The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a b

Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single

The chapters in this book offer a range of impressive new studies on the history of education in Ireland, based on detailed research and drawing on important so

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

Fully revised and updated with over 100 beautiful maps, charts and graphs, and a narrative packed with facts this outstanding book examines the main changes tha