Best Poster: The World Was Purple Shadows Trinity Arts Festival
Best Publication: Christmas Exhibition DU Photographic Society
Best Multi-Day Event: ‘What If…? Trinity Christian Union
Most Improved Society: Voluntary Tuition Programme
Best New Society: Vegan Society
Best Individual: Sam Hardiman DU Music Society
Best Fresher: Todd Pender Trinity Literary Society
Best Collaborative Event: Multicultural Showcase – Music, Cumann Gaelach, Tradsoc, Arabesque, Russian, French, Hispanic, German, Indian, Chinese Society
Best 4th Week Event: Mindfulness Day – DU Mediation Society
Best Medium Society: Musical Theatre Society
Best Large Society: DU Players
Best Small Society: FLAC
Best Event: This House Believes Society is Failing People with Disabilities The Philosophical Society AND The Annual Panto Vincent de Paul
Best Overall Society: FLAC
Best Online Presence: Trinity Arts Festival
Societies Choice: Environment Society
Shortlist for Society of the Year 2019
Full Shortlist of the nominees for the Society of the Year 2019 sponsored by Bank of Ireland
BEST MEDIUM SOCIETY
Dance
Environment
Musical Theatre
Photographic
BEST LARGE SOCIETY
Cumann Gaelach
Players
Student Managed Fund
Vincent de Paul
BEST SMALL SOCIETY
Christian Union
Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC)
Meditation
Trinity Arts Festival
BEST NEW SOCIETY
Vegan
Workers Party
MOST IMPROVED SOCIETY
Engineering
Mature
Voluntary Tuition Programme
BEST FRESHER
Benjamin McConkey (Politics), Charlotte Van Spall (SOFIA), Daniel Graczyk (Meditation), Gabrielle Fullam (Players), Ines Lonergan (Laurentians), Jamie Aspell (Law), Jiye Xie (Photographic), Joe Kelly (Space), Kevin Mullaney (Psychological), Molly Donnery (Film), Niamh Carey (Cumann Gaelach), Nicky Pochinkov (Vegan), Rachel Galvin (Musical Theatre), Seán Francis (Archaeology), Seirce Mhac Chongaill (Trinity Arts Festival), Todd Pender (Literary), Vince Casey (Computer Science)
BEST COLLABORATIVE EVENT
‘Are You Smarter Than a Junior Cert Student’ (Voluntary Tuition Programme & Vincent de Paul)
Multicultural Showcase (Music, Cumann Gaelach, Tradsoc, Arabesque, Russian, French, Hispanic, German, Indian, Chinese)
Pink Party: A Celebration of Feminist Art (TAF, Visarts, Photographic, Digital Arts)
The Winter Showcase (TMTS, Dance, Music, Singers)
BEST INDIVIDUAL
Aisling Kearney (Literary), Austin Hughes (Players), Britta Thiemt (Psychological), Charlotte Van Spall (SOFIA), Ciara Mullarkey (Germanic), Ciara ní Mhurchú (Cumann Gaelach), Claudia Mannix (Photographic) Ekaterina Lait (Entrepreneurial), Eoin Roche (Comedy), Gerry Doherty (Laurentian), Iseult Deane (TAF), James Cotter (VTP), Jerzy Jaśkuć (Computer Science), Kate Fahy (Law), Komal Malviya (Environment), Lauren McDonald (Musical Theatre), Maggie Goulden (Space), Malika Grant (Afro Caribbean), Marie-Louise O’Callaghan (SMF), Mary Hastings (FLAC), Michael-John Gillen (Historical), Micheál Ganley (Politics), Pat Gannon (Mature), Rachel Buckley (Student 2 Student), Sam Hardiman (Music), Shauna Kelly (Engineering), Sorcha Ryder (Philosophical), Stephen Smith (Archaeology), Susannah Hunt (Film)
