The Wexford Lecture Series presents its first speaker, Jonathan Culleton, professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Waterford Institute of Technology. He is also the Chairman of the Post-Prison Social Integration Charity, and director for the Cultural Competence in the Prison Irish National Training Corrections Officers programme, Ireland.

Jewish Ireland offers a unique vantage point to explore memory and the complexity of instituing memorials. This lecture focuses on one of Ireland's often marginalized communities as a touchstone for examining collective national memory, and interrogates how collective remembering and collective forgetting privilege some narratives over others.