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Conradh na Gaeilge
AbbreviationCnaG
Formation31 July 1893;130 years ago(1893-07-31)
FounderDouglas Hyde
TypeNon-governmental organisation
Headquarters6 Harcourt Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
FieldsIrish languagepromotion
Gaelic revival
Secretary General
Julian de Spáinn
President
Paula Melvin
SubsidiariesRaidió Rí-Rá
Websitecnag.ie
Formerly called
Gaelic League

Conradh na Gaeilge(Irish pronunciation:[ˈkɔn̪ˠɾˠən̪ˠəˈɡeːlʲɟə];historically known in English as theGaelic League) is a social and cultural organisation which promotes theIrish languagein Ireland and worldwide. The organisation was founded in 1893 withDouglas Hydeas its first president, when it emerged as the successor of several 19th century groups such as the Gaelic Union. The organisation was a spearhead of theGaelic revivaland ofGaeilgeoiractivism.

While Hyde succeeded in drawingunioniststo the League, the organisation increasingly gave expression to thenationalistimpulse behind the language revival. From 1915, members of its executive acknowledged the leadership of theIrish Republican Brotherhoodin the struggle forIrish statehood.After the creation of theIrish Free State,and limited advances with respect to the teaching and official use of the language, many members transferred their commitment to the new institutions, political parties and education system.

In 2008, Conradh na Gaeilge adopted a new constitution, dropping the post-1915 references to "Irish freedom", while reaffirming the ambition to restore Irish as the language of everyday life throughout Ireland. InNorthern Ireland,it campaigned for anIrish Language Act.In the absence of an agreedStormont executive,in 2022 theWestminster Parliamentincorporated many of its proposed provisions in theIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act.

Foundation: 'De-Anglicising Ireland "[edit]

Advertisement for the Gaelic League in theGaelic Journal,June 1894. The English text reads "This Association has been founded solely to keep the Irish Language spoken in Ireland. If you wish the Irish Language to live on the lips of Irishmen, help this effort according to your ability!"

Conradh na Gaeilge,the Gaelic League, a successor toUlick Bourke's earlier Gaelic Union, was formed in 1893, at a time whenIrishas a spoken language appeared to be on the verge of extinction. Analysis of the 1881 Census showed that at least 45% of those born in Ireland in the first decade of the 19th century had been brought up as Irish speakers.[1]Figures from the 1891 census suggested that just 3.5% were being raised speaking the language.[2]Ireland had become an overwhelmingly English-speaking country. Spoken mainly by peasants and farm labourers in the poorer districts of the west of Ireland, Irish was widely seen, in the words ofMatthew Arnold,as "the badge of a beaten race."[3]

The first aim of the League was to maintain the language in theGaeltacht,the largely western districts in which spoken Irish survived. The late 20th-centuryGaeilgeoiractivistAodán Mac Póilinnotes, however, that "the main ideological impact of the language movement was not in theGaeltacht,but among English-speaking nationalists ". The League developed" both a conservationist and a revivalist role ".[4]

The League's first presidentDouglas Hyde(Dúbhghlás de hÍde), the son of aChurch of IrelandrectorfromCounty Roscommon,helped create an ethos in the early days that attracted a number ofunionistsinto its ranks. Remarkably, these included the Rev. Richard Kane, Grand Master of the BelfastOrange Lodgeand organiser of the Anti-Home RuleConvention of 1892. But from the beginning there was an unresolved conflict between non-political rhetoric and the nationalism implicit in the League's revivalist project.[4]

With the aid ofEugene O'Growney(author ofSimple Lessons in Irish)Eoin MacNeill,Thomas O'Neill Russelland others, the League was launched in the wake of an address Hyde delivered to the Irish National Literary Society, on 25 November 1892:[5]‘ "The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’". CitingGiuseppe Mazzini(the Italian nationalist who had been the inspiration for the rare language enthusiast among theYoung Irelanders,Thomas Davis), Hyde argued that "in Anglicising ourselves wholesale we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have to nationality".[6]

Implicitly, this was a criticism of the national movement as it had developed sinceCatholic emancipation.Although agaeilgeoir,Daniel O'Connellhad declared himself "sufficiently utilitarian not to regret [the] gradual abandonment" of the language.[7]For Emancipator's keenest supporters, the "positive and unmistakable" mark of distinction between Irish and English was "the distinction created by religion".[8]Hyde's project spoke to a new exclusionary sense of what it is to be Irish. The simple practice of referring to Gaelic as "the Irish language", consciously or not, rendered "those who did not speak it as less Irish, and those who did not even acknowledge its status as non-Irish".[9]

