Dunmanus School, West Cork, 1890s from Harold Fredreic, ‘Yet these little legged urchins, the young of a population which has hardly changed in a thousand years and lives aloof from the world, without industries or means, and often without enough to eat – these small people wrote out examination papers which would put a village school of Hampshire or Dorset to utter shame. – West Cork History

Dunmanus School, West Cork, 1890s from Harold Fredreic, ‘Yet these little legged urchins, the young of a population which has hardly changed in a thousand years and lives aloof from the world, without industries or means, and often without enough to eat – these small people wrote out examination papers which would put a village school of Hampshire or Dorset to utter shame.

Dunmanus School, West Cork, 1890s from Harold Fredreic, ‘Yet these little legged urchins, the young of a population which has … Continue reading Dunmanus School, West Cork, 1890s from Harold Fredreic, ‘Yet these little legged urchins, the young of a population which has hardly changed in a thousand years and lives aloof from the world, without industries or means, and often without enough to eat – these small people wrote out examination papers which would put a village school of Hampshire or Dorset to utter shame.