updapest is a city rich with the history of a Europe in a haughty and deluded state in the post-Wars era,

visibly marked by the ravaging transitions and loftiness that marked that part of the continent for almost three decades. With its pretensions to

grandeur and curious past, Bupapest was the perfect location for DU History’s annual trip to the continent. Any better reason? We didn’t have to have one. Almost as soon as it was suggested, it had the clockwork planning of an Eilis Noonan venture, whose well-oiled wheels have propelled DU History members on many an informative and - eh - lubricated journey. Unfortunately for the other 40-something people on the trip, Lia Brazil turned out to be no different to the previous 81 sadistic auditors who insisted on sticking everyone on the earliest flight possible out of Dublin.

The single virtue of such an arrangement was that arrival in Budapest was at an early hour, a benefit almost completely wiped out by how surprisingly hard it is to coordinate sending 40 people an hour further into the city with absolutely no vernacular or sense of direction.

Nonetheless, the smorgasboard of kool kid fourth years, aspiring kool kid first and second years, and Maurice eventually found the Adadgio hostel, with only Eve ‘trust me with the money’ Harrison managing to screw up and leave her passport on the plane.

Some keen travellers jumped at the first opportunity to sample local cuisines like goulash and paprika, whereas others less keen on cultural exchange sought the first availale symbol of western hegemony and had their second McDonald’s of the morning.

The rest of the first day involved in a walking tour, leaving the walking tour early to watch rugby and missing the whole point of the trip, and some quiet ‘ruin bar’ beverages.

The second morning began early, and once Jemma had reminded everyone of her trip to France we were ready for a day of parliament house visits, karting, and the pretty blatant propaganda of the Terror Museum, which deals with Hungary’s involvement in WWII.

Sunday also saw the long-awaited arrival of Jack Horan, who didn’t seem to get what all the fuss was about Having learned so much, and happy to see Jack, the group felt that a quiet, nothing-special night out was on the cards in downtown Budapest.

The next day, conscious of their impending departure and most of the vast history of Budapest as of yet unexplored, the group elected to spend seven hours stewing in the historical thermal baths. Budapest remains the only capital city in the world that is rich in thermal waters, which really helped the ‘tired’ group recover from their endeavours and make it home safely, with only cultural ignorance and Lia’s phone left behind.

“Uh, I had this idea for, like, a club night of Irish electro-trad remixes,” I explained to Steph, a French DJ I had just met outside Cassidy’s, “You don’t happen to know anyone who does that kind of thing?” Steph looked at me as though I was setting him up, then with trepidation delivered the line: “that is what I do.” The end result of this exchange is now a part of our national identity.

DU History is the only student society in the world that can claim to have organised a successful club night themed around the prelude to a bloody civil war. The Wind that Shakes the Party (Dublin’s only anti-treaty club-night) took place on November 19th in the Twisted Pepper. A crowd of 500 plus was submerged in a wave of patriotism, Irish dancing and electronic remixes of trad songs. The sordid nature of the standard club-night was upturned and expunged when we stopped the tracks to observe the world’s first ever midnight Angelus. Will these green fields ever forget the audience’s look of repentance turning to one of unabashed rowdiness as the tones

of the church bells faded into the opening rings of Daft Punk’s ‘Aerodynamic?’ Our DJ Irish Steph (who was born in Paris) came on-stage to undulations of applause, the likes of which have not heard been heard on this island since the monster meetings of O’Connell. His tracks were accompanied by the DU Dance crew who supplied a damhsa gaelic that moistened the soil of Glasnevin cemetery with the posthumous tears of our patriot dead. After Steph’s set, myself and Barry O’Seanain titillated the masses with our own choice cuts of the last century of naff Irish tunes. The Orinoco did Flow.

Only once almost every proclamation had been torn from the wall, and every flag had been pilfered, did the crowd disperse into the night. Yet a group of forty or so stragglers, as though possessed by the spirits of ancient Fenians, gathered outside the GPO for a reincarnation, a leader, or if all that failed, a taxi home. The proclamation was read out in full by yours truly, interrupted occasionally by sporadic outbursts of Amhrain na Bhfiann. Coincidentally, there was a

bigger crowd there at 3am than Pearse could get at midday. TWTSTP was more than just a college event however, it was an historical moment. Only when a nation has organised a satirical club night, based around one of its most divisive events, can a people truly have sutured the wounds of the past. Surely, the only question on the minds of our committee and our members, at this pivotal moment in our history, is this: can a Terrible Beauty be reborn?

SUPER POPEsIn 2014 the Bishop of Rome tweets in eight different languages - but Finn reckons there have been more interesting pontiffs.

5. Pope Honorius III (1150 - 1227)

Honorius III was a Roman, perhaps most noted for being the tutor of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, giving papal approval to a variety of religious orders and for launching the fifth crusade. Besides all this though Honorius also purportedly was the author of a grimoire which gave instructions on how one could go about summoning demons, seemingly the antithesis of a suitable papal activity for one to busy himself with.

4. Pope Alexander VI (1431 - 1503)

Over a seventeen year tenure as pope Alexander VI showed himself to possibly be the most corrupt pope that history had ever witnessed. He displayed complete disregard for some of the central tenets of priesthood: publicly acknowledging his illegitimate progeny and flaunting his position to elevate members of his family to high positions within the church. His enemies even accused him of holding wild orgies within St. Peter’s Basilica. The most infamous

of these was the recorded ‘Ballet of Chestnuts’, where Alexander VI was supposedly attended to by fifty prostitutes. Upon his death in 1503, following illness, his morbidly obese body was purportedly too big to fit into his coffin.

