The man made famous by Fr. Ted, Ardal O’Hanlon is a founding father of modern Irish stand-up since he helped form Dublin’s Comedy Cellar in 1990. Ardal has a slew of comedy awards. Thanks to Father Ted, My Hero and Big Bad World, O’Hanlon is immediately recognisable, but his incredible stand-up talent is perhaps less well known. A million miles from the naive persona of Father Dougal, O’Hanlon’s stand up is dark, sharp and excruciatingly funny.

“He is a complete joy to watch, planting the sort of silly images that bump around in your head forever.” The Guardian

Doors open at 7.10 (but get there early)

Free to all members of the Hist

Reception to follow with lots more of the free stuff

This year, the Hist has organised a jam packed, recession busting Freshers Week for all its members to enjoy!

Membership is only €5 and this year it is introducing a special rate of €3 for students who hand in their old Hist card!

Monday UCD Colours Debate followed by the Trinity Traffic Light Ball @ D|two

Tuesday Vyvienne Long followed by the Trinity Pub Crawl and Beach Party @ Bondi

Wednesday Marriage Debate with Ardal O’Hanlon follwed by the Freshers Week Ball @ XX1

Thursday Planting trees in Dartmouth Square followed by audience with Damien Rice in Trinity Chapel

Friday Pool and Snooker Tournament in our new Billiard Rooms

We will feed breakfast every morning, lunch every afternoon and drink every evening.

Our Membership cards acts as a meal deal in Venues around Trinity (Captain Americas, the Readers Cafe, Mac Turcails).

Free stuff: Hotpress, Jones Soda,The Gloss, Lemon Crepes, Pizza Hut, Popcorn, Mars Bars, Tara’s Cookies, Tea Coffee, Tic tacs, condoms, life lines…the list goes on.

Thursday is our day of good vibes.

At 12 .00 we will be leaving from the GMB to go to Dartmouth Square (a ten minute walk from Trinity) to plant trees with Damien Rice and the gang.

In the evening, members of the Hist will be treated to an audience with Damien and friends in Trinity Chapel (5pm). Tickets are free to all members at 3pm on Wednesday outside the GMB. Because this is our day of good vibes – we ask everybody who gets a ticket to give a donation to the VDP.

Priority seating will be given to all those who attend the planting of the trees in Dartmouth.

Damien will be playing and talking about songs from his new album in support of nature, before this Gavin Harte will be giving a ten minute presentation on climate change, and those lovely lads from the Happy Pear will be giving some pointers on how to keep healthy while in College.

How to see him: Join the Hist, get a ticket at the GMB at 3pm on Wednesday

How to help out and get a good seat: Go on the nature trail leaving the GMB at 12 pm on Thursday

Vyvienne Long looks — and occasionally acts — like a cartoon character brought to life. She totters about the Village stage in comically tall high-heels, bright red creations which accentuate her broomstick frame. She converses in a breathless chipmunk twitter. Her music is extravagantly baroque, as if fished from the subconscious of Tim Burton or Edward Gorey.

Yet, the most surprising thing about Long is her fantastic range as a singer. To date, the wispy Dubliner has achieved some local celebrity as a cellist: her mournful playing set the tone on each of Damien Rice’s two albums while she enjoyed a novelty hit with her perky cover of The White Stripe’s ‘Seven Nation Army’.

She’s no less compelling as a vocalist and songwriter, though. On the final night of an Irish tour Long, accompanied by two backing cellists, a bassist, drummer and piano player, moves light-footedly between frantic art-rock, heartfelt piano balladry and Bjork-esque weirdo pop.

Long truly soars when she forsakes her cello. Accompanied by a human-beat box, she delivers a flamboyant freak-folk rap. Later she sits behind a piano and belts out several Tori Amos-tinged torch-songs.

As final curtain looms, Long flirts with cuteness but pulls back just in time on a tune that urges us to stay happy no matter what life has in store (arguably she pushes her luck inviting the audience to hum the ditzy chorus). Carry on like this and soon she will be famous for more than novelty cover versions.

from the Irish Independent

Date: Tuesday, September 22 (Freshers Week)

Time: 3.00

Venue: Boydell Room

Official Trinity College Event

Brought to you by Trinity’s: Hist, VDP, Physoc, Dance Soc, and Biosoc

Tickets available for €5 at the Hist Society stand

Wear Green if; you’re out on the pull..

Wear Orange if; you don’t usually score at night clubs but hey its Freshers Week – anything could happen!!

Wear red if; you’ve got a boyfriend/girlfriend or just aren’t in the mood..

Official Trinity College Event.

Brought to you by Trinity’s: Hist, Food and Drink Society, Dance Society, Phsyoc.

Tickets Available for €5 at the Hist Society Stand

Bring your beach shorts t-shirts and sandals and we’ll provde the flower leis and pool.

Famous drinks promotions.

Official Trinity College Event.

Brought to you by Trinity’s: Hist and Law Soc.

Tickets Available for €5 at the Hist Society Stand

The Biggest Night of Freshers Week

Professor Joseph Stiglitz served as a World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in development economics from 1997 to 1999. Prior to that, he served on President Clinton’s economic team as chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 1997.In 2001, Mr. Stiglitz accepted a joint chaired professorship at Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (in the Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs.

In October 2001, Mr. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. He has been a fellow of the Econometric Society since the age of 29 — and is a member of the National Academy of Science. He also received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Tapp Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge University in 1970.

‘Arguably the most important intellectual alive’ The New York Times

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty five years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures.

Chomsky is an ardent critic of American domestic and foreign policy. His libertarian socialist ideas can be found in such works as American Power and the New Mandarins (1969), For Reasons of State (1973), The Political Economy of Human Rights (1979), and Towards a New Cold War (1982). Chomsky’s position was always that American international aggression is rooted in the American industrial system, where capitalism, by its aggressive, dehumanizing, and dominating nature, spawns a corresponding militaristic policy.

In later years Chomsky continued his criticism of American foreign policy in works such as The ABC’s of U.S. Policy Toward Haiti (1994), Free Trade and Democracy (1993), Rent-A-Cops of the World: Noam Chomsky on the Gulf Crisis (1991), and The New World Order Debate (1991). Appreciation, if not acceptance, attended Chomsky’s later works. According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, Chomsky “continues to challenge our assumptions long after other critics have gone to bed. He has become the foremost gadfly of our national conscience.” New Statesman correspondent Francis Hope concluded of Chomsky’s lingering suspicions of government motives: “Such men are dangerous; the lack of them is disasterous.”

Event is free to all members of the Hist

Robert Fisk is Britain’s most highly decorated foreign correspondent. He has received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1995 and 1996. His specialty is the Middle East, where he has spent the last twenty-three years.

He has met most of the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region – from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon, he has even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp with bin Laden himself.

He talks about the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West’s cynical support for the Middle East’s most ruthless dictators and America’s ever more powerful military presence in the world’s most dangerous lands as well as its uncritical, unconditional support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land
Currently the Beirut correspondent for the London Independent, Fisk has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war, and the conflict in Algeria. Fisk is the author of The Point of No Return: The Strike which Broke the British in Ulster (1975), In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality (1982, 1983), and Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, The Great War For Civilisation (2005) (1990, 1992) and most recently The Age of the Warrior, a compilation of his newspaper columns.

Robert Fisk will be presenting Noam Chomsky with the CHS Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse

Venue: GMB

Date: November, 3rd afternoon