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University Education in Ireland - Samuel Haughton
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Title: University Education in Ireland
Author: Samuel Haughton
Release Date: March 8, 2010 [EBook #31553]
Language: English
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
IN
IRELAND.
BY THE
REV. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M.D, F.R.S.
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
LONDON: WILLIAMS & NORGATE.
DUBLIN: McGLASHAN & GILL.
1868.
Price One Shilling.
DUBLIN:
Printed at the University Press,
BY M. H. GILL.
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
INTRODUCTION.
The political condition of Ireland is, at present, grave; and, in the event of a war with the United States, would become menacing, to England.
Irish politicians assert—and it is partly admitted by their opponents—that, in the existing state of Ireland, three questions demand an immediate solution: these questions are, the Land Question, the Church Question, and the Education Question.
The tenant farmers of Ireland wish for fixity of tenure, and care but little for compensation for improvements, except as a means of obtaining a practical fixity of tenure; and they would, unquestionably, rejoice to see transferred to themselves, as occupiers of the soil, the rights now enjoyed by absentee noblemen and landlords. It is the opinion of many that the Land question cannot be settled without such a change of owners as would practically amount to a revolution.
With respect to the question of the Church, the more intelligent laymen of the Irish National party openly avow their wish to alienate the property of the Church, on the ground that its existence forms a barrier to the union