Catch up with Faculty staff and Postgraduates in recent media. Providing knowledge and understanding through their writing, speaking, research, and expert comment.

Listings are in staff alphabetical order. Any School items appear at the end of the listings. Please click on the relevant link(s) in each section to access the media item.

 

Elva Arulchelvan, School of Psychology, writes about how memory works, and what we can do to use it more effectively in The Conversation on 10 April 2026: Five tips to make your memory work more effectively.

 

Professor Suzanne Cahill, School of Social Work and Social Policy, writes about her dementia research and how women encounter higher risks of developing dementia due to a combination of social, economic and health inequalities, in the Irish Independent on 04 April 2026: ln a world where the majority of dementia cases are in women, gender-sensitive research is vital. (Subscriber content)

 

Professor Massimo Faggioli, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, appeared in multiple media items providing expert comment:

 

Professor Ronan Lyons, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, appears in a number of media items:

 

Dr Kevin Power, School of English, reviews this new book ‘Look what you made me do’ by John Lanchester in the Irish Times on 15 April 2026: Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester: a revenge story of Millennials versus Boomers. (Subscriber content)

 

Professor Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, appears in a number of media items providing expert Comment:

 

Dr Murat R Şiviloğlu, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, has written an article on the curious tale of William Cairns, an enterprising Irishman from an Ulster-Scots family who successfully presented as an Ottoman exiile in Dublin in the 1760s. The Irish Times on 12 April 2026: Medicine bow: The rise and fall of Dr Achmet Borumborad, the ‘Turk’ who charmed Georgian Dublin.

 

Shane Ward / Shane Mac an Bhaird, PhD student, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, was interviewed on radio about his play ‘The Delirium Archive’ which runs in the Project Arts Centre from 16 April to 09 May 2026, on RTÉ Radio 1 Arena on 08 April 2026: Delirium Archive.

 

School of Law. An interview with US academic Cass Sunstein, who is visiting Dublin and delivering the inaugural TriCON Verdon lecture at Trinity this week. He says college campuses ‘need offensive speech’. If offensive speech is restricted, he argues, then freedom is at grave risk. The Irish Times 13 April 2026: We need an adult debate on free speech - that means some will be offended. (Subscriber content)