Editing Trinity College Dublin (section)

==History==
===First 50 years===
[[File:KellsFol007vMadonnaChild.jpg|thumb|The [[Book of Kells]] is the most famous of the volumes in the Trinity College Library. Shown here are the Madonna and Child from Kells (folio 7v).]]

A [[medieval University of Dublin]] was founded in 1320 under a papal brief issued by [[Pope Clement V]] in 1311,<ref>London: Newman, Cardinal Henry; The Rise and Progress of Universities, Chapter 17 (The Ancient University of Dublin), 207–212</ref> and the university maintained an intermittent existence at [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St. Patrick's Cathedral]] over the following centuries, but it did not flourish and finally came to an end during the [[Reformation in Ireland|Reformation]] period. After that, and some debate about a new university at St. Patrick's Cathedral, in 1592 a small group of Dublin citizens obtained a charter by way of [[letters patent]] from Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]],<ref group="Note" name=letterspatent>
Extracts from Letters Patent ("First or Foundation Charter") of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and establish a College, mother of a (the) University, near the town of Dublin for the better education, training and instruction of Anglo-Protestant scholars and students in our realm...and also that provision should be made...for the relief and support of a provost and some fellows and scholars...it shall be called THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY NEAR DUBLIN FOUNDED BY THE MOST SERENE QUEEN ELIZABETH."</ref> incorporating Trinity College at the former site of the disbanded Augustinian [[Priory of All Hallows]], immediately southeast of the city walls, provided by the [[Dublin Corporation|Corporation of Dublin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.ie/info/trinity/history/ |title=Trinity Information – About Trinity College – History of Trinity College |website=The University of Dublin |access-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213221501/http://www.tcd.ie/info/trinity/history/ |archive-date=13 December 2007}}</ref>

The college's first provost was the [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]], [[Adam Loftus (Archbishop)|Adam Loftus]] (after whose former college at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] the institution was named),<ref name="Breaking down Trinity's shield"/> and he was provided with two initial Fellows, [[James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye|James Hamilton]] and [[James Fullerton (courtier)|James Fullerton]]. Two years after the foundation, a few Fellows and students began to work in the new college, which then lay around one small square.<ref name=":2" />

During the initial 50 years following the foundation, the community increased the endowments, considerable landed estates were secured, and new fellowships and academic chairs were established.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxlkQgAACAAJ|title=Trinity College Dublin, the First 400 Years|first1=John |last1=Victor Luce |publisher=Trinity College Dublin Press|year=1992|location=Dublin|isbn=978-1-871408-06-5 }}</ref> The books which formed the foundation of the great library were acquired, either by private purchase or donations, a curriculum was devised, and statutes were framed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.in/Trinity-College-Library-Dublin-History-ebook/dp/B00J8LQMZE|title=Trinity College Library Dublin: A History|first1=Peter|last1=Fox|location=Dublin|year=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>

===18th and 19th centuries===
[[File:DUBLIN(1837) p041 TRINITY COLLEGE.jpg|thumb|Main entrance (1837)]]
[[File:Bram Stoker1.jpg|thumb|[[Bram Stoker]], Trinity graduate and author of ''[[Dracula]]'']]
During the 18th century, Trinity College was seen as the university of the Protestant Ascendancy. The [[Parliament of Ireland]], meeting on the other side of [[College Green, Dublin|College Green]], made generous grants for building the College's 18th-century neoclassical Parliament square.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Early History Of Trinity College Dublin, 1591-1660: As Told In Contemporary Records On Occasion Of Its Tercentenary (1892)|first1=William|last1=Urwick|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2010|location=USA|isbn=978-1165759064 }}</ref> The first building of this period was the [[Library of Trinity College Dublin|Old Library]], begun in 1712, followed by [[The Printing House]] and the Dining Hall. During the second half of the century, the Parliament Square slowly emerged. The great building drive was mostly completed by the early 19th century with the inauguration of the Botany Bay, the square which derives its name in part from the herb garden it once contained.<ref>{{cite book |title=Trinity College, Dublin (1902)|first1=William Macneile|last1=Dixon|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2010|location=USA|id={{ASIN|1165158132|country=in}} }}</ref> Today, the square contains Trinity College's own Botanic Gardens.

