The Edward Worth Library
Lectures and Events during the 2026 Dublin Festival of History
Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for events
please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie
Monday 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 – 3pm.
Tuesday 29 September:
Tours of the Edward Worth Library – 11am and 2pm.
Thursday 1 October:
Tours of the Edward Worth Library – 11am and 2pm.
Friday 2 October:
‘A Dublin Ode, A Dublin Odyssey’: A poetry reading celebrating Dublin, by Gerard Smyth – 3pm.
Monday 5 October:
Tours of the Edward Worth Library – 11am and 2pm.
Thursday 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 – 3pm.
Friday 9 October:
Tours of the Edward Worth Library – 11am and 2pm.