Schedule Highlights 2025
A Fractured World
11.00 Opening of MacGill School 2025: Ireland in a Fractured World
- Vincent Mc Carthy, Director MacGill Summer School
- Prof. Colin Barr, Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies; Professor of Modern Irish History at University of Notre Dame
- Prof. Brigid Laffan, Chancellor of University of Limerick
- Prof. Mary Gallagher, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at University of Notre Dame
12.00 Ireland’s Business Model 2.0
- Sarah Carey, Journalist & Broadcaster [HOST]
- Prof. Martina Lawless, Director ESRI
- Danny McCoy, CEO IBEC
- Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist IIEA & Columnist at The Currency
- Sean Finlay, President Irish Academy of Engineering
13.15 Break
14.30 How to Make Ireland the Best Place In the World to Grow Up?
- Áine Kerr, Chair of Gaisce [HOST]
- Dr. Niall Muldoon, Ombudsman for Children
- Chris Quinn, Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People
- Prof. Rose Anne Kenny, Founding Principal Investigator The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) & Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin
- Patricia Forde, Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg, Former Director of the Galway International Arts Festival & Co-founder of Baboró International Arts Festival
15.45 Break
16.15 Caught in the Crossfire: Ireland, Trump, and the China Dilemma
- Finbarr Bermingham, Europe Correspondent South China Morning Post [HOST]
- Prof. Mary Gallagher, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at University of Notre Dame
- Bill Emmott, Former Editor of The Economist and Chair of IISS
- Prof. Donnacha O Beachain, Professor of Politics Dublin City University. Author of new book ‘Unfinished Empire: Russian Imperialism in Ukraine and the Near Abroad’.
17.30 Break
20.00 The Case For and Against a United Ireland
- Sarah Carey, Journalist & Broadcaster [HOST]
- Sam McBride, Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Co-Author of upcoming book ‘For and Against a United Ireland’.
21.30 CLOSE
- Traditional Music @ Navvy Poet Bar Highlands Hotel
* Programme is subject to change