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Here you can keep up to date with the Department of Adult and Community Education (DACE), Maynooth University. We strive to create posts keeping you up to date with our research, students, projects and Colleagues in the field of Adult Education on an inclusive platform, giving everyone in our diverse community a voice.
Adult education is the study of how we learn and develop as adults to collaborate in the creation of a just, equitable and sustainable society. Adults bring their personal and social experiences into education: emotionally, intellectually and physically. We transform lives and communities through adult and community education.
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From Lived Experience to Award-Winning Research: Natasha Gallagher Marron’s MEd Journey
By Natasha Gallagher Marron, graduate of the MEd in Adult Guidance Councelling It is 10pm on a Sunday evening, I’m at home, sitting at my desk in a corner of the gaming room/office, ZOOM on my laptop and articles and YouTube tabs open on my PC. Unusually the door is locked, my husband is listening…
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Discovering Cordoba: An Exchange of Cultures at Maynooth
Co-authors: Niall Patrick Cullen* and Sasha Siobhan Buhr** On March 11th 2026, Maynooth’s Return to Learning (R2L) course participants were visited by a group of language school students from “Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Córdoba” in the city of Cordoba, in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. As part of their visit, our Spanish guests introduced us to some notable…
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A Journey Back to Education – Through Maynooth’s Evening BA
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you are currently studying? Paul: “I’m Paul Roberts, a mature student at Maynooth University, studying a BA in Community Studies.” I imagine it was a very big decision to come to university as a mature student, adults can have so many things going on in…
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Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Professor Camilla Fitzsimons Last Friday, the 27th June, my fourth book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland was published. This one has been a labour of love and, perhaps with all my books, a case of me seeking to write what I think the students that I meet and the people that I share activist interests with…
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Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Professor Camilla Fitzsimons Last Friday, the 27th June, my fourth book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland was published. This one has been a labour of love and, perhaps with all my books, a case of me seeking to write what I think the students that I meet and the people that I share activist interests with…
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