Category: History - British
The origin of the University of Dublin is not shrouded in darkness, as are the origins of the Universities of Bologna and Oxford. The details of the foundation are well known, in the clear light of Elizabethan times; the names of the promoters and benefactors are on record; an...
Roman Catholics were not permitted to take Degrees in the University of Dublin up to the year 1793. By an Act of the Irish Parliament of that year, followed by a Royal Statute o...
9. CHAPTER VIII.When Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, had induced Queen Elizabeth to grant a Charter of Incorporation to a University to be established in Dublin, he addressed himself to the...
4. CHAPTER III.The great expansion of the College about the time of its first Centenary seems to have been rather the effect of circumstances than of a strong and able government. The Provosts...
13. CHAPTER XII.David Richard Pigot, M.A. } Elected by Rev. Joseph Carson, D.D. } the _Classis_ Rev. Samuel Haughton, M.D. } _Prima_ John K. Ingram, LL.D. } (1891). Rev. James William Barlow, M...
8. CHAPTER VII.The Library had its beginning in 1601, from a subscription by the officers and soldiers of Queen Elizabeth’s army in Ireland. Prior to that, indeed, there were a few books; a li...
2. CHAPTER I.[1The origin of the University of Dublin is not shrouded in darkness, as are the origins of the Universities of Bologna and Oxford. The details of the foundation are well known, i...
10. CHAPTER IX.The close of the sixteenth century was a brilliant period in the history of the English people. Three years before the measure for the foundation in Dublin of a College “whereby...
3. CHAPTER II.The first fifty years of this History passed away without much apparent advance. The attempt to supply additional room by providing two residence-halls in the city (Bridge Stree...
5. CHAPTER IV.Provost Andrews, a layman, but a Senior Fellow, and one of a distinguished group of lay Fellows then in the College, succeeded less than two years before George III. became king...
7. CHAPTER VI.Provost Baldwin held absolute sway in this University for forty-one years. His memory is well preserved here. The Bursar still dispenses the satisfactory revenues which Baldwin...
12. CHAPTER XI.In the year 1711 there was a Lecturership of Botany in connection with the Medical School of Trinity College, and there was apparently a “Physic Garden” near the School, extendi...
11. CHAPTER X.The earliest mention of any acquisition of Plate seems to be the list of subscriptions (in 1600) for the College Mace, which cost £12, a large sum in those days. I have heard Pr...
1. CHAPTER I.--FROM THE FOUNDATION TO THE CAROLINE CHARTER, by the