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During the Romantic period in the north of Ireland, a circle of bards were corresponding with one another, encouraging each other to pen verse, often united by political sympathies. The correspondence of Samuel Thomson, the ‘Bard of Carngranny’, a schoolmaster poet from Co. Antrim, provides a window on a Romantic circle of poets in the north of Ireland. As Dove Cottage was to William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomson’s cottage, known as Crambo Cave after the Scots verse parlour game, was a literary nexus for aspiring poets, many of whom aspired to write in the Scots vernacular. Thomson could thereby be described as the father of an independent tradition of Ulster-Scots poetry. Thomson famously corresponded with Robert Burns but a much more complex narrative emerges in which Thomson’s correspondence with Burns is tangential to the roles he played among his own correspondents; first as the tutelary poet of a tradition of Ulster poetry, secondly as fellow teacher and improver; as a Seceder Presbyterian who found himself attracted to evangelical spiritualism in the wake of disappointed patriotism; and, finally as a confidant of members of the United Irishmen.

St Patrick's College (Coláiste Phádraig) is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland. Currently over 2,500 students are attending the college. The college offers a number of undergraduate courses, primarily in primary education and arts, and postgraduate courses, primarily in education and languages.

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Our Lady of Mercy College, Carysfort was an important College of Education in Dublin, Ireland from its foundation in 1877 until its closure in 1988. Educating primary school teachers, and located in a parkland campus in Blackrock, it was a recognised college of the National University of Ireland from April 1975. The site is now the premises of the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.SituationThe college grounds lie just inland from Blackrock village, within the broader suburb, and comprised around 90 acres , with extensive lawns, mature trees and the Carysfort-Maretimo Stream.HistoryCarysfort Training College was set up as a training college for Catholic girls who wished to become teachers. The college was founded and run by the Sisters of Mercy. The college developed further when ‘Sedes Sapientiae’ (Seat of Wisdom) Training School for girls (a recognised Teacher Training college) of Catherine McAuley Baggot Street moved to Carysfort in Blackrock.The Diploma in Primary School Education awarded by the college was recognised by the Irish Government's Department of Education for teaching in primary schools. The teacher training course which had been a 2 year course, was lengthened to three years in 1974.In 1975 reforms in the education system in Ireland saw Carysfort become a recognised college of the National University of Ireland along with other teacher training colleges such as Mary Immaculate in Limerick and St. Patrick's Training College, Drumcondra. These reforms saw Carysfort and other institutions award the B.Ed. Degree for their teacher training programmes, in 1977. The college also offered a postgraduate qualification in primary school teaching.