Biography
David Limond lectures in history of education at Trinity College Dublin and has previously held posts in universities and colleges in the UK. His research interests are primarily concerned with progressive education in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s and the past and future of universities. He was previously reviews editor of History of Education Researcher.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
David Limond, Strange angel: William Norman Illingworth [1902-1980] and Sangreal School " Towards a History of Conservative Alternative Schools in Twentieth-Century Britain", History of Educaton Review, 2025, p1-14
"A normal and useful method of class control?" Policy on corporal punishment in Irish schools c1974-1985 in, editor(s)Brendan Walsh , Education Policy in Ireland Since 1922, Springer, 2022, pp341 - 369, [David Limond]
David Limond, The one thing common is that they have nothing in common: Some Aspects of the Unique Electoral Politics of Dublin University in Irish Legislative Assemblies c1919-1979, Electoral Politics, 2, (8), 2022, p1-25
'"Dochum glorie De agus onora na hEireann": Revising History in Ireland' in, editor(s)Christopher Berg and Theodore Christou , The Palgrave Handbook of History and Social Studies Education, New York/London, Palgrave, 2020, pp387 - 414, [David Limond]
David Limond, The Jesuits, Mary and Joseph: The Catholic Workers' College Dublin - 1951-1966, Catholic Historical Review, 102, (2), 2016, p318 - 339
David Limond, The OWLS of Minerva: A Model for Green Education?, Prospero, 23, (3), 2016, p11 - 15
Advanced Education for Working People: The Catholic Workers' College, a Case Study in, editor(s)Brendan Walsh , Essays in the History of Irish Education, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp339 - 358, [David Limond]
Prospects for a Private, Indigenous and For-Profit University in Dublin in, editor(s)Andrew Loxley, Aidan Seery and John Walsh , Higher Education in Ireland: Practices, Policies and Possibilities, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp110 - 122, [David Limond]
Limond, David, The New University Technical Colleges: Some Thoughts, Prospero, 18, (4), 2012, p23 - 29
David Limond, Silencing the Other Black Paper Authors, History of Education Review, 44, (1), 2012, p52 - 65
The Gods of the Market-Place Tumble: Against Neo-Liberalism, for Intellectualism and Towards New Universities for Ireland in, editor(s)Brendan Walsh , Degrees of Nonsense: The Demise of the University in Ireland, Dublin, Glasnevin Publishing, 2012, pp88 - 107, [David Limond]
David Limond, From a position of educational prominence to one of almost total obscurity? Royston James Lambert and Dartington Hall School, Journal of Historical Biography, 12, 2012, p60 - 88
David Limond, The Little Red Schoolbook: A Paper Tiger Reflects, Sex Education, 12, (5), 2012, p523 - 534
David Limond, An historic culture rapidly, universally and thoroughly restored? British influence on Irish education since 1922, Comparative Education, 46, (4), 2010, p449 - 462
David Limond, Towards a for-profit university for Dublin: Another brick in the wall of neo-liberalism, Higher Education Review, 43, (1), 2010, p38 - 51
More of a school than a show? Events in Glasgow, 1888-1988 in, editor(s)Martin Lawn , Modelling the Future: Exhibitions and the Materiality of Schooling, Didcot, Symposium Books, 2009, pp183 - 203, [David Limond]
David Limond, I hope someone castrates you, you perverted bastard: Martin Cole's sex education film Growing Up, Sex Education, 9, (4), 2009, p409 - 419
David Limond, Living and Learning in the Docklands of Dublin, Studies, 97, (388), 2008, p403 - 412
David Limond, 'I never imagined the time would come': Martin Cole, Growing Up and the limits of sex education in 1970s England, History of Education, 37, (3), 2008, p407-427
David Limond, Strangers and Sojourners: Who Were Miss V and Miss W?, African Identities, 6, (1), 2008, p29 - 43
Outcasts of the Orkney (and Other) Islands: Abusive Scottish Insular Teachers, 1872-1945 in, editor(s)Anthony Potts and Tom O'Donoghue , Schools as Dangerous Places: A Historical Perspective, Youngstown, Cambria Press, 2007, pp213 - 242, [David Limond]
David Limond, Education, Neo-Liberalism and Contemporary Ireland, Studies, 96, (382), 2007, p169 - 178
David Limond, Miss Joyce Lang, Kidbrooke and the 'Great comprehensive debate', History of Education, 36, (3), 2007, p339 - 352
David Limond, Patrick Pearse and St Ita's College, History Ireland, March/April, (14/2), 2006, p8 - 9
David Limond, Marginalisation: what is it good for?, Prospero, 12, (2), 2006, p19 - 29
David Limond, Michael Duane after Risinghill, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 37, (1), 2005, p85 - 94
