Irish Speakers And Schooling In The Gaeltacht 1900 To The Present

Author : Tom O'Donoghue,Teresa O'Doherty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030260217

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Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present by Tom O'Donoghue,Teresa O'Doherty Pdf

This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day. While Irish was once the most common language spoken in Ireland, by 1900 the areas in which native speakers of Irish were located contracted to such an extent that they became clearly identifiable from the majority English-speaking parts. In the mid-1920s, the new Irish Free State outlined the broad parameters of the boundaries of these areas under the title of ‘the Gaeltacht’. This book is concerned with the schooling of children there. The Irish Free State, from its establishment in 1922, eulogized the people of the Gaeltacht, maintaining they were pious, heroic and holders of the characteristics of an invented ancient Irish race. Simultaneously, successive governments did very little to try to regenerate the Gaeltacht or to ensure Gaeltacht children would enjoy equality of education opportunity. Furthermore, children in the Gaeltacht had to follow the same primary school curriculum as was prescribed for the majority English speaking population. The central theme elaborated on throughout the book is that this schooling was one of a number of forces that served to maintain the people of the Gaeltacht in a marginalized position in Irish society.

Author : Teresa O'Doherty,Tom O'Donoghue
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030742829

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Radical Reform in Irish Schools, 1900-1922 by Teresa O'Doherty,Tom O'Donoghue Pdf

This book examines the radical reform that occurred during the final two decades of British rule in Ireland when William Starkie (1860–1920) presided as Resident Commissioner for the Board. Following the lead of industrialized nations, Irish members of parliament sought to encourage the establishment of a state-funded school system during the early nineteenth century. The year 1831 saw the creation of the Irish National School System. Central to its workings was the National Board of Education which had the responsibility for distributing government funds to aid in the building of schools, the payment of inspectors and teachers, the publication of textbooks, and the cost of teacher training. In the midst of radical political and cultural change within Ireland, visionaries and leaders like Starkie filled an indispensable role in Irish education. They oversaw the introduction of a radical child-centered primary school curriculum, often referred to as the ‘new education’. Filling a gap in Irish history, this book provides a much needed overview of the changes that occurred in primary education during the 22 years leading up to Ireland’s independence.

Author : Jasone Cenoz,Durk Gorter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003817277

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The Minority Language as a Second Language by Jasone Cenoz,Durk Gorter Pdf

This innovative collection is the first of its kind to showcase global perspectives on learning minority languages as second languages, offering unique insights into their acquisition and specific characteristics and raising greater awareness around other languages and contexts where SLA occurs. The volume examines how minority languages are acquired as second languages across a range of geographic settings where these languages are unique minorities; that is, they are spoken in one or more states where they have a minority status. International case studies explore particular features of these languages as well as the challenges of teaching and learning them, including standardization, legal recognition at all educational levels, the dissemination of printed and digital materials and more or less limited language use in the local community. Highlighted languages include Ashaninka, Basque, Frisian, Hawaiian, Irish, Isthmus Zapotec, Quechua Chanka, Tonga and Welsh. Each chapter adopts a consistent structure, with a brief introduction to the sociolinguistic landscape, followed by sections on language use in education, research studies, reflections and discussions related to the learning of minority languages as second languages and the implication of these processes for the revitalization of minority languages. Breaking new ground in second language acquisition research, this book is an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in SLA, multilingual education, bilingualism and sociolinguistics.

Author : Tom O'Donoghue,Judith Harford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192654885

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Piety and Privilege by Tom O'Donoghue,Judith Harford Pdf

For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their children to Catholic schools and be able to do so without suffering undue financial disadvantage. Thus, from the Pope down, the Church expressed deep opposition to increasing state intervention in schooling, especially during the nineteenth century. By the end of the 1920s however, it was satisfied with the school system in only a small number of countries. Ireland was one of those. There, the majority of primary and secondary schools were Catholic schools. The State left their management in the hands of clerics while simultaneously accepting financial responsibility for maintenance and teachers' salaries. During the period 1922-1967, the Church, unhindered by the State, promoted within the schools' practices aimed at 'the salvation of souls' and at the reproduction of a loyal middle class and clerics. The State supported that arrangement with the Church also acting on its behalf in aiming to produce a literate and numerate citizenry, in pursuing nation building, and in ensuring the preparation of an adequate number of secondary school graduates to address the needs of the public service and the professions. All of that took place at a financial cost much lower than the provision of a totally State-funded system of schooling would have entailed. Piety and Privilege seeks to understand the dynamic between Church and State through the lens of the twentieth century Irish education system.

