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The first Irish Colleges were established in Spain in the 1580s under the supervision of the Jesuit priest James Archer, in Salamanca and Madrid. There were several early Irish Colleges in Southern Netherlands. St. Patrick Irish college of Douai was founded in 1603 by Christopher Cusack, [1] with the support of Philip III of Spain.
The Irish College of St Anthony, in Leuven, Belgium (Irish: Coláiste na nGael i Lobháin, Latin: Hibernorum Collegii S. Antonii de Padua Lovanii, French: Collège des Irlandais à Louvain and Dutch: Iers College Leuven), has been a centre of Irish learning on the European Continent since the early 17th century.
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He bestowed on the college an endowment of the value of £2000, and, at a cost of £1000, built a chapel to his patron, St. George. In February 1790, by royal decree of King Charles IV Irish College of San Jorge at Alcalá was amalgamated with the Irish college in Salamanca. [4] The college closed in 1807 due to the Peninsular War. French ...
The Irish Ladies Hockey Union was established in 1894, following a meeting at Alexandra College. On 2 March 1896 the school also hosted the first ever women's international field hockey match when Ireland defeated England 2–0.
The National University of Ireland (NUI) (Irish: Ollscoil na hÉireann) is a federal university system of constituent universities (previously called constituent colleges) and recognised colleges set up under the Irish Universities Act 1908, [3] and significantly amended by the Universities Act, 1997.
Irish Colleges were set up on the continent following the Reformation, and the introduction of Anti-Catholic Penal Laws in Ireland. A number of colleges were set up in France, Spain, Portugal(which was under the Spanish Monarchy at the time), Italy, and Belgium(particularly when under Spanish control as the Spanish Netherlands), under the patronage of Catholic Monarchs, and the Papacy.
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