A Short History of Giving to Trinity
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A SHORT HISTORY OF GIVING TO TRINITY 16th Century 1590s • Dublin Corporation resolves to make the lands and dilapidated buildings of the monastery of All Hallows available for educational purposes freely and in perpetuity. This gift secures a site for the first Irish university and Trinity College Dublin, the sole College Shield constituent college of the University of Dublin, is established by charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1592. • An appeal for subscriptions to leading citizens in every county in Ireland is launched. Donors include: Sir Turlough O’Neill, the uncle of the Earl of Tyrone, giving £100, and Sir Hugh Magennis, with the gentlemen of County Down, donating £140. The appeal raises £2,047 and the money is applied to building and furnishings. th Century Book of Kells 17 1610s • James I endows five separate grants of land in various parts of the country, as well as confirming in perpetuity an annual subsidy. 1660s • The Library is developed through gifts. Henry Jones, Bishop of Meath presents the two world-famous illuminated manuscript gospel books, The Book of Kells and The Book of Durrow. The library of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, one of the first alumni of the College, a Professor of Divinity and a Fellow, is also bequeathed to Trinity. It consists of some 10,000 volumes of manuscripts and printed books. James Ussher TODAY’S DONORS TO TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CONTINUE AN EXTRAORDINARY TRADITION OF GIVING TO THE UNIVERSITY SEMPER HONOS NOMENQVE TVVM LAVDESQVE MANEBVNT Virgil to graduates to fund a building for 1927 th Century student societies. The £7,500 raised • The University of Dublin goes towards the construction of the Endowment Fund is launched. A 18 Graduates’ Memorial Building. letter of appeal is circulated to graduates asking them to subscribe 1720s to the Fund to assist College ‘in the • The Erasmus Smith Trust funds maintenance or further development fellowships, professorships and of its educational activities…’ The lectureships, student support and Fund collects £4,000 by October 1928. makes grants for building work. 1953 1730s • The Moyne Institute of Preventative • Claudius Gilbert bequeaths money Medicine is presented to the College for busts of ‘men eminent for by the Marchioness of Normanby in learning’ to adorn the Library, with memory of her father, Walter Edward which 14 busts are commissioned. Guinness, Baron Moyne. Her brother, 1750s Lord Moyne, establishes a capital • The creation of Front Square begins fund for the institute’s maintenance. with £30,000 from the Parliament for The Marchioness of Normanby a grant to rebuild the West Front. continues to fund major extensions to Graduates’ Memorial Building the research space. 20th Century 1903 • Edward Cecil Guinness, the 1st Earl of Iveagh, supports scientific development, providing funds for new physics and botany buildings. Front Square Women of Trinity Hall 1954 th Century • The University of Dublin USA Fund 19 is established and contributions have IRS 501(c)(3) tax exemption. 1832 1957 • Sir Patrick Dun, the leading Dublin • The Irish Sugar Company donates physician leaves a substantial £15,000 to establish a Department of bequest which enables the Genetics. establishment of Sir Patrick Dun’s Earl of Iveagh Hospital, a teaching hospital in 1832. 1965 This remains closely associated 1908 • The Wellcome Trust Building for with the Medical School and when it • The grounds comprising the Biochemistry and the Biomedical closes in the 1980s the sale proceeds current Trinity Hall in Dartry come Library is opened. are used to construct the Sir Patrick under College’s ownership and are 1967 Dun Research Laboratories at St used to establish a hall of residence • The opening of the Berkeley James’s Hospital. for women. Funding comes from Library. Donors include, Rupert donations by the Chancellor, Lord 1853 Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, the Iveagh, and Frederick Purser. The 2nd Earl of Iveagh; the Gulbenkian • The Campanile is donated by Lord site is extended in 1910 with the Foundation; Lady Mayer; the Chester Beresford, the Archbishop of Armagh. donation of the adjacent Palmerston Beatty Trust; George Dawson; Jack 1892 House by John Purser Griffith. Morrison and the Ford Foundation. • The College commemorates its tercentenary and an appeal is made YOUR HONOUR, NAME AND PRAISE SHALL ALWAYS REMAIN Virgil 1975 Anthony O’Reilly, who funds half the • Dr AWB Vincent founds total building cost. scholarships to support summer st Century 1992 internships for Trinity genetics • The Wellcome Trust funds the 21 students in US laboratories. Ocular Genetics Unit. 2000s 1994 • The tradition of endowing posts • Trinity Foundation is established as continues with the AIB Professor the primary