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NAME 
CORCORAN, Revd TIMOTHY S.J.
  
IDENTITY STATEMENT  
Reference code: IE UCDA LA20
Title:Papers of Revd Timothy Corcoran SJ (1872–1943)
Dates: 1919–23
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 1 box
  
CONTEXT 
Biographical History  

Born at Honeymount, Roscrea, County Tipperary, son of Thomas Corcoran, first Chairman of North Tipperary County Council, and educated at Clongowes Wood, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1890. He subsequently taught at Clongowes, 1894–1901, studied philosophy at Louvain, 1901–4, and graduated from the Royal University of Ireland, 1903. Appointed the first Professor of the Theory and Practice of Education in University College Dublin in 1909, he held the Chair until 1942. He was awarded the degree of DLitt by the National University in 1911.

  
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE 
Scope and Content 

Material relating to unsuccessful attempts to have Eoin MacNeill  re-elected to the Royal Irish Academy following his expulsion after the 1916 Rising.

Material relating to the establishment of the National Academy for Ireland, of which Corcoran was honorary secretary, including correspondence, agendas and minutes of meetings of the drafting committee; agendas and minutes of the foundation meeting; constitution; agendas and minutes of meetings of council and the provisional committee; secretary’s correspondence; lists of members; statements of accounts.

  
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Access:Available by appointment to holders of a UCDA reader's ticket.
Language:English
Finding aid:Descriptive catalogue

 


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