The 19th century was also marked by important developments in the professional schools. The law school was reorganized after the middle of the century.<ref>{{cite book |title=Trinity College, Dublin (1902)|first1=William Macneile|last1=Dixon|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|year=2010|location=USA|id={{ASIN|1165158132|country=in}} }}</ref> Medical studies had been taught in the college since 1711, but it was only after the establishment of the school on a firm basis by legislation in 1800, and under the inspiration of one Macartney, that it was in a position to play its full part, with such teachers as Graves and Stokes, in the great age of Dublin medicine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61000|title=The Book of Trinity College Dublin (1591-1891)|publisher=Trinity College Dublin Press|date=January 2020|first1=John|last1=Campbell|location=Ireland}}</ref> The Engineering School was established in 1842, and was among the first of its kind in Ireland and Britain.<ref name=":2" />

====Access and religion====
Trinity was originally the university of the [[Protestant Ascendancy]] ruling elite for much of its history, given the conditions for its establishment.<ref name="Leuven University Press"/> While Catholics were admitted from the college's foundation, for a period, graduation required the taking of an oath that was objectionable to them.<ref name=maxwellhistory>{{cite book |last1=Maxwell |first1=Constantia |date=1946 |title=A History of Trinity College Dublin 1591–1892 |url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/history-trinity-college-dublin-1591-1892/author/maxwell-constantia |publisher=Dublin: The University Press}}</ref> This requirement was removed under the [[Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793]], before the equivalent change at the [[University of Cambridge]] and the [[University of Oxford]], but certain restrictions on membership of the college remained; professorships, fellowships and scholarships remained reserved only for Protestants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/about/history|title=History of Trinity College Dublin|location=Dublin}}</ref><ref name=maxwellhistory/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/acts/relief_act_1793.htm|title=Catholic Relief Act, 1793, section 13|website=members.pcug.org.au|access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=6 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406190505/http://members.pcug.org.au/%7Eppmay/acts/relief_act_1793.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 1845, [[Denis Caulfield Heron]] was the subject of a hearing at Trinity College. He had previously been examined and, on merit, been declared a Scholar of the college, but had not been allowed to take up his place due to his [[Catholic]] religion.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2024/02/11/legal-eagle-brian-maye-on-lawyer-and-parliamentarian-denis-caulfield-heron|title=Legal eagle — Brian Maye on lawyer and parliamentarian Denis Caulfield Heron|publisher=The Irish Times |first1=Brian|last1=Maye|date=February 2024|location=Ireland}}</ref> Heron appealed to the Irish courts, which issued a writ of {{lang|la|[[mandamus]]}} requiring the case to be adjudicated by the [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]] and the [[Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland)|Primate of Ireland]].<ref>[[The Times]], ''Important Collegiate Question., Denis C. Heron'' 13 December 1845; pg3 col E</ref> The decision of [[Richard Whately]] and [[John George de la Poer Beresford]] was that Heron would remain excluded from Scholarship.<ref>The Times; ''Ireland. Protestant Alliance''; 9 January 1846; pg5 col D</ref> This decision confirmed that students who were not [[Anglicans]] ([[Presbyterians]] were also affected) could not be elected as Scholars, Fellows, or be made a professor. Within three decades of this, however, all disabilities and restrictions imposed on Catholics were repealed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/miscellany/docs/misc_hilary_term_2023/s/22727220|title=Slow Surrender: Trinity and the Inclusion of Catholics|publisher=MISC Magazine, Trinity College Dublin|year=2023|location=Ireland}}</ref> In 1873, all religious tests, except for those relating to entry to the [[Divinity school]], were abolished by an [[Act of Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1834/may/08/catholics-and-trinity-college-dublin|title=CATHOLICS AND TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. |website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|access-date=6 April 2011|archive-date=19 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119014731/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1834/may/08/catholics-and-trinity-college-dublin|date=8 May 1834|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1871, just prior to the full repeal of all limitations on Catholic students, Irish Catholic bishops, responding to the increased ease with which Catholics could attend an institution which the bishops saw as thoroughly Protestant in ethos, and in light of the establishment of the [[Catholic University of Ireland]], implemented a general ban on Catholics entering Trinity College, with few exceptions.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pašeta |first1=Senia |year=1998 |title=Trinity College, Dublin, and the Education of Irish Catholics, 1873–1908 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20495087 |journal=Studia Hibernica |number=30 |pages=7–20 |jstor=20495087 |access-date=13 September 2020 |archive-date=23 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123145946/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20495087 |url-status=live }}</ref> "The ban", despite its longevity, is associated in the popular mind with the [[Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic)|Archbishop of Dublin]] [[John Charles McQuaid]], as he was made responsible for enforcing it from 1956 until the Catholic Bishops of Ireland rescinded it in 1970, shortly before McQuaid's retirement. Until 1956, it was the responsibility of each local bishop.<ref name=":2" />

