1st Edition

Education and Enmity (Routledge Revivals) The Control of Schooliing in Northern Ireland 1920-50

By Donald Akenson Copyright 1973
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1973 Professor Akenson’s book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government’s admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a non-sectarian school system in the early 1920s, the educational system was progressively manipulated by sectarianism. The way in which the author... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Life in a Northern Climate  3. The Londonderry Reforms , 1921-3  4. The Protestant Clergy Attack, 1923-5  5. Progress and Controversy, 1925-30  6. The Stranmillis Affray, 1930-2  7. Depression and Revitalisation, 1931-44  8. Not Peace, but the Sword, 1945-50  9. What Other Hope?

Biography

Donald Akenson