"The universities." II - The University of Dublin: Trinity College

Abstract

The University of Dublin, or Trinity College - by whichever name we may decide to call it - is the third University in these islands and, of course, by far the most ancient in this country. There have been so many changes in Ireland in the last forty years that some of the evidence given to the University commissions of 1901 and 1906 reads oddly now. Trinity, however, remains as the oldest and most famous of Irish universities and it still enjoys the unquestioned support of an important group in the community. We have therefore to examine its development in a time of extreme difficulty and uncertainty.