Calls for Trinity memorial to war dead

A memorial should be erected to the Second World War dead from Ireland’s oldest university, campaigners said.

While the Republic remained neutral in the conflict between 1939 and 1945, thousands of soldiers left the country and the Irish army to join the British forces, including hundreds from Trinity College Dublin. A total of 111 from the university died.

A spokesman for the campaign said: “The list of the Trinity dead is a record of the judgements of such individual consciences, for in many cases these men and women could have chosen careers and lives undisturbed by the European conflict.