Another Classics Coup!
14 March 2025They came. They spoke. They conquered! St. Conleth’s rocked the rostrum at the Classics Speech Competition at Trinity College, taking two of only four prizes on offer, with Milo Smith winning First Prize in LC and Amelie Timmins taking Second Prize in JC. Milo came to bury Caesar but ended up praising him, channelling Shakespeare’s Antony’s eulogy of the great JC with flair, poignant pauses and characteristically classic haberdashery. First Year Amelie conveyed the love and anguish of a mother/daughter relationship with her devastating performance of the Proserpina myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (and competing mostly against Third Years!).
And whom did they beat? Well the usual gang of expectant cool Classics kids from Gonzaga, Clongowes and various Loretos, as well as quality contributions from the rest of our team: Thomas Kelly (5th Yr.) delighted the crowd with his hilariously titillating ‘Ovid at the Races’; Shane Carroll (4th Yr.) delivered a penetrating performance of Pericles’s Funeral Oration; Lua Camargo Feddis (3rd Yr.) perfectly captured the emotion of Sappho’s love poetry; Saoirse Moore (1st) went back to the beginning of everything with Hesiod’s Theogony opening; Oisín McGonicle (1st) did for fathers and sons what Amelie did for the women with his Ovidian version of Daedalus and Icarus; and Emilia Balant and Parson Yu (2nd Yrs.) both captured the raw power and emotion of The Iliad. Well done to all the speakers and a big thank-you to the parents for their support and the Trinity College Classics Department!