The Edward Worth Library Lectures and Events during the 2026 Dublin Festival of History Spaces in the Edward Worth Library are limited: to book a place for events please e-mail info@edwardworthlibrary.ie Monday 28 September: Professor Michael Stolberg (Julius-Maximilians – Universität Würzburg): ‘Cutting hernias, extracting bladderstones, needling cataracts. Itinerant operators in early modern Europe’. This […]
Census 2027- Job opportunities
Posted On April 28, 2026 in News
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 […]
Research Participants Needed for Huntington’s Disease Research
Posted On April 22, 2026 in News
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 […]
The Edward Worth Library 2026 Lectures and Events
Posted On March 18, 2026 in News
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 […]
Research: Investigating how our ability to discrimination patterns changes with age
Posted On January 22, 2026 in News
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 […]
Research: Older adults and social participation
Posted On January 22, 2026 in News
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 […]
Multisensory Perception & Cognition Lab study, on how the sense of touch changes across adulthood
Posted On November 28, 2025 in News
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 […]
Request for volunteering from Foróige
Posted On April 25, 2025 in News
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 […]