Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to address the Philosophical Society in Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday.
The College's provost and senior patron of the Philosophical Society, Dr John Hegarty, will subsequently make the Archbishop an Honorary Patron.
The Society said Archbishop Tutu will be joined at the event by 160 of Ireland’s and Britain most notable personalities including Garret Fitzgerald, Albert Reynolds, John Hume, Denis O’Brien, Max Clifford, and Sharon Corr.