19th Century Ireland Research Paper

In the august of 1800 British administration in Dublin castle adopted a more interventionist policy in Ireland, intervention became more decisive and extensive in Ireland than Britain. Idea of centralised and impartial administrative ethos was applied early on which then established a centralist approach to tackling social problems and to the delivery of social policies in this country, an approach that has persisted to this day. By 1830s, Irish poverty was spreading into English cities where thousands were searching for work, most of whom were unskilled and illiterate. 10,000 Irishmen were found in Liverpool in 1834 (Jackson, 1963: 83), which is one of many cities the Irish entered.

In 1834, the new English poor law was passed, this was

There had been separate school systems with catholic and nationalist roots. In the 1770s presentation nuns in Cork and Edmund Rice (Later founded the Christian brothers) in Waterford in 1802 had started to freely educate poor children from Ireland. The national board of education was set up in 1831 and was supported by the state for primary schools. This provides a free education system to all religions. The schools began to divide along religious lines. Around 500,000 children were attending 4,321 schools in Ireland in 1849. From the 1870s the state began to support church run schools. Secondary schools were private up until The Intermediate Education Act, 1878, came into place, which funded schools depending on the results in public examinations. Some schools accepted children from poor homes at a low cost or nothing. The department of education developed a system for providing grants by the Irish Free State in 1922. This lays down the basic standards for a second level school. In 1967 free education came into Ireland. There was one university in Ireland in 1831, Trinity College Dublin. This was founded in 1591 and was protestant until 1873 when religious tests for entry stopped. In 1845, Queen’s colleges were founded in Belfast, Cork and Galway. In 1908, the National university of Ireland was founded. The Queens colleges changed their names to UCD, UCC and UCG apart from Belfast where the college kept its name. This greatly improved social policy in Ireland as people were educated and cared for.

Between 1903 and 1911, Jenny Wyse-Power was elected on the board of Poor Law guardians in cork. She also fought for equality for women in Ireland after the war of