Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present

Tom O’Donoghue is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia, Australia, and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, Australia, and of the Royal Historical Society, UK.Teresa O’Doherty is President of the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin, Ireland. Her most recent book is Teacher Education in Ireland: History, Policy and Future Directions (co-authored, 2017).

• Prologue.- Chapter One - The Gaeltacht: Constructed, Located and Promoted.- Chapter Two - Education and the Irish Language in the Longue Durée.- Chapter Three - 'Saving the Child': The Gaelic League’s Campaign for Bilingual Education in Irish Speaking Districts.- Chapter Four - Shifting From ‘Saving the Child’ To Concern About ‘Saving the Language’, 1918-1926.- Chapter Five - Schooling of Students from the Gaeltacht and the National Policy of ‘Saving of the Language’ through All Primary Schools, 1922-1965.- Chapter Six - Marginalized Amongst the Marginalized: An Overview of Schooling in the Gaeltacht up to the Mid 1960s.- Chapter Seven - ‘You Don’t Want to be a Gaelic Dafty in This Town’: Memories of Gaeltacht Residents on their Schooling.- Chapter Eight - From Cultural Nationalism to Human Capital Production: Schooling in the Gaeltacht in a Changing Ireland, 1967-1988.- Chapter Nine - A New Multilingual Ireland and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1998 to the Present.- Chapter Ten - Looking Backwards.