Pictured (l-r) is Mr Joe Duignan, retired Consultant Surgeon; ; Meadhbh Murphy, Archivist, Mercer Library and Prof Clive Lee, Head of Department of Anatomy, RCSI. RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) will run a series of historic public talks and tours of the main building at St. Stephen’s Green as part of National Heritage Week this August. On each night from 27-29th August, RCSI will host a lecture that highlight’s different aspects of the College’s illustrious heritage. The topics of these lectures, to be held in the Albert Lecture Theatre on each evening at 6pm, will be”Beguiling and Brilliant: The Medics of RCSI” by Meadhbh Murphy, Archivist at the RCSI Mercer Library (on Wednesday 27th August); “The Role of Surgeons in World War I” by Mr Joe Duignan, retired Consultant Surgeon and former member of the RCSI Council (on Thursday 28th August); and “Surgeons’ Halls” by Professor Clive Lee, Head of RCSI Department of Anatomy (on Friday 29th August). The historic tours of RCSI, which take place at 11am and 4pm on each day, will be led by Head and Deputy Head Porters, Frank Donegan and Bryan Sheils. During the tour attendees will learn the history of the College, the local area and the part it has played in Irish history including when the building was seized by rebels led by James Mallin and Constance Markievicz during the 1916 Easter Rising. Register now at www.rcsi.ie/heritageweek2014