The move from secondary school to university often serves as an emblem of liberation; college is a time for adolescents to meet new people, cook their own meals and explore their sexuality. Essentially, it is the first opportunity to live …
Exciting Times ahead: Naoise Dolan on her renowned debut
Naoise Dolan talks relationships, LGBTQ+ representation, class distinctions and Marxism.
“Sometimes I love you and sometimes I think it would be best if a plane flew into your office and you were on the plane or in your building”. While this isn’t a message any of us would like to …
Elaine Feeney’s take on gaining a generational perspective
The As You Were author talks about her debut novel, Ireland’s beauty and its flaws, generation labels and a modernist approach to writing
Just two days after her highly anticipated debut novel was released, I spoke to writer Elaine Feeney about As You Were, a moving story which tells of a woman dealing with a terminal illness within the confinement of her own …
Careers in the arts: how The Nu Wardrobe is revolutionizing the consumer landscape
Aisling Byrne talks to Trinity News about her career so far, sustainable fashion, and a new-found consciousness in our society
Since emerging as graduates from Trinity in 2015, Aisling Byrne, alongside her good friend, Ali Kelly, has gone on to establish The Nu Wardrobe; a social enterprise which caters to ecologically aware consumers. The campaign provides a platform with which …
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 …