Seán macdiarmada facts

Dennis mccullagh

Antrim], son of a Quaker from Monasterevin, Co. Kildare, and a suffragette Englishwoman; ed. Quaker School, Lisburn; started Ulster Debating Club for boys and later set up Protestant National Society with William McDonald; joined Tír na nÓg branch of Gaelic League, 1901; sec.

of Antrim County Board of GAA; started boys’ organisation Na Fianna Eireann, Belfast 1903; joined Irish Volunteers, 1904; expanded to national association with Constance Markiewicz in 1909; co-founder Ulster Literary Theatre, with David Parkhill [pseud Lewis Purcell], contrary to Yeats’s discouragements when they travelled to Dublin in 1902 (‘Damn Yeats!

We’ll write our own plays!’), opening with his verse drama, Brian of Banba (7 Dec. 1904) and Purcell’s The Reformers; with Joseph Campbell and others, fnd. Uladh (1st iss. Nov. 1904);