Editing Trinity College Dublin (section)

===20th century===
[[File:A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours (1919) (14763653831).jpg|thumb|[[Campanile (Trinity College Dublin)|Campanile]] (pre-1899)]]
[[File:Trinity College library.jpg|thumb|Interior of the [[Library of Trinity College Dublin|Old Library]]]]
In April 1900, [[Queen Victoria]] visited College Green in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/4115/|title=Queen Victoria's Royal visit to Dublin, Ireland, 4th April – 26th April, 1900|last=L'Estrange|first=Robert Augustus Henry|year=1900|website=digitalcollections.qut.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2020-02-12|archive-date=5 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205184509/https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/4115/|url-status=live}}</ref> Women were admitted to Trinity College as full members for the first time in 1904.<ref name="McDowellWebb1982">{{cite book|author1=Robert Brendan McDowell|author2=David Allardice Webb|title=Trinity College, Dublin, 1592–1952: An Academic History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_QC7AAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-23931-8|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505221403/https://books.google.com/books?id=_QC7AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1904 to 1907, women from Oxford and Cambridge, who were admitted but not granted degrees, came to Trinity College to receive their [[ad eundem degree|''ad eundum'' degree]]; they were known as [[Steamboat ladies]] and the fees they paid helped to fund [[Trinity Hall, Dublin|Trinity Hall]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rayner-Canham|first=Marelene F.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/665046168|title=Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880–1949|date=2008|publisher=Imperial College Press|others=Geoffrey Rayner-Canham|isbn=978-1-86094-987-6|location=London|page=560|oclc=665046168|access-date=28 May 2021|archive-date=26 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626163045/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/665046168|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1907, the [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] proposed the reconstitution of the [[University of Dublin]]. A "Dublin University Defence Committee" was created and successfully campaigned against any change to the status quo, while the Catholic bishops' rejection of the idea ensured its failure among the Catholic population.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} Chief among the bishops' concerns was the remains of the Catholic University of Ireland, which would become subsumed into a new university, which on account of Trinity College would be part Anglican. Ultimately this episode led to the creation of the [[National University of Ireland]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Trinity College was one of the targets of the Volunteer and Citizen Army forces during the 1916 [[Easter Rising]] but was successfully defended by a small number of unionist students,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Soldiers are we |first=Charles |last=Townshend |journal=[[History Today]] |author-link=Charles Townshend (historian) |date=1 April 2006 |pages=163–164}}</ref> most of whom were members of the university [[Officers' Training Corps]]. From July 1917 to March 1918, the [[Irish Convention]] met in the college in an attempt to address the political aftermath of the Easter Rising. Subsequently, following the failure of the convention to reach "substantial agreement", the [[Irish Free State]] was set up in 1922.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In the post-independence period, Trinity College suffered from a cool relationship with the new state.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} On 3 May 1955, the provost, A.J. McConnell, wrote in the ''[[Irish Times]]'' that certain state-funded County Council scholarships excluded Trinity College from the list of approved institutions. This, he suggested, amounted to religious discrimination, which was forbidden by the Constitution.<ref name=":2" /> 

It has also been said of the period before Ireland left the Commonwealth that, "The overwhelming majority of the undergraduates were ex-unionists or, if from Northern Ireland, unionists. Loyalty to the Crown was instinctive and they were proud to be British subjects and Commonwealth citizens", and that "The College still clung, so far as circumstances permitted, to its pre-Treaty loyalties, symbolized by the flying of the Union Jack on suitable occasions and a universal wearing of poppies on Armistice Day, the chapel being packed for the two minutes' silence followed by a lusty rendering of 'God Save the King...". "But by the close of the 1960s... Trinity, with the overwhelming majority of its undergraduate population coming from the Republic, to a great extent conformed to local patterns".<ref>{{cite book |last=McDowell |first=R.B |author-link=R. B. McDowell |date=1997 |title=Crisis and Decline – the Fate of the Southern Unionists |location=Dublin |publisher=The Lilliput Press |pages=173, 204, 175 |isbn=1-874675-92-9}}</ref>

The School of Commerce was established in 1925, and the School of Social Studies in 1934. Also in 1934, the first female professor was appointed.<ref name=":2" />

