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Smoking in Trinity-the history!

  • 03-03-2009 12:48am
    #1
    JohnnyDoogue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭


    Does anyone know if in the history of Trinity College could students smoke in lectures?

    The old Trinity rules are funny. Scholars for example could hunt in the forest when the arts block now is situated. However I do not think it would be feasible that students could have smoked in lectures.


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  • #2
    Epic Tissue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Epic Tissue


    All the buildings used to face the opposite direction too


  • #3
    mathew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mathew


    i'm sure way way back they could.. Just look at really old movies.. Actors used to just smoke in the middle of a scene.. As did tv presenters..
    I'm sure, given the age of the college that people were once allowed to.


  • #4
    EyesLeft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭EyesLeft


    When I was in secondary we were allowed to smoke at school, not in class but in the play ground; the teachers smoked in class.


  • #5
    gaybitch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭gaybitch


    My mam was so surprised when she went into the Buttery recently, and she told me it's because it used to be full of thick smoke as soon as you opened the door, at all times. Imagine how weird that would be today.


  • #6
    Moorsy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Moorsy


    John Bowman said recently that David Thornley (Lecturer in History and later Labour T.D.) used to let them drink in class.

    In a class I was in two weeks ago we drank 3 bottles of wine (amongst 12 of us) during a two hour class. The lecturer was grand with this (It was to celebrate Mardi Gras).


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  • #7
    guano_jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭guano_jim


    in '75 smoking was not allowed in some buildings. IIRC the museum building was one.


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