Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
gender politics, education, Ireland, student--published newsletter, college miscellany
College
Humanities
Department
English
Abstract
When I began this project, I planned to investigate the ways in which Irish students engaged with and wrote about certain philosophical and literary tenets of modernism. As I conducted background research on the social and political climate in Ireland during the 1920s, however, my focus shifted somewhat to an exploration of the cultural, religious, and social tensions that informed Irish modernism generally and the writings of Trinity College students in particular. I traveled to Ireland and spent a week in the archives of Trinity College, Dublin, reading contemporary issues of a once-popular student-published newsletter, TCD: A College Miscellany. I examined several volumes of installments (from 1907 to 1934), taking digital pictures of relevant articles and images. After reading through and collecting a wide range of material, I decided to concentrate specifically on the emergence within the students’ writings of gender divisions that on some level parallel the religious and political divisions outside the college in the 1920s.
Recommended Citation
Fisher, Katherine and Hatch, Dr. David
(2013)
"Gender Politics and Education in 1920s Ireland: Public and Private Editorializing in TCD: A College Miscellany,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 733.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/733