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60 unusual facts about Trinity College, Dublin


Alexander McNeill

McNeill was educated Wimbledon, Surrey, England and at Trinity College, Dublin.

Allison Balson

She graduated valedictorian from her high school and went on to receive a Bachelor's Degree from Princeton University and a Master's Degree from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Ambrose Bury

He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, the Royal School in Raphoe, Dublin High School, Trinity College, and the King's Inn in Dublin, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and a Master of Arts in 1893.

Anthony Dopping

Anthony junior was educated at St Patrick's Cathedral School and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1655.

Anthony Norris Groves

In 1826, while continuing his dentistry in Exeter, he enrolled as an external student of theology at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to ordination in the Church of England and appointment with the Church Missionary Society.

Baron Rosmead

Bryan Robinson, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin.

Ben Schiffer

Schiffer read English and History at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a First-Class Honours B.A. in 2006.

Buck Mulligan

Gogarty was a medical student at the time of his acquaintance with Joyce; he had also studied classics at Trinity, had been to Oxford, was known to have saved men from drowning, and was friendly with George Moore.

Charles Hepworth Holland

Charles Hepworth Holland is a British geologist, Emeritus Fellow and former Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Trinity College, Dublin.

Clement Robertson

The family was from Ireland and Clement grew up in Delgany, although he went to school at Haileybury before attending Trinity College, Dublin.

Clofazimine

Clofazimine, initially known as B663, was first synthesised in 1954 by a team with the scientists J.G. Belton, M.L. Conalty, Seán O'Sullivan and Dermot Twomey led by Dr Vincent Barry, from Sunday's Well in Cork at Trinity College, Dublin as an anti-tuberculosis drug.

Collegiate School Celbridge

The building is of Georgian architecture and its most characteristic feature is the triple gates.It was designed by architect Thomas Burgh who also built the Royal Barracks and famous library building at Trinity College both in Dublin on fifty acres of land to accommodate forty female who were to be "lodged, clothed and dieted" there.

Dermot Mannion

He went on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies in 1979.

Donald Keough

Keough has received various honors in his career, including honorary doctorates from the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater Creighton University, Emory University, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and Clark University.

Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne

After Dunne graduated from high school in 1871, he was sent to Ireland to attend Trinity College in Dublin.

Edward Parrott

He was educated at St. Paul's College, Cheltenham and then became an elementary schoolteacher, studying for a MA degree at Trinity College, Dublin at the same time.

Edward Veel

Between those graduation dates, he was elected fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and was promoted to a senior fellowship before 24 November 1656.

Fionnuala Sherry

She graduated with honours from the College of Music of Trinity College, Dublin having moved to Dublin at the age of fifteen in order to continue her musical education.

Hugh O'Conor

O'Conor studied at Trinity College in Dublin, and received a scholarship to attend the NYU Film School.

Hugh Vincent

This was not an unusual occurrence for the time, and Wales turned to Trinity College, Dublin to supply a stand-in from the university's rugby team.

In the Wet

The graduates of the National University of Ireland and of Trinity College are still represented in the upper house of Ireland's parliament.

Irene Heffernan Ho

Ho received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Trinity College in Dublin.

Irish Go Association

The IGA was founded in 1989, by the merging of two Dublin clubs - Trinity College and Collegians Chess and Go Club.

Kim Chernin

In 1963, her only child, Larissa, was born while she was studying at Trinity College, Dublin.

Lady Jaye

She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and also did graduate work in Trinity College in Dublin, before graduating from intelligence school at Fort Holabird.

Langevin equation

T. Coffey (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) and Yu P. Kalmykov (Université de Perpignan, France, The Langevin Equation: With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering (Third edition), World Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics - Vol 27.

Louis O. Coxe

Coxe then moved to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1956, where he remained (except for brief appointments at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and the University of Aix-Marseilles, France) as head of the English department until his death in 1993 after 11 years suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Marjorie Grene

Ruth Grene, a professor of plant physiology at Virginia Tech, and Nicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

Maureen Potter

She was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1984, and was later awarded an honorary degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Maxwell Henry Close

He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered holy orders.

Mount Humphrey Lloyd

He named this feature for the Rev. Dr. Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, an active member of the British Association which promoted interest in magnetic and meteorological research in the Antarctic.

Murray Pittock

He has also been a visiting fellow at universities worldwide including: Notre Dame (2014), Charles University, Prague (2010); Trinity College, Dublin (2008); the University of Wales in advanced Welsh and Celtic studies (2002) and Yale (1998, 2000–01).

NeuroSky

Because NeuroSky also produces research grade EEG technology it has partnerships with a number of universities and research intuitions including: Johns Hopkins, Brown University, Duke University, University of California San Diego, San Jose State University, Dongguk University, University of Glasgow, The Hong Kong PolyTechnic University, and Trinity College, Dublin.

Nicholas Best

He grew up in Kenya and was educated there, at King's School, Canterbury and at Trinity College, Dublin.

