Produced in collaboration with Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Studying Revolution comprises edited transcripts of a selection of documents, most sourced from MIC’s archive and previously unpublished, accompanied by insightful, introductory essays by staff.
These documents (which include contemporary teaching reports, diary entries, and a retrospective account by a former student) provide a fascinating window on MIC during the Irish revolutionary years. Taken together, they demonstrate that the training of primary teachers, which had commenced in 1901, continued throughout the War of Independence and subsequent Civil War, the routines of college life essentially uninterrupted by the surrounding local and national turmoil.
