The High School Zion Road Rathgar Dublin 6 Tel: 01-4922611 Fax: 01-4924427 office@highschooldublin.com
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The High School Zion Road Rathgar Dublin 6 Tel: 01-4922611 Fax: 01-4924427 office@highschooldublin.com |
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Archive newsWelcome to the Erasmus Smith Trust Archive pages. There are several new additions which include Google maps of the former Trust schools in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland which are on the Schools List page and also an updated listing of our holdings on the Archive Access page. The Archive is also pleased to be able to offer downloadable PDF versions of two books on the history of the Erasmus Smith Trust, High School, Dublin and Diocesan Secondary School for Girls. These can be downloaded from the following links: Faithful to Our Trust, a History of the Erasmus Smith Trust and The High School, Dublin Records and Recollections, a History of the Diocesan Secondary School for Girls 1849-1974
Book offerThe Archive still has limited copies of the book charting the history of the Trust and High School:
Ronnie
Wallace describes his book on the history of the High School and
Erasmus Smith Trust: This
is the first full study of the history of the Erasmus Smith Trust. The Trust was
established in the seventeenth century by Erasmus Smith, a London merchant who
had acquired a very large estate in Ireland during the Cromwellian Plantation,
part of which he gave to support schools in Ireland. A Royal Charter was issued
in 1669. It provided for the setting up of three Grammar Schools: at Tipperary,
Drogheda and Galway. Later, a fourth was founded at Ennis and in the nineteenth
century the Trust supported over two hundred primary schools spread over most of
Ireland. In addition, the Trust was a generous benefactor of Trinity College,
Dublin and the Blue Coat School (King's Hospital). The history of the Trust
casts a fascinating light on the history of the Protestant community in Ireland
over a period of three hundred years. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries its history was controversial, as the Protestant control of its
resources was challenged, culminating in a legal action by which that challenge
was partially successful. The
High School was the last of the schools to be founded and is today the only
school run by the Trust. This book traces in detail the first hundred years of
the School, examining the changing social and political circumstances in which
it operated and their effect on its development. Some of the characters who
enlivened its story, including W. B. Yeats as a schoolboy, are described. The
book ends with the amalgamation with the Diocesan School for Girls. Ronnie
Wallace taught History and English at The High School until his retirement in
1996.
DVD offer
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