Category: Culture
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Dispatches From A Campus On Fire
Dispatches from a Campus on Fire Everything is happening and it’s all happening right here, right now. The world is spinning fast and slow. A year and a half ago, my roommate and I pressed our faces into the glass of our windows, watching the largest police force in…
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A Commodified Culture
Is dócha go mbeidh suim ag gach uile duine atá ag léamh tríd an alt seo a gcuid Gaeilge a fheabhsú, toisc go bhfuil suim an domhain sa Ghaeilge na laethanta seo. Is minic a fheicimid faisnéis ar líne ag ceiliúradh na Gaeilge, agus ag moladh an oiléain ar fad…
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Through The Unknown, Remembered Gate: A Chat with Prof. Philip Coleman About the One Book He Would Recommend to Students Today
Any self-respecting Trinity arts and humanities student must well be aware of Lana del Rey’s iconic 2015 album, Honeymoon, and its interlude entitled ‘Burnt Norton’. Over a sweeping instrumental, del Rey begins to recite, “Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future/ And time future…
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Moby Dick or Moby-Dick: A Chat with Professor Sam Slote About His Favourite Book
On a particularly fog-covered mid-October afternoon, I made my way to Professor Sam Slote’s office to ask him about his favourite book. I found the office tucked away down a corridor on the fourth floor of the Arts Block and rapped on the door covered with photographs of James Joyce.…
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Trinitonian Oddities
It’s 9am in October. You’re on the LUAS on your way to your Introduction to Whatever module. You are grateful for the LUAS heating system because the first chill of winter is most certainly in the air. The frenzy of Freshers week has passed and you are finally beginning to…
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And I’m Not Gonna Change Your Name!
“Write what you know” — advice often levelled at aspiring writers. I’m pretty sure it was Mark Twain who said it first, or most notoriously; the point being we’ve all heard it. It is inarguably sound advice. Writing characters who have had similar experiences, share anxieties and neuroses with us,…
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A Night With Hibernia
Imagine this: It’s a Saturday night and you’re getting hype for the night to come: bumping Glorilla, drink in hand, cigarettes and ID (because even though you’re well into your twenties, the cashier at Lidl still thinks you’re underage) locked and ready to go. It’s a beautiful night and you…
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Tough Pill to Swallow
“I should go on the pill, but I’m nervous. I’ve heard it can have really bad side effects”. For the past number of years, I’ve frequently heard some variation of this statement from women in my life, whether it’s friends, relatives or even acquaintances on nights out. When I ask…
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Ones to Watch
The Trinity Hall of (Future) Fame. All illustrations by Mathilda Gross. FREYA O’HANLON has carried out extensive research into the negative dimensions of TikTok’s algorithm. Her project has highlighted that TikTok automatically promotes inappropriate content to teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15. This includes videos about depression, eating disorders, violence…
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Dance Revolution
I miss dancing, man. All the ways people move in a crowded, sweaty place. Even when clubs felt like hell – I was way in over my head, having drunk too much of the mystery drink from the funny looking man in the bathroom and all I wanted to do…