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''Bottom:'' ''The Magee main building'' , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , established = 1865 – Magee College
1953 – Magee University College
1968 – Coleraine Campus established; New University of Ulster established
1969 – Magee College merge
1982 – Ulster Polytechnic merge; University of Ulster established
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, endowment = £6.483 million (2014) , budget = £185m , chancellor = Colin Davidson , vice_chancellor = Professor Paul Bartholomew , affiliations =

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, provost = Professor Malachy Ó Néill , students = 5,098 (2014/15) , location = , city =

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, UK , coor = , former_names = University of Ulster at Magee,
New University of Ulster at Magee
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''Seal'':

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''Formerly'':

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, website = , logo = The Ulster University Magee campus is one of the four campuses of

. It is located in

and opened in 1865 as a

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Christian arts and

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. Since 1953, it has had no religious affiliation and provides a broad range of

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and

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programmes in disciplines ranging from business, law, social work, creative arts & technologies, cinematic arts,

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and

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

and

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Academics

Magee offers a large number of

and

programmes through Ulster University's four faculties: UU Faculties . Retrieved on 2 July 2009. #Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences #Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment #Life and Health Sciences #Ulster Business School Within each faculty there are a number of schools offering programmes for their relative disciplines. The schools based on the Magee campus are: #Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – School of Arts and Humanities, School of Education, School of Law, School of Applied Social and Policy Studies #Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment – School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems #Life and Health Sciences – School of Nursing, School of Psychology #Ulster Business School – Department of Global Business and Enterprise Programmes taught at Magee include

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, drama, law, social work, education, cinematic arts,

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robotic Robotics is an interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist human ...

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

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s, music,

, and

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Research

Research activities include several research institutes and centres. Magee is home to the Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) AHRI Research Institute websit
Research Institutes – Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)
Retrieved on 19 August 2015. with membership drawn from former research groupings in the Humanities Research Institute, the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages (AICH) Research Institutes Recruitment websit
Research Institutes – Academy for Cultural Heritages
. Retrieved on 21 November 2006. and the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies. Institute of Ulster Scots Studies websit

Retrieved on 21 November 2006. The AHRI provides an institutional focus for research activity and collaboration across four research clusters in Creative Arts and Technologies, Irish Language & Literature, English and History embracing a range of subject areas within the Faculty of Arts, including Creative Technologies, Music, Drama, Dance, Irish Language & Literature, English and History. The AHRI promotes a broad research culture and environment within which research activity in individual disciplines flourishes. Magee is the location for the Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) dedicated to the creation of intelligent computational systems through research in

neural networks A neural network is a network or circuit of biological neurons, or, in a modern sense, an artificial neural network, composed of artificial neurons or nodes. Thus, a neural network is either a biological neural network, made up of biological ...

, fuzzy systems,

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and

cognitive robotics Cognitive Robotics or Cognitive Technology is a subfield of robotics concerned with endowing a robot with intelligent behavior by providing it with a processing architecture that will allow it to learn and reason about how to behave in response t ...

. Other research areas include

ambient intelligence In computing, ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Ambient intelligence was a projection on the future of consumer electronics, telecommunications and computing ...

wireless sensor networks Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental c ...

, robot vision, brain computer interfacing and

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. ISRC Websit
The Intelligent Systems Research Centre ''About''
. Retrieved on 2 July 2009. It also houses International Conflict Research (INCORE), a joint venture between the United Nations University and Ulster University. Established in 1993, it aims to address issues of the conflict in Northern Ireland and seek to promote conflict resolution internationally. INCORE Websit
INCORE: About
Retrieved on 21 November 2006. The

Transitional Justice Institute The Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), is a law-led multidisciplinary research institute of Ulster University which is physically located at the Jordanstown, and Magee campuses. It was created in 2003, making it the first a ...

is based at both the Magee and Jordanstown campuses.

Provost

The principal academic post at the campus is the provost. Professor Thomas G Fraser was provost from 2002 to 2006, succeeded by Professor Jim Allen. In 2011, Professor Deirdre Heenan was appointed to the post in 2011, following the retirement of Professor Allen. She was replaced by Dr Malachy O'Neil in 2016

History

The Magee Campus gained its name from Martha Magee, the widow of a

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, who, in 1845, bequeathed £20,000 to the

Presbyterian Church of Ireland The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI; ga, Eaglais Phreispitéireach in Éirinn; Ulster-Scots: ''Prisbytairin Kirk in Airlann'') is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the Republic of Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in ...

to found a college for theology and the arts. ''History of Magee College'' a
UU Library website
. Retrieved on 28 August 2006. Union Theological College website

Retrieved on 31 December 2016. Epitaph, 1845. Martha Magee's memorial at a cemetery in

Lurgan Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh. Lurgan is about south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population ...

reads, ''"The Rev Wm. Magee Minister of the Presbyterian Church Lurgan, died 9 June 1800. At the demise of Mrs Martha Magee, about £60,000 to the Irish Presbyterian Church including £20,000 for the establishment of a college."
History from Headstones
retrieved on 31 August 2006. It opened in 1865 primarily as a

, but accepted students from all denominations to study a variety of subjects. It was a college of the

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from 1880 and later became associated with the

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when the Royal University was dissolved in 1909 and replaced by the

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. The Irish Roman Catholic bishops had in 1871 implemented a general ban on Catholics entering Trinity College, with few exceptions. This ban remained in place until it was rescinded by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland in 1970. By that time, Magee College had severed its links with TCD, as set out below.

