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Public Engagement 05 Public Engagement Trinity’s mission, encapsulated in Trinity has honoured this mission by taking a leading role in publicly commemorating the First World War. As part of the ≥ On the morning of 20 the current Strategic Plan, is to Decade of Commemorations, it was decided to commission a engage wider society, demonstrate memorial stone to be placed in front of the Hall of Honour and March 2015 Associate Professor leadership, and promote the values the 1937 Reading Room to draw attention to the commemorative of equality and pluralism. nature of the Hall of Honour (it memorialises the 471 Trinity in Physics, Peter Gallagher and students, staff and alumni who lost their lives in World War 1). In September 2015 the stone, sculpted by Stephen Burke, colleagues organised ECLIPSE was unveiled by Pro-Chancellor, Professor Dermot McAleese, in a public ceremony attended by ambassadors representing 2015. Despite the inclement countries in which Trinity people died. On the morning of 20 March 2015 hundreds of people weather, the crowd glimpsed a gathered in Trinity’s Front Square to witness the near-total solar eclipse. Associate Professor in Physics, Peter Gallagher partial eclipse thanks to high- and colleagues organised ECLIPSE 2015. Despite the inclem- ent weather, the crowd glimpsed a partial eclipse thanks to tech telescopes and specially high-tech telescopes and specially designed eclipse shades. On-going annual synergies with national events designed eclipse shades. included Trinity welcoming the public on campus for Culture Night in September and Open House in October. As part of the Dublin’s New Year’s Eve festival, Trinity’s front façade was lit up with animated illuminations, and again for St Patrick’s Day. Panti Bliss swung open Trinity’s iconic Front Gate for the official launch of Discover Research Dublin 2015. Organised by Trinity and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the RIGHT – Dr Patrick Prendergast views the near-total solar eclipse in Front event allows the public to get up close and personal with the Square at ECLIPSE 2015 world of research. Trinity College Dublin — The University of Dublin Annual Review 2014–2015 44 | 45 05.0 Public Engagement LEFT – Panti Bliss opens Front BELOW – Trinity’s front façade Gate for the official launch of lit up on New Year’s Eve 05 Discover Research Dublin 2015 The Board of Trinity decided not to adopt a formal position on the marriage referendum, but to facilitate the use of the college as a public forum where important national issues can be discussed. The public forum held in May and chaired by the Registrar, Professor Shane Allwright, brought together a panel representing different shades of opinion. Also in May, the Trinity Long Room Hub invited Impac-winning author, Colm Tóibín to speak about his experience. His talk, ‘The Embrace of Love, Being Gay in Ireland Now’ made international headlines. Exhibitions Science Gallery Dublin held four exhibitions in 2014/15, curated As part of Engineers Ireland’s ‘Engineer’s Week’, by Trinity staff and guest curators: Blood: not for the faint- Professor Roger West from the School of Engineering visited St hearted; Lifelogging: do you count?; Home/Sick: post domestic Oliver Plunkett National School with an engineering challenge: bliss; and Secret: nothing to see here. The main exhibition in the to build the tallest tower possible from a single broadsheet, Long Room was Upon the Wild Waves: A Journey Through Myth capable of supporting an egg on top for five seconds, using in Children’s Books which celebrated the wealth of children’s only sellotape and scissors. The winning team got to leave literature held in the Library. hand-prints in an environmentally friendly concrete slab. In February a group of patients with respiratory Online initiatives are part of Trinity’s outreach activ- illnesses breathed new understanding into their condition ities, with staff and students encouraged to find innovative through a photography exhibition organised by Trinity’s School ways of disseminating knowledge online. Three showcase of Nursing and Midwifery and St James’s Hospital, on display initiatives were launched this year: With 66 separate exhibits, and using a variety of of Seoul National University and Dr Rajiv Narayan, International in Ballyfermot Library. — Inspired by coffee house culture, KaffeeHouse.com opens digital and traditional formats, Discover Research Dublin fea- Commission Against the Death Penalty. The Suas 8x8 Photographic Exhibition was displayed up access to the world’s literary classics by allowing users to tured something for everyone: 3D visualisations of the brain, The First Up series of lunchtime talks from ‘creative outside the Berkeley Library as part of a development-focused break through language barriers and connect with writers, colourful visualisations of music played with magnetised