The Irish Society - The Irish society for promoting the scriptural education and religious instruction of the Irish-speaking population chiefly through the medium of their own language
In the history of the Irish church Trench chiefly deserves to be remembered for his activity in promoting the remarkable evangelical movement in the west of Ireland which was known in Connaught as the Second Reformation, and which, chiefly through the agency of the Irish Society, made a vigorous effort to win converts to Protestantism.
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Irish historian Joseph Lee in his book The Modernisation of Irish Society evaluated the CDB in the following words: "The Board's promise, in short, generally far exceeded its promise" (p. 129).
He showed that Mason's Grammar was a mass of errors, and that the pocket edition of Bishop Bedell's Irish Bible, issued by the Irish Society under Mason's supervision, was just as inaccurate.
The half-hour show lampooned political and cultural figures in Irish society such as Charles Haughey and Pádraig Flynn.