Catholics of Consequence
Transnational Education, Social Mobility, and the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 June 2014
- ISBN 9780198707714
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 240x162x23 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black and white maps and illustrations 0
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Short description:
Based on comprehensive and new archival research at over a dozen schools across Ireland, Britain, and France, Catholics of Consequence traces the lives and education of over two thousand Irish children in the nineteenth century, examining how this affected Irish life, and the history of education
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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 time, the transnational education, careers, and lives of more than two thousand Irish boys and girls who attended Catholic schools in England, France, Belgium, and elsewhere in the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a long tradition of Irish Anglicans and Catholics sending their children abroad for the majority of their formative years. However, as the cultural nationalism of the Irish revival at the end of the nineteenth century took root, Irish Catholics who sent their children to school in Britain were accused of a pro-Britishness that crystallized into still recognisable terms of insult such as West Briton, Castle Catholic, Squireen, and Seoinin. This concept has an enduring resonance in Ireland, but very few publications have ever interrogated it.
Catholics of Consequence marks the first ever attempt to analyse the education and subsequent lives of the Irish children that received this type of transnational education. It also tells the story of elite education in Ireland, where schools such as Clongowes Wood and Castleknock College were rooted in the continental Catholic tradition, but also looked to public schools in England as exemplars. Taken together it tells the story of an Irish Catholic elite at once integrated and segregated within what was then the most powerful state in the world.
Catholics of Consequence is an interesting and thoughtful book, remote from the characteristic dullness of school histories. The author brings a reflective intelligence to his work, linking the detail of his subject to broader historical and cultural questions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I
An 'English Education': Irish Catholic Public Schools 1850-1900
Part II
'Surely Ireland is not Ceylon or Burma?' Irish boys at English Catholic Public Schools 1850-1900
Occupation, career, and afterlife: The measurable effect of an elite education
Part III
Fionnuala in France: Convent education and the Irish Catholic elite 1850-1900
The Fatted Geese? Irish boys at Continental colleges 1850-1900
Conclusion
