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Courting Equality: Catholic Women and Agency in the Reconfiguration of University Education in Ireland

Judith Harford

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Any examination of the development of the education system in Ireland and the role of women therein must take into account the role of the Churches and in particular that of the Catholic Church, which has exercised extraordinary control over the political and social trajectory of Irish society. Writing in 1998, Magray noted that ‘the Catholic Church in Ireland enjoys a relationship with the Irish population that is unique in the Western world’. 1 While there has over the last two decades been a significant decline in the influence of the institutional Catholic Church across many facets of Irish social life, it still carries significant influence in Irish society. 2

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Any examination of the development of the education system in Ireland and the role of women therein must take into account the role of the Churches and in particular that of the Catholic Church, which has exercised extraordinary control over the political and social trajectory of Irish society. Writing in 1998, Magray noted that ‘the Catholic Church in Ireland enjoys a relationship with the Irish population that is unique in the Western world’. 1 While there has over the last two decades been a significant decline in the influence of the institutional Catholic Church across many facets of Irish social life, it still carries significant influence in Irish society. 2

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Any examination of the development of the education system in Ireland and the role of women therein must take into account the role of the Churches and in particular that of the Catholic Church, which has exercised extraordinary control over the political and social trajectory of Irish society. Writing in 1998, Magray noted that ‘the Catholic Church in Ireland enjoys a relationship with the Irish population that is unique in the Western world’. 1 While there has over the last two decades been a significant decline in the influence of the institutional Catholic Church across many facets of Irish social life, it still carries significant influence in Irish society. 2

Key concepts: Agency (philosophy), Control reconfiguration, Gender studies, Sociology, Political science, Social science, Engineering, Embedded system

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