Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Institiúid Ealaíona, Dearadh agus Teicneolaíochta Dhún Laoghaire
	The Media Cube situated at the entrance to the Institute
Type	Institute of technology
Established	1 April 1997
President	David Smith
Registrar	Dr Andrew Power
Academic staff	340 (2010)
Administrative staff	459 (2010)
Students	2,500 (2021/2012)
Undergraduates	2,180 (2021/2022)
Postgraduates	320
Address	Kill Avenue; Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
Campus	Urban, 7 hectares (17 acres), 35 acres
Website	www.iadt.ie

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Irish: Institiúid Ealaíona, Dearadh agus Teicneolaíochta Dhún Laoghaire), more commonly known as IADT Dún Laoghaire or simply IADT is an institute of technology with a focus on art and design located in Deansgrange near Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. It was established in 1997 and incorporated the former Dún Laoghaire College of Art and Design as its School of Creative Arts.

Academic work

Approach

The institution has an emphasis on creative arts and media with the National Film School (NFS) located on campus.^[1] The college offers programmes in entrepreneurship, arts and humanities, business, arts management, psychology/cyberpsychology, computing and digital media technology.

Emphasis is placed on the convergence of the arts, technology and enterprise. A flagship campus incubation centre called Media Cube^[2] supports the graduate enterprise development programme and accommodates start-up business in the media and digital media sectors.

Organisation

IADT has two faculties:

Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies
Faculty of Enterprise and Humanities.

Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies

Courses of the Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies include:^[3]

BSc (Honours) in Creative Media Technologies [replacing the BEng in Audio Visual Media Technology]
BSc (Honours) in Creative Computing [replacing the BSc in Computing in Multimedia Programming and BSc (Honours) in Computing Multimedia Systems/ Web Engineering]
BSc (Honours) in Applied Psychology
BA (Honours) in Design in Model Making for Film and Media
BA (Honours) in Design for Stage and Screen
BA (Honours) in Animation
BA (Honours) in Film & Television Production
BA (Honours) in Photography
BA (Honours) in Design in Visual Communications
BA (Honours) in Art
BA (Honours) in 3D Animation
MA in Design for Change
MSc in User Experience Design
MSc in Cyberpsychology
MA in Screenwriting
MA in art, Research and Collaboration
MA in Broadcast Production for Radio and Television

National Film School

The National Film School is part of IADT's Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies. Launched in 2003,^[4] it was formed when the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology "[renamed] its film department as the National Film School".^[5] The school is a member of CILECT (the International Association of Film and Television Schools).^[6] It acts as a "centre of excellence" for film, animation, broadcasting and digital media.^[1] It offers the only BA Honours in Film and Television Production in the country, although the Huston School in Galway, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Ballyfermot College of Further Education in Dublin do offer diplomas in film-related studies.^{[citation needed]} The film school has previously hosted lectures by filmmakers including Liam O'Neill,^[7] Jim Sheridan, Oliver Stone, Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, John Landis and Stephen Rea.^[8]

Faculty of Enterprise and Humanities

Formerly the School of Business and Humanities, the Faculty of Enterprise and Humanities focuses on the knowledge, media and entertainment sectors. Courses include:^[9]

BA (Honours) in English, Media and Cultural Studies
BA (Honours) in Business Studies and Arts Management
Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Entrepreneurship & Management
Bachelor of Business in Entrepreneurship
Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Entrepreneurship
Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Event Management
MA Public Culture Studies

Campus

The institute is located on Kill Avenue, about two kilometres west of Dún Laoghaire, close to Bakers Corner and Deansgrange. The former Dún Laoghaire College of Art and Design (now part of the Faculty of Film, Art and Creative Technologies at IADT) moved to the campus in the early 1980s. This move facilitated an expansion of facilities and led to the creation of IADT in 1997. The college had strong ties with artist Diarmuid Larkin and his sons Seán and Derek who later worked there.^[10]

