Internships at
Dunsany Estate
Our internship pathway gives students and early-career professionals real field experience – monitoring wildlife, assisting with habitat plans and contributing to community outreach. By investing in hands-on learning, we help grow skills, confidence and green careers for tomorrow.
The Next Generation, On the Ground
We welcome interns to Dunsany to learn by doing – surveying habitats, supporting restoration projects and helping us tell the story of rewilding. It’s our way of opening doors for young people into the environmental space and showing a practical, educational and societal commitment to the next generation of land stewards.
Meet our past and current interns at the estate.
Trinity College Dublin
Hugh O’Kennedy
Hugh a 4th year Trinity College Student in Business and economics and now studying for an MBA, helped guide us through our preparation for voluntary CSRD reporting as part of his Business for Nature module. This was achieved using frameworks – CSRD, the EU Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), and the ACT-D framework.
Louisiana State University
Ethan Weldon
Ethan – an international Student at Louisiana State University, spend the summer working with us to help catalogue all recorded biodiversity at Dunsany, while Research and writing about multiple species to create interesting website content. A significant project Ethan delivered was to understand and summarise BNG Metric Guidelines and create a process map to help others understand the fundamentals of BNG.
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Aoife Hamilton
Aoife, a Graduate of Dundalk Institute of Technology – in Creative Media, UN Peacekeeping award winner, helped us by creating images, photographic, video and drone. Utilising these assets she storyboarded, wrote, edited narrated video and supported us in the coordination of various corporate events and communications and Social Media – across both Dunsay Estate and their partner Irish Trees Ltd.
University of Oregon
Lyric O'Hayer
Lyric, An international Student and University of Oregon, a Graduate with a B.S. in Environmental Studies worked with us across the business as a summer intern, to develop our propositions, communication processes, outbound business development and Client engagement.
University College Dublin
Vanessa Baxter
Vanessa, officially graduated from University College Dublin with a BSc in Sustainability with Business and Economics this year. Vanessa helped us research, write and publish articles to enhance web search visibility. Producing and narrating an educational video for the Irish Trees YouTube channel. Organising and hosting a charity events.
Internships at Dunsany Estate
If you are interested in applying to become an intern at Dunsany Estate, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us below.