{{quote box|align=right|width=25em|quote=Young men may loot, perjure and shoot<br />And even have carnal knowledge.<br />But however depraved, their souls will be saved<br />If they don't go to Trinity College.|source=—verse popular in the 1950s, at the height of Archbishop McQuaid's efforts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/the-strange-ways-of-a-control-freak-521486.html|title=The strange ways of a 'control freak' – Independent.ie|access-date=27 September 2018|archive-date=26 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026012605/http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/the-strange-ways-of-a-control-freak-521486.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

In 1944, the Archbishop of Dublin [[John Charles McQuaid]] required Catholics in the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin|Dublin archdiocese]] to obtain a special dispensation before entering the university, under threat of automatic [[excommunication]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} The ban was extended nationally at the Plenary Synod of Maynooth in August 1956.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Peter |last2=Feeney |first2=Maria |date=2016 |title=Church, state and social science in Ireland: Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937–73 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5p57 |location=Manchester |publisher=Manchester University Press |jstor=j.ctv18b5p57 |isbn=9781526100788 |access-date=6 July 2021 |archive-date=10 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710004555/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5p57 |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite this sectarianism, 1958 saw the first Catholic reach the Board of Trinity as a [[Senior fellow]].<ref name=":2" />{{Failed verification|date=December 2021}}

In 1962 the School of Commerce and the School of Social Studies amalgamated to form the School of Business and Social Studies.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In 1969 several schools and departments were grouped into Faculties as follows: Arts (Humanities and Letters); Business, Economic and Social Studies; Engineering and Systems Sciences; Health Sciences (since October 1977 all undergraduate teaching in dental science in the Dublin area has been in Trinity College); and Science.<ref name=":2" />

In the late 1960s, there was a proposal for [[University College Dublin]], of the National University of Ireland, to become a constituent college of a newly reconstituted University of Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|last=O'Dubhlaing|first=Seán|year=1997|title=Donogh O'Malley and the Free Post Primary Education Scheme|url=http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5169/1/Sean_O_Dubhlaing_20140708083500.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-26|website=[[Maynooth University]]|archive-date=10 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410223239/http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5169/1/Sean_O_Dubhlaing_20140708083500.pdf}}</ref> This plan, suggested by [[Brian Lenihan Snr|Brian Lenihan]] and [[Donogh O'Malley]], was dropped after officials of both universities opposed it.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qN-jf5dN7QAC&q=trinity|title=Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s|first=Diarmaid|last=Ferriter|date=1 November 2012|publisher=Profile Books|isbn=978-1847658562|via=Google Books|access-date=14 December 2021|archive-date=13 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913012913/https://books.google.com/books?id=qN-jf5dN7QAC&q=trinity|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1970 the Catholic Church lifted its ban on Catholics attending the college without special dispensation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Trinity College Ban Lifted |url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0610/1146599-catholic-trinity-college-ban-lifted/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=RTÉ Archives |language=en}}</ref> At the same time, Trinity College authorities invited the appointment of a Catholic chaplain to be based in the college.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iol.ie/~duacon/nl19-3.htm |last=McCarthy |first=Eamonn |title=Soline Vatinel, The Archbishop and Me |publisher=B.A.S.I.C. Brothers and Sisters in Christ Praying and Working for the Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church |date=22 January 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027114922/http://www.iol.ie/~duacon/nl19-3.htm |access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=27 October 2019 }}</ref> There are now two such Catholic chaplains.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcd.ie/chaplaincy/roman-catholic/ |title=Roman Catholic Chaplaincy |publisher=Trinity College Dublin }}</ref>

From 1975, the Colleges of Technology that later formed the [[Dublin Institute of Technology]] had their degrees conferred by the University of Dublin.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} This arrangement was discontinued in 1998 when the DIT obtained degree-granting powers of its own.<ref name=":4">{{cite ISB|title=Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992|year=1992|num=15|access-date=4 May 2023|date=19 July 1992|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801110351/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1992/act/15/enacted/en/html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Trinity College Dublin)|School of Pharmacy]] was established in 1977, and around the same time, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was transferred to [[University College Dublin]] in exchange for its Dental School.<ref name=":2" /> Student numbers increased sharply during the 1980s and 1990s, with total enrolment more than doubling, leading to pressure on resources and a subsequent investment programme.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} In 1991, Thomas Noel Mitchell became the first Roman Catholic elected Provost of Trinity College.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/tn_mitchell.php|title=Thomas Noel Mitchell – Provost & President |website=Trinity College Dublin |access-date=21 January 2018|archive-date=24 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124172924/https://www.tcd.ie/provost/history/former-provosts/tn_mitchell.php|url-status=dead }}</ref>