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of Rome, to set up a Catholic University in Dublin. Cardinal 

 Newman was brought over and made Rector. Work was 

 started in 1854, a Charter was sought but not granted. 

 Students were few ; the famine, with its accompanying 

 diseases, had taken off many of our youth. Newman, like all 

 Englishmen, forgot that he was dealing with men of a different 

 nationality, although of the same religion. Irishmen took as 

 their model Louvain. Newman would insist on his Oxford 

 and Cambridge ideas. The only school of the Catholic 

 University which struggled on was the Medical school. The 

 Cecilia Street School of the Catholic School of Medicine (which 

 had previously been the school of the Apothecaries' Hall) was 

 bought over for the Catholic University in 1854, and continues 

 to exist to the present day, being now the dissecting room of 

 the faculty of Medicine in the National University. When the 

 first Medical Act was passed in 1858 the qualifications obtain- 

 able and registrable in Ireland were the Licence and Fellow- 

 ship of both Colleges (Physicians and Surgeons), the Licence 

 of the Apothecaries' Hall, the Licence in Medicine and M.S. 

 of the University of Dublin, the M.D. and M.S. of the Queen's 

 University. 



In 1876 the B.Ch. became registrable, and the Register was 

 open to women. 



In 1879 Queen's University was abolished. The Royal 

 University took its place, and was empowered to give degrees 

 to all who passed its examination. In 1908 Mr. Birrell's 

 Irish Universities Act set up two new Universities, the Queen's 

 University at Belfast, with its own College ; the National 

 University at Dublin, with its constituent Colleges at Cork, 

 Galway and Dublin. 



