The Trinity Long Room Hub provides a dynamic and supportive environment for the Arts & Humanities community in Trinity. One of the Institute's objectives is to promote the work of the nine schools supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub. Below are some articles from Trinity researchers working in the Arts and Humanities.
The Conversation - 31 Oct 2022
From QAnon to The Sandman: how demons found a place in popular culture
By Dr Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
The Conversation - 26 Oct 2022
Four of Shakespeare’s plays and how they speak to the current political situation in Britain
By Orlaith Darling
The Independent - 25 Oct 2022
Confronting our demons: understanding Halloween and the vital connections between darkness and light
By Dr Cathriona Russell
The Irish Times - 30 Sept 2022
Beautiful, non-Anglophone world, here is Sally Rooney
By Dr James Hadley
The Irish Times - 14 March 2022
As noose tightens on Ukraine, EU should loosen state aid rules for its members
by Christopher McMahon
The Conversation - 23 February 2022
Partygate Revisited: why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is starting to sound like an Evelyn Waugh novel
by Orlaith Darling
The Irish Times - 26 January 2022
Seeing Ireland: Staging a cultural coup in Paris 100 years ago
by Dr Ciaran O'Neill and Dr Billy Shortall
The Irish Times - 13 December 2021
Shirley Jackson’s literary legacy: from the shadows to the spotlight by
Janice Deitner, Dara Downey and Bernice M. Murphy
The Conversation - 11 November 2021
The publishers who made Shakespeare a global phenomenon
by Professor Andrew Murphy
The Irish Times - 2 August 2021
Hong Kong: where advocating liberation now costs you your liberty
by Dr Isabella Jackson
Irish Central - 6 May 2021
The culture and the centenary of the Irish partition
by Dr Stephen O'Neill
The Business Post - 1 April 2021
Essential through their absence: the arts and Covid-19
by Rita Duffy, Artist in Residence at the Trinity Long Room Hub
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Irish Independent - 15 February 2021
The Ireland I’ve come to know is warm, open and embracing of the new, but it still has its challenges
by Professor Roja Fazaeli
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Irish Central - 12 February 2021
Anti-vaccination activism in early 20th century Ireland
by Dr Ciaran Wallace
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The Conversation - 18 January 2021
How anti-vax memes replicate through satire and irony
by Dr Jan Buts
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The Irish Times - 29 December 2020
Ireland has yet to come to terms with its imperial past
by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
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Irish Central - 18 November 2020
Confronting Trinity's historic ties to imperialism
by Dr Ciaran O'Neill
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Journal.ie - 17 November 2020
We at Irish universities owe it to our students to address our imperial legacies
by Dr Ciaran O'Neill
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The Conversation - 12 November 2020
What does Joe Biden mean for Brexit? A quick primer on the current state of play
by Professor Etain Tannam
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Irish Times - 4 November 2020
American democracy was on the ballot – and it has lost
by Professor Daniel Geary
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Irish Central - 20 October 2020
Trinity's 1641 Depositions are a game-changer for Irish genealogy hunters
by Professor Micheál Ó Siochrú
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Irish Times - 3 October 2020
Trump has spread the virus of white nationalism
by Professor Daniel Geary
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Irish Central - 2 September 2020
Seamus Heaney's "hope and history," Ireland's favorite poet's vision of the world
by Dr Rosie Lavan
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Irish Times - 1 June 2020
Who was Red Hugh O’Donnell? The ‘fiery’ symbol of Gaelic resistance
by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
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Her.ie - 27 May 2020
What the Dominic Cummings scandal means for our democracy
by Dr Elspeth Payne
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The Irish Times - 9 April 2020
Coronavirus pandemic is putting civil liberties at risk
by Dr Lilith Acadia
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The Sun - 9 December 2019
Expert explains why tens of thousands of people are pouring onto streets of Hong Kong in anti-government protests
by Dr Peter E.Hamilton
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TheJournal.ie - 3 December 2019
'Hong Kong people are more tolerant of radical protest because of guilt - not anger'
by Dr Chung Kam Kwok
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The Irish Times - 26 November 2019
From Dun Emer and Cuala to Gayfield and Dolmen: a history of small Irish presses
by Dr Connor Linnie
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The Irish Times - 21 November 2019
Ryan Commission records must not seal Ireland’s dark past
by Dr Georgina Laragy
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The Irish Times - 18 November 2019
Easpa airde ar an dlúthcheangal idir teanga agus timpeallacht
by Professor Michael Cronin
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The Irish Times - 27 June 2019
Iran must not be plunged again into the nightmare of conflict
by Professor Roja Fazaeli
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The Conversation - 30 May 2019
An anti-Brexit party just made an extraordinary breakthrough in Northern Ireland
by Dr David Mitchell
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The Irish Independent - 28 March 2019
Devlin's US trip revealed more in common with black struggle than with Irish America
by Professor Daniel Geary
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The Conversation - 19 March 2019
Brexit: Ireland determined to avoid no-deal scenario as UK plays politics with the Irish border
by Professor Etain Tannam
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The Irish Times- 1 March 2019
Britain was no paradise for Irish emigrant women
by Dr. Sarah O'Brien
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The Conversation - 21 February 2019
The Troubles: tens of thousands of people were violently displaced in Northern Ireland
by Dr. Brendan Browne
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The New York Times - 21 January 2019
How the Irish Won Their Freedom
by Dr. Christopher Pastore
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The Irish Times - 21 January 2019
Eunan O’Halpin: My middle-aged, middle-class, revolutionary great-grandfather
by Professor Eunan O'Halpin
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The Conversation- 22 November 2018
Brexit: views from around Europe on future relationship between UK and EU
by Professor Etain Tannam & others
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The Irish Independent - 10 November 2018
Eunan O'Halpin: 'Society did not neglect Irish war veterans'
by Professor Eunan O'Halpin
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Irish Times - 7 November 2018
EU needs to rethink how it nurtures democracy
by Professor Rosemary Byrne
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The Conversation- 31 October 2018
DUP’s red lines are based on a self-destructive Britishness many unionists don’t share
by Dr. David Mitchell
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The Conversation- 23 October 2018
Qui se cache derrière le nom d’Elena Ferrante?
