Our national system in Ireland has been productive of great good. I would extend its advantages by increasing its funds, and by constantly widening its sphere of influence. No limit in these respects should be put to ...

The plan, introduced this time twelve-months, of applying to the management of the Barrington Lecture Trust Fund the change which had been previously applied to the public funds given towards scientific instruction in the ...

As I withdrew a Poor-law paper on the list to make way for Miss Smedley's paper, I wish to give only so much of the statistics as bears on the points raised by Mrs. O'Connell's and Miss Smedley's papers.

On the 5th March, 1875, Mr. Charles Henry Meldon, M.P. for Kildare, delivered a speech in the House of Commons which contains most valuable information regarding the then position of the Irish National School teachers. The ...

The invention of the steam engine and the widespread use of machinery m the rapidly growing manufacturing industries of the last century created the demand for a new form of training for those whose business it was to ...

Pinel, who, in 1792, did so much to advance the disuse of mechanical restraint, and the substitution in its stead of moral influence and of kindness, has, with other valuable principles enunciated by him in reference to ...

This paper forms part of a study undertaken to ascertain the social background of the students in the Irish universities, to assess the factors which determine their entry to the university and the influences at work in ...

In Great Britain, at the beginning of this century, it was felt that, as a natural corollary of the greatly increased public expenditure on education, provision should be made for young people and their parents to receive ...

It would be needless to point out the advantages of, or the necessity for, educating the great masses; and knowing, as I do, that there are amongst our members many men who, from their position as directors of railway ...