By setting authority on one side, and popular religion on the other, they made a breach of the law a pious and meritorious act.

The bane of English rule in Ireland at that time was the treatment of Catholics as enemies, and the, Charter Schools which Froude praises were employed for the purpose of alienating children from the faith of their parents.

This mean and paltry persecution strengthened instead of weakening the Roman Catholic Church.
-- * England in the Eighteenth Century, ii.

365.
-- Meanwhile Froude continued his History, and by the beginning of the year 1874 had brought it down to the Union, with which it concludes.
No more unsparing indictment of a nation has ever been drawn.

Except Lord Clare, and the Orange Lodges, formed after the Battle of the Diamond, scarcely an Irishman or an Irish institution spared.