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Thomas Walsh; Noel Purdy – History of Education, 2025
A long tradition of both State and religious interest and support characterised provision for education on the island of Ireland from the 1700s. Following the partition of Ireland in the 1920s, the newly created political entities of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland forged separate and distinct education policy trajectories that largely…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational History, Public Officials, Religious Factors
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Walsh, John – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
This paper offers a historical perspective on government policies for the rationalisation of higher education (HE) in Ireland through a critical re-appraisal of the initiative for "merger" of Trinity College and University College Dublin. The initiative launched by Donogh O'Malley in 1967 was the first significant attempt by an Irish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Educational History, Clergy