Culture

• The Gaelic League:

  • Founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill
  • Its aim was to promote the Irish language as they feared its extinction
  • An Claideamh Soluis - a newspaper that published poems and short stories in Irish/Gaeilge
  • They trained travelling teachers 'timiri' to teach Irish to communities
  • Feiseanna and ceilidhe were organised to encourage Irish dancing and music
  • They aimed to increase the standard of written Irish nationwide
• Irish Literary Revival: a movement that aimed to promote Irish literature and cultural heritage.
• Irish Literary Society:

  • Founded by Douglas Hyde and others in 1892
  • Aimed to promote new literary works
  • Its content consisted of literature that was Irish in character, theme and content but English in print.
• Irish Literary Theatre:

  • Established in 1899 by W.B. Yeats and the Protestant Ascendancy
  • Opened the Abbey Theatre in 1904
  • Cultural nationalism was achieved