Some Passages in the Early History of Classical Learning in Ireland: An ...
Some Passages in the Early History of Classical Learning in Ireland: An ...
Dodgson Hamilton Madden
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It is written by a school- master in the county of Kerry, who speaks from information derived from his father. He mentions the names of three families, strongly suggestive of Celtic origin, inhabitants of a little village on the sea-coast of Kerry, " who were so well educated that they always carried on their conversation in Latin when they did not want the rest of the village to know what they were talking about ; and they even disputed about their local differences in that tongue." It is to b...e regretted t£at more writers did not, like Mr. T. Crofton Croker, record their experience of the Ireland of the VESTIGES OF ANCIENT LEARNING. 49 a deeply interesting note appended to a passage in a handbook on Ancient Irish Civilization^ by the publication of which Dr. Joyce has rendered more generally accessible some of the stores of learning collected in his Social History of Ancient Ireland, Writing of " the simple, rough-and-ready methods and appliances of the old Irish colleges," he explains how " there were no comfortable study-rooms, well furnished with desks, seats, and rostrums ; no spacious lecture halls.
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