Notable Graduates of The Royal University of Ireland
A high number of graduates of the university for the time were women (the first 9 in 1884) because Trinity College Dublin did not accept female students until 1904.
- Thomas Joseph Campbell
- Dr. Arthur W. Conway - BA (1896) - President of University College Dublin (1940–1947).
- Éamon de Valera - Mathematics (1904), Taoiseach and President of Ireland
- Alexander Ernest Donnelly
- Mary Hayden - BA in 1885, and MA in Modern Languages in 1887
- Douglas Hyde - Honorary Degree
- Kathleen Lynn - Medicine (1899)
- Eoin MacNeill
- Isabella Mulvaney BA (1884) - Principal of Alexandra College.
- Kathleen O'Callaghan - A founder member of Cumann na mBan, and Sinn Féin TD.
- Agnes O'Farrelly BA (1899), MA (1900) - Professor of modern Irish in UCD (1932–1947)
- James O'Mara BA (1898) - Irish Parliamentary Party MP, and Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny South.
- Alice Oldham BA, campaigned for women to be admitted to Trinity College Dublin.
- Pádraig Pearse - BA Modern Languages (1901)
- Thomas Preston, scientist and discoverer the Anomalous Zeeman Effect, among other achievements
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington - BA(1899), MA (1902)
- Letitia Alice Walkington - BA (1885), MA (1886), LLB (1888), LLD (1889)
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