21st Annual Philip Monahan Lecture will be delivered by Fr. Peter McVerry on Wednesday the 29th of January 2020

18 Oct 2019

We are delighted that the 21^st Annual Philip Monahan Lecture will be delivered by Fr. Peter McVerry on Wednesday 29 January (Boole 4, 6:30pm). He will discuss housing policy in Ireland and the ongoing homeless crisis, big issues for General Election 2020.

On the night, the annual Department of Government and Politics student awards will also be presented.

ALL ARE WELCOME

Each year the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork hosts a prestigious public lecture to celebrate the memory of Philip Monahan. Monahan was Ireland’s first local authority manager and he served as City Commissioner and then City Manager in Cork from 1924-1959. Monahan set the highest standards of probity and integrity in public administration and he defined the role of City Manager and the practice of public management in Ireland. The lecture series was inaugurated in 1997 and, as can be seen from the list below, has attracted some very distinguished speakers.

PHILIP MONAHAN MEMORIAL LECTURE PAST SPEAKERS

1. Professor Tom Garvin, Department of Politics, University College Dublin
2. Dr John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
3. Francesco Rutelli, Mayor of Rome
4. John Dennehy, Secretary General, Department of Education and Science
5. Professor Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
6. Dr Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
7. David Begg, General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions
8. David Norris, member of Seanad Éireann
9. Robert Faucher, Deputy US Ambassador to Ireland
10. Dermot McCarthy, Secretary General to the Irish Government
11. Ivana Bacik, member of Seanad Éireann
12. Charlie Bird, RTÉ broadcaster
13. Emily O’Reilly, Ombudsman and Information Commissioner
14. John Bercow MP, Speaker of House of Commons
15. Enda Kenny, TD, Taoiseach
16. Professor Brigid Laffan, Director of Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, Florence
17. Colm O’Gorman, Amnesty International Ireland
18. Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, Chief of Staff of Irish Defence Forces
19. Carol Monaghan, House of Commons, Scottish Nationalist Party
20. Professor Fiona Mackay, University of Edinburgh