Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
The Irish university question has been put off from year to year, and at length presses for settlement. In the best interests of Ireland, may the same thing be written thirty years hence!
1st Baron Macaulay. Ireland had no Catholic university at the time. Yet the issues surrounding a potential Catholic university were colored by the politics of the day. Should Protestants attend? Who would select and supervise the faculty ? What about tuition and fees? Should politics be taught? From which point of view? Even academic scholars like Macaulay could not grapple with the issues and hence all action was delayed. See {617687} for a contemporary lay point of view.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859, British Historian & Secretary of War (Liberal), Member of Parliament
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There was no Catholic university in Ireland at the time. Unlike England where Catholic students attended both Catholic and Protestant schools, the Irish Priests were opposed to Catholic young men attending Protestant schools. See {617782} for the view of a leading academic of the era.
- Born: October 25, 1800
- Died: December 28, 1859
- Nationality: British
- Profession: Politician, Historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century.
