Trinity College - Ireland’s most prestigious university is a bucolic retreat in the heart of the city. Trinity College was established in 1592 on the grounds of a confiscated Augustinian monastery. Its target populations was young Protestant Dubliners who were choosing universities in France and Italy – and so risking conversion to Roman Catholicism. Despite its overtly sectarian origins, Trinity became one of the world’s outstanding centres of learning, the alma mater of Swift, Wilde, Beckett and a host of other important names such as Berkeley, Lecky and Walton. It remained completely Protestant until 1793, but even when the university relented and began to admit Catholics, the Catholic Church held firm; until 1970, any Catholic who enrolled here could consider themselves excommunicated. Trinity College's greatest treasures is the Old Library – Dublin, Ireland
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