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What Was It Like for Children at School in 1916? IRELAND IN 1916 IRELAND IN 1916 DISCOVER Children in Dublin collecting firewood from the ruined buildings damaged in the Easter Rising. GETTY IMAGES A barefooted boy with the crowds attending an inquest into the shooting in July 1914 at Bachelor’s Walk by the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, where three people were killed and thirty injured. GETTY IMAGES What was life like in the Ireland of 1916? What was it like RELAND was a nation divided in I1916, with nationalists preparing for rebellion at a time when tens of thousands of Irishmen had joined the British Army and set sail for Europe to fight for the king. Dublin was considered the second city for children at of the British Empire after London, but many people were struggling to survive. Professionals, civil servants and the rich were abandoning the grand Georgian houses on Dublin’s Mountjoy Square, North Great George’s Street and Henrietta Street for the new suburbs, school in 1916? and their former homes turned into Students of Castlelyons N.S. with their tenements. Thomas Kent Projects: Oscar Hallinan, Jobs were scarce, and everybody Learning was a tough experience, says Emma Dineen Charlotte Kent and Dara Spillane with dreamed of working for a ‘good’ Abie Bryan and Olivia Beausang (front). employer like Guinness. Most workers were unskilled, and MICHAEL MacSWEENEY/PROVISION T may come as a surprise to pupils Today, every teacher must be fully- So although there were plans to really Dublin’s slums were considered among today but 100 years ago Irish was not qualified to teach in primary school. A modernise primary school education, the worst in Europe, with many families taught in most primary schools. At the century ago only about half of teachers had these came unstuck because government DISCOVER executed following a gunfight with the And for one student the reburial children’s projects tell of a 1916 hero – living in one room. Itime Irish was taught in less than 300 any formal training at all. Many teachers wouldn’t fund the system fully. Royal Irish Constabulary on May 2nd 1916, of Thomas Kent has added one of their own. Disease was rampant, there was a of the country’s 9,000 primary schools. In who were trained had qualifications that Part of the teacher’s job each day was PUPILS REMEMBER 1916 in the immediate aftermath of the Easter significance. “It took so much courage for him to high death rate and even those fortunate fact it was only taught in these schools in were out of date. Even though the colleges to light the fire to warm the classroom. LOCAL HERO THOMAS Rising. Kent’s remains were exhumed “He was my great-grandfather’s first fight for our country,” said fourth class to have a job found it hard to feed and Gaeltacht areas where there were teachers were full they could not turn out enough Pupils didn’t get off lightly either being KENT — BROUGHT HOME from Cork prison in June of this year after cousin,” said Charlotte Kent who, along pupil Lauren Rath-Hurley, adding: clothe their families. who could teach it. This followed a long teachers to replace those leaving every responsible for cleaning the school every FOR BURIAL 99 YEARS being buried there for 99 years. with the rest of her class, worked on “I’m glad he came back to Castlelyons Some two million people lived on campaign by the Gaelic League and some year. Another problem was that many week or sometimes each day. Damage such His State funeral was held on projects about the Irish rebel. eventually even if it was so many years the island, of which 1.2 million were teachers to have Irish taught in schools. It teachers couldn’t teach music or art, then as a broken window was sometimes paid AFTER HIS EXECUTION September 18 at St Nicholas’ Church in his Dara Spillane lives beside the old Kent afterwards.” working. Unlike today, most people wasn’t until Ireland became a Free State called singing and drawing, so those for by teachers out of their own pockets. IN THE YEARS AFTER native Castlelyons and many of the local family home and told of how there’s still Nine-year-old Ellie O’Brien’s mother lived in the countryside, with more than in 1922 that Irish became a compulsory subjects weren’t taught in many schools. Other facilities that today’s pupils take for INDEPENDENCE pupils attended the historic event. an old wall with a bullet mark in it from Claire who works in the Irish Navy looked half of all men and a quarter of women subject. This meant lessons often consisted of only granted such as proper toilets were rare in “We had a half-day from school when the time of the 1916 siege. after Thomas Kent’s coffin before and working on farms or in fishing. One hundred years ago boys and girls reading, writing, arithmetic and, of course, schools a century ago. OR the pupils of Castlelyons National the funeral was on. There were big crowds In the immediate aftermath of the during the state funeral. Poverty was a constant theme in the were taught different subjects in primary religion. Teachers’ salaries depended on getting F School in north Cork, the recent state and everyone was out for the occasion. gunfight Thomas Kent’s mother fled to “I was very proud of her. Thomas Kent cities and rural areas. Most homes were school. While all children had to learn Ireland was ruled from London at the a good inspector’s report each year. As funeral of their local rebel hero Thomas “We learned all about Thomas Kent’s the home of Dara’s great-granduncle for was very special and I’m very happy that my not connected to a public water supply, reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling, time and money for Irish education was a result, rote learning was common Kent provided them with a unique life as he went to our primary school shelter. mum was involved in bringing him home to and relied on a well for their needs. Even girls were taught needlework, cookery and in short supply. Because of the need to where pupils had to learn their spellings, opportunity to be a part of 1916 history. when he was young,” explained sixth class On the walls of the classrooms at Castlelyons,” she said. fewer had a flush toilet. laundry while agriculture was taught to fund, first the Boer War and then World grammar and arithmetic off by heart. In Kent was court-martialed and student, Amie O’Connell. Castlelyons National School the Graham Clifford There was no regular radio the boys in the class, especially in rural War One, there was not enough funding addition, pupils were regularly beaten if broadcasting and television was decades schools. for teacher training, classroom equipment they failed to do their work or didn’t do it into the future. There was only around Subjects such as needlework for girls and materials or modern school buildings. neatly. 12,500 telephone lines across the entire were considered suitable ‘groundwork’ for The government in London wanted local It is little wonder then that school SO WHAT DID SCHOOL PUPILS LEARN ABOUT THE EASTER RISING country, half of which were in Dublin. primary education. In 1916 many girls in communities to pay something toward attendance began to fall off rapidly as DISCOVER IN THE YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE? Many families were forced to leave, school would have practiced needlework national schools but few were able to do many children left to work in factories with emigrants departing in droves on for at least two hours a week. Some this. In fact most parents could contribute or on farms at the age of 11 or 12. School CCORDING to the historian and primary school. Ms Collins added: “The Troubles one of the seven cattle boats a day which teachers at the time thought this wasn’t little more than a sod of turf for the fire. attendance had been compulsory since Awriter of school textbooks, Elma “Many people would have learned forced me to rethink things myself left Dublin Port. enough. Writing for ‘The Lady Teachers’ 1892 but by around the time of the Rising Collins, second-level students may have about the Rising and the Civil War when I was writing a textbook about At the time of the Easter Rising, Own Page’ of the Irish School Weekly in average daily attendance was only 70pc learned very little about the Rising. through oral history, rather than in the period. things were improving as living April 1916, primary teacher Kathleen of enrolment. In any event, because fees Ms Collins, who has written many school. Perhaps they were told about it “People tended to think of events such standards rose, in part due to payments Roche voiced her dissatisfaction that were charged for secondary schooling most school history textbooks, said: “Up until by their parents. as the Rising in black and white before made to soldiers’ wives and an increase needlework classes had to be reduced due families could not afford to send their the 1960s, the Easter Rising was at the “It was all very sensitive still, because then, but there was a change because of in industrial output to fuel the war to the “overwhelming” curriculum. children. Only the wealthier families could end of the syllabus. For that reason, many of the participants were still what was happening in the North.” effort. “In the old days we had five hours per afford the fees although prizes, grants and many teachers did not get to it.
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