Today, TCD’s Central Societies Committee (CSC) announced the shortlist for 11 prize categories in the annual Society of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced at a ceremony taking place on the 4th of March in the Alexander Hotel.
DU Players have received the most nominations by a considerable distance, with a total of eight entries shortlisted. Coming close behind are Trinity Arts Festival with six nominations, Trinity Entrepreneurial Society with five, and DU Computer Science Society with four. Meanwhile, The Phil, Trinity VDP, DU Photography Association, Trinity FM and Trinity Economic Forum racked up three nominations apiece.
The full shortlists are:
1. Most Improved Society:
DU Computer Science
Digital Arts Society
TES – Entrepreneurial Society
Traditional Music Society
2. Best New Society
TCD Arabesque Society
DU Caledonian Society
Trinity Global Development Society
3. Best TCD Society Publication
TRINITY ARTS FESTIVAL TAF programme
Trinity Economic Forum programme
DU Players The Player Vol 5, Issue 2
DUPA Photobook
4. Best Society Event in TCD
Mythfest – DU Players
Paradise Lost – Trinity Arts Festival
TCD Hack Day – Trinity Entrepreneurial Society and DU Computer Science Society
Trinity Economic Forum 2015 – Trinity Economic Forum
5. Best Society Poster
Society Book Swap & EGM – Trinity Literary Society
This House Regrets Kanye West – The Phil
Paradise Lost – Trinity Arts Festival
Players Ball – DU Players
ReJoyce – DU Players
6. Best Small Society
TCD Christian Union
Traditional Music Society
Trinity SMF
7. Best Medium Society
DU Computer Science Society
DU History
Trinity Knitting Society
Dublin University Photography Association
8. Best Fresher
Abbie O’Neill – Trinity VDP
Alannah Higgins – Dubes Trinity
Benedict Esdale – DU Players
Christopher McCarron – Trinity SFsoc
Ciaran Wadd – Cumann Gaelach TCD
Conn McCarrick – Sofia – Society For International Affairs
James Mulcahy – Trinity FM
Molly McEvoy – Trinity Arts Festival
Neil Dunne – Trinity College Singers
Oliver O’Riordan – Q Soc – Trinity LGBT
Simon Bluett – Trinity Orchestra
Stephen Frain – DU Amnesty International
Tom Cantillon – Tcd LawSoc
9. Best Large Society
Tes Trinity Entrepreneurial
The Phil
DU Players
Trinity VDP
10. Best Online Presence
Trinity Arts Festival
Tes Trinity Entrepreneurial
Trinity Fashion Society
Trinity FM
Trinity Orchestra
DU Players
Sofia – Society For International Affairs
11. Best Individual
Adam Keilthy – Trinity Knitting Society
Andrew Murphy – Dublin University Photography Association
Ben O’Dwyer – TrinityTV
Brian Carthy – Trinity FM
Caoimhe Stafford – Trinity Economic Forum
Conn McCarthy – DU Mathsoc
Conor O’Brien – ELSA Trinity
Donal McKeating – DU Players
Fionn Ó Deá – Cumann Gaelach TCD
Grace Nuttall – Trinity Arts Festival
Heather O’Donoghue – DU Dance Trinity
Holly English – DU ZooSoc
Jack Marks – DU Amnesty International
James Ringland – Tcd LawSoc
Jason Leonard – DU Computer Science Society
Kevin Bluett – Trinity Orchestra
Lynsey Callaghan – Trinity College Singers
Peter Gillen – Tes Trinity Entrepreneurial
Philip Hodgins – TCD Music Society
Robert Milling – Q Soc – Trinity LGBT
Sarah Mortell – The Phil
Sarah Purcell – Trinity VDP
Sinéad Harrington – The Hist
Zoe Eves – Trinity Global Development Society
