 The only demand on Miss Murray from the Commissioners was that she was required in future to submit all songs to be sung in class for prior approval.Mrs Bourke’s children moved to a Protestant school run under the patronage of Barton in Straffan demesne.The case was regarded as a turning point in the battle between the Colonial authorities and the Irish National Teachers Organisation and school managers for freedom of expression in the Irish classrooms at a time when teachers were instructed to force children to recite poems such as “a happy English child.”