Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Irish above Politics.

HIS CULTURE-NEUTRAL NO-MAN’S LAND

Dublin: Press Cuchulainn, and Printed by Drogheda Printers, n.d. (c.1964). Large post octavo. pp. 16. Some toning, otherwise a very good copy. Rare.
In this pamphlet Ó Cadhain suggests a plan of action for those interested in saving the Irish language. He goes on to attack the politicians: “Let Garret Fitzgerald have his scorched earth, his culture-neutral no-man’s land, peopled solely with his figure goddesses. It is evident he rates the I.Q. of the Irish people rather low, so low in fact that he thinks he can easily recruit them to the sole adoration of his figure goddesses”. Máirtín O Cadhain (1907-1970), writer and republican, was born at Cois Fharraige, Connemara. He was a school teacher by profession and taught at various places in Galway, but lost his post for being a member of the I.R.A. Imprisoned at the Curragh during the Emergency he taught Irish and other subjects to his fellow prisoners. Fluent in eight languages, he became a Lecturer and later Professor of Modern Irish in Trinity College, Dublin.

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