School Textbook Collection

Reference code
EDU.TEXT
Level of description
Fonds
Title
School Textbook Collection
Scope and content
The collection includes textbooks published by the Commissioners for National Education (National Education Board) from the 1830s. The subjects covered are diverse and include:

- Dictionaries
- Reading books
- Poetry
- Grammar
- Elocution
- Literature
- Exam papers
- Mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, mensuration)
- Languages (French, German, Greek, Latin, Irish)
- Science (physics, chemistry, biology, botany, natural philosophy)
- Religion
- Geography and atlases
- History
- Bookkeeping
- Agriculture and farm management
- Home economics and needlework
- School management
- Writing (copy books, homework notebooks)
- Drawing books
- Exercise books
- Handicrafts
- First aid
- Social science
- Physical education

Significant holdings in this collection were published by The Educational Company of Ireland, Sullivan Brothers, MacMillan, Blackie & Son, and The Christian Brothers.
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