A survival guide to college ball season

Ria Walls reflects on a range of Trinity’s most-anticipated social events this year

Buy your overpriced dresses, find those bow ties and dig out your heels that cut your ankles—because it’s college ball season! The past few months have been bustling with balls left right and centre; from ones hosted on campus, to

Ents to host mental health charity event

Ria Walls gives the lowdown on the Shit Shirt Shindig

Trinity Ents will be hosting a charity event on Wednesday March 30 in the Button Factory in order to raise money for mental health causes.

The event, which is being organised in collaboration with Dublin University Hockey Club (DUHC), is

Sunday Longread: Vicky Smith’s complex portrayal of womanhood

Ciarán Drohan discusses Vicky Smith’s exhibit The Cold Bark Against My Back curated at the Olivier Cornet Contemporary Gallery

On a first visit to the Olivier Cornet Contemporary Gallery, it is immediately impressive. Facilitated by its large windows, it is a bright open space that invokes a grander scale than this single room in a Georgian town house, normally

A further look into Trinity’s exchange programmes

In this issue Ria Walls discusses Erasmus with Shana Beims as she spends her second term in Belgium

Shana Beims, a third year classical civilisation and philosophy student, is currently on Erasmus for second term at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). In the third part of this series, I spoke to Beims about her experience so far in

Spotlight Society: Trinity Hiking

Ella-Bleu Kiely speaks with Trinity Hiking OCM Robert Gaynor about the hike life

Hiking culture has seemed to have moved up on the social scale in recent years. After being locked up indoors for so long, it was the outside that provided many of us with comfort. It still continues to. I spoke

TAF time of year

Ella-Bleu Kiely speaks with TAF Festival Director Seirce Mhac Conghail on the nature of the society

This year’s Trinity Arts Festival (TAF) week began on the day devoted to romance. Running from 14-16 February, the society of tote bags and glitter held events every day from morning to night ranging from scrambled egg workshops, pop-up plays,

Reading between the lines: Alice Rekab’s Project at the Douglas Hyde

Caitlin Kawalek explores the multi-platform Family Lines Project at the Douglas Hyde Gallery

The centrepiece of the online page for Alice Rekab’s multi-platform Family Lines Project at the Douglas Hyde Gallery is a composite artwork that combines images of individuals with trees, animals, traditional African sculpture, and digital drawings. Its most prominent feature

In Conversation with Paul Hallahan

Oona Kauppi sits down with artist Paul Hallahan to discuss his new exhibit at Hang Tough Contemporary, Words as Colour Not Language, closing on Sunday 20 March

When I say that Paul Hallahan’s works are arresting, what I mean is that I walked past the gallery showing his work – Hang Tough Contemporary – and could not take my eyes away. The painting that had attracted my …