The Lecture Series is named in honour of the Hon. Robert Boyle (1626-1691), who made a large contribution to the printing and publishing of Bible for Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and also to propagating Christianity in America and Malaya. He was President of the Royal Society as well as being the distinguished scientist of Boyle's Law.

It is also intended to honour William Bedell (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, who is famous for an Irish translation of the Old Testament and for Bedell's Bible, published in 1685,with which Boyle was concerned. Each year, a speaker of world stature, or who has demonstrated national leadership in a particular field, is asked to speak on a topic relating some aspect of the Holy Scriptures to current developments.

2008 Lecture
The Word of God...in Ireland Today
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

2007 Lecture
Bach, Beethoven, Bono and their Bibles
John Dexter

2006 Lecture
Reflections of the Bible in the Qur'an
Rev Canon Patrick Comerford
978 0 9548 6723 2 €4.50

2005 Lecture
200 years of the Bible in Ireland
Rev Dudley Levistone Cooney - not published seperately - see Sharing The Word - History of the Bible Society

2004 Lecture
The Portrayal of Christ through film
Brendan Duddy, SJ - not published

2003 Lecture marking the 400th anniversary of the first Irish New Testament.
Irish Testament of 1602
Rev Feargus O Fearghail (Response: R Seathrun Mac Ein, Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise)
ISBN: 0-9548672-0-3 €4.50

2002 Lecture
Bible and Politics
Trevor Sargent TD
ISBN: 0-9533082-8-6 €4.50

2001 Lecture
The Work of Reconciliation in Word and World
Joseph Liechty - not printed

2000 Lecture
From Genesis to Judgement - Biblical Iconography on Irish High Crosses
Dr Peter Harbison (Response: Rev Alan Martin)
ISBN 0-9533082-4-3 €4.95

1999 Lecture
The Good News in Our Times
Rev Lucien Accad (Response: Mrs Clare O'Mahony)
ISBN 0-9533082-3-5 €2.95

1998 Lecture
Word and Spirit - The Bible and Liturgy
Rt Rev Harold Miller (Response: Rev Pádraig McCarthy)
ISBN 0-9518735-7-1 €2.50

1997 Lecture
Psalmody: A Living Tradition of Worship
Margaret Daly-Denton (Response: Dr Fergus O'Ferrall)
ISBN 0-9518735-9-8 €2.50

1996 Lecture
The Bible - A Word for Today
Rev Selwyn Hughes (Response: Rev Maurice Fearon OP)
ISBN 0-9518735-5-5 €2.50

1995 Lecture
Lectio Divina in the Monastic Tradition
Rt Rev Christopher Dillon OSB (Response: Rev Katherine Meyer)
ISBN 0-9518735-3-9 €2.50

1994 Lecture
Why the Old Testament - then or now?
Rev Terence McCaughey (Response: Rev William Riley)
ISBN 0-9518735-2-0 €2.50

1992 Lecture
The Bible in World Evangelization
Tom Houston (Response: Clare O'Mahony)
ISBN 0-9518735-1-2 €2.50

1991 Lecture
Alive and Active - Dei Verbum and Ireland Today
Most Rev Donal Murray (Response: Rt Rev George Otto Simms)
ISBN 0-9518735-0-4 €2.50