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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 former university of main characters Mark and Jeremy in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. Not to be confused with Dartmouth College. University of Edgestow: C. S. Lewis: Novel: UK: England: In the novel That Hideous Strength; had four colleges: Bracton College, Northumberland College, Dukes College, St. Elizabeth's College. [22]
John (O') Sullivan (1633-1699), rector of the University of Louvain (1690-1691), president of Irish Pastoral College (1672-1697), president of the College de Drieux, Louvain (1692–95). John Punch, Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian. Brendan Jennings OFM, first guardian following the reopening of the Irish College in 1927.
2.2 Ulster characters. 2.3 Connacht characters. 2.4 Ulster exiles. 2.5 Other characters. ... Míl Espáine - Irish ancestral figure; Ulster Cycle. Major characters
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 ...
This is a list of notable past pupils of Blackrock College (Irish: Coláiste na Carraige Duibhe), a Catholic, voluntary secondary school for boys aged 14–18, in Williamstown, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland. The college was founded by French missionaries in 1860, to act as a school and civil service training centre.
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.
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.