‘An invaluable lesson and example to Ireland’ – Grundtvig, the Danish folk movement and Ireland
The influence of the Danish ‘folk high school’ movement in 1930s Ireland. By Barry Sheppard. The early decades of Irish independence have …
‘Solely in the earth and its fruits’ – Papal Encyclicals and Irish social policy in the 1930s
Barry Sheppard on how Catholic teaching helped to shape Irish social policy in the 1930s. The 1930s – the era of the …