BEST 4th WEEK EVENT
Young Design Showcase – Fashion
Mindfulness Day – Meditation
PAVternoon Concert – Music
Mamma Mia: Here we go in 12 Hours – Musical Theatre
The World Was Purple Shadow: GMB Takeover – Trinity Arts Festival
BEST MULTI-DAY EVENT
‘What If…?’ (Christian Union)
Éigse na Tríonóide (Cumann Gaelach)
Green Week (Environment)
Trinity Arts Festival 2019 (TAF)
BEST EVENT
Dragon’s Den (Entrepreneurial)
Trinity Fashion Show (Fashion)
This House Believes Society is Failing People with Disabilities (Philosophical)
TEDxTrinityCollegeDublin (TEDx)
The Annual Panto (Vincent de Paul)
Chicago (TMTS)
BEST PUBLICATION
Writings About Music (Music)
Christmas Exhibition 2018 (Photographic)
The TCDCU Guide to Freshers (Christian Union)
Chicago Programme (Musical Theatre)
BEST POSTER
Chicago (Musical Theatre)
THW Forgive The Catholic Church (Philosophical)
Depicting Protest (Photographic)
Eden (Players)
The World Was Purple Shadow (Trinity Arts Festival)
Online Presence
Christian Union
TAF
TMTS
DUPA
Bank of Ireland Pitching event
The inaugural Bank of Ireland TCD Society pitching event took place at 2pm on 12th November.
This partnership sees BOI, the official bank of TCD, commit to supporting TCD societies for 2018/19.
Applications opened on 16th Oct and 34 societies applied for sponsorship. From the 34 applications 11 societies were selected and invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of four to compete for a slice of the funding.
The judges were so impressed that they gave funding to each society who pitched.
Congratulations to
Trinity Arts Festival 2019
BioSoc MedTech competition
Chinese Society Forum
Dance Society equipment
Fashion Society Fashion Show
Film Society DU Film Festival
Indian Soc – Holi Law Soc – Diverse Careers fair
Players (summer festival)
TedX Trinity
Trinity Musical Theatre production
Arabesque cultural event
SOPHIA Ambassadors Ball
Zoo Soc Careers Fair
Society Alumni Testimonial
In October 2015 the CSC was delighted to welcome past CSC executive member, ex-chair of the Young Fine Gael Society, the then Minister for Health, and current Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to launch the Society Alumni Testimonial Journal. He was joined by several other Trinity alumni who had been involved in societies in Trinity College.
CSC Societies Yearbook 2018
Equality Awards 2017
Equality Champions Awards for Clubs and Societies
Recognising the vital contribution of clubs and societies to our inclusive university
1st place: Trinity SMF for “Women in Leadership: Stronger Together”
2nd place: TAF and DU Comedy for “Hysteria”
3rd place: Hist for “Burke Sessions: Travellers in Irish Society”
Highly Commended: DUAMS for “This Woman’s Work: Women in the Music Industry”
Highly Commended: DUCSS for “Talking Tech: the Winding Road to Success”
CSC Society of the Year Awards 2017 winners
Well done to all of the societies nominated at the CSC Society of the Year Awards on making 2016/17 an amazing year for all of your members. Congratulations to the award winners.
