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‘Who reads poetry?’ asks Ireland’s Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The relationship between the poet and their reader was the focus of the annual Ireland Chair of Poetry lecture lecture delivered by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in Trinity College Dublin this week.

15 Mar 2018

Trinity welcomes Student Unions’ decision to wind down their protest

Trinity welcomes the decision by the Students’ Union and Graduate Students’ Union to wind down protests .

15 Mar 2018

The seemingly unremarkable crystals that could help predict volcanic eruptions

The new approach may also prove useful for studying volcanoes that have remained dormant.

23 Jan 2018

Rugby’s Silvester is Sports Person of Year

Annual awards celebrate year's sporting highlights

24 May 2018

Professor Luiz DaSilva delivers inaugural Trinity lecture

The lecture considered recent developments in wireless communications networks with a focus on the use of machine learning, stochastic geometry, and game theory.

10 Apr 2018

Trinity and Oxford go head-to-head in student Brexit debate

Trinity and Oxford contended that ‘This House would unite Ireland post-Brexit’ in Student Economic Review Debate.

7 Dec 2018

2018 Grattan Scholars committed to understanding & improving society

The School of Social Sciences and Philosophy has awarded two prestigious Grattan Scholarships to postgraduate students in the disciplines of Political Science and Sociology.

6 Dec 2018

Engineers showcase next-gen robotics research at Europe’s largest maker event

A Trinity delegation of six is showcasing a range of research including ‘Stevie’ the robot at Maker Faire Rome.

12 Oct 2018

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Palliative care improves hospital care for seriously ill patients

Palliative care provided by specialist medical and nursing teams to patients with complex health needs significantly improves their experience of care, new research from Trinity College Dublin shows.

4 May 2018

Wicked problems and how to solve them

An opinion piece published by The Conversation that explains how wicked problems can be solved, by using a water systems research case study.

18 Oct 2018

€9 million Horizon 2020 project – PoshBee – will protect global bee health

The five-year project will quantify the impacts of multiple pressures on a range of bee species and develop new tools to help protect them.

27 Jun 2018

Basking sharks can jump as high and as fast as great whites

The second-largest fish in the world can swim more than twice as fast as the average man in the Olympic 50m freestyle.

20 Sep 2018

Trinity students receive 1916 Bursary in GPO

These bursaries have been initiated to support under-represented student groups gain access to higher education.

18 Apr 2018

‘Super-Ranger’ badgers may hold the key to limiting the spread of bovine TB

Researchers have discovered a new ranging behaviour in male badgers, which will aid the implementation of the newly announced nationwide TB vaccination programme.

14 Feb 2018

President Higgins gives address on Africa Day

The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins gave a keynote address on ‘Africa-Ireland Relations: Current and Future’ at a special event in celebration of Africa Day.

25 May 2018

What’s next for the Catholic Church after visit of Pope Francis

Fáinche Ryan, Assistant Professor in Systematic Theology assesses the challenges for the Irish people in the aftermath of the papal visit in a piece published by The Conversation.

3 Sep 2018

Lara Croft is back with a bang – but there are real tomb raiders out there

PhD Researcher in Classics, Ellen Finn, with a piece published by The Conversation, in which she discusses eal-world tomb raiding.

20 Mar 2018

Writer Caitriona Lally wins 2018 Rooney Prize

Writer Caitriona Lally was announced as winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2018 for emerging Irish writers at Trinity College Dublin this evening.

25 Sep 2018

Above and Beyond: Exploring the Business of Space

Human interest in space peaked during the course of the Space Race during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the USA.

17 Jun 2018

Conference focuses on the cultural and literary challenges of cosmopolitanism

The cultural, literary and educational challenges of cosmopolitanism were explored at a conference hosted by the School of English.

5 Feb 2018

Orrin Devinsky, MD, delivers 2018 John Kirker memorial lecture

The 2018 John Kirker Memorial Lecture, named in honour of the pioneering epileptologist and Trinity graduate Dr John Kirker, was recently delivered by Orrin Devinsky, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. The lecture entitled ‘Medicinal Cannabis for Epilepsy’ was presented on as a keynote talk of the meeting of the Irish Chapter of the International League against Epilepsy.

9 Oct 2018

Open letter on Brexit from Trinity College Dublin

An open letter to the Financial Times, penned by Trinity College Dublin, on Brexit is published today, Thursday, November 1st, 2018.

1 Nov 2018

Scientists unearth vital link between fat, immunity and heat regulation

The scientists have discovered a key role for a population of cells that live in our fat, which opens the door to future treatments in which weight loss or gain is the desired goal.

24 Apr 2018

PROBE: Research Uncovered at Trinity College Dublin

Members of the public are again invited to journey through the best Irish research has to offer with an intimate, engaging, and interactive programme at this pop-up festival, PROBE.

28 Sep 2018

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What medieval handwriting can tell us about modern neurological diseases

Trinity Long Room Hub public talk explored how new technologies can help us diagnose neurological diseases in long-dead medieval scribes.

22 Jan 2018

Mantle plume billions of years ago may have helped establish land on Earth

Secrets buried within an ancient sample from southern Africa imply that the stable craton that helps support the continent was formed by a mantle plume.

28 Mar 2018

Researchers seek environmentally friendly cooling solutions for data centres

The researchers are working with industry partner, Interxion, to deliver cost-effective options that will reduce negative environmental impacts.

4 Dec 2018

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New developments in swallowing disorder research focus of conference

Over 800 delegates from 46 countries will attend the 8th annual European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD) Congress taking place in Dublin this week.

25 Sep 2018

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Trinity Long Room Hub leads global project on ‘Crises of Democracy’

Understanding why populist and authoritarian approaches to government are becoming more attractive than democracy is the focus of a new international research project led by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

9 Aug 2018

Trinity marks launch of Oscar Wilde digital collection with public lecture

Trinity College Library will mark the launch of a digital version of its precious Oscar Wilde collection with a public lecture by noted Wilde biographer Michèle Mendelssohn on Wednesday October 17th, 2018.

16 Oct 2018

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