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27: 113: 121: 317:, which look towards the official residence of the president, a lodge at the edge of the grounds. Also in the building are the offices of other senior officials of the university, and those of the institution's fund-raising body, the DCU Educational Trust, and the 1838 Club, a restaurant for staff and postgraduate research students. The adjoining 176:
for the specific purpose of building a central model farm and training establishment for National School teachers. The teachers were to be taught how to give instruction to children not only in reading, writing, and arithmetic but also in practical and innovative methods of agriculture. Albert
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economic policies, the board was forced to discontinue support for the schools holdings in 1863 and in 1874 disposed of most of the model farms. Albert College survived, probably because it was not exclusively concerned with the board's educational policies — it also carried out
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states that since Ireland suffered so much from the blight it was "by a stroke of poetic justice that it was in Ireland that much of the final research was carried out... at the Albert College in Glasnevin, Dublin".
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became apparent, also a housing crisis occurred in Dublin during the 1960s as a number of old, dilapidated buildings collapsed in the city and land for housing near the city became urgently required.
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for the teaching of agriculture, additionally, it also trained those whose aim was to pursue a career in agriculture. The board established twenty model agricultural schools and provided many
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In the early 20th century Paul A. Murphy, Professor of plant pathology, made a significant scientific breakthrough in the study of
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In 1964 University College, Dublin, approved the sale of 359 acres (145 ha) of the Albert College lands to
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was adopted. In 1905 the West Wing was added with residential accommodation, and the East Wing in 1927.
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lands were also transferred to Dublin Corporation at this time and continue to be used as a
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In 1838, John Pitt Kennedy, the first inspector-general of the nascent Irish
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The original college building now contains the first floor offices of the
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Information sign in Albert College Park with details about Albert College
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Former agricultural college, now main campus of Dublin City University
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moved on site in 1979, vacating its inner city offices. In 1989 the
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work in new crop varieties, farming methods and breeding livestock.
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with small holdings or gardens. Because of religious opposition and
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University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926
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University College, Dublin, finally vacated the site in 1979.
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Former universities and colleges in the Republic of Ireland
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was an agricultural college in the northern suburbs of
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Albert Agricultural College, Centenary Souvenir (Book)
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Dublin
Glasnevin
Dublin City University
university president
National School
the Crown
Prince Albert
education in Ireland
national schools
laissez-faire
research
phytophthera infestans
potato blight
Irish Famine
Cecil Woodham-Smith
University College Dublin
Dublin Corporation
Ballymun
Albert College Park
public park
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NIHE, Dublin
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