The Hedge School

By William Carleton

The Hedge School - William Carleton
  • Release Date: 2018-08-15
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

Description

Excerpt: "There never was a more unfounded calumny, than that which would impute to the Irish peasantry an indifference to education. I may, on the contrary, fearlessly assert that the lower orders of no country ever manifested such a positive inclination for literary acquirements, and that, too, under circumstances strongly calculated to produce carelessness and apathy on this particular subject."