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Exploring Dublin. Trinity College Today Trinity College is the only Irish university to rank in the top world universities and the top 50 European universities, as rated by The Times. The old library The old library of Trinity College is the largest library in Ireland and is built between and View this post on Instagram. Still a tradition in Trinity, Commons is attended by Scholars and Fellows and Sizars of the College, as well other members of the College community and their guests.
The more superstitious students of the college never walk underneath the Campanile at the front of Trinity College, as the tradition says that should the bell ring when they pass under it, they will fail their annual exams. Artist J. It is illegal for a student to walk through Trinity College without a sword. Unfortunately, it seems this rule has never really been enforced. You can shoot someone and kill them from the top of the bell tower in Trinity on a particular day of the year and not be charged with murder.
There are a lot of variants of this one. And we're not sure which day it is Holders of the freedom of Dublin have the right to pasture sheep on common ground The idea of a university college for Ireland emerged at a time when the English state was strengthening its control over the kingdom and when Dublin was beginning to function as a capital city.
The group of citizens, lay and clerical, who were main promoters of the scheme believed that the establishment of a university was an essential step in bringing Ireland into the mainstream of European learning and in strengthening the Protestant Reformation within the country.
The College site, lying some distance east of the small walled city, was far larger than the small community of fellows and students required, and the first brick buildings of the s occupied only a small part of what is now Front Square. Many of its early graduates, well grounded in philosophy and theology, proceeded to clerical ordination in the state church, the Anglican Church of Ireland. During the next fifty years the community grew: endowments, including landed estates, were secured, new fellowships founded, a curriculum devised and statutes determining internal governance were framed.
The international reputation of Ussher, one of its first alumni, helped place the College on the European map. The library however was spared.
Despite such dramatic interruptions, the College had become a much more substantial institution by the end of the seventeenth century. Many of the early buildings had recently been replaced, and a number of the fellows, notably William Molyneux and St.
The following century was an era of political stability in Ireland, thanks to the firm monopoly on political power held by the land-owning and largely Church of Ireland upper class, and the College was in material terms a great beneficiary from this state of affairs: its landed income grew very substantially in the course of the century and it enjoyed the recurring patronage of the Irish parliament across College Green, evident in the scale and quality of its new buildings.
The first structure dating from this era was a massive new library , initiated while George Berkeley, another celebrated alumnus of the College, was librarian; its size, far greater than then required, reflected long-sighted enlightenment ambitions, and it was followed by a string of other classical buildings on the western half of the campus: the Printing House , the West Front , the Dining Hall c. The great building drive was completed in the early nineteenth century by the residential quadrangles of Botany Bay and New Square.
These buildings reflected a seriousness of purpose absent from English universities of that era. The fellows were generally hard-worked, both as teachers and administrators; the general curriculum was adapted, albeit slowly, and most of the outstanding Irish politicians and writers of the eighteenth century Swift, Burke, Goldsmith, Grattan, Fitzgibbon, Tone were Trinity graduates, the influence of their university discernible in their writings and speeches.
Not for the last time, political controversy in the world outside came to be powerfully reflected among the student body in the lead-up to the rebellion, in which ex-students were involved on both sides, most famously Tone. The undergraduate curriculum was a prescribed general course, embracing classics, mathematics, a limited exposure to science and some philosophical texts. This began to change from the s when it became possible to specialise for degrees with honors, or moderatorships, in mathematics, in ethics and logic, and in classics.
In a moderatorship in experimental science was added embracing physics, chemistry and mineralogy at first, and later geology, zoology and botany, which in was split into two moderatorships, natural and experimental science. And new humanities disciplines emerged as moderatorship subjects at the same time — in history and modern literature. The professional schools were also transformed in the course of the nineteenth century: divinity had been taught since the foundation of the College, but this was now systematised.
The Law School was reorganised, and medical teaching placed on a much stronger footing, helped by the emergence early in the century of a group of medical teachers who gained international eminence notably James Macartney, Robert Graves and William Stokes , practitioners who divided their time between clinical teaching and the lecture theatre. The Engineering School was established in and was one of the first of its kind in the English-speaking world. Student numbers overall increased in the post-Waterloo generation, and the vibrancy of the institution is evident from the variety of associations and clubs in the city that were dominated by the university.
The Dublin University Magazine became one of the most widely circulating monthly reviews in Ireland or Britain, conservative in its politics, highly original in its literary coverage and on occasions quite subversive, not unlike its original College sponsors.
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