# Event Details - **Event Name**: Maynooth and 'its' Colleges: Town, gown and renown - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: by Denis Bergin as part of the 2026 Maynooth Through the Ages Lecture Series(in association with the Maynooth 850 celebrations)About this EventDepartment of History in Association with Maynooth University Library, and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth presents the award winningMaynooth Through the Ages Fourth Annual Lecture SeriesThis event is free to the public. Booking for each talk is essential.Monday, 2 March19:00-20:30Denis Bergin, Maynooth and 'its' Colleges: Town, Gown and Renown?Denis Bergin has been involved with the life and heritage of Maynooth's historic college campus for more than sixty years, as student, alumnus and convenor since 2013 of a movement to document and highlight significant people and places in the unfolding of a 200-year-plus narrative. In this presentation he will apply his lifelong trade as writer and editor to investigating some of the issues and discoveries that have arisen in his pursuit of the amazing story of 'the miracle on the Lyreen' - how an isolated and hidebound institution became an open, diverse and adventurous centre of learning, located in a thriving country town with the potential to be a future Oxford or New Haven. Along the way he will include accounts of some unusual happenings and coincidences, as well as a few offbeat observations, with subjects that include a love story that begins in Stoyte, Tomás Ó Fiaich's Very Short History of Ireland, when Maynooth became Ballymena, the curse of the Ardagh scientists, Mary O'Rourke and the mill connection, the Italian professor who tried to save Ireland, the Carton-related Augustinian on the way to sainthood, six world-class alumni you've never heard of, and a local citizen's wish list for future prosperity.Denis Bergin is a native of the Kilkenny-Laois north-east border area. He is a 1966 graduate in Arts of the National University of Ireland recognised college on the historic Maynooth College campus, whose heritage he has been involved in documenting and publicising in recent decades as an initiative of his fellow class members. He has lived and worked as a communications consultant to the commercial, institutional and heritage sectors on both sides of the Atlantic, and for most of the past twenty-five years has been honorary director of the James Hoban Societies of Ireland and the United States, dedicated to researching and promoting the work of the Kilkenny-born architect and constructor of iconic buildings in early Washington DC. He now lives with his wife Carol in West Offaly and on the eastern Algarve coast in Portugal.Other events in the lecture series:Monday, 9 FebruaryMaynooth: From Fitzgerald Castle to commuter townPaul Croghan19:00-20:30Booking LinkMonday, 16 February‘Troops don't behave like clerics’: Carton House in wartime 1941-43Liam Kenny19:00-20:30Booking LinkMonday, 23 FebruaryThe Salamanca archive and Maynooth CollegeSarah Larkin19:00-20:30Booking LinkMonday, 9 MarchTracing Your Maynooth Ancestors: A practical guide to free online resourcesDr Eamon Healy19:00-20:30Booking LinkMonday, 23 MarchTour of the historic buildings of the South CampusRev. Dr John Paul Sheridan19:00-20:30Booking LinkMonday, 30 MarchThe Irish Land Commission in Maynooth and KildareProfessor Terence Dooley19:00-20:30Booking Link - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/maynooth/maynooth-and-its-colleges-town-gown-and-renown/100001980627064868 - **Event Categories**: workshops, art, literary-art, saint-patricks-day, st-patricks-day - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fmaynooth-and-its-colleges-town-gown-and-renown-tickets-1980627064868 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: EUR ## Event venue details - **city**: Maynooth - **state**: KE - **country**: Ireland - **location**: Maynooth University Library - **lat**: 53.3798408 - **long**: -6.6027005 - **full address**: Maynooth University Library, Collegeland, Maynooth, Ireland ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates (https://allevents.in/org/centre-for-the-study-of-historic-irish-houses-and-estates/19069553) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/8df65cfcf05fe25d9a5aa6ccf08c2d9e2643f7bb467aa6c2d4168503d581a44b-rimg-w940-h498-dca7bebc-gmir.jpg?v=1769234091 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/b7d3fda4bf230bbf32d6407029897aab998fd96cf7c24cffe736559ec7932193-rimg-w400-h400-dca7bebd-gmir.jpg?v=1769234090 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Maynooth University Library, Collegeland, Maynooth, Ireland - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 EUR - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** workshops, art, literary-art, saint-patricks-day, st-patricks-day - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Maynooth and 'its' Colleges: Town, gown and renown ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Maynooth and 'its' Colleges: Town, gown and renown", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/8df65cfcf05fe25d9a5aa6ccf08c2d9e2643f7bb467aa6c2d4168503d581a44b-rimg-w940-h498-dca7bebc-gmir.jpg?v=1769234091", "startDate": "2026-03-02", "endDate": "2026-03-02", "url": "https://allevents.in/maynooth/maynooth-and-its-colleges-town-gown-and-renown/100001980627064868", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Maynooth University Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Collegeland", "addressLocality": "Maynooth", "addressRegion": "KE", "addressCountry": "IE" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "53.3798408", "longitude": "-6.6027005" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "by Denis Bergin as part of the 2026 Maynooth Through the Ages Lecture Series(in association with the Maynooth 850 celebrations)", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "EUR", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-02", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/maynooth/maynooth-and-its-colleges-town-gown-and-renown/100001980627064868" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "EUR", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/maynooth/maynooth-and-its-colleges-town-gown-and-renown/100001980627064868", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/centre-for-the-study-of-historic-irish-houses-and-estates/19069553" } ] } ] ```