Qualla: Mary Immaculate College https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/mary-immaculate-college-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mary Immaculate College https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college Mary Immaculate College: Introduction https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. The foundation stone was laid on 8 December 1898 - the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is how the place got its name. Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick wanted a place where Catholic women from Munster could train as primary-school teachers without traveling to Dublin or to England. The Sisters of Mercy agreed to run it. Three years later they had seventy-five students. The college's first principal was Sister Mary Paul Quinlan, who held the post until 1923.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/mary-immaculate-college-wp/gc3g-mary-immaculate-college-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mary Immaculate College: A College for Women, Then Everyone https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college/ Photo credit Claire WatersLulu, CC BY-SA 4.0. For seventy-one years Mary Immaculate accepted only female students. The classroom was a vocation as much as a profession in Catholic Ireland, and the assumption was that women would teach the youngest children. The first cohort in 1902 came almost entirely from Munster farms and...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/mary-immaculate-college-wp/gc3g-mary-immaculate-college-a-college-for-women-then-everyone.mp3 0:06 2 full Mary Immaculate College: From NUI to UL https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college/ Photo credit Sheila1988, CC BY-SA 4.0. Until 1994, Mary Immaculate degrees came from the National University of Ireland. Then the academic affiliation switched to the University of Limerick, a few kilometers across the city, and degrees have been conferred by UL ever since. MIC remains technically distinct - its own c...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/mary-immaculate-college-wp/gc3g-mary-immaculate-college-from-nui-to-ul.mp3 0:06 3 full Mary Immaculate College: The Lime Tree and Wired 99.9 https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. Mary Immaculate is not just classrooms. The Lime Tree Theatre - a 510-seat purpose-built venue - opened on the campus on 30 October 2012, and immediately became one of Limerick's principal performance spaces, hosting touring drama, music, and conferences alongside student product...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/g/mary-immaculate-college-wp/gc3g-mary-immaculate-college-the-lime-tree-and-wired-99-9.mp3 0:06 4 full Mary Immaculate College: Mount Convent and Thurles https://qualla.com/mary-immaculate-college/ Photo credit David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Limerick campus is set on grounds that include Mount Convent on O'Connell Avenue - a former Sisters of Mercy residence now used as postgraduate housing. A second campus operates in Thurles, County Tipperary, where MIC trains post-primary teachers in subjects such as Business ...

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