Piety and Privilege: Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and the Theocratic State, 1922-1967

by Tom O'Donoghue and Judith Harford

For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their children to Catholic schools and be able to do so without suffering undue financial disadvantage. Thus, from the Pope down, the Church expressed deep opposition to increasing state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192843168
• ISBN13: 9780192843166
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"