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The gaelic revival ( In 1887, Limerick beat Louth in the first All…
The gaelic revival
- In 1887, Limerick beat Louth in the first All Ireland Football Final.
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- Dr Douglas Hyde, Eoin Mac Neill and 5 other men met in a small room at 9 Lower O Connell Street in Dublin. These 7 men were united in their love of the Irish Language.
2 more results of famine = decline in speaking irish. Emigration English was now spoken and many irish costumes and traditions disappeared
4 They wanted to promote Irish culture, games, pastimes, music, dance,writing and storytelling.
- In 1880 michael Cusack decided to set up a new organisation (Gaelic athletic association. G.A.A) to encourage people to play Hurling, Gaelic football, rounders and handball. He got support from Maurice Davin.
6..On the first of November 1884 Davin and Cusack held a meeting in Hazel hotel, in county Tipperary. At that meeting the G.A.A was established. In 1884,Davin became the first president of the G.AA and Michael Cusack became the first secretary. Athletics was concentrated on first and then football and Hurling. Later on Irish dancing and Music and Irish speaking were encouraged.The Irish were also asked to buy Irish goods to keep jobs in Ireland.
- By 1886 clubs had been set up in almost every parish in Ireland and inter-county competitions were introduced.
1 Famine= 1845 to1850 consequence of famine = population decrease to about just 4 million people.Before there was 8 million but 1 million died and 2 million emigrated (moved to different countries)
- Archbishop Croke of Cashel was the first Patron of the GAA. Croke Park is named after him.
- The Cusack Stand in Croke Park is named in honour of Michael Cusack.
- In 1893 9 years after the GAA was established, the Gaelic League was founded.
3.Three people named Michael Cusack, Maurice Davin and Doctor Douglas Hyde began to take an interest in the revival of everything Irish
- Douglas Hyde was elected as the first President of the Gaelic League.
- The main aims of the gaelic League were: to preserve the Irish language, to promote the study and publication of existing Gaelic literature and to cultivate the writing of modern Irish literature.
- By 1897 there were only 36 branches of the organisation throughout Ireland so the leaders of the Gaelic League decided to organise classes in Irish for those who were unable to speak Irish.
- Fr Eugene O' Growney wrote 3 books on how to learn Irish easily and quickly. By the end of 1897 over 30000 copies of these books were sold.
- In 1898, the first edition of a new 8 page bilingual (in both English and Irish) newspaper called Fainne an Lae was published. This carried the news of the day to Irish people living in England and America.
- In 1899, a new weekly newspaper called an claidheamh Soluis was published. This became the official paper of the Gaelic League.
- By 1908 more than 600 branches of the Gaelic League had been formed throughout Ireland.
- By the end of the 19th century several old Irish legends and stories had been translated into English. One of these writers was William Butler Yeats (WB Yeats). He wrote poems and plays about ancient Irish heroes. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Douglas Hyde was not only the first President of Conradh na Gaeilge, in 1938 he retired from his job as Professor of Irish in UCD and became Ireland's first President. He took up office in the old Vice-Regal Lodge in Phoenix Park and this building became known as Aras an Uachtaran.
- In 1904, Lady Gregory, Yeats and John Millington Synge established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The Theatre opened on 27 December 1904 where 3 short 1 act plays were performed. 2 of the plays were On Baile's Strand and Cathleen Ni Houlihan, by Yeats, and the third, Spreading the News, was written by Lady Gregory.
- Disaster struck in 1951 when the theatre was destroyed by fire. Fortunately for the people of Ireland, it was rebuilt in 1966 after a delay of 15 years.