James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Penrose alluded to the foundation of the State, "An Claidheamh Soluis", the Gaelic League and such cultural movements at the beginning of the century which led the Irish national cultural revolution. I wonder would the likes of Yeats or Shaw even qualify under this heading. I appreciate that is literature as opposed to music, but it is an English language literature.

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