Selling out a headliner show only 24 hours after her debut single dropped, emerging artist Lara Fitzsimons is making a splash onto the Dublin music scene. A current BIMM Music Institute Dublin student, Fitzsimons took to the stage with her …
Review
Raw, Juicy and Not So Tender
Trinity News review Glass Mask Theater’s production of Men’s Business
Simon Stephen’s adaptation of Men’s Business, based on Franz Xaver Kroetz’s Männersache, is raw, juicy and not so tender. Packed with violence, nudity and sexuality, Men’s Business takes a nihilistic head dive into a brutal love affair set in the …
A Surprise Review: Humour, comfort, tears and terror as Smock Alley’s A Surprise takes to the stage
Patrick O’Sullivan’s A Surprise debuts at the Scene and Heard Festival and confronts its audience with the jarring spontaneity of life’s pitfalls
Julius Caesar once said, “no one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected”, and indeed I found this to be true of Smock Alley Theatre’s production of A Surprise. The writer, Patrick O’Sullivan, manages to compact …
Six must-read books by Trinity alumni
Want to follow in the footsteps of Trinity’s literary figures, learn about them, or simply liven up your bookshelf? Poetry, prose, essays, poetry — we’ve got you covered.
Sara Baume
A Line Made by Walking
Baume studied Fine Art at IADT before obtaining her Masters in Creative Writing at Trinity. Additionally, she spent nine months as an intern at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 2008. She has since …
Nollaig na mBan: A night of women’s literature
The Irish Writers Centre celebrated Nollaig na mBan by bringing together some of Ireland’s most talented writers and performers
Traditionally, the 6th of January, Nollaig na mBan, was the day when the woman of the house would finally put her feet up after all the turkey basting and sprout peeling of the Christmas period and her husband would take …
Museum of Literature Ireland: The past, present, and future of Irish writing
Libby Phillips explores what makes Dublin’s newest cultural institution both worth-while and worth visiting
The Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), which opened on Culture Night this September, is sure to become one of the city’s most popular cultural institutions for residents and tourists alike. Housed in UCD’s Newman House on St. Stephen’s Green, MoLI …
Birthright review: Dublin Fringe Festival’s most local masterpiece
Nadine Flynn’s play explores working-class tragedies exacerbated by the institutions around them, writes Henry Petrillo
Lir graduate Nadine Flynn’s Birthright began with the hushed sounds of a compact audience creaking on the wooden benches of Smock Alley Theatre, the small space and lowered stage facilitating an immediate sense of intimacy between the audience and the …
Inspiring and empowering feminism: “We Should All Be Feminists” screening & panel
Today, Wednesday March 8, is International Women’s Day. To celebrate women and the feminist movement, Trinity’s Global Room held a screening of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s influential TEDx Talk “We Should All Be Feminists”, followed by a short panel discussion.
Chiamamanda …
The Hist Ball: A Midwinter Night’s Ball of gowns, prosecco, castles, and Christmas
Emma Rodgers reviews the Hist’s annual ball; this year a Midwinter Night theme
…“We walked in through double doors and on a red carpet into the magnificent reception area. Tapestries lined the walls, a fire was roaring in the great fireplace with votive candles scattered on the hearth, a deer’s head or two
A hunt for Dublin’s best hot chocolate
Trinity Life set off to find only the tastiest hot chocolate to get you through this winter
Harvest season for hot chocolatiers is upon us. The cold spell that hit Dublin last week encouraged me to wrap up and sip up, as I set off to test some of the hot chocolate on offer in the Trinity …