Irish College

For other senses of this term, see Irish college (disambiguation)
Irish script on the gates of the Pontifical Irish College (Coláisde na nGaedheal), Rome, Italy
Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire, founder of an Irish College in Madrid
The Pontifical Irish College, Rome, Italy
Colleges at University of Douai
Entrance to the Irish College, Leuven, Belgium. The inscription reads Dochum Glóire Dé agus Ónóra na hÉireann ('For the Glory of God and the Honour of Ireland').

Irish Colleges is the collective name used for approximately 34 centres of education for Irish Catholic clergy and lay people opened on continental Europe in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.