Humanities - History & Archeology

The donation was made by the Dublin Theatre Festival through the support of board member, Tom Clinch and his wife Méav Ní Mhaolchatha. A letter by Samuel Beckett has been donated by the Dublin Theatre Festival to the Library of Trinity College Dublin.

The public are being asked to help document and preserve Dublin's old bilingual street signs with their unique Gaelic typeface, which are fast disappearing from the Capital's streets, as part of a new digital humanities project led by Trinity College Dublin.

The discovery of a 2000-year-old fig in North Dublin highlights Ireland's long history of international food trade and a taste for exotic foods.

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labelled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically feature a narrow passage leading to an internal chamber, covered by a large circular mound.

To mark international Single Parents Day, Trinity College Dublin has partnered with One Family and Glasgow Caledonian University to launch a new campaign highlighting the history, lived experiences and misconceptions facing one-parent families, and to call on governments globally to develop better policies to support one-parent families.

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