Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland and one of the older universities of Western Europe. On today’s campus, state-of-the-art libraries, laboratories and IT facilities, stand alongside historic buildings on a city-centre 47-acre campus. Currently there are 16,215 students, 82,500 alumni, and 3,500 members of staff. The student population represents every county in Ireland and 114 nationalities: not only is it diverse in nationality, it also represents a wide range of social classes and age-groups.

Trinity College Dublin offers a unique educational experience across a range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, engineering, science, human, social and health sciences. The pursuit of excellence through research and scholarship is at the heart of a Trinity education. TCD has an outstanding record of publications in high-impact journals, and a track record in winning research funding which is among the best in the country. Students also benefit from a scholar teacher model where they have the opportunity of being taught by world-leading experts in their field.

The Library of Trinity College is the largest research library in Ireland and is an invaluable resource to scholars. In addition to purchases and donations accrued over four centuries, the College has had 200 years of legal deposit. By this right Trinity can claim a copy of every book published in Ireland the UK. The Library contains 4.5 million volumes and a considerable breadth of electronic resources, providing access to 30,000 electronic journals and nearly 300,000 online books in addition to an extensive collection of manuscripts, the most famous being the Book of Kells.

Many of Trinity College Dublin’s alumni have helped shape the history of Ireland and Western Europe.  Distinguished literary alumni include authors Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Abraham “Bram” Stoker and Samuel Beckett who won a Nobel prize for literature, philosopher George Berkeley and historian William Lecky.