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The Scholar's Pleasant Life: The History of Irish Education - The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century, by Donald H. Akenson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. 430 + x pp. $12.50. - National School Inspection in Ireland: The Beginnings, by E. Ó Héideáin. Dublin: Scepter Books, 1967. 21s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

J. W. Boyle
J. W. Boyle*
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Mount Allison University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Summer 1971 , pp. 195 - 203
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1. Ó Canainn, Pádraig, ed., Filiocht na nGael (Dublin: An Press Náisiúnta, 1958), p. 216. See also a free translation in Frank O'Connor, Kings, Lords and Commons (London: Macmillan & Co., 1962), p. 72.Google Scholar

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