The Edward Worth Library 2026 Lectures and Events
Unless otherwise stated, all lectures and events 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
2 April: Professor Leah de Vun (Rutgers University), ‘Biological Facts: Doing the History of Nonbinary Sex and Gender in Premodern Europe’. 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: the lecture will take place at 4:15 in the Mediaeval Seminar Room, Phoenix House, 7-9 South Leinster Street, Room PX 2.1. A Zoom link will be circulated for those on the mailing list wishing to attend remotely. To be added to the mailing list or to receive the Zoom link for this particular seminar please contact Professor Karras at ruth.karras@tcd.ie.
5 May: Dr Cathy Scuffil (Independent Scholar): ‘Why Flanagan’s Fields?’ This is the local history lecture in the Worth Library 2026 series.
7 May: Dr Elizabethanne Boran (Librarian of the Edward Worth Library): ”Satellites at the court of the Sun King’: French bookbindings in the Edward Worth Library’. This is the Grizelda Steevens Memorial Lecture and in 2026 is being run as a special Dublin City Council Culture Company event for Culture Date with Dublin 8: all bookings should be via the Culture Company link: Culture Club booking page
8 July: Professor Nicholas Pickwoad: ‘Bindings with stories: how the detailed analysis of structure can sometimes reveal unexpected results’. This is the Charles Benson Memorial Lecture in Book History.
17 August: Mr Mark Somogyi (Department of Preservation and Conservation, Trinity College Dublin): ‘Conservation Challenges in the Fagel Collection: Balancing Preservation and Access’. This event is the first in the Worth Library’s ‘Preserving our Rare Book Collections’ presentations marking Heritage Week 2026.
18 August: Ms Marta Soliva Sanchez (Department of Preservation and Conservation, Trinity College Dublin): ‘Watermarks in Arabic Manuscripts’. This event is the second in the Worth Library’s ‘Preserving our Rare Book Collections’ presentations marking Heritage Week 2026.
28 September: Professor Michael Stolberg (Julius-Maximilians – Universität Würzburg): ‘Cutting hernias, extracting bladderstones, needling cataracts. Itinerant operators in early modern Europe’. This is the Davis Coakley Memorial Lecture in Medical History.
2 October: ‘A Dublin Ode, A Dublin Odyssey’: A poetry reading celebrating Dublin, by Gerard Smyth.
8 October: Dr Benjamin Hazard (School of History, UCD): ”The Horse in Edward Worth’s Library’: Equine Science in Early Modern Europe’. This is the Brendan Prendiville Memorial Lecture and marks the Chinese Year of the Horse.