#Trinity College of Dublin

[charitabledirection]

Louis Tomlinson receives the Praeses Elit Award at Trinity College of Dublin

January 11th, 2024: Today the Instagram account of the Trinity College in Dublin posted that Louis Tomlinson has been awarded the Praeses Elit Award. Theirs was a recap of the major events during last semester at the college and they included the award of of the Praeses Elit Award to Louis Tomlinson and other two individuals. They posted “As we head towards the start of a new semester here’s…

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Since I’ve been making posts about American/ British entitlement towards Ireland, I thought I’d talk about this video here.

I am a student at this college. It’s a big tourist attraction for many reasons, but the main one being that the book of Kells is kept here. I am also from Kells itself, but Dublin having the book and not Kells is a whole other issue.

So this protest that’s been happening over the the past few weeks is in response to the college once again raising rents for student accommodation to astronomical rates. That being when rent in Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) is already unliveable. You’d find cheaper rent off student accommodation, but it’s hardly easy to find places like this. As well as this, the majority of the student accommodation isn’t even on campus to begin with. Most are about a 45 minute luas journey away. So what the fuck are you paying for?

This protest is necessary. It’s been a long time coming. Time and time again they prioritise tourists over us. Buildings are old and falling apart, equipment isn’t functional, accessibility is god awful. I know this because I am disabled and use a rollator, but I can’t even use it on campus most days because there’s simply no ramps/ elevators in some buildings.

In one of my lectures last week we were in one of the old buildings. We had a lot of content to cover, but of course the projector wasn’t working. The professor spent fourty minutes trying to get the computer/ projector to work, but to no avail. So we have a whole lecture to catch up on! All of this while I was looking out the window at this atrocity:

A new building for tourists! Yay!

They’ve been building new school buildings for years, but of course instead of finishing them, they’ll spend their time and money on the tourists. I’m not even having an exam in one of my modules because they told the professor that there simply isn’t enough room to host our class for the exam. And it would be “too expensive” to book a venue… it’s only a class of about thirty. He had written a whole exam and we were under the impression we’d have one, but now it’s just continuous assessment I guess!

So you have to understand why we’re not exactly jumping for joy for the tourists. There are hundreds on campus everyday, just generally being annoying and entitled. And yes DISCLAIMER; not all tourists, not all Americans/ British people, blah, blah. But from my experience, you do encounter some obnoxious people everyday.

So that’s why they blocked entrance to the book of Kells. That’s why it’s disgusting for the tourists to be arguing with them and demanding entrance. For once we just want our college to prioritise us! So yeah we will revoke your entitlement, because we are the ones who study here, we are the ones who have to LIVE here.

[lionofchaeronea]

Incipit of the Gospel of Luke (Quoniam quidem multi...), fol. 188r from the Book of Kells, created in an Irish or Scottish monastery ca. 800. Now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

[hoziergifsdaily]

HOZIER — Someone New | TCD Jazz Soc Showcase @ Sweeney's Bar (22/05/13) [requested by anonymous]

4 months before Take Me To Church was released!

[octaviasdread]

(no reposts)

Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

[without-ado]

Library of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

[nando161mando]

BREAKING| After only 4 days of student protests, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) vows to pull its investments in Israeli companies that feature on a UN blacklist, and set up a taskforce to explore engagement with Israeli institutions.

[hldailyupdate]

Louis was honored by the Trinity College Dublin's Student Society with the Praeses Elit Award for making a lasting impact in their chosen field and contributing to the advancement of discourse and societal thought. The award was presented to him backstage before his Dublin show. (8 November 2023)

x

[ghoul-night]

unsplash

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

golden blue

[coolthingsguyslike]

[agelessphotography]

The Library of Trinity College, 'The Long Room', Dublin, Ahmet Ertuğ, 2008

[uwmspeccoll]

Manuscript Monday

This Insular manuscript was created by Irish Catholics, who were well known to be stewards of knowledge and artistic ability during the ‘dark ages’ of the 6th-10th centuries CE. In particular, the Insular style consists of flattened, two-dimensional figures of people and animals accompanied by elaborate ornamentation throughout its pages. We often see interlacing designs and Celtic knots within this ornamentation and the proportions and rendering of the figures and architecture seen throughout the manuscript are not always realistic. For example, in the Book of Kells, produced around 800 CE by Irish monks in Scottish west-coast island of Iona, the columns holding up the arches on canon tables are circular and would lack structural integrity in the real world, for obvious reasons. We can see the flattened, strange rendering of figures on folio 32v (shown below), which is a depiction of Christ Enthroned. Christ’s knee is lifted to hold up the codex in his hand, but the placement of his knee is anatomically incorrect. We also see the flatness of the figure and the inclusion of ornamentation throughout the image, and we can see even more of this decoration on carpet pages throughout the manuscript. The Insular style was not only limited to manuscripts but was also used in metal objects like broaches, chalices, sculpture, and architecture which are also said to have been inspiration for Insular style manuscripts.

Our copy of the facsimile of the Book of Kells was published by the Faksimile Verlag of Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and includes a separate volume with commentary edited by the noted Trinity College librarian Peter Fox. If you have the urge to see the original Book of Kells, it is shown in the Trinity College Library in Dublin. The library shows two folios of the manuscript at a time and changes the pages shown every twelve weeks.

View more Manuscript Monday posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[q-soc-official]

No but seriously imagine it:

You're seeing Fine Gael on a concert. Everyone is having a great time. Fine Gael seems a little excited. "We have a surprise for you guys." Simon Harris says. All of a sudden Fianna Fáil comes out and starts singing "Cost of Living Crisis." When Micheál gets to the chorus, someone else starts singing...

"She got her lipstick on Here I come, da da dum She got her lipstick on Hit and run, then I'm gone".

Lights flash everywhere, and you see Fine Gael singing "cost of living crisis" along with Fianna Fáil, while Jedward is singing "Lipstick". Everyone in the crowd is going wild and crying. Then, if things couldn't get any worse, Leo Varadkar and some Kerry lad walk onto stage and kiss, holding the twink flag.

[virtuosicstudyblr]

Some moody Trinity Vibes™️ featuring my landlords‘ cat. || 04.08.2023