The League rapidly developed into the leading institution promoting theGaelic Revival,organising Irish classes and student immersions in theGaeltacht,and publishing in Irish. The League's first newspaper wasAn Claidheamh Soluis(The Sword of Light) and its most noted editor wasPádraig Pearse.The motto of the League wasSinn Féin, Sinn Féin amháin(Ourselves, Ourselves alone).[10]

Early campaigns[edit]

Among the League's few campaign successes in its first decade was acceptance by the Post Office of parcels and letters addressed in Irish, and the recognition ofSt. Patrick's Dayas a national holiday.[11]

With national feeling heightened in part by theBoer War,membership increased from 1900. The number of branches rose from 43 in 1897 to 600 in 1904 with a membership of 50,000. A more substantial victory followed: in 1904 Irish was introduced into the national school curriculum.[11]

The Catholic church, however, was not an early ally.[12]The clergy had played a significant role in the decline of the language. In theNational schoolsthey had punished children for speaking it[13](a legacy, in part, of the Irish-language missionary activity of the Protestant churches).[14]

The national cause[edit]

Conradh na Gaeilge clubhouse on the grounds ofGrattan Crescent Park,Inchicore,Dublin

Hyde declared that "The Irish language, thank God, is neither Protestant nor Catholic, it is neither aUnionistnor aSeparatist."[15]Although the League took this non-political principle seriously enough to decline participation in the unveiling of a1798centenary monument toWolfe Tone,much like theGaelic Athletic Associationthe organisation served as an occasion and cover for nationalist recruitment.Seán T. O'Kellyrecalls that, as early 1903, as a travelling manager forAn Claidheamh Soluis,he was in a position to recruit young men forIrish Republican Brotherhood(IRB) in every one of 32 counties.[4]It was through the League that many future leaders of the independence struggle first met, laying the foundation for groups such as theIrish Volunteers(1913).

"While being non-political",Michael Collinssaw the League, by "its very nature", as "intensely national". Under a system of foreign rule that made the people "forget to look to themselves, and to turn their backs upon their own country", it did "more than any other movement to restore national pride, honour and self-respect".[16]Arthur Griffithhad been similarly dismissive of the League's political neutrality of the League. Popular support for the revival of the language, he argued, sprang precisely from its role as a mark of Irish nationality.[17]

As the nationalist impulse behind the League became more obvious, and in particular as the League began to work more closely with the Catholic Church to secure support for teaching Irish in the schools, Unionists withdrew. Hyde's effort to leave space for unionists was lost. They were themselves moving toward a distinct Ulster unionism which rejected any form of Irish cultural identity.[4]

Increasingly Republicans were blunt about what they saw as the League's place within the nationalist movement. The paper,Irish Freedom,declared:[18]

The work of the Gaelic League is to prevent the assimilation of the Irish nation by the English nation [...] The work is as essentially anti-English as the work attempted byFenianismor theSociety of United Irishmen[...] The Irish language is a political weapon of the first importance against English encroachment.

The issue of the League's political independence was decided at its Annual General Meeting held inDundalkin 1915. Rumours circulated thatJohn Redmond'sIrish Parliamentary Partywere seeking to take over the League as they had earlier attempted to take over the Irish Volunteers.Diarmuid Lynchof the IRB mobilised Brotherhood members positioned throughout the League to secure the nominations and votes required to appoint a newCoiste(executive) that "was safe from the IRB viewpoint".[18]

Northern Protestants[edit]

The first Ulster branch of the Gaelic League was formed in eastBelfastin 1895, a year after the death ofRobert Shipboy MacAdamwho, withDr. James MacDonnell,had presided over a precursor of the League earlier in the century:Cuideacht Gaoidhilge Uladh / The Ulster Gaelic Society (1828-1843).[19]The new Belfast branch was formed under the active patronage (until he left to become Church of Ireland LordBishop of Ossory) of the Rev.John Baptiste Crozierand the presidency of his parishioner, Dr.John St Clair Boyd,both unionists,[20]and of theOrange OrderGrand Master, the Rev.Richard Rutledge Kane.[21][22]: 86–87 Claiming to afford a "common platform to Catholic and Protestant", by 1899 the League had nine branches in the city including one in the unionistShankill wardwhere, in the 1911 census, 106 people recorded themselves as Irish speakers.[22]: 91 

For other Protestant pioneers of theIrish language in the norththe League was a non-sectarian door into the nationalist community with whom their political sympathies lay. This was the case forAlice Milligan,publisher inBelfastofThe Shan Van Vocht.Milligan's command of Irish was never fluent, and on that basisPatrick Pearsewas to object when, in 1904, the Gaelic League hired her as a travelling lecturer. She proved herself by establishing new branches throughout Ireland and raising funds along the way. In the north, inUlster,she focused on the more difficult task of recruiting Protestants, working with, among other activists,Hyde,Ada McNeill,Roger Casement,Alice Stopford Green,Stephen Gwynn,and Seamus McManus.[23]

