The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891

by Ireland) Trinity College (Dublin

The successive attempts (by Archbishop de Bicknor in 1320, Edward III., Edward IV. at Drogheda in 1465, Sir Philip Sidney in 1568) to establish or develop a University in Ireland up to the time of Queen Elizabeth, when the citizens of Dublin, under the auspices of Archbishop Loftus, secured the final establishment of the National University beside the shores of the “Firth of Edar” (Dublin Bay, so called from the hero or heroine Edar, who gave his or her name to its northern boundary and most striking feature—Ben Edar, or Howth).

Lines 41-52.

The Elizabethan Age, with its varying hopes and achievements, the propitious birth-date of the University.

Lines 53-74.

The purpose and appointed work of the University in the service of Wisdom.

Lines 75-94.

The bond of union between Trinity College and its alumni.

Lines 95-114.

Representative great men whom the University has produced—Ussher; Congreve and Farquhar, dramatists; Swift, master of invective and sarcasm in prose and verse; Berkeley, the idealist; Goldsmith; Moore, &c.

Lines 115-148.