Editing Trinity College Dublin (section)

==In popular culture==
The Irish writer [[J. P. Donleavy]] was a student in Trinity<ref>{{cite news |last=Dunn |first=Bill |title=JP Donleavy: Pioneering writer who fought and won battles against censorship |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jp-donleavy-pioneering-writer-who-fought-and-won-battles-against-censorship-1.3221456 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023705/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/jp-donleavy-pioneering-writer-who-fought-and-won-battles-against-censorship-1.3221456 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |access-date=2021-05-28 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |language=en}}</ref> and a number of his books feature characters who attend Trinity, including ''[[The Ginger Man]]'' and ''[[The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ginger Man |url=https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/the-ginger-man |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528202158/https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/the-ginger-man |archive-date=28 May 2021 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=The Lilliput Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=18 July 2018 |title=The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B |url=https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/the-beastly-beatitudes-of-balthazar-b |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528094206/https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/the-beastly-beatitudes-of-balthazar-b |archive-date=28 May 2021 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=The Lilliput Press |language=en-US}}</ref> 

Fictional Naval Surgeon [[Stephen Maturin]] of [[Patrick O'Brian]]'s popular [[Aubrey–Maturin series]] is a graduate of Trinity College.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Anthony Gary |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64688467 |title=The Patrick O'Brian Muster book: persons, animals, ships and cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin sea novels |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland & Co., Publishers |isbn=0-7864-2482-6 |edition=2nd |location=Jefferson, N.C. |oclc=64688467 |access-date=28 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713155604/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64688467 |archive-date=13 July 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The character is played by [[Paul Bettany]] in the 2003 film [[Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]].<ref name="french">{{cite news |last=French |first=Philip |date=22 November 2003 |title=Command performance |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/nov/23/features.review17 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126121841/https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/nov/23/features.review17 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |access-date=29 December 2022 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> [[Claire Kilroy]]'s novel ''All Names Have Been Changed'' is set in Trinity College in the 1990s. The story follows a group of creative writing students and their enigmatic professor. A photograph of Trinity is used in the cover art.<ref>{{cite news |last=Greenland |first=Colin |date=7 August 2009 |title=All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/all-names-have-been-changed |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030200840/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/all-names-have-been-changed |archive-date=30 October 2013 |access-date=24 July 2012 |work=The Guardian |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |quote=Trini}}</ref> 

[[Barry McCrea]]'s novel ''The First Verse'' is set in Trinity College. The narrative focuses on freshman Niall Lenihan's search for identity and companionship and details his involvement with mysticism at the college.<ref>{{Cite book |author=McCrea, Barry |url=https://archive.org/details/firstversenovel00mccr |title=The first verse : a novel |date=2005 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |isbn=0786715138 |edition=1st Carroll & Graf |location=New York |oclc=60345313 |url-access=registration}}</ref> In [[Karen Marie Moning]]'s ''The Fever Series'' Trinity College is said to be where the main character, MacKayla Lane's sister Alina, was attending school on scholarship before she was murdered. The college is also where several of the minor characters who inform Ms. Lane about her sister are said to work.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moning |first=Karen Marie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PnBQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2371 |title=The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned |date=2016-01-12 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-101-96860-4 |language=en |access-date=26 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026202448/https://books.google.com/books?id=PnBQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2371 |archive-date=26 October 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> 

In [[Cecelia Ahern]]'s novel ''[[Thanks for the Memories (novel)|Thanks for the Memories]]'', Justin Hitchcock is a guest lecturer at Trinity College.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reviews: Thanks for the Memories |url=http://www.cecelia-ahern.com/reviews/thanksforthememories |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706055812/http://cecelia-ahern.com/reviews/thanksforthememories |archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref>

Parts of ''[[Michael Collins (film)|Michael Collins]]'',<ref>{{cite web |first=Kevin |last=Rockett |author-link=Kevin Rockett |title=Michael Collins (1996) |work=Shot at Trinity |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |url=http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?film=michael-collins |access-date=20 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522104139/http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?film=michael-collins |archive-date=22 May 2015 }}</ref> ''[[The First Great Train Robbery]]'',<ref>{{cite web |first=David |last=Ingoldsby |title=The Great Train Robbery (1978) |work=Shot at Trinity |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |url=http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?post_type=film&p=83 |access-date=20 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522103842/http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?post_type=film&p=83 |archive-date=22 May 2015 }}</ref> ''[[Circle of Friends (1995 film)|Circle of Friends]]'',<ref>{{cite web |first=Ruth |last=Barton |title=Circle of Friends (1995) |work=Shot at Trinity |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |url=http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?film=circle-of-friends |access-date=20 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522103621/http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?film=circle-of-friends |archive-date=22 May 2015 }}</ref> ''[[Educating Rita (film)|Educating Rita]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Conolly |first=Jez |author2=Whelan, Caroline |title=World Film Locations: Dublin |publisher=Intellect Books |year=2011 |location=Bristol |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ce9MOsVbu-AC&pg=PA38 |isbn=978-1-84150-550-3 |issn=2045-9009 |access-date=17 October 2015 |archive-date=25 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425212000/https://books.google.com/books?id=ce9MOsVbu-AC&pg=PA38 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Ek Tha Tiger]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/news/type/view/id/1353285 |title=Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif to go back to college |website=[[Bollywood Hungama]] |date=20 July 2011 |access-date=24 July 2012 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205052/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/news/type/view/id/1353285 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''[[Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx]]''<ref>{{cite web |first=Aidan |last=Delaney |title=Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970) |work=Shot at Trinity |publisher=Trinity College Dublin |url=http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?film=quackser-fortune-has-a-cousin-in-the-bronx |access-date=20 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522103413/http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/?film=quackser-fortune-has-a-cousin-in-the-bronx |archive-date=22 May 2015}}</ref> were filmed in Trinity College. It served as the filming location for [[Luftwaffe]] headquarters in ''[[The Blue Max]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shot at Trinity |url=http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106164007/http://www.tcd.ie/film/shotattrinity/ |archive-date=2016-01-06 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=Trinity College Dublin}}</ref> In the Channel 4 television series ''[[Hollyoaks]]'', [[Craig Dean]] attends Trinity College.<ref>{{cite web |last=Green |first=Kris |date=2008-06-09 |title=Craig Dean returns to 'Hollyoaks' |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/hollyoaks/a98580/craig-dean-returns-to-hollyoaks/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125233435/https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/hollyoaks/a98580/craig-dean-returns-to-hollyoaks/ |archive-date=25 January 2021 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}}</ref> 

