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The National College of Art & Design | Coláiste Náisiúnta Ealaíne is Deartha, Dublin, is Ireland’s leading provider of art and design education. Our campus on Thomas Street in Dublin’s historic city centre is home to a community of 1,500 undergraduate, graduate and part-time students engaged in a wide range of study and research across the disciplines of Design, Education, Fine Art and Visual Culture. The National College of Art and Design has been the most significant provider of Art & Design education in Ireland for over 250 years. NCAD is a Recognised College of University College Dublin (UCD), one of Ireland's leading research universities and ranked in the top 1% of institutions worldwide by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The Abbey Theatre is Ireland's National Theatre. The Abbey Theatre, founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, first opened its doors in 1904 to ‘bring upon the stage the deeper thoughts and emotions of Ireland’. Since then, it has played a vital and often controversial role in the literary, social and cultural life and landscape of Ireland. The Abbey’s reputation for presenting world-class productions has made it an ambassador for Irish arts and culture at home and abroad. 🎭Coming Soon: MILKمِلْك, Youth’s The Season-?

The Focas Research Institute, DIT was established under the Higher Education Authority Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 1 (1999-2001). The facility addresses the common needs of research activities in Science and Engineering. The venture is founded on established expertise within the Institute and aims to consolidate and develop this expertise, while nurturing developing research activities within the DIT. Thus it promotes interdisciplinary collaborations within the Institute and with other national and international bodies, and provides a support service for national industry. It contributes strongly to the development of self-sustaining research teams in a number of strategic areas, such as bio and nano technologies. It furthermore underpins postgraduate research as well as undergraduate project work and undergraduate and postgraduate course curriculum development. The Institute provides state of the art core laboratory support for a range of research groups, as well as administrative and technical support. It boasts excellent seminar and meeting room facilities which regularly host seminars and other events covering a broad range of topics.