Author : Silvia Schilling
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668886094

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The Irish Language in Ireland by Silvia Schilling Pdf

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University College Dublin, course: Seminar: Minority and Endangered Languages, language: English, abstract: This essay discusses the ways in which the Irish Government attempts to revitalize the Irish language. Even though Irish is technically the first official language of the Republic of Ireland, it is a minority language, while Engish (the second official language) is spoken by the majority. The essay gives a short historical overview and analyzes revival strategies, for example within the educational system of Ireland.

Author : Tom O’Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527575110

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In History and Education, from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean by Tom O’Donoghue Pdf

In this auto-ethnography, which is a contribution to a form of writing only recently adopted by historians, the author provides an exposition of how, since 1957, he has been located in education currents flowing through various exotic lands. He addresses how, in participating in that flow, he has been influenced by historical events in which he participated, along with broader societal events reaching back over 150 years. As such, this book is illuminative on education developments in education in Ireland and internationally over the last 70 years in relation to a longer time-scale. It commences with an account of the author’s early life and schooling in County Waterford, Ireland, addresses his undergraduate years in London and Limerick, and reflects on 13 years of school teaching and studying for postgraduate degrees at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. An account of the author’s life and academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Malaysia then follows.

Author : Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education, Bilingual
ISBN : OSU:32435068877729

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Compulsory Irish by Adrian Kelly Pdf

"Apart from highlighting the clash between the demands of nationalism and the role of the education system, the volume shows how criticism of the compulsory Irish policy was stifled; the resultant effect on the education system and the levels of attainment of pupils; and the attempts to apply compulsion more widely, including in competitions for public sector employment. In assessing the long-term costs of the strategy, both social and economic, Adrian Kelly illustrates the dangers in allowing ideology to win over pragmatism in the formulation of policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Colmán Ó Huallacháin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ireland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008649308

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The Irish Language in Society by Colmán Ó Huallacháin Pdf

Author : Ciarán Mac Murchaidh
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114907053

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Who Needs Irish? by Ciarán Mac Murchaidh Pdf

Author : Pádraig Ó Riagáin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191583773

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Language Policy and Social Reproduction by Pádraig Ó Riagáin Pdf

During the nineteenth century Irish-speaking communities declined almost to the point of extinction. But in 1922 the new Irish state launched a broad strategy to re-establish Irish as a national language. This book is about that policy and its impact over the last seventy years. Ó Riagáin focuses on the evolving structure of bilingualism in Ireland but he is more centrally concerned with the process of bilingual reproduction. His analysis is based on a series of language surveys conducted between 1973 and 1993. In Part I he reviews the evolution of language policy and the main theoretical perspectives emerging in Irish research. In Part II he is concerned with the position of the Irish language in the residual Irish-speaking areas, and in Part III with the present position of the Irish language in the English-speaking areas. He examines the role of policy in education, in the public sector, and in the forming of Irish-speaking networks. He argues that the various dimensions of Irish language policy have been heavily conditioned by the way the Irish economy and, in turn, Irish society has developed since independence. He concludes in Part IV with a discussion of current issues within Irish language policy.

