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Extract from the Ballitore Travel Guides:
BALLITORE
is an old Quaker village where the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish political philosopher
Edmund Burke
(1729-97) was educated in the school run by Quaker Abraham Shackleton - a good example of the religious toleration that it seems the British government was prepared to grant anyone but Catholics. Born in Dublin of a Catholic mother and Protestant father, Burke went on to attend Trinity College, and, moving to London in 1750, he kept company with some of the leading figures of the time, among them Oliver Goldsmith (also a Trinity graduate), Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds. His most important works are
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