![]() ![]() The collection in UCC Library has 280 books. The Representative Church Body Library in Dublin has a different minute book of the Green Coat School (Manuscript 986). It comprises the minutes of the trustees since the foundation of the Hospital and from these minutes was extracted the rare valuable report of the School Manor as ‘Pietas Corc.’ They are very valuable and important.” It is probable for this reason that it was seen as waste paper and that the first page is page 13. Underneath the note Dr Lee has written: “Given to me as ‘waste paper which I have bound. ” Philip G Lee was a doctor and local Cork historian. There is a note inside the front end paper of the Green Coat School Minute Book: “Given into the care of the Rector Rev. UCC Library’s copy of the Green Coat School Minute Book (U.335) was donated by Brian Smyth, Dublin in the late 1990s. The collection was deposited in UCC in the late 1990s. “South Prospect of the Green Coat Hospital, Cork.” Pietas Corcagiensis. Harris was a noted Cork engraver and he provided the plates. In UCC Library’s copies the plates are present whereas they’re frequently removed. ![]() This circular is signed by Richard Lee, treasurer and grandfather to Dr Philip G Lee, and is dated 28 January 1822.įurthermore Maule wrote about his intentions for forming the Green Coat School in Pietas Corcagiensis: or, A view of the Green-coat Hospital and other charitable foundations in the parish of St. However by the end of the 18 th century the School had declined (McCann 108) and as evidenced from a circular within UCC Library’s copy of the Green Coat School Minute Book soliciting funds for the School’s Trustees. Maule was instrumental in its success: “Maule toured Europe, to investigate similar schemes” ( DiIB). From its founding to midway through the 18 th century the school was a prototype and model to follow in the Irish coat and charter school movement and “the movement’s equation of Protestantism with civilisation and industry gave the schools additional meaning in the Irish context” ( DiIB). Henry Maule (1676?–1758), as rector of Shandon (1706–26), was closely associated with the founding of the Green Coat School and served as a trustee. ![]() “Building B in the centre of the map is Green Coat Hospital & School.” William Beauford. The school was vocationally oriented and in UCC Library’s Green Coat School Minute Book (U.335) trustees’ descriptions noted which students were bound out as apprentices to a variety of trades such as bookbinders, button-makers and seamstresses (23 June 1719). The School was so called because the uniform was green and keeping the uniform was dependent on good behaviour and knowing one’s catechism. The school started as a private foundation for the children of poor Protestant families on the north-side of Cork City in Ireland. The Green Coat School, also known as ‘Shandon Charity School’ and ‘St Mary Shandon Corke’ opened in 1717 and first admitted twenty boys and twenty girls. ![]() The Green Coat School Collection is now held in UCC Library but was originally formed in Cork City during the 18 th century under the aegis of the Green Coat School trustees. ![]()
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