The Royal College of Science for Ireland was created as a result of a decision of HM Treasury in 1865 to merge a number of science-orientated education bodies including the Museum of Irish Industry and Government School of Science applied to Mining and the Arts. It was originally based at No. 51 St. Stephen's Green but moved in the early twentieth century to a new building, the Royal College of Science in Merrion Street, designed by Sir Aston Webb, who also designed the new facade for Buckingham Palace. The new eastern entrance to HM Treasury HM Treasury (Her/His Majestys Treasury) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for and putting into effect the UK Governments financial and economic policy. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... St. ... Irish Government Buildings is a large edwardian building, centred on a quadrangle, in which some of the key offices in Irish government located. ... Sir Aston Webb, portrait by Solomon Joseph Solomon, ca 1906 Sir Aston Webb (May 22, 1849 - August 21, 1930) was an English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Buckingham Palace and the Victoria memorial. ...

The second headquarters of the RCSI, in Merrion Street.
The building is now the headquarters of the Irish government.

The creation of the RCSI resulted from a report in 1864 of a Parliamentary Select Committee, which had recommended that a College of Science should be founded for Ireland. The Rosse Commission of 1866 outlined the scope and functions of the proposed college. Image File history File links My photograph of the former Royal College of Science in Dublin, now Irish Government Buildings. ... Image File history File links My photograph of the former Royal College of Science in Dublin, now Irish Government Buildings. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...

On 11 September 1867 its mission statement was outlined as September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

“The object of the Royal College of Science is to supply as far as practicable a Complete Course of instruction in Science applicable to the Industrial Arts, especially those which may be classed broadly under the heads of Mining, Agriculture, Engineering, and Manufactures, and to aid in the instruction of Teachers for the local Schools of Science”

Its role was later extended to include “Mining, Engineering, and Manufactures, and in Physics and Natural Science” (RCSI Directory…for the Session 1898–99, RCSI/254). The RCSI had chairs of Mining and Mineralogy, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Geology, Applied Mathematics and Mechanism, Descriptive Geometry and Engineering.

In 1926 the RCSI was absorbed into University College Dublin, where it formed the basis for a new Science faculty. In the 1950s and early 1960s the Science Faculty became the first in UCD to move from its old buildings in Merrion Street and Earlsfort Terrace to the new campus in Belfield. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ...

Its former headquarters in Merrion Street is now Government Buildings.

Sources

• The College of Science for Ireland: Its Origin and Development, with Notes on Similar Institutions in Other Countries, and a Bibliography of the Work Published by the Staff and Students (1900–1923) (Dublin: The University Press for the College of Science Association, 1923)