The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It was Ireland's youngest university until Technological University Dublin was established in 2019, having been founded by the Universities Act, 1997, from the secular faculties of the now separate St Patrick's College, Maynooth, which was founded in 1795. Maynooth is also the only university town in Ireland, all other universities being based within cities.
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester PC, FRS was a British barrister and statesman. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1802 and 1817.
St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, is the "National Seminary for Ireland", and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, 24 km (15 mi) from Dublin, Ireland.
William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ireland.
Micheál Ledwith is a former Catholic priest of the Diocese of Ferns in County Wexford from 1967 to 2005.
Laurence F. Renehan (1797–1857) was an Irish historian, author, administrator and Roman Catholic priest who served as president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth from 1845 to 1857.
Dermot Pius Farrell KC*HS is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Dublin since 2021.
Hugh Gerard Connolly (b.1961) is an Irish Catholic priest. He is a parish priest in the diocese of Dromore and a former Aumônier des Irlandais at the Collège des Irlandais in Paris. He previously served as president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland.
James Henthorn Todd was a biblical scholar, educator, and Irish historian. He is noted for his efforts to place religious disagreements on a rational historical footing, for his advocacy of a liberal form of Protestantism, and for his endeavors as an educator, librarian, and scholar in Irish history.
Holy Cross College, located in Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra was founded in 1854 as the Catholic diocesan seminary for Dublin by Cardinal Paul Cullen.
Thomas Patrick Gilmartin was an Irish clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Clonfert from 1909 to 1918 and Archbishop of Tuam from 1918 to 1939.
Rev. William Delany (1835–1924), S.J., LL.D. (R.U.I.), was an Irish Jesuit priest and educationalist, who served as President of University College Dublin.
Dermot Patrick Martin Dunne is the current and, by some counts, 35th Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Michael Sheehan was an Irish priest, educator and a Coadjutor Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney in Australia (1922-1937). He was also a notable scholar of the Irish language.
Bartholomew Crotty was an Irish priest and Bishop of Cloyne, who served as Rector of the Irish College at Lisbon from 1799 to 1811 and later President of Maynooth College from 1813 until 1832.
Irish College at Lisbon or St. Patrick's College, Lisbon was set up during the Penal Times, by a group of Irish Jesuits, supported by a number of Portuguese Nobles, in Lisbon.
John Dunne was an Irish priest and educator, who served as President of Carlow College from 1856 to 1864. He was born in July 1816 in Ballinakill, Queens County(Laois) his great uncle also called John Dunne was Bishop of Ossory. His father John Dunne gave evidence along with James Doyle to a House of Commons Committee in London. Educated at Ballyroan, in 1834 he entered St. Patrick's, Carlow College, from which in 1837 he proceeded to Maynooth College completing his ecclesiastic course, he proceeding to study in the Dunboyne Establishment. Dunne returned to Carlow College as a Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy, in 1850 he was appointed vice-president, and 1856 he succeeded Dr. Walshe as President of the college.
Michael Anthony Harty was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Killaloe between 1967 and 1994.
André (Andrew) Darré (1750–1833) was a French priest and academic. He was one of the four exiles from France, the others being professors Francois Anglade, Louis-Gilles Delahogue, and Pierre-Justin Delort, sometimes called the French "founding fathers" of Maynooth College in Ireland.
Louis-Gilles Delahogue (1739-1827) was a French priest and academic, who was exiled following the French Revolution and moved to Ireland. His surname particularly in French is sometimes written as De La Hogue. Delahogue graduated from the Sorbonne and was a Professor of Sacred Scripture at the University of Paris, Sorbonne and Royal Censor from 1772 until after the revolution. Initially, after the September massacres in Paris in 1792, Delahogue found refuge and employment in London, England, where he spent six years before he moved to Ireland. In 1798, he was appointed the professor of Moral Theology, at the newly established Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth, Ireland. In 1801 he moved from Moral Theology to succeed Rev. Maurice Aherne as Professor of Dogmatic Theology.
