathy Scuffil (Dublin City Historian in Residence): ‘The South Circular Road on the eve of the First World War: All quiet on the Southern Front’. This is the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2024 series.

4 July: Dr Giles Mandelbrote (Warburg Librarian and Director of Collections): ‘Exploring the London book trade in the seventeenth century’. This is the Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History.

3 October: Dr Elaine Leong (University College London): ‘Book Cultures and Surgical Training in Early Modern London’. This is the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History.

10 October: Dr Paul G. Smith (Independent Scholar and former Bríd McGrath Research Fellows): 'Forfeited estates of 1688 in Ireland: an account of the late proprietors and the purchasers; 1702-1703.' This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture.