Royal University

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 700+ words | Copyright

Royal University, a further attempt to meet Catholic demands for university education, the Queen's University plan (see Queen's Colleges) having manifestly failed. The University Education (Ireland) Act of 1879 dissolved the Queen's University and replaced it with the Royal University of Ireland, an examining body whose degrees were open to all who passed its examinations. Its state‐funded fellowships were divided between the Queen's Colleges, the de facto denominational Magee College, Londonderry, and the Catholic University, the latter reconstituted under Jesuit auspices as University College, Dublin. All degrees and prizes of the Royal University were open to women, a new departure in Irish university education.

Kenneth Milne

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