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Dublin affords unparalleled opportunities to study the Irish theatre in performance, from the renowned Gate and Abbey theatres to smaller, adventurous companies like Rough Magic, Barabbas, Loose Cannon, Pan-Pan, Fishamble, The Corn Exchange and many others. The yearly Dublin Theatre Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival offer rare chances to sample a range of works by international companies large and small. For interested students, Dublin hosts an ongoing parade of public lectures, seminars and workshops and conferences organised by all manner of theatre practitioners and academics, some of which are sponsored by UCD.
University College Dublin, the University of Newman, Hopkins, Flann O’Brien, Kate O’Brien and Joyce, has a fine tradition of scholarship in Irish literary studies and numbers amongst its alumni contemporary playwrights such as Thomas Kilroy, Tom MacIntyre, Frank McGuinness and Marina Carr, Conor McPherson and Roddy Doyle, and theatre practitioners like Cyril Cusack, Barry McGovern, Rosaleen Linehan, Jim Sheridan, Joe Dowling and Ben Barnes.

The Blackrock Campus, situated by the sea in the attractive village of Blackrock, is just two miles from the Belfield Campus and ten minutes from the centre of Dublin by train. The Centre was opened in 1989, with the Inaugural Lecture given by renowned drama critic, Eric Bentley. The Centre is a self-contained unit on campus, where we have the use of workshop spaces, theatre space, library, computer services and other facilities. In addition, our students make full use of library, computer, sports and social facilities on the Belfield Campus. The UCD Main Library at Belfield, with holdings of over one million volumes and a valuable Special Collections Department, offers excellent resources for study and research.

The nearest DART station is Blackrock and the campus is served by a range of buses:

From Dublin Centre: 7, 7A, 8, 45

From Belfield Campus: 17

From Bray: 45 

From Dun Laoghaire: 7

From Stillorgan: 115