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Rev Dr Brian Doyle OP

Rev Dr Brian Doyle OP is a Dominican friar of the Province of Ireland. He received his doctorate in Sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome in 2024, in the subject of Mariology. The subject of his thesis is Mary’s mediation of grace from heaven. Before entering the Dominican Order, Fr. Brian lectured in Civil Engineering in the University of Galway, Ireland. He teaches speculative theology in the Dominican Institute of studies and in the Priory Institute, Dublin, Ireland. He is currently serving as the Prior of St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin, which is the Irish Dominican student house of formation.

Rev Dr Vivian Boland OP

Vivian Boland OP has taught at the Dominican Houses of Studies in Ireland and England, at St Mary's University in Twickenham, and at the Angelicum University in Rome. He has taught mainly in the areas of medieval thought, especially Aquinas, moral and pastoral theology, spirituality and ecclesiology. His books include St Thomas Aquinas (2014), an introduction to Aquinas's educational thought, and The Spirit of Catholicism (2023), a theology of the Church.

Dr Jude Lal Fernando B.Ph., B.Th., M.Phil., Ph.D., FTCD

Dr Jude Lal Fernando is associate professor in Contextual Theologies, Interfaith Relations, and Peace Studies at  the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies in Trinity College Dublin.  He is the director of Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD, a research fellow at the Polin Institute, Åbo Akademi University, Finland and the chief editor of the International Journal of Asian Christianity. He has authored  many publications developing  liberationist and interfaith perspectives in the interplay of religion, conflict and peace, and edited Resistance to Empire and Militarization: Reclaiming the Sacred (Sheffield: Equinox, 2020) and Faith in the Face of Militarization: Indigenous, Feminist and Interreligious Voices (Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2021).  He has served as the visiting professor in Sophia and Ritsumeikan universities in Japan, Uppsala University in Sweden, Tampere University in Finland,  Chang Jung Christian University in Taiwan, Salzburg University in Austria and Yonsei University in Korea.
Frances O'Loughlin,

Rev Dr Terence Crotty OP

Father Terence Crotty is a Dominican friar and is the Regent of Studies in the Order’s Irish
Province.
He graduated with a Licence in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in
Rome in 2008 and with a doctorate from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 2011
which dealt with the use of puns and wordplays, especially those dealing with names, in the
Greek and Hebrew versions of the Book of Genesis.
Since then he has been mostly teaching Scripture and ancient languages in the Dominican
Studium in Dublin and also in the Priory Institute in Tallaght.

 Dr Ciarán McGlynn

Ciarán has taught with the Priory Institute for many years. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD in University College Dublin. Later he got a BSc from the Open University. He taught the History of Philosophy in the Milltown Institute, University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. For many years he also taught the Introduction to Philosophy course in the School of Religion, TCD. He has also taught the History and Philosophy of Education in the National College of Art & Design. He currently teaches on the two undergraduate philosophy modules at The Open University, as well as the Themes in Modern Philosophy, and Philosophical Theology modules in the Priory Institute. His main areas of interest are in the history of philosophy, particularly ancient philosophy, with a focus on the works of Plato and Aristotle. 

Fr Andrew Black

Fr Andrew Black is a priest of the Diocese of Down and Connor. Since his priestly ordination in 2015 he has worked in a variety of Hospital Chaplaincy and Parishes. In 2018 he began further studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome specialising in a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture. Fr Andrew is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute writing a thesis on the Book of Joshua, dividing his time between the Biblicum in Jerusalem and parishes in the Diocese of Down and Connor. Fr Andrew began teaching at the Priory Institute in 2022 in both the Master's and Bachelor’s programs of study.

Dónall McGinley

Dónall has a BA in Mediaeval & Modern Irish from Maynooth University, a BA in Philosophy from King’s College London, and MA in Mediaeval Studies from University College Dublin, and is pursuing doctoral studies at Trinity College Dublin. He has previously taught metaphysics and mediaeval philosophy at Trinity College. He currently teaches the Introduction to Philosophy module at the Priory Institute. His main areas of philosophical interest are Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, and Mediaeval Philosophy, in particular the thought of John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham.

Rev Dr Seamus Tuohy OP

Seamus Tuohy, O.P., is an Irish Dominican friar, based at St Mary’s, Priory, Tallaght, who teaches Scripture at the Dominican Studium, Dublin, and other institutions