10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEDGE-SCHOOL»
Discover the use of
hedge-school in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hedge-school and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Irish
Hedge School and Its Books: 1695 - 1831
New in paperback, this definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years.
2
The
Hedge School, The Midnight Mass, The Donagh Traits And ...
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
3
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
From this circumstance the name of Hedge School originated, and, however it
may be associated with the ludicrous, I maintain, that it is highly honourable to
the character of the people, and an encouragement to those who wish to see
them ...
William Carleton, William Henry Brooke, 1830
4
A Source Book for Irish English
The figure of the hedge school-master has been mythologised, like much in Irish
history, and it is difficult to obtain a clear picture here. The writer William Carleton
portrayed him as a mixture of real learning and pedantry; the figure also ...
5
The End of Hidden Ireland : Rebellion, Famine, and ...
But as the hedge school was gradually displaced by the National School and
receded into a folk memory, its image greatly improved. It seems clear that in the
decade before the National Schools, inexpensive books of a wider variety were ...
Robert Scally Professor of History and Director of the Glucksman Ireland House New York University, 1995
6
American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A ...
McManus, Irish Hedge School, 237. 57. Balfour, Educational Systems, 78–82. 58.
First Report, 4–5; Charles Ivar McGrath, “Securing the Protestant Interest: The
Origins and Purpose of the Penal Laws of 1695,” Irish Historical Studies 30.117 ...
" Daily Telegraph "This is Brian Friel's finest play, his most deeply thought and felt, the most deeply involved with Ireland but also the most universal: haunting and hard, lyrical and erudite, bitter and forgiving, both praise and lament.
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Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry. By W. Carleton
Very well, my learned friend, Mr. Mat Kavanagh, isn't this precisely what is called
a hedge school t " " A hedge school l □ replied Mat, highly offended ; " my
siminary a hedge school ! No, sir ; I scorn the cognomen, in toto. This, sir, is a
Classical ...
9
Readings from Irish Authors, Humorous and Pathetic
Very well, my learned friend, Mr. Mat Kavanagh, isn't this precisely what is called
a hedge school?" " A hedge school ! " replied Mat, highly offended ; " my siminary
a hedge school ! No, sir ; I scorn the cognomen in toto. This, sir, is a Classical ...
John Andrew Jennings, 1883
10
Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, ...
Fourteenth Report of the Commissioners of 1rish Education 1nquiry, 1 806- 1 2, p
. 94. 26 First Report of the Commissioners of 1rish Education 1nquiry, H.C. 1 825.
27 McManus. The 1rish Hedge School and its Books, p. 1 82. Hannah More's ...
Mary Hilton, Jill Shefrin, 2009
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEDGE-SCHOOL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
hedge-school is used in the context of the following news items.
Why I'm a graduate of the old school
The name aside, our ancestral hedge-school has long vanished, so I don't know whether it was indoors or out. But I prefer to picture it being ... «Irish Times, Jun 14»
Translations, Sheffield Crucible, review
... he's using an interpreter – a keen go-between called Owen, the youngest son of Hugh, the hedge-school master in whose rustic pedagogical ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
