Maynooth College 1795 – 1995 - Patrick J. Corish

In this meticulously researched and elegantly written book, the former Professor of Ecclesiastical and Modern History at Maynooth recounts the development of the College from its modest beginning as a seminary for a handful of priests, to its emergence as a major university with four thousand students, the majority of them lay men and women.

The Author

Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Maynooth College from 1947 to 1975 and of Modern History from 1975 to 1988, Monsignor Corish is a native of Wexford. He is author of The Irish catholic Community: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Irish Catholic Experience, Editor and a contributor to A History of Irish Catholicism and a contributor to A New History of Ireland.

ISBN: 9780717122417