David Limond, Illuminating schools and communities, Forum, 47, (2&3), 2005, p179 - 188
David Limond, Market-speak and malaise in our universities, Studies, 94 (winter), 2005, p407 - 415
David Limond, Forgive us our transgressions...insiders and outsiders in the history of education: an editorial, History of Education, 34, (5), 2005, p467 - 471
David Limond, Frequently but naturally, Sex Education, 5, (2), 2005, p107 - 118
History of Education, 34, 5, (2005), David Limond, [eds.], Special edition
Keeping your head and losing it in the celluloid classroom: [non]sense and [feminine] sensibility in two films of boarding school life, If... and Picnic at hanging rock in, editor(s)Ulrike Mietzner, Kevin Myers and Nick Peim , Visual History, Bern, Peter Lang, 2005, pp147 - 164, [David Limond]
David Limond, The schoolmaster of all Ireland: the progressive credentials of Patrick Henry Pearse, 1879-1916, History of Education Review, 34, (1), 2005, p63 - 73
David Limond, An educational crisis for Scotland, Scottish Educational Review, 36, (1), 2004, p58 - 65
David Limond, You can't understand unless you know Mr Duane, Irish Educational Studies, 22, (3), 2003, p29 - 44
David Limond, Dead man talking, History of Education Society Bulletin, (72), 2003, p65 - 73
David Limond, Locality, education and authority in Scotland, Oxford Review of Education , 28, (2/3), 2002, p359 - 371
David Limond, Risinghill and the ecology of fear, Educational Review, 54, (2), 2002, p165 - 172
Like the spirit of the army: fascistic discourse and the National Association of Schoolmasters, 1919-1939 in, editor(s)Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin , Gender, colonialism and education: the politics of experience, London, Woburn, 2002, pp99 - 123, [David Limond]
David Limond, Philosophy, pantomime and policy-making in education, Prospero, 8, (3), 2002, p48 - 54
David Limond, Risinghill Revised, History of Education, 31, (6), 2002, p611 - 622
David Limond, Only talk in the staffroom, History of Education, 29, (3), 2000, p239 - 253
David Limond, 'Remaining true to vocation and conscience'..., Paedagogica Historica, 38, (3), 2000, p1-21
David Limond, Remaining true to vocation and conscience, Paedagogica Historica, 36, (3), 2000, p1 - 23
David Limond, 'Remaining true to vocation and conscience'..., Paedagogica Historica, 38, (3), 2000, p1-21
David Limond, It was the flappers who tilted the scales, History of Education Society Bulletin, (66), 2000, p101 - 109
David Limond, All our Scotch education is in vain, History of Education, 28, (3), 1999, p297 - 312
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
David Limond, Lecturers are complicit in varsity malaise, The Herald, 23, (July), 2023, p21-
David Limond, Vic Brown, Unlikely Revolutionary: Art Schools, Further Education, Student Revolts, Liberal Studies and the "'68-ers", 2018
David Limond, Review of Trinity in War and Revolution: 1912-1923, by Tomas Irish , History of Education, 46, (3), 2017, p414-415
David Limond, Refusing to Prove my Innocence: Garda vetting in twenty-first-century Irish schools, 2016
David Limond, (Re)moving statues, History Ireland, 18, (2), 2010, p10 - 11
David Limond, Review of The Death of Progressive Education: How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom, by Roy Lowe , History of Education, 38, (1), 2009, p156-158
David Limond, It's time for schools to slip the chains, Sunday Times: Ireland, 18, (January), 2009, p17-
David Limond, Resist the rise of faith schools, Times Educational Supplement, 12, (December), 2008
David Limond, Review of Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna, by D Raftery and S Parkes , Cambridge Journal of Education, 38, (2), 2008, p285-286
David Limond, OECD Education at a Glance 2007, Public Affairs Ireland, (43), 2007, p15 - 15
David Limond, Island of saints and scholars?, Public Affairs Ireland, (29), 2006, p5-
David Limond, Review of Getting it wrong from the beginning, by Kieran Egan , Education Review, 57, (1), 2005, p113-114
David Limond, Conscience is not a crime in time of war, Times Educational Supplement: Scotland, 2005, p29 July
Research Expertise
Description
David Limond is interested in various aspects of history of education including progressive education in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, the Scottish universities in the nineteenth century and has written on a range of other topics including P H Pearse and his legacy in Ireland and the study of historical films.Recognition
Representations
Member of Academics for Academic Freedom.
Awards and Honours
Graduate Students' Union Supervisor of the Year
Memberships
Former member - History of Education Society (UK).
Founder member - Cultures, Academic Values and Education Research Centre