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As the academic year comes to a close, we face the annual hurdle of examinations and end-of-term assignments. This year, having spent over 365 days now in a pandemic, most …
Lisa Jean O'Reilly is an English Literature and Philosophy graduate and a former Online Editor of Trinity News.
Remembering Kristallnacht Today
Trinity Long Room Hub in conversation with Lenny Abrahamson and Oliver Sears on the continued relevance of the Holocaust
Each year, November 9th and 10th marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the name given to the two nights in 1938 when a systematic hate-crime against Jewish people took place in Germany and Austria. It was the transgression into what was …
Paganism: Ireland’s contemporary shining light
Lisa Jean O’Reilly speaks with two students at Trinity about their Pagan religion
In tough times, two Trinity students, whom I had the pleasure to virtually meet, see Paganism as their guiding light. In this unprecedented crisis I myself found a moment of sweet escape in learning about their Pagan beliefs. Like nothing …
Alumni tales: Journalist Sally Hayden on migration, grit and staying humble
Lisa Jean O’Reilly talks to Sally Hayden about her established career as a humanitarian-focused freelance journalist
A world away from the glossy masonry of the Trinity College campus, an alumni of our very own, Sally Hayden, writes to us from Uganda, Africa. Hayden and I discuss matters of strangeness, of normality, and of the grey matter …