Trinity College Dublin, also known as the University of Dublin, is a research university in Dublin, Ireland. The college was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England, who modelled the college after Oxford and Cambridge's collegiate universities; Trinity College became one of the seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland. The college was a symbol of the Protestant Ascendancy for much of its history, as, while Catholics were admitted from the college's foundation, graduation required the taking of an oath that was objectionable to them. In 1793, the oath was scrapped, but professorships, fellowships, and scholarships were reserved for Protestants until 1873; women were first admitted in 1904. Among the college's most famous alumni are the writers Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Percy French, William Trevor, John Millington Synge, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Moore, William Congreve, and Samuel Becket; politicians Douglas Hyde, Eamon de Valera, Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese, David Norris, Edward Carson, Robert Emmet, Wolfe Tone, and John Redmond; philosophers George Berkeley and Edmund Burke; and mathematicians and scientists Ernest Walton, William Cecil Campbell, George Salmon, Robert Mallet, Bartholomew Lloyd, and William Rowan Hamilton.
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