The following are quotes from our extensive collection of Arthur Griffith’s writings from his earliest editorials to his final testament. One of the most prolific Irish journalists of his time and a founding father of the early Irish state, his writings are of very great interest to those researching the early Sinn Féin movement.
‘The work of Douglas Hyde will live after him. It is not now possible that Irish can die, as but for him it would most assuredly have died. Even should it become extinct as a spoken language, reams of Irish literature have been preserved which but for Hyde would have perished.’ – An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, Diarmuid Coffey, 1917.
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