A History of Our Own Times, From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the ...
A History of Our Own Times, From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the ...
Mccarthy Justin
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. The proposal of the Government was to establish in Ireland three colleges, one in Cork, the second in Belfast, and the third in Galway, and to affiUate these to a new university to be called the * Queen's Univer- sity in Ireland.' The teaching in these colleges was to be purely secular. Nothing could be more admir- able than the intentions of Peel and his colleagues. Nor could it be denied that there might have been good seeming hope for a plan which thus proposed to open a sort of neutral gr...ound in the educational controversy. But from both sides of the House and from the extreme party in each Church came an equally fierce denunciation of the proposal to sepa- rate secular fix)m religious education. Nor surely could the claim of the Irish Catholics be said even by the warmest advocate of undenominational edu- cation to have no reason on its side. The small minority of Protestants in Ireland had their college and their university established as a distinctively Pro- Digitized by Google 1844.
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