Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded Monday, 28th of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Join David Shepherd (Biblical Studies) in conversation with celebrated Irish writer, Colm Tóibín, about his Booker Prize short-listed novella, Testament of Mary, and its operatic adaptation, Testament (composed by Tarik O’Regan with a libretto by Colm Tóibín), which will feature in the Dublin Theatre Festival this October.

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Recorded Thursday, 24th of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Suzanne O'Neill (Classics), Niamh Deignan (Education), Mary Grace Albanese (English) and Laura Shanahan (Library) consider how the arts and humanities can help us understand the past and imagine a better future for Europe.

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Tarraingeoidh an comhrá grúpa saineolaithe le chéile chun iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar an mbunús atá leis an ngéarchéim muiníne, an tionchar a bhíonn aici ar ár ndaonlathas agus ar ár sochaí, agus, níos tábhachtaí ná aon rud eile, an tslí inar féidir linn an mhuinín a atógáil. Á reáchtáil go hiomlán trí Ghaeilge.

Recorded Wednesday, 23rd of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Join Rough Magic Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, Lynne Parker, and our outgoing and incoming Rough Magic Fellows, director and theatremaker Eoghan Carrick, and writer, director and designer Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng, for a fascinating discussion on the role of technology in contemporary theatre-making.

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Recorded Monday, 21st of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Join us for screenings of three short research videos by early career researchers Chiara Marchetiello (Linguistics), Miguel Angelo Andriolo Mangini (Classics), and Michael McLaughlin (Music), created through the inaugural year of our Video Project Workshop.

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Recorded Wednesday, 23rd of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

PhD researchers Ronan Daly (History), Lucy McCabe (Drama), Emily Cunniffe (Law), Katarzyna Stepien (Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies) and Kristen Poli (English) explore what it means to think seriously about Europe's future, bringing big ideas — grounded in critical thinking, historical perspective, cultural awareness and creative imagination — to bear on the Europe we need.

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Recorded Tuesday, 22nd of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Jonathan Hodgers (Music), Jennifer O'Meara (Film), Jude Lal Fernando (Peace Studies), and Rowan Mellor (Philosophy) consider how the arts and humanities can inspire new ways of thinking about Europe's future.

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Recorded Tuesday 22nd of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Library staff present their favourite items from current projects featuring Cuala Press printing blocks, hidden snakeskins, and Christy Nolan's unicorn stick, among other wonders.

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Recorded Monday 21st of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Join David Kenny (Law) in conversation with David Kinley (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney) about his latest book on Tony Blair’s 1997 ‘accidental apology’ for the Irish Famine and its extraordinary impact on peace negotiations in Northern Ireland.

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Recorded Monday, 21st of September 2026, as part of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival.

Brendan O'Connell (English) explores how textual criticism and the art of literary forgery overlap in surprising ways, as forgers have drawn on scholarship to make their fakes more convincing, in turn compelling textual and literary scholars to develop ever sharper methodologies; while Melissa Alexander (English) addresses how objects can serve as conversation pieces that not only engage diverse thinkers through conversations that span centuries, but also encapsulates modern aspirations for relationality.

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