===20th century===
[[File:A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours (1919) (14763653831).jpg|thumb|[[Campanile (Trinity College Dublin)|Campanile]] (pre-1899)]]
[[File:Trinity College library.jpg|thumb|Interior of the [[Library of Trinity College Dublin|Old Library]]]]
In April 1900, [[Queen Victoria]] visited College Green in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/4115/|title=Queen Victoria's Royal visit to Dublin, Ireland, 4th April – 26th April, 1900|last=L'Estrange|first=Robert Augustus Henry|year=1900|website=digitalcollections.qut.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-02-12|archive-date=5 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205184509/https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/4115/|url-status=live}}</ref> Women were admitted to Trinity College as full members for the first time in 1904.<ref name="McDowellWebb1982">{{cite book|author1=Robert Brendan McDowell|author2=David Allardice Webb|title=Trinity College, Dublin, 1592–1952: An Academic History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_QC7AAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-23931-8|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505221403/https://books.google.com/books?id=_QC7AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1904 to 1907, women from Oxford and Cambridge, who were admitted but not granted degrees, came to Trinity College to receive their [[ad eundem degree|''ad eundum'' degree]]; they were known as [[Steamboat ladies]] and the fees they paid helped to fund [[Trinity Hall, Dublin|Trinity Hall]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rayner-Canham|first=Marelene F.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/665046168|title=Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880–1949|date=2008|publisher=Imperial College Press|others=Geoffrey Rayner-Canham|isbn=978-1-86094-987-6|location=London|page=560|oclc=665046168|access-date=28 May 2021|archive-date=26 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626163045/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/665046168|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1907, the [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] proposed the reconstitution of the [[University of Dublin]]. A "Dublin University Defence Committee" was created and successfully campaigned against any change to the status quo, while the Catholic bishops' rejection of the idea ensured its failure among the Catholic population.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} Chief among the bishops' concerns was the remains of the Catholic University of Ireland, which would become subsumed into a new university, which on account of Trinity College would be part Anglican. Ultimately this episode led to the creation of the [[National University of Ireland]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Trinity College was one of the targets of the Volunteer and Citizen Army forces during the 1916 [[Easter Rising]] but was successfully defended by a small number of unionist students,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Soldiers are we |first=Charles |last=Townshend |journal=[[History Today]] |author-link=Charles Townshend (historian) |date=1 April 2006 |pages=163–164}}</ref> most of whom were members of the university [[Officers' Training Corps]]. From July 1917 to March 1918, the [[Irish Convention]] met in the college in an attempt to address the political aftermath of the Easter Rising. Subsequently, following the failure of the convention to reach "substantial agreement", the [[Irish Free State]] was set up in 1922.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In the post-independence period, Trinity College suffered from a cool relationship with the new state.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} On 3 May 1955, the provost, A.J. McConnell, wrote in the ''[[Irish Times]]'' that certain state-funded County Council scholarships excluded Trinity College from the list of approved institutions. This, he suggested, amounted to religious discrimination, which was forbidden by the Constitution.<ref name=":2" /> 

