The Hedge School

The irish catholics used to have to attend what was known as a hedge school am a school, thats they were called hedge schools. It was usually like farmhouses and sheds, but we called them hedge schools. And it was where you went to get an illegal education. A lot of these kids learned how to read on a type of book which wasknown as a chap book. The stories in em were the stories of these irish outlaws, these irish folklore heroes.