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''For the Gaelic resurgence to overthrow English supremecy in the 14th-16th century, see: Gaelic resurgence.''
'Gaelic revival' refers to the early 20th century reemergence of the Gaelic language in its native Ireland. Gaelic had diminished as a spoken tongue, having been pushed to isolated rural areas, with English as the dominant language of Ireland as a whole. The discovery of how to read Old Irish (Gaelic written prior to the year 900) strongly influenced the 'Gaelic Revival'.
In 1842 the Young Ireland organization founded The Nation, a newspaper that published the poetric works of Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Richard D'Alton Williams, and Speranza (the pseudonym of Lady Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde) which spurred the 'Revival' further. Jeremiah John Callanan was the first to use the Gaelic refrain in English verse. Thomas Moore, Charles Maturin, and Maria Edgeworth also incorporated Irish themes from earlier Gaelic works into their writings.

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★ Language revival

★ Language Freedom Movement

★ Celtic Revival

★ D.P. Moran

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★ The Revival of the Irish Language