The Royal University of Ireland was founded in accordance with the University Education (Ireland) Act 1879 as an examination and degree awarding university based on the model of the University of London. A Royal Charter was issued on April 27, 1880 and examinations where opened to candidates irrespective of attendance at college lectures. Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... In the United Kingdom and Canada a Royal Charter is a charter granted by the Sovereign on the advice of the Privy Council, which creates or gives special status to an incorporated body. ... A lecture on linear algebra at the Helsinki University of Technology A lecture is a presentation on a particular subject given in order to teach people about that subject, for example by a university or college teacher. ...

The university became the first university in Ireland that could grant degrees to women, on par with those granted to men; on October 22, 1882 it granted its first degree to a woman. In 1888 Letitia Alice Walkington had the distinction of the first woman in Great Britain or Ireland to recieve a degree of Bachelor of Laws. Amongst the honorary degree graduates of the university was Douglas Hyde, then future President of Ireland, who was awarded a DLitt in 1906. The degree of Bachelor of Laws is the principal academic degree in law in most common law countries other than the United States, where it has been replaced by the Juris Doctor degree. ... An Honorary Degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is an extra-ordinary academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... Douglas Hyde (Irish name Dubhghlas de hÍde) (17 January 1860 - 12 July 1949) was an Irish language scholar who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. ... The President of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland. ...

Establishment

The Royal University of Ireland was the predecessor of the Queen's University of Ireland and the graduates, professors and students of the predecessor where transferred to the new university. The Queen's Colleges became associated with the Royal University, but Magee College and University College, Dublin presented students for examinations as well — no special status was awarded to the colleges of the former Queen's University. Like the Queen's University it was entitled to grant any degree similar to that of any other university in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, except that of theology. The Queens University of Ireland was established formally by Royal Charter on September 3, 1850 as the degree awarding university of the Queens Colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway that were established in 1845 to afford a university education to members of all religious denominations in Ireland. ... The University of Ulster (UU) is a multi-site university located in Northern Ireland and is the largest university on the Island of Ireland. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ... The Union Flag, in its modern form, was first adopted in 1801. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...

The professorships and senate of the university where shared equally between the two main denominations; Catholic and Protestant. However colleges of the university maintained full independence, except in the awarding of degrees, academic regulations and standards. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...

Dissolution

On October 31, 1909 the Royal University was dissolved; the National University of Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast took over its functions and the Irish Universities Act 1908 provided for the transfer of graduates, staff and students to one of these new universities. The National University of Ireland (NUI) is a federal university system of constituent universities, previously called constituent colleges, and recognised colleges set up under the Irish Universities Act, 1908, and significantly amended by the Universities Act, 1997. ... The Queens University of Belfast Queens University, Belfast (QUB) - or officially The Queens University of Belfast - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...