Alumni & Friends

Trinity Historians are a diverse community of influential professionals who have shaped government, education, law, business, culture and the arts in both Ireland and the wider world.

Our graduates have been appointed to advance research and teaching in some of the most famous academic institutions in Ireland, Europe and North America. Others are pursuing careers in a range of leading companies in the world of banking, law, publishing, public relations and the media – or as professionals in the public service, where they serve as archaeologists, civil servants, diplomats, librarians and museum curators.

GradLink Career Mentoring Programme

Last year the Department launched its first Careers Mentoring Programme - ‘GradLink’.   This programme offers Junior Sophister students an opportunity to be mentored by graduates of the Department, now working in a diverse range of careers.  Students benefit enormously from the exchange of ideas with graduates and gain useful insights into how they can best manage their career development.  The programme runs over the course of the academic year, with a launch event in October, a mid-way event in January and 2-3 further meetings. 

Further information on the programme

Click below to view a short video clip of the mid-way mentoring event

Alumni Events

The Department of History cordially invites all History alumni to a wine reception in advance of the lecture "All but the Kind of Ireland': The Great Earl of Kildare' delivered by Professor Steven Ellis (NUI Galway) as part of the Inaugural Medieval Ireland Symposium.

The reception will take place Friday 13th September at 5:30pm in the Long Room Hub. The group will then move across to the Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin for the lecture at 7pm.

The inaugural Medieval Ireland Symposium marks the 500th anniversary of the death in September 1513 of Gerald Fitzgerald (Gearóid Mór), the ‘Great Earl’ of Kildare, by exploring the theme of The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland—The Making of a Myth. The symposium examines the ‘myth of the Geraldines’ both in terms of the literary and historical evidence from the Middle Ages and its reception from the sixteenth century onwards; and the myths and misconceptions that have encrusted around aspects of the family’s history in the professional historical scholarship up to the present day. The Keynote Lecture of the conference is being delivered by Professor Steven Ellis, of NUI Galway, and expert on late medieval and early modern Ireland and Britain. Professor Ellis will examine the career and legacy of the Great Earl of Kildare.

Book your place at the reception

Further information about 'The Geraldines in Ireland: The making of a myth'

Previous Events

Friday 23rd August: Alumni Coffee Morning Invitation
Re-live your student days by visiting the Arts Building for a special alumni coffee mornings at 10.30am on Friday, 23 August 2013. Celebrate your lifelong connection to Trinity by taking a trip down memory lane with old friends and academics over a cuppa.

Tabloid Values: on the trail of the world’s first news hound (PDF, 401kb)
December 3, 2012 6:00 PM
Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, TCD

The Department of History invites alumni to a reception followed by The Centre for Early Modern History Inaugural Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews on: ‘Tabloid Values: On the Trail of the World’s First News Hound’ on Monday 3 December 2012.

The reception will take place on Monday 3rd December at 6pm in the Trinity Long Room Hub. The group will then move across to the Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin for the lecture at 7pm.

The people of Early Modern Europe had a voracious appetite for news, but in an era of slow and uncertain communication, assessing the reliability of rumour, reports and despatches was by no means easy. This lecture explores the contribution to the building of a commercial news market of the world’s first news hound, Abraham Verhoeven, who helped shape our concept of how news should be reported and presented. Speaker Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the AHRC’s Universal Short Title Catalogue Project.

Book your place.

Trinity History Alumni Newsletter

Take a look at the latest edition of our Alumni Newsletter 2013 to keep up to date with the most recent events in the Department.
To view our previous Alumni Newsletter 2012 please click here.

Lectures

If you missed one of our lectures for alumni, or just want to hear a lecture again, visit our department Multimedia page.

Photo Gallery

If you have photos old and new that would suit our Photo Gallery, we would love to hear from you or you can simply check to see if your class photo is included.

Share Your Experiences

Have you started a company? Climbed the corporate ladder? Done something wild and unexpected? We encourage alumni to come back to campus and speak to undergraduate and graduate students about their experiences. If you are interested, please contact histhum@tcd.ie

Be an Ambassador

We invite all alumni to stay connected. The Department of History has an ambitious agenda for the development of its activities for the next decade, aimed at positioning Trinity among the world’s top History departments.. Graduates are encouraged to serve as History’s ambassadors. For further information, feel free to contact us.

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