Conradh na Gaeilge

In England, you'll find a few thousand of perfectly cultivated people, but you'll find the mass of the people singing songs of the music hall.

And even harsher were the words of Douglas Hyde, Douglas de Gieda, our first president, founder of the Gaelic League, who wrote in 1907 of his view that music halls were kind of part of a broader rot that had set in.

Of Ireland, he said, her delightful music, once the joy of the Western world.

was being replaced with the most worthless of foreign trash, her native instruments were being superseded by the concertina and the melodion, and her traditional native songs were being universally replaced by the paltriest and lowest ditties from the music halls of London or of Liverpool.

It's being revitalised especially in urban centres in the early 20th century.

He joins the Gaelic League, which had been established in 1893 to revive the Irish language.

He's actually...

And

[coughs] I mean, when it was started in 1904 by Brían Óg Éad, a Cork woman by the way, I mean, she was very interested in reviving the Gaelic culture.

She was a member of Conradh na Gaeilge, the Gaelic League, and she wanted women to participate in all parts of society, including sports, and she started the Camogie Association.

And at the start, only women were allowed to take positions within the Camogie organization and within clubs so that the women would have the confidence to be able to run these organizations.

And it also meant that they were, didn't have to be depending on, uh, men to do things for them.

Look, it seems to me that the great achievement of Devil Era And many others who made that journey across to the United States from the late 19th century onwards when it became very easy to travel across the Atlantic.

And like, for example, Douglas Hyde, when he was president of the Gaelic League, went over and spent seven months traveling around America raising money for the Gaelic League.

John Redmond raised huge amounts of money for the Home Rule Party.

The Irish-American, who were the Fenian movement in America, they sent vast amounts of money back to Ireland to prepare for the Easter Rising.