Trinity College has a striking effect on people’s creativity. It is not unusual to wander around campus and recognise faces from Spotify band accounts or the art profiles haunting the Suggested Section on Instagram. In this culturally active environment, promoting …
Arts & Culture
Interviewing Evie: the haunted house of the Irish music scene
Lara Monahan sits down with the chair of DU Music Evie Kelly to discuss her upcoming EP Shiny Things
Over the clink of mugs and the boiling kettle, chair of DU Music, fourth-year politics student and talented artist and producer Evie Kelly begins by telling me about her stage name. “I just go by Evie in the music world. …
Looking ahead with JoLT
Matthew James Hodgson fills us in on the Journal of Literary Translation’s recent launch and reflects on a successful year for the publication
April 4 marked the last official launch of the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. (JoLT) for the 2022-2023 academic year. The launch was hosted downstairs at Kennedy’s Pub on Westland Row to celebrate the second issue of the journal’s eleventh …
Conversations with language
Eavan O’Keeffe discusses artificially intelligent versus human translation capabilities with Trinity professors Martin Worthington and Mark Faulkner
Translation is an act of hope. The translator tries to carry across not just words, but the rich and varied worlds they depict, steadfast in their resolution that little must slip through their grasp. They go beyond the mechanical; translating …
The book lovers
Eoin Keenan retells and reviews his experience of Dublin Book Festival 2023
As the days begin to shorten, the Dublin Book Festival offers its annual boost to literature lovers across the city. The festival, spanning over the course of five days from November 8-12, scattered throughout many different venues, with the majority …
Anachronic Ages: A night to remember
Honey Morris gives a detailed review of TAF’s annual GMB take over
A night of spectacle, a night of wonder, and a night of timeless pieces filled the GMB from top to bottom on 17 November.
Trinity Arts Festival (TAF) hosted yet another fabulous evening in the GMB in collaboration with multiple …
A immodest proposal
Agne Kniuraite advocates for a return to the satirical past of Trinity News
We’ve all heard what they say about Trinity students; we are pretentious, full of ourselves. We dress nonsensically with the sole aim of making an appearance on Campus Couture. We are phonies. We think we are so much better than …
Making the case for the Blasket Islands
Ciana Meyers interviews Trinity alum Lorcán Ó Cinnéide on his time at Trinity and his crucial role in developing The Dingle Peninsula’s cultural resources
Growing up in Ireland’s West Kerry Gaeltacht, Lorcán Ó Cinnéide recalls fond memories of “a wonderful environment [with] music, songs, stories and people”.
A visit to the Dingle Peninsula comes highly recommended. Beyond the island’s inherent natural beauty, it hosts …
100 years in Marseille
Alex Brown delves into why France’s seaside labyrinth of colliding cultures is worth a visit
The South of France may seem like an unlikely contender for an overlooked travel destination. Since the 18th century, the dazzling southeastern corner of the French coastline has attracted a plethora of affluent visitors from aristocracy to celebrities. Today, it …
The new vampires of Trinity College Dublin
Jayna Rohslau proposes equivalents to Trinity alum Bram Stoker’s Dracula encapsulating our current student anxieties
“I’m in da trees/watchin’ you sleep” the picture of Edward from Twilight declared causing the entire English lecture theatre to burst into laughter. Yet lingering in the back, I was not quite so joyous but full of a heavy sense …