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Higher Education Guide to the North West of Ireland

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Letterkenny Institute of Technology - Image courtesy of LYIT
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Ceol na Cille Irish Music School
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Ohio University Summer Programme - Image courtesy Sonya Paclob
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Killybegs Catering College - Image courtesy of LYIT
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Technology at LYIT - Image courtesy of LYIT
Further and Higher Education Guide to the North West of Ireland
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Profile

Pat Loughrey

Pat Loughrey Portrait

Patrick Loughrey was born in 1955 and grew up in County Donegal in the townland of Ray (pronounced as 'Rai'), on the shores of Lough Swilly. He attended Loreto College in Milford, and went on to study at the University of Ulster (BA Hons Contemporary History), The Queen's University of Belfast (... Read more.

Organisation

International Office at LYIT

Exterior of LYIT

LYIT is a state of the art campus situated in the beautiful landscape of Donegal, in North West Ireland. We are a small friendly campus with 3,500 full time undergraduate and postgraduate students. Amongst our numbers we welcome 200 International students to LYIT each year from a host of... Read more.

Place

LYIT Higher Education Campus

Students at LYIT

Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT)  has two modern campuses in Letterkenny and Killybegs.  It employs 350 staff and has over 3,000 full-time students who come from all over Ireland and from 30 different countries to study.

The college has an ambitious and progressive ethos, and... Read more.

Article

A Jig in the Poorhouse

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No event was more important in the making of modern Donegal and its diaspora than the Great Famine of 1845–52. Here, in a recent essay in the Dublin Review of Books, Ardara native Breandán Mac Suibhne considers a number of recent publications on the Famine. The essay will be of... Read more.

Project

New Partner for LYIT

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Letterkenny Institute of Technology has a cross-institution partnership with Lasell College, Boston that allows students from both colleges to expand their international experiences by travelling abroad and taking courses at each institution. The partnership offers students in Business,... Read more.