Gaelic League promises to abstain from politics

The Gaelic League will rigorously abstain from all connection with politics and from all discussions of politics, except in as much as they relate directly to the Irish language.

This commitment came in a motion passed at a meeting of the Gaelic League in Dublin on Saturday night. It was proposed by Douglas Hyde, who said that such a commitment was important now more than ever.

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The meeting of the Coiste Gnótha of the Gaelic League had earlier heard a plea from J.J. O’Kelly that the members of the League should ‘remain at home and do their part for their native country’.

This motion was objected to by a Waterford delegate who said that the Gaelic League should avoid taking sides in political issues.

It was then that Douglas Hyde put his counter-motion, which was accepted by the meeting.