Catholic University of Ireland
The Catholic University of Ireland (CUI) began its first lectures and courses in law, literature, medicine, philosophy and theology in 1854.
history
The Catholic University of Ireland was initially a Catholic university in Ireland; In 1851 it was transferred to the responsibility of the "Royal University of Ireland". Neither theology nor other humanities were taught at this university ; the then Cardinal Paul Cullen found this situation unfounded and prohibited Catholics from studying at this “godless college”.
Founding period
The establishment of an autonomous Catholic university for Ireland arose as early as 1850 at the Irish Synod of Bishops in Thurles. The bishops considered it necessary to found their own Catholic university and turned to Pope Pius IX with a request . to agree to this request immediately. The Pope supported the proposal and announced the opening in his encyclical Optime noscitis of March 20, 1854. The first rector was John Henry Newman (later cardinal); under his leadership, the first lectures began on November 3, 1854, with seventeen students enrolled . The Catholic university, however, was not granted a great success; since no student could obtain a degree, the number of students went on and on, and in 1857 Newman left the university.
Reclassifications and reforms
After only three students were enrolled in 1879, the situation changed in 1880 when the remainder of this university was attached to the Royal University of Ireland and students were now able to obtain graduate degrees. After this reform, the CUI still had several institutes and St. Patrick's College in Maynooth. From this college, the University College Dublin (UCD) emerged to a large extent , which in 1883, with the exception of the medical faculty, was taken over by the Jesuits.
In a further reform in 1908, the fragments of the Catholic University were incorporated into the UCD. The UCD was then admitted to the National University of Ireland in 1908 , thus ending the autonomy of the Catholic University of Ireland. The University College Dublin (UCD) now offers the following courses: Art, Celtic History, Natural Sciences, Economics, Law, Medicine and Technology . The UCD also offers courses in agriculture and veterinary medicine .
medical School
The Medical School was founded in 1855 by the Catholic University and was widely recognized by the graduates and the affiliated medical institutes . It was therefore considered the most successful element of the CUI and was the largest medical college in Ireland by 1900. Since 1908 the "Catholic University of Medicine" has provided the teaching staff for the medical faculty at UCD.
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Remarks
- ↑ p. 271 in: John Montague: Paul Cullen, JJ McCarthy and Holy Cross Church, Clonliffe: the politics and iconography of architectural style . In: Dáire Keogh, Albert McDonnell (Ed.): Cardinal Paul Cullen and his World . Four Courts Press, Dublin 2011, ISBN 978-1-84682-235-3 , pp. 260-276 .