Campus history

The institute's site was a Christian Brothers home, Carriglea Park Industrial School, from 1894 to 1954. Prior to being bought by the Christian Brothers, Carriglea was a 40-acre (160,000 m²) Georgian residence owned by the Goff family.^{[citation needed]} The Reverend Robert Goff purchased the estate in 1826 for use as his principal residence. Goff died in 1844 and the estate passed to his wife and family. IADT has a collection of diaries written by the Reverend Robert Goff from the late 18th century until his death.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumni

Sara Baume, writer and artist^[11]
Chloe Michelle Howarth, novelist^[12]
Brendan Muldowney, screenwriter and film director^[13]

References

1 2 "National Film School, IADT". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 23 March 2007. Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "The Media Cube". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008.
↑ "Faculty of Film, Art & Creative Technologies, IADT". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
↑ "Media Courses - National Film School - IADT". iftn.ie. Retrieved 16 May 2026. the National Film School at IADT was launched in November 2003
↑ Clarke, Donald. "The DIY approach to a national film school". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
↑ "Work Begins on National Film School Building". iftn.ie. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2026. The new NFS building was designed following [..] discussions with a number of highly rated international film schools, which are, like IADT, members of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools
↑ "Liam O'Neill obituary: Film-maker was key in development of Irish film industry". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
↑ "IADT's highly successful series of National Film School Lectures continue this week". screenireland.ie. 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
↑ "Faculty of Enterprise & Humanities, IADT". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
↑ Ryan, Vera (2006). Movers & Shapers 2. Collins. p. 296. ISBN 9781905172030 – via Google Books.
↑ Doyle, Martin. "Sara Baume wins €15,000 Davy Byrnes short story award". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017. Baume was born in Lancashire in 1984. She grew up in Co Cork and studied fine art at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design
↑ "Cork writer up for British Book Awards: 'I don't want to shy away from my Irishness'". The Echo. 10 May 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
↑ Abbatescianni, Davide (11 May 2020). "Brendan Muldowney's horror The Cellar to start filming soon in Ireland". Cineuropa. Retrieved 28 June 2025.

External links

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology official site
IADT's Student Union website (archived 2005)
IADT's Centre for Creative Technologies and Applications (CCTA) (archived 2010)
The Media Cube website ^[relevant?]
The FIS (Film in Schools) website (archived 2012)

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[auto-1] 1 2 "National Film School, IADT". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 23 March 2007. Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "The Media Cube". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008.

[3] "Faculty of Film, Art & Creative Technologies, IADT". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.

[4] "Media Courses - National Film School - IADT". iftn.ie. Retrieved 16 May 2026. the National Film School at IADT was launched in November 2003

[5] Clarke, Donald. "The DIY approach to a national film school". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 May 2026.

[6] "Work Begins on National Film School Building". iftn.ie. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2026. The new NFS building was designed following [..] discussions with a number of highly rated international film schools, which are, like IADT, members of CILECT, the International Association of Film and Television Schools

[7] "Liam O'Neill obituary: Film-maker was key in development of Irish film industry". The Irish Times. Retrieved 14 May 2026.

[8] "IADT's highly successful series of National Film School Lectures continue this week". screenireland.ie. 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2026.

[9] "Faculty of Enterprise & Humanities, IADT". iadt.ie. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.

[10] Ryan, Vera (2006). Movers & Shapers 2. Collins. p. 296. ISBN 9781905172030 – via Google Books.

[11] Doyle, Martin. "Sara Baume wins €15,000 Davy Byrnes short story award". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017. Baume was born in Lancashire in 1984. She grew up in Co Cork and studied fine art at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design

[12] "Cork writer up for British Book Awards: 'I don't want to shy away from my Irishness'". The Echo. 10 May 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2025.

[13] Abbatescianni, Davide (11 May 2020). "Brendan Muldowney's horror The Cellar to start filming soon in Ireland". Cineuropa. Retrieved 28 June 2025.

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