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Excerpt from The Traveller the Elegy
It had been originally determined that Oliver should be put to a trade when comparatively young, for the small income and large family of his father seemed to make it impossible for him to receive as thorough an education as his elder brother but soon after this time the entreaties of his mother produced a change in the family plans, and Oliver was removed from the village school, first to Elphin, then to Athlone, and lastly to Edgeworthstown, that he might be prepared for the University. As a school-boy he was quick and clever, though certainly not too indus trions but he gave sufficient promise of future excellence to induce some wealthy friends and kinsmen - among whom may be mentioned especially the Rev. Thomas Contatine - to contribute largely to the expenses of his education.
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