The School of Creative Arts is proud of its students and graduates who continue to think outside the box and create an innovative future for all during their studies in Trinity and after graduation. Emma Tracey, a graduate of English and Film from the class of 2010, has co-founded an innovative disruptive tech company that allows systems developers take control of how they are recruited by identifying the work and conditions that drive their decisions to take on jobs. Honeypot, a collaboration with Kaya Taner of Applift, launched in 2015 and has now been acquisitioned by XING, a major European career social network, in a move valued at €57m that guarantees goal-dependent investment.

The School of Creative Arts warmly congratulates Associate Professor Ruth Barton on the launch of her new work Irish cinema in the twenty-first century on 30th May 2019 in the IFI. An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies. It covers works by established auteurs such as Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, as well as new arrivals, including the Academy Award-winning Lenny Abrahamson. Professor Barton discusses the book in greater detail on Arena, the daily arts and popular culture show broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 - click this news item to download the podcast of her interview.

George Jackson, a graduate of the Department of Music (BA and M.Litt.) will conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Friday 10th January 2020 in the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Joined by a Musician-in-Residence from the School of Creative Arts, Martin Johnson (cello), Jackson will conduct a programme including works composed by Boydell, Ina Boyle and Stanford.

It's that time of year again when we are ready to release a new batch of playwrights out into the world at the annual Advanced Playwriting Showcase at the Samuel Beckett Theatre on Wednesday 22 May at 3pm!
Our writers have been working non-stop all year and have now completed their full-length plays. Meet the Bard and an array of woodland furry-friends, take a trip into Hades with Orpheus, go back in time to meet a family's love and loss through the generations, have a face-off with the rising far-right in Dublin and its borders, learn how to form a sustainable girl-band, meet a character who is surviving a difficult past, enter the wacky and addictive world of pyramid selling, witness an unforgettable dinner-party in a leafy SoCo suburb! Our new playwrights are: Kiah Ronaldson, Ben Moore, Maia Purdue, Alice Murphy, Kirsty Murphy, Nathan Patterson, Ollie Bell and Marcus Bateson. All are welcome to attend this free event.

This year's annual showcase of compositions by Trinity College Dublin's MPhil & PhD composers, presented in association with the National Concert Hall, will take place on 22nd May at 7pm in The Studio, National Concert Hall. Original compositions from students will be performed by the newly-formed new music ensemble PARABASIS which comprises members of the Department's musicians in residence: Richard O'Donnell (percussion), Bill Dowdall (flutes), Fintan Sutton (clarinets), Sebastian Liebig (violin) and Martin Johnson (cello). The concert also features two compositions that will be performed by the Cork Choral Festival's 2019 Choir of the Year, the Mornington Singers. New works composed by the following composers will be showcased - Richard Berger, Kai Chung Fung, Meg Collins Stoop, Hannah Hiemstra, Nathan Hoctor, Aoife Kavanagh, Manos Markantonis, Ultan O'Brien, Satyajeet Prabhu, Vikentia Psaila, Vasco Riberio Da Costa and Lindsey Vincent.