The Chelford Group, Manchester Royal Infirmary. February 1973
The Wildes of Merrion Square
The Irish Cardiac Society, Baggot Street Hospital. November 1974
Adams and the mitral valve: an historical note
The Biological Society, Royal College of Surgeons. February 1975
William Stokes
The Royal Academy of Medicine. March 1975
Sir James Clark (1788-1870): An unfortunate obsetrician
The Biological Society, Royal College of Surgeons. April 1975
Medicine in Georgian Dublin
Royal College of Surgeons. October 1978
A glimpse at our medical past: The Widdess Lecture
Irish Medical Association, Annual Meeting, Waterford. March 1978
Keeping up with the literature
Joint British Medical Journal and European Life Sciences Editor’s Workshop, Bath. Nov 1978
Editing Conference Proceedings Better
The Royal Academy of Medicine. Dublin. April 1979
The History of Blood Pressure Measurement: ‘Dr. N. C. Korotkoff’
The Irish Victorian Society, Dublin. June 1975
Doctors in Victorian Dublin
Presidential Address to Section of the History of Medicine of the Royal Irish Academy of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons. February 1980
Sir Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880)
The New York Celtic Medical Society, New York. November 1980
Sir Dominic Corrigan: Physician, Humanitarian and Parliamentarian
Lennox Hill Hospital, New York. November 1980
Sir Dominic Corrigan: A Centenary Tribute
Royal College of Surgeosn in Ireland. The Leonard Abrahamson Memorial Lecture, March 1980
‘From the Waters of Zion to Liffeyside’. The Jewish Contribution, Medical and Cultural
Anniversary Meeting of the Faculty of Radiologists of Ireland with the British Institute of Radiology, The Royal College of Radiologists, and the Royal Society of Medicine, Dublin. October 1981
‘Greater Than Medicine They’: Irish Doctors in Science and Art.
The Biological Society, Royal College of Surgeons. November 1981
Towards being a Scientific Doctor: The Dublin Disease.
The Sir Thomas and Lady Edith Dixon Lecture, Ulster Medical Society, Belfast. March 1982
Medical Portraiture in Ireland
The Widdess Lecture, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. October 1982
Humour is our Heritage
Annual Meeting, Faculty of Community Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. November 1982
‘Greater Than Medicine They’
Royal College of Surgeons. Dublin. November 1982
Dublin’s Hospitals: Glimpses of the Past
Annual Meeting: Ulster Radiological Society, Belfast. January 1983
‘Greater Than Medicine They’: Irish Doctors in Science and Art.
Visit of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to Dublin. March 1983
A Portrait of Irish Medicine
Visit of Southern Surgeons’ Club to Dublin. May 1983
Dublin’s Medical Heritage
John Hopkins University, Baltimore. May 1983
The Dublin School of Medicine
Department of the History of Medicine. U.C.L.A. California. May 1983
The Bicentenary of RCSI
The Widdess Memorial Lecture: Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. October 1983
The Royal College of Surgeons on its Bicentennial
Society for the History of National History, Dublin. December 1983
The Art of Irish Medicine
Irish Society for the History of Pharmacy, Dublin. May 1983
Sir Dominic Corrigan: an influence on Victorian Society
Graduates Association, Royal College of Surgeons. August 1984
Of Bards, Wits and Hospitals
The Federation of Jewish Women’s Socities, Dublin. December 1984
‘From the Waters of Zion to Liffeyside: the Jewish contribution, medical and cultural. December 1984
The Musical Society of Royal College of Surgeons. October 1985
The Humanities in Medicine
Offaly Clinical Society, Tullamore. May 1986
A forgotten episode in Franco-Irish relationships.
The Corrigan Club. St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. June 1986
Dominic Corrigan: the formative years.
Open Day for Young People. Royal College of Surgeons. 5th January 1988
Medicine and art
Millennium Lecture. Royal Dublin Society. 4th February 1988.
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Aer Lingus Arts Club. 23rd February 1988
Medicine in 19th Century Dublin
Birmingham Hypertension Society Annual Lecture. Highbury Hall. 26th February 1988
Of scientists, divines and idealists: the history of blood pressure measurement
American Womens Club of Dublin. 21st April 1988
Of medicine, humour and art: a medley of fragments
The Irish Society for the History of Pharmacy. Millennium Lecture. The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. 12th May 1988
Pharmacy and Medicine in Victorian Dublin
XXXI International Congress of the History of medicine. Alma Mater Studioruni, Bologna , 30 Aug 1 Sept 1988.
From Bologna to Dublin: the story of aortic regurgitation.
CGC Medical and Health Research Meeting, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, 10 March 1990.
Doctors and Art: the development of Dublin medicine.
Royal College of Surgeons of England, Graduates Meeting. 17th March 1990.
The History of the Royal College of Surgeons.
South West Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society. Dublin. 12th October, 1990.
Historical aspects of the National Maternity Hospital.
8th British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology. RCSI. Dublin. National Concert Hall. 28th July – 3rd August, 1991.
Irish Medicine in Europe: The Past is Prologue.
Annual Scientific Meeting of Royal Australasian College of Physcians. Adelaide, Australia. 6th – 8th May 1992
Let science be art’s muse!
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Canberra, Australia. 11-13 May 1992
Dublin’s literary associations with medicine
A flame in the darkness: ‘The Dublin School’
From Arezzo to Dublin: The history of blood pressure measurement