Ascendancy Women and Elementary: Education in Ireland Educational Provision for Poor Children, 1788 - 1848 By Eilís O'SullivanEnglish | PDF | 2017 | 344 Pages | ISBN : 3319546384 | 15.2 MB
This book outlines the lives of six female members of the Irish Ascendancy, and describes their involvement with educational provision for poor children in Ireland at the end of the long eighteenth 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.