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

  
"Gaelic League" James Owen Hannay Hand Signed TLS Dated 1913. There are mailing folds not affecting the signature. Name of James Owen Hannay (16 July 1865 - 2 February 1950), Irish clergyman and prolific. He was active in the. But strained his relations with. In his opposition to clerical control of education. From 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, Westport in. Participation in language revival activities in Mayo and defence of the. In the Church of Ireland Gazette led to Hannay being co-opted onto the League's national executive body in December 1904. His personal network of Irish Irelanders included. And the principal ideologue of the emergent. They were sympathetic to Hannay desire for a "union of the two Irish democracies", Catholic in the south and Protestant in the north.

He saw a potential ally in. Grand Master of the new. He regarded the breakaway Order, like the Gaelic League as "profoundly democratic in spirit" and independent of "the rich and the patronage of the great".

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 church. Gazette dubbed Crawford the solitary champion of.

In the wake of ongoing protests about the tour of his successful play. Hannay became rector of Kildare parish from 1918 to 1920, and after serving as chaplain to the. He joined the British ambassadorial team in. From 1924 to 1934, after which he was appointed.

Of Holy Trinity Church in the London suburb of. Where he served from 1934. To his death in 1950.