Schools and schooling, 1650–2000

New perspectives on the history of education – the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures


James Kelly & Susan Hegarty, editors

Hardback €40.50
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ISBN: 978-1-84682-628-3
January 2017. 208pp; ills.

Introduction: writing the history of Irish education
James Kelly & Susan Hegarty

Educational print and the emergence of mass education in Ireland, c.1650–c.1830
James Kelly

The national-school system and the Irish language in the nineteenth century
Nicholas Wolf

Education, cosmopolitan cultural capital and European elites in the nineteenth century
Ciaran O'Neill

Knowledge, belief and the Irish revolution: the impact of schooling
David Fitzpatrick

Poetry, materialities and montage: towards new histories of twentieth-century school architecture
Catherine Burke

Exploring the experience of secondary-school education in Ireland prior to the introduction of 'free' second-level education in 1967: the potential of the life-story narrative approach
Judith Harford & Tom O'Donoghue

(In)equality of opportunity and educational reform in Ireland in the 1960s
Audrey Bryan