by Dr. Edward Arnold
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The Conversation- 24 September 2018
Crucial video evidence of war crimes is being deleted – how can it be saved?
by Roisin Costello
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The Conversation- 24 September 2018
Brexit: fears in Dublin that time is running out to solve Irish border impasse
by Professor Etain Tannam
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The Conversation- 31 August 2018
An Irish theologian on what’s next for the Catholic Church after visit of Pope Francis
by Dr Fáinche Ryann
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Irish Times- 27 July 2018
Rethinking difference and disability with Samuel Beckett
by Dr Nicholas Johnson
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CRASSH- 13 July 2018
Religious Diversity and the Secular University
by Joel Hanisek
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Irish Research Council - 12 July 2018
Irish verbs: mapping past, present and future
by Theodorus Fransen
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The Conversation - 26 June 2018
Pompeii should teach us to celebrate people’s lives, not mock their death
by Ellen Finn
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The Conversation - 30 May 2018
Four things that should happen before Irish unity
by David Mitchell
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Hyperallergic - 25 May 2018
Artists Put Ireland’s Abortion Referendum into Perspective
by Oana Marian
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The Conversation - 22 May 2018
Ireland’s abortion referendum: why I’m campaigning for repea
by Ivana Bacik
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The Conversation - 14 May 2018
Stop telling Palestinians to be ‘resilient’ – the rest of the world has failed them
by Brendan Ciarán Browne
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The Conversation - 29 March 2018
The Victorians portrayed paedophiles as strangers – and the myth persists today
by Ailise Bulfin
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The Conversation - 29 March 2018
Survivors of sexual violence are let down by the criminal justice system – here’s what should happen next
by Simon McCarthy-Jones
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The Conversation - 13 March 2018
Lara Croft is back with a bang – but there are real tomb raiders out there
by Ellen Finn
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The Conversation - 05 March 2018
Why China won’t let people compare Xi Jinping with an imperial predecessor
by Isabella Jackson
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The Conversation - 16 February 2018
Five reasons to be optimistic about Northern Ireland politics
by David Mitchell
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The Conversation - 15 February 2018
Steven Pinker lauds reason, but people need freedom – this might not end well
by Simon McCarthy-Jones
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The Conversation - 15 December 2017
EU agrees to start phase two of Brexit talks: experts react Etain Tannam
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The Conversation - 13 December 2017
Why we need to stop talking about a ‘masculinity crisis’ Aneta Stepien
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The Conversation - 12 December 2017
The two Koreas have tried to make peace before – and they could do so again Dong Jin Kim
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The Conversation - 08 December 2017
Brexit deal breaks deadlock – experts react Brendan Ciarán Browne
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The Conversation - 06 December 2017
Brexit: never underestimate the political potency of symbolism in Northern Ireland
Brendan Ciarán Browne
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The Conversation - 09 November 2017
The complexity of laughing at Trump – and lessons from France’s sans-culottes Linda Kiernan
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The Conversation - 15 August 2017
A major uprising in Jerusalem and beyond is just a few missteps away Dr Carlo Aldrovandi
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The Conversation - 01 August 2017
‘Frondeurs’ and fake news: how misinformation ruled in 17th-century France Linda Kiernan
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The Conversation - 23 June 2017
Trump’s White House might look like a royal court, but he’s no Louis XIV Linda Kiernan
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The Conversation - 21 March 2017
Martin McGuinness and the power of political symbolism Brendan Ciarán Browne
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The Conversation - 24 April 2015
Why we don’t hear about the 10,000 French deaths at Gallipoli John Horne
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