Scarcely anything in the way of a riot …

The scrap of a sentence above comes from the Freeman's Journal […] and is part of a contemporary account of scenes at Donnybrook Fair in August 1838.

Trinity College Dublin was mentioned in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle (1807):
An algebraical proof of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, [...], has been lately discovered by Francis Burke, A. B. a student in the University of Dublin. The discovery has been honoured with a distinguished premium from the Board of Trinity College.

These reports were both found in a set of two new databases purchased by the Library: The British Library Newspaper Collection. The Collection consists of two databases of primary source material, the 19th Century British Library Newspapers and the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers.

Rev. Charles Burney (1757-1817) gathered London and provincial British newsletters and newspapers. His collection also contains material from the Americas, Europe and India. When bound, this material ran to more than 700 volumes. These have now been digitised and made available by the British Library, along with the 19th Century British Library Newspapers. This second database contains material (over 2 million newspaper pages, national and regional) from the collections held in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

To find these collections in TCD Library, search the Main (not Periodicals) Library online catalogue for British Library Newspapers or for either of the two database titles, 1. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection, and 2. Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers. These collections may also be accessed from the Databases section of the Library Website, Information Resources: Databases.