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        1. Eoin MacNeill () was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland.
        2. Antrim-born scholar Eoin MacNeill was a founding member of the Gaelic League and editor of its paper An Claidheamh Soluis.
        3. He was professor of Irish (including medieval) history at UCD, he was the founder and first chief of staff of the Irish Volunteers, the man who.
        4. Eoin MacNeill is the 17,th most popular politician (down from 16,th in ), the 6,th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,nd in.

          5. Antrim-born scholar Eoin MacNeill was a founding member of the Gaelic League and editor of its paper An Claidheamh Soluis....

          Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945)


          Life
          [or John MacNeill; var.

          McNeill, D.Litt.]; b. 15 May, Glenarm, Co. Antrim; ed.

          He was arrested after the defeat of the rebels, court-martialed, sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of his UCD chair.

          St. Malachy’s Belfast and Royal University of Ireland [Dublin]; president [commander-in-chief] Irish volunteers, br. of James [see supra] spent holidays in Inis Mean, Aran; in response to Hyde’s “Necessity ...

          &c.” (1893), he published ‘A Plea and a Plan for the Extension of the Movement to Preserve and Spread the Gaelic Language in Ireland’ (1893); co-founder and first Secretary of Gaelic League/Connradh na Gaeilge, 1893; ed.

          Gaelic Journal, 1894-98, and Fainne an Lae, 1898-99, and Claidheamh Soluis, 1899-1901 after the failure of the first leading to its take-over by the Gaelic League; co-founded Feis Ceol, 1899; cancelled long-running serialisation of An tAth.

          Peadar Ó Laoghaire’s Seadna in Gaelic Journal (1894-97) over dispute arising from the priest’s advocacy of Munster Irish; appt. 1st Professor of Early