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War is Women’s Business
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Home grown concerts
and theatre
were popular a d an important way to
express solidarity.
‘Writing is a bubbling forth of the revolution
of the soul...the plays are nearly all revolts
against something or other, something which we may not like but which a lot of us are not
prepared to face. The artist faces it; and eventually the people follow.’
(P.S.O’Hegarty, ‘Art and the Nation’ Irish Freedom (March 1912)
Irish language classes were a way to
express individual’s nationalistic instincts.