To consider this matter in religious versus secular terms is to miss the point somewhat. Britain’s delegation was led by Prince Charles and included thirteen MPs, as well as a number of peers and representatives from Oxford University. The government sent the Minister for Education, Joe McHugh. The university was eventually represented at the canonisation by Vice-President Professor Orla Feely. The decision was reversed following an appeal by former UCD Registrar, Professor John Kelly, who described it as as ‘extraordinarily narrow-minded’. The main universities proclaim themselves to be, by definition, exclusively secular and thus they shun any real place for religion in their culture’.1 No doubt, the archbishop was prompted to make this criticism by an initial decision by University College Dublin not to send a representative to the canonisation on the grounds that, although acknowledging that Newman has been the founder of UCD’s antecedent, the Catholic University of Ireland, UCD itself had been a secular university since 1908.
John Henry Newman and the Idea of a University David Begg In an address to the Pontifical Irish College in Rome on 11 October 2019 to mark the canonisation of John Henry Newman, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin observed: ‘The development of university education in Ireland has lost this dream of Newman.
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