The application process for the 2025-26 Campus and Second-Year Irish Language Residency Scheme is closed. It will reopen in March/April 2026 and an application form will be available to download from this page.

This Residency Scheme is for to current students of Trinity College Dublin. Please find further information on the Residency Scheme below

There are two parts to the Scheme.

a) On-campus Residency Scheme: for undergraduate students in second, third and fourth year (12 spaces).

b) Second-Year Residency Scheme in Trinity Hall: for undergraduate students in second year only (6 spaces).

General Information on the Residency Scheme

This Irish Language Residency Scheme is administered by the Irish Language Office and Coiste na Gaeilge (the university's Irish Language Committee) in assocation with the Registrar of Chambers to promote the use of Irish in university life by offering Irish language accommodation to a limited number of students who accept and fulfill the Scheme's conditions.

Students with fluency in Irish, who are willing to speak the language in the apartment on a daily basis and who will support Irish language events are sought. Each student is required to pay for their accommodation fees but a grant payment of €1,000 per student is provided on fulfillment of the Scheme's requirements. One half of the grant is paid after Michaelmas Term and the remaining half at the end of the academic year.

A separate application, outside of that for the Irish Residency Scheme, should be submitted to the Accommodation Office if you wish to live on campus or in Trinity Hall. In this way, if you do not receive an offer for a place on the Irish Residency Scheme, you will still be considered for a space in Trinity accommodation. See further details on the of Trinity's accommodation at this link.

A limited number of students who have already taken part in the Residency Scheme can be offered a space for a second time but a student can only participate in the Scheme twice.

Accommodation

a) Botany Bay, Trinity campus

• There are 12 spaces available on the Campus Scheme for undergraduate students in second, third or fourth year of any discipline of study.
• There are six apartments located in Botany Bay, with two students living in each apartment (may be mixed gender).
• Each student has their own single bedroom. The bathroom and kitchen/living area are shared.

b) Trinity Hall, Dartry, Dublin 6

• There are 6 spaces available for undergraduate students in their second year of any discipline of study.
• Six students live in one apartment (may be mixed gender).
• Each student has their own single bedroom and ensuite bathroom. The six students share the common living space i.e. kitchen/living area.
• Students with a home address in the greater Dublin area are not eligible to apply for a Residency Scheme place in Trinity Hall.

The Application Process

April

The application process opens and students are invited to submit an application form.

May

Applications are shortlisted and students named on the shortlist are invited for interview.

Subsequent to the interview process, twelve students are selected for the Campus Scheme and six students for the Second-Year/Trinity Hall Scheme (18 students in total) and those students are offered a space in Trinity's Scéim Cónaithe designated accommodation.

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