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What hedge-schoolmaster has scattered them so loosely and profusely over this lovely land?

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Maginn was a wit, Mahony was the hedge-schoolmaster in excelsis, and Carleton was the first realist in Irish peasant fiction.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

In the Irish-speaking portions of the country the hedge-schoolmaster was often also a poet who wrote mellifluous songs in Irish, which were sung throughout the entire district and sometimes earned him enduring fame.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

At twenty hedge-schoolmaster at Drumgooland, Patrick Brontë was at thirty a respectable clergyman of the Church of England, with an assured position and respectable clerical acquaintance.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

O'Beirne, it is true, was an excellent specimen of the hedge-schoolmaster, but nothing at all to be compared to Frayne.

From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William