A Danger to the Men? A History of Women in Trinity College Dublin 1904-2004

'Insightful and thought-provoking.' - Mary Robinson, President of Ireland 1990 - 1997

For over three hundred years, Trinity College, Dublin - founded in 1592 - refused entry to women. In 1892, this bar wa...

Essays in Tribute to J. Valentine Rice

Professor J.Valentine Rice, erstwhile Chair of Education at Trinity College Dublin (1966-2005) to whom this volume of essays is dedicated in memoriam, engaged in the richness and diversity of education debate during the thirty-nine years that h...

Historical Essays 1938-2001

'No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly aweso...

Land & Learning: Two Irish Clubs

This is the tale of two Dublin gentlemen's clubs, Kildare Street (founded in 1782) and University (founded in 1849), which united in 1975 to become the Kildare Street and University Club. Since their formation each has done much to nurture, and to...

McDowell on McDowell: A Memoir

Between clubs, dining halls, libraries, institutions and good addresses in the country, R.B. McDowell, born in September 1913, had led the charmed and energized existence of a distinguished bachelor don, embellishing the lives of generations of studen...

The Bold Collegians The Development of Sport in Trinity College, Dublin

Modern sport - with its teams, rules, clubs and federations - evolved as a Victorian phenomenon, beginning in English public schools and spreading to the ancient universities and thenc...

The Hist & Edmund Burke's Club

'An admirable and varied anthology.'
- Frank Callanan, The Irish Times

The College Historical Society has been a microcosm of the politics of Ireland since the first discussions in Edmund Burke's Club in 1747. As a student debating society...

The Junior Dean RB McDowell

Dr RB McDowell is a legend. To graduates of Trinity College, Dublin, he is a symbol of their years at university, the enduring source of endless amusing anecdotes and memories.

Now, for the first time, reminiscences by graduates and friends, recording ...

Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties

TCD of the sixties was an unusual, even unique institution, where a motley collection of students from England, Ireland and many other parts of the world came together at a fascinating time in the post-war period. TCD then was a remarkably small, main...