Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . e demonstrationof trades and citizens,presided over by LordGort. The AlbertMemorial, by the samesculptor, was erectedon the lawn of theRoyal Dublin Society,with the Museum andthe National Galleryon either hand. The University of Dublin, or College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity,as already stated (p. 312), was opened in 1593. Of course it has undergone manyimprove
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . e demonstrationof trades and citizens,presided over by LordGort. The AlbertMemorial, by the samesculptor, was erectedon the lawn of theRoyal Dublin Society,with the Museum andthe National Galleryon either hand. The University of Dublin, or College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity,as already stated (p. 312), was opened in 1593. Of course it has undergone manyimprovements, since its foundation, in architectural expansion as well as in otherrespects. The three fellows—FuUerton, Hamilton, and Ussher—who used to ad-vise the provost—Loftus—in the Elizabethan days, have since developed into aSenate of seven Senior and twenty-six Junior Fellows, all of whom, unlike theircolleagues at Oxford and Cambridge, are allowed to take unto themselves wives,and in order that they may support their wives in comfort and dignity, are per-mitted to hold their Fellowship till they die. There are thirty-one Professorships,including chairs for oratory, music, and the development of the Irish St. Stephens Green—North Side. 368 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. As it was founded on a plundered monastery, it was, after some early financialtrials, sustained by confiscations. For two centuries Catholics were debarred ofits benefits; and, as if to mark the era of dawning light, almost the very first youthwho availed himself of the partial removal of the ban against his creed, and entered Trinity Col-lege, in 1793, arose tobe the representativelyrist of the Land ofSong. It was ThomasMoore, whose scholar-ship, though deniedeven honorary rewardsin college, undoubted-ly developed resourceswhich contributed tohis world-wide as was the con-cession to growing in-telligence which per-mitted Catholics to ob-tain a certain amount ofeducation in the Na-tiona
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