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Throughout 2026 the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies will mark the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Modern Languages in Trinity College. A series of events will be held throughout the year to commemorate this historic initiative, which led to the establishment of the oldest continuous Chairs of Modern Languages anywhere in the world.

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Mary Cosgrove has been announced as the Professor of German (1776) in the Department of German. The chair in German (1776) at Trinity College Dublin is the oldest in the world and was originally established in 1776.