. Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin . ich have much merit. Upon the whole, prejudice itfelf mufl acknow-ledge, that the Britifh Empire, (we might haveadded Europe herfelf) cannot boaft of fo fpaci-ous and ftately a Senatorial-Hall. I THE THE COLLEGE of the HOLY and UNDIVIDED TRINITY, GENERALLY TERMEDTRINITY COLLEGE. uOME writers inform us, that there were fchoolsof literature in Ireland, as early as the reign ofPaganifm, and that they were eftablifhed by a co-lony of Grecians, which came from the liege ofTroy. This is endeavoured
. Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin . ich have much merit. Upon the whole, prejudice itfelf mufl acknow-ledge, that the Britifh Empire, (we might haveadded Europe herfelf) cannot boaft of fo fpaci-ous and ftately a Senatorial-Hall. I THE THE COLLEGE of the HOLY and UNDIVIDED TRINITY, GENERALLY TERMEDTRINITY COLLEGE. uOME writers inform us, that there were fchoolsof literature in Ireland, as early as the reign ofPaganifm, and that they were eftablifhed by a co-lony of Grecians, which came from the liege ofTroy. This is endeavoured to be proved, bymany words of Greek extraction, frill remainingin the Irifh language. Though this account isfeemingly fabulous, it is not improbable, that theDruids, who were the priefts, philofophers, andlegiflators of Ireland, had feminaries for initi-ating youth in their religious myfteries; but thatfuch feminaries were eftablifhed by the ftate, orhad any fettled revenues, like our modern Uni-verflties, no one has afferted. What credit maybe given to the Irifh hiftorians, we fhall not pre-tend. TRINITY COLLEGE. 3* tend to determine ; however, they univerfallyagree, that Ollamh Fodlah, King of Ireland,A. M. 3236, was fo great a patron of learning,that he erected, at his own charge, a magnificentpalace at Tarah^ called Mur-Qllomham, i. e. thewalls of the bards^ as a place of refidence for theliterati of his kingdom. Whatever was the flate of the Irim femina-ries in the times of Paganifm, they fhone withluftre in the ages of chriftianity, fucceeding thearrival of St. Patrick, particularly in the fixth,feventh, and eighth centuries. In 1311, JohnLech, Archbifhop of Dublin, procured a bullfrom Pope Clement V. to eftablifh an Univer-sity for Scholars at Dublin, but the project waslaid afide by the death of the Archbishop. Itwas however revived in 13 20, by Alexander deBicknor, his fucceflor, who procured a confir-mation of the bull from Pope John appointed a fet of ftatut
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