QUEEN'S COLLEGE,
COLLEGE, GALWAY.

FOUNDED A.D. MDCCCXLV.

FOUNDATION AND CONSTITUTION.

THE Colleges of the Queen's University were founded under the provisions of the Act 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 66, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to endow new Colleges for the Advancement of Learning in Ireland." Under the powers given by this Act, it was determined to found three Colleges. Belfast, Cork, and Galway were selected as their sites; and on the 30th of December, 1845, Letters Patent were issued incorporating them under the name and style of "THE PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, AND PROFESSORS OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, [BELFAST, CORK,] GALWAY."

The Colleges were opened for Students on the 30th October, 1849. The Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Three Colleges constituted a Board of Government till the foundation of the Queen's University in 1850. By the University Education (Ireland) Act of 1879 provision was made for the foundation of the Royal University and the dissolution of the Queen's University, within two years from the date of the Charter of the Royal University. All Graduates and Matriculated Students of the Queen's University at the time of dissolution became Graduates and Students of the Royal University, and all existing Professors of the Queen's Colleges continued to be University Professors. The Charter of the Royal University was granted on the 27th of April, 1880, and the Queen's University was dissolved on the 3rd of February, 1882.

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