Gaelic League

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Literary responses Charlotte Brooke
CB was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting , who edited in 1796 the first volume...
Friends, Associates Ella Hepworth Dixon
She often stayed with Count and Countess Lützow in Bohemia, where in 1903 she met Sibell, Countess of Cromartie , whom she described as one of my firmest friends ever since.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
71
Through the...
Education Augusta Gregory
AG began studying the Irish language with the Gaelic League 's London branch.
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, pp. 143-62.
145
Occupation Augusta Gregory
With the help of Douglas Hyde and her Irish-language teacher Norma Borthwick , AG helped to found a branch of the Gaelic League in Galway.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin.
51
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, pp. 143-62.
145-6
Publishing Augusta Gregory
AG 's lengthy essay Ireland, Real and Ideal, published in Nineteenth Century, commended the work of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society and the Gaelic League .
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
532
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, pp. 143-62.
149, 414n25
Occupation Augusta Gregory
Although most of the plays produced by the Irish Literary Theatre were performed in English, the founders tried hard to get friends in the Gaelic League to put on plays in the Irish language.
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
83
Friends, Associates Augusta Gregory
In October 1897 AG met and became a friend of the founder of the Gaelic League , Douglas Hyde .
Murphy, Maureen. “Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, pp. 143-62.
145
She had tremendous respect for Hyde, whom she called [f]irst among the builders of...
politics Augusta Gregory
AG 's politics remain the subject of critical debate. The difficulty arises over the fact that, as Colm Tóibín puts it, she managed to inhabit two ideologies—that of the landlord and that of the nationalist—at...
Publishing Augusta Gregory
Published by the Unicorn Press in London, the collection gathers articles that first appeared in such journals as the New Ireland Review, the All Ireland Review, the Claidhearn Soluis, and the...
Publishing Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
COCE published with An Cló-Chumann of Dublin, in a second edition, a leaflet, Simple advice to be followed by all who desire the good of Ireland, and especially by Gaelic Leaguers.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Sigerson
George Sigerson , DS 's father, was a doctor specialising in nervous disorders (a new area of research), a poet, and a Gaelic scholar. He lectured on biology at the National University of Ireland ...
Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
Among those who frequented KT 's salon were George Russell (Æ), Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader John O'Leary , Gaelic scholar and revivalist Douglas Hyde (founder of the Gaelic League , 1893), and George Sigerson

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31 July 1893: The Gaelic League was founded, with Douglas...

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31 July 1893

The Gaelic League was founded, with Douglas Hyde as president, to promote Irish language and native culture in a non-denominational manner.

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