Trevor White: Goodwill Hunting, The Power of Civic Pride
Trevor White was born in Dublin. He has worked as a journalist in New York, Cape Town and London before launching ‘The Dubliner’ magazine in 2000. He sold the magazine after eight years and in 2011 he launched ‘The Little Museum of Dublin’ a people’s museum of the Irish capital and ‘City of a Thousand Welcomes’, a civic initiative to promote tourism and civic pride.
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ABOUT Trevor White
“Trevor White is an Irish Publisher, Food Critic and Museum Director. Last year he launched a civic initiative called ‘City of a Thousand Welcomes’.
It’s a greeting service that sees volunteer Dubliners welcome visitors to the city by bringing them out for an informal chat over a free cup of tea or a pint.
It was hoped that the initiative would attract 1000 volunteers to sign up as Dublin Ambassadors within three months. The Irish Times reported that the target was reached within 24 hours.
Last year, Trevor also announced plans to open a new Museum in Dublin on St Stephen’s Green, and invited the public to loan or donate artifacts for the museum, to be called ‘The Little Museum of Dublin’. It would tell the stories of the political, social and cultural history of Dublin in the 20th Century.
He is the author of ‘Kitchen Con’ (2006), a social history of restaurant criticism and ‘The Dubliner Diaries’ (2010), a portrait of the Celtic Tiger.”
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1. Website: The Little Museum of Dublin 2. Twitter: City of a Thousand Welcomes 3. Book: The Dubliner Diaries
