Full Description
This volume marks the 2022 centenary of the first National Programme for Education in the Free State. Central to the outlook of the new educational programme was the position of the Irish language as a marker of Irish national identity and culture. Education was to be the means to revitalise the language and cultural nationalism eroded through years of Anglicisation. This principal aim had far-reaching consequences for the shape of the education system, its educational programme, and for the survival of Irish into the twenty-first century.
This collection of essays explores the centrality of the Irish language and the desired «Irish outlook» in education, touching on key developments within Irish language education, educational policy and the role of Irish in society over the past hundred years.
Contents
Contents: Tracey Ní Mhaonaigh: Solas sa Dorchadas: An tAthair Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh agus Coláiste Phádraig, Maigh Nuad - Claire M. Dunne: Remembering, Misremembering and Forgetting: The Early Periods in the Teaching of Irish - Muiris Ó Laoire: Ról an Oideachais san Athneartú Teanga: Súil Siar, Féidearthachtaí agus Dúshláin Reatha - Áine Hyland: Buntús Gaeilge (1966) and Its Aftermath - Neasa Ní Chiaráin: An Scéalaí: Foghlaim (Ríomhchuidithe) na Gaeilge - Tom Walsh: From Subordinate to Pre-eminent: Irish Language Curriculum Policy for Primary Schools in the 1920s - John Walsh: The Foundation of the Preparatory Colleges and Their Ideological Mission in the Irish Free State, 1922-1937 - Kerron Ó Luain: 'Ar aon chéim le aon phobal fud fad na tíre, fud fad an domhain': The Gaelscoil Movement during the Late Twentieth Century and Implicit/ Explicit Decolonial Ideology - Colm Mac Gearailt: The Purpose of Irish History in Secondary Schools, 1924-1969 - Gearóidín Uí Laighléis: A Great Dearth of Irish Books and How An Gúm Bridged the Gap - Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn: Comhaid an Ghúim agus na hAistriúcháin don Aos Óg, 1926-1951 - Nicole Volmering: Gaelicisation, Education, and the cló Gaelach.
