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Trinity News Archive Dublin T ¯ ¯ Thursday, 9th February, 1967 rlnlty trinit Vol. XIV, No. 9 Price Fourpence Dublin .University Undergraduate Nempaper isolated, BRENDAN KENNELLY rejuvenates CAREERS SUPPLEMENT 1967 on " THE CHANGING Face of Ireland" is Icarus with his handpicked committee. Their pages 4, 5 and 6 includes articles by graduates a new film by Peter Lennon o[ the Guardian expeffence is minimal, the magazine’s debt is on the general training course with the BBC, Will it be banned here in his own country? says Eliz. £270. But Kennelly’s power is enormou~s. Bill Retail Stores, Personal Management, and His cinema exposition on a Church-controlled Bowder writes on the new management in a V.S.O. The introduction m bythe Appoint- state is discussed on page 7. news /eature on page 2. ments OHicer ~ is on page 4. President Sea~ Vv’almsley "Trinity and Ireland" was the .’( ,?, subject of Janet Moody’s’inaugu- PLAYERS BOOKS ral address to the Elizabethan Society on Tuesday of last week. Miss Moody recounted the Uni- versity’s traditional isolation from IN CONFUSI’ON its Irish environment, and warned: "this was not altogether an unhealthy state of affairs . It is not the function if a Univer- 1L sity to lead in politics.. ’ with the £250 loan must be establishment of the National Uni- versity early this century, "Trinity, i’, looking still to England, found repaid by June that she had retained her indepen- !i. dence but increased her isolation." Today, the institution was still BY KEN RUSHTON aloof, but "the staff have taken more civic responsibility than ever "We’ll work it out", said Douglas Henderson, Chairman of Players. before in this century." He has been asked to submit a report on Players’ finances to the Standing Miss Moody quoted Patrick Committee on 27 February, and sees tittle chance of the books arriving Kavanagh: "one of the things in time to prepare a report. that is wrong with Trinity is that the raw healthy vulgarity of the After leaving College for England, last year’s Treasurer, jeremy Bell, whole country is not being poured asked for various bills and receipts to be sent to him, insisting that he into it",~in the context of the should complete the books himself. These papers were lost, and could Ban on Catholics in Trinity. "The not be found until the middle of last term when they were discovered continuation of this situation pre- ]eremy Bell, who was last year’s Treasurer of Players. sents the real danger that we will to have been in the wrong file. become more isolated . rather Bell was taking so long over the like a permane~ international job that two ex-Treasurers with summer school, divorced from the ,:i:7 more experience were recently ask- community as a whole." ’i: [+ Irish play wins ed to help him. Even so Hender- son estimates the task is still only Shoe shines raffle tickets Also speaking to the packed G.M.B. were Professor Denis awards half completed, and this year’s @ @ Treasurer, Fred Middleton flew Donoghue of U.C.D., Dr. Brian The Cumann Gaelach produc- over last weekend to find out the reward Famine Rel,ef Inglis, and Mr. Jack White. "!!:i !!~i tion of John B~ Keane’s play "The position. Professor W. B. Stanford said Year of the Hiker", was Trinity’s "We decided to make a big Today sees the dosing stages there was still "an abyss" between entry in the Feile Dramaiochta an effort to get solvent again. This of Trinity’s annual Famine Relief Trinity and Ireland. Many people Comhchaidhrimh, (the Irish equi- backlog of debts has been in- Week. New literary in Ireland regarded the name valent of U.D.A.~ last weekend curred by producers without the Again this year Front Gate has "’Elizabethan" as execrable, and in Galway. knowledge of the Treasurer," said been the scene of shoe shiners and revival abhorred the fact that a portrait One of the cast, Frankie Wat- Henderson. raffle ticket sellers. Earlier this After the arrival, departure and of FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare son, won the best actress award of Bell erred in asking for only week a Folk Song Concert was dismissal of the unfortunate Icarus should still hang in the Examina- the Festival, while David Wagstaff £300 for the Bradford Festival held in the Examination Hall and last term, literature seemed silen- tion Hall. On the Ban, Professor the fasters were back in O’Connell who played the Hiker, was awarded from the Standing Committee ced for at least one term. This Stanford said it was "utterly per- ::~ i!