174th SESSION (2022-2023)

Behold! The debates of the 174th Session of the Literary and Scientific Society! Minutes were written by Ms Josie Tuttiett and Mr James Orchin HLM. All minutes are PDF files hosted on Google Drive.

FIRST SEMESTER

THIS HOUSE WOULD BAN QUB LOVE

• 1st Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 22/09/2022
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THIS HOUSE BELIEVES MARRIAGE IS AN OUTDATED CONCEPT

• 2nd Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 29/09/2022
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE SUPPORTS A GENERAL STRIKE

• 3rd Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 06/10/2022
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD BAN STREET PREACHERS FROM PRIDE

• 4th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 13/10/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE REGRETS DEPOSING BORIS JOHNSON AS PRIME MINISTER

• 5th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 20/10/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE PROTOCOL HAS NEGATIVELY IMPACTED NORTHERN IRELAND

• 1st Great Debate
• Date: 25/10/2022
• Minutes
• Recording
• Video

THIS HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH MANDATORY COALITION

• 6th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 27/10/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES BIDEN’S PRESIDENCY IS A FAILURE

• 7th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 03/11/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD RATHER LIVE IN ‘1984’ THAN ‘BRAVE NEW WORLD’

• 8th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 10/11/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD LEAVE THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

• 9th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 15/11/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD UNITE IRELAND

• 2nd Great Debate (in collaboration with TCD’s ‘The Phil’)
• Date: 17/11/2022
• Minutes
• Recording
• Video

GODKIN DEBATE – THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE ENLIGHTENMENT

• 10th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 24/11/2022
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD MAKE LANGUAGE LEARNING COMPULSORY

• 11th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 01/12/2022
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES LIBERAL FEMINISM NEVER DITCHED ITS RACIST ROOTS

• 12th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 08/12/2022
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• Recording

SECOND SEMESTER

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE OSCARS ARE RIGGED

• 13th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 19/01/2023
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD DECRIMINALISE ALL DRUGS

• 14th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 26/01/2023
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES TECHNOLOGY WILL DESTROY THE WORLD

• 15th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 02/02/2023
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH THE MONARCHY

• 16th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 09/02/2023
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE RISE OF DATING APPS

• 17th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 16/02/2023
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THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THATCHER SAVED THE ECONOMY

• 18th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 23/02/2023
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• Recording

THIS HOUSE WOULD EMBRACE NUCLEAR ENERGY AS A RENEWABLE

• 19th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 02/03/2023
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• Recording

DUFFERIN COMPETITION FOR BEST SPEAKER

• 20th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 09/03/2023
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE REGRETS THE REFORMATION

• 21st Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 16/03/2023
• Minutes
• Recording

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES WALTER WHITE ACTED MORALLY

• 22nd Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 23/03/2023
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THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE GFA HAS FAILED OUR GENERATION

• 3rd Great Debate (in collaboration with the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics)
• Date: 26/03/2023
• Minutes
• Recording
• Video

THIS HOUSE BELIEVES HOME RULE WAS ROME RULE

• 23rd Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 30/03/2023
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THIS HOUSE WOULD NOT FIGHT FOR KING AND COUNTRY

• 24th Ordinary Meeting
• Date: 27/04/2023
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• Recording