Schooling in Ireland : a clustered history 1695-1912 lessons from Portarlington

Stocks Powell, John2020

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For over two hundred years small Portarlington experienced a clustering of schools: a local industry offering income from parents, employment and provisioning. French speaking schools, Latin homework under floorboards, pupils becoming famous, such as Edward Carson, Oscar Wilde’s court prosecutor, and bringing the country to civil war with his struggle for the British union: the Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor, trying to elope with his headmaster’s daughter. There’s the headmaster whose pupils were escorted away during the 1798 rebellion, and another headmaster who took his school away, in flight and fright during the Land League of the 1880s. Histories carry wider themes, such as: how long was childhood? How was the young brain filled? Textbooks, rules and rulers. What was the value on languages, Irish? English literature? French grammar? Could Huguenot dialects be teachable? Why did sport become so important? And the poor children; too much education to make them think, spinning wheels for those girls; whereas Mrs Despard’s borders not turned out to spin or cook, but to marry well.ington in County Laois, has been associated with a French speaking Huguenot colony, as nearby Mountmellick is with Quakers. These on-the-lip identities long used may diminish others. Setting the scene ---- Portarlington, the school host---- The school periods ----Lanugage issues in schools ----- For the love of Huguenots ----- Educational theories in Portarlington ---- Teacher behaviour ------Teacher politics -----Pupil behaviour ------Advertising -----Textbooks and readers ---- Relationships ----Finances and currency ---- County differences ----- Choronology of Portarlington schools ---- Schools' and teachers' names in alphabetical order