This decision was, for me, much more revolutionary than any Rising. It influenced my life more than any other political act. O’Malley’s announcement was dramatic in its content, but also in its blunt expression of anger at the class system underpinned by educational apartheid. He spoke of the one-third of children emerging from primary school who got no further education, training or opportunity for ‘cultural development’: ‘This is a dark stain on the national conscience. For it means that one-third of our people have been condemned – the great majority through no fault of their own – to be
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