Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
University of Dublin
	Entrance gateway on College Green
	Arms: Azure, a Bible closed, clasps to the dexter, a lion passant guardant, on the sinister a harp both of the last, and in base a castle with two towers domed, each surmounted by a flag flotant to the sides of the shield argent.
Full name	The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars and the other members of Board of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin; Irish: Coláiste Thríonóid Naofa Neamhroinnte na Banríona Eilís gar do Bhaile Átha Cliath
Latin name	Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
Motto	Latin: Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam
Motto in English	It will last into endless future times
Founder	Queen Elizabeth I
Established	3 March 1592 (via royal charter)
Named for	The Holy Trinity (via Trinity College, Cambridge)
Architectural style	Neoclassical architecture (majority) ; Georgian architecture (oldest buildings) ; Ruskinian Gothic architecture (minority)
Status	Research university ; Ancient university
Colours	Trinity Blue; Spindle; Dark Abbey; Iron;
Sister colleges	Oriel College, Oxford; St John's College, Cambridge;
President	Linda Doyle; (as Provost ex officio)
Provost	Linda Doyle
Undergraduates	14,085 (2023/24)
Postgraduates	6,405 (2023/24)
Newspaper	Trinity News, The Piranha, The University Times, Icarus
Endowment	€302.9 million (2024)
Affiliations	CLUSTER; Coimbra Group; LERU; UNITECH; EUA; IUA; AMBA; EUF;
Website	www.tcd.ie

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, branded by the board as Trinity College, the University of Dublin, and officially incorporated as Trinity College Dublin (TCD; Irish: Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath), is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin in Ireland. Founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I through a royal charter, it is one of the seven ancient universities of Great Britain and Ireland. As Ireland's oldest university, Trinity contributed to Irish literature during the Victorian and Georgian eras and played a notable role in the recognition of Dublin as a UNESCO City of Literature.

Trinity was established to consolidate the rule of the Tudor monarchy in Ireland, with Provost Adam Loftus christening it after Trinity College, Cambridge. Built on the site of the former Priory of All Hallows demolished by King Henry VIII, it was the Protestant university of the Ascendancy ruling elite for over two centuries, and was therefore associated with social elitism for most of its history. Trinity has three faculties comprising 25 schools, and affiliated institutions include the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Lir Academy, and the Irish School of Ecumenics. It is a member of LERU and the Coimbra Group. Trinity College Dublin is one of the two sister colleges of both Oriel College, Oxford, and St John's College, Cambridge, and through mutual incorporation, the three universities have retained an academic partnership since 1636.

The college contains several landmarks such as the Campanile, the Graduates Memorial Building, and The Rubrics. The 16th century Trinity library is a legal deposit library that serves both Ireland and the United Kingdom, and has housed the Book of Kells since 1661, the Trinity College harp since 1782, and a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic since 1916. A major destination in Ireland's tourism, the college grounds receive over two million visitors annually, and has been used as a location in movies and novels. Trinity is also home to the world's oldest chairs in French, German, Irish, and English literature, as well as the world's oldest student society, The Hist, which was founded in 1770.

Notable alumni of Trinity include literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Moore, J. M. Synge, William Congreve, and three of the best-selling novelists of all time; writers David Benioff and Sally Rooney; statesman Éamon de Valera; philosophers George Berkeley and Edmund Burke; and recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Booker Prize. Trinity alumni also invented the binaural stethoscope, steam turbine, and hypodermic needle; pioneered seismology, leprosy cure, radiotherapy, and linear algebra; performed the first artificial nuclear transmutation; and coined the term electron. Additionally, the university is associated with two prime ministers, four presidents, and fourteen chief justices of Ireland.