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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.

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