World War II: Royal Navy

During

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, the college was taken over by

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for

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operational use, becoming with

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(), a major facility in the

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. A 2013 BBC report describes a secret major control bunker, later buried beneath the lawns of the college. From 1941 this bunker, part of Base One Europe, together with similar bunkers in

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, Liverpool, and

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was used to control one million Allied personnel and fight the

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U-boat U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ...

threat. On 14 September 2013 Magee hosted the 23rd International

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Contest in Artificial Intelligence based on

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. Julian Peck's (who resided at Prehen House in

) mother, Lady

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(née Knox), was a sister of

Dilly Knox Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimm ...

who directed the code breaking at Bletchley Park. Sir

Harry Hinsley Sir Francis Harry Hinsley, (26 November 1918 – 16 February 1998) was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Int ...

OBE was Director of Studies at

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

to Professor Robert Gavin, a former Provost of Magee. Dame Alice Rosemary Murray, the first female Vice-Chancellor of

, who also sat on the Lockwood Committee (1963–65) which recommended the closure of Magee as well as the location of Northern Ireland's 2nd University being Coleraine (February 1965), from which she was later awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) Honorary Degree (1972), was stationed at Base One Europe as WRNS Chief Officer and responsible for the welfare of 5,600 Wrens stationed at Londonderry.

Postwar

In 1953, Magee Theological College separated from the remainder of the college, eventually moving to

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

in a 1978 merger that formed

Union Theological College ''This page is about a college in Northern Ireland. For institutions with similar names, see Union Theological Seminary and Union School of Theology'' , mottoeng = ''“Buy the truth and sell it not”'' (taken from Proverbs 23:23) , establi ...

. Presbyterian Church in Ireland Press Release, 200
''Presbyterian College Celebrates 150 Years''
. Retrieved on 28 August 2006. Also in 1953, Magee College broke its links with Dublin and became ''Magee University College''. It was hoped by groups led by the University for Derry Committee that this

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would become Northern Ireland's second university after

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. However, in the 1960s, following the recommendations in the Lockwood Report by Sir John Lockwood, Master of

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, London and former

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, the Stormont Parliament made a controversial decision to pass it over in favour of a new university in Coleraine. Instead it was incorporated into the two-campus

New University of Ulster sco, Ulstèr Universitie , image = Ulster University coat of arms.png , caption = , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , latin_name = Universitas Ulidiae , established = 1865 – Magee College 1953 - Magee Un ...

in 1969. The next fourteen years saw the college halve in size, while development focused on the main Coleraine campus. In 1984, the New University merged with the Ulster Polytechnic, and Magee became the early focus of development of a new four-campus university, the

University of Ulster sco, Ulstèr Universitie , image = Ulster University coat of arms.png , caption = , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , latin_name = Universitas Ulidiae , established = 1865 – Magee College 1953 - Magee Un ...

. Student and faculty numbers recovered and grew rapidly over the next ten to fifteen years, accompanied by numerous construction projects. Magee grew from just 273 students in 1984 to over 4000 undergraduates in 2012. In 2012, the University continued to lobby the

Northern Ireland Executive The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved government of Northern Ireland, an administrative branch of the legislature – the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is answerable to the assembly and was initially established according to the ter ...

for an additional 1000 full-time undergraduate places, leading to 6000 students at Magee in 2017.6000 students includes 4000 in 2012, 1000 additional without government permission, and 1000 lobbied for from the Northern Ireland Executive. In October 2014 the University of Ulster was rebranded as Ulster University. Magee University Derry SMC 2005

Timeline

*1845 – Foundation endowment from Martha Magee. *1865 – Magee College opened. *1880 – Magee College joined the new

. *1909 – Royal University dissolved. Government funding greatly reduced. Magee College became an autonomous university college, with students completing their degrees at Trinity College, Dublin. *1953 – Magee University College received major government grant funding for the first time. *1969 – Magee University College merged with the

. *1978 – Magee Theological College closed, merging with Assembly's College to form Union Theological College in Belfast. *1984 – New University merged with the

Ulster Polytechnic sco, Ulstèr Universitie , image = Ulster University coat of arms.png , caption = , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , latin_name = Universitas Ulidiae , established = 1865 – Magee College 1953 - Magee Un ...

