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This chapter shows how the outbreak of war in 1914 was merely the first in a sequence of ruptures to impact Trinity College Dublin. A university with close ties to the British Empire, the outbreak of war denuded it of the vitality of student life, but it was the Easter Rising of 1916 and the ensuing Irish Revolution which exacerbated the sense of change. By 1922, Trinity was an uncomfortable part of the new Irish Free State, the culmination of almost a decade of intense upheaval which was atypical of universities of the period, but which simultaneously shared much of the experience of institutions in Britain, France and Germany.
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Irish, T. (2018). Trinity College Dublin: An Imperial University in War and Revolution, 1914–1921. In: Chagnon, ME., Irish, T. (eds) The Academic World in the Era of the Great War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95266-3_6
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