National Literary Society

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 ...

Maud Gonne became an Irish nationalist during her father's lifetime; she influenced him to espouse the cause of Home Rule. Her growing resolve for political change stemmed from observation of absentee English landlords and Irish...

Activist Constance, Countess Markievicz, addressed the Students' National Literary Society on the topic of Women, Ideals and the Nation. The Inghinidhe na hEireann (Daughters of Ireland ) published the lecture in pamphlet form...

DS 's early exposure to Irish nationalism, Celtic literary revivalism, and political liberalism led her to become involved in Celtic nationalist societies, and made her a member of the Irish Literary Revival or Renaissance, which...

The Society was co-founded by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , while George Sigerson served as president. The Irish National Literary Society in Dublin was also formed in this year.

Shortly after CCM spoke to the Students' National Literary Society in March 1909, her lecture, Women, Ideals and the Nation was published as a pamphlet by the Inghinidhe na hEireann (Daughters of Ireland )...