biography
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MacNeill, John or Eoin
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| lived:
| (1867–1945)
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| biography:
| Historian and nationalist, born in Glenarm, Co Antrim, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He studied in Belfast, and made himself an authority on Old Irish. He ultimately became professor of early Irish history at University College, Dublin (1908–45), his books including Celtic Ireland (1921). In 1913 he led the Irish Volunteers, but after the Dublin Rising he was interned. He later played a part in organizing the new Sinn Féin Party, becoming MP for Derry. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty, was minister for education, and delegate for his government to the Boundary Commission, but after the revision of Irish partition in the Catholics' favour he resigned, and the boundary was left unchanged. |
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