Jim D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Dorothy Macardle was a Dundalk girl of course. To quote Yeats:

Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?

I am not suggesting for a moment that the proposers of the motion are in this category. Nevertheless, I believe, as my grandmother used to say, that forced prayer is no devotion. The most important thing about history as a subject in secondary schools is not whether it is compulsory, but the quality and content of the programme, -----