Deals with the clash between the free, enterprising pay schools and the controlled and systematized national schools in Ireland since 1831.
Dr Tony Lyons, retired lecturer in the History of Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
Book Publications: The Education Work of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish Educator and Inventor, 1744-1817.
Lyons, Tony & Moloney, Noel, Educational Resources in the British Empire: Examining Nineteenth Century Ireland and Literacy
Tony Lyons has contributed many articles and book chapters to various publications over the years.