Ireland’s Hedge Schools
Dr. P. J. Bowling recently read a paper to tho Irish Literary Society of London on the Irisli Hedge Schools of the 18th century. When the Irish schoolmaster of those days, ho said, was forbidden by law to have a school, ho conceived the idea of teaching his class in the open air on the sunny siao of a hedge or bank, so that his pupils might scatter at the first approach of danger. Hence the name, hedge school. ' Later, when the laws against education were relaxed, the school waa taught, in a cabin, n barn, or any building that might be lent or constructed for the purpose. But the term “hedge school" was still retained. The least that was taught" in hedge schools in- ■ eluded reading, writing and arithmetic; very many of them gave instruction in classics and mathematics.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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