The National University off Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) was officially founded by the Universities Act of 1997, as a National University off Ireland . The university is smallest and the older second Irish university. It is located at Maynooth, Comté of Kildare and accommodates approximately 6  000 students.

History

A university existed with Maynooth quite front 1997: the St Patrick' S College . Based in 1795, on bottom of French revolution, it is before a whole Séminaire intended to train the priests, trained before mainly on the continent and then of insufficient number in Ireland. Ordered by the Parliament of Ireland, the opening of this seminar was also a way of decreasing the risk to introduce in Ireland of the revolutionary priests, time of war between France and the United Kingdom.

In 1876, the seminar was recognized like Catholic University off Ireland and offered a few years later diplomas in humanities and sciences. In 1910, it received the statute of National University off Ireland and the diplomas other than theological were then given in the name of this network (which excludes the diplomas in theology).

In 1966, the first students resulting of laic natures were accepted at the university, then as from 1968, all the laymen were eligible to enter to St Patrick' S College . Starting from 1977, their number exceeded that of the monks.

It is in 1997 that was finally founded the National University off Ireland, Maynooth , as a separate entity of St Patrick' S College , starting from its faculties of humanities, Celtic studies, philosophy and sciences. Two new faculties were added thereafter: finance and engineerings.

The campus

The university is built with horse on the main roads connecting Maynooth to Kilcock (Comté of Kildare). It is thus divided into a Northern campus and a Southern campus , respectively called " campus nouveau" and " campus ancien" . They are connected by a pedestrian footbridge spanning the road.

The Southern campus shelters the buildings of the St Patrick' S College , as well as the majority of the administrative buildings, divided with the NUIM. Some departments of the NUIM are also located on this side Ci: Mathematics, Geography, Economy, History and Music. The principal buildings, built primarily at the 19th century, are Aula Maxima , St Patrick' S House (sheltering the vault of the university), the library Jean-Paul II (built in 1984), the houses " nouvelle" , " Dunboyne" , of humanities and " Stoyte" , which composes St Joseph' S Square , as well as the houses of logic and rhetoric.

The Northern campus is, him, much more recent, dating from half of the twentieth century. It shelters the buildings of the Students' Union (student trade unions), the sports complex, the buildings of the biomedecine and engineerings, the Callan Science Building (which bears the name of the inventor of the Bobine of induction, Nicholas Callan), the building of humanities and the John Hume Building . This building, which bears the name of one of the most famous graduates of NUIM was inaugurated in 2004 and is most recent of the " Nord" campus;. It constitutes pi this main campus and shelters the largest amphitheater of the university, of a capacity of more than 400 students. The " Nord" campus; comprise also residences coeds (of a capacity of approximately 1.000 students), the majority of the services to the students, several sports grounds and a gymnasium equipped accessible free by all the students from the NUIM. The buildings of the majority of the departments are also located on the Northern campus, as well as the Hamilton Institute and the Institut of Immunology .

Since 1997, the university has also a campus with Kilkenny, the Kilkenny Campus , incorporated in the St Kieran College and proposing programs bound for the adults and of the courses of the evening. It accommodates approximately 220 students and proposes diplomas of first cycle and doctorates.

See too

• List of the Irish universities

• National University off Ireland

External bonds and documents

• Plane Official site
• of the campus

References