The Northern Ireland prime minister, James Craig, attempted to obstruct the commission, alleging that the Irish Free State commissioner, Eoin MacNeill, “might be the object of hostile ...

As the advocates of unity discovered in 1925, possible routes to the desired outcome need to be understood in language and ...

The meeting was presided over by Eoin MacNeill, a professor at UCD and a leading member of the Gaelic League. Prof. MacNeill opened the meeting by saying that action and not words was the point of ...

Lots of people in Clare – including a lot of priests – wanted Eoin MacNeill to be the by-election candidate; so did Arthur Griffith. Many Volunteers in the constituency were completely opposed ...

Douglas Hyde, following his late 1892 lecture on the need to de-anglicise the Irish nation and race, founded Conradh na Gaeilge/The Gaelic League in conjunction with Eoin MacNeill in 1893.

The Irish Volunteer was a weekly newspaper primarily aimed at the membership of its namesake, an organisation which had been founded by Eoin MacNeill in November 1913. A single, four-page paper ...

Eoin MacNeill thought not, and issued a countermanding order that was published in the Irish Sunday Independent on Easter Sunday. The more radical voices insisted that the Rising go ahead ...

Logue is just saying what many knew for a long time and the Gaelic League had been changing to a political body since Sinn Féiner Eoin MacNeill took over as president. The paper concluded ...