Author : Caoilfhionn Nic Phaidin
Publisher : Cois Life
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781908057785

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New View of the Irish Language by Caoilfhionn Nic Phaidin Pdf

The 1871 census came to the stark conclusion that 'within relatively few years' Irish would cease to exist. Yet, over a century later, Irish became the twenty-third officially recognized language of the European Union in 2007. To believe the census returns of recent years, Irish is in a state of rude health. But is this true when half a million people claim to speak Irish, but seldom actually speak it? In the traditional Gaeltacht areas, Irish is in peril - whilst it flourishes in Gaelscoileanna, in urban areas and in cyberspace. What do these dramatic shifts mean for the language's future?A New View of the Irish Language covers issues such as language and national identity; the impact of emigration and immigration; music, literature and the media; the importance of place-names; teaching and learning Irish; attitudes towards Irish; and the state of the Gaeltacht - and probes beyond the statistics and rhetoric to explore the true situation of Irish in the contemporary world.Contributors: Ruair hUiginn, Pdraig Riagin, Liam Mac Mathna, Mirn Nic Eoin, Liam Muirthile, Gearid Tuathaigh, John Harris, Breandn Delap, Conchr Giollagin & Seosamh Mac Donnacha, Caoilfhionn Nic Phidn, Pdraig Laighin, Lillis Laoire, Anna N Ghallachair, Ciarn Mac Murchaidh, Brian Conchubhair, Aidan Doyle, Aidan Punch, Suzanne Romaine, Dnall Mac Giolla Easpaig and Iarfhlaith Watson.

Author : Fionntán De Brún
Publisher : Four Courts Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Irish language
ISBN : UCSC:32106018728029

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Belfast and the Irish Language by Fionntán De Brún Pdf

This collection of essays explores Belfast's relationship with the Irish language from its earliest roots through to the cultural pioneers of the 19th-century revival, the urban Gaeltacht of the 1960s, the Belfast of the Good Friday Agreement and beyond. Contents: Ciaran Carson (QUB) Belfast and the Irish language; Pat McKay (QUB) The place-names of Belfast; A.J. Hughes (UU) Robert MacAdam & the 19th-century Gaelic revival; Fionntan de Brun (St Mary's U College) The Fadgies: an 'Irish-speaking colony' in 19th-century Belfast; Aodhan Mac Poilin (Iontaobhas Ultach/Ultach Trust) The Irish language revival in Belfast, 1900-1960; Gabrielle Nig Uidhir (St Mary's U College) Shaws Road urban Gaeltacht; Gordon McCoy (Iontaobhas Ultach) Protestants and the Irish language; Sean Mac Corraidh (Belfast Education and Library Board) Irishmedium education; Sean Misteil (Mitchell Kane Assoc.) Belfast's new Gaeltacht quarter

Author : B. Titley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773585034

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Church, State, and the Control of Schooling in Ireland 1900-1944 by B. Titley Pdf

In the final two decades of British rule in Ireland the Roman Catholic Church saw its pre-eminent role in the control of schooling threatened by the secularist and democratic reforms of the imperial administration. Consequently, the Catholic bishops increasingly viewed the success of the nationalist movement as the best guarantee of the continuation of the educational status quo. The nationalist alliance proved a key element in obstructing proposed reforms in the pre-independence period - a period characterized by church-state hostility. In this volume Dr Titley examines the institutional continuity of the Irish school system, focusing on the role of the church as educational power broker. He shows how, in the congenial atmosphere of the new Irish state, the secular and ecclesiastical authorities shared the same educational philosophy and view of the role of religion in the schools. He argues that the church jealously guarded its educational hegemony because of the important role played by the schools in producing candidates for the religious life and an unquestioning middle class. Dr Titley also suggests that the failure of the secularist ideology to make headway in education proves that the Irish revolution was, in reality, a conservative reaction which insulated the country from modernizing influences. This volume is an important contribution to educational theory and to the cultural history of modern Ireland.

Author : J. Wesley Null
Publisher : IAP
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617351037

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American Educational History by J. Wesley Null Pdf

The American Educational History Journal is a peer?reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds. Authors come from a variety of disciplines including political science, curriculum, history, philosophy, teacher education, and educational leadership. Acceptance for publication in AEHJ requires that each author present a well?articulated argument that deals substantively with questions of educational history.

Author : Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847690289

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Language Planning and Policy in Europe by Robert B. Kaplan,Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. Pdf

This volume covers the language situation in the Baltic States, Ireland and Italy explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation - including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages.