Having said so much, by way of preface, as to the position of Catholic and Protestant in Ireland with reference to education, and their relative value to the commonwealth, let us now consider the succes sive efforts made by the United Kingdom to educate the Irish Catholics so as to make them better citi zens, and let us try to understand the long game of cross-purposes which has been played between the British Government and the Roman ecclesiastics in Ireland, giving due credit to both sides for good intentions, and admitting that each side acted for the best from its own point of view.

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