Leaders of the City: 
Lord Mayors of Dublin 

A series of talks to mark the 300th anniversary of 
Dublin’s Mansion House and the 350th anniversary 
of the election of Dublin’s first Lord Mayor 
Arranged by Dublin City Library & Archive 
in association with the Lord Mayor’s Office 

Tuesday Evenings 6.30pm 
15 September - 3 November 2015 
Oak Room, Mansion House 

Admission is free but places are limited - to book please 
email lordmayor@dublincity.ie or call 01 - 222 6200 

Programme: 

Tuesday 15 September	Sir Daniel Bellingham 
Dublin’s First Lord Mayor 
1665-6	Dr. Mary Clark 
Dublin City Archivist 	
Tuesday 22 September	Printer to the City: 
John Exshaw 
Lord Mayor of Dublin	Dr. Máire Kennedy 
Divisional Librarian, 
Special Collections, 
Dublin City Public 
Libraries 	
Tuesday 29 September*	The Municipal Joyce: 
James Joyce and the City 
Corporation	Peter Costello 
Honorary Librarian 
Central Catholic Library 	
Tuesday 6 October*	Henry Gore Sankey: 
Portrait of a Perfect Lord Mayor 1791-2	Dr. Lisa-Marie Griffith 
Dublin City University	
Tuesday 13 October	‘A rather mild sort of 
rebel’: J.P. Nannetti, 
Lord Mayor of Dublin 1906-08	Dr. Ciaran Wallace 
Trinity College Dublin	
Tuesday 20 October 	A Man of Principle: 
Frank Cluskey 
Lord Mayor of Dublin 1968-69	Dr. Kieran Jack McGinley 
Trinity College Dublin	
Tuesday 27 October	Laurence O’Neill, Lord 
Mayor of Dublin, 1917-24 
Patriot and Man of Peace 	Dr. Thomas J. Morrissey, 
S.J.	
Tuesday 3 November	Revolutionary Woman: 
Caitlín Bean Uí Chléirigh 
First woman Lord Mayor of 
Dublin, 1939-41 	Helen Litton	

*Part of Dublin Festival of History 2015 Programme 
 
Admission is free but places are limited - to book please 
email lordmayor@dublincity.ie or call 01 - 222 6200