O'Shea and Whelan

The O'Sheas initially achieved notability for their floral carvings and grotesqueries on buildings in Dublin, in particular at Trinity College and at the Kildare Street Club, including the famous window piece showing the club members as monkeys playing billiards.

P. Michael Conneally

In 1989, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science honoris causa degree by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Paddy Glynn

Glynn was born in Gort, County Galway, Ireland and educated at the French College, Blackrock and Trinity College, Dublin.

Patrick McKeown

In 1997, shortly after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin with a Master Degree in Economics, Political Science and Social Studies, came across a publication in The Irish Independent, which was describing experimental breathing technique discovered in Russia by a Moscow physiologist Konstantin Buteyko.

Philip Crosthwaite

In 1843 he returned to Ireland to complete his education, and entered Trinity College, Dublin.

Quinnipiac University School of Law

Other learning opportunities include summer study at Trinity College, Dublin in Dublin, Ireland and other opportunities to study abroad.

Rachel Burden

After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Burden began her radio career as a reporter at BBC Radio Suffolk later she joined Radio Bristol, where she co-hosted the early morning breakfast show, working alongside Nigel Dando, the brother of the murdered presenter Jill Dando.

Ralph of Bristol

Ralph wrote a life of St. Laurence O'Toole, archbishop of Dublin, which appears to be that preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, MS. 652 (792) ii.

Randolph Healy

After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin.

Richard Maunsell

After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, he began an apprenticeship at the Inchicore works of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GSWR) under H. A. Ivatt in 1886, completing his training at Horwich Works on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (as Nigel Gresley had done before him).

Robert George Spencer Hudson

He retired from Iraq Petroleum Company in 1958, and became an Iveagh Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin in 1960.

Ruth Grier

Before leaving Dublin she obtained a degree in public administration at Trinity College.

Sergio Peraza

In 1988 he joined the International Conference on Public Sculpture at Trinity College.

Sophie Bryant

She was the daughter of Revd Dr William Willock DD, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin

Teacher Man

During the time of the book McCourt went to Trinity College to try to take his doctorate, but he ended up leaving his first wife because of the strain.

Thomas Bateson

He is said to have been organist of Chester Cathedral in 1599, and is believed to have been the first musical graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.

Thomond deeds

The Thomond deeds are Irish deeds relating to lands and property in Thomond, County Clare, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Tom Crowe

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he read French and German Literature, he first joined the BBC's Third Programme in 1952, but left in 1960.

Trinity Washington University

Trinity College (not to be confused with the unrelated Trinity College (Connecticut) or Trinity College, Dublin) was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as a Catholic college for women.

VenueOne

The start-up has considerably bumped up its tech know-how by partnering with Trinity College, Dublin to run a project of synchronisation of live video over the internet.

Viscount Palmerston

His son Sir William Temple (1555–1627) was secretary to Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Essex and afterwards provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

What Is Life?

The book is based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943 and published in 1944.

The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.

William Congreve

Congreve was educated at Trinity College in Dublin; there he met Jonathan Swift, who would be his friend for the remainder of his life.

William Langland

The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 212).

William R. Ferris

He attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, for one year from 1965 to 1966, and returned to the U.S. to continue his graduate studies.


2012 Dublin Senior Football Championship

UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.

Adelaide Plains Football League

Football was certainly played in the other towns of Mallala, Dublin and Two Wells at that time with those clubs all officially forming in 1908.

Alfred Newman Gilbey

Educated by Jesuits at Beaumont College, he went on to study Modern History at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1920, during which time he became chairman of the Fisher Society at the chaplaincy.

Apollon XI

She was chartered by Burns & Laird Lines Ltd. for the service between Belfast and Liverpool, also from Cork to Fishguard, Dublin to Liverpool and for the service Glasgow - Dublin - Liverpool.

Between the Canals

The film follows three small-time criminals as they pinball their way about Dublin on a boozy Saint Patrick's Day.

Billy Whelan

The campaign to have the bridge renamed was initiated and organised by members of the Cabra, GAA club, Naomh Fionbarra (gaelic spelling) (St. Finbarr's) and sanctioned by Dublin City Council in early 2006.

Black Monday

The group had left the safety of the walled city of Dublin to celebrate Easter Monday near a wood at Ranelagh, when they were attacked without warning.

Coman Goggins

Goggins was appointed Captain for Dublin in the 2002 Senior Football Championship by the then new, Dublin Senior Football manager, Tommy Lyons.

Davy Byrne's pub

Davy Byrne's pub is situated at 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2, and was made famous in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Gary Arbuthnot

Gary Arbuthnot gives regular recitals for Fred Olsen and Cunard Cruise Lines and he has also performed as a soloist at venues including the South Bank Centre in London, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Pollack Hall in Montreal and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

Harry O'Donovan

The character Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".

Hedgehunter

Hedgehunter was born in January 1996 on the Tully Hill Stud in Dublin.

Herbert Hasler

Hasler was born in Dublin on 27 February 1914, the youngest son of Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hasler (a Royal Army Medical Corps quartermaster), and his wife, Annie Georgina (née Andrews).

