Excerpt from The Catholic Educational Review, Vol. 6 Under the little ray of sunshine which Governor Bourke 's Act brought to Catholics, Bishop Polding, who arrived in 1836, was enabled to establish about 17 schools, some of them fairly large. Two years later the Irish Sisters of Charity came to the settlement, the first of the many bands of devoted teachers whom the Green Isle has sent to the sunny South. The agitation for the Irish National system was continued under the leadership of Robert Lowe, who later became the English politician, Lord Sherbrooke. Their efforts met with success in 1848, when a National Board was formed to govern 50 schools and a Denominational Board to manage 37 schools, most of which were Catholic. Catholics were not enamoured with this system, which was unfairly administered, but in spite Of obstacles their schools increased. The admirers of secularism attempted repeatedly to Obtain its repeal, which they succeeded in doing in 1866, when the State contained 385 National schools having scholars, and 445 Denominational schools with on the rolls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.