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 |