Gluaiseacht Cearta Sibhialta
| Gluaiseacht Chearta Siabhialta na Gaeltachta | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1969–1970s |
| Location | Ireland, especially Connemara |
| Resulted in |
|
Gluaiseacht Cearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta or Coiste Cearta Síbialta na Gaeilge (both Irish for "Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement"), was a pressure group campaigning for social, economic and cultural rights for native-speakers of Irish living in Gaeltacht areas. It was founded in Connemara in 1969 to highlight the decline of the Irish language and to campaign for greater rights for Irish speaking areas in the area of access to services, broadcasting and ultimately an elected assembly of their own. It was later named Gluaiseacht na Gaeltachta.
The organisation continued on where the earlier Muintir na Gaeltachta had left off, but also took inspiration from the contemporary Northern Ireland civil rights movement and the American civil rights movement. Among the founders of the organisation were the writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain and the community and political activists Seósamh Ó Cuaig and Seán Ó Cionnaith.
The Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin under the leadership of Cathal Goulding and Tomás Mac Giolla played a role in establishment of as part of its policy of the Reconquest of Ireland following on the teachings of James Connolly which believed that the reconquest of Ireland required social and political reconquest as part of the campaign for an independent united Ireland.
The campaign was often of a militant nature, such as the placing of nails under the wheels of the car carrying the then Taoiseach Jack Lynch in Galway West during the 1969 general election campaign. In that election a member of the campaign, Peadar Mac An Iomaire polled more than 6% of the vote in that constituency.
...
Wikipedia