Professor David Hufford, Senior Fellow at the The Samueli Institute in Virginia. His inquiry has focused on spiritual experience, the experiential grounds for spiritual beliefs, and the role of reason in their development and persistence. His paper “Folk Healing Comes of Age” was given in Trinity College Dublin on September […]
Monthly archives: October 2010
This episode features Professor James Kelly of St Patrick’s College Drumcondra. His paper I was right glad to be rid of it: dental medical practice in eighteenth-century Ireland was given on September 30th 2010 in University College Dublin. Prof Kelly has published on 18th Century Irish Legislature, poor relief and […]
Jimmy Kelly. Dental Medical Practice in Eigtheenth Century Ireland

This episode features the renowned playwright and poet Frank McGuinness who gave a paper entitled “Living With Mortality: A Short Stay in Switzerland” on February 25th 2010 in the Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD. Frank spoke about the issue of mortality as treated in drama from Greek theatre to contemporary […]