EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 240, 7 December 1877, Page 19

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

£^£? X ? LA1 ?' M>R> f °£ Ga^ Way ' in the debate Parliament on liish Education last month, said the Catholics were heavily handiffi^'n 11 !} th6y had aU , the traditoms » learning, and endowments of fW 7 ♦ ♦ T *£ <^ cm * They desired some of the that the Protestants of Ireland now enjoyed. As to the scheme of the hon. and learned member of Limerick, it was said that the proposed co£ fatitution would place the Protestants at a disadvantage. The hon Z r^l H?ffl me v i n te l T tising ceTtaiu options to the bill, said the real difficulty of Catholics was in the teaching at Universities. Anyone who took an interest in science found that the teaching of geology, natural history, and other branches of science was supposed to have an important bearing on the fundamental teaching of religion —it was not a question between Catholics and Protestante— but there were teachers of science whose object it was to eliminate all religion from Ireland (Hear, hear). That was the real foe they had to contend ?ft fU n I ?• '* lhe ? atholics ° f Ireland had, practically, rejected the teaching of Queen's Colleges ; because they believed that if science was taught without religion they would destroy not only the religion of the young man, but also his capacity for being a good citizen. The Catholics had not rejected Trinity College to the same extent because it had traditions and associations which led more Catholics to accept its teaching. That there , were 'thirty times as many Protestants at the Irish Universities in proportion to the population as there were Catholics is not because the Catholics did not hkp education— for in the classical or elementary schools the number were about equally balanced, and he believed more Cathohcs than Protestants sent their children to England to be edu2?' IhG l^ a^ ™ nt to P ut aQ y taxation* upon the State for the purpose, and the bill of the hon. and learned member for Limerick *!•- nS?n£ i I y , ra ? 1 i_ contri Motion. But there was a sum of 4.0,000,000 due to Ireland from the old established church, which was Z H m vnl y i + n%' ?n? nd TT th . ey ked for about *™ Per cent, of that to 1-e devoted to Catholic University education. And if a collet were founded which would receive the support of the Catholic clerW and laity it woud have a great influence in promoting education, and could not fail to benefit the Empire (Hear, hear) " luoaHon > ana