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17 min read The author spent less than three years at St Columbaâs College in Dublin, but they had a huge influence on his life and work William Trevor, whose birthday it would have been today, died in November 2016, aged 88. He entered St Columbaâs College, Dublin under his real name, Trevor William Cox, in January 1944 and left in July 1946. Those mere two and a half years out of the 88 were, however, disproportionately important in the shaping of his artistic imagination. Schools can sometimes, for their own PR purposes, claim more influence than they should on the achievements of their famous alumni, but in this case the evidence is plentiful, and it is of course in the words of William Trevor himself. ....