Maynooth Grant increased to aid education in Ireland

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Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin), Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

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Education

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Date of occurrence 1845-06-30

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Ireland, Republic of (Eire) (Location; Involved)
Northern Ireland (Location)

British Prime Minister Robert Peel attempts to conciliate the Irish via the Maynooth Grant, which rules that a Catholic seminary at Maynooth will have its funding increased from £9000 per annum to £26 000. Peel claims that this would produce a better-educated and more reasonable clergy, but many Protestants are hostile to the measure, although it does eventually pass.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Maynooth Grant increased to aid education in Ireland". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 December 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=18088, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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