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Based on research he had himself conducted in Europe and North
America, in 1865 Vere published in Belfast his own Head Line Copy Books. Sold for a penny, one million went into circulation in the first year. Copy books to teach business and accounting, drawing and painting followed. By 1872, Foster
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it is more pleasing, to be at peace than at enmity with one’s fellow creatures, and… that superior pleasure is derivable from doing that which is agreeable to the best interests of society rather than the contrary. This appears to me to be a practical religion, based on common sense and the best
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He then decided "to comprehend in the most practical manner every conceivable aspect of an endeavour or transaction in which he became involved." Dressed as a poor emigrant, with a former
Glasnevin teacher, James Ward, in 1850 he travelled
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After the Famine, and recognising the problem illiteracy had posed emigrants, Foster took up the cause of national education in
Ireland. This was a time of sectarian opposition to the national education system introduced by
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in the hope of being able assist in the promotion of progressive techniques that would improve both the quantity and quality of foodstuffs produced in
Ireland, and reduce the fatal dependence of poorer tenant farmers and
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who had taken a similar passage to Canada in 1847, helped prompt public debate and led to new legislation in
Britain, Canada and the United States to regulate and improve the provision for emigrants aboard ship.
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His name is remembered in
Belfast in the Vere Foster Medical Practices on Sandy Row and the Falls Road, the former Vere Foster Primary School (1963-2011) on the Upper Springfield Road, and Vere Foster Walk
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Foster died, unmarried, at
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on the potato. But such was the nature of landholding in
Ireland and the scale of the crisis, that he believed that for many the surer prospect lay in emigration.
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Leaving Oxford without a degree, Foster joined the diplomatic service on an unpaid basis. From 1842 to 1843 he was attached to the diplomatic mission of
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interests of mankind, to combine all the advantages of all other religions, with none of their mystery or faults.
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722:"De Vere, Sir Stephen Edward | Dictionary of Irish Biography"
641:"Vere Foster - One of the greatest men you've never heard of"
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In 1879, with agricultural prices depressed and a developing
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