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A new book celebrating the heritage, personalities and life of the historic college campus in Maynooth highlights the role that Kilkenny natives have played in its development.
We Remember Maynooth was planned as one of a number of projects to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the college s founding in 1795 but when Covid struck, many of the events planned had to be canceled, and the book became the focus of attention.
For most of its long life, Maynooth College educated priests for service in Irish dioceses, and for the last one hundred years or so it offered them a recognised university degree in arts or science, as well as conferring degrees in theology and Canon Law as a Pontifical University. ....

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