O’Donnell, F.Hugh [Major George Bernard O’Connor / IRA].

The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar [including a chapter: “The Priestly Boycott and the Irish Language” and with an Appendix: “The Mind of the Jesuit Order To-Day on the Killing of Heretics and the Liberty of Peoples”].

London, David Nutt, 1902. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23 cm). XXIII, 202 pages. Hardcover / Recently professionally restored. Modern half-leather-binding with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some pages with some minor browning. From the library of Major George Bernard O’Connor, with his name “O’Connor” on titlepage and his Rochestown address (″Illane Roe, Rochestown, Co.Cork”, to endpaper). O’Connor, of the 6th Dragoons, was identified as spy and executed by the IRA on July 10th, 1921.

Includes chapters like: The Fanar in Turkey and in Ireland / Fanariote Clericalism in Turkey under Moslem Protection / Catholic Finance and Catholic Education / Educational Obstacles to the Queen’s Colleges / The Clerical Boycott of Lay Learning / Education Depressed by Degraded Politics / Casuistic Neutrality and Jesuit Policy / The Legacy of Loyola / Universal Ruin to Lay Learning / The Accomodating Protestants / The Hunt for Fees and the Ruin of Scholars / The Despotism over the National Schoolmasters / Catholic Students at Oxford and Cambridge / Catholic Professors and Clerical Universities / The Mysteries of Fanariote Finance in Ireland / The Worthless Education in Conventual Female Schools / Why no Catholic bequests to a Catholic University / Lay Money and Ecclesiastical Art / A Clerical Novelist on Queen’s College, Galway / A Lapsed Recreation of Jesuit Schools / Jesuits of To-day “De Hereticis Educandis et Comburendis” / The Priestly Boycott and the Irish Language / With an Appendix: “The Mind of the Jesuit Order To-Day on the Killing of Heretics and the Liberty of Peoples”.

• Keywords: Bloody Sunday 1921 · Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue Thirteen – Education · Education – Rare · Education History · Education of Women in Ireland · IRA · Irish History · Irish History – Rare · Irish History of Education · O’Connor, Major George Bernard
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29742AB

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