For as far back as school registers can take us, the most prestigious education available to
any Irish child was to be found outside Ireland. Catholics of Consequence traces, for the first …

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics Orality in
Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in …

Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of
mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses …

My mother had serious illnesses for nearly a year and I nursed her and when she recovered
to some extent (always an invalid) I decided to take up medicine–the school of the College …

While we were studying the process of the feminization of the teaching profession in
Belgium in the 19th and 20th centuries as part of a research project of the Flemish teachers' …

The story of how this book came to be compiled is, for me, the book's editor, necessarily
personal; it involves many people (some of whom I will name, some of whom I won't), and …

A contemporary snapshot of Irish education, this book positions 21st-century Irish education
at the centre of the creation of the knowledge economy and outlines the challenges and …

The first biographical study of Nano Nagle, the foundress of he Presentation order of nuns,
that positions her within Irish social history, and assesses her vast international legacy …

This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period
1840–1940. Ireland sent thousands of nuns overseas as teachers and missionaries, to work …

Education for Irish women and girls developed significantly in the period 1830–1910. During
this time, formal state‐funded education systems were established in Ireland by the British …