Dissolving the NUI
“Madam, – On April 18th, 1967, the then minister for education, Donough O’Malley, without any advance notice or debate, announced the government’s cabinet decision to dissolve the National University of Ireland and to merge Trinity and UCD, ‘to remove’ he said, ‘the insidious partition which divides our capital city’ …” (more)
[John Kely, Irish Times, 30 January]
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