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2 unusual facts about The Irish Society


Irish Society

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

The Irish Society

A teaching mission was set up in the Kingscourt area of County Cavan, and the success of the venture encouraged the Society to establish charity schools to promote education through the Irish language.



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Owen Connellan

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.