Item 5 - Scrapbook 5 (Labelled Book 2, 115-163)

1 volume

Scrapbook of press cuttings compiled by the Language Freedom Movement, including cuttings from 'The Irish Press', 'The Sunday Press', 'The Evening Press', 'The Cork Evening Echo', 'The Cork Examiner', 'The Evening Herald', 'The Irish Independent', and 'The Irish Times'. Reviews of the Abbey's Christmas Pantomime 'Fernando agus an Ríon Óg'. Reports on the possibility of holding an LFM meeting in Cork. Articles about the dispute between the two organisations calling themselves the Language Freedom Movement. An article on 'Fine Gael and Irish' by Ernest Blythe. An article on Queen Elizabeth I's primer. Reports on an upcoming visit of a Welsh language expert who has offered suggestions on how to revive Irish. Reports in many newspapers of a group of young women who protested at a meeting of Trinity College's Historical Society at which language was being debated on 26th January 1967. They demanded freedom of speech for women. Reports on people who were forcibly removed from the debate in the Dublin Institute of Catholic Sociology. Towards the end of the scrapbook, the clippings have returned to July 1966. Included are a piece entitled 'Restoring the Language' by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and an Irish language piece by Rex MacGall entitled 'Ag Machnamh Dom', that has been marked 'very important' in pen. He warns the Irish speaking public that they have a war before them.

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

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16-04-2013
19-06-2025