It has also been said of the period before Ireland left the Commonwealth that, "The overwhelming majority of the undergraduates were ex-unionists or, if from Northern Ireland, unionists. Loyalty to the Crown was instinctive and they were proud to be British subjects and Commonwealth citizens", and that "The College still clung, so far as circumstances permitted, to its pre-Treaty loyalties, symbolized by the flying of the Union Jack on suitable occasions and a universal wearing of poppies on Armistice Day, the chapel being packed for the two minutes' silence followed by a lusty rendering of 'God Save the King...". "But by the close of the 1960s... Trinity, with the overwhelming majority of its undergraduate population coming from the Republic, to a great extent conformed to local patterns".<ref>{{cite book |last=McDowell |first=R.B |author-link=R. B. McDowell |date=1997 |title=Crisis and Decline – the Fate of the Southern Unionists |location=Dublin |publisher=The Lilliput Press |pages=173, 204, 175 |isbn=1-874675-92-9}}</ref>

The School of Commerce was established in 1925, and the School of Social Studies in 1934. Also in 1934, the first female professor was appointed.<ref name=":2" />

{{quote box|align=right|width=25em|quote=Young men may loot, perjure and shoot<br />And even have carnal knowledge.<br />But however depraved, their souls will be saved<br />If they don't go to Trinity College.|source=—verse popular in the 1950s, at the height of Archbishop McQuaid's efforts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/the-strange-ways-of-a-control-freak-521486.html|title=The strange ways of a 'control freak' – Independent.ie|access-date=27 September 2018|archive-date=26 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026012605/http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/the-strange-ways-of-a-control-freak-521486.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

In 1944, the Archbishop of Dublin [[John Charles McQuaid]] required Catholics in the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin|Dublin archdiocese]] to obtain a special dispensation before entering the university, under threat of automatic [[excommunication]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} The ban was extended nationally at the Plenary Synod of Maynooth in August 1956.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Peter |last2=Feeney |first2=Maria |date=2016 |title=Church, state and social science in Ireland: Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937–73 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5p57 |location=Manchester |publisher=Manchester University Press |jstor=j.ctv18b5p57 |isbn=9781526100788 |access-date=6 July 2021 |archive-date=10 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710004555/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5p57 |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite this sectarianism, 1958 saw the first Catholic reach the Board of Trinity as a [[Senior fellow]].<ref name=":2" />{{Failed verification|date=December 2021}}

In 1962 the School of Commerce and the School of Social Studies amalgamated to form the School of Business and Social Studies.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In 1969 several schools and departments were grouped into Faculties as follows: Arts (Humanities and Letters); Business, Economic and Social Studies; Engineering and Systems Sciences; Health Sciences (since October 1977 all undergraduate teaching in dental science in the Dublin area has been in Trinity College); and Science.<ref name=":2" />

In the late 1960s, there was a proposal for [[University College Dublin]], of the National University of Ireland, to become a constituent college of a newly reconstituted University of Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|last=O'Dubhlaing|first=Seán|year=1997|title=Donogh O'Malley and the Free Post Primary Education Scheme|url=http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5169/1/Sean_O_Dubhlaing_20140708083500.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-26|website=[[Maynooth University]]|archive-date=10 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410223239/http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5169/1/Sean_O_Dubhlaing_20140708083500.pdf}}</ref> This plan, suggested by [[Brian Lenihan Snr|Brian Lenihan]] and [[Donogh O'Malley]], was dropped after officials of both universities opposed it.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qN-jf5dN7QAC&q=trinity|title=Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s|first=Diarmaid|last=Ferriter|date=1 November 2012|publisher=Profile Books|isbn=978-1847658562|via=Google Books|access-date=14 December 2021|archive-date=13 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913012913/https://books.google.com/books?id=qN-jf5dN7QAC&q=trinity|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1970 the Catholic Church lifted its ban on Catholics attending the college without special dispensation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Trinity College Ban Lifted |url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0610/1146599-catholic-trinity-college-ban-lifted/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=RTÉ Archives |language=en}}</ref> At the same time, Trinity College authorities invited the appointment of a Catholic chaplain to be based in the college.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iol.ie/~duacon/nl19-3.htm |last=McCarthy |first=Eamonn |title=Soline Vatinel, The Archbishop and Me |publisher=B.A.S.I.C. Brothers and Sisters in Christ Praying and Working for the Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church |date=22 January 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027114922/http://www.iol.ie/~duacon/nl19-3.htm |access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=27 October 2019 }}</ref> There are now two such Catholic chaplains.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcd.ie/chaplaincy/roman-catholic/ |title=Roman Catholic Chaplaincy |publisher=Trinity College Dublin }}</ref>

