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Published by Kingdom Books, 1997. Previous owner's name to blank fronmt endpage.
In 1854, John Henry Newman, one of the foremost intellectual figures of the nineteenth century, was officially installed as the rector of the first Catholic university in Ireland. University Church (constructed in 1855–6) was Newman’s first objective when he agreed to the rectorship and it can be considered as a tangible manifestation of the idea behind the unprecedented Catholic university in Dublin – the posing of an erudite Catholic alternative to post-Enlightenment secularism and Protestant hegemony through a style-based analogy to the early Church.
Despite physically embodying what Newman wished to achieve in and through his new university, this ‘early Christian-style’ church, which drew upon Roman and Byzantine basilicas, has received little attention.
