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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.
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The college was founded in 1607 by Florence Conry, Archbishop of Tuam, and Irish Franciscan Hugh MacCaghwell (Lecturer at the University of Salamanca, later Archbishop of Armagh), [1] with the support of Philip III of Spain, as an exile institution for the training of Irish Franciscan priests. [2]
The Irish universities include the University of Dublin, better known by the name of its sole college, Trinity College Dublin, the four constituent universities of the National University of Ireland, two universities established in 1989, five technological universities formed by the amalgamation of Institutes of Technology and a professional medical institution.
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.
This category relates to universities and colleges located in the Republic of Ireland only. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland . Subcategories
The Irish College was a seminary at Douai, France, for Irish Roman Catholics in exile on the continent of Europe to study for the priesthood, modelled on the English College there. Dedicated to St. Patrick, the college was sometimes referred to as St. Patrick's College, Douai.
This category is for universities and third-level colleges in the island of Ireland as a whole, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Universities and colleges in Ireland .