All Hallows College is a college of Dublin City University and all degrees from All Hallows are validated and accredited by DCU.All Hallows College believes it offers a unique higher learning choice within the Irish university sector in identifying leadership and human services as our distinctive institutional activity and academic specialisation. All Hallows College is now a college of Dublin City University but its origins date back to 1842, when John Hand founded a college to train priests for the foreign missions in English-speaking countries around the world.Permission was secured from Rome and Fr Hand secured a lease for the property with the help of Daniel O’Connell who in November 1841, had become the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin.Over the years, some 5,000 men followed the Irish Diaspora, who were leaving Ireland following the famine, to Canada, the US, Australasia, Britain, South Africa and other countries; some to great cities, others to outbacks and veldts.