James Owen Hannay (better known as the novelistGeorge A. Birmingham), originally ofBelfast,was co-opted onto the League's national executive body in December 1904 while a Church of Ireland (Anglican) rector in Westport inCounty Mayo.Hyde andArthur Griffithsympathised with Hannay's desire for a "union of the two Irish democracies", Catholic in the south and Protestant in the north. In the north Hannay saw a potential ally inLindsay Crawfordand hisIndependent Orange Order.Like theConradh na Gaeilge,he saw the IOO as "profoundly democratic in spirit" and independent of "the rich and the patronage of the great".[24][25]

Crawford, who stood for election to the League's executive committee, was critical of what he regarded as the League's impractical romanticism.[26]In his paper,Irish Protestant,he suggested that the Irish Ireland movement needed an injection of "Ulsteria", an "industrial awakening on true economic lines: it is wrong when people crave bread to offer them 'language and culture'".[27]

Offence taken at his successful playGeneral John Regan,and his defence of Crawford's opposition to church control of education, strained Hannay's relations with nationalists and he withdrew from League. Meanwhile, in North America, Crawford (who had found no political home in Ireland) went on to campaign withEamon de Valerafor recognition and support for therepublic proclaimed in 1916.[28]

Ernest Blythe,who joined theIrish Republican Brotherhoodin 1909 with the distinction of maintaining for three years his membership of theOrange Order,[29]had as his firstConradh na GaeilgeteacherSinéad Flanagan,de Valera's future wife. To improve his knowledge of the Irish language, he lived in theCounty KerryGaeltachtearning his keep as an agricultural labourer.[30]A similar path was followed by IRB organiser of the Irish Volunteers,Bulmer Hobson.

Participation of women[edit]

Alice Milligan was exceptional among the League's leading activists as a northern Protestant, but less so as a woman. All the priorities of the larger Irish-Ireland movement which developed around the revival of the language, including teaching children a national history and literature, and the use and consumption of Irish-made products, were associated with the sphere of home and community in which women were accorded initiative. In comparison to the political parties (whether republican or constitutionalist), organisations, like the League, promoting a cultural agenda were comparatively open and receptive to women.[31]

The League encouraged female participation from the start and women filled prominent roles. Local notables, such asLady Gregoryin Galway, Lady Esmonde in County Wexford, andMary Spring Ricein County Limerick, and others such asMáire Ní ShúilleabháinandNorma Borthwick,founded and led branches. In positions of trust, however, women remained a decided minority. At the annual national convention in 1906 women were elected to seven of the forty-five positions on the Gaelic League executive.[31]Executive members includedMáire Ní Chinnéide,Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh(Agnes O'Farrelly, who wrote pamphlets on behalf of the League), Bean an Doc Uí Choisdealbha, Máire Ní hAodáin,Máire de Builtéir,Nellie O'Brien, Eibhlín Ní Dhonnabháin, andEibhlín Nic Niocaill.[32][33]

Máire de Builtéir, who is credited with suggesting the termSinn Féin )toArthur Griffith[34]made it clear that women could make their contribution to the cultural revival without relinquishing their traditional roles. "Let it be thoroughly understood", she insisted, "that when Irish women are invited to take part in the language movement, they are not required to plunge into the vortex of public life. No the work they can best do is work to be done in the home. There mission is to make the homes of Ireland Irish".[35]

Criticism[edit]

Formed in the wake of the disgrace and fall of the nationalist leaderCharles Stewart Parnelland defeat of thesecond Home Rule Bill,the League drew upon a generation frustrated and disillusioned with electoral politics. But proponents of new and rival movements were sceptical of the cultural activism offered by the League.[36]

Writing in Alice Milligan'sBelfast monthly,labour and socialist leaderJames Connollymaintained that in the absence of a creed capable of challenging the rule of the capitalist, landlord and financier, the nationalism of the Irish language movement would achieve little.[37]His friend and collaboratorFrederick Ryan,secretary of theIrish National Theatre Society,acknowledged the "pathos" in that in "young men and women rushing to acquire the rudiments of Irish (and it seldom gets beyond that) in order to show that they are not as other nations", but suggested that it did not "correlate with the active desire for political freedom". Most leaders of the Gaelic League desired "a return to medievalism in thought, in literature, in pastimes, in music and even in dress", but a nation, he argued, is not morally raised by dwelling on its past. Rather it must deal with its present political, economic, and social problems, something of which Ireland is capable without assuming "the enormous burden of adopting what is now virtually a new language".[38]

