When I think back to the last time I went to the theatre to see a musical, colour is the first thing that comes to mind. You walk into an impressive room, squint against the stage lights, then take in … Continue reading How 36 Questions: A Podcast Musical Encourages an Absent Audience’s Imagination Through Sound What Makes Non-Visual Theatre Succeed?
Sophie Eastwood is a first year student at Trinity who loves to read, write, and experience new things. These four poems are part of TN2’s ongoing poetry series, “Line Break” that platforms exciting new poets from Trinity. If you would like your poetry … Continue reading Line Break Volume 4
Illustration by Linde Vergeylen. A 90’s style small paperback. A man on the cover, his white blouse billowing. It barely covers his abs. A wide eyed woman gazes at him adoringly, her hair flowing behind her. The book itself … Continue reading Romance novels High Art or cheap pulp?
Illustration by Linde Vergeylen I have fallen in love, not for the first time but the second. And it is because of your second love that you realise, that you can, indeed, fall in love again. That love is not … Continue reading Second Loves A personal essay on the beauty of what comes after your first love
‘Grief’, a five-letter word carrying the weight of everything left unsaid; the ‘could have’ and ‘should have beens’. How particularly cruel is the monosyllabic nature of this word, of ‘pain’, ‘woe’ and the archaic ‘dole’. They need only be whispered, … Continue reading Four Weddings and Funeral Blues
Originally published in print March 2021. Illustration by Emily Stevenson. College is many things. It’s a wonderful place full of new and exciting experiences with so many opportunities to learn things about yourself that you may never previously have … Continue reading What my time at Trinity has taught me about love Tales of tribulation and triumph and words of wisdom straight from the mouth of a fourth year
You can’t talk about Trinity romantic confessional pages without paying homage to the OG, Trinder. This year, Trinder has come back to grace us all with its tantalisingly spicy presence. But who are the elusive figures behind the platform’s new, … Continue reading Talking to Trinder
I was given the unique opportunity to sit down with the self-proclaimed ‘dirty uncles of campus,’ and chat to them about their digital brainchild, campusconfessionstcd. Upon entering the 4pm Zoom meeting, I was promptly informed that the Campus Confessions crew … Continue reading The Confessions of ‘campusconfessionstcd’
‘Ah, yeah, no, so we met in a club.’ ‘Was it love at first sight? Did your eyes lock across the room?’ ‘I mean no, not really, or maybe, I guess…’ ‘And so, you danced and then found somewhere quiet … Continue reading Meeting Your Boyfriend on Tinder Originally published in print March 2020
Cinema has always been a playground for love affairs, whether fulfilled or frustrated. It is easy to fall in love with the movies, but easier still to watch others do exactly that. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the act … Continue reading Modern Love: Falling in Love in 21st Century Cinema
In his 1995 book, The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman delved into how each person demonstrates love, and how they in turn would like to receive it. The book was a phenomenal success, with many psychologists giving it scientific validity … Continue reading What is Your Native Love Language? Each person tends to have a primary and secondary love language. It is also quite rare that both partners would speak the same one – isn’t life so exciting already setting barriers to love from the start?
●●●●● From the dawn of Modernism into the beginnings of conceptual art, and onto the contemporary era of the new millennium, art has made the concept of “love”, and what it means to give and receive that love, an object … Continue reading What We Call Love – Review