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unusual facts about Trinity College Dublin



Aubrey Gwynn

He came from a Protestant academic family, the son of Stephen Gwynn and the grandson of John Gwynn, professor of theology at Trinity College Dublin.

Ciaran Sweeney

In show production he has produced and directed shows in The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Royal Dublin Society and Trinity College Dublin.

Conor J Curran

He studied at Trinity College Dublin under electroacoustic composers Donnacha Dennehy and Roger Doyle and has been involved in many different music projects such as Sonnamble and his solo project CjC.

Fergus Johnston

He studied for both a degree in music and a Master's Degree in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin and has a PhD in composition from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Gordon Dougan

He was a lecturer in the Moyne Institute in Trinity College Dublin and then worked for over ten years in industry developing vaccines and novel drugs at the Wellcome Foundation (now GSK).

Jennifer Johnston

Born in Dublin, to the Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, Johnston was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

John Anster

John Martin Anster (1793–1867) was born in Charleville, Co. Cork, and educated at Trinity College Dublin from 1814.

Michael de Larrabeiti

Between 1961 and 1965 he read French and English at Trinity College Dublin, from where he won a scholarship to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he studied in 1965-66; he later began a DPhil at Keble College, Oxford which he later abandoned to take up full-time writing.

Ralph Bates

Bates was born in Bristol, England, of French ancestry (he was the great-great-nephew of French scientist Louis Pasteur) and educated at Trinity College Dublin.

Sean Pol McGreevy

Although a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he also attributes credit to YouthAction NI's The Rainbow Factory, school of the performing arts, in Belfast where he played a variety of roles including 'Ralph' in The Lord of the Flies at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast).

Weaire–Phelan structure

In 1993, Trinity College Dublin physicist Denis Weaire and his student Robert Phelan found that in computer simulations of foam, this structure was a better solution of the "Kelvin problem" than the previous best-known solution, the Kelvin structure.

William Conyngham

Conyngham is most famous today for having presented the Trinity College Harp to Trinity College Dublin; from 1922 the harp was used as the model for the insignia of the Irish Free State and the Republic of Ireland.


see also

Andrew Hart

Andrew Searle Hart (1811–1890), mathematician and vice-provost of Trinity College, Dublin

Gökçe Yurdakul

After teaching at Brock University in Canada and at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, Yurdakul came to Berlin as a post-doctoral fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Henry Dixon

Henry Horatio Dixon (1869–1953), plant biologist and professor at Trinity College Dublin

James Seaton Reid

Reid published in 1824 a ‘Brief Account of the Irish Presbyterian Church in the Form of Question and Answer;’ ‘The Sabbath, a Tract for the Times;’ and ‘Seven Letters to Dr. Elrington, Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, “occasioned by his Animadversions in his ‘Life of Ussher’ on certain Passages in the History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,”’ Glasgow, 1849 (addressed to Charles Richard Elrington).

John Pethica

As of February 2005, it has been announced that Pethica will be the director of 'Naughton Institute' which will house CRANN, a new purpose built nanotechnology centre in Trinity College Dublin.

Trinity Football

Dublin University American Football Club, the American football team of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland