Talk:Hedge school

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I believe this article is notable as it was tagged in the Irish Literature article. Some users may be ambiguous as to what a hedge school implies in the irish literary tradition.

This article doesn't even pick up on the fact that hedge schools emerged in response to the Penal Laws that were meant to subjugate, demoralize, and Anglicize Ireland. The Penal Laws made it so that no Catholic could teach in school. These hedge schools were indeed very radical as they all ran the risk of getting into trouble. 164.111.193.251 20:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

It is interesting that, between 1782 (when the Penal Laws against Catholic schools ended) and the 1830s, so few Catholic schools for poor children were set up. Most were for fee-paying middle class Catholics, who were mostly very happy to Anglicize except in the matter of religion.86.42.250.157 (talk) 11:10, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Expansion

I'd like to expand this article and get rid of the ugly tag at the top. It may take a while, I have a book on order and it's December and I'm busy. I'll link to a draft when the time comes, so people can comment before I make bold edits. --MopTop (talk) 15:08, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

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"While Catholic schools were forbidden under the Penal laws from 1723 to 1782, no hedge teachers were known to be prosecuted. Indeed, official records were made of hedge schools by census makers, such as that in Clare." The report cited was conducted in 1824, 42 years after the ban was lifted. --MopTop (talk) 15:50, 10 December 2017 (UTC)