Abstract
Immediately following the death of Starkie, the two secretaries in the office of the National Board, Bonaparte Wyse and Dilworth, in association with Frizzell, the accountant, took on the duties of the Resident Commissioner. For one thing, they advised the Commissioners at their fortnightly meetings. In addition, Dilworth assumed responsibility for the outdoor and indoor staff at the office, while Bonaparte Wyse accepted responsibility for the setting up of a new scale of teachers’ salaries. By the autumn of 1920, the position was still unfilled. The present chapter considers how that situation, which was due to the satisfactory administration of education by the two secretaries vindicated Starkie’s insistence almost two decades previously on employing his own men and delegating authority to them. Like previous Resident Commissioners, he died while in office. However, unlike his predecessors, he had established a structure and staff that could continue to administer education in his absence.
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Notes
- 1.
Times Educational Supplement, 20 January 1921.
- 2.
CSORP 3120/ 2, 4 May 1921. Letter and memorandum by Sir John Ross, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.
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Ibid., Letter from Sir James McMahon, joint Under-Secretary, an Irish Catholic who was on good terms with the Catholic bishops, to the Chief Secretary, Sir Hamar Greenwood, 26 April 1921.
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Starkie, W. J. M., Recent Reforms in Irish Education, 1902, pp. 33, 34. Links between training colleges and universities began in Scotland as early as 1873 and in England from 1900.
- 5.
W. J. M. Starkie, Confidential Statement of Evidence to the Dill Commission, p. 22. This is one of the few references made by Starkie that enunciated his opinion that national primary schools catered for children of the poor or working class. His own children did not attend one.
- 6.
W. J. M. Starkie, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental [DATI] Committee of Inquiry, 25 June 1906. SP 9210 a. /5, p. 50. The attendance rate in Ireland for the year 1901 was 63.9%; it reached a level of 71.7% in 1909. In comparison, the attendance rates in France and Germany for 1901 were 96%, in England 82.4%, in Scotland 82.9% and in Wales 77.4%. Appendix to the Report of the CNEI. for the Year 1910.
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In 1900 there were 21 evening schools; by 1903 this figure had increased to 1263.
- 8.
T. Walsh, Primary Education in Ireland, 1897–1990: Curriculum and Context (Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2012).
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Ibid.
- 10.
Ibid.
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O’Doherty, T., O’Donoghue, T. (2021). Conclusion. In: Radical Reform in Irish Schools, 1900-1922. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74282-9_10
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