Trinity Retirement Association

Census 2027 Job opportunities Dear Member, We are contacting you from the Census Recruitment Team in the Central Statistics Office (CSO), to ask for your help in publicising our upcoming recruitment campaigns for Census 2027. Our next census will take place between April and May 2027 and we are now beginning to recruit staff to […]

This Thursday, come explore the world of eighteenth-century news production with Ada Sussman’s new exhibition ‘Making the News: The Spectator and The Guardian in the Early Eighteenth Century‘. The exhibition will be in the Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8, D08 W2A8, and will be open to the public from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. on Thursday, […]

My name is Eoin O’Connor, and I work with Eva Woods, in the McMackin Lab at Trinity College Dublin (https://www.mcmackinlab.com/).  We have been running a study on Huntington’s Disease, a devastating neurological disease that affects all aspects of someone’s life from how they move, think and feel, for the past two years, and we are currently recruiting control individuals for comparison purposes. Anyone can take part, but we’re specifically looking for people who are 40+ years old. “Based on previous work, the McMackin […]

We are thrilled to kick off this year’s Bealtaine Festival!  It’s the world’s first festival dedicated to celebrating the arts and ageing! We’ll have flagship events throughout the month, kicking off with the Big Bealtaine Tea Party at the Irish Museum of Modern Art  on Sunday 3rd May. Come join the fun at Bealtaine HQ in Project Arts […]

The Edward Worth Library 2026 Lectures and Events Unless otherwise stated, all lectures and events take place at 3.00pm in the Worth Library. Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for lectures taking place in the Library itself please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie 2 April: Professor Leah de Vun (Rutgers University), ‘Biological Facts: Doing […]

  Does age affect our ability to perceive shapes using touch, vision or both senses? To answer this question, researchers at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience are investigating shape discrimination, which is important for everyday tasks (e.g., recognising objects), in healthy adults aged 60 – 80 years. You will explore LEGO shapes using your […]

Are you aged 70 or above, living in Dublin, and take part in any social, cultural, leisure, sporting, or community activities? Would you be interested in sharing your insights and experiences in a guided conversation with me about your motivations for taking part in social activities? You are invited to take part in a research […]

    We are getting in touch to ask whether you would be interested in helping with our recruitment for our study here at the Multisensory Perception & Cognition Lab, on how the sense of touch changes across adulthood. We’re specifically looking to recruit older adults and wondering if it would be possible to recruit […]

Dear Member Below is information on a research project by Trinity College. If you are interested reply to the contact below and not to this email.   Research: Understanding self-directed ageism Are you aged 50 or older and would be interested in taking part in a research study about how older adults think about and […]

Dear Members, Below is a request for volunteering from Foróige. The program is run by Foróige not the TRA. For further information please contact Diane Sadler <SADLERD@tcd.ie>. Please do not email the TRA. I’m reaching out to the local Groups in the area to share an exciting opportunity to get involved in a new Intergenerational […]