After a stormy weekend best suited to hibernating indoors, the clouds have parted to reveal a whole week of society events ready for you to explore. It’s also Green Week, so keep an eye out for some opportunities to learn …
Maggie Larson is a Computational Journalist for Trinity News, and a former Deputy Societies Editor.
This week in Trinity: RAG Week, ramen and Anthony Scaramucci
Notable guests will visit the Phil, LawSoc, and LitSoc, while charity events take place for RAG Week
Spring has arrived, according to the Irish calendar at least, and it’s time to catch your breath before the assignments and deadlines start piling up once more. This week will be full of big nights out, notable guests and charitable …
Society Spotlight: Trinity Arts Workshop
From ceramics to life drawing, Trinity Arts Workshop has plenty to offer students – but many don’t even know it’s there
Tucked away on the edge of Trinity’s campus, across the street from O’Neill’s Bar, you will find Trinity Arts Workshop’s Pearse Street studio, identified by the colourful logo in the window. The society offers a range of classes, which are …
This week in Trinity: bookshops, Biosoc and 12 Pubs of Christmas
Some more low-key events are in store as societies wind down for Christmas
After twelve weeks of lectures, labs, lunch breaks and navigating Trinity administration, the last teaching week of Michaelmas term is upon us, and with it, a winding down of society life as the college prepares for Christmas assessments. As the …
Societies host a talk on the complexities of ethics in genetic data
Professor David McConnell and Dr. Katherine O’Keefe talk data protection, criminal justice and 23andMe with GenSoc and LawSoc
In the words of British journalist Bryan Appleyard, genetics is “the most restless, turbulent and demanding form of knowledge that our species has yet produced”. This was the topic at the centre of an interactive discussion held by TCD Genetics …
This week in Trinity: Political debates, guided tours and a charity bake-off
Embrace the spirit of giving with a musical showcase and a bake off for a good cause
Christmas lights are up around the city and it is dark by the time you get out of your 3pm lecture. This can herald one thing and one thing only: the swift and unforgiving approach of Christmas exams. In the …
TEP and society life: an impossible pair?
Has semesterisation irreversibly harmed our society culture, or are these just teething problems?
In an open letter to the Provost last year, a group of students wrote that the Trinity Education Project (TEP) “serves only to detract from our college experience and devalue our education by damaging Trinity’s international prestige and influence”. The …
All hail the egg: DU Players’ Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche
Under Mae Leahy’s direction, Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche graces the DU Players theatre as the audience becomes part of the furniture for a deliciously chaotic breakfast.
It’s 1956 and I, along with the rest of the audience, am at the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein’s annual quiche breakfast. We are in a mysteriously bomb-proof society meeting hall, evidenced by the …