It is perilous to be a Catholic in the Ireland of 1735, and almost more than can be borne for fifteen-year-old Padraic Fitzbrian. Nearly 100 years before, Lord

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This volume focuses on the creation, structure and evolution of the Irish national system of education. It illustrates how the system was shaped by the religiou

This study analyses the relationship between education and social change in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book details how Irish so