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Lingard Goulding - Your Children are Not Your Children: The Story of Headfort - 9781843513216 - 9781843513216
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Your Children are Not Your Children: The Story of Headfort

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Description for Your Children are Not Your Children: The Story of Headfort Hardcover. MEATH
HEADFORT SCHOOL has always been an idiosyncratic place. Beginning as an ‘outpost of Empire’ at a time when that empire was locally destitute and internationally disintegrating, it prepared the sons of the landed classes for the ‘great public schools’. Weaving its way around the Headfort family and its successors as landlord, the School has traced a rapidly evolving educational ethos. It has managed to protect its individuality and excellence, whilst staunchly refusing to adopt any of the more illogical conclusions of a changing society. Your Children are not your Children is more than a book about a school. It treats ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd Dublin
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843513216
SKU
9781843513216
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3

About Lingard Goulding
LINGARD GOULDING was hatched at Hatch Street, Dublin, in 1940. He passed the war years dodging bombs with his Nanny in England, while his parents dealt with Herr Hitler. Educated at Ludgrove, Winchester and Trinity College Dublin, he spenthis twenties mining in Australia, programming early computers, racing powerful cars, manufacturing fertilizers and marketing Irish jewellery. Disenchanted with industry, he took ... Read more

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