Aet. 48, to Eoin MacNeill, editor of An Claidheamh Soluis, an organ of the Gaelic League. Irish-speaking districts, soon to be called the Gaeltacht, were in rural western Ireland where George himself grew up and owned property. He was home-schooled and then enrolled in boarding school in England.
The Commissioners of National Education also known as the Irish National Board of Education controlled curriculum in schools and resisted the Gaelic League’s promotion of Irish language instruction.
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