PJ Carroll's Building
The PJ Carroll's Building is a landmark of Irish modernist architecture and a distinctive feature of the DkIT campus. Originally built in the late 1960s as a cigarette factory, it has been thoughtfully reimagined as a state-of-the-art academic centre while retaining its architectural heritage.
PJ Carroll's is now home to the School of Informatics and Creative Arts, the building serves over 1,000 students across disciplines such as computing, mathematics, music, and creative media. Its facilities include modern lecture theatres, industry-standard recording studios, film editing suites, and dynamic collaborative spaces, providing an inspiring environment for innovation and learning.
Facilities
Computer Labs
Our state-of-the-art Computer Labs are equipped with the latest hardware and industry-standard software, supporting a wide range of computing, programming, and design tasks. These labs provide students with the tools they need for coursework, research, and innovation.
Networking Labs
DkIT’s dedicated Networking Labs offer a hands-on environment for learning about network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and system configuration. Students work with real routers, switches, and servers to gain practical skills in network design and troubleshooting.
Multi-Cam TV Studio
Our professional-grade Multi-Camera TV Studio gives students real-world experience in television production. Equipped with HD cameras, broadcast equipment, and a production control room, it's ideal for filming, directing, and live editing multi-camera content.
Video Editing Labs
The Video Editing Labs are equipped with high-performance editing suites running industry-standard software like Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Students can produce, edit, and finalize projects in a professional post-production environment.
Radio Studio
DkIT’s fully operational Radio Studio allows students to create, record, and broadcast audio content. Featuring professional soundboards, microphones, and editing software, it provides practical experience in radio production and podcasting.
Art Facilities
Our Art Facilities include spacious studios, drawing rooms, and digital creation spaces that support a variety of artistic disciplines. Whether working with traditional media or digital tools, students have the resources to explore and refine their creative expression.
PJ Carroll's Building History
Dreaming Squares - Dr. Ronnie Tallon
In this short documentary, filmed shortly before his death, Ronnie talks about his masterwork to the talented Irish director Paddy Cahill and journalist Shane 0’Toole.
In this documentary Tallon shares his inspiration for the former Carroll's cigarette factory in Dundalk, why he loved the square for the infinite freedom it offers within fixed constraints.
Now, half a century later, part of Dundalk Institute of Technology.
"Just the simplicity of the four squares and it has come up in my paintings now- more and more I'm coming down to just painting four squares and it's a beautiful form.
Square is a very simple beautiful form. It's fascinated more people than me. It's fascinated great artists down the years. All I can say is that it seems to have emerged from my architectural work and that I was always obsessed with the square, its expandability, the freedom within the discipline of the square."
-Dr. Ronnie Tallon (1927 - 2014)
Dr. Ronnie Tallon (1927 - 2014)
Dr Ronnie Tallon [1927 – 2014] was the most prolific architect in 20-century Ireland, and one of its most discerning. His influences came from East and West, from Kyoto to Chicago, from Katsura Rikyu to Lake Shore Drive, by way of Max Bill in Central Europe. He had the ability to make a bored schoolboy's theorem exhilarating, and he kept that geometrical magic alive in his work for 80 years.
Paddy Cahill (1977 - 2021)
A talented Irish director, Paddy Cahill was known for making visually striking documentaries on architecture, art and city cycling. Cahill passed away in April 2021, at the age of 44 years of age.
Cahill was a member of the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, the Irish Architectural Archive, the Architectural Association of Ireland and DoCoMoMo Ireland, a conservation group focusing on Irish modernist buildings.
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