RARE! Gaelic League Author James Owen Hannay Signed TLS Dated 1913

  
"Gaelic League" James Owen Hannay Hand Signed TLS Dated 1913. There are mailing folds not affecting the signature. (16 July 1865 - 2 February 1950), Irish. He was active in the.

His opposition to clerical control of education. 1883 to 1884 before attending. He was ordained in 1889 as a Church of Ireland. (Anglican) minister and from 1904 served as rector of Holy Trinity Church.

Revival activities in Mayo and defence of the. To Hannay being co-opted onto the League's national executive body in December. His personal network of Irish Irelanders included.

And the principal ideologue of the. They were sympathetic to Hannay desire for a. "Union of the two Irish democracies", Catholic in the south and.

He saw a potential ally in. He regarded the breakaway Order, like the Gaelic League as profoundly. Democratic in spirit" and independent of "the rich and the patronage. Hannay's defence of Crawford's opposition to the. Clerical control of education in Ireland, however, strained his relations with. Irish nationalists, and it was a position that had little support in their own. Crawford the solitary champion of. In the wake of ongoing protests about the. Tour of his successful play. Became rector of Kildare parish from 1918 to 1920, and after serving as. Joined the British ambassadorial team in. From 1924 to 1934, after which he was. Of Holy Trinity Church in the London suburb. Where he served from 1934. To his death in 1950.