Going Global; Class of 1994
The Class of 1994,which includes illustrious export Dara O’Briain (now based in London), is 15 years out of UCD and many of its members are scattered far afield. From drilling for gold in Nova Scotia to caring for stray animals in The Gulf of Thailand; from being a vice-president at Goldman Sachs New York, to opening an architecture firm in London; from becoming a best-selling author in Texas to starring in West End productions, the Class of 1994 is busy, almost everywhere. We look at some successful graduates based overseas.

London
Peter Mc Donald
BA, Actor
Peter burst onto screen, in a lead role, opposite Brendan Gleeson, in I Went Down (1997), scripted by Conor McPherson and one of the best Irish films of the 1990s. Now a feature on the London stage and in TV dramas, such as BBC’s Sea of Souls, Peter started acting in college in DramSoc, which proved excellent training: “You could appear in six plays a year with DramSoc if you put your mind to it.” After college, he joined the Dublin-based Fly By Night theatre company where he teamed up, to great mutual benefit, with fellow UCD graduate, Conor McPherson. Now married, he lives in London, but works all over the world.

Bríd Carr
BArch, Head of Brid Carr Architecture
“Great Curves” is how Building Design, the architects’ website, describes a stairwell in a London office, designed by Bríd Carr Architecture. In 2001 Bríd co-founded another practice, Eight by Four, which grew into Bríd Carr Architecture, established in 2005. The firm has worked on commissions in London, Warsaw and Ireland and had work exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. After graduating, Bríd spent two years in Paris on a joint architectural research project between Univeristy College London (UCL) and the University of Grenoble ...


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