book x. chs. i., ii., iii.; Graham Balfour's 'The Educational System of

Great Britain and Ireland,' pp. 203-218; and the Reports of the two Commissions of 1854-57 and of 1878-80, of which the heads were Lord Kildare and the Earl of Rosse.

[188] See the resolutions in Duffy's 'Young Ireland,' pp. 713, 714. There has been much misrepresentation on this subject.

[189] See 'The Problem of Irish Education,' by Butt, a masterly and impartial tract.

[190] See for the figures 'The Irish University Question,' by Archbishop Walsh, _passim_.

[191] For further information on the history and the present state of the University system in Ireland, see 'The History of the University of Dublin,' by the Rev. J. W. Stubbs, and 'The Constitutional History of the University of Dublin,' by D. C. Heron; Howley on 'Universities;' 'What is meant by Freedom of Education,' by the O'Conor Don; 'University Education,' by an Irish Protestant Celt; and especially 'The Problem of Irish Education,' by Butt. See also the Irish University Debates in Hansard for 1873, and the very able debate in Trinity College. The reader, too, may be referred to Mr. Barry O'Brien's 'Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland,' book xi.; to Mr. Graham Balfour's 'Educational Systems of Great Britain and Ireland,' pp. 273-288; to Mr. Godkin's 'Education in Ireland;' and to Archbishop Walsh's 'The Irish University Question.'

[192] Too much is not to be made of 'Nationalist' clamour; but these remarks of Mr. Dillon, M.P., are significant (_Freeman's Journal_, April 13, 1901): 'I do not believe that these movements will ever succeed ... until that fortress of English domination and anti-Irish bigotry, Trinity College, is for ever swept away, or there is placed opposite to it a truly National University, where the most honoured classes will be the classes of Irish literature and Irish history.' Archbishop Walsh, a much abler man, has written in the same sense in his work, 'The Irish University Question.' The question, he contends, in many passages, must be settled by levelling up or by levelling down, that is, by raising the Catholic University to the position of Trinity College, or by disestablishing and disendowing Trinity College. The evil precedent of the Act disestablishing the Anglican Church in Ireland, will, it is hoped, be eschewed.

[193] See on this subject Mr. Lough's 'England's Wealth, Ireland's Poverty,' pp. 88-94.

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