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Trinity College builds on its four-hundred-year-old tradition of scholarship to confirm its position as one of the great universities of the world, providing a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and where staff and students are nurtured as individuals and are encouraged to achieve their full potential. The College is committed to excellence in both research and teaching, to the enhancement of the learning experience of each of its students and to an inclusive College community with equality of access for all. The College will continue to disseminate its knowledge and expertise to the benefit of the City of Dublin, the country and the international community.

 

The History of Trinity College: Trinity College's history can be divided into four epochs – a century or so during which the foundations were laid, a period of colourful expansion extending over the eighteenth century, a consolidation and advancement in the nineteenth century, and a century of strenuous adaptation to a rapidly changing world.

 

Laying the Foundations (1592–1700): Trinity was founded just before the Tudor monarchy had completed the task of extending its authority over the whole of Ireland. The idea of an Irish university had been in the air for some time, and in 1592 a small group of Dublin citizens obtained a charter from Queen Elizabeth incorporating Trinity College juxta Dublin. The Corporation of Dublin granted to the new foundation the lands and dilapidated buildings of the monastery of All Hallows, lying about a quarter of a mile south-east of the city walls. Two years later a few Fellows and students began to work in the new College, which then consisted of one small square. During the next fifty years the community increased. Endowments, including considerable landed estates, were secured, new fellowships were founded, the books which formed the beginning of the great library were acquired, a curriculum was devised and statutes were framed. The second half-century of the College's history was a time of turmoil, marked in Ireland by an interregnum and two civil wars. In 1641 the Provost fled, and two years later the College had to pawn its plate; some Fellows were expelled by the Commonwealth authorities, others were excluded at the Restoration, and in 1689 all the Fellows and students were expelled when the College was turned into a barrack for the soldiers of James II. But the seventeenth century was also an age of ardent learning; and Trinity men such as Ussher, a kindly polymath, Marsh, the orientalist, Dodwell, the historian, Stearne, who founded the Irish College of Physicians, and Molyneux, the correspondent of Locke, were typical of the adventurous and wide-ranging scholarship of their day.

 

Faculty:

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:

  • School of Business
  • School of Drama, Film and Music
  • School of Education
  • School of English
  • School of Histories and Humanities
  • School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
  • School of Law
  • School of Linguistic, Speech and Communications Sciences
  • School of Psychology
  • School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
  • School of Social Work and Social Policy
  • School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics

Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science:

  • School of Biochemistry and Immunology
  • School of Chemistry
  • School of Computer Science and Statistics
  • School of Engineering
  • School of Genetics and Microbiology
  • School of Mathematics
  • School of Natural Sciences
  • School of Physics

Faculty of Health Sciences:

  • School of Dental Science
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery
  • School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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