Transcriber’s Notes: A number of obvious typos have been corrected. Except for these corrections, the spelling and punctuation of the book have not been changed. Underscores are used for italic markup; the three words that end this sentence _are in italics_. In the source book there are 539 footnotes numbered by chapter, so that footnote number 1 is the first footnote in each chapter. In this e-book the footnotes and their markers have been renumbered from 1 to 539 thus giving each footnote a unique marker that consists of a number enclosed by square brackets. All the footnotes have been moved to the end of the book where each footnote is headed by its marker. THE EARLY IRISH MONASTIC SCHOOLS THE EARLY IRISH MONASTIC SCHOOLS A STUDY OF IRELAND’S CONTRIBUTION TO EARLY MEDIEVAL CULTURE BY HUGH GRAHAM, M.A. _Professor of Education, College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A._ [Illustration] DUBLIN THE TALBOT PRESS LIMITED 85 TALBOT STREET 1923 PRINTED IN IRELAND AT THE TALBOT PRESS DUBLIN TO IRISH TEACHERS WHO, TRUE TO THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR RACE, SERVE HUMANITY IN MANY LANDS BY LIVES CONSECRATED TO RELIGION AND LEARNING PREFACE The aim of the present study is to give within reasonable limits a critical and fairly complete account of the Irish Monastic Schools which flourished prior to 900 A.D.