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North-South team to establish Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland

Researchers from Trinity and Queen's University Belfast have secured funding of approximately €3.7 million to establish a Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland.

11 Aug 2025

Arts|Awards and Funding|Research|Society

Sun newspaper boycott made people in Liverpool more left wing, study shows

The Department of Political Science study focused on the longstanding Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper after it blamed the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium crush on Liverpool F.C. supporters.

8 Aug 2025

Research|Society

HRB invests a further €1 million into collaborative dementia network

This recently awarded funding will strengthen dementia research and improve care and quality of life for patients.

31 Jul 2025

New electronic voting platform preserves voter anonymity and electoral integrity

Researchers from Trinity and the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre have developed the platform, zkBallot, which resolves one of the core challenges in digital elections: ensuring both voter anonymity and public auditability.

31 Jul 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

Irish scientists unlock nature’s 500-million-year-old colour secrets with nano-tech breakthrough

Half a billion years ago nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colours via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science.

30 Jul 2025

Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Life and global legacies of Daniel O’Connell under the spotlight

Marking 250 years since the birth of ‘The Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell, Trinity Long Room Hub is hosting a two-day symposium looking at his life, legacy and global human rights challenges.

30 Jul 2025

New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders

Dr Stephen Murphy, from Trinity Business School, said: “The uncertainty and fear caused by the pandemic created the initial spark for conspiracy beliefs to prosper. In both places, there was a lot of anger around lockdown restrictions, vaccinations and the way that authorities were handling the situation.”

29 Jul 2025

Business|Community|Research

Trinity names its first professor specialising in cerebral palsy

The first Associate Professor of Cerebral Palsy has been appointed at Trinity College, supported by philanthropic funding through the Cerebral Palsy Foundation.

28 Jul 2025

Health|Research|Society

Trinity alumni receive Fulbright awards for 2025-26

Awardees will research, innovate and collaborate across a diverse range of fields including multimedia arts, philosophy, medicine, agriculture, education, art history, AI technology in medicine, AI technology in education, visual arts, and health.

25 Jul 2025

Awards and Funding|Students

Seeing the unseen: Trinity team builds game-changing particle impact machine

The new machine, the first of its kind in Europe, allows users to visualise what happens when tiny particles hit a surface three times faster than a bullet. This information will enable engineers to make better materials and coatings for aircraft parts, medical implants, and help to simulate intergalactic collisions.

24 Jul 2025

Innovation|Research|Science

Twenty-four Trinity labs earn sustainable certifications

The 24 have today been awarded sustainable lab certifications under a Research Ireland-led programme piloted in partnership with Impact Laboratories and My Green Lab.

16 Jul 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Universities need restructuring for climate and community needs, study finds

Higher education institutions offer critical social infrastructure with untapped potential to contribute to more equitable and sustainable futures, according to new research.

15 Jul 2025

Culture|Environment|Research|Society|Students

ERC funds two research projects exploring potential of AI in conflict forecasting and language description and preservation

Thomas Chadefaux, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, and Timotheus Bodt, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, will explore the potential of AI to address challenges in conflict forecasting and language description and preservation.

14 Jul 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture|Research

Political instability, environmental conditions, and social inequality accelerate aging

A new study redefines healthy aging as an environmental, social, and political phenomenon, and calls on public health strategies to expand beyond lifestyle prescriptions to address structural inequalities and governance deficits.

14 Jul 2025

Health|Research|Science

Ireland’s only protected insect stars in new comic to spotlight importance of the bioeconomy

The latest Beo and Raja comic stars the beautiful Marsh Fritillary butterfly. The comic focuses on the importance of insects with the aim of engaging younger audiences in issues of biodiversity.

11 Jul 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Sustainable aviation in the spotlight as Trinity hosts international conference

Researchers from around the globe will this week attend the inaugural International Conference on Sustainable Aviation Research (ICSAR).

7 Jul 2025

Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability

Will the Government really put McDonald’s ahead of children in poverty?

The reason child poverty persists is that whenever the opportunity comes to translate words into action there is always some higher priority. This year that higher priority looks to be the hospitality sector, writes economist Barra Roantree

7 Jul 2025

Culture|Health|Society

Artists and dreamers of all ages invited to discover forgotten music of 19th-century women composers

The call out for creative responses from artists, writers, musicians, and dreamers of all ages is being led by Trinity's Department of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

7 Jul 2025

Community|Culture|Research

Trinity welcomes Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as Old Library Benefactor

A celebratory event was held to recognise the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as a new benefactor of the Old Library Redevelopment Project.

3 Jul 2025

Awards and Funding|Culture

Scientists hunt for clues behind the development of curved spines

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin are assessing how the development of spinal ligaments provide mechanical stability and impact postural support in the spine – with a view to better understanding how developmental “missteps” may contribute to spinal deformations, such as the characteristic curved spines that develop in people with scoliosis.

1 Jul 2025

Health|Research|Science