The Committee appointed by the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, to make arrangements for the celebration of the Tercentenary of the Foundation of the University of Dublin and of Trinity College, to be held in July, 1892, requested the following to act as a Sub-Committee to superintend the bringing out of a volume in which there should be a record of the chief events of the College for the last three centuries, a description of its buildings, &c.:-- Rev. JOHN W. STUBBS, D.D. Rev. THOMAS K. ABBOTT, B.D., Litt.D., Librarian. Rev. JOHN P. MAHAFFY, D.D., Mus. Doc. EDWARD DOWDEN, LL.D., Litt.D. ULICK RALPH BURKE, M.A. WILLIAM MACNEILE DIXON, LL.B., and E. PERCEVAL WRIGHT, M.A., M.D.; the last named to be the Convener. Through illness, Professor E. Dowden was unable to take any active part in the preparation of this volume, the publication of which was undertaken by the firm of Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, of Belfast. The time at the disposal of the writers of the following chapters was extremely short, and they tender an apology for the want of completeness, which, on an exact scrutiny of their work, will, they fear, be only too conspicuous; but it is hoped that the volume may be acceptable as a sketch towards a History of the College. The name of the writer of each chapter is given in the Table of Contents, and each author is to be regarded as accountable only for his own share of the work. The Committee’s grateful thanks are due to Mr. Louis Fagan, of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, for the help he has given them in having reproductions made from rare engravings of some of the distinguished Graduates of the University. [Illustration: (Decorative section heading)] CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I.--FROM THE FOUNDATION TO THE CAROLINE CHARTER, by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., 1 ” II.--FROM THE CAROLINE REFORM TO THE SETTLEMENT OF WILLIAM III., by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., 29 ” III.--THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY UP TO 1758, by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., 47 ” IV.--FROM 1758 TO THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY, by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., 73 ” V.--DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by the Rev. J. W. Stubbs, D.D., 91 ” VI.--THE OBSERVATORY, DUNSINK, by Sir Robert Ball, LL.D., Astronomer-Royal, 131 ” VII.--THE LIBRARY, by the Rev. T. K. Abbott, B.D., Litt.D., Librarian, 147 ” VIII.--THE EARLY BUILDINGS, by Ulick R. Burke, M.A., 183 ” IX.--DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES, by William MacNeile Dixon, LL.B., 235