Royal University of Ireland
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Ollscoil Ríoga na hÉireann | |
Latin: Universitas Hiberniae Regium | |
Former names | Catholic University of Ireland Queen's University of Ireland |
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Type | Public |
Active | 1879–1909 |
Location | , Ireland |
The Royal University of Ireland was founded in accordance with the University Education (Ireland) Act 1879[1] as an examining and degree-awarding university based on the model of the University of London. A royal charter was issued on 27 April 1880 and examinations were open to candidates irrespective of attendance at college lectures. The first chancellor was the Irish chemist Robert Kane.
The university became the first university in Ireland that could grant degrees to women on a par with those granted to men. The first nine women students graduated in 1884. It granted its first degree to a woman on 22 October 1884 to Charlotte M. Taylor (
Establishment
The Royal University of Ireland was the successor to the
External students at colleges that were not approved could sit examinations of the Royal University (and many did so) although they were considered at a disadvantage to those from designated colleges whose professors were part of the university.
In fact, many schools, including convent schools (such as Dominican College, Eccles St, Dublin;
Like the Queen's University, the Royal University was entitled to grant any degree, similar to that of any other university in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, except in theology. The colleges themselves would award degrees in theology and divinity.
The professorships and Senate of the Royal University were shared equally between
The members of the Senate of the Royal University included
Chancellors
- Robert Kane, chemist, appointed 1880
- William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly (1885–1894 )
- Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath (1902–1906)[6]
- Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown (1906–1910)
Fellows
- Thomas Preston, scientist
- William P Coyne, economist[7]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
Notable graduates
A high number of graduates of the university for the time were women (the first nine in 1884) because Trinity College Dublin did not accept female students until 1904.
- Thomas Joseph Campbell - BA (1892), LL.B (1894), MA(1897), BL.
- Arthur W. Conway – BA (1896) – President of University College Dublin (1940–1947).
- Éamon de Valera – Mathematics (1904), Taoiseach and President of Ireland
- Alexander Ernest Donnelly
- William Egan – M.B. Bch. B.A.O. Royal Army Medical Corp. World War I – Major DSO OBE[8]
- Eleanora Fleury – MB MD, first woman medical graduate in 1893 later working as psychiatrist
- Mary Hayden – BA in 1885, and MA in Modern Languages in 1887
- Marie Elizabeth Hayes - MB BCh BAO, Doctor and Anglican missionary, educated through the Catholic University of Ireland Medical School
- John Hooper (Irish statistician) – BA (1898) – first Director of the Statistics Branch of the Department of Industry and Commerce in Ireland
- Douglas Hyde – Honorary Degree
- James Joyce BA Modern Languages (1902)
- Kathleen Lynn – Medicine (1899)
- Eoin MacNeill - Irish scholar and Sinn Féin politician
- Isabella Mulvany BA (1884) – Principal of Alexandra College.
- Kathleen O'Callaghan – A founder member of Cumann na mBan, and Sinn Féin TD.
- Agnes O'Farrelly BA (1899), MA (1900) – Professor of modern Irish in UCD (1932–1947)
- James O'Mara BA (1898) – Irish Parliamentary Party MP, and Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny South.
- Alice Oldham BA, campaigned for women to be admitted to Trinity College Dublin.
- Pádraig Pearse– BA Modern Languages (1901)
- Zeeman Effect, among other achievements
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington – BA (1899), MA (1902)
- Letitia Alice Walkington – BA (1885), MA (1886), LLB (1888), LLD (1889)
- Cardinal D'Alton – Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1946–1963
Dissolution
Irish Universities Act 1908 | |
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Act of Parliament | |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 1 August 1908 |
On 31 October 1909 the Royal University was dissolved; the
Arms
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See also
References
- ^ University Education (Ireland) Act 1879 Hansard. Acts 1803–2005.
- ^ Page 96, Ireland Since the Famine by F.S.L. Lyons, Fontana Press, (1971)
- ^ A Journey Through Time History, Domician College, www.domician-college.com
- ^ Dominican Education in Ireland 1820-1930 by Marie M. Kealy, Review by: Finola Kennedy, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 97, No. 385, The Family Today (Spring 2008), pp. 102-104 (3 pages)
- ^ Chapter 3 Education -Ireland Society and Economy 1870 – 1914 Archived 10 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ireland". The Times. No. 36947. London. 10 December 1902. p. 11.
- ^ Thomas P Linehan. "The Development of Official Irish Statistics" (PDF). Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. Retrieved 8 January 2015 – via United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ "Irish America is under construction". 30 July 2014.
- ^ Irish Universities Act 1908 - Irish Statute Book.
- ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. H". National Library of Ireland. 1880. p. 76. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
External links
- Education, Higher - Ireland/Royal University of Ireland index of official documents digitised by Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers On Ireland