Aontas

LC control no.	nr2003021350
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Aontas *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	National Association of Adult Education (Ireland) Irish National Association of Adult Education National Adult Learning Organisation (Ireland)
Beginning date	1969
Associated country	Ireland
Located	Dublin (Ireland)
Field of activity	Adult education
Special note	Not the same as Aontas or Aontas Ireland, formerly known as the Association of Irish Evangelical Churches
Found in	Its Childcare and adult education, 2003: t.p. (AONTAS) p.4 of cover (National Association of Adult Education) Aontas website, July 1 2003 : (AONTAS - The National Association of Adult Education ; MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF AONTAS 1. The name of the Company (hereinafter referred to as the Association) is Aontas. 2. The Association is established as the National Association of Adult Education to promote and develop adult education in Ireland ... ; Mission Statement: AONTAS is the Irish National Association of Adult Education ; [upper and lower case used interchangeably, word is Irish for "union" - i.e. not acronym]) Explore, spring 2007: t.p. (AONTAS, the National Association of Adult Education) ; summer 2008: t.p. (AONTAS, the National Adult Learning Organisation) ; Feb. 2014: colophon (AONTAS: The Voice of Adult Learning, The National Adult Learning Organisation, 2nd Floor, 83-87 Main Street, Ranelagh, Dublin 6) Its website, viewed 9 Oct. 2014: home p. (AONTAS; aontas) about p. (AONTAS is the National Adult Learning Organisation, a voluntary membership organisation) who we are p. (a non-government membership organisation established in 1969; the name AONTAS is an acronym in the Irish language: Aos Oideachais Náisiúnta Trí Aontú Saorálach, meaning 'national adult education through voluntary unification'; the word AONTAS itself is also the Irish word for 'unity' or 'union')
Associated language	eng