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Eoin MacNeill – a family perspective.
Any examination of Eoin MacNeill’s part in the events of 1916 must start with a close understanding of his background. Born in Glenarm in County Antrim in 1867, his Catholic parents lived in the Glens, an enclave in Protestant East Ulster. His father Archie, a tough local tradesman, was by times a shipwright, a baker, a builder and the proprietor of the local postal service in Glenarm, a mixed community. His mother Rosetta came from a more refined background. Archie was prosecuted and acquitted arising out of unrest during an Orange demonstration in Glenarm when Eoin was just five years old.
One of a family of eight, Eoin benefitted from a family determination to seek good education for the children. Unlike three of his brothers who were sent to Belvedere in Dublin, Eoin was sent to St. Malachy’s in Belfast and obtained a scholarship to study in the Royal University where he graduated in politics and economics in 1888. The previous year he had obtained by examination a junior clerkship in the Accountant General’s office in the Four Courts, becoming the first Catholic to have such an appointment which previously had been made on the basis of Dublin Castle patronage.
As an undergraduate, he had begun in 1887 to study the Irish language, w
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In his letter in Féil-sgríbhinn Eoin Mhic Néill on 14 October 1938, Douglas Hyde simply but generously described Eoin MacNeill’s contribution to Irish cultural life and scholarship:
You were the historian who shed the most light on the old state of this country, you were the adviser whose advice on Gaelic League affairs was never without benefit, you were the worker who worked night and day for this country, and today you are one of the world’s great scholars.
(Ba thú an stairidhe is mó leig an solus isteach ar shean-stáid na tire seo, ba tú an cómhairleóir nach raibh a chómhairle i gcúrsaibh Connartha na Gaedhilge riamh gan tairbhe, ba tú an t-oibhrightheóir d’oibrigh de ló agus d’oidhche ar son na tire seo, agus indiú tá tú ar mhór-sgoláiribh an Domhain).
Hyde addresses MacNeill as both friend of the Irish people, (‘a chara na nGaedheal’), and as faithful master, (‘a Mhaighistir dhílis’), and signed the letter ‘your old friend’ (‘do shean-chara’). The friendship, mutual respect, and shared scholarly interests of Hyde and MacNeill are indicative of what formed the basis for much of the scholarly ideology which prevailed in the Revival period, particularly in the early years of the twentieth century. This letter was penned shortly after Hyde’s inauguration as President of