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Old TCD student magazine?

  • 09-12-2011 12:12pm
    #1
    Dotrel
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    Trying to track down the name of a magazine produced by TCD students a long time ago and hoped someone here might be able to help me.

    I can't really remember much about it. It was probably produced around the mid 1990's or possibly early 90s, no later than that.

    Visually it was all black and white and looked like a typical "fanzine" of the time (ie no colour on the articles, badly pasted overly dark photos) you probably get the idea.

    What I remember in particular was its irreverent sense of humour and it was clearly produced by students for students (possibly an SU effort?). I remember on one page there was a list of students by nickname and their particular bad habits and sexual proclivities.

    In it there was various mentions of "The Provost" and possibly even mention of people breaking into his house and stealing his booze.

    I didn't go to Trinity so I don't know if this is some ongoing publication there or if it was just a one-off mag but it just popped into my head today and I hoped someone might be able to tell me more.

    Yeah I know, not much to work on but maybe it rings a bell for some ex-student of TCD. I imagine I'd find the humour quite tame if I read it now, but I do remember some of it taking me aback when I was young secondary schoolkid.


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  • #2
    blubloblu
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    Dotrel wrote: »
    Trying to track down the name of a magazine produced by TCD students a long time ago and hoped someone here might be able to help me.

    I can't really remember much about it. It was probably produced around the mid 1990's or possibly early 90s, no later than that.

    Visually it was all black and white and looked like a typical "fanzine" of the time (ie no colour on the articles, badly pasted overly dark photos) you probably get the idea.

    What I remember in particular was its irreverent sense of humour and it was clearly produced by students for students (possibly an SU effort?). I remember on one page there was a list of students by nickname and their particular bad habits and sexual proclivities.

    In it there was various mentions of "The Provost" and possibly even mention of people breaking into his house and stealing his booze.

    I didn't go to Trinity so I don't know if this is some ongoing publication there or if it was just a one-off mag but it just popped into my head today and I hoped someone might be able to tell me more.

    Yeah I know, not much to work on but maybe it rings a bell for some ex-student of TCD. I imagine I'd find the humour quite tame if I read it now, but I do remember some of it taking me aback when I was young secondary schoolkid.
    An early edition of 'Piranha!' ?


  • #3
    Dotrel
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    Piranha? Even the name sounds familiar. That has to be it! Thanks!


  • #4
    oppenheimer1
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    They are all in the library btw


  • #5
    uvox
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    Early editions of Piranha magazine would be well before the 1990s - 1978 is listed as its foundation date (http://www.tcd.ie/calendar/assets/pdf/archive/2011-2012/tcd-calendar-societies-other-institutions.pdf). The magazine had its heyday in the mid-1980s under the guidance of Michael O'Doherty (now VIP publications) and Quentin Letts (he of Have I Got News For You and Daily Telegraph fame). They should all be in the Library, of course, given TCD's copyright library status. In fact, all issues are not all in the Library, and most are missing, so your mileage may vary as they say in that regard, but it is a good place to start (Periodicals).

    Library call details: PER 78-559 1978-1994;1998

    Good luck finding it. Other sources of information are the TCD Publications Committee or the TCD College Calendar from the mid 1990s may list more names to jog your memory.


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