Language Schools

Accredited English language schools in Dublin, Galway, Cork, and beyond.

Apollo

Apollo Language Centre opened in 2016 and is owner-directed — Steven O'Dwyer and Aoife Govern run it directly, which shows in how the school operates. It's smaller and more attentive than larger schools. The adult centre…

ATC

ATC has been teaching English since 1973 — over 50 years. The Dublin school sits near St Stephen's Green on South William Street, and there's a second campus in Bray, about 30 minutes south of the city. Both run adult co…

Atlantic Galway

Atlantic Language School has been in Galway since 1993, starting in three attic rooms at the top of a staircase and expanding over three decades into a purpose-built school in the heart of the city. That growth trajector…

Atlas

Atlas Language School is in Portobello, south Dublin — a canal-side neighbourhood with a good mix of residential life and central access. The school is in a large standalone historic building overlooking the Grand Canal,…

Babel

Babel Academy of English is right beside O'Connell Bridge in Dublin city centre — 200 metres from Temple Bar and 300 metres from Trinity College. The building itself won the Royal Irish Architecture Award in 2021, which …

Berlitz

Berlitz Dublin has been operating since 1900 — which puts it among the oldest language teaching operations in Ireland, and part of a global group with a long track record in commercial and professional language training.…

Bridge Mills Galway Language Center

Bridge Mills Galway Language Center has been teaching English since 1987 from a historic stone building on the banks of the River Corrib. The location is one of the most distinctive in Irish language education — a workin…

Ces

CES has been teaching English since 1979. That's over 45 years in the business, which puts it among the most established language schools in Ireland. The Dublin campus sits directly opposite Trinity College — a central l…

City Language School

City Language School is on Dame Street in central Dublin — one of the main thoroughfares running between Dublin Castle and Trinity College. It's about as central as a school can be. The building is modern rather than con…

Cork English Academy

Cork English Academy opened in 2011 and is one of the more practically oriented schools in Cork. All teachers are native English speakers — not just qualified EFL teachers, but native speakers specifically — and the syll…

Cork English College

Cork English College was founded by Valery Cullen in 1978 and is still family-run today — her son Marc is in charge. That's over 45 years in operation, which makes it one of Ireland's longest-running English language sch…

DCU

DCU Language Services is the English language teaching unit at Dublin City University, based on the Glasnevin campus about 5 km north of Dublin city centre. For students who want a university environment rather than a st…

Delfin

Delfin English School is on Parnell Square, a central Dublin location that puts you close to the Garden of Remembrance, the Hugh Lane Gallery, and easy access to DART and bus routes. The school draws students from across…

EC Dublin

EC Dublin is part of the global EC English network, with schools in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Malta, and South Africa. The Dublin school is in Portobello — a canal-side neighbourhood south of the city centre, close…

ELI

ELI (English Language Institute) is a Dublin language school located near the Grand Canal, south of the city centre. It's a large school by Dublin standards, which means more course options and a bigger student community…

Emerald

Emerald Cultural Institute has been running English courses since 1986. That's almost 40 years, and the school has welcomed over 100,000 students from more than 60 countries in that time. The main year-round campus is in…

Everest

Everest Language School is on South William Street in Dublin city centre — a few minutes from Grafton Street and St Stephen's Green. It's a smaller school, and that's a deliberate choice. The founding teachers set it up …

Future Learning

Future Learning has been running since 2013 with campuses in Dublin and Athlone. It's an EAQUALS-accredited school — a standard that's harder to meet than most Irish EFL accreditations and one that carries recognition ac…

Galway Culturel Institute

Galway Cultural Institute has been teaching English since 1989 — starting with part-time short-term courses and growing into a school that now welcomes students from over 30 countries each year. The current building is o…

IBAT College

IBAT College is a private college in Temple Bar, one of Dublin's most central and well-known neighbourhoods. It's in an unusual position among language schools: it operates as a full private college with third-level prog…

International House Dublin

International House Dublin has been on Foley Street since 1998. It's part of the International House World Organisation, founded in 1953 and now one of the most recognised EFL networks globally. The school holds accredit…

International House Galway

International House Galway is on Eyre Square — the main square in Galway city centre and the hub of the city's transport, commerce, and social life. It's part of the International House World Organisation, founded in Lon…

ISE

ISE — the International School of English — has been running in Dublin since 1997. The school is in Dublin 2, five minutes on foot from Grafton Street. It's an ACELS-accredited school with a clear focus on tracking stude…

ISI

ISI Dublin has been running on Parnell Street since 2001. It's won the Study Travel Star English Language School Europe Award four times — 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020/2021 — and the Irish Enterprise Award for Best English…

Kaplan Dublin

Kaplan International has 80 years of history in education and 35 English language schools across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The Dublin school is in Temple Bar, one of the most central locati…