Literacy and Society in Ireland 1900 - 1980

Julia Gillen

Lancaster Literacy Research Centre are delighted to welcome Maighread Tobin to discuss Literacy and Society in Ireland 1900 - 1980.

This Lancaster Literacy Research Centre event will be a talk from Maighread Tobin titled 'Literacy and Society in Ireland 1900 - 1980'.Abstract:This presentation addresses the paradox of using written material to search for evidence of illiteracy. My research aims to understand how authoritative ‘truths’ about illiteracy circulated in twentieth-century Ireland. The social constructionist contention that truth is constituted within social interaction underpins a focus on written interaction, leading to the analysis of documents located in publicly available archives. Foucault’s work on discourse, power, and knowledge provides the theoretical framework and informs the analytic approach. My presentation reviews the process of tracing the illiterate person through the Irish archives. It also invites discussion on the use of documentary data to research literacy and illiteracy. Event schedule: 15:00pm - Welcomes &amp; introductions (please enter the meeting with your 'real' name as your display name, and your camera switched on, to allow us to all put faces to each others' names) 15:05 - Presentation from Speaker Name(s) (please turn your camera off and mute your microphone during the presentation) 15:40 - Discussion (please use the raise hand feature on Teams to indicate you would like to have a turn speaking and once asked to speak by an event facilitator, please un-mute your microphone and turn your camera on) Presenter bio: Having completed her doctoral studies on literacy and Irish society in 2018, Dr Maighread Tobin is currently lecturing in sociology in Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interest in literacy and illiteracy arises from experience of working with adult literacy learners in both the community and the academy.

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