Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, who will deliver the Ninth Annual John Hume Lecture at this Year's MacGill Summer School, was born in Dublin in 1945 and reared in the capital.  He received his primary education at the Oblate school in Inchicore and the De La Salle school in Ballyfermot  before going to the secondary school,  Marian College in Ballsbridge.  He studied philosophy at University College  Dublin  before entering the seminary of the Dublin diocese at Clonliffe where he studied theology.  He was ordained in 1969 and went on to study moral theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.  On his return from Rome he was appointed curate in the parish of St Brigid in Cabinteely in 1973 but returned to Rome a year later.  He entered the service of the Holy See in 1976.  In 1986, he was appointed Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and in 1994 its Secretary.  In 1998, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II Titular Bishop of Glendalough.  In 2001, he was elevated to the rank of Archbishop and became Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.  He succeeded Cardinal Desmond Connell as Archbishop of Dublin in April 2004.

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