Last week, in my first act as a Trinity College alumnus, I requested my graduate reader’s card for the library. It came within five working days. In my first act as a graduate reader, I then requested a book from …
D is former Contributing Editor of Trinity News and Trinity Graduate.
How inner-city community gardening projects are making a difference
D. Joyce-Ahearne speaks to Rian Coulter, a founder of the NCAD Community Garden Farm, and residents of the Grangegorman Community Collective about urban gardens in Dublin city centre.
The NCAD Community Garden Farm was founded on a site which, according to former NCAD Students’ Union member and one of the garden’s founders, Rian Coulter, was “a complete cesspit of absolute urban hazards”. The garden, which is next door …
Permission to write
Online life, the abstraction of self and the role of the writer in engaging with our changing relationship with time and space: D. Joyce-Ahearne speaks to Trinity’s Writer Fellow Gavin Corbett.
“I loved those occasions in school when you’d be punished by having to write some story that the teacher thought was an ordeal but was actually great fun, like write six pages on the inside of a table tennis ball. …
The strategic plan does not exist
Following the publication of College’s latest strategic plan, this one for the library, D. Joyce-Ahearne looks at the plan behind the plan.
There is a new strategic plan. Have you read it? Do you know it? The strategy. The planning. College have shared another one with us and again we are basking in a wake of concrete assurance as to the shape …
Ghosts of Poetry Readings Past
D. Joyce-Ahearne’s hatchet job of a reactionary cultural critic: his past self.
I usually recognise the voices in my head. It’s usually my own to be fair, in which case I just call it thinking. If it’s someone else’s it’s probably a memory, something I read or heard. It’s not unusual for …
Where writers come together
Cave Writings is quickly becoming the focal point for Dublin’s young literary set, according to its Trinity founder.
On February 5th, in the Wine Cave of KC Peaches on Nassau Street, a group of 20 odd 20-somethings listened to each other read their poems and short stories. There was no name for what was going on until about …
A final positive note
The editorial page of the last Trinity News of an academic year is always a space for reflection: to look back at the year, usually the positives, and to hope for more in the year to come. But most positives …
Bricks in the wall: why you shouldn’t go to college
The law in Ireland states that you must attend school until the age of 16 or until you have completed three years of secondary education. After that point you’re free to go. Most students will stay on to sit the …
Consent is not the last word in combating male sexual entitlement
The results of the SU’s sexual consent survey released at the end of last month showed that one in four female students had experienced a non-consensual sexual experience. In the current race for the position of welfare and equality officer, …
Don’t rush into college
Having to pick a path that will lead you to the rest of your life is a terrifying and bizarre idea.
The law states that you must attend school until the age of 16 or until you have completed three years of secondary education. After that point, you’re free to go. Most students today, however, stay on to sit the Leaving …