Tuesday, 8th April

10:00am - 11:30am
Trinity EngAGE/U3A Open Forum

Welcome by the Provost

Forum hosted by Professor Desmond O’Neill, Professor in Geriatric Medicine, Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine, Tallaght Hospital

“How ageing creativity mirrors creative ageing”

Although collective ageing into later life is one of the greatest achievements of the 21st century, with a longevity dividend at human, cultural and economic levels, it is all too frequent to hear ageing described in negative terms such as 'a demographic timebomb'.

The complex, and to many counter-intuitive, concept of growth and development in later life is best captured by a metaphor, and the most potent metaphor is that of the flowering of late life creativity of great artists. This in turn facilitates a vision of growth and development in later life for all.

• Places are limited, to register (no charge) please visit

  https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/TDD/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=167440

• Email TrinityU3A@tcd.ie
• Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Block, Nassau Street Entrance

11:30am-13:00pm

Inaugural Meeting of Trinity Retirement Association

• Advance registration prior to 28th March is required to attend this event. Places will be allocated on a first-come basis. Please register online at

  https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/TDD/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=168398

• Alternatively please go to www.tcd.ie, then 'Alumni & Friends' Link on top left, then 'News & Events', 'Upcoming Events' and 'Trinity Retirement Assocation Inaugural Meeting'
• General registration queries TCD Pensions Office (01) 896 2422 in conjunction with Trinity EngAGE Open Forum www.tcd.ie/research/engage
• Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Block, Nassau Street Entrance

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Screenings of a short movie “Happiness”
& meet the Director, Conor Horgan

Happiness is an experimental film in which nearly one hundred people from all over Ireland talk about what makes them happy. 

The film was directed by Conor Horgan. Conor will introduce today’s screening of Happiness and there will be a Q&A session at the end.

Produced by Martha O’Neill and Adrian McCarthy for Wildfire Films.

Visit  www.wildfirefilms.net/mysitecaddy/site3/projecthappy.htm for a short clip

• Venue: Global Room, 1st Floor,  Biotechnology Building, College.
• This FREE event is open to the public. No booking required

12:45pm - 1:25pm
Health and Nutrition Talk

• Venue: Sports Centre – Board Room
• This FREE event is open to the public. No booking required

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Religion makes you happy?

A panel and audience discussion on the underestimated and unperceived links between religion and happiness

• Venue: College Chapel
• This FREE event is open to the public, no booking required

12:00pm - 8:00pm
Fail Better Exhibition

A Free Exhibition of Beautiful, Heroic and Instructive Failures

The goal of FAIL BETTER is to open up a public conversation about failure, particularly the instructive role of failure, as it relates to very different areas of human endeavour. Rather than simply celebrating failure, which can come at great human, environmental and economic cost, we want to open up a debate on the role of failure in stimulating creativity: in learning, in science, engineering and design.

• For further details see https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/failbetter
• Venue:  Science Gallery, College
• This FREE event is open to the public. No booking required