( the runner’s up prize in the best when the total cost was £600. Also Street. To-day the flag sellers are week however, third year arts mcious from the natural point of % actors’ section. The play itself he underestimated the probable out and there will be a Buttery student Hayden Murphy has made view". Three forces would causse ii" came second in the overall placings. receipts from last Summer’s Revue dance tomorrow. Geoff Stone, a new, exciting and commendable its removal: liberal nationalism, ,i i,:~ ’Farrago’. Clansman of the week hope that contribution towards a premature the ecumenical movement, and the The play was put on in Players people are getting some return for at the beginning of the week, and resurrection. recognition today that all forms Grant in Jeopardy their money but he says "I’m not This is a broadsheet of poetry of raciahsm and credalism stink. was the first time an Irish language sure how far we ha~e actually play has ever been seen in Players. Bills were allowed to accumu- and prose including among its late; one for £100 for building succeeded." twenty-six contributors Brendan L:( It is hoped that this new venture The aim of the week is to raise will become an annual event in dressing rooms went back five years Kennelly, Geoff Thurly, John £2,000, which will be divided bet- Montague, and twenty three other Hodges Players. and was paid only this year by the Figgis Standing Committee. tween GORTA, the Irish Famine young writers, many of whom are Relief organisation, the save the appearing in print for the first Y Unless Players can supply a re- children’s Fund and WUS. time. In this it is providing a plat- Hodges ,iii port, it appears unlikely that they form for both the traditional and Figgis New laws for Phil will get a grant for next year. experimental notable among its Henderson has a personal interest Attempted suicide experiments are the ’concrete’ Hodges in acquiring such a grant, since he poems and an excellent translation Next week, after a lapse of over Figgis 60 years, a new printed edition of received a loan in the Autumn of in Front Square of surrealist poet Andre Breton by "i the Phil. Laws will be on sale. £250 from a member, which must French lecturer Jean Paul Pittion. i, be repaid by June. Unless he can The large black cat, constantly The broadsheet is attractively Said Secretary Geoffrey Good- persuade the Standing Committee Hodges nick, "It is all tied up with the seen sneaking around Front Square, laid out and reasonably priced. It to guarantee this debt he will have made an unsuccessful attempt to is a welcome arrival on Dublin’s current spirit of the Society. The to ’fork ore’ himself. literary scene. Figgis agreed need at present is to bolster commit suicide on Monday morn- up the Private Business meetings Henderson believes that the ing. It was noticed sitting on a and this means knowledge and use grant should be calculated on the third floor window sill with a sad "’Unzip" retained Hodges of the Laws". basis of how much the Chairman faraway look in its eye at about thinks is necessary for the coming 10.00 a.m. by second year student Malachy Lawles’s play "Unzip" i year’s productions, rather than Kevin Rowers. Said Bowers "I is going on again in Players today Figgis according to how much was spent didn’t suspect that anything was and to-morrow at 4.15 p.m. PLAYERS TO U.K. the previous year. Brian William- wrong." At 10.30 it decided to It will be shown with Accrabats son of the Standing Committee take the ultimate step, and launch- "The Two Executioners", the "Green Julia", the two act play thought Henderson was wanting to ed itself into the air. However second of Lawless’s recent produc- Hodges which was on in Player’s last week, request money as he needed it when it landed it merely rolled tion of three one-act plays. The has been chosen to represent Trin- from time to time, but he was in over a few times and then slunk third play, "The Lesson" will un- Figgis ity at the Liverpool Festival of favour of giving Players a larger away into No. 9. Said Bowers fortunately not be repeated. There i I: new plays in April. termly or annual grant. "It was just looking for sympathy." will be one cast change. ,i trinity news thursday 9th february~page two Letters to the trinity news Editor Icarus 50B Icarus was dead and is alive again. Why? A new "small size" 50-60 page magazine is now at the printers. Committee, editors and censor are Dear Sir, all moving towards its culmination in apparent harmony. How? It is with deep regret that I With a debt of £270, incredibly Icarus has submitted estimates June or September? publicly take issue with my re- assuring the college that it will break even on this new edition.
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