Carlow College, St. Patrick’s places public and civic engagement at the centre of its research activities. As a leading regional institution of research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the hosting of public events, conferences, seminars and lectures as well as the undertaking of partnership projects with civil society organisations, local and regional partners, and other educational institutions is central to our collaborative and interdisciplinary research mission.
- ‘Ireland 2019: Voices from Direct Provision & the State that we are in’ (2019). https://carlowcollege.ie/news/conference-2019-ireland-2019-voices-from-direct-provision-the-state-that-we-are-in/
- ‘Humans and Other Animals’, in conjunction with the Irish Philosophical Society (2019).
- ‘Conflict, Migration & Identity in Modern Ireland: Global and transnational perspectives’, in conjunction with Visual, Carlow and Trinity College, Dublin (2016). https://www.visualcarlow.ie/content/files/Conference_poster_with_programme.pdf
- ‘Under the Protection of the Most High God’: Ethical and Theological perspectives of the 1916 Rising (2016)
- ‘Encircling Worlds: Imagining Irish Suburbia’, in conjunction with Visual, Carlow (2014) https://www.visualcarlow.ie/content/files/Encircling_Worlds_Conference_Programme.pdf
- Stephanie McDermott, ed., ‘Human Rights, Our world – Our stories, Women’s Narratives, from Global to Local’ (Carlow, 2020)
- Ida Milne and Ian d’Alton, eds, Protestant and Irish (Cork: Cork University Press, 2019)
- Eoghan Smith and Simon Workman, Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
- Regina Donlon, German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850–1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
- Ann Power, The Brigidine Sisters in Ireland, America, Australia and New Zealand 1807-1922 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2018)
- Ida Milne, Stacking the Coffins, Influenza, War and Revolution in Ireland, 1918-19 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018)
- Candice Condon, Effects of Interpersonal Relationships on Shared Reminiscence: Whose Memory Is It? (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017)
- Sarah Otten, ‘Should I eat meat? Learning to explore, form and express moral judgements (without shouting, slamming the door or throwing things!)’ (March 2020) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/should-i-eat-meat-public-lecture/
- Thomas McGrath, ‘Nazi Concentration Camps’ (for International Holocaust Remembrance Day) (January 2020) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/nazi-concentration-camps-public-lecture/
- Helen Maher and Stephanie Hanlon, ‘Time For Action: Climate Change & Our Future’ (December 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/time-for-change-climate-change-our-future-public-lecture/
- John McHugh and Damien McLellan, ‘Unwrapping Oppressive Attitudes Towards Children (In Time for Christmas)’(December 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/public-lecture-unwrapping-oppressive-attitudes-towards-children-in-time-for-christmas/
- Thomas McGrath in association with Carlow Historical Society, ‘Bishop Doyle (JKL) and Daniel O’Connell’ (November 2019) http://carlowhistorical.com/chas-talk-on-bishop-doyle-jkl-and-daniel-oconnell/
- Elaine Callinan and Ida Milne, ‘Ireland and Europe, 1918-1920: World War I, Versailles Peace Treaty, and Partition’(October 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/dr-elaine-callinan-dr-ida-milne-present-a-public-lecture/
- Candice Condon and Susan Ní Chuileann, ‘Coping and Resilience in your life: The latest insights from Psychology’ (September 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/public-lecture-coping-and-resilience-in-your-life-the-latest-insights-from-psychology/
- Deborah Adelman (Du Page, Glen Ellyn, Illinois), ‘Reclaiming Representation: Contemporary Native American Music and Poetry’ (April 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/events/public-lecture-reclaiming-representation-contemporary-native-american-poetry-and-music/
- Dee Sewell, (VOICE Ireland Recycling Ambassador and founder of Greenside Up), ‘Recycling Workshop’ (April 2019)
- Deborah Adelman and Shamili Aigaonkar (Du Page, Glen Ellyn, Illinois), ‘Food Matters: Developing environmental literacy through the study of food’ (March 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/food-matters-developing-environmental-literacy-through-the-study-of-food/
- Molly Aylesbury (Wildflowers Walks Ireland), ‘Zero Waste living’ (March 2019)
- Deborah Adelman and Shamili Aigaonkar (Du Page, Glen Ellyn, Illinois), ‘Food Matters: Developing environmental literacy through the study of food’ (March 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/food-matters-developing-environmental-literacy-through-the-study-of-food/
- Eoghan Smith and Simon Workman, ‘Suburbs and Ghosts Estates in Irish Literature and Culture’ (March 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/public-lecture-on-irish-suburbs-and-ghost-estates/
- Claire Cullen, ‘Can unconscious bias be altered’ (January 2019) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/can-unconscious-bias-be-altered/
- Sarah Otten and John McHugh, ‘United Nations Sustainable Development Goals workshop’ (October 2018)
- Margaret Murphy, ‘From Farm to Table – Agriculture & Diet in Medieval Ireland’ (October 2018) https://carlowcollege.ie/news/dr-margaret-murphy-to-give-public-lecture-from-farm-to-table-agriculture-diet-in-medieval-ireland/
- Denis Halliday (former UN assistant secretary general), Maung Zarni and Jude Lal Fernando (TCD), ‘Public Seminar on Genocide in Rwanda, Myanmar and Sri Lanka’ (March 2018) https://carlowcollege.ie/events/public-seminar-on-genocide-in-rwanda-myanmar-and-sri-lanka/
