Author and Irish language activist Máirtín Ó Cadhain prepared the ground for the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with ‘his own agitation’
Author and Irish language activist Máirtín Ó Cadhain prepared the ground for the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with ‘his own agitation’
Gluaiseacht, the first history of the movement, recalls an era of economic dereliction when people took to the streets demanding political action to secure the survival of Gaeltacht areas ravaged by generations of emigration and the lack of employment. The founders included Peadar Mac an Iomaire, an academic and community activist, and Seosaimh Ó Cuaig, a print journalist who went on to become a radio broadcaster and Independent councillor.
“There was no longer just an ineffective talking shop. People saw they could actually have an impact on their immediate community,” says Mac Con Iomaire. Now it is regarded as one of Ireland’s pre-eminent works of art, the long delay in translation being attributed at least in part to reverence for the original text and concern to avoid a botch job.
“The day of the ‘respectable movement’ was over. All of a sudden, there were opportunities in forming alliances with other organisations and factions. Publicity could be achieved through action and protest. And all of this had been noted out west in Connemara.”
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