Academic Feminist and Founding Member of Cumann na mBan
Agnes O’Farrelly (1874-1951) pictured was a pioneering academic, feminist, professor of Irish at University College Dublin (UCD), Irish language novelist and a founding member of Cumann na mBan, the Irish nationalist women’s organisation. She presided at the inaugural meeting of Cumann na mBan in 1914.
O’Farrelly was an active campaigner in promoting equal opportunities for women in university education and was appointed a lecturer in Modern Irish at UCD in 1909. She was one of several university-educated female graduates to play key roles in various cultural nationalist organisations, most notably Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League). In doing so, she became acquainted with Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde.
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At Easter, we annually commemorate an event which transformed the course of Irish history - The Easter Rising of 1916.
But one man almost prevented it all from going ahead.
Historian, language scholar and later politician, Eoin MacNeill was one of the most important and influential men in Irish public life but his place in history was very much in doubt after 1916 - a Rising he opposed.
So who saved his career and, more importantly, his reputation?
Donal Fallon joined Gavan Reilly for another episode of Hidden Histories to discuss.
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