for Cork, significantly remarked on the effect produced by the "deliberate exclusion" of any instruction in Irish history from National schools.

It does seem curious that national history should be a forbidden subject in National schools, and this fact makes the appellation of "National" seem rather a misnomer.

The result of this deliberate exclusion was graphically described by the honorable member.

The youth comes forth educated, and at a most impressible age he reads for the first time the history of his country, and burns with indignant desire to avenge her many wrongs.

The consequences are patent to all.