The Donnellan Lectures are a lecture series at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, instituted in 1794. The lectures were originally given under the auspices of the School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies. But since 1987 they have been run on a triennial basis by the Department of Philosophy and are no longer theological in nature. They were endowed from the estate of Anne Donnellan.

Lecturers (incomplete list)

*1794 Thomas Elrington ''The Proof of Christianity… from the Miracles recorded in the New Testament'' *1797, 1801.

Richard Graves Richard Graves (4 May 1715 – 23 November 1804) was an English cleric, poet, and novelist. He is remembered especially for his picaresque novel ''The Spiritual Quixote'' (1773). Early life Graves was born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Glouce ...

''The Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion proved from the… Last Four Books of the Pentateuch'' *1807. Bartholomew Lloyd *1809 Richard Herbert Nash *1815–16. Franc Sadleir ''The Various Degrees of Religious Information Vouchsafed to Mankind'' *1817. aniel Mooney D.D.*1818. William Phelan ''Christianity provides… Correctives for… Tendencies to Polytheism and Idolatry'' *1821, 1824. J. Kennedy ''The Researches of Modern Science… demonstrate the Inspiration of… Scripture'' *1823 Franc Sadleir ''The Formulas of the Church of England Conformable to the Scriptures'' *1838 J. H. Todd ''The Prophecies Relating to Antichrist in… Daniel and St. Paul'' *1839 J. H. Todd ''The Prophecies Relating to Antichrist in the Apocalypse of St. John'' *1851

Mortimer O'Sullivan Mortimer O'Sullivan (1791–1859) was a Church of Ireland clergyman, writer and member of the Orange Order. He was born a Catholic in Clonmel, County Tipperary, the son of a Catholic schoolmaster. He converted to Protestantism in boyhood and was ...

''The Hour of the Redeemer'' *1852 William Lee ''Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures'' *1853 W. de Burgh ''The Early Prophecies of a Redeemer'' *1854 Charles Parsons Reichel ''The Nature and Offices of the Church'' *1855

James Byrne James or Jim Byrne may refer to: Politics * James A. Byrne (1906–1980), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * James Allen Byrne (1911–1975), Liberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons * James J. Byrne (1863–1930), American sing ...

''Naturalism and Spiritualism'' *1855–56, 1859 J. MacIvor ''Religious Progress'' *1857 John Cotter MacDonnell ''The Doctrine of the Atonement deduced from Scripture'' *1858. J. Wills ''The Antecedent Probability of the Christian Religion'' *1860 Atkins ''Pastoral Duties'' *1861 W. P Walsh ''Christian Missions'' *1862 W. de Burgh ''Messianic Prophecies of Isaiah'' *1865 Ryder ''The Scripture Doctrine of Acceptance with God'' *1877 John Hewitt Jellett ''The efficacy of prayer'' *1878–9 George Alexander Chadwick ''Christ bearing witness to himself'' *1880–1 Charles H. H. Wright ''The Book of Koheleth, Commonly Called Ecclesiastes, Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism, and to the Doctrines of Modern Pessimism'' *1885–5

''The Gospel in the Miracles of Christ, Man's Knowledge of Man and of God'' *1887–8 William Lefroy ''The Christian Ministry: Its Origin, Constitution, Nature and Work'' *1888–9 J. H. Kennedy ''Natural Theology and Modern Thought'' * 1889–90

Thomas Sterling Berry Thomas Sterling Berry (10 January 1854 – 25 February 1931) was the 9th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh. Born in Portarlington, County Laois, in 1854, the son of Rev. William Winslow Sterling and Jane Langley, he attende ...

, DD ''Christianity and Buddhism : a comparison and a contrast'' * 1890 Frederick Falkiner Carmichael, LLD * 1891 Thomas Lucas Scott, MA * 1892 William Malcolm Foley, BD * 1893 Henry Francis John Martin, MA * 1894 Lewen Burton Weldon, DD * 1896 John Henry Bernard, DD * 1899

Charles Frederick D'Arcy Charles Frederick D'Arcy (2 January 1859 – 1 February 1938) was a Church of Ireland bishop. He was the Bishop of Clogher from 1903 to 1907 when he was translated to become Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin before then becoming the Bis ...

''Idealism and theology: a study of presuppositions''

1900–2005

*1900–1 G. R. Wynne ''The Church in Greater Britain'' *1901–2 James Owen Hannay (ps. George A. Birmingham) ''Spirit and Origin of Christian Monasticism'' *1903–4 Rev. Frederick W. Macran *1906–7 H. J. Dunkinfield Astley ''Prehistoric Archaeology and The Old Testament'' *1911–2 Everard Digges La Touche ''The Person of Christ in Modern Thought'' *1913–4

''God and Freedom in Human Experience'' * W. Boyd Carpenter ''The Witness of Religious Experience'' * Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock *1920 Joseph Armitage Robinson ''Barnabas, Hermas and the Didache'' *1921

A. A. Luce Arthur Aston Luce (21 August 1882 – 28 June 1977) was professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, and also Precentor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1952–1973). Luce held many clerical appointments, including Vice-Provost of Tri ...

''Bergson's Doctrine of Intuition'' *1922 Viscount Haldane *1923 Reginald Arthur Percy Rogers *1924 F. C. Burkitt ''The Religion of the Manichees'' *1929 C. D. Broad *1930

John Scott Haldane John Scott Haldane (; 2 May 1860 – 14/15 March 1936) was a British physician and physiologist famous for intrepid self-experimentation which led to many important discoveries about the human body and the nature of gases. He also experimen ...

''The philosophical basis of biology'' *1931

Arthur Darby Nock Arthur Darby Nock (21 February 1902 – 11 January 1963) was an English classicist and theologian, regarded as a leading scholar in the history of religion. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1930 until his death. Early life Nock ...

*1936 H. Laski *1937 Arthur Salter *1943 Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany *1944 T. E. Jessop *1945 Robert Ditchburn *1946 E. T. Whittaker ''Space and Spirit'' *1948 H. H. Price *1952

W. T. Stace Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886 – 2 August 1967) was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Civil Service from 1910 to 1 ...

*1954 H. Frankel *1989

Jerry Fodor Jerry Alan Fodor (; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the mo ...

*1992

Martha Nussbaum Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philoso ...

*1995

Richard Sorabji Sir Richard Rustom Kharsedji Sorabji, (born 8 November 1934) is a British historian of ancient Western philosophy, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at King's College London. He has written his 'Intellectual Autobiography' in his ''Festschrift ...

*1998

Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic ph ...

*2002

Stanley Cavell Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, an ...

*2005 Jonathan Lear *2008 Robert Pippin *2014

David Chalmers David John Chalmers (; born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York Univer ...

*2017 Susan Wolf

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