Speaking to the Irish Literary Society in London in 1892 and 1893, the old Young Irelander Charles Gavan Duffy asks what Irishmen can do for a literature crippled by the Famine. George Sigerson traces Irish influence on European letters, and Douglas Hyde makes his famous case for the necessity of de-Anglicising Ireland.
Founding documents of the movement that produced Yeats, Lady Gregory and the Gaelic League. Download the free EPUB.