in class for prior approval. Mrs Bourke’s children moved to a Protestant school run under the patronage of Barton in Straffan demesne. Significance The case was regarded as a turning point in the battle between the Colonial authorities and the Irish National Teachers Organisation and school managers for freedom of expression in the Irish classrooms at a time when teachers were instructed to force children to recite poems such as “a happy English child.” Notes References Gabriel Doherty: National Identity and the Study of Irish History in “The English Historical Review,” Vol. 111, No. 441 (April 1996), pp. 332–3 (Oxford University Press). John Rooney: The poetry of Nora J Murray in Carrick on Shannon remembered p 57. (1996) Nora J Murray: A Wind Upon the Heath (1918) Eoghan Corry and Jim Tancred: Annals of Ardclough (1914) Freeman’s Journal November 29, 1917. Leinster Leader December 1, 1917, March 30, 1918, August 18, 1918, August 31, 1918, November 30, 1918. Leitrim Observer December 1, 1917 1917 in Ireland History of education in Ireland