THE CONTEXT AND COURSE OF THOMAS ORDE’S PLAN OF EDUCATION OF 1787 James Kelly By the mid-1780s, the inadequacy of the existing tiers of education in Ireland had become a matter of common knowledge. Proposals for their reform were not quite as forthcoming; however, spurred on by the revelations of John Howard and Jeremiah Fitzpatrick … Continue reading Irish Journal of Education, Vol. 20, 1986