Organisation
Trinity College, Dublin
- Slug
- trinity-college-dublin-173
- Alternative names
- The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin
- Organisation type
- University College
- Founding date
- 1592-03-03
- Dissolution date
- Unknown
- Location
- dublin-3
- Languages
- Unknown
A medieval University of Dublin was founded in 1320 under a papal brief issued by Pope Clement V in 1311, and the university maintained an intermittent existence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral over the following centuries, but it did not flourish and finally came to an end during the Reformation period. Founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 through a royal charter, it is one of the extant seven “ancient universities” of Great Britain and Ireland. Trinity was established to consolidate the rule of the Tudor monarchy in Ireland at the former site of the disbanded Augustinian Priory of All Hallows.