minds at the forefront of Irish culture, science and the arts’ arts festival organised by Suas with the Trinity International publishers, translators and readers worldwide. The website instruments, real-time experiments to find out which bacteria took place between November 2014 and April 2015. Speakers Development Initiative (TIDI) and the Students’ Union. The was founded by two PhD students, Dr Emmett Tracy (Classics) live in our mouths, behind the scenes at the Trinity Biomedical as diverse as Cathal Gaffney (co-founder Brown Bag Films), images focused on consumerism, climate change, and inno- and Dr Kevin Koidl (Computer Science), in collaboration with Sciences Institute, and much more. Dorothy Cross (visual artist) and Aisling Rogerson (co-founder vative solutions to development challenges. Dr Peter Arnds, Director of Trinity’s postgraduate programmes Fumbally Café) were invited to tell their own stories and talk Trinity campus hosted five life-size fibreglass pigs in Literary Translation and Comparative Literature. Public Lectures about making ideas happen. First Up is a collaboration between as part of the Pigs on Parade public arts initiative, in aid of — The ‘1641 Depositions Bridge 21 website’, aimed at second The University hosts a range of public lectures organised Trinity’s M.Phil in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, the Jack & Jill Foundation. The project involved 100 pigs being level students, was created by a team of Trinity historians in by its research institutes, centres, and schools. 2015 was Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub. decorated by Irish artists and displayed in iconic Dublin sites, collaboration with educational innovators Bridge21. The 1641 declared International Year of Light by UNESCO, and that was The Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at the School before being auctioned for the Foundation. Depositions comprise a collection of 8,000 witness statements the theme of this year’s Trinity Week. The public were invited to of English celebrated the career of the great contemporary taken during and after the Irish Confederate Wars and the events demonstrating the properties of light, with Professor Irish poet and Trinity alumnus, Derek Mahon, in April with a Beyond the Campus Cromwellian conquest. The new website, which was launched Robert Eason from the Optoelectronics Research Centre in the performance featuring actor Stephen Rea and a lecture by Trinity demonstrated leadership with the launch of National by the secretary general of the Department of Education and University of Southampton giving the keynote talk “Photonics: Hugh Haughton, Professor of English at the University of York. College Awareness Week in November 2014. The brainchild Skills, Seán Ó Foghlú, contains 21st century learning activities Tripping the Light Fantastic”. Each day was topped and tailed Trinity hosted ‘After Charlie Hebdo: A Public Forum of Kathleen O’Toole-Brennan, programme manager with the to embed and contextualise the learning. by a ‘Sunrise’ sporting activity and an evening ‘Disco Lights’ on Religion, Freedom and Human Rights’ in February, inviting Trinity Access Programme, the initiative was launched by the — Earth and planetary researchers from the School of Natural spin or Zumba class in the Sports Centre. experts from the School of Law, and the Departments of History Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan. Over 360 Science launched ‘Beautiful-Mars’ website in Irish to encour- Marking the 70th anniversary of the division of the and Near and Middle Eastern Studies to speak. The event, activities were held in schools and communities round Ireland, age budding scientists to learn about the Red Planet, and to Korean peninsula, Trinity’s Centre for Post-Conflict Justice attended by over 300 people, aimed to counter simplified with the goal of celebrating the benefits of going to college, engage school children with learning Irish. With a website, held a public lecture in August 2015: ‘Rights in the Korean narratives on questions around religious fundamentalism, supporting students to become ‘college ready’, and showcasing Tumblr and dedicated Twitter feed (@HiRISEIrish), this is the Peninsula: Challenges to Peacebuilding’, and invited two leading terrorism and freedom of speech by facilitating respectful local role models who attend college. only Irish-language resource from an active NASA mission. international human rights experts — Professor Bo-Hyuk Suh public discussion of the Paris terrorist attacks. Trinity College Dublin — The University of Dublin Annual Review 2014–2015 46 | 47 ≥ To read the full publication, please click here OFFICE OF THE PROVOST House 1, Trinity College Dublin 2, Ireland – T + 353 1 896 4362 E [email protected] W www.tcd.ie Trinity College Dublin — The University of Dublin Annual Review 2014–2015 02 | 03.
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