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Ascendancy Women and Elementary Education in Ireland: Educational Provision for Poor Children, 1788 - 1848

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This text outlines the lives of 6 female members of the Irish Ascendancy, and describes their involvement with educational provision for poor children in Ireland at the end of the long 18th century.

It argues that these women were moved by empathy and by a sense of duty, and that they were motivated by political considerations, pragmatism and, especially, religious belief.

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3319546392 / 9783319546391
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
30/06/2017
English
335 pages
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