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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 Education, History and Structure (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1981). Dowling, Patrick J. A history of Irish education: a study in conflicting loyalties (Cork, 1971). Dowling, Patrick J. The Hedge Schools of Ireland (1998). Farren, Sean. The politics of Irish education 1920-65 (Belfast, 1995).
National schools, established by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland government, post the Stanley Letter of 1831, and were intended to be multi-denominational. [2] [6] The schools were controlled by a state body, the National Board of Education, with a six-member board consisting of two Roman Catholics, two Church of Ireland, and two Presbyterians.
History of education in Ireland (until 1922) This page was last edited on 22 January 2024, at 12:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Commissioners of Education in Ireland (Endowed Schools). The Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools. The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland (business and functions relating to Technical Instruction only). The College of Science. The Geological Survey in Ireland. The National Museum of Science and Art ...
The laws were intended to force Irish Catholics of all classes to convert to the Protestant Church of Ireland if they wanted a decent education. Historians agree that the hedge schools provided education, occasionally at a very high level, for up to 400,000 students by the mid-1820s. J. R. R.
A Vocational Education Committee (VEC) (Irish: Coiste Gairmoideachais) was a statutory local education body in Ireland that administered some secondary education, most adult education and a very small amount of primary education in the state.
The Irish universities include the University of Dublin, better known by the name of its sole college, Trinity College Dublin, the four constituent universities of the National University of Ireland, two universities established in 1989, five technological universities formed by the amalgamation of Institutes of Technology and a professional medical institution.