How religion made its way into primary school system [IrishTimes]
- Published: 13 February 2010
The original primary school system was envisioned as being interdenominational, writes GARRET FITZGERALD
I INTEND to write next week about some of the issues recently raised in connection with religion and education. But I do not think these matters can be usefully debated without a clear understanding of the complex historical background to the present arrangements in relation to primary education.
This background includes radical changes made 40 years ago, of which most people seem unaware, which substituted a fully denominational structure for one that in the first 40 years of our State had remained de jure interdenominational – but in which, of course, the churches had from the 1830s been playing a significant role.
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