Where was Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ filmed? (2024)

Where was Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ filmed? (1)

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Wednesday 29 April 2020

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New drama ‘Normal People’ is guaranteed to make you do three things: a) sob, b) ache for first loves, teenage trysts and world-shaking sex, and c) daydream about what life was like when we could go outside.

Remember that? When you could press up against people in sweaty, sticky-floored clubs, drink pints elbow-to-elbow with strangersin bars, share glasses of wine at house parties, brush hands with people you fancy, snog in the back of cars? When you could travel to Sweden to eat a cinnamon bun (rather than live-stream baking classes in your kitchen) or serve up huge bowls of pasta in an Italian holiday home (rather than in the studio flat you’ve barely left for the last two months)?

So if the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s mega-popular novel has you itching for the outdoors, here’s where to find the exact places that feature in the series, available to stream now via the BBC, Hulu and Stan.

Where was Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ filmed? (3)

Sligo,Ireland

Connell and Marianne’s hometown ofCarricklea, wherethe pair grow up, go to school and embark on their relationship, is fictional – but scenes set there were filmed in Tobercurry. It’s the second largest town in County Sligo and around two and a half hours by car from Dublin.

In one episode they spend time together on a long, weather-beaten beach. That was filmed at Streedagh Point, which is just north of Sligo town along the coast.

Where was Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ filmed? (4)

Dublin, Ireland

Both Connell and Marianne go to Trinity College in Dublin, which is actually where writer Sally Rooney went to uni, too. Scenes from their uni days were filmed on location in and around the historic college, which was founded in 1592. You can spot the institution’s iconic grand squares full of students.

Scenes featuring Marianne’s romantically run down flat were filmed on Wellington Road in the Ballsbridge area of Dublin. The street is lined with pretty Georgian houses.

Where was Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ filmed? (5)

Stimigliano,Italy

Later in the series, Marianne and Connell travel to Italy. The scenes at Marianne’s family villa are set in Trieste, a couple of hours from Venice, but they were actually filmed in Stimigliano, a small hilltop town aboutjust north of Rome. Spot thePiazza Vittorio Emanuele, where the pair stop for gelato.

Where was Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ filmed? (6)

Luleå, Sweden