Listen, I don’t know much about starting your own business, much less about running a pub. But, what I have managed to glean from the articles about “creating your own brand”, that my career-savvy friends keep sending me, is that …
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The Indianisation of Irish Food: Slowly Becoming a Delicious Reality
Time and time again, Indian food has undergone innovative twists inspired by Western cuisines. Could it now be the Irish cuisine’s turn to experience an Indian touch? Avantika Singhal weighs in.
Do you remember devouring your first ever spice bag? I do, because it was practically yesterday when I dove into Xian’s tantalising offering of boneless fried chicken and chips with a scanty topping of onions. It was heavenly. It was …
The Poitín Renaissance
Doire Ó Súilleabháin reflects on Ireland’s spirit of rebellion
When I was a freastailí beair working in my family’s pub in Kerry, for the longest time all empty quarter bottles of wine were kept and stored away for the project. Being a young and fruitfully minded young man, ever …
S2S Mentee to Mentor Pipeline
Zaynab Zaher explores the excited mentee to disinterested S2S mentor pipeline
When students begin their journey at Trinity, one of the first institutions they come across is the Student-2-Student Programme. Newcomers who are, understandably, anxious about their new arrival have their nerves eased by the welcoming presence of their S2S mentors …
The real world awaits
Laila Banerjee shares insights from recent Trinity graduates on navigating life after college
As I finish my third year at Trinity, all I can wonder is where the time went and how underprepared I am for life. While I still have a year left, I often get asked what my plans after college …
Through Light and Colour
Eoghan Smyth reviews Irish artist Tom Climent’s Paris exhibition État Sauvage
With a career spanning three decades and encompassing over 20 solo shows internationally, Tom Climent has brought a fresh series of paintings to the prestigious Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris in his new solo exhibition titled État Sauvage / Wilding…
Happy Days Fest: Where incredible talent meets electric atmosphere
Emma Lueders reviews Dublin’s own Grassroots festival
Living in a city with such a vibrant music scene, the Happy Days Festival should be at the top of any music enthusiast’s to-do list. Featuring five independent artists on a secret running order, Happy Days Fest fosters an electric …
Conas do chuid Gaeilge a cleachtadh an Samhradh seo
Scríobhann Mia Devine faoi na bealaí a d’fhéadfá do Ghaeilge a húsáid le linn an tsamhraidh
Má tá suim agat do chuid Gaeilge a chleachtadh níos minice, níl tú i d’aonar! Nuair a d’fhreastail mé ar an mbunscoil agus an meánscoil, bhí Gaeilge á labhairt agam gach uile lá. Ach anois, bím ag streachailt cúpla focal …
YA or Nay? Rethinking the Young Adult Genre
Emma Lueders sits down with Maureen Johnson to discuss the attitudes to YA in college students
The discussion of genre is enough to send any lecture-attending literature student into a spiral of existential dread. We all know what a genre is and can give a rough description of what each genre means. If the story solves …
Bagging an internship last-minute
Raina Bosniac’s tell-all on securing an internship before summer
You’ve spent hours of your life writing essays on why you want to join X firm and copying and pasting your middle school results into what feels like hundreds of different application forms, only to be met with rejection after …