The position of the primary teachers is unsatisfactory, that of the secondary teachers is impossible.

When we attempt improvement of both will "Ulster" fight?
And there is something even more human and poignant.

The National Schools of this country are in many cases no better than ramshackle barns.

Unless the teacher and the manager, out of their own pockets, mend the broken glass, put plaster on the walls, and a fire in the grate, the children have got to shiver and cough for it.

Winter in Ireland, like the King in constitutional theory, is above politics.