Everything about The Catholic University Of Ireland totally explained
The
Catholic University of Ireland (
Irish:
Ollscoil Chaitliceach na hÉireann) was a
Catholic university in
Dublin,
Ireland and was founded in
1851 in response to the
Queen's University of Ireland and its associated colleges which were
nondenominational.
Cardinal Cullen had previously forbidden Catholics from attending these "godless colleges". On
May 18 1854 the Catholic University of Ireland was formally established with five faculties of law, letters, medicine, philosophy and theology with
John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman as the
Rector. Lectures commenced on
November 3 1854, with the registration of seventeen students, the first being Daniel O'Connell, grandson of
Daniel O'Connell, "The Liberator".
The Catholic University was neither a recognised university so far as the civil authorities were concerned, nor did it offer recognised degrees. Newman had little success in establishing the new university. He left the university in 1857 and it subsequently went into a serious decline, in 1879 only three students had registered that year. The situation changed in 1880 when the recognised
Royal University of Ireland came into effect and students of the Catholic University were entitled to sit the Royal University examinations and receive its degrees.
After the 1880 reforms the Catholic University consisted of a number of constituent colleges, including
St Patrick's College, Maynooth, much of the original university becoming another of those colleges, University College Dublin. University College was passed to the control of
the Jesuits in 1883, when it incorporated the faculties of the Catholic University except medicine. In
1909 the Catholic University essentially came to an end with the creation of the
National University of Ireland with
University College Dublin as a constituent.
Catholic University Medical School
The
Catholic University Medical School commenced lectures for medical students in 1855, the recognition of its graduates by chartered institutions ensured its success unlike the associated Catholic University. This ensured that the medical school became the most successful constituent college of the Catholic University and by 1900 the medical school had become the largest medical school in Ireland.
The 1908 reforms reconstituted the Catholic University Medical School as the Faculty of Medicine of University College Dublin.
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