Coláiste Phádraig | |
 St Patrick's College, Drumcondra | |
Other name | St Pat's |
|---|---|
| Motto | Intellectum da mihi, Domine |
Motto in English | Give me understanding, Lord |
| Type | Roman Catholic |
| Active | 1875–2016 |
Religious affiliation | Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians; 1883–1999) |
Academic affiliations | National University of Ireland (1975–95) Dublin City University (1995–2016) |
| President | Daire Keogh |
| Students | 2,400 (2016) |
| Location | , , Ireland 53°22′13″N 6°15′16″W / 53.3704°N 6.2544°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colours | Blue, white, yellow |
| Website | web |
St Patrick's College (Irish: Coláiste Phádraig), often known as St Pat's,[1] was a third level institution in Ireland, the leading function of which was as the country's largest primary teacher training college, which had at one time up to 2,000 students. Founded in Drumcondra, in the northern suburbs of Dublin, in 1875, with a Roman Catholic ethos, it offered a number of undergraduate courses, primarily in primary education and arts, and in time postgraduate courses too, mostly in education and languages.
On 30 September 2016, St Patrick's was dissolved as an institution and incorporated into Dublin City University, along with Mater Dei Institute of Education, All Hallows College, and the Church of Ireland College of Education. The teacher training elements of those combined institutions currently form DCU's fifth faculty, the DCU Institute of Education. All humanities-based courses at the former St Patrick's were then absorbed by DCU's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The campus of the former college is now known as DCU St Patrick's Campus.
- ^ "Fathers give way to the dedicated lay". The Irish Times. 26 October 1999. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
now beginning as the first lay head of St Pat's