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Trinity College, the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, founded in 1592, has a unique literary heritage, continued now in the two Master's degree programmes offered by the Oscar Wilde Centre of the School of English.

Many of the major Anglo-Irish writers over the centuries have been students at Trinity - Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Synge and Samuel Beckett among them. Not only is there this historical heritage of Trinity's great writers of the past, but with Gerald Dawe, Prof Emeritus Brendan Kennelly, Deirdre Madden, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin on the staff, creative writing is one of the major strengths of the current School of English.

The copyright Library, which receives a copy of every book published in Ireland and the United Kingdom, has a very rich research collection of eighteenth - and nineteenth - as well as twentieth-century Irish writing. The Library holds manuscripts of Synge, Beckett and many modern Irish writers' papers and letters.