Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . o theland; but their efforts in Parliament for laud reform werefruitless. The Irish Intermediate Education Act, which was passedin 1>S78, provides for intermediate (or secondary) education, byyearly public examination of students, by awarding prizes andexhibitions to successful students, and by paying results feesunder certain conditions to managers of schools. The expensesare defrayed from a portion of t
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . o theland; but their efforts in Parliament for laud reform werefruitless. The Irish Intermediate Education Act, which was passedin 1>S78, provides for intermediate (or secondary) education, byyearly public examination of students, by awarding prizes andexhibitions to successful students, and by paying results feesunder certain conditions to managers of schools. The expensesare defrayed from a portion of the funds of the DisestablishedChurch. , like the National System of Piiniaiy Educa-tion, has been very successful. 18S5] IRE LA SB. 883 The condition of the small fariiiing classes continued so The Landalarming that the land now overshadowed all others ; ®^^^-and about 1879 the Land League was formed by Michael iJavitt,a league destined to exercise a most important influence onIrish aftairs. In the following year Charles Stewart rarnell, thegreatest figure in Irish political history of the latter half of thecentury, became the leader of the Irish ]iarty. In the same. AFTER THE EXPLOSIOX IX fLKRKENWELL, 1807.(/.ejji-uidim; by pefmission of Ike Imprielors of the Illnstmletl y, ws.) year (1«80) there was a (leneral Election (p. 533), and theLiberals came into power with an overwhelming land agitation grew more violent than ever, for evictionsrather increased than diuunished, and the practice of boy-cotting began to be resorted to. The methods of the peoplewere similar to those carried on during the tithe war (p. 148),and for a time boycotting became a leading feature in the landagitation. An misuccessful attempt to convict and punish theleaders of the Land League was followed by Mr. ForstersCoercion Act, giving power to arrest all persons reasonablysuspected of certain specified offences. AVhile this Bill waspassing through Parliament, the sys
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