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The first printing press in Ireland was established in 1551, [1] the first Irish-language book was printed in 1571 and Trinity College Dublin was established in 1592. [2] The Education Act 1695 prohibited Irish Catholics from running Catholic schools in Ireland or seeking a Catholic education abroad, until its repeal in 1782. [3]
Irish Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research devoted to the study of Ireland, History of Ireland. Geography of Ireland, Culture of Ireland, Literature of Ireland, Art of Ireland, Languages of Ireland, Politics of the Republic of Ireland, Politics of Northern Ireland and Irish people in Ireland and elsewhere.
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich (5 October 1856 – 1 July 1942; English: P.T. MacGinley), known as Cú Uladh (The Hound of Ulster), was an Irish language writer during the Gaelic revival. He wrote stories based on Irish folklore , some of the first Irish-language plays, and regular articles in most of the Irish language newspapers, such as An ...
"The Roman Catholic ethos of Irish secondary schools, 1924-62, and its implications for teaching and school organisation" Journal of Educational Administration and History, 22#2 (1990), pp 27–37. Raftery, Deirdre, and Susan M. Parkes, eds. Female Education in Ireland, 1700–1900: Minerva or Madonna (Irish Academic Press, 2007).
Gaelic or Irish, once the island's spoken language, declined in use sharply in the nineteenth century as a result of the Famine and the creation of the National School education system, as well as hostility to the language from leading Irish politicians of the time; it was largely replaced by English.
A Sound Atlas of Irish English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 171 pages + DVD. Hickey, Raymond 2003. Corpus Presenter. Software for language analysis. With a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 292 pages with CD-ROM. Hickey, Raymond 2002. A Source Book for Irish English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, xii ...
One enraged parent brought the book to the attention of Carol Nolan, a member of the Irish Parliament, who upon reading it, said: “How this trash and drivel ever made its way into a curriculum ...
Brian Friel's play Translations is set in a hedge school in 1833, and its subject is the defence of Irish culture against a dominant and aggressive British colonialism. William Makepeace Thackeray's Irish Sketch Books contain various references to hedge schools.