Patrick Pearse, who had joined the League while in his teens, responded inAn Claidheamh Soluisby defending a "critical traditionalism".[36]The cultural self-belief promoted by the League does not call for "folk attitudes of mind" or "folk conventions of form". Irish artists might have to "imbibe their Irishness from the peasant, since the peasants alone possess Irishism, but they need not and must not [...] be afraid of modern culture". Deriving "what is best in medieval Irish literature", the new Irish prose would be characterised by a "terseness", "crispness", and "plain straightforwardness" entirely conducive to the demands of the modern nation-state and economy.[39]

In the Irish Free State[edit]

1943 stampDouglas Hydecommemorating theGaelic League

With the foundation of theIrish Free Statemany members believed that the Gaelic League had taken language revival as far as it could and that the task now fell to the new Irish Government. They ceased their League activities and were absorbed into the new political parties and into state bodies such as the Army, Police, Civil Service, and into the school system in which Irish was made compulsory.[40][41]With the organisation paying a less prominent role in public life, It fared badly in the1925 Seanad election.All its endorsed candidates, including Hyde, were rejected.[42]

From 1926 there was growing disquiet among League members over the government's failure to implement the recommendations of its own Gaeltacht Commission. Despite being presided over by Blythe, one of their own, the Ministry of Finance baulked at the proposal for free secondary school education for Gaeltacht children (something that was not available anywhere in Ireland until the 1960s). The League was also alarmed by the Anglicising and cosmopolitan influences of state radio (great objection was made to its programming of Jazz). The failure of the Cumann na nGaedheal government to commit to a more comprehensive programme for defending and promoting Irish and what was perceived, typically in conservative folk terms, as its supporting culture, helped rally support for de Valera's anti-Treaty republican partyFianna Fail.[40]Partly in recognition of his services in the League services, underde Valera's new constitution,Hyde served as the firstPresident of Irelandfrom June 1938 to June 1945.

In 1927,An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha(CLRG) was founded as a subcommittee of the League to investigate the promotion of traditional Irish dance. Eventually, CLRG became a largely independent organisation, though it is required by its constitution to share 3 board members with the League.[43]

Contemporary campaigns for language rights[edit]

Conradh na Gaeilge, in alliance with other groups such asGluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta,was instrumental in the community campaigns which led to the creation ofRTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta(1972),Údarás na Gaeltachta(1980), andTG4(1996). The organisation successfully campaigned for the enactment of the Official Languages Act, 2003 which gave greater statutory protection to Irish speakers and created the position ofAn Coimisinéir Teanga(the Languages Commissioner). Conradh na Gaeilge was among the principal organisations responsible for co-ordinating the successful campaign to make Irish anofficial language of the European Union.[44]

Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin.

In 2008 during the presidency of Dáithí Mac Cárthaigh, Conradh na Gaeilge adopted a new constitution reverting to its pre 1915 non-political stance restating its aim as that of an Irish-speaking Ireland"Is í aidhm na hEagraíochta an Ghaeilge a athréimniú mar ghnáththeanga na hÉireann"( "It is the aim of the Organisation to reinstate the Irish language as the everyday language of Ireland" ) and dropping any reference to Irish freedom.

In recent years Conradh na Gaeilge has remained central to campaigns to protect language rights throughout Ireland. This strategy encompasses the promotion of increased investment in Gaeltacht areas,[45]advocacy for increased provision of state services through Irish,[46]the development of Irish language hubs in urban areas, and the Acht Anois campaign for the enactment of anIrish Language Actto protect the language inNorthern Ireland.[47]

The decision of theDemocratic Unionist Partyto resist a stand-aloneIrish Language Act,in part by insisting on compensating provisions forUlster Scots,became one of the principal, publicly acknowledged, sticking points in the three years of on and off again negotiations required to restore thepower-sharing executivein 2020.[48]The 2020New Decade, New Approachagreement promised both the Irish language and Ulster-Scots new Commissioners to "support" and "enhance" their development but does not accord them equal legal status.[49]While Ulster Scots was to be recognised as a regional or minority language for the "encouragement" and "facilitation" purposes of Part II of theEuropean Charter for Regional or Minority Languages,provision for Irish was to meet the more stringent Part III obligations in respect of education, media and administration.[50]

In 2022, with unionist protest against theNorthern Ireland Protocolhaving resulted in a further suspension of devolved government, theUnited Kingdom Parliamentincorporated the language provisions ofNew Decade, New Approachin theIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act.[51][52]The president of the Conradh na Gaeilge, Paula Melvin,[53]hailed the passing of the legislation, but said the bill was "not our final destination". The organisation would turn its attention to both implementing and to strengthening the legislation: "painful experience with the British government has taught us to take nothing for granted".[54]

Branches[edit]

Conradh na Gaeilge has a number of branches across Ireland and internationally which organise locally, and are governed by committee.[55]

Ulster(including County Louth)[edit]

Leinster(excluding County Louth)[edit]

Munster[edit]

Connacht[edit]

Britain[edit]

Presidents[edit]

See also[edit]

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