'it is an informative work, has a clean prose style and there can be no gainsaying its author’s scholarly marshalling of sources'.

- David Limond, History of Education

'Tomás Irish's lavish Trinity in war and revolution [...] is especially notable, as TCD could be said to represent a very different Ireland outside the nationalist tradition [...]. This well written and well researched study sheds valuable light on the experience of traditions in Irish life that had little or no sympathy for the Rising, or for the revolution that ultimately came in its wake'.

- John Gibney, History Ireland

'Tomás Irish has given a very nuanced account of how this complex and multifaceted institution, Trinity College Dublin, reacted to and dealt with the tremendous social and political change that swept over Ireland in the early twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated and produced book is a welcome history of this pivotal period in the life of the College, but it is also a useful social history of Ireland in these years as well'.

- Francis M. Carroll, Irish Literary Supplement