A Fortnight in Ireland
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3NATIONAL EDUCATION. " Here it is, yere Arnh'r !" said the driver of my car as, in the middle of a very interesting biographical history he was gratuitously giving me of his "harse," he stopped him suddenly in the middle of Marlborough-" street, and with his whip instantly pointed to an iron gate immediately before me bounded on each side by a grave-looking stone wall, the mica of which was glittering in the sunshine. Within the said gate, and close to it and the wall,.appeared on each side a low, substantial porter's lodge ornamented with columns of the Grecian Doric, and on entering the dominions there immediately almost flashed before my eyes a remarkably verdant and well-mowed, large, long, rectangular lawn, bounded at the far distant end by a line of three buildings slightly detached from each other. The centre one, which had t
...he appearance of a chapel, and in the upper portion of which shone a clock, is the infants' school, flanked on one side by its only brother, a school for boys, and on the other by its sister, one for girls. At a short distance from the Doric lodge stood, magnificently on the right,. Tyrone House, formerly the town residence of the Marquis of Waterford, now occupied as a board-room, also as quarters for the Resident Commissioner, the Right Hon. Alex. Mac- donnell, and for other officers of the institution. Onthe left of the green lawn, and immediately opposite Tyrone House, is. a large, solid, but rather lower building, used as lecture-rooms and as habitations for the conductors of the schools. The object of this immense establishment is to impart not only to the children of the poor in Dublin, but to the indigent rising generation throughout the whole of Ireland, the inestimable blessings of education. The duties, therefore, are obviously twofold: first, to give instruction ...
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