St Enda's Presentation

St Enda's School 1910 prospectus.

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Pdraig Mac Piarais(Patrick PEARSE)

1879 : born in Dublin (Irish mother and English father)

1893: began to study Irish - an optional subject.

1896: pupil-teacher at Westland RowEstablished, with others, the New Ireland Literary Society which held

discussions and lectures on subjects relating to Irish literature.Involvement in the Gaelic League.

1901 : B.A. in Modern Languages (Irish, English, and French)Taught Irish.

1903 : elected editor of An Claidheamh Soluis.

1908 : St Enda's school

1910 : St Ita's school

1916 : killed after the Easter Rising.

Schools and Irish

1831: National Schools (language of instruction = English)

1878: 'Celtic' accepted as a recognised subject for examination by the Intermediate Schools.

1879: permission to teach Irish in primary schools, outside school hours.

1900: Irish allowed as a full primary school subject within school hours.

1904: established as the main medium of primary teaching in the Irish-speaking districts.

1908 : Irish is a required subject for matriculation

PEARSE and St Enda's (Sgoil anna)

The name: St Enda of Aran

quit his warring activities and devoted himself to christianity

PEARSE and St Enda's (Sgoil anna)

Feeling that there was a lack of suitable teaching material in Irish Wrote a course (An Sgoil) in 1907-1908.

Opened St Enda's (in Ranelagh) in 1908. A bilingual secondary school for boys.

Motive to found the school:

a great love of boys [] with a desire, born of that love, to help as many boys as possible to become good men.

a school which should aim at the making of good men rather than of learned men.

you cannot make an Irish boy a good Englishman my definition of learning, as applied to an Irishman, included Irish learning as its basis and fundament

For want of proper education, people in their country had forgotten that they had a country but men like Patrick PEARSE and schools like St Enda's are bringing back again the consciousness of belonging to a nation.

_ Douglas HYDE, 1914

St Enda's locations

1908 schoolCullen...., Ranelagh

1910 schoolThe Hermitage, Rathfarnham

St Enda's ~ Rathfarnham

Irish speaking parts

1871

1893: 500,000 native Itrish-speakers.

1801: 50% of the population

monolingually Irish speaking.

1851: 5% monolingually Irish speaking

and > 25% of Irish people could

even speak the language

1901: 0,5% monolingually Irish speaking

and 14% could speak it.

The document

Sgoil Eanna

prospectus

(1910)

Outline

The presentation will deal with

St Enda's as the embodiment of the main pillars of the Gaelic revival at the beginning of the 20th century in Ireland.

Gaelic revival Preserve Irish language and Irish identity.

Glorify Nature and the past.

Through : Language and literacy History, culture, folklore Sport and games

education

PEARSE rhetoric and ideology.

providing a secondary education distinctively Irish in complexion, bilingual in method, and of a high modern type generally, for Irish Catholic boys.

The central purpose of the School is [] the training up of those entrusted to its care to be strong and noble and useful men.

The first care of St Enda's is to provide a proper religious and moral training for its pupils. The school staff direct earnest efforts towards the awakening of a spirit of patriotism and the formation of a sense of civic and social duty.

In the general curriculum the first place is accorded to the Irish language. Irish is established as the official language of the School.

All teaching other than language teaching is as far as possible bilingual - [] each subject is taught both in Irish and in English.

School Buildings, etc.

The Ossianic Society: Irish literary society founded in Dublin in 1853.

The Celtic Society, or Irish Historical and Literary Association.

Sources: Wikipedia and http://www.jstor.org/stable/25554932?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

School Buildings, etc.

romantically situated

in a purely Irish-speaking atmosphere and amid the finest scenery of the West

[The Gael] loves nature not merely as something grand, and beautiful and wonderful, but as something possessing a mystic connection with and an influence over man.

_ P.P, 'The Intellectual Future of the Gael', 1897.

St Enda's

Language and literature.

St Enda's

History.

The study of History, especially of Irish History, forms and important part of the curriculum. [] from the first the pupils' attention is concentrated on their own land. [] it is sought to instil into the minds of the pupils an intimate and lively love of their father-land.

History

You need not praise the Irish language simply speak it; you need not denounce English games play Irish ones; you need not ignore foreign history, foreign literatures deal with them from the Irish point of view.

_ Patrick PEARSE in An Macaomh

St Enda's

Sport.

Sports and games are intimately bound up with community structure, culture and ritual.

The use of Gaelic sport as an antidote to English cultural influences was first suggested by the Young Ireland movement.

SUGDEN and BAIRNER, Sport, Sectarianism and Society in a Divided Ireland, Leicester University Press

The people of Ireland developed a series of pastimes which are distinctively Gaelic in nature and which are a ritualistic celebration of that particular culture.

St Enda's

Culture, folklore and Nature.

Traditional instruments,

singing in Irish

Collecting artifacts and elements

related to history and nature

Culture, folklore and Nature.

Importance accorded to Nature and being outdoor.

Bibliography and Webography

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/pearse.html

http://www.hallamor.org/1908-patrick-pearse-opens-st-ednas-school-for-boys/

http://source.southdublinlibraries.ie/handle/10599/8959

http://www.nli.ie/1916/pdf/4.4.pdf

http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Ireland-speak-English-and-not-Irish

http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=856

BRENNAN, Paul, Civilisation irlandaise, Hachette MAC DONAGH, Oliver, States of Mind, George Allen and Unwin. http://www.nli.ie/1916/pdf/4.4.pdf (extracts from Saint Enda's School

Magazine, An Macaomh)

Mise Eire (I am Ireland)

I am Ireland:I am older than the Old Woman of Beare.

Great my glory:I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant.

Great my shame:My own children that sold their mother.

I am Ireland:I am lonelier than the Old Woman of Beare.

1912

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