Irish women and the home language
A copy of Mary E.L. Butler (Máire de Buitléir), ‘Irish women and the home language’ (Dublin: The Gaelic League, 24 O’Connell Street Upper, [c.1900]). The text urges women to make the home an Irish-speaking environment, teach the language to their children, and support Irish publications and culture.
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- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- c.1900
- Reference
- 2
- Extent and medium
- 16 pp; printed
- Scope and content
- A copy of Mary E.L. Butler (Máire de Buitléir), ‘Irish women and the home language’ (Dublin: The Gaelic League, 24 O’Connell Street Upper, [c.1900]). The text urges women to make the home an Irish-speaking environment, teach the language to their children, and support Irish publications and culture.
- General note
- For biographical information on Mary E.L. Butler (1874-1920) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E.L._Butler
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Book Collection
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- BY MARY E. L. BUTLER,
- It has been allotted to us to live in a history-making epoch, when, though the political atmosphere is murky, a light is breaking through the heavy clouds, a light shining with no…
- It is possible that this pamphlet may fall into the hands of some to whom Gaelic League doctrines are unfamiliar, though these doctrines have been propagated so widely and vigorous…
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GAELIC LEAGUE PAMPHLETS—No. 6. ONE PENNY. [SECOND EDITION.] Irishwomen and the Home Language BY MARY E. L. BUTLER, AUTHOR OF "A BUNDLE OF RUSHES." As an Irishwoman, I appeal to Irishwomen on a subject of vital importance to the country to which we have the honour to belong. It has been allotted to us to live in a history-making epoch, when, though the political atmosphere is murky, a light is breaking through the heavy clouds, a light shining with no will-o'-the-wisp gleam, but with a clear and steady glow. Guided by this "solemn starlight" we who so long groped hither and thither, are at length treading with sure, swift steps, the right road—the road of which the goal is the realisation of a true national ideal. It is possible that this pamphlet may fall into the hands of some to whom Gaelic League doctrines are unfamiliar, though these doctrines have been propagated so widely and vigorously for a considerable time, that there is little excuse for any thinking person remaining in ignorance of them. It would, however, be impossible to discuss the motives and aims of the language movement at length in these pages. Anyone who is unacquainted with the scope of the movement, should, before reading what follows, first refer to former publications of the Gaelic League, in which the case is clearly set forth, and the inseparable connection between language and nationality convincingly demonstrated. I take it for granted then, that leaders are convinced of the truth:—"A nation's soul is its language,"—and proceed to deal exclusively with one aspect of the question, namely, the