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Ireland's main Muslim representative bodies, have praised the Irish education sector and catholic run schools for being accommodating to the needs of pupils from their community. [ 18 ] Reforms in recent years, including an increase in the number of schools with multi- and non-denominational patrons, has meant that the number of Roman Catholic ...
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]
His major ministerial achievement was the Vocational Education Act 1930. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He served on the Irish delegation to the League of Nations , in 1924 and from 1928 to 1930. He was re-elected at every election until 1943 when he lost his Dáil seat. [ 4 ]
A minimum of six subjects are examined, including compulsory Irish. Exemption from the mandatory study of the Irish language is described in Circular M10/94 (Department of Education, Ireland, 1994) and the exemption can be acquired because of time spent living abroad or a learning disability such as dyslexia.
2 April – First meeting of the Irish Folklore Commission, set up by the government under the direction of Séamus Ó Duilearga to study and collect information on folklore and traditions. [ 7 ] 12 August – Seán O'Casey 's play The Silver Tassie , set in World War I and premièred in 1929 in London, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre ...
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland. See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland, alongside Irish heads of state, and the list of years in Ireland
John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London. [ 1 ] 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant.
Between the years 1932 and 1936 a team of American academics from Harvard University, Massachusetts, led by Earnest Hooton [1] conducted a pioneering anthropological study of Ireland, north and south, which was called the Harvard Irish Mission. The Mission comprised three strands; social anthropology, physical anthropology and archaeology. The ...