Here are the podcasts.

The quality of the recordings is mostly quite good for the talks themselves; the questions from the floor are sometimes hard to hear - I must get a roving mic next time - but because the answers are interesting, I've left these questions/answers sessions on the podcasts.

I should say as well that Jonathan Israel (IAS Princeton) gave the keynote paper on "Radical Enlightenment versus Montesquieu: the 70 year Battle over L’Esprit des Lois," but to my chagrin and embarrassment, I forgot to press "record" on the machine. I hope you'll enjoy the other papers.

Bartholomew Begley, DCU

Andreas Hess (Sociology, UCD) The Republican Origins of the Liberalism of Fear PODCAST

Eoin Daly (Law, Galway) Contingency and Providence in Corsica: Rousseau on Freedom without Politics. PODCAST

Colin Reid (History, Sheffield) Political suicide: revisiting the 'death' of the Irish Parliament, c. 1798-1801 PODCAST

Úna ní Bhroméil (History, Limerick) Which Republic? John Quinn, Irish America and dissonant allegiances during WW1 PODCAST

Bartholomew Begley (Philosophy, DCU) Walter Lippmann and elite rule PODCAST

Ian Leask (Philosophy, DCU): John Toland’s women PODCAST