Not a lot of people know that the 1983 film Educating Rita, starring Julie Walters and Michael Caine, though mostly set in Northern England, was entirely shot in Ireland.
For example, the scenes at the University in which Caine’s character Frank works were filmed at Trinity College Dublin. Here’s the facade from an early scene:
A list of many of the outdoor scenes and their actual locations can be found here.
One thing I hadn’t realised until yesterday involves the short part of the film in which Frank is on holiday in France. Here is a still from that sequence.
The setting is St Patrick’s College Maynooth!
Other scenes supposed to be in France were filmed just down the road from Maynooth, in Celbridge.
I never thought Maynooth looked particularly French, but there you go. You live and learn…
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