This film looks at Trinity College, Dublin, which is located right in the heart of Dublin’s city centre. It begins as we enter through the Regent house entrance, off College Green, into what is a compact campus sandwiched between Pearce Street to the North and Nassau Street to the south and extending with its park and rugby ground as far as Westland Row to the East.
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The College was founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 modelled after the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It is Ireland’s oldest surviving university and one of the seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland.
Parliament square, has a beautiful symmetry to it, with the classical columns of the chapel on the left mirroring the architecture of the public theatre opposite.
Wikipedia cites the university as one of Europe’s Elite universities
Complimenting the classical design of the chapel and tucked in behind it is the dining hall which had to be restored after a fire gutted it in 1984.
In library Square we see the Campanile or the bell tower dating from 1853. This is interesting as it was designed by Charles Lanyon, the architect associated with the Queen’s University Belfast building that we covered in another film.
After this we see the reading room with the more modern Arts Building looming in the background.
The University began life as the university of the protestant ascendancy and remained so for much of its history. Catholics were admitted from 1793 but were unable to receive Professorships, Fellowships or Scholarships.
We pass the Trinity College library, one of Ireland’s most important archives and probably the most significant manuscript held here is the Book of Kells.
The University is particularly acclaimed in the field of literature and the writers: Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and Bram Stoker all studied here. So too did Irish presidents Mary McAleese, Douglas Hyde, Éamon de Valera and Mary Robinson.
We enter the arts building which also contains and exit out onto Nassau Street. and directly in front of us now is the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and important exhibition space in the city.
Wikipedia Site here:
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