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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART IV. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Section 1.?Historical. For a due elucidation of the subject of National Education in Ireland, it is necessary to look back to the time of Henry VIII., when for political purposes, rather than for any real interest in the intellectual progress of the people, the Act 28 Henry VIII., c. 15, was passed in the Irish Parliament enacting: " That the said English tongue, habit and order, may be from henceforth (and without ceasing or returning at any time to Irish habit or language), used by all men ..". Every priest was to learn the English tongue, and to cause his people "to bid their beads in English." The next educational law was the 12th Elizabeth, establishing, in 1570, the Protestant Diocesan Schools, one in each diocese, which nominally continued until the disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1869. The 7th William III., c. 4, 1695, was the next important provision in respect to Irish education. It enacted that Irish Roman Catholics should not go for the education denied to them at home to foreign countries. The Protestant Charter Schools were established in 1753. The Charter recites: " That in many parts of this Kingdom there were great tracts of land almost entirely inhabited by Papists; that the generality of the Popish natives were kept by their Clergy in gross ignorance, and bred up in great disaffection to the Government; that the creating Protestant Charter Schools in these places would be absolutely necessary for their conversion and civilization." These schools received during their existence under parliamentary support 1,105,869. Until 1803 they received no pupils except Roman Catholics. The hollowness of the administration of them is exposed by the great philanthropist Howard: " The children were sickly, pale, and...