I Am Brazil

I Am Brazil is the third album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.

Irish Law Times

The journal is now published 20 times per year in Dublin, Ireland, by Thomson Round Hall.

John Rogerson

Sir John Rogerson (1648–1724), Irish politician, wealthy merchant and property developer; Member of Parliament for Clogher and Dublin City

Joseph George Holman

Holman went to Dublin, where he took for a time a share with Frederick Edward Jones in the management.

Joseph Romilly

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1809, became a scholar of the college, and graduated B.A. in 1813 as fourth wrangler.

Lodowick Bryskett

Bryskett describes a party of friends met at his cottage near Dublin, among whom were Dr. John Long, archbishop of Armagh, Captain Christopher Carleill, Captain Thomas Norris, Captain Warham St Leger, and Mr. Edmund Spenser, ‘once your lordship's secretary.

Margaret Ball

Two generations later this pattern was repeated when Francis Taylor, who was Mayor of Dublin 1595–1596, was condemned to the dungeons after exposing fraud in the parliamentary elections to the Irish House of Commons.

Martin Clancy

In the early 1980s Clancy formed Irish band In Tua Nua alongside Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinny Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Paul Byrne and Steve Wickham.

Mary McEvoy

Before becoming an actress McEvoy was employed at the Department of Agriculture in Dublin as a serological assistant testing for brucellosis.

Maurice Canning Wilks

His works are in public collections throughout the world including the Ulster Museum, Armagh County Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transportation Museum, the Office of Public Works in Dublin and the Limerick City Art Gallery.

MCD Productions

The company has hosted U2 before 246,000 over 3 shows in Croke Park, 135,000 for Robbie Williams 2003 and 107,000 for Red Hot Chili Peppers 2004 in the Phoenix Park, to bringing together David Bowie, Placebo and Talvin Singh for an event in Dublin.

Moneygall GAA

The President's entourage braved gale force winds to fly from the Phoenix Park in Dublin in two Chinook and two Black Hawk helicopters.

Montagu Bacon

He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704-5, but seems to have taken no degree until the year 1734, when he proceeded M.A. per literas regias, in which he is styled 'Edvardi primi comitis de Sandwich ex filiâ nepos.'

MS European Endeavour

She was chartered to DFDS Seaways in August 2010 and early September 2010 to provide refit cover on the BirkenheadDublin and Belfast routes.

MV Kerlogue

The British Naval Attaché in Dublin reported to the Director of Naval Intelligence that it was "unfortunate from a British point of view" that Fortune had been involved in the Kerlogue incident as he was "always ready to pass on any information in his possession".

Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Barnewall

The latter, returning to Ireland, was settled at Drimnagh, near Dublin, where his posterity remained until the reign of James I.

Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa

He graduated from University College Dublin in 1970 with a BA in Irish, history and philosophy and obtained a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1971.

Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby

He then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, hoping for a career as a barrister following graduation, although his hopes never realised themselves.

Samuel Myerscough

Bernard Vaughan S.J., gave up his job at the Cathedral and Dublin where he taught music in Loretto Abbey Rathfarnham.

Show of Strength Theatre Company

In three years they produced eleven play including two news works by Peter Nichols and the acclaimed The Wills' Girls by Amanda Whittington which was revived in 2003 and was also staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet

He took part in the convention of volunteer delegates which met in Dublin under the presidency of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont in November 1783, and was appointed a member of the committee of inquiry into the state of the borough representation in Ireland.

Swastika Laundry

The Swastika Laundry was a laundry founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin, Ireland.

The Countess Cathleen

The play was first performed on May 8, 1899, as the Irish Literary Theatre's inaugural production, in the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin.

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

The Radiators from Space

The band played, including with guest vocalist Gavin Friday and guitarist Brush Shiels, at a tribute concert for Chevron on August 24, 2013 at the Olympia Theatre (Dublin).

Thomas Joseph Potter

He was Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in All Hallows College, Dublin.

Thomas Lancaster

His consecration took place, at the hands of Archbishop Loftus of Dublin, Hugh Brady the Bishop of Meath, and Robert Daly the Bishop of Kildare, on 13 June 1568, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Dublin, hall of residence of the University of Dublin, Trinity College

Vartry Reservoir

Between 1862 and 1868 the lower reservoir was formed by constructing an earthen dam across the valley of the River Vartry after a Dublin Water Works Committee was established to develop a new water supply to Dublin and suburbs.

Wendy, Cambridgeshire

The double hammer-beam roof over the name was taken from the recently dismantled church of All Saints in the Jewry that stood opposite Trinity College in Cambridge.

Yann Goulet

He was commissioned to create public works commemorating the IRA and other republicans, including the Custom House Memorial (Dublin), the East Mayo Brigade IRA Memorial, the Republican Memorial (Crossmaglen), and the Ballyseedy Memorial (Kerry).

Young Labour League

It had the only stall at Liberty Hall, Dublin, at the Party's annual conference at which Brendan Corish announced that: "The Seventies will be Socialist".

Yvonne Farrell

Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been visiting professor at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008.