Social Engagement
- He spoke up for the access of female students to Trinity College.
- In his function as college librarian, he first opened Trinity College Library so that people in general could see the great Irish literary treasures such as the Book of Kells.
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“We were that generation called “silent,” but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.”
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