Trinity College in 1878

January 10, 1878

Mr Carnegie showed Darkey, her mother Caroline and brother Charley around Trinity College where he was a resident student. 

She wrote in her diary "We only saw the Chapel, the gymnasium and the racket court, a vault like place, something like the dungeons of old, cold and damp. I thought first that Mr Carnegie had taken us into a prison. One would soon die shut up within those four high walls. The college is very damp. I don't think it is a good place to live in. No wonder Mr Carnegie has a constant cough..."


It was definitely damp last Tuesday when I was there!


Student accommodation today. 
Possibly where Mr Carnegie had his room in 1878.

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