UCD Economics Society

UCD Economics Society is passionate about exploring both Irish and global economic issues of the day, and how these issues effect everyone of us. Our main roles include hosting speakers from various economic and political backgrounds, the encouragement of discussion and debate and also highlighting economic trends that could give us a clue to where the world is heading in the future. In the past we have hosted such esteemed speakers as Prof. Morgan Kelly and Minister Brian Hayes. The Society was first established in 1911 as the Legal & Economic Society. The prominent professor and politician, J.G. Swift MacNeilll, gave the inaugural address. Founding members included Thomas Kettle, Conor Maguire, Thomas Arkins and Arthur Cox. The Society ran a number of small debates in its early years and struggled to maintain its activity during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War. In the 1930s, the Legal and Economic society split into the University College Dublin Law Society. The Econo...