School: Ballyhack Convent

Location:
Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
An tSr Treasa
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    public affairs would be discussed with as keen an interest as they would in the Forum or the Senate among the great assemblies of mankind. In a word it was in these rude schools of thought that our forefathers learned to fight the battles of their religious and political emancipation. Let us not forget that these were the fountains of thought to which we owe the liberties which we enjoy to-day.
    With the establishment of the Protestant religion the main body of the people who held true to the ancient faith, were not only deprived of the churches which their forefathers built but they were forbidden to build new ones. In the eyes of the law a Roman Catholic was not supposed to exist. It was only by stealth and in disguise that the priest could visit his
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    Ramsgrange, Co. Wexford