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. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

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. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

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. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

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. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub