Schooling in Ireland, A Clustered History 1695-1912
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Schooling in Ireland: a clustered history 1695-1912, by John Stocks Powell
Some locations are associated by attractions such as Blarney for its castle; or a trade and manufacture,
as Belfast was for shipbuilding, and Kinsale is now for restaurants and gourmets. Portarlington in
County Laois, has been associated with a French speaking Huguenot colony, as nearby Mountmellick
is with Quakers. These on-the-lip identities long used may diminish others. For over two hundred
years small Portarlington experienced a clustering of schools: a local industry offering income from
parents, employment and provisioning.
French speaking schools, Latin homework under floorboards, pupils becoming famous, such as
Edward Carson, Oscar Wilde’s court prosecutor, and bringing the country to civil war with his
struggle for the British union: the Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor, trying to elope with his
headmaster’s daughter. There’s the headmaster whose pupils were escorted away during the 1798
rebellion, and another headmaster who took his school away, in flight and fright during the Land
League of the 1880s.
Histories carry wider themes, such as: how long was childhood? How was the young brain filled?
Textbooks, rules and rulers. What was the value on languages, Irish? English literature? French
grammar? Could Huguenot dialects be teachable? Why did sport become so important? And the
poor children; too much education to make them think, spinning wheels for those girls; whereas Mrs
Despard’s borders not turned out to spin or cook, but to marry well.
In a small town the encompassing of education in its failures, triumphs, hierarchies and finances, the
ideas and faces of childhood are revealed.
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Schooling in Ireland: a clustered history 1695-1912, by John Stocks Powell
Some locations are associated by attractions such as Blarney for its castle; or a trade and manufacture,
as Belfast was for shipbuilding, and Kinsale is now for restaurants and gourmets. Portarlington in
County Laois, has been associated with a French speaking Huguenot colony, as nearby Mountmellick
is with Quakers. These on-the-lip identities long used may diminish others. For over two hundred
years small Portarlington experienced a clustering of schools: a local industry offering income from
parents, employment and provisioning.
French speaking schools, Latin homework under floorboards, pupils becoming famous, such as
Edward Carson, Oscar Wilde’s court prosecutor, and bringing the country to civil war with his
struggle for the British union: the Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor, trying to elope with his
headmaster’s daughter. There’s the headmaster whose pupils were escorted away during the 1798
rebellion, and another headmaster who took his school away, in flight and fright during the Land
League of the 1880s.
Histories carry wider themes, such as: how long was childhood? How was the young brain filled?
Textbooks, rules and rulers. What was the value on languages, Irish? English literature? French
grammar? Could Huguenot dialects be teachable? Why did sport become so important? And the
poor children; too much education to make them think, spinning wheels for those girls; whereas Mrs
Despard’s borders not turned out to spin or cook, but to marry well.
In a small town the encompassing of education in its failures, triumphs, hierarchies and finances, the
ideas and faces of childhood are revealed.
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