Looking to start reading more in 2024? A good place to start turning pages is the Trinity Today 2024 New Year’s reading list, featuring books written by Trinity alumni and staff. From thrillers to thought-provoking nonfiction, these works showcase the diverse talents and perspectives of your Trinity community THE BEE STING Paul Murray, BA (1997) MacMillan Publishing The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under – but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewellery on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for 12-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away. MAKING EMPIRE IRELAND, IMPERIALISM, & THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Professor Jane Ohlmeyer Oxford University Press Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation-states that are the blip on the historical horizon. This book re-examines empire as a process – and Ireland’s role in it – through the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, which equates roughly to the timespan of the First English Empire (c.1550- c.1770s). This book, based on the 2021 James Ford Lectures, Oxford University, suggests that the moment has come to revisit the history of empire if only to better understand how it has formed the present, and how this might shape the future. THE WREN, THE WREN Anne Enright, BA (1985) WW Norton Company The Wren, The Wren brings to life three generations of women who contend with inheritances – of abandonment and of sustaining love that is ‘more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.’ In sharp prose studded with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family story of longing, betrayal, and hope.
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