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The Priory Institute
The Priory Institute, is part of the St. Mary's Dominican Priory on the grounds of the old Tallaght Castle, Dublin 24, Ireland and provides, certificate, diploma, and degree programmes in theology and philosophy. Course accreditation In 2011, the Institute entered into partnership with The Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT). As a delegated authority of Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), The Institute of Technology, Tallaght validate all the academic programmes at The Priory institute. QQI is a public body, which is accountable to the Irish government and the Oireachtas and is the national accreditation board for higher education qualifications in Ireland. The institute's certificates, diplomas and degrees are aligned with the National Framework of Qualifications NFQ structure. From 2019 the Technological University Dublin accredits progammes at the Priory Institute, following the merger of the Institute of Technology into the new university. In addition the Accred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HETAC
The Higher Education and Training Awards Council () (HETAC), the legal successor to the ''National Council for Educational Awards'' (NCEA), granted higher education awards in Ireland beyond the university system from 2001 to 2012. HETAC was created in 2001, subject to the policies of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, and, specifically, granted qualifications at many Institutes of Technology and other colleges. HETAC was dissolved and its functions were passed to Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) on 6 November 2012. History NCEA In 1967 the Steering Committee on Technical Education recommended the creation of a body to control non-university higher qualifications, and in 1969 the Higher Education Authority similarly recommended the establishment of a "Council for National Awards" to better organise the non-university higher education sector; the HEA recommendations were tentative, to be refined after application to the work of the newly-established Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Boyle
Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP (13 November 1923 - 25 October 1999) was an Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography. He was the first Irish and North American Prefect of the Vatican Library in Rome from 1984 to 1997. Early life Boyle was born in County Donegal, Ireland. He entered the Dominican Order in 1943 and was ordained a priest in 1949. He received his doctorate at Oxford University. Career Boyle served as Professor of Latin Paleography and History of Medieval Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome from 1956 to 1961. He taught at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto from 1961 to 1984. In 1984 he was appointed Prefect of the Vatican Library by Pope John Paul II. Boyle set about the digitization of the library's many manuscripts. Boyle employed women for the first time as part of the library's staff. In 1987, he was made an Officer of the Order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Spence (bishop)
Robert William Spence (13 January 1860 – 5 November 1934) was an Australian Roman Catholic clergyman, and the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide. Born in Ireland, Spence became a Dominican priest, and after serving as a prior in Kilkenny, moved to Adelaide, Australia in 1898. In 1915, he became Archbishop of Adelaide, a position he held until his death in 1934. Early life Robert Spence was born on 13 January 1860 in Cork, Ireland. The son of Robert Spence and his wife Ellen, née Sullivan, he received his education from the Christian Brothers and Vincentian Fathers before entering the Dominican novitiate in Tallaght, outside Dublin. Having professed in 1878, Spence moved to Lisbon, where he studied for the priesthood at College of Corpo Santo, Lisbon. He was ordained a priest on 23 December 1882, and two days later, at Bom Sucesso convent he celebrated the first Dominican high mass in Portugal since religious orders were suppressed there in 1833. Return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Finbar Ryan
Patrick Finbar Ryan, TC, O.P., (1881–1975) was an Irish Dominican priest who served as Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad (1940–1966). On 4 March 1881, Patrick Ryan was born in Rochestown, County Cork to Edward Ryan and Matilda Ryan. He was initially educated at Christian Brothers College, Cork, and Clongowes Wood College. He then entered St. Mary's Priory, Tallaght to become a Dominican. At St. Mary's, he also studied at University College Dublin, Royal University of Ireland, and subsequently moved to study at Sapienza University of Rome. He was ordained a priest of the Dominicans Order at the Irish Dominican run, Basilica of San Clemente, Rome, in 1905.Finbar Ryan Dictionary of Irish Biography. He taught at the Dominican secondary school [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of with an estimated population of over 180,000 people as of 2018. The nation's capital and largest city is Castries. The first proven inhabitants of the island, the Arawaks, are believed to have been the first to settle on the island in 200–400 AD. In 800 AD, the island was taken over by the Kalinago. The French people, French were the first European colonization of the Americas, European colonists to settle on the island, and they signed a treaty with the native Caribs in 1660. The English people, English took control of the island in 1663. In ensuing years, Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of France, France fought 14 times for control of the island; conseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Castries
