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What we call our country is not a poetical abstraction…There is no such person as Caitlin Ni Uallachain or Roisin Dubh or the Sean-bhean Bhocht, who is calling on us to save her.

Eoin MacNeill

I wish it then to be clearly understood that under present conditions I am definitely opposed to any proposal that may come forward involving insurrection.

Eoin MacNeill

Eoin MacNeill

Eoin MacNeill

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Born: May 15, 1867

Died: October 15, 1945 (aged 78)

Bio: Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, Irish language enthusiast, nationalist activist, and Sinn Féin politician. MacNeill has been described as "the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history.

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