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Trinity College Dublin’s CAVE Research Centre and Marino Institute of Education are cordially inviting all to a symposium to mark the centenary of the publication of Public Notice No. 4 “Concerning the Teaching of Irish Language in the National Schools” on 1 February 1922. Effective as of St Patrick's Day of the same year, with this announcement the provisional government of the Free State placed the Irish language at the centre of their vision of education in the Free State. The subsequently published First National Programme for Primary Instruction further consolidated the centrality of Irish as well as the ‘Irish Outlook’ of education in the State, in line with the priorities of a government looking ahead to a postcolonial future.

To celebrate and reflect on the impact of this momentous change in Irish education, the symposium will explore all aspects of the place of the Irish language and an Irish ‘national’ outlook in education, training, and educational policy in Ireland in a broad sense.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Teresa O'DOHERTY (President of Marino Institute of Education), Schooling in the Gaeltacht 1922-2022

Prof. Muiris Ó LAOIRE (Munster Technological University), Ról na scoileanna san athneartú teanga: Féidearthachtaí agus dúshláin (The role of schools in language revitalisation: Opportunities and challenges) 

For queries about the symposium please contact Dr Nicole Volmering.