TY - BOOK AU - Mahon,M.Wade ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Informal Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland T2 - Global Histories of Education, SN - 9783031647994 AV - LA1-2396 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Education KW - History KW - Non-formal education KW - Education and state KW - Schools KW - History of Education KW - Informal Education KW - Educational Policy and Politics KW - School and Schooling N1 - 1. Introduction -- 2. Those Who Can’t Teach Write Dictionaries: Approaches to Reform, 1755-1758 -- 3. Competition in Print, 1759-1800 -- 4. Exploiting Print Resources: Samuel Whyte’s English Grammar School, 1759-1811 -- 5. Prospectuses, Poems, and Playbills: Establishing Social Networks -- 6. Reading and Speaking with Distinction: English at the Core -- 7. “Teaching English Grammatically” in Catholic Schools and Female Boarding Schools, 1782-1800 -- 8. The Professionalization of “Literary Teachers,” 1788-1800 -- 9. Conclusion: An Informal System of Education N2 - This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal reforms of Irish education that followed in the nineteenth century. Based on detailed evidence from newspaper advertisements, directories, educational prospectuses, textbooks, and other print documents from the period as well as previously unexamined manuscript resources, the author describes this system and how it functioned, emphasizing the transnational dimensions of print culture, English literature, and education reform UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64799-4 ER -