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From: "Kathleen Coburn" <>
Subject: [KER] Hedge Schools in Dingle
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:36:36 -0700

>
> Taken from the book Romantic Hidden Kerry Tralee 1931 by Thomas F. O
> Sullivan.
>
> I do not have the actual book, just this one piece and I came across it
last
> night.
> the book is most likely at the Kerry County Library in Tralee, as this
page
> that I have with the excerpt from the book was compiled for the local
> newspaper.
> Kerry's Eye, (and that is where I found the reference)
> *******************************************************
> Hedge Schools survive in Dingle
>
> It is interesting to recall that there were hedge schools in Dingle even
in
> the memory of some of the people living there in 1931.
>
> "You could see grown up men, I was told by Mr. Maurice Neligan, late
Master
> of the Dingle Work House, and one of the oldest inhabitants of the town,
> "attending these schools in Dingle. Reading, writing and arithmetic were
> taught- nothing else.
> Mr. Neligan says,
> The instruction was through English. This was in my own time. Before that
> they used to teach Irish, English and Latin in the hedge schools, which
were
> held in Barns. Dr. Miles, who died in 1912 and was Medical Officer of
Dingle
> for over forty years told me, said Mr. Neligan, that when his father and
his
> friends wanted to say things unknown to the children they spoke in Latin.
>
> There was a hedge school at the Holy Stone. The teacher was a man named
> Michael Walsh, and another school was held on the site of John Boland's
> house in Green Street. The teacher in that school was Timothy McLoughlin.
> These schools were in existence even, when the national schools and the
> Christian Brothers schools had been established.
>
> Pop History page from Kerry's Eye, compiled by Russell McMorran August
1977,
> most likely from books found at the Kerry County Library Tralee.
> This Pop History page appeared in Kerry's Eye for many years, made up of
> snippets from various books and historical material; all Kerry related.
>
> Regards
> Kerry Kate
>
>

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