Item 1 - Scrapbook 1 (Labelled 164-266)

1 volume

Scrapbook with press cuttings compiled by the Language Freedom Movement, containing press material from 'The Sunday Independent', 'The Sunday Press', 'The Irish Times', 'The Irish Independent', 'The Irish Press', 'The Evening Herald', 'The Evening Press', 'Dublin Opinion', and 'The Connacht Sentinel'. On the inside cover is the title 'L.F.M. Post-Mansion House 22/9/66- '. A poster designed by Layton Pratt advertising the Mansion House meeting is glued inside the cover. It shows a bloated cow labelled 'Gaelic Language Policy' sprawled on an armchair labelled 'Irish Education'. A child is pinned beneath the chair, and the cow smokes a currency note from a large barrel filled with money. Coverage (articles and photographs) reporting on emotional scenes at the Mansion House meeting, and further statements and commentary in the following days. The controversial report from the Evening Herald that led to Christopher Morris receiving solicitors correspondence on behalf of the individuals involved is included. In the article, named priests and members of the public are accused of booing and heckling. A serial piece run by 'The Irish Times' on 23 September 1966 called 'Irish in the Schools' is included. There are reports on a fire in a school in Co. Cork. An article in 'The Irish Times' from the 11th October 1966 about a claim to the title 'Language Freedom Movement' from another organisation founded by Proinsias Mac Aonghusa. There are various letters to papers from members of the public, members of Conradh na Gaeilge, and concerned parents. Reports on a chaotic Language Freedom Movement meeting in Galway on 14 October 1966, and reports from language debates held by the Literary and Historical Society at UCD, the Dublin Institute of Catholic Sociology, and comments made by Brian Trevaskis in his presidential inaugural address to the Trinity College Philosophical Society. Glued inside the back cover is 'Freedom of Speech', a synthesis of various letters and articles in regional and local newspapers including 'The Limerick Chronicle', 'The Sunday Independent', 'The Redemptorist Record', and a piece by Myles na gCopaleen, all covering the language issue. These express sentiments that are against compulsion in the language restoration policy.

Open

Press cuttings glued to a scrapbook. Some of the cuttings are loose, so care must be taken when consulting.

Catalog

15-04-2013
09-07-2025