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It aimed to terminate, among other things, ”the clerically-dictated ban on divorce”, “the
Censorship of Publications Act” and “the system of clerical management, and consequent sectarian teaching, in schools.” The paper also quoted a chairman of a society meeting to the effect that the society “did
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Connolly House, the Workers’ College in
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