Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA,FRAS was an Irish mathematician,astronomer,and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin,and Royal Astronomer of Ireland,living at Dunsink Observatory.
Trinity College,officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin,is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin,a research university in Dublin,Ireland. Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter for the college in 1592 as "the mother of a university" that was modelled after the collegiate universities of both Oxford and Cambridge,but unlike these affiliated institutions,only one college was ever established;as such,the designations "Trinity College" and "University of Dublin" are usually synonymous for administrative purposes.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who first split the atom. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator,the Cockcroft–Walton generator. In experiments performed at Cambridge University in the early 1930s using the generator,Walton and Cockcroft became the first team to use a particle beam to transform one element to another. According to their Nobel Prize citation:"Thus,for the first time,a nuclear transmutation was produced by means entirely under human control".
Dublin City University is a university based on the Northside of Dublin,Ireland. Created as the National Institute for Higher Education,Dublin in 1975,it enrolled its first students in 1980,and was elevated to university status in September 1989 by statute.
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.
St Patrick's Pontifical University,Maynooth,is a pontifical Catholic university in the town of Maynooth near Dublin,Ireland. The college and national seminary on its grounds are often referred to as Maynooth College.
Patrick J. Prendergast FIEI,MRIA,FREng is an Irish engineer,specialised in bioengineering,and held a named professorial chair and other senior roles prior to his serving as the 44th Provost of Trinity College Dublin,the university's chief officer,for the 2011–2021 term. He has published more than 200 papers and volumes,and been cited widely.
Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland includes all education after second-level,encompassing higher education in universities and colleges and further education on Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) and other courses. The degree-awarding institutions which can grant awards at all academic levels are the University of Dublin,National University of Ireland,University of Limerick,Dublin City University,Technological University Dublin,the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland,Munster Technological University,Technological University of the Shannon:Midlands Midwest,Atlantic Technological University and South East Technological University,as well as St Patrick's College,Maynooth. Quality and Qualifications Ireland,a State agency,can grant awards in other institutions directly,or delegate the authority to do so. The King's Inns of Dublin has a limited role in education specialising in the preparation of candidates for the degree of barrister-at-law to practice as barristers. Medical schools in Ireland also have particular regulation. There were seven establishments of higher education within Ireland ranked among the top 500 universities worldwide by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2023.
The Ulster University Derry~Londonderry campus is one of the four campuses of Ulster University. It is located in Derry,County Londonderry,Northern Ireland and opened in 1865 as a Presbyterian Christian arts and theological college. Since 1953,it has had no religious affiliation and provides a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate academic degree programmes in disciplines ranging from business,law,social work,creative arts &technologies,cinematic arts,design,computer science and computer games to psychology and nursing.
In Western universities,a Bachelor of Divinity or Baccalaureate in Divinity is a postgraduate academic degree awarded for a course taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines,such as theology or,rarely,religious studies.
Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples. This ranges from linguistics,literature and art history,archaeology and history,the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages,living and extinct. The primary areas of focus are the six Celtic languages currently in use:Irish,Scottish Gaelic,Manx,Welsh,Cornish,and Breton.
The Irish Universities’Association (IUA) is the representative body of the eight universities within the Republic of Ireland and is based at NUI offices in Merrion Square,Dublin. It is a non-profit-making body.
Diarmuid Hegarty is the president of Griffith College in Ireland. He is also chairman of the Friends of the Vocal Arts.
Paudie Fitzmaurice is a hurler from Killeedy in County Limerick,Ireland,who featured in Limerick hurling teams of the 1970s. Fitzmaurice was part of the Limerick county hurling team which won the All-Ireland in 1973,) as well as in the 1974,1980 and 1981 teams. He was captain when Limerick won the 1981 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final. He is a two-time National League winner,and finished as top scorer when captaining Maynooth College to victory in the Fitzgibbon Cup in 1974. His achievements as a player were recognised in 1984 when Fitzmaurice received an All-Star award. Fitzmaurice continued to play competitive hurling for his native Killeedy until 1996.
Daniel Joseph Bradley was an Irish physicist,and Emeritus Professor of Optical Electronics,at Trinity College,Dublin.
Richard Vincent Comerford,known generally as Vincent Comerford,is a professor of Irish history at the National University of Ireland,Maynooth who retired in January 2010. Comerford graduated from St. Patrick's College,(NUI) Maynooth,BA(1965) and MA (1971),followed by a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 1977. He was appointed Professor of Modern History at Maynooth in 1989.
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.
Fr. James Robert C. McConnell was an Irish Catholic priest and theoretical physicist. McConnell entered University College Dublin (UCD) in 1932 and graduated in 1936 with a first-class honours master's degree in mathematics. After leaving UCD,McConnell began his study for the priesthood,entering Clonliffe College. He moved to Rome after a year and earned a B.D.,B.C.L.,and S.T.L. and was ordained in 1939. He was made a Doctor of Mathematical Sciences by the Royal University of Rome in 1941.
James Joseph McCarthy was an Irish architect famous for his design of ecclesiastical buildings. McCarthy was born in Dublin,Ireland on 6 January 1817. His parents were from County Kerry. He was educated by the Christian Brothers in Richmond St.,and went on to study architecture at the Royal Dublin Society School. He was a follower of the style of the architect Pugin and Gothic Revival.
Linda F. Hogan is an Irish ethicist,ecumenist and academic,specialising in Christian ethics,political ethics,human rights,gender,and ecumenism. She is Professor of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin,where she was also its vice-provost from 2011 to 2016. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Chester and University of Leeds before joining the staff of Trinity College,Dublin.
