Dave Ring

This, the fifth and final volume in the Trinity Tales series, completes a cycle that began with tales from the 1960s. It invites readers to step into the world of Trinity College as it was in the first decade of this century through the reflections of students who attended the university during those years. Within its pages lie the stories of twenty-eight graduates from a mix of diverse backgrounds whose experiences may dispel the myths of what it means to be a ‘Trinity student’. The collection reveals the rapidly changing world of the early 2000s. This was a time of the internet revolution, when social media first affected student life, when mobile phones and laptops became ubiquitous, when handwritten work was passing into history, when The Buttery closed its doors – and all this coming against the backdrop of an overheating then imploding Irish economy. This kaleidoscope of recollections captures a student body in transformation and features stories of personal discovery and achievement against the odds. For some it proved a life-changing era when sexual, racial or class barriers were confronted. This volume concludes a remarkable half-century journey, portraying the lives of others, and of ourselves.

We are tuath. We are the hidden people. In Eire, our lives and deeds are behind every story of the fair folk, the sidhe, or faerie. Behind all the old tales, warped and bent by history, is one of us. But what happens when a myth-made-flesh no longer merits legends? What happens when he falls from grace?

Sisterhood, mysterious treasure, fallen angels, deviant afterlives, slasher barbies, poetic viruses, baboon warfare, sex magic, hurricanes, leviathans, anti-romcoms, overly-realistic dreams, doll-written novels, talking bodega cats, mutant rats, evil deer, chemtrails, voodoo, gravitrons, clouds of mass destruction, death, ghosts, demons, spells, death, dystopia, magic blankets, ultracapitalism, journalistic supervillainy, class warfare, death...and everything else published in the pages of FLAPPERHOUSE during its fifth and final year.