Irish in Outlook

Nicole Volmering is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History and PI of the SFI-IRC-funded Early Irish Hands: The Development of Writing in Early Ireland.Claire M. Dunne is Head of the Department of English and the Department of Irish in Marino Institute of Education.John Walsh is Ussher Assistant Professor in Higher Education and co-ordinator of the Diploma/M.Ed in Higher Education at Trinity College Dublin.Noel Ó Murchadha is Associate Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin.

• Contents: Tracey Ní Mhaonaigh: Solas sa Dorchadas: An tAthair Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh agus Coláiste Phádraig, Maigh Nuad – Claire M. Dunne: Remembering, Misremembering and Forgetting: The Early Periods in the Teaching of Irish – Muiris Ó Laoire: Ról an Oideachais san Athneartú Teanga: Súil Siar, Féidearthachtaí agus Dúshláin Reatha – Áine Hyland: Buntús Gaeilge (1966) and Its Aftermath – Neasa Ní Chiaráin: An Scéalaí: Foghlaim (Ríomhchuidithe) na Gaeilge – Tom Walsh: From Subordinate to Pre-eminent: Irish Language Curriculum Policy for Primary Schools in the 1920s – John Walsh: The Foundation of the Preparatory Colleges and Their Ideological Mission in the Irish Free State, 1922–1937 – Kerron Ó Luain: ‘Ar aon chéim le aon phobal fud fad na tíre, fud fad an domhain’: The Gaelscoil Movement during the Late Twentieth Century and Implicit/ Explicit Decolonial Ideology – Colm Mac Gearailt: The Purpose of Irish History in Secondary Schools, 1924–1969 – Gearóidín Uí Laighléis: A Great Dearth of Irish Books and How An Gúm Bridged the Gap – Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn: Comhaid an Ghúim agus na hAistriúcháin don Aos Óg, 1926–1951 – Nicole Volmering: Gaelicisation, Education, and the cló Gaelach.