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• In the 1960’s the Irish educational system underwent a series of reforms. ... Discuss + explain the effects, if any, of these reforms on class inequalities. ... However at this time the Irish state was still struggling to survive economically. ...
That is not to say that there had not been any educational reforms during the governments of Eamonn de Valera. However the reforms introduced in this period were purely political, the major focus being on the revival and instigation of the Irish language. This was to be enforced if necessary at the expense of other educational goals. By the emergency a combination of frustration and underpayment had turned Ireland’s teachers into a disaffected group who in March 1946 after failed negations over its pay claim had dragged on for over a year took strike action. ... J Haughey, Donagh O Malley, Patrick Hillary and Jack Lynch began to introduce to the country a series of social reforms which would continue on for the next forty years to change the inequalities of Irish society forever. The most long term and influential of these reforms was that of the education system, previously referred to in Irish history as the murder machine (O’ Leary, 2000). ... I mean their education system” (Pearse, 1916: The Murder Machine).
Traditionally the Irish post of minister for education had been a political dead end. ...
The principle objective of education was to be the religious, moral and cultural education of the child – the relation of socio-economic background to educational attainment and the relation between education and subsequent opportunities – were largely ignored (Tobin, 1996: 168).
Two months later another team was appointed to investigate the state of Irish education. ... The report was utilitarian in its approach and defined the central problem facing an education system wishing to promote economic development as the “need to increase and broaden participation in post primary education, in respect of social backgrounds” (Tobin, 1996: 169). It bluntly analyzed the existing system and identified the areas where charge was required if the social and economic objectives of education were to be achieved.
Approximate Word count = 1667
Approximate Pages = 6.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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