, Jordanstown, to form the University of Ulster. *2014 – Rebranded name to Ulster University.

Historical notes

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English Reform movement, social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during t ...

visited Magee College on 31 May 1867. * The Magee College bequest is mentioned on the founder's graveyard memorial in

County Armagh County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and ha ...

, Northern Ireland, where her husband was a minister.

Campus

The central feature of the campus is the original 1865 building. This is surrounded by Victorian red brick houses, and several modern buildings in red brick and glass, constructed since the formation of the University of Ulster. The campus is used for education, but also as a convention centre. For example, Magee hosted the 2006 Tomo-Dachi convention. ;Timeline of recent construction *1988 – Phase I building *1989 – Carrickmore House, extension of main building *1990 – Phase II library building *1991 – Refurbished main building *1992 – Extension of 3/4 College Avenue *1993 – Strand Road student residence *1995 – Phase III buildings (sports complex and informatics), Duncreggan Road student residences, floodlit all-weather sports ground

Tip O'Neill Chair

Based at Magee, the Tip O'Neill Chair in Peace Studies was established in commemoration of the former

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the U. ...

Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 47th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, representing northern Boston, Massachusetts, as ...

Jr. a well-known supporter of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The chair was inaugurated by the former President of the United States,

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

in 1995. Currently funded by The Ireland Funds the chair was held by the Nobel Peace Laureate,

John Hume John Hume (18 January 19373 August 2020) was an Irish nationalist politician from Northern Ireland, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the recent political history of Ireland, as one of the architects of the Northern Irela ...

from 2002 to 2009. Under the tenure of Professor Hume Magee hosted a series of guest lectures involving key national and international policy-makers. *

Mitchell Reiss Mitchell B. Reiss (born June 12, 1957) is an American diplomat, academic, and business leader who served as the 8th President and CEO of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the 27th president of Washington College and in the United States Depa ...

, United States Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, 2006 *John Kerry, United States Senator, 2006 *Garret Fitzgerald, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, 2005 *Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator, 2004 *Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, 2004 *Romano Prodi, EU Commission President, 2004 *Pat Cox, MEP and President of the European Parliament, 2004 *Bertie Ahern, then Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and President of the European Council, 2003 *Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, 2003 *Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, 2003

Notable alumni

Year of

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is given, if known. * Gregory Campbell, 1982 *

Mark Durkan Mark Durkan (born 26 June 1960) is a retired Irish nationalist politician from Northern Ireland. Durkan was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from November 2001 to October 2002, and the Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Pa ...

, Deputy First Minister of the

, c.1980s *Dill Macky, founder of

The Scots College , motto_translation = O that we may be worthy of our forefathers , location = Bellevue Hill, Eastern Suburbs, Sydney , country = Australia , type = Independent single-sex primary ...

school in Sydney, 1866 *

Brooke Scullion Brooke Scullion (born 31 March 1999), sometimes performing under the mononym Brooke, is an Irish singer. She was a contestant on series 9 of ''The Voice UK'', finishing in third place. She represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 ...

, Irish entry to the

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, 2020.

Honorary graduates

Notable figures have received honorary degrees in graduations hosted by Magee. *Rt Hon Lord Ashdown (

Paddy Ashdown Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, (27 February 194122 December 2018), better known as Paddy Ashdown, was a British politician and diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1999. Internati ...

), former Liberal Democrat Leader and former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006 *

Amanda Burton Irene Amanda Burton is a Northern Irish actress. Her notable credits include Heather Haversham in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Brookside'' (1982–1986), Beth Glover in the ITV drama series ''Peak Practice'' (1993–1995), Sam Ryan in the BBC c ...

, actor, 2002 *

, then President of the United States, 1995 *

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

, United States Senator, 2004 *

Enya Enya Patricia Brennan (; ga, Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin; born 17 May 1961), known professionally by the mononym Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician known for modern Celtic music. She is the best-selling Irish solo arti ...

, Irish singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter, 2007 *

Gary Lightbody Gareth John Lightbody (born 15 June 1976) is a Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He has also founded the musical supergroups The ...

, Musician, 2012 *

Stephen Rea Stephen Rea ( ; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in films such as ''V for Vendetta'', ''Michael Collins'', ''Interview with the Vampire'' and ''Breakfast on Pluto''. Rea was nominated for the Academy Award ...

, actor, 2004 *

Fiona Shaw Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She is known for her roles as Petunia Dursley in the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2001–2010), Marnie Stonebrook in the fourth season of the HBO serie ...

, actor, 2004 *

Sir Ian McKellen Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans seven decades, having performed in genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. Regarded as a British cultural i ...

, actor, 2013BBC News, 2013

3 February 2013. Retrieved on 19 July 2020.

Gallery

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Notes

References

External links

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