3. Pope Stephen VI (d. 897)

Pope Stephen is chiefly of interest and remembered by history for his actions in relation to one of his predecessors in what is commonly known as the Cadaver Synod, whereby he stood the corpse of a previous pope, Pope Formosus, on trial. The exhumed corpse was dressed in papal vestments and accused of having bought his position perjury. We can only presume that the defence that Formosus gave was weak (what with him being a lifeless corpse and that) as he was subsequently found guilty, and his punishment was grisly. Stephen VI saw that the corpse was stripped of its clothes and had three fingers of the right hand (those used for giving blessings) removed, a punishment that can’t have caused much bodily concern to Formosus seeing as he was already dead.

2. Pope Joan (9th century)

Possibly sliding from history to myth here, Joan comes in at number two as the only woman in the list. Yes, woman. The myth of Pope Joan emerged in the thirteenth century and told of how Joan, a talented and intelligent woman, managed to disguise her sex and successfully climb her way through the patriarchal hierarchy of the church, eventually rising far enough to become pope. Her ruse was broken however when following her election she gave birth while on horseback in the middle of a procession from St. Peter’s to the Lateran. Very, very, unfortunate timing.

1.Pope Benedict IX (1012 - 1056)

In case you feel like you are yet to achieve anything major in life, bear in mind that by the time he was twenty, possibly even as young as eleven if some sources are to be believed, Benedict IX was already pope. As well as being one of the youngest popes in history, he is also remembered for being the only pope to have held the papacy

Ireland and the tobacco trade - a short historyOne of the big scares around college last year was the now suspended prospect of a ‘Tobacco Free Campus’ initiative. Tobacco was once a popular crop in the eastern counties of Ireland, and while Sir Walter Raleigh is often popularly credited with introducing the plant to the island the first recorded instance of a suggestion of widespread cultivation of tobacco in Ireland didn’t appear until the latter years of the seventeenth century, as proposed by the Jacobite Thomas Carte in ‘The improvement of Ireland’. The

crop however still did not become popular until the eighteenth century, when laws prohibiting the cultivation of tobacco in Britain inherited from the time of James I (and extended to Ireland by Charles II) were withdrawn.

James I showed a large degree of prescience in his 1604 polemic A Counterblaste to Tobacco, going against the mainstream belief that tobacco was a plant that could the smoking of could lead to health benefits, and instead painting a hellish picture of the habit. By the 1830s tobacco was being

grown on a large scale in Ireland, particularly so in Wexford. Some estimates claim that during this period as much as one fifth of the tobacco being consumed in Britain was being grown in Ireland.

By the 1930s, 750 acres of land were given over to the production of tobacco in the eastern part of Ireland. Fianna Fáil had come into power in 1932, and had originally encouraged the industry by lowering tariffs. However, by 1937 the crop was on the point of extinction in Ireland. The reasons for this are still contentious, but it is

1.Pope Benedict IX (1012 - 1056)

In case you feel like you are yet to achieve anything major in life, bear in mind that by the time he was twenty, possibly even as young as eleven if some sources are to be believed, Benedict IX was already pope. As well as being one of the youngest popes in history, he is also remembered for being the only pope to have held the papacy

more than once (sitting on the papal throne three times

in total), as well as being the

only man

recorded by history

to have sold the p o s i t i o n .

His first tenure ended after

he was chased out of Rome by the people of the city (who

elected Sylvester III in his place as pope), but he was able to re-gain the position by force. His second tenure ended after he allowed himself to be persuaded by John Gratian to resign the position for a sum of money (a polite description of events that should fool no-one), but he later reneged on this agreement and returned to be pope once more, before being deposed by the German King Henry III.

Ireland and the tobacco trade - a short historygrown on a large scale in Ireland, particularly so in Wexford. Some estimates claim that during this period as much as one fifth of the tobacco being consumed in Britain was being grown in Ireland.

By the 1930s, 750 acres of land were given over to the production of tobacco in the eastern part of Ireland. Fianna Fáil had come into power in 1932, and had originally encouraged the industry by lowering tariffs. However, by 1937 the crop was on the point of extinction in Ireland. The reasons for this are still contentious, but it is

generally seen as being as a result of other agricultural industries experiencing a resurgence after a lessening of tension between the Irish Free State and Britain in the lead-up to a resolution of the Economic War between the two states. The protectionist Fianna Fáil government, in an attempt to increase their control over the economy, began to restrict the number of growers soon after coming into power in a number of policies introduced by Minister for Agriculture James Ryan.

WHAT TO EXPECTfor 2014/15

DU History’s ‘historian’ team:

Editor: Jemma O’LearyLayout & Design: Jack LeahyContent: Jemma O’Leary, Maurice Casey, Jack Leahy, Finn Tobin, Will Earle A’Herne Sch.

� e next year promises to be a spectacular one for DU History. Building on the success of last year, we’re coming back bigger and better than ever for our 83rd session.

As a result of high demand last year, we’re bringing back an old tradition and running two (yes two!) trips. � at means double the opportunity to go away with us! � e � rst trip will be a smaller a� air in the � rst term, with our customary mass exodus of Ireland taking place in February as usual.

On the social side, ‘� e Wind � at Shakes � e Party’ was one of the most successful events that DU History has ever run, and as such this year we’ve got big plans for two huge nights with a historical twist, stay tuned for more info!

On top of this the Apollo Ball - the only society ball on a boat - will again form the big � nale of the year with all the customary elegance.

On a more academic note, we have a brilliant Speaker Series lined up for you, including Dr. Catriona Pennell who will be speaking to us about Ireland and WWI. Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch will also be returning to Trinity to receive Hon. Membership from the society. More to follow!

It’s going to be a brilliant year and we’re all really looking forward to getting to know you!

WillDU History Auditor2014/15 (82nd Session)

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