Late in 1917 these allegations reappeared in the form of a complaint about "seditious teaching" filed to the National School commissioners in the name of Mrs Bourke, who said that her child had been discriminated against because he was the son of a British soldier [REF].
Mrs Bourke informed the Commissioners that the teacher "instructs the children always to hate the British and tells them when they grow up she hopes they will fight and die for an Irish Republic," phrases uncannily similar to the complaints used by Bertram Barton [REF].