Qualla: Magee College https://qualla.com/magee-college en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/magee-college-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Magee College https://qualla.com/magee-college Magee College: Introduction https://qualla.com/magee-college/ Photo credit Conradder, CC BY-SA 4.0. Martha Magee was the widow of a Presbyterian minister in Lurgan, County Armagh. When she died in 1845 she left £20,000 to the Presbyterian Church of Ireland to found a college for theology and the arts. Twenty thousand pounds in 1845 was an extraordinary sum - roughly two million in modern money - and her instructions were specific. The college would open in Derry in 1865, accept students of any denomination, and bear her name. The Scottish freestone building still stands at the top of Northland Road, a Gothic Revival pile of turrets and battlements that BBC News once described as looking like 'a modern Gothic church or institutional - ecclesiastical building much battlemented'. Behind that fortress façade is a strange and tangled history.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/magee-college-wp/gcfb-magee-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Magee College: Hunting U-Boats from the Cellar https://qualla.com/magee-college/ Photo credit Conradder, CC BY-SA 4.0. From 1941 to 1945 a bunker beneath Magee College was part of Base One Europe, the Allied command network coordinating the Battle of the Atlantic. The Derry bunker linked to Derby House in Liverpool and Whitehall in London, and together these three rooms controlled the movements o...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/magee-college-wp/gcfb-magee-college-hunting-u-boats-from-the-cellar.mp3 0:06 2 full Magee College: The Lockwood Decision https://qualla.com/magee-college/ Photo credit SeanMack, Public domain. In 1953 Magee broke its formal links with Trinity College Dublin and became Magee University College, with the obvious ambition of becoming Northern Ireland's second university after Queen's in Belfast. Local groups led by the University for Derry Committee campaigned hard. Derry...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/magee-college-wp/gcfb-magee-college-the-lockwood-decision.mp3 0:06 3 full Magee College: The Tip O'Neill Chair https://qualla.com/magee-college/ Photo credit Conradder, CC BY-SA 4.0. Magee houses two research centres that punch above the campus's weight. The Intelligent Systems Research Centre works on neural networks, brain-computer interfacing, and cognitive robotics - it hosted the 23rd International Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence on 14 September...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/b/magee-college-wp/gcfb-magee-college-the-tip-oneill-chair.mp3 0:06 4 full Magee College: Alumni in Strange Places https://qualla.com/magee-college/ Photo credit Conradder, CC BY-SA 4.0. Magee's graduates have scattered widely. Dill Macky, who matriculated in 1866, sailed to Sydney and founded The Scots College there, still one of Australia's leading independent schools. Mark Durkan, who served as Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, studied at Magee in the...

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