Event Details
IN-PERSON LECTURE
Green Foundation Ireland invite you to participate in an evening in-person lecture:
Education, Activism, Politics
FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2025 – 19:30 to 21:30 (Irish time)
(registration starts at 18:45)
Venue:
Council Chamber, Cork City Hall, Anglesea Street, Cork, T12 T997.
As always at our events,
an important part will be the
Q&A session which will allow full
participation by those attending.
GETTING THERE
Our lecture will take place in the Council Chamber of the historic Cork City Hall in Anglesea Street, Cork.
Here is a map to help you locate it – it can be easily reached by public transport.
Event Programme
About Our Guest Lecturer
DAN BOYLE, Lord Mayor of Cork
Dan was born in Chicago, Illinois, to emigrant Irish parents. He has lived in his mother’s native city of Cork since he was eight years of age, in the Turners Cross area of the city.
In 1991, he was elected to Cork City Council, the first Green Party candidate to be so. At the 2002 general election, he was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Cork South Central constituency. He then resigned his seat on Cork City Council.
He was nominated by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to Seanad Éireann as a Senator in August 2007. He was appointed as Deputy Leader of the Seanad. He was national Chair of the Green Party/Comhaontas Glas from 2007/2011. In 2019 he was elected once again to Cork City Council.
His voluntary commitments include environmental, arts and heritage and social justice organisations. He is currently a board member of the Irish Council for Social Housing.
He has one daughter, Saoirse, a mother to his three grandchildren Liamhain, Fiadh and Jack. In 2011, he released a music album titled
Third Adolescence. He is the author of three books on political history –
A Journey to Change (2006); Without Power or Glory (2012); and Making Up the Numbers (2017).
TICKET DETAILS
While admission is FREE to this event, registration is REQUIRED.
Please secure your place by booking here.
THEME
Any movement depends on a number of threads. Education – defining the nature of a problem; acquiring scientific data that confirms its depth. Activism – campaigning either as an individual or organised with like-minded others often on themes that are sub-themes of the larger issue. The binding thread would be that of politics, seeking the ability to make decisions and allocate resources to bring about change. A thread that can be the most frustrating and certainly the more prone to failure.