The development of clinical psychology in the Republic of Ireland

Although psychology has only recently become an independent field of study in Ireland, \nscholarship in the subject can be traced back to the early Christian era when philosophical \nstudies flourished in Irish centres of learning (Brady, 1990; Brady & McLoone, 1992; Brock, \n2012; McKenna, 1986). In Ireland, as in Britain and elsewhere, psychology was seen as a \nphilosophical discipline for many years. The word psychology first appeared in the title of an \nIrish academic post in 1909 when a Chair of Logic and Psychology was instituted at \nUniversity College Dublin (UCD) in the newly-founded National University of Ireland.