Creative Arts and Policy Fellows

The Trinity Long Room Hub offers a world-class research environment that harnesses and expands the excellence of Trinity’s Arts and Humanities research by pioneering and facilitating cross-disciplinary collaborative projects.

Artists in Residence

The Artist in Residence programme at the Trinity Long Room Hub aims to bring together artists and researchers to help interrogate, showcase and communicate Arts and Humanities research in novel and imaginative ways.

Year Name Title Project
2022 Mairéad McClean  Decade of Centenaries Artist in Residence
2020-21 Rita Duffy Artist in Residence

The Raft Project

Anatomy of Hope

What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection

2019 Rough Magic Theatre Artists in Residence in association with Trinity's Creative Arts research theme, Neurohumanities and the Global Brain Health Initiative Choirs, Wellbeing and the Neurohumanities Performances by the Mornington Singers
2018 Dan Hoyle Artist in Residence in association with Trinity's Creative Arts research theme Dan Hoyle performs his ‘Real Americans’ show
2015-16 Michael Gallen Creative Arts Practitioner in Residence Michael Gallen - Rivers Unseen

Rooney Writer Fellows

The Rooney Writer Fellowship at the Trinity Long Room Hub was launched in 2021 by Dr Peter Rooney, Director of the Rooney Prize Foundation. The Fellowship enables a creative writer to join the research community in the Trinity Long Room Hub and to engage with the institute’s many research projects and initiatives.  

Year Name Title Project
2024/25 Dr Mark O'Connell Rooney Writer Fellow 'The Knife', a new book about the German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun.
2024 Paul Murray Rooney Writer Fellow 'Weird Wings', a new novel for younger readers.
2023 Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe Rooney Writer Fellow Incantation for the Hare
2022 Caitriona Lally Writer in Residence

Trinity Long Room Hub’s COVID-19 blog series

Policy Fellows

The Trinity Long Room Hub is committed to bringing research from the Arts and Humanities into a dynamic knowledge exchange with public policy. 

Year Name Title Project
2024 Martin Clancy Public Policy Fellow Shaping AI Policy through the Humanities: Insights and Innovations from the Arts
2020 Mary Doyle Public Policy Fellow Research for public policy  and society: building a  stronger architecture  for Ireland
2019-20 Rory Montgomery Public Policy Fellow Solidarity in a Time of Crisis