Essays in the History of Irish Education

Brendan Walsh is a research fellow at Dublin City University, Ireland in The Centre for Evaluation, Quality and Inspection (EQI) Dublin. He is currently researching the relationship between Irish schools and the British Armed Forces in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and writing a history of secondary schooling in Ireland.

• Introduction; Brendan Walsh.- Chapter 1. The National System of Education 1831-2000; Tom Walsh.- Chapter 2. 'An Essential Service' The National Board and Teacher Education, 1831-70; Susan M. Parkes.- Chapter 3. Forged in the Fire of Persecution: Edmund Rice (1762-1844) and the Counter-Reformationary Character of the Irish Christian Brothers; Dáire Keogh.- Chapter 4. Girls at School in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; Jane McDermid.- Chapter 5. ‘Injurious to the Best Interests of Education’? Teaching and Learning under the Intermediate Education System 1878-1922; Brendan Walsh.- Chapter 6. Historical Overview of Developments in Special Education in Ireland; Michael Shevlin.- Chapter 7. Teachers' Experience of School: First-hand Accounts 1943-1965; Brendan Walsh.- Chapter 8. Creating a Modern Educational System?: International Influence, Domestic Elites and the Transformation of the Irish Educational Sector 1950-75; John Walsh.- Chapter 9. The Transformation of Irish Education: the Ministerial Legacy 1919-1999; Antonia McManus .- Chapter 10. The Development of Vocational and Technical Education in Ireland 1930-2015.; Marie Clark.- Chapter 11. Current Developments at Third-Level Institutions in the Light of the Origins of the University; Catherine Kavanagh.- Chapter 12. Advanced Education for Working People: The Catholic Workers’ College, a Case Study; David Limond.- Chapter 13. Teacher Accountability in Education – The Irish Experiment.; Martin Brown, Gerry McNamara and Joe O’Hara.

“For anyone interested in gaining an understanding of Irish education this is an invaluable Book … . as a way into exploring many untapped areas of Irish history, and as opening up potentially new avenues for further historical enquiry, this book fulfils its aims admirably.” (John Howlett, History of Education, Vol. 47 (4), August, 2017)