Trinity News masthead from 1956
While researching a different topic, I came across a fantastic new website and resource which presents online every issue of Trinity News from 1953 to 1970. Link here.
This material, the website states, was available thanks to a donation of five bound volumes by Colin Smythe. Funding to digitise the volumes was provided by the TCD Assocation and Trust and the Publications Committee and carried out by Glenbeigh Records Management.
No doubt it will now become an important tool for history students and researchers.
A couple of gems I’ve spotted so far.
Article from 1970 about a “hooligan” attack on a house party in Ranelagh.
Trinity News (29 January 1970)
A guide to Dublin restaurants from 1968.
Guide to Dublin restaurants. Trinity News – 18 January 1968
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
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[…] “While researching a different topic, I came across a fantastic new website and resource which presents online every issue of Trinity News from 1953 to 1970 …” (more) […]
Anything on the Maoists?
Fantastic. (As an archivist, I question the need for a private ‘records management’ company to do the above, but no-matter.)
A random search found Trinity students Derek Mahon and Michael Longley awarded for their poetic efforts in 1965, and this particularly regressive editorial in April of that year (how we hope times have changed)l:
“WOMEN in the Hist.” a subject discussed as often, and as
vv fruitlessly, as lavatories in the S.R.C. How many more
times do agitators like Martyn Lewis need to be put in their
places? Less than three years since the last abortive attempt to inject
unwanted sex-equality into the Society comes another anti-traditionalistic
move. With around six hundred members, the Hist can claim
to be the leading light of College societies. Around a hundred
members attend debates, and as such were allowed into Mr. Lewis’s
confidence when he drew up his interminable report on women.
Feeling his own performances were unable to inspire his fellow
debaters, Mr. Lewis now seeks to boost his crumbling image by
enfranchising Trinity females and allowing them into debates.
Disraeli tried the same trick in 1867, and lost the 1868 election.
The masses were not deceived by his “gift.” Neither is “Trinity
News” by Mr. Lewis. If he is so keen to debate with women why
does he not leave the Hist, taking his fellow-travellers with him, and
join the Phil? Though the Phll narrowly rejected allowing women
full membership at the end of last term, it seems in the near future
full status will be granted. If women are allowed to debate in the
Hist, it will merely be the thin end of the wedge. In time someone
like Mr. Lewis will be thumping-his-tub to allow women to sit in the
Conversation Room—even to play billiards. What next? Women
in the Rugby Club? Can you really see a woman with a billiard cue?
Why shouldn’t there be one place in Trinity that excludes women?
Not every male conversation is enhanced by female intervention.
Many are the times when men wish to relax after yet another conquest
(or failure) alone, uninterrupted by feminine triteness. If women
became debating members of the Hist it is only a matter of time
before they assume full membership. This year the Hist–all men
has won the ” Irish Times ” debating competition for the first time
since 1958, and has had a lively and successful year in its ordinary
debates. It has continued to provide a male sanctuary in a petticoat-
dominated world. Long may matters remain this way.
– http://www.trinitynewsarchive.ie/pdf/12-14.pdf
What the sweet loving jesus fuck!!!