First year/Trinity Hall Student Residency Scheme
The application process for the First-Year Irish Language Residency Scheme (An Scéim Cónaithe) is closed for the 2024-25 academic year. It will open again in April/May 2025 and an application form will be available to download from this page.
Please find further information on the Residency Scheme below.
This Scheme is for first-year students. Accommodation is offered in Irish language apartments located in Trinity Hall, Dartry, Dublin 6 and a grant payment of €1,000 is provided to each student who participates in the Scheme.
The Residency Scheme is open to students from across Ireland and abroad who are fluent in Irish and wish to speak it on a daily basis. Please note that applications cannot be accepted from students from within the greater Dublin area.
General information
This scheme is administered by the Irish Language Office and Coiste na Gaeilge in partnership with the Junior Dean to promote the Irish language in university life by offering Irish language accommodation to student speakers who meet the criteria below.
Applications are sought from Irish speakers who wish to speak the language daily, who will support Irish language events and who will fulfil the Scheme's conditions. Student are required pay for the cost of their accommodation but will receive a grant payment of €1,000 over the course of the academic year. One half of the grant (€500) is paid after Michaelmas Term (1) and the remaining half is paid at the end of the academic year.
A separate application, outside of the application for the Irish Language Residency Scheme, should be made to the Accommodation Office if you wish to live in Trinity Hall. In this way, if you are not offered a place on the Irish Language Residency Scheme, you may still have an opportunity to live in university accommodation. You may wish to include a note in your application to state that you would like to be placed in the same building as An Scéim Cónaithe apartments, where possible, so that you are close to other Irish speaking students. It is not necessary, however, to have applied for general accommodation in Trinity Hall to apply for the Irish Language Residency Scheme.
Accommodation - Trinity Hall, Dartry, Dublin 6
- There are twelve places available on the Scheme.
- There are two apartments, and six students live in each apartment (may be mixed gender).
- Each student has their own bedroom and ensuite bathroom. They share the common living spaces e.g. kitchen/living area with the remaining five students.
- Please find further information on Trinity Hall at this link.
Do you fulfil the requirements below?
- You will be a first year fulltime, undergraduate student in Trinity College Dublin in September 2025.
- You would like to share accommodation with other Irish speakers.
- You are an Irish speaker and wish to speak the language in your daily life.
- You do not live in the Greater Dublin area.
Application Process
April/May 2025
The application process will open and candidates will be required to submit an application form.
June/July 2025
Applications will be shortlisted and candidates named on the shortlist will be invited for interview.
Following the interview process, twelve first-year students will be selected for Trinity Hall's Irish Language Residency Scheme.
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