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Trinity College Dublin, 1592-1952: An Academic History

By McDowell, R. B.

Trinity College Dublin, 1592-1952: An Academic History

By McDowell, R. B.

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How violent can academic politics be? McDowell and Webb here reveal that Trinity College, with its feuds, its villains, its triumphs, its aspirations and its personalities, has not been all that different during its history from life in the larger world. They have looked at Trinity as an 'educational machine and a centre of learning' and as an index to Irish affairs for the last 400 years. Among the last generation of scholars who could confidently survey the whole academic world, they delight in characterising their predecessors in all fields in brilliant, if intrepid, pen pictures. Their interest, they say, is in the College,'warts and all';happily, their cast of characters is rich, and their own perceptions, however tolerant and sympathetic, are also shrewd, witty and pointedly satirical. 580 pages, paperback.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
580
Publication Date:
2004-01
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Published: English
ISBN10:
1871408253
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