Lecture Visiting Speakers

Since 2006 the Society has sponsored an annual lecture in cooperation with the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University… Below are the names of the visiting speakers and the topics they spoke about.
2006 Garret FitzGerald Imagining Ireland in 2020
2007 Darina Allen Irish Cooking: A History
2008 Niall O’Dowd The Multiple Voices of Irish America
2009 Fintan O’Toole The Impact of Politics and Commerce on Irish Culture
2010 Fiach MacConghail The Abbey Theatre: A view from the 21st Theatre
2011 David Wilson Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the St Patrick’s Society of Montreal.
2012 Catriona Crowe The Irish Decade of Commemorations; Some Reflections
2013 David McWilliams Ireland, Europe and Power of the Global Irish Tribe
2014 Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Exploring the ‘Food Motif’ in songs from the Irish tradition
2015 Vincent Woods New Ireland: Migration, History and Changing Identities.
2016 Síle de Valera DeValera, History and Memory: A Personal Take
2017 His Excellency Jim Kelly A Global Island
2018 Dr. Margaret Kelleher Commemorating the Irish Famine: Sites and Dynamics of Memory
2019 Dr. Mark McGowan Suffer the Children: Irish Famine Orphans and the Churches in Montreal, 1847-1848
2020 No Lecture
2021 No Lecture
2022 Dr. Gavin Foster The Irish Civil War: History and Memory in Conflict
2023 Dr. Máirtín Coilféir From Montréal, Québec to Chapeltown, Co. Kerry: Canadian Authors and Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Gaelic Fiction