The
University of Dublin , corporately designated the
Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin, is a university located in
Dublin,
Ireland. It was founded in 1592 when Queen
Elizabeth I issued a charter for
Trinity College, as "the mother of a university", thereby making it Ireland's
oldest operating university. It was modelled after the
collegiate universities of
Oxford and of
Cambridge, but unlike these only one college was established; as such, the designations "Trinity College" and "University of Dublin" are usually synonymous for practical purposes.