... material prosperity of the community, patriotic Irishmen could unite for once, in forcing on the attention of the Government the educational reforms which they would unanimously accept. Whether or not Irishmen can agree to sink their differences, and co-operate ...

... salaries and pensions, we are heartily in accord with it. The Irish teachers would be the veriest slaves on earth if they did not unite and combine to a man to conserve and retain . what they have got. But we think it i$ clear there will be a long spell before ...

... opening of Parliament, and the action of the Irish M.P’s. when Parliament opens. But would it not have been well if leading Irishmen, ecclesiastical and lay, had backed up the Irish M.P’s with a forcible letter to Sir M. H. Beach, containing the salient ...

... the prompt and careful attention of every National teacher, and we earnestly hope that all who are not already insured will unite to make it successful. After the failure of Mr. Clarke’s effort more than one hundred teachers who had previously given him ...

... then passed unanimously : That the best thanks of this association be given to the several office-bearers,' who, by their united efforts have contributed to make our association so flourishing, seeing that at present ] it is, numerically and financially ...

... August meeting. The members discussed the grievances under which they groan with a degree of moderation quite uncommon among Irishmen. We have been doing our little best since our association started to make known our wants, and perhaps it is unwise to show ...

... three years after the passing of this Act) the salaries due any of the oeffiers shall payable out of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom. Mr. Morley had admitted that the teachers in the Model Schools would come within the scope of the Government provision ...

... apart from the stigma which is attached to ignorance, there must also be taken into consideration the blighted prospects of Irishmen who are the victims of parental neglect. The want of education must exclude many men, otherwise eligible, from employment ...

... alive to their own interests in this matter, as they are in other respects, they would follow the example of the teachers, and unite in demanding from the Government as liberal provision for the maintenance of our National Schools as that which has been conceded ...

... reasonable to assume that if our countrymen had been afforded facilities equal lo those available in other portions of the United Kingdom, the education of the present generation would be considerably more advanced than its present standard , and that ...

... 6 marks. 10. Give length, breath, area, population, latitude, and longitude, of each of the three great divisions of the United Kingdom. 6 marks. HAUGH’S ARITHMETIC - Examples VI. Solutions by M. C., Dundermaigi, Kinsale. (The right of re-publishing ...

... promote the best interests of all sections of the community will not be denied fitting tribute to bis memory. But even if Irishmen should forget their indebtedness to the illustrious dead, and their own duty of respect to themselves, the memory of Sir ...