Sub-sub-series 6 - Department of Education and Skills

Identity area

Reference code

UGA G/G60/39/2/6

Title

Department of Education and Skills

Date(s)

  • 25/08/1941-01/2004 (creation)

Level of description

Sub-sub-series

Extent and medium

3 sub-subsubseries, 12 files

Context area

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Material in this sub-subseries relates to the Department of Education including its use of, its attitude towards and its policies on the Irish language and is arranged chronologically.

It consists of correspondence, press releases, reports, cuttings and other material and includes a report of the Council of Education to the Minister of Education on the function and curriculum of the primary school, 16 Jun 1954 (G60/39/2/6/2); memos on textbooks in Irish and negatives of photographs of textbooks being used in Spiddal, Galway, 1968 (G60/39/2/6/3); material relating to the legal case between Fallons Publishers and the department in the 1970s and 1980s (G60/39/2/6/4/2 and G60/39/2/6/5/2); material relating to the response from the Irish Language Community to the Green (1992) and White (1995) Papers on Education and the Education bill (1997) and material relating to parliamentary questions to Minister of Education and Science in regard to the Irish language Committee due under the Education Act 1998, June 2000 (G60/39/2/6/7).

Tag / Ref: G60/39/2/6

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Allied materials area

      Existence and location of originals

      Existence and location of copies

      Related units of description

      Related descriptions

      Note

      Catalog

      Alternative identifier(s)

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Description identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      Status

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      06/08/2019
      18/02/2022

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Accession area