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The Hedge Schools: Secret Education Under the Penal Laws
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the hedge schools of 18th and early 19th century Ireland—illicit classrooms where Catholic and dissenting children learned reading, writing, and classics under the Penal Laws. They discuss the role of traveling masters, the subjects taught, and figures like William Carleton and the poet Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin. The conversation covers the transition from hedge schools to the National School system in 1831, and the legacy of underground education in Irish memory.
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