A Brave New Vision for Education in Ireland; the Dalkey School Project, 1974 to 1984

Áine Hyland

• 📅Tuesday, November 19, 2024
• 🕥10:30 – 12:30
• 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

This talk will provide an overview of the development of primary education in Dalkey, Co. Dublin over the past 200 years. It will focus in particular on the Dalkey School Project, which opened in 1978 and was the first multi-denominational national school under lay patronage in Ireland since the foundation of the State in 1922. The talk will document the challenges faced by the school founders in convincing government to recognise and fund the school on the same basis as they funded schools owned and run by the churches.

Áine Hyland, Ph.D., D.Litt., D.Sc., M.R.I.A., is Emeritus Professor of Education and former vice-president of University College Cork. She was a founder member of the Dalkey School Project and has recently published a book on the early years of the project – “A Brave new Vision for Education in Ireland: the Dalkey School Project 1974 to 1984”. She has been a member of government committees and boards relating to education in Ireland and internationally, and has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates in recognition of her contribution to Irish education. She was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.