Facilities for Postgraduate students

The Graduate Students' Union

The interests of graduate students are represented by the Graduate Students' Union. Their office is located on the second floor of House 6 in Front Square. Graduate students are also represented on College committees and on the School Executive. There is a Graduate Common Room in House 7, Front Square that is administered by the Graduate Students' Union.

The Library

The College Library's research facilities include a book stack of more than four million volumes, one of the larges in Europe. As the only copyright library in Ireland it enjoys the privilege of receiving automatically, and by right, all Irish and UK copyright material. For more specific information about the library's resources in philosophy, please visit the philosophy subject page of the Library website.

The Plato Centre

Located downstairs in the 1937 Reading Room, the Plato Centre is a research centre jointly administered by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Classics. It contains study space as well as an extensive library of material relating to Platonism and ancient, medieval and modern philosophy in the Platonic tradition. Please contact the Director of the Centre, Professor Vasilis Politis (email) for more information.

The 1937 Reading Room

Situated in Front Square, beside the Exam Hall, the 1937 Reading Room is a designated postgraduate library and study area. Postgraduate students have access to the building 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The 1937 Reading Room is equipped with study space, a computer room in the basement and lockers for storage. The lockers are administered by the Graduate Students' Union, and students wishing to procure a locker must do so through them at the beginning of each academic year.