Best Poster: AGM DU Players
Best Journal: Birds of Trinity DU ZooSoc
Best Online Presence: Trinity Literary Society
Best Magazine: End of Year Exhibition Dublin University Photography Association (DUPA)
Best Multi-Day Event: Trinity Arts Festival TRINITY ARTS FESTIVAL
Most Improved Society: Italian Society
Best New Society: DU General Science Society
Best Individual: Molly McAvoy @DUPlayers
Best Fresher: Abdulqadir Abshir TCD Afro Caribbean Society
Best Collaborative Event: Speak Me, I’m Irish DUISS – Dublin University International Students Society AND Cumann Gaelach TCD
Best 4th Week Event: 48 Hour Smartphone Film Competition DU Film Society
Best Event: Trinity’s Best Dance Crew DU Dance Trinity
Best Medium Society: Trinity Literary Society
Best Large Society: @TrinityCumannGaelach
Best Small Society: TRAD SOC TCD and TCD Christian Union
Societies Choice: SOFIA – Society For International Affairs
Best Society: Trinity Literary Society
Shortlist for the CSC Society of the Year Awards 2017
Best Online Presence: TCD Law Soc , TES, Literary, DUCSS
Best Poster: Michaelmas Term Concert (Orchestra); AGM (Players); What Lies in the Wood (TAF); Mr. Burns (Players); BookBombing (Litsoc); Shedding Light on Eileen Gray (Architecture & DUGES); Carniv Law (Law)
Best Journal: The Attic vol XIX (Litsoc); New Traditional Irish Music Compositions of TCD (Tradsoc); Birds of Trinity (Zoosoc); In Focus (SMF); Writings About Music Vol 3, Issue 1 (Music)
Best Magazine: TEF 17 – Taking Economics Forward (TEF); The Player, Vol vii, issue i; End of Year Exhibition (Photographic); Stand (Suas)
Best Multi-Day Event: Trinity Arts Festival (TAF); Stories – Lives Transformed (Christian Union); Fringe Festival (Players), Éigse na Tríonóide (Cumann Gaelach)
Most Improved: Gamers; Italian; Physics
Best New Society: General Science; Musical Theatre; Space
Best Individual: Áine Palmer (Gender Equality); Alice Kearns (SoFIA); Allison Wheeland (Film); Blánaid ní Bhraonáin (Laurentian); Catrina Daly (Italian); Christina Fitzsimons (S2S); Christopher Claffey (Suas); Conor Leen (Entrepreneurial); Eoin Hannaway (Music); Fiona Waters (General Science); Fionnuala Egan (French); Giada Tossi (International); Hallie Tanner (Trinity FM); Hilary Hogan (Law); Huda Awan (Photographic); Jack Corkery (DUAMS); Jack Farrell (Architecture); Kevin Smyth (Historical); Lorcan O’Byrne (VTP); Matthew Caulfield (Orchestra); Matthew Nuding (Philosophical); Molly McAvoy (Players), Paula Tierney (Zoological); Rachel Brady (Cumann Gaelach); Sam McMahon (VdP); Shannon Buckley Barnes (TAF); Yvonne Ryan (Physics)
Best Fresher: Abdulqadir Abshir (Afro Caribbean); Aislinn Shanahan Daly (People Before Profit); Alexion Ramos (Computer Science); Bill Walsh (Cumann Gaelach); Caoimhe White (Zoological); David Callaghan (Singers); Jack Forrestal (Science Fiction); Jesse Russell (VdP); Jessica Howard (Trinity FM); Pádraig Power (SoFIA); Seán Duffy (Law), Sophie Coote (Players)
Best Collaborative Event: Bat & Deer Walk in the Phoenix Park (Zoosoc & Photographic); Hysteria (Comedy & TAF); Marakesh 2016 The Climate Games (SoFIA, Environment & Global Development); Shedding Light on Eileen Gray (Architecure & DUGES); Speak Me, I’m Irish (International & Cumann); The King’s Good Servant (History & Players)
Best 4th Week Event: 48 Hour Smartphone Film Competition (Film); Book Bombing (Literary); Mock Citizen’s Assembly (Law), Tasty Tune Crawl & Silent Trisco (Tradsoc); V(DiY)P Space for Change (VdP); What Lies in the Woods (TAF)
Best Medium Society: FLAC; French; Literary; SoFIA; Zoological
Best Large Society: Cumann Gaelach; Historical; International; Law; Players
Best Small Society: Afro Caribbean; Christian Union; Neuroscience; Traditional Music; Trinity Orchestra
Best Event: AfroJam (Afro Caribbean); David Bowie in the Exam Hall (Orchestra); French Intervarsities (French); Songs of Ice and Fire (Literary); The Eliz Inaugural – Women in Peformance (Philosophical); Trinity’s Best Dance Crew (Dance); Women in Business Conference (SMF)