 A New Pride in Ireland
In the 1880s, many Irish people began to be interested
in the Irish language and in Irish customs. The GAA was set up in 1884 to
organise football and hurling. Fingallians was set up shortly after this. The
first All-Ireland final was played in 1887.
Irish Language
 By the end of the 1800s, Irish was only spoken in the
West of Ireland. Douglas Hyde was afraid that the Irish language would die out
altogether. He set up the Gaelic League in 1893. Many people started to learn
Irish dances and to read Irish books.
The Dublin
Lock Out
 Things were still very bad for the poor people. James
Larkin and James Connolly started a trade union. In 1913, 25,000 people in Dublin
were put out of their jobs because they had joined a union. There was violence
in the streets between the strikers and the police. In the end, the strikers had
to go back to work because they had no money and no food.
Home Rule Again
 The Irish people nearly got home rule in 1914. The
Protestants in the North of Ireland did not want home rule. Their leader, Edward
Carson, said that they would fight if there was home rule. In Dublin,
an army had also been formed to fight for home rule. It seemed that the two
parts of Ireland
would be fighting each other. Then, the First World War started. This put an end
to talk about home rule for a while.
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