TN2 Magazine

21/06/2022

The deadline has been extended to the 25th of June.
We'd recommend anyone with experience and a passion for arts and culture to apply!

TN2 Magazine are hiring two Deputy Editors for the upcoming academic year. One year of editorial experience is required.
Send your application with a cover letter to [email protected].
All questions concerning the role can be directed to the above email. Don't hesitate to get in touch.

Deadline for applications is midnight, the 16th of June.

02/06/2022

TN2 Magazine are hiring two Deputy Editors for the upcoming academic year. One year of editorial experience is required.
Send your application with a cover letter to [email protected].
All questions concerning the role can be directed to the above email. Don't hesitate to get in touch.

Deadline for applications is midnight, the 16th of June.

17/05/2022

The Best Day by Samantha Tancredi

One of my greatest blessings is my relationship with my mom. She epitomises grace through her service to others and purposefully makes her love for those she cares about known—she’s the first to bring dinner to a friend who is sick, and I am convinced she’s a mind-reader, knowing exactly what ...

17/05/2022

The ‘Bee Bricks’ Philosophy by Caitlin Kawalek

Green&Blue is a sustainable design firm that began in a garden shed on the coast of Cornwall. It was founded by Kate and Gavin Christman, a married couple, who, in 2005, left their jobs at an electronic company in order to devote their time entirely to designing habitations and feeders for wildlife....

17/05/2022

Paris on The Big Screen by Eve Smith

My name is Eve and I was looking forward to season two of Emily in Paris. There. I said it. The first season came out when I was in the hospital and I thought “for what this is: this is okay”. Their slick Paris set filled with good bread, hot chefs and a bank account not teetering on the minuses...

16/05/2022

Are Fiction Podcasts The Modern Iteration of Radio Plays? by Leah Downey

With the immense growth of the podcast industry in the past decade, the cultural grip radio once held has diminished. This isn’t to say that radio is obsolete - I’m personally involved in Trinity’s radio scene and simply have yet to find a podcast that I prefer over live broadcasting. However,...

16/05/2022

The Monetisation Of Love by Olivia Dore

I have to admit, I love bad television. So, when I saw that season 3 of Too Hot to Handle (THTH) had been added to Netflix, I couldn’t resist. After all, I had already watched the two previous series in their entirety. For those that don’t know, Too Hot to Handle is essentially a global version ...

16/05/2022

Ski Trip 2022: The Trinners’ Trek to Avoriaz by Ria Walls

The borders are now open, and so are the pubs. With no better time than the present, this January saw over 600 Trinity students voyage to the Alps for what some would describe as being the best seven days of their lives. I haven’t been out of Ireland since the beginning of the pandemic, so the ant...

13/05/2022

One Brief Shining Moment: Camelot, Flaw, and Idealism at the London Palladium by Helen Jenks

https://www.tn2magazine.ie/one-brief-shining-moment-camelot-flaw-and-idealism-at-the-london-palladium/

13/05/2022

The Tortured Artist Trope by Ella Sloane

The stereotype of the tortured artist is deeply embedded into pop culture. Whilst I am of the opinion that this is a harmful trope, the issues of pain and loss as major influences in many renowned artists' work cannot be ignored. Instead of romanticising this grief inflicted by debilitating illness....

13/05/2022

“Dear Diary…” and The Pursuit of Happiness by Zoe Timmons

Before there were ‘finstas’ and close friends stories, or Twitter accounts cm personal diaries, there were actual diaries. At around the age of 8, although my days were composed mostly of hopscotch and Muzzy Mór, I reckoned that the inner workings of my life were interesting enough to document...

12/05/2022

Tolka: Making Room for the “Formally Promiscuous” by Róisín Ní Riain

Tolka is one of Ireland’s newest literary journals, with Issue One hitting shelves just last May. It stands out in our bustling literary magazine scene for its dedication to non-fiction and its focus on “formally promiscuous” writing. More on that later. Issue Two arrived in December and featu...

12/05/2022

Why Erasmus isn’t What I Expected it to be – and Why it Might be Even Better by Alix Philouze

Life when you’re 20 is an absolute rollercoaster. It’s all about constant change, flux, newness. Discovering boundaries, dreams, plans of changing the world, and eventually – hopefully – figuring out your place in the mess that is existence. Most plans go wrong, the way you initially imagine...

12/05/2022

Growing Up and Growing Down: Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts by Khushi Jain

The whole idea of ‘adulthood’ is very 21st century. The use of the term is so much in vogue that it has diffused into cinema, book titles, memes and even the conjugated verb: ‘adulting’. Adulting is less about being an adult and more about not wanting to become one. Young people worldwide ha...

12/05/2022

TN2 Magazine is delighted to announce Brídín Ní Fhearraigh-Joyce as our new Editor-in-Chief for the 2022/23 academic year!

