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Kildare Place Society
Kildare Place Society. Encouraged by the success of Sunday and day schools on the English model in several Dublin parishes of the Church of Ireland, a group of philanthropic businessmen and lawyers, Quakers prominent among them, sought to widen the scope of their work by founding (1811) the Society for the Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland. Consistent with government policy to assist with the provision of popular, non‐sectarian, education in Ireland, the society quickly attracted state funding. Applying the methods of Joseph Lancaster, the English educationist, it pioneered the monitorial system and soon had an ambitious programme of teacher‐training, publishing, and inspection, based on its headquarters in Kildare Place, Dublin.
Initially supported by some prominent Catholics, including Daniel O'Connell, the society came under increasing criticism from the Roman Catholic church, which found unacceptable its key principle that the Bible should be read by all children together ‘without note or comment’. This, together with evidence both of direct proselytism in some schools and of financial assistance by the society to the schools of openly proselytizing societies (see second reformation), brought Catholic opposition and government disenchantment to a head. From 1831 state support was diverted from such voluntary bodies to the national schools. Kenneth Milne |
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"Kildare Place Society." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Kildare Place Society." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-KildarePlaceSociety.html "Kildare Place Society." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-KildarePlaceSociety.html |
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Kildare Place Society
Kildare Place Society. The society for promoting the education of the poor in Ireland (commonly known as the Kildare Place Society) was founded in 1811, pledged to avoid sectarian distinctions. It was given a substantial parliamentary grant. Harmony did not last long. By 1820 O'Connell and the catholics, complaining that the society proselytized for protestants, withdrew from membership. It was replaced in 1831 by a national education system, also devised to be non-sectarian, and also denounced by both sides.
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JOHN CANNON. "Kildare Place Society." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Kildare Place Society." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-KildarePlaceSociety.html JOHN CANNON. "Kildare Place Society." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-KildarePlaceSociety.html |
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