Corish Lecture 2020

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Date

March 11th

Time

19:30pm

Location

Renehan Hall

St Patrick’s College is delighted to host Prof. David Morgan of Duke University, USA for the annual The Annual Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture.

David Morgan is Professor of Religious Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He chaired the Department of Religious Studies from 2013 to 2019. Morgan received the Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1990. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, fine art, and art theory.

The annual event is honour of Rev Prof. Patrick Corish (1921 - 2013) was a priest of the Diocese of Ferns, born in Ballycullane parish in County Wexford. He is best known as a distinguished Irish historian and a President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. For many years, he was Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Saint Patrick's College Maynooth, in succession to the late Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich.

Please do join us for what will be a fascinating and engaging event.

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