Alexandra College

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Education	May Laffan	Laffan used the royalties of her second novel, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, for her own further education and the education of her only surviving younger sister, Catherine . She attended Alexandra College in Dublin...
politics	May Laffan	While ML created no fictional protagonist who attends or seeks post-secondary education, she was eager to secure real women that right. Between 1884 and 1885 she corresponded with William J. Walsh , the Catholic Archbishop...

Timeline

11 October 1866

Alexandra College , Dublin, was founded by Anne Jellicoe .

O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.

32-4

Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2024, 10 vols.

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16 August 1878

The Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act was passed, containing an initial recognition of the principle that girls and women had the right to sit for public competitive examinations and to take university degrees.

Jordan, Alison. “‘Opening the Gates of Learning’: The Belfast Ladies’ Institute, 1867-97”. Coming into the Light: The Work, Politics and Religion of Women in Ulster, 1840-1940, edited by Janice Holmes and Diane Urquhart, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, 1994, pp. 33-57.

49-50

The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.

1893

St Mary's University College was founded for Catholic girls in Merrion Square, Dublin.

45-6

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