The development of clinical psychology in the Republic of Ireland
Although psychology has only recently become an independent field of study in Ireland, 
scholarship in the subject can be traced back to the early Christian era when philosophical 
studies flourished in Irish centres of learning (Brady, 1990; Brady & McLoone, 1992; Brock, 
2012; McKenna, 1986). In Ireland, as in Britain and elsewhere, psychology was seen as a 
philosophical discipline for many years. The word psychology first appeared in the title of an 
Irish academic post in 1909 when a Chair of Logic and Psychology was instituted at 
University College Dublin (UCD) in the newly-founded National University of Ireland.