The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891

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CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Portrait of Queen Elizabeth,

CHAPTER I. [1] FROM THE FOUNDATION TO THE CAROLINE CHARTER.

CHAPTER II. FROM THE CAROLINE REFORM TO THE SETTLEMENT OF WILLIAM III.

CHAPTER III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY UP TO 1758.

CHAPTER IV. FROM 1758 TO THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY.

CHAPTER V. DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VI. THE OBSERVATORY, DUNSINK.

CHAPTER VII. THE LIBRARY.

CHAPTER VIII. THE EARLY BUILDINGS.

CHAPTER IX. DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES.

CHAPTER X. THE COLLEGE PLATE.

CHAPTER XI. THE BOTANICAL GARDENS AND HERBARIUM.

CHAPTER XII. THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE OFFICERS, 1892.

ODE FOR THE TERCENTENARY FESTIVAL

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

LIST OF DELEGATES AND GUESTS

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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THE BOOK
OF
Trinity College

DUBLIN

1591

Seal of the College

1891

BELFAST

MARCUS WARD & CO., LIMITED, ROYAL ULSTER WORKS

LONDON AND NEW YORK

DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., LIMITED


1892



The Committee appointed by the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, to make arrangements for the celebration of the Tercentenary of the Foundation of the University of Dublin and of Trinity College, to be held in July, 1892, requested the following to act as a Sub-Committee to superintend the bringing out of a volume in which there should be a record of the chief events of the College for the last three centuries, a description of its buildings, &c.:—

Rev. John W. Stubbs, D.D.
Rev. Thomas K. Abbott, B.D., Litt.D., Librarian.
Rev. John P. Mahaffy, D.D., Mus. Doc.
Edward Dowden, LL.D., Litt.D.
Ulick Ralph Burke, M.A.
William MacNeile Dixon, LL.B., and
E. Perceval Wright, M.A., M.D.;

the last named to be the Convener.

Through illness, Professor E. Dowden was unable to take any active part in the preparation of this volume, the publication of which was undertaken by the firm of Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, of Belfast. The time at the disposal of the writers of the following chapters was extremely short, and they tender an apology for the want of completeness, which, on an exact scrutiny of their work, will, they fear, be only too conspicuous; but it is hoped that the volume may be acceptable as a sketch towards a History of the College.

The name of the writer of each chapter is given in the Table of Contents, and each author is to be regarded as accountable only for his own share of the work. The Committee’s grateful thanks are due to Mr. Louis Fagan, of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, for the help he has given them in having reproductions made from rare engravings of some of the distinguished Graduates of the University.


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