Trinity College, Dublin / by W. Macneile Dixon.

  • Dixon, W. Macneile (William Macneile), 1866-1945.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Trinity College, Dublin / by W. Macneile Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    versity by the addition of a new College, an increase in the number of ‘ public ’ Professors, and the establish- ment of a Free School. The site selected for the College was the Baggotrath land by Stephen’s Green, and for the School, St. Sepulchre’s, by St. Patrick’s Church. In 1657 Cork House and Gallery were actually transferred to the Lord Deputy for the library. Archbishop Ussher’s books, purchased by the army in Ireland, were to be placed there as the nucleus of the collection. These and other similar schemes met, however, with no success, and since the reign of Charles H. the authorities of Dublin University have ceased to think seriously of assimilating that institution to the English model.* * ' A scheme for establishing a new University in Armagh, chiefly for the benefit of the Dissenters, was under consideration in 1799, but was ultimately abandoned. The grounds on which the Duke of Portland principally objected to it are curious and significant. He thought that it was not desirable to stimulate Dublin University by the emulation of a second University, as the students in Trinity College were already too apt to injure their health by overwork; and he also thought it very desirable that, after the Union, the higher order of Irishmen should be educated as much as possible in England, or (if they were Presbyterians) in Scotland.’—Lecky : History of Ireland, vol. V., p. 170, note.