Arbuthnott Lectures

This lecture is an annual event hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and funded by the Justin Arbuthnott Trust.

The Justin Arbuthnott Trust was founded by friends and family of Justin Arbuthnott, an Edinburgh University History student who was drowned along with three friends one night in July 1989 when their boat capsized off the coast near County Donegal in Ireland. It provides a postgraduate scholarship each year and this lecture, both of which are designed to promote the better understanding of Ireland and various complex relationships which link Ireland and and various complex relationships which link Ireland and Britain. 

Previous lectures have been given by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter MRIA (University College Dublin), Adrian O'Neill, Ireland's Ambassador to the UK, Professor Mary E. Daly on 'Independence and sovereignty - rhetoric and reality; the Irish story', and Professor Tom Bartlett on 'The Irish at war - and some of their historians'.

You can view recordings of previous Arbuthnott Lectures below.

Recordings of previous Arbuthnott Lectures.

Justin Arbuthnott Lecture 2025: 'Women and work in modern Ireland'

This year's Justin Arbuthnott Lecture will be given by Professor Ciara Breathnach, Professor of Irish Gender History, University College Cork.

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