Gaelic League Pamphlets. No. 1 – No. 9 (1900) A collection of Nine Pamphlets. Bound together in green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Cloth lightly stained, contents in nice bright condition.

Gaelic League pamphlets on the Irish language and contemporary educational establishments. Contributors include Douglas Hyde: ‘A University Scandal;’ Rev M.P. O’Hickey: ‘Irish in the Schools; & ‘the Future of Irish in the National Schools;’ Edward Martin: ‘Ireland’s Battle for her Language;’ From the Irish Times: ‘Parliament and the Teaching of Irish;’ etc.

Founded in July 1893 by Eoin MacNéill to preserve and extend the use of Irish as a spoken language, the Gaelic League was the most important organization associated with the Gaelic revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although the League failed to convince a significant percentage of the population to use Irish as their everyday medium of social intercourse, it raised public consciousness of Gaelic culture, engaged in campaigns to include Irish in school curricula, inspired a modern literature in Gaelic, and energized the nationalist movement in the years before 1916.