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Castries () is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The archdiocese consists of the entirety of the former British dependency of Saint Lucia and is a metropolitan see, the suffragans of the Castries Province being the Dioceses of Roseau, Saint George's in Grenada, St. John's-Basseterre and Kingstown. (p. 13) "Catholic News", February 28, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016. The archdiocese is a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference. Erected as the Diocese of Castries in 1956 from its then-metropolitan see of |
Robert Rivas (archbishop)
Robert Rivas (born 7 June 1946) is a prelate of the Catholic Church who was archbishop of the Castries in St. Lucia from 2008 to 2022. Early life Rivas was born in the village of La Pastora, Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago, on June 7, 1946. He is the son of the late Sabina and Placido Rivas, and has one sister and five brothers. Having completed his secondary studies in the Dominican College of Holy Cross, Arima, he entered the novitiate of the Irish Province of the Dominican Order in St. Mary's Priory, Cork, Ireland, and subsequently to the Dominican House of Studies, in St. Mary's, Tallaght, Dublin. After ordination in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Port of Spain, by Archbishop Anthony Pantin on June 27, 1971, he went to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome, where he obtained the Licence in Theology. After Rome, he returned to Ireland where he successfully completed a course in radio and television production and received a diploma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Noonan
Imam Ibrahim Noonan is an Irish Imam to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Noonan is Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Ireland and is based in Galway at the Galway Mosque. Born in County Waterford, and raised as a Catholic, Why Ahmadi. Noonan converted to Islam while living in London, he converted to Islam after reading ''Murder in the Name of Allah'', by Mirza Tahir Ahmad. He has studied in , and the Jamia Ahmadiyya UK Institute of Theology, and at the Dominican |
Wilfrid Harrington
Wilfrid John Harrington (born 1927 in Ireland — April 16, 2025) was an Irish Dominican priest. From Eyeries (near Castletownbere), County Cork, Ireland, Harrington was educated at Newbridge College, County Kildare, before entering the Dominican Novitiate in St. Mary's Priory, in Cork. He studied philosophy at St. Mary's Tallaght then the Dominican Studium, and completing a BA degree, before going to Rome. He studied theology at the Angelicum (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas) in Rome earning an Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) degree and biblical studies in Jerusalem at the École Biblique, earning a LSS degree, Pontifical Biblical Institute. He lectured in scripture at St. Mary's, The Priory Institute, Tallaght, at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, and at the Church of Ireland Theological College, all of which are in Dublin. He also taught in summer schools in the United States, and lectured in Scripture at Maynooth College and Trin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Murphy (journalist)
Michael Murphy (born 1947) is an Irish journalist, newsreader, psychoanalyst and author. He works for RTÉ and is considered "one of the most popular voices on radio". Murphy is from Castlebar, County Mayo, and has lectured at St. Vincent's University Hospital and University College Dublin (UCD). He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007. He published his autobiography, ''At Five in the Afternoon: My Battle with Male Cancer'', in 2009. He presented a television series called The Big Story 2 6 week part series from 2009 to 2010, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. In June 2011, Murphy registered a civil partnership A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, primarily created to provide legal recognition for same-sex couples. Civil unions grant some or all of the rights of marriage, with ch ... with his partner of 26 years, Terry O'Sullivan, a psychotherapist, at a cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor (born 10 April 1935, Cork City, Ireland – died 11 November 2013, Jerusalem) was an Irish Dominican priest, a leading authority on St. Paul, and a Professor of New Testament at the École Biblique in Jerusalem, a position that he held from 1967 until his death. Biography He was born James Murphy-O'Connor in 1935 to Kerry and Mary (née McCrohan) Murphy-O'Connor, the eldest of four siblings. A cousin is Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the 10th Archbishop of Westminster. Murphy-O'Connor attended the Christian Brothers College, Cork, and later the Vincentian Castleknock College in Dublin, where he decided to become a Dominican priest. He entered the Dominican novitiate in St. Mary's Dominican Church and Priory, Cork in September 1953, giving up his baptismal to take a new name in religion, "Jerome". After the novitiate he studied philosophy for a year before studying at The Priory Institute in Tallaght and at the University of Fribourg in Switz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay Mitchell
Gabriel Mitchell (born 30 December 1951) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 1994 to 1997 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1992 to 1993. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2014 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 1981 to 2007. He was defeated by Enda Kenny in the 2002 Fine Gael leadership election. Mitchell was the Fine Gael candidate at the 2011 presidential election. Early life Mitchell was born in Inchicore, Dublin, in 1951. His mother, Eileen, was left a widow with nine children whom she supported by working as an office cleaner. He was educated at St. Michael's Congregation of Christian Brothers, Emmet Road Vocational School, Dublin Institute of Technology, College of Commerce, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Nottingham. Since leaving politics Mitchell gained a degree and masters from The Priory Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
