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Trinity College Dublin (Irish: Coláiste na Tríonóide, Bhaile Átha Cliath), abbreviated as Trinity or TCD, officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, [2] is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, Ireland. [17]
The Catholic University of Ireland (CUI; Irish: Ollscoil Chaitliceach na hÉireann) was a private Catholic university in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1851 following the Synod of Thurles in 1850, and in response to the Queen's University of Ireland and its associated colleges which were nondenominational ; Cardinal Cullen had previously ...
The Queen's Colleges (Ireland) Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 66) (An Act to enable Her Majesty to endow new Colleges for the Advancement of Learning in Ireland) established the colleges with the intention that they would provide for Roman Catholic requests for university education, since Catholics did not generally attend Trinity College Dublin at that time (though there were no legal restrictions ...
St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth (Irish: Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is a pontifical Catholic university in the town of Maynooth near Dublin, Ireland. The college and national seminary on its grounds are often referred to as Maynooth College .
Nationalists, mainly Roman Catholic, wanted to unite Ireland as an independent republic, whereas unionists, mainly Protestant, wanted Northern Ireland to remain in the United Kingdom. The Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland voted largely along sectarian lines, meaning that the government of Northern Ireland (elected by ...
University of Galway has been awarded the full five QS stars for excellence, [80] and is ranked among the top 1 per cent of universities according to the 2018 QS World University Rankings. [81] [82] These rankings marked the sixth consecutive year that the university's ranking improved by these standards. [81]
At that time, the population split was roughly two-thirds Protestant to one-third Catholic. BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census ...
Irish Catholics are found in many countries around the world, especially in the Anglosphere. Emigration exponentially increased due to the Great Famine which lasted from 1845 to 1852. In the United States , anti-Irish sentiment and anti-Catholicism was espoused by the Know Nothing movement of the 1850s and other 19th-century anti-Catholic and ...