News and Newsletters
Our annual Newsletters give an overview of activities, events and research at the Centre. You can read our Newsletters by clicking on the links below - please ask if you would like us to send you a printed copy. 2025 ANNUAL NEWSLETTER For information about our current activities and upcoming events, please click here. |
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SARAH SMYTH It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend and founding director, Sarah Smyth. Sarah read languages at Trinity College Dublin and from 1987-2021 she taught at Trinity's Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies. In 2013, with the support of key colleagues, she was responsible for establishing the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation.
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10th Birthday Celebrations, May 2023 |
Provost Linda Doyle was the guest of honour at a celebration held to mark the 10th anniversary since our Centre was launched by the late Seamus Heaney in 2013. We are very grateful to all of our friends, supporters and donors - and to the wider literary translation community - who have helped us in so many different ways, especially since we moved into our beautiful Fenian Street premises five years ago. L-R: Founding director Sarah Smyth, former director Michael Cronin, Provost Linda Doyle and current director, James Hadley. Click here to see more photos of this happy occasion. |
Key Capital Scholarships
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Winners of this scholarship to date are: 2022-23 Kinga Jurkiewicz |
Opening of the 'Sarah Smyth Reading Room'
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On 26 April 2022, we opened the Centre's doors after almost two years of lockdown, during which time we hosted all of our events and teaching online. It was fitting that the first opportunity the Centre had to welcome guests was to celebrate the woman whose tireless efforts brought the Centre into being, Sarah Smyth.
Sarah Smyth studied languages at Trinity College, and later joined the staff of Trinity’s Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies where she taught from 1987-2021. Known and admired by many around College, Sarah developed a reputation for getting things done and, in 2013, with the support of key colleagues and more than one Provost, she founded the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. By 2009, she had already set up a translator-in-residence programme with Literature Ireland, the national agency for the promotion of Irish literature abroad. For many years the Centre was largely a concept, but in 2016 it moved into its permanent home, a beautifully restored Georgian building at 36 Fenian Street. World-renowned translation studies scholar, Professor Michael Cronin, took on the directorship of the Centre that year, and the Centre is now a beacon for translation scholars and practitioners around the world, as well as being an important cultural outreach centre for Trinity College and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. Conor Killeen, Chairman of Key Capital, understood Sarah’s vision for the Centre from the outset and he has been a steadfast supporter of our work since the very early days. Thanks to his and Key Capital’s great generosity, Sarah’s trojan work in setting up the Centre has now been recognised and honoured. The ground floor reception room at Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation has been officially named the “Sarah Smyth Reading Room”. |
| Official opening of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, The Irish Times, 25 April 2018. |  |
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