Eoin MacNeill
| Eoin MacNeill | |
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Eoin MacNeill
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| Minister for Education | |
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In office 30 August 1922 – 24 November 1925 |
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| President | W. T. Cosgrave |
| Preceded by | Fionán Lynch |
| Succeeded by | John M. O'Sullivan |
| Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann | |
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In office 16 August 1921 – 9 September 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Seán T. O'Kelly |
| Succeeded by | Michael Hayes |
| Minister for Industries | |
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In office 1 April 1919 – 26 August 1921 |
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| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Minister for Finance | |
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In office 22 January 1919 – 1 April 1919 |
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| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Michael Collins |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office 1923–1927 |
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| Constituency | Clare |
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In office 1918–1923 |
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| Constituency | National University |
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In office 1918–1922 |
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| Constituency | Londonderry City |
| Member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland |
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In office 1921–1925 |
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| Constituency | Londonderry |
| Personal details | |
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John McNeill 15 May 1867 Glenarm, County Antrim, Ireland |
| Died | 15 October 1945 (aged 78) Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party |
Sinn Féin, Cumann na nGaedheal |
| Spouse(s) | Agnes Moore |
| Children | 8 |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Eoin MacNeill (Irish: Eoin Mac Néill; 15 May 1867 – 15 October 1945) was an Irish scholar, Irish language enthusiast, nationalist activist, and Sinn Féin politician. MacNeill has been described as "the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history." A key figure of the Gaelic revival, he was a co-founder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture.
In 1913 he established the Irish Volunteers and served as their Chief-of-Staff. He held this position at the outbreak of the Easter Rising but had no role in it or its planning, which was carried out by IRB infiltrators. MacNeill helped countermand the Easter Monday uprising, after learning about it and confronting Patrick Pearse, by placing a last-minute news advertisement advising Volunteers not to take part. He was later elected to the First Dáil as a member of Sinn Féin.
MacNeill was born John McNeill, one of five children born to Archibald McNeill, a Roman Catholic working class "baker, sailor and merchant", and his wife, Rosetta (née McAuley) McNeill, also a Catholic. He was reared in Glenarm, County Antrim, an area which "still retained some Irish-language traditions."
He was educated at St Malachy's College (Belfast) and Queen's College, Belfast. MacNeill had an enormous interest in Irish history and immersed himself in its study. In 1888 he achieved a BA degree in economics, jurisprudence and constitutional history and then worked as civil-servant clerk.
In 1893 he co-founded the Gaelic League, along with Douglas Hyde; he was unpaid secretary from 1893 to 1897, and then became the initial editor of the League’s official newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis (1899–1901). He was also editor of the Gaelic Journal from 1894 to 1899. In 1908 he was appointed professor of early Irish history at University College Dublin (UCD).
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