College Historical Society
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The College Historical Society (CHS) – popularly referred to as The Hist – is a debating society at Trinity College Dublin. It was established within the college in 1770[1][4] and was inspired by the club formed by the philosopher Edmund Burke during his own time in Trinity in 1747.[5][6] It holds the Guinness World Record as the "world's oldest student society".[7][8][9]
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Founded | 1770[1] |
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Type | Student debating union |
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Auditor 255th Session | Tom Francis [2] |
President | Mary Harney (2024)[3] |
Website | TheHist.com |
The society occupies rooms in the Graduates' Memorial Building at Trinity College. Former members have included a number of notable Irish men and women, from republican revolutionaries Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet,[10] and Henry Grattan,[11] writers Bram Stoker,[1] Oscar Wilde,[1] and Samuel Beckett,[1] to founding father of the Northern Irish state Edward Carson[12] and first President of Ireland Douglas Hyde,[13] and – in more recent times – Government Ministers like Mary Harney[1] (who was the first female auditor of the society) and Brian Lenihan, and modern Irish authors, such as Sally Rooney[1] and Naoise Dolan.[14]