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The Irish hedge school and its books, 1695-1831 / Antonia McManus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : Four Courts, c2004.Description: 270 p. : ill. 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781851828128
  • 9781851828128
Subject(s): Summary: This definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years. For most of that time, they worked underground due to the strictures of the Penal Laws. Impoverished parents valued this education so highly that they bartered flitches of bacon and miscawns of butter for it
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Originally published, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years. For most of that time, they worked underground due to the strictures of the Penal Laws. Impoverished parents valued this education so highly that they bartered flitches of bacon and miscawns of butter for it

Originally published: 2002

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