Contents: The Beginnings of a Systematic Approach to Elementary Education in Europe and the British Empire - Image of the Hedge Schoolteacher - Critique of Hedge School Education - The Transposition of Irish Education, 1780-1831 - The Early Years of the National System of Education - The Christian Brothers and Education in Ireland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
Dr Tony Lyons, retired lecturer in the History of Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
Book Publications: The Education Work of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish Educator and Inventor, 1744-1817.
Lyons, Tony & Moloney, Noel, Educational Resources in the British Empire: Examining Nineteenth Century Ireland and Literacy
Tony Lyons has contributed many articles and book chapters to various publications over the years.