Title: Catholics of consequence : transnational education, social mobility, and the Irish Catholic elite 1850-1900 /
Authors: O'Neill, Ciaran
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Catholic Church Education Ireland History; Upper class Ireland History; Upper class Ireland Social life and customs; Catholics Ireland Intellectual life.; Catholics Ireland History; Ireland Social conditions
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Introduction -- An 'English education' : Irish Catholic schools for boys 1850-1900 -- '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 -- Fionnuala in France : convent education and the Irish Catholic elite 1850-1900 -- The fatted geese? Irish boys at Continental colleges 1850-1900.