From 1975, the Colleges of Technology that later formed the [[Dublin Institute of Technology]] had their degrees conferred by the University of Dublin.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} This arrangement was discontinued in 1998 when the DIT obtained degree-granting powers of its own.<ref name=":4">{{cite ISB|title=Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992|year=1992|num=15|access-date=4 May 2023|date=19 July 1992|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801110351/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1992/act/15/enacted/en/html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Trinity College Dublin)|School of Pharmacy]] was established in 1977, and around the same time, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was transferred to [[University College Dublin]] in exchange for its Dental School.<ref name=":2" /> Student numbers increased sharply during the 1980s and 1990s, with total enrolment more than doubling, leading to pressure on resources and a subsequent investment programme.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In 1991, Thomas Noel Mitchell became the first Roman Catholic elected Provost of Trinity College.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/tn_mitchell.php|title=Thomas Noel Mitchell – Provost & President |website=Trinity College Dublin |access-date=21 January 2018|archive-date=24 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124172924/https://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/tn_mitchell.php|url-status=dead }}</ref>

===21st century===
[[File:Science Gallery Dublin on Pearse Street at Night.jpg|thumb|[[Science Gallery]], opened in 2008]]
Trinity College is today in the centre of Dublin. At the beginning of the new century, it embarked on a radical overhaul of academic structures to reallocate funds and reduce administration costs, resulting in, for instance, the reduction from six to five to eventually three faculties under a subsequent restructuring.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/faculties-may-be-let-opt-out-of-tcd-restructure-1.1167583|title=Restructuring of TCD faculties in 2004|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref> The ten-year strategic plan prioritises four research themes with which the college seeks to compete for funding at the global level. Comparative funding statistics reviewing the difference in departmental unit costs and overall costs before and after this restructuring are not apparent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.ie/about/content/pdf/TCDStrategicPlan2006_English.pdf|title=Strategic Plan Update 2006 |website=Trinity College Dublin|access-date=23 July 2016|archive-date=26 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826051326/http://www.tcd.ie/about/content/pdf/TCDStrategicPlan2006_English.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Hamilton Mathematics Institute]] in Trinity College, named in honour of [[William Rowan Hamilton]], was launched in 2005 and aims to improve the international profile of Irish mathematics, to raise public awareness of mathematics and to support local mathematical research through workshops, conferences and a visitor programme.<ref>{{cite web|title=About – Hamilton Mathematics Institute|url=https://www.tcd.ie/Hamilton/about/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506030444/https://www.tcd.ie/Hamilton/about/|archive-date=6 May 2021|access-date=2021-05-26|website=Trinity College Dublin}}</ref>

In 2021, [[Linda Doyle]] was elected the first woman Provost, succeeding Patrick Prendergast.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=O'Brien |first1=Carl|last2=McGreevy |first2=Ronan |title=Trinity College Dublin names Linda Doyle as first woman provost in 429 years |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/trinity-college-dublin-names-linda-doyle-as-first-woman-provost-in-429-years-1.4534221 |access-date=2021-05-04 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |issn=0791-5144 |location=Dublin |language=en-ie |archive-date=16 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416174909/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/trinity-college-dublin-names-linda-doyle-as-first-woman-provost-in-429-years-1.4534221 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ardill|first=Lisa|date=2021-04-12|title=Who is Linda Doyle, the newly elected provost of Trinity College Dublin?|url=https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/linda-doyle-provost-trinity-college-dublin|access-date=2021-05-04|website=Silicon Republic|language=en|archive-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504233943/https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/linda-doyle-provost-trinity-college-dublin|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2024, students set up an encampment outside the Book of Kells Museum regarding the university's ties to Israel. After five nights of protests, the administration declared that it would not renew its business relationships with Israeli companies, and the last contract will expire in March 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Borpujari |first=Priyanka |date=2024-05-27 |title=Inside the Student Movement that Forced Ireland's Trinity College to Divest from Israel |url=https://commonslibrary.org/inside-the-student-movement-that-forced-irelands-trinity-college-to-divest-from-israel/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref>