New Posts For Thread: Hedge Schoolshttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29390805/hedge-schools"Schoolhouses are in general wretched huts,built of sods in the highway ditches from which circumstances they are designated hedge schools.they have neither door,window or chimney,a large hole serving for light and to let out smoke.a low narrow wallYeah fair fecks to them,not even for the soup either.https://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29390805/hedge-schools?post_id=524332845#524332845Yeah fair fecks to them,not even for the soup either.Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:43:54 -0500It doesn't seem like many converted despite considerable incentive. Remarkable really.If one was to re-introduce a modern set of penal laws (For example; no Catholic may own a mobile phone etc. etc.) there would't be a Catholic left in the country whttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29390805/hedge-schools?post_id=524332801#524332801It doesn't seem like many converted despite considerable incentive. Remarkable really.If one was to re-introduce a modern set of penal laws (For example; no Catholic may own a mobile phone etc. etc.) there would't be a Catholic left in the country wThu, 20 Sep 2012 17:41:11 -0500It wasn,t that bad, they could own a half decent horse.https://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29390805/hedge-schools?post_id=524332613#524332613It wasn,t that bad, they could own a half decent horse.Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:30:49 -0500The Penal Laws were a tad harsh;Exclusion of Catholics from most public offices (since 1607), Presbyterians were also barred from public office from 1707.Ban on intermarriage with Protestants; repealed 1778Presbyterian marriages were not legally recohttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29390805/hedge-schools?post_id=524332349#524332349The Penal Laws were a tad harsh;Exclusion of Catholics from most public offices (since 1607), Presbyterians were also barred from public office from 1707.Ban on intermarriage with Protestants; repealed 1778Presbyterian marriages were not legally recoThu, 20 Sep 2012 17:17:35 -0500"Schoolhouses are in general wretched huts,built of sods in the highway ditches from which circumstances they are designated hedge schools.they have neither door,window or chimney,a large hole serving for light and to let out smoke.a low narrow wallhttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29390805/hedge-schools?post_id=524331461#524331461"Schoolhouses are in general wretched huts,built of sods in the highway ditches from which circumstances they are designated hedge schools.they have neither door,window or chimney,a large hole serving for light and to let out smoke.a low narrow wallThu, 20 Sep 2012 16:39:47 -0500