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“This book, which is written in a flowing and elegant style, will be gratefully accepted as the best hand-book on an important subject which has yet appeared.”—Irish Times.
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“Every page of it is interesting.”—Scotsman.
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Footnotes:
[1] “It would be futile,” says O’Curry, “to attempt to give any close and detailed account of the state of education in this country before the Christian era.”—Lectures, vol. ii., page 49.
[2] See Dr. O’Rorke’s excellent History of Sligo, vol. ii., page 7.