{"id":63,"date":"2016-02-12T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/?p=113"},"modified":"2016-02-12T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T20:20:02","slug":"the-stanley-letter-of-1931-establishing-our-national-school-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/2016\/02\/12\/the-stanley-letter-of-1931-establishing-our-national-school-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stanley Letter of 1931 establishing our National School system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our press release issued this morning to coincide with the TCD SU hosted husting event in TCD at lunchtime refers to the Stanley Letter of 1831.nnYou can read a transcript of the original letter on the Department of Education &amp; Skills web-site here:<a href=\"http:\/\/They will require that the sc hools be kept open for a certai n number of hours, on four or five days of the week, at the disc retion of the Commissioners, for moral and literary education only; and that the remain ing one or two days in the week be set apart for giving, separately; such religious education to the children as may be approved by the clergy of their respective persuasions. They will also permit and encourage the cler gy to give religious instruction to the children of their respective persuasions, e ither before or afte r the ordinary school hours, on the other days of the week.\"> http:\/\/ow.ly\/YgIEp<\/a>nnHere is one of the key precepts:n<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"446.7479999999998\">&#8220;They will require that the schools be kept open for a certain number of hours, on four or five days of the week, at the discretion of the Commissioners, for moral and literary education only; and that the remaining one or two days in the week be set apart for giving, separately; such religious education to the children as may be approved by the clergy of their respective persuasions.<\/div>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"304.88999999999993\">They will also permit and encourage the clergy to give religious instruction to the children of their respective persuasions, either before or after the ordinary school hours, on the other days of the week&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"304.88999999999993\"><\/div>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"304.88999999999993\">Article 44.2.4 of our constitution and the present Rules for National Schools #54 and 69 are supposed to give effect to this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our press release issued this morning to coincide with the TCD SU hosted husting event in TCD at lunchtime refers to the Stanley Letter of 1831.nnYou can read a transcript of the original letter on the Department of Education &amp; Skills web-site here: http:\/\/ow.ly\/YgIEpnnHere is one of the key precepts:n &#8220;They will require that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}