hedge-schoolmaster

Then he became a hedge-schoolmaster, and the manner in which he attained to this position was peculiar.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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.

Emily Brontë 1900

And if they are still sung there, it is not, I think, for the sake of the kings, but for the sake of the poets who made them -- Red-haired Owen O'Sullivan, potato-digger, harvestman, hedge-schoolmaster, whose poems are still the joy of the Munster people;

Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892

Old Mr. Saggarton is one of them; he had his learning from a hedge-schoolmaster in the old times; and he looks down on the narrow teaching of the National Schools; and he was once in jail for nine months, having been taken in the very act of making

Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892

Usquebaugh Shop in Cork, a hedge-schoolmaster among the Bogtrotters -- a wild, savage kind of People, that infest the Southern parts of that fertile but distracted kingdom -- a teacher of the Mathematics in Belfast, and a fiddler going about to wakes and weddings in the county of Galway.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

The mistress of a dame-school can hear spelling-lessons; and any hedge-schoolmaster can drill boys in the multiplication-table.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

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

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

A hedge-schoolmaster was then held in such respect and veneration, that no matter how cruel or profligate he might be, his person and character, unless in some extraordinary case of cruelty, resulting in death or mutilation, were looked upon as free from all moral or legal responsibility.

The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

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

The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

Denis's hearth was selected; at others, a neighboring wakehouse, and not unfrequently the chapel-green, where, surrounded by a crowd of eager listeners, the young priest and his Latin would succeed in throwing the hedge-schoolmaster and his problems completely into the shade.

Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831