Educating Ireland: Schooling and Social Change, 1700-2000

by Deirdre Raftery (Editor), Karin Fischer (Editor)

Overview

This significant study traces the relationship between education and social change in Ireland from the 17th to the 20th century, marking the effects of the successes and failures of educational policy on Irish society. Incisively written by a leading group of contributors, the book is both sweeping and thorough in accounting for the various manifestations of education in Ireland. Educating Ireland measures how the education system altered the times, as well as how it changed with them. Issues, such as the training of the Garda Siochana, are illustrated along with the policing of the education system by the Church and State. Combining scholarly rigor and lively analysis, the material is presented in a manner that is varied, yet thematically unified. It is a narrative concerning education that encompasses the character of the Irish nation as a whole. *** "For those of us who thought that the Irish belief in the value of education was born in the 1960s and derived from a combination of free education with economic opportunities, the finding that Irish people in the eighteenth century were prepared to fight for the education of their children with 'a tenacity born of desperation' (2) comes as a pleasant surprise.... There are a number of features of this collection of essays that enhance its appeal not only to scholars whose primary interest is in the history of education but also for teachers and others with a curiosity about aspects of education." - Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2015 [Subject: Educational History, Cultural History, Irish Studies]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780716532453
Publisher:	Irish Academic Press
Publication date:	05/28/2014
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.75(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vi

Acknowledgements ix

Preface Professor Jane Martin, University of London xi

Part 1 Education Policy and Practice in the Long Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

1 The Irish Hedge School and Social Change Antonia McManus 1

2 Superior Schooling: The Legacy of the Endowed Schools Commissions (1791-1894) to Irish Education Christopher McCormack 22

3 Thomas Wyse and Non-Denominational Education in Ireland, 1830-1845 Tony Lyons 42

Part 2 Education and Irish Society in the Nineteenth Century

4 Irish Women and Elementary Education for the Poor in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland Eilis O'Sullivan 61

5 The Museum of Irish industry and Scientific Education in Mid-Victorian Ireland Clara Cullen 91

6 The Nineteenth-Century Governess and Education in Ireland Deirdre Raftery 110

7 The Presentation Order and National Education in Nineteenth- Century Ireland Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck 124

Part 3 Education Policy and Change in the Twentieth Century

8 The Church of Ireland, the State and Education in Irish Language and Irish History, 1920s-1950s Martina Relihan 147

9 The Modernisation of the Recruit Training Policies of the Garda Síochána, 1922-1985 Brian McCarthy 173

10 The Implementation of the Greater Schools Co-operation Policy and Vocational Education Committees in 1960s Ireland Marie Clarke 199

11 When Education was Asked to Compensate for Society: Education for Change and Permanence in Northern Ireland in the 1980s Karin Fischer 215

Bibliography 237

Index 243