11/05/2022

Cities Across the Sea: A Comparison of Dublin and New York by Maxine Boudway

One of the hardest things about being an international student is the sheer amount of new things to discover, whether in your studies or your social life. Starting at Trinity College Dublin was exciting, but I was slightly apprehensive as well. This was partially due to New York City, a place full o...

11/05/2022

The Last Chapter: The Closure of Chapters Bookstore by Hilary Mullen

https://www.tn2magazine.ie/the-last-chapter-the-closure-of-chapters-bookstore/

When I was younger and had an opportunity to go into Dublin for the day, it was rare for me to pass by Parnell Street, home to Chapters, Ireland’s best independent book shop, without stepping inside. Inside these doors you would be greeted by a two-floored multicoloured landscape of literature. If...

11/05/2022

An interview with Elizabeth Reapy by Brídín Ní Fhearraigh-Joyce

Your work seems defined by journeys of self-discovery. In Skin, your protagonist travels abroad and hates herself. In Red Dirt, the four protagonists have a very debauched and isolating experience. Why did you choose to subvert the idea of travel being idyllic?I was trying to portray my own experien...

11/05/2022

‘Why Are All of my S*x Toys Purple?’ And Other Important Questions by Anonymous

Just imagine it; you’re several drinks in with the girls from college on your semester abroad and the topic shifts to missing your boyfriends. The wonders of modern technology make communicating with our long distance significant others a cinch - texting, video calls, that feature on Spotify that ...

11/05/2022

Boiling Point // Review by Finn Vijayakar

●●●●○Boiling Point (Philip Barantini, 2021) is a stressful experience. Like the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems, this is a film that you finish feeling more on edge than you were at its start. Unlike Uncut Gems, however, Barantini’s drama is a thoroughly disciplined piece of work in which ...

10/05/2022

Sound and Vision: The Relationship Between Music and Visual Art by Kate Byrne

The English art critic Walter Pater once said, “all art constantly aspires to the condition of music”. Pater believed that music, unlike all other art forms, is superior in that there is no distinction between subject and form. He said that the condition of music is its ability to communicate a ...

09/05/2022

A Retrospective on Gaming in 2021 by Robert Gibbons

A retrospective from the Games Team on what we played in 2021.

09/05/2022

M’oibseisiún le saothráin bheo: kimchi by Yu Hua Chaomhánach

Is minic a chloisim ó mo chairde gur hipeacoindreach mé, agus an bhfuil an ceart acu…b’fhéidir. Ní hipeacoindreach i ndáiríre mé ach ní féidir liom a shéanadh go bhfuil sé de nós agam mo chuid siomptóim a fhéachaint suas ar …

08/05/2022

The Best Animated Cuisine by Ciara Connolly

While real food is undoubtedly the best food there is, given that one can actually eat it, the imagination is a worthy competitor. So, “tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie,” while TN2 presents a selection of animated dishes that would give ‘real’ food a run for its money. If the cheesy ...

08/05/2022

A Look at Gaming in 2022 by Ryan O Connor

FromSoftware’s Elden Ring is one of the most anticipated games in gaming history; it promises to develop on the core elements loved by fans of the Dark Souls and Bloodborne series (otherwise known as Soulsborne) with the addition of an open world. Judging by past FromSoftware games, we can expect ...

07/05/2022

Dickie Greenleaf: a Character-Costume Study by Khushi Jain

It almost seems like director Anthony Minghella pulled the character of Dickie Greenleaf right out of a Fitzgerald book. Played by the gorgeous Jude Law, Greenleaf is the second lead in the British filmmaker’s 1999 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Dickie is the ...

05/05/2022

TN2 Music’s Class of 2021 by Gale Aitken

Tired of scrolling through endless ‘Best Songs of 2021’ in order to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern? Well, fear no more. Your search is over. Never again shall you feel sonically inadequate whilst attempting to impress some Arts Block rollie-smoking boy. TN2 Music presents you ...

05/05/2022

Ants From Up There by Black Country New Road // Review by Ciarán Drohan

Black Country New Road’s second record Ants From Up There is a difficult album to review. I started by looking at each track, noting what was interesting about them, and then attempted to come to a general conclusion. I then listened to it again and again and always found something new and excitin...

04/05/2022

In Defence of Emily in Paris by Ciara Connolly

For better or worse, some TV shows, with the help of viral tweets and think pieces, are catapulted into the general cultural consciousness. Emily in Paris is one of those shows. When the first season was released by Netflix in 2020, rather ominously mere months before the pandemic took hold, the vas...

04/05/2022

Dropout: The Future of Streaming? by Gillian Doyle

sci-fi and fantasy with over 140 episodes to its name. Episodes are generally between two and three hours long, an impossible length for a comedy TV on a traditional network that thrives on this experimental platform. These four shows are enough to keep CollegeHumor afloat. Which of course begs the....