The Queen's College, Cork: its origins and early history, 1803-1858

Pettit, Sean F.

The Queen's College, Cork: its origins and early history, 1803-1858

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dc.contributor.advisor	McClelland, Alan	en
dc.contributor.author	Pettit, Sean F.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-08-29T15:28:17Z
dc.date.available	2013-08-29T15:28:17Z
dc.date.issued	1973
dc.date.submitted	1973
dc.description.abstract	This work examines the origins and early history of the Queen's College, Cork. Designedly there is as much stress on the origins as on the early history, for it is the contention of the work that the College was something more than a legislative mushroom. It was very much in the tradition of the civic universities which added an exciting new dimension to academic life in these islands in the nineteenth century. The first chapter surveys university practice and thinking at the opening of the century, relying exclusively on published sources. The second chapter is devoted specifically to the state of learning in Cork during the period, and makes extensive use of hitherto unpublished manuscript material in relation to the Royal Cork Institution. The third chapter deals with the highly significant evidence on education embodied in the Report of the Select Committee on Irish Education of 1838. This material has not previously been published. In chapter four an extended study is made of relevant letters in the manuscript correspondence of Sir Robert Peel - even the most recent authoritative biography has ignored this material. The remaining three chapters are devoted more specifically to the College, both in the formulation or policy and in its practical working. In chapter six there is an extended survey of early College life based exclusively on hitherto unpublished manuscript material in the College Archives. All of these sources, together with incidental published material, are set out at the end of each chapter.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Pettit, S. F. 1973. The Queen's College, Cork: its origins and early history, 1803-1858. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10468/1231
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University College Cork	en
dc.relation.uri	http://library.ucc.ie/record=b1000048~S0
dc.rights	© 1973, Sean F. Pettit	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	en
dc.subject	Queen's College, Cork	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Queen's College, Cork--Ireland--Universities	en
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dc.title	The Queen's College, Cork: its origins and early history, 1803-1858	en
dc.type	Doctoral thesis	en
dc.type.qualificationlevel	Doctoral	en
dc.type.qualificationname	PhD (Education)	en
ucc.workflow.supervisor	cora@ucc.ie