2026: TBD—John Soderberg, Denison University
2025: Marriage and Women’s Names in Later Medieval Ireland—Sparky Booker, Dublin City University
2024*: A Bardic Pick-Up Artist: Courtly Seduction Lesson or Parodic Play?—Sarah McKibben, University of Notre Dame
2023: Ethics in Medieval Ireland and the Ethics of Medieval Irish Studies—Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University
2022: The Social Lives of Irish Reliquaries—Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts University
2021: The Settlement of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans—Terry Barry, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
2020: ICMS was cancelled due to COVID-19
2019: Settlement and Place in Gaelic Ireland, 1100–1350—Kieran O’Conor, National University of Ireland, Galway
2018: Seventh-Century Irish Monastic Culture—Marina Smyth, University of Notre Dame
2017: Living on the Frontiers: Reassessing Fourth- and Fifth-Century Ireland—Elva Johnston, University College Dublin
2016: Early Medieval/Viking Houses: Experimental Archaeology, Archaeology, and Historical Sources—Aidan O’Sullivan, University College Dublin
2015: Further Musings on the “Celtic” in “Celtic Law—Robin Chapman Stacey, University of Washington, Seattle
2014: James F. Kenney’s Early Irish History as a Field for Research by American Students: A Review of the Last Eighty-Four Years—Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, National University of Ireland Galway
2013: Remembering Bernard Wailes: Archaeological Approaches to Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland—Pam J. Crabtree, New York University
2012: Half a Century (1960–2012) or So with Early Irish Monastic Culture: The Psalms, Latin Gospel Texts, Hiberno-Latin Biblical Commentaries, the Irish Biblical Apocrypha—Martin McNamara, MSC
2011: “Talking Myth” in Medieval Celtic Literatures—Joseph Falaky Nagy, UCLA
2010: Carolingian Craftsmen and Irish High Cross Carving—Peter Harbison, Royal Irish Academy
2009: Norman Towns in Transition: The Wallingford Project in Context—Oliver Creighton, Univ. of Exeter
2008: As a Student of Bob Farrell’s—Niall Brady, Discovery Programme
*Lecture officially renamed to “Eolas Lecture”