St Patrick's College, Dublin
Place
St Patrick's College (Irish: Coláiste Phádraig) was a third level institution in Ireland, the leading function of which was as the largest primary teacher training college in the country, with up to 2,000 students at one stage. Founded in Drumcondra, in the northern suburbs of Dublin, in 1875, with a Roman Catholic ethos, it offered a number of undergraduate courses, primarily in primary education and arts, and in time postgraduate courses too, mostly in education and languages.