Ireland and the Home Rule Movement (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Maunsel Subjects: Home rule Ireland History / General History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Law / Civil Procedure Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM "When I consider how munificently the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge are endowed . . . when I remember from whom all this splendour and plenty is derived; when I remember what was the faith of Edward the Third, and of Henry the Sixth, of Margaret of Anjou, and Margaret of Richmond, of William of Wykeham, and of William of Waynefleet, of Archbishop Chicheley, and Cardinal Wolsey; when I remember what we have taken from the Roman Catholics, King's College, New College, Christ Church, my own Trinity; and when I look at the miserable Dotheboys Hall which we have given them in exchange, I feel, I must own, less proud than I could wish of being a Protestant and a Cambridge man." -- T. B. Macaulay, Speech on the Maynooth Grant, 1845. " What the Irish are proposing is nothing so enormous or chimerical. They propose merely to put an end to one very cruel result of the Protestant ascendancy, the result that they -- the immense majority of the Irish people -- have no University, while the Protestants in Ireland, the small minority, have one. For this plain hardship they propose a plain remedy, and to their proposal they want a plain, straightforward answer." -- Matthew Arnold, Mixed Essays, 1880. The fact that the recurrent educational problem in England is that of the Elementary Schools, while as to Ireland the only question which is ever to any extent ventilated is that of University Education, has led to t...