Church, State and Social Science in Ireland: Knowledge Institutions and the Rebalancing of Power, 1937-73
Peter Murray and Maria Feeny
Abstract
From British rule the independent Irish state inherited an effectively denominational system of university education and a complementary set of science and arts institutions. Under independent rule denominational influence increased and resource starvation prevailed until the end of the 1950s. Then, as the formation of human capital, education began to be treated as an input into economic growth and American initiatives stimulated new research activity. These changes played a vital role in the rebalancing of power between the Catholic Church and the state. Social science, where the Catholic Ch ... More
Keywords: State, Church, Education, Scientific research, Human capital, Americanisation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9781526100788 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781526100788.001.0001 |
