You have a painstaking ten minutes in between classes, your friends are elsewhere, you find yourself a seat outside the lecture hall, and before your brain can even consciously command it, your hand involuntarily reaches into your pocket, and all …
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Cuisine Spotlight: Putting Panama on a plate
Shreya Padmanabhan takes a culinary journey through Panama with fellow classmate Mariale Landecho
Latin American cuisine is experiencing a surge in popularity in Dublin. This is largely due to growing interest in global gastronomy, the appeal of vibrant flavours, and the growing population of Latin American immigrants in Dublin. While Brazilian & Mexican …
Shortcomings of a student grocery shopper
Kasia Holowka examines the trials and tribulations of doing groceries as a student
Like moths to a flame, everyday outside of Carluccio’s a long line of hungry students forms. The dining hall and the Buttery are filled to the brim and that’s not to mention all the other restaurants who pack themselves full …
Baby we’re the new romantics
Eimear Feeney discusses how you can live by the British Romantic principle of the sublime as a Trinity student
Wordsworth famously stated that poetry was a “spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion”. Taylor Swift famously stated, “Heartbreak is the national anthem / we sing it proudly.” Whether you love or hate the Romantic poets and Swift, you cannot deny that …
Dazzling display of dance: DU Dance showcase at intervarsities
Molly Haslam covers the preparation and accomplishment of DU Dance placing in the top 3 at the Intervarsities competition
In a triumphant display of skill and artistry, DUDance proudly showcased its talent by sending four teams to the highly anticipated intervarsity competition hosted by Dublin City University (DCU) at the Helix Theatre in late February. The event, with participation …
A career in the arts: No longer your parents’ worst nightmare
Deduno Peiris suggests jobs for poor unfortunate souls in the arts
If you’re in job-hunting purgatory, this is the place. Today is the day we silence the voices of critical parents and know-it-all STEM students who claim that degrees in the humanities are nothing more than wall décor. It’s time to …
An Homage to the beloved Easter egg
Deia Leykind examines if Easter eggs are just an excuse to gorge in chocolate, or something more?
Every year, around March/April time, there is one special day on which my mother presents me with an egg-shaped sphere of chocolate at the breakfast table. And each year I gobble it all up, excitement mixed with a touch of …
Rory Stewart weaves a message of sincere optimism in a bleak political world
Former Conservative minister brings charm and practical idealism to the Hist on a snowy March day
Arriving 35 minutes late to a packed GMB to a warm round of applause, former Conservative minister and current popular podcaster Rory Stewart was quick to apologise for his tardiness. The College Historical Society (the Hist) auditor Áine Kennedy bestowed …
The band of the hour: Child of Prague
Diana Stokes chats with two members and gets the band’s origin story
Walking into a pub in the Liberties late on Friday night, I met with two members of Child of Prague, Noah and Adam. What ensued was an hour of good chat and the inside scoop on their origins.
Child of …
Pinning away for the stage
Margot Guilhot Delsoldato reviews the Capstone project Pinstripe at the Samuel Beckett Theatre
Let’s party like it’s 1989! A new decade is on the horizon as we follow Barbara, who waltzes into Dublin’s hottest jazz bar, the Meeting Room. I say we, because the audience found ourselves in the bar alongside the cast. …