All Hallows College is a Roman Catholic college located in Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland. All Hallows is one of six linked colleges of Dublin City University, meaning that the college's degrees are validated and accredited by the university. The college was founded in 1842 by Reverend John Hand and since 1892 has been under the direction of Vincentians. By 1973 the college had trained 4000 priests not only for Ireland but for South America, South Africa, India, Canada, Australia, the West Indies, New Zealand, the United States, England, Scotland and Wales. All-Hallows Alumni were the largest group of secular priests in California up to the late 1890s. The academic training for a priest took seven years, three were devoted to physics, mental philosophy, languages, and English literature; the remaining four years to Sacred Scripture, history, liturgy, canon law, sacred eloquence, and the science of theology. In the 1960s, after the Second Vatican Council the college began accepting women from religious orders but then all Lay Students, offering adult education, but also certificates, degrees and diplomas in theology, humanities and pastoral studies.