fundraising agency for of Childhood Research; the Bank of the College. Ireland Professor of Contemporary • Dr Donald Panoz and Elan Irish History; Michael McNamara Corporation pledge support for the Professor of Construction Innovation Panoz Institute, a purpose-built at the School of Engineering and the facility for the School of Pharmacy. Pigott Lectureship in American History. • The AG Leventis Foundation • Significant support for other starts supporting a lectureship in College priorities comes from the Greek Archaeology and History and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the later initiates studentships in the Getty Foundation, the Ireland Funds Department of Classics. and the Goldman Sachs Foundation. • The Trinity Annual Fund is launched Pavilion to facilitate regular alumni giving. 1980s • David Went starts funding the • The Law School, with the support Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) of Law alumni, funds bursaries scholarships for students from for students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. disadvantaged areas to study Law. 2001 • The London Trust is founded, later • The Institute for International renamed The UK Trust for TCD. It has Integration Studies (IIIS) is launched received over £1 million in donations with funding from Dr Peter since its inception. Sutherland. • The Coca Cola Corporation makes • Brendan McDonald provides its first gift to Trinity to support a scholarships for students to attend Chair in Drama and in the following the School of Business. decade supports a Professorship in International Integration. Chuck Feeney • Durkan Family & Friends fund the 1998 establishment of the John Durkan • A bequest from alumnus, Sami • Ireland launches the Programme Research Laboratories in Trinity Nasr, enables the College to for Research in Third Level Centre at St James’s Hospital. construct the Sami Nasr Institute for Institutions (PRTLI) with an initial Material Sciences. 2003 investment of €75 million by Chuck • Double Helix sculpture by Brian 1985 Feeney’s foundation, Atlantic King is donated by Dr Beate Schuler. • Fighting Blindness led by Michael Philanthropies. It ushers in a new era Later Dr Schuler funds PhDs and Griffith funds a pilot project to map for research and innovation in Trinity. professorships in Chemistry, Science genes for Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Chuck Feeney becomes the most Gallery and the Biomedical Sciences generous benefactor to Trinity since 1987 Institute, where a seminar room is its foundation. • Trinity College Dublin Association named after her father, Dr Wilhelm and Trinity College Dublin Trust • The Smurfit Institute of Genetics (Fips) Schuler. are incorporated into a single is established with support from the • Dermot Desmond funds a number organisation — the Trinity College EU, Atlantic Philanthropies, Dr Martin of initiatives in the College, including Dublin Association & Trust. Coming Naughton, the Wellcome Trust and Dr TAP, and later provides support for a up to the College’s Quartercentenary, Michael Smurfit. new Business School development. the Association & Trust raises almost 1999 £1 million from graduates. • With funding from Atlantic 1989 Philanthropies and Lewis Glucksman, • The O’Reilly Institute, named in construction begins on the James honour of John P. and Aileen O’Reilly, Ussher Library, providing 750 is opened in 1989 by their son, Sir additional reader spaces and linking the Berkeley and Lecky Libraries. 2005 2011 • Alumni raise €1.25 million for The • Trinity Biomedical Sciences Save the Treasures of the Long Room Institute (TBSI) funded under PRTLI campaign. and National Development Plan 2007- 2013, opens. The School of Medicine 2006 gets a new home in the building as • The Irish Longitudinal Study it celebrates its 300th anniversary. on Ageing (TILDA) launched with Alumni donate considerable amounts funding from Irish Life, the Atlantic with Dr Stanley Quek leading the way. Philanthropies and the Government. 2012 2007 • Dr Mark Pigott provides funding for • Fred Krehbiel supports the Trinity the Seamus Heaney Professorship in Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC), Irish Writing. while a variety of donors contribute to the Long Room Hub. • The legacy of Ellen Mayston Professor Donald Weir Bates allows the establishment of • An expanding group of companies a comprehensive epilepsy research • Since the mid-60’s, Professor the TAP 20 – support the Trinity programme. Donald Weir, a Trinity academic, a Access Programmes (TAP). scientist of international renown, has • The new Sports Centre is fully supported biomedical research in funded through private support Trinity and St James’s Hospital. – a gift from Atlantic Philanthropies • Terry & Marjorie Neill make a combined with a levy voted by the donation to the Trinity Long Room student body. Hub, arts and humanities research 2008 institute.