With a huge urban campus, state-of-the-art facilities, and the largest student body of any university in Ireland, University College Dublin welcomes hundreds of new international students every year. They have a portfolio of over institutional partnerships in over 90 countries, allowing students and staff to engage in exchange programmes for research, studies, internships, field trips and volunteering opportunities. Around 1, students avail of these opportunities every year, a.
We sat down with Professor Philip Nolan, president of Maynooth University, to discuss his plans for the university, which lies on the periphery of Dublin. His role focuses on creating a strategy and implementing this to grow and develop the university.
Maynooth University is home to over 1, staff and 13, students, and more than 1, of these are international students hailing from over 60 countries. The university offers a wide range of excellent academic programmes which are delivered by leading researchers in various fields, and students are challenged and encouraged to reach their full potential in this top-class learning environment. Inside, the library is, for the most part, untouched, remaining beautiful. Books are shelved in bays on either side of the gallery.
The interior of the library has elegant dark oak bookcases filled with old books. But this library has more than just books as residents. The ghost of an old man has been seen rummaging through the bookcases at midnight. Marsh was Archbishop of Dublin from It is not surprising that Narcissus Marsh should return to a place that has such importance to his life — even after his death. Grace was nineteen years old and fell in love with a sea captain. Marsh did not approve and made his opposition to the relationship known.
Grace and the sea captain ran away and eloped. Not wanting the Archbishop to find it in time to stop her, she placed it in one of the thousands of books in the library. But Archbishop Marsh never found the note, and returns to the library frequently, on an endless search for it. During the Easter Rising, shots were fired at the library and some of the Baltic oak shelves were damaged. These bullet holes can still be seen in several of the books, as well as in the shelves of the Old Reading Room.
Today, the library is home to over 25, tomes, as well as manuscripts. Most books date from the 16th, 17th, and 18th-centuries. It is curious that the career and achievements of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh have received little attention from modern historians.
He is the first of human race, that with great advantages of learning, piety, and station ever escaped being a great man… No man will be either glad or sorry at his death, except his successor.
Avoided marriage. Narcissus Marsh was born in in a village called Hannington in Wiltshire. At Oxford he decided to become a priest. He was offered the living at Swindon and was ordained by Dr Skinner, Bishop of Oxford, although he was under age for ordination. After some difficulties Marsh took up residence in Swindon, and then discovered to his horror that in return for his appointment he was expected to marry a friend of the persons responsible for his preferment.
Marsh refused. He wrote in his diary that he had no intention of ever getting married, but on this occasion he offered the reason that his father was opposed to the marriage and he had no wish to disobey him. It seems that Narcissus Marsh was a handsome man and had many difficulties escaping from matrimony.
He writes many amusing accounts of his narrow escapes. Marsh returned to Oxford and continued his studies there. He published a book on logic and later an essay on music; he played the bass viol. He made a great success of this position and it was no doubt his administrative and organisational ability which encouraged the Bishop of Oxford, Dr Fell, and the Duke of Ormond to suggest a more important appointment for Narcissus Marsh, the Provostship of Trinity College in Dublin which he took up in Originally readers were locked in for security reasons.
Yet he was also a very practical man and realised that the buildings and facilities for students and staff in the college were inadequate. He began by building a new college hall and chapel and he also developed the library. He checked and revised the library regulations, and insisted that when the new library keeper was appointed all the books in his care must be accounted for and that the old library keeper replace the missing books or pay for them. Promoter of the Irish language. Bishop Bedell had supervised the translation of the Old Testament into Irish before but it had never been printed.
Marsh with a team of assistants prepared the transcripts which they then sent to the Hon. Robert Boyle in London. The Irish translation of the Old Testament appeared there in Marsh was not content with this achievement. He discovered that under the statutes of the college thirty of the seventy scholars chosen each year had to be natives of Ireland.
Marsh noticed that while these thirty scholars could speak Irish they could not read or write it. He was determined to rectify this situation and he employed, at his own expense, a former Catholic priest, Paul Higgins, to teach Irish to the students and to preach an Irish sermon once a month. The sermons and lectures were very popular.
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