In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode [[Fair Haven (Star Trek: Voyager)|Fair Haven]] set in a holographic 19th century Ireland near Dublin, [[Kathryn Janeway|Captain Janeway]] reprograms the hologram character Michael Sullivan to have "the education of a 19th century 3rd year student at Trinity College".<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Fair Haven |episode-link=Fair Haven (Star Trek: Voyager) |series=Star Trek: Voyager |series-link=Star Trek: Voyager |date=12 January 2000 |season=6 |number=11 |transcript=chakoteya |transcript-url=http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/610.htm |quote=Give him the education of a nineteenth century third year student at Trinity College.}}</ref>

In [[Sally Rooney]]'s 2018 novel ''[[Normal People]]'' and its 2020 [[Normal People (TV series)|television adaptation]], the main characters, Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan, are students at Trinity College and are elected scholars.<ref>{{cite web |title=Normal People |url=https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571334643-normal-people.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310135604/https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571334643-normal-people.html |archive-date=10 March 2020 |access-date=26 February 2020 |website=Public Store View}}</ref> Rooney studied English as a scholar in Trinity.<ref>{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Clare |title=10 things in Sally Rooney's Normal People that only Irish people understand |url=https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/10-things-sally-rooneys-normal-people-irish-people-will-understand-176370 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902191935/https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/10-things-sally-rooneys-normal-people-irish-people-will-understand-176370 |archive-date=2 September 2021 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=The Irish Post}}</ref> 

In the television adaptation, Connell is played by former Trinity College ([[The Lir Academy]]) student [[Paul Mescal]]; two other actors in the series, Frank Blake (who plays Marianne's older brother Alan) and [[Kwaku Fortune]] (who plays Philip, a friend of Marianne's at Trinity), are also alumni of the Lir Academy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Mescal |url=https://www.thelir.ie/students/paul-mescal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417211605/https://thelir.ie/students/paul-mescal |archive-date=17 April 2021 |access-date=2021-05-28 |website=The Lir Academy |language=en}}</ref> Series director and executive producer [[Lenny Abrahamson]] studied philosophy at Trinity and was also elected a scholar.<ref>{{cite web |title=Commercials Directors |website=The Irish Film & Television Network |url=http://www.iftn.ie/commercials/whoswho/whoswho_sub/commercialsdirectors/?act1=record&aid=24&rid=177&only=1&force=1&tpl=whoswho_dets |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116082108/http://www.iftn.ie/commercials/whoswho/whoswho_sub/commercialsdirectors/?act1=record&aid=24&rid=177&only=1&force=1&tpl=whoswho_dets |archive-date=16 January 2020 |access-date=2021-05-28}}</ref> Following the broadcast of the series, Trinity was widely reported to have received a substantial increase in applications, to a total of over 40,000, including a small increase in applications from the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Brien |first=Carl |date=10 July 2020 |title=Trinity gets 'Normal People bounce' with record application numbers |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/trinity-gets-normal-people-bounce-with-record-application-numbers-1.4300498 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520162125/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/trinity-gets-normal-people-bounce-with-record-application-numbers-1.4300498 |archive-date=20 May 2021 |access-date=9 August 2021 |newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>

The [[Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture]] in Dublin's [[Merrion Square]] depicts Wilde wearing the Trinity College postgraduate tie.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Sarah |title=Sculpting Irishness: a discussion of Dublin's commemorative statues of Oscar Wilde and Phil Lynott |url=https://www.academia.edu/4042930 |journal=Sculpture Journal |year=2012 |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=71–82 |doi=10.3828/sj.2012.6 |issn=1366-2724 |access-date=28 May 2021 |archive-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801010142/http://www.academia.edu/4042930/Sculpting_Irishness_A_Discussion_of_Dublins_Commemorative_Statues_of_Oscar_Wilde_and_Phil_Lynott |url-status=live}}</ref>