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of children, such as taking beggar children off the street and taking in orphan babies. In the 1780s large discrepancies between the numbers reported to be at the schools, and the actual number found there were found and reported by John Howard, FRS. At that time there were 41 schools and four nurseries in the system. The schools were viewed with the deepest suspicion by Catholics.
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Over the following decades further finance was provided by the British government. The school system was overseen by a Committee of Fifteen who met weekly in Suffolk St. in Dublin. However, the numbers attending fell far short of expectations, despite various stratagems resorted to keep up the intake
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were in full force: the Catholic clergy was outlawed, and no Catholic was permitted "publicly or in private houses teach school, or instruct youth in learning", so there was no source of education for Catholics. The charter was granted in 1733 and the king promised £1,000 per annum. The first school
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in 1785, where he found children being kept in atrocious conditions. Inspections towards the end of the century showed massive abuse of the system, many children receiving little instruction but being used mainly as farm labourers or weavers and subject to squalid conditions, punishment and disease.
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were operated by The Incorporated Society in Dublin for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland. The Charter Schools admitted only Catholics, under the condition that they be educated as Protestants. These schools were intended, in the words of their programme, "to rescue the souls of
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in Ireland, among others, petitioned George II for a charter to set up schools where the children of Irish Catholics would be given free instruction in the English language and the
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in 1748. It was helped by donations and bequests, for example in 1759 A Mr. P. Ramsey donated the interest of £200 to the school, and in 1771 the Rev. John Johnson, Rector of
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religion. Boys would learn a trade and girls domestic skills, and maybe even be given a marriage portion, assuming they remained Protestant. At this time the
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Works of John Howard, F.R.S., 2 Vols. 4th Edn. London, 1792. (a). Vol. I., p. 208 (First Visit, 1782-4) ; (b) Vol. n., pp. 101, 119 (Visit of 1787-8).
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The reputations and population of the schools continued to decrease from the turn of the 19th century until they petered out around mid-century.
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thousands of poor children from the dangers of Popish superstition and idolatry, and their bodies from the miseries of idleness and beggary."
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Letters written by his Excellency, Hugh Boulter, D.D., Lord Primate of Ireland, to several Ministers of State in England, and some others
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donated an acre of land and a further 30 acres (120,000 m) at an economical rate for the use of the school. Hugh Boulter,
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Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Philanthropy and Improvement,
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left £200 to the school. It was closed about 1830 and was converted to baths.
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Works of Rev. John Wesley, A.M., London, 1872. Vol. iv. (Journal), pp. 307-8
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Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland
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on 20 acres (81,000 m) of land donated by the Earl of Kildare.
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T. A. Jackson, Ireland Her Own, Lawerence & Wishart, London,
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Inquiry into Illegal Popish Schools by the House of Lords
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D'Alton: History of the County of Dublin, 1835, p. 254
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D'Alton: History of the County of Dublin, 1835, p. 93
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Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland


Hugh Boulter
Established Church
Protestant
Penal Laws
Castledermot
John Wesley
Ballinrobe
Clontarf
Lord Harrington
Hollymount
County Mayo
Dundalk Grammar School
Santry
Ballymun
Luke Gardiner
Archbishop of Armagh
Ardbraccan
Richard Cassels
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