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Title: The Revival of Irish Literature
Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George
Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde

Author: Charles Gavan Duffy
George Sigerson
Douglas Hyde

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_THE REVIVAL OF IRISH LITERATURE AND OTHER ADDRESSES_

THE REVIVAL OF
IRISH LITERATURE

ADDRESSES BY SIR CHARLES
GAVAN DUFFY, K.C.M.G.,
DR. GEORGE SIGERSON,
AND DR. DOUGLAS HYDE

LONDON: T. FISHER
UNWIN, PATERNOSTER
SQUARE. MDCCCXCIV

CONTENTS.

PAGE

1. THE REVIVAL OF IRISH LITERATURE.
BY SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY, K.C.M.G. 9

i. What Irishmen may do for Irish Literature.

ii. Books for the Irish People.

2. IRISH LITERATURE: ITS ORIGIN, ENVIRONMENT.
BY GEORGE SIGERSON, M.D., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY 61

3. THE NECESSITY FOR DE-ANGLICISING IRELAND.
BY DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D. 115

The Revival of Irish literature.

TWO ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE
THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY, LONDON,
_IN JULY, 1892, AND JUNE, 1893_,

BY THE PRESIDENT,
THE HON. SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY, K.C.M.G.

WHAT IRISHMEN MAY DO FOR IRISH LITERATURE.

Speaking to a Society of young Irishmen who love their country and burn to
serve her, I am tempted to broach a subject which has long lain in my
mind, waiting for the fit audience.

The famine of 1846 paralysed many forces in Ireland, and none more
disastrously than our growing literature. How little has been done in the
region of mind since that calamity, and by what isolated and spas