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Show School Teachers Prominent. To leap Into the limelight in Ireland It Is uppnrently first necessary to be a school teacher a tradition perhaps from the Middle ages, when Ireland was the most learned of the rations. To enumerate: James Joyce and Daniel Dan-iel Corkery, two oT Erin's most generally gen-erally recognized men of letters), were both school teachers. Three leaders of the Easter week rebellion of 1I)1G Padralc Peilrse, headmaster of a boys school; Thomas McDonongb, who was executed with Vcnr6e and who hud been a teacher In bis school, and Joseph Phmkeft were oil of the same profession. De Valeru was a professor at Itublln university, os li Professor McNeil, the speaker of the dull. MIks Mary MncSwIney, sister of the hunger-striking mayor of Cork, is also an educator. To. return to the author of "The Portrait of the Author us a Young Man" and the proscribed "Ulysses," James Joyce taught languages lan-guages In various schools In Fn Ere, Italy and Switzerland, while he was at work on his Italian novels. |