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Typewriter, Underwood; the first typewriter with Irish characters used by the Gaelic League. Purchased about 1905 by the Gaelic League, and probably the first Gaelic Typewriter to be made. On this machine Seamus MacConglinne, the then Secretary of the Gaelic League, typed the Irish versions of the letters, at the dictation of Séan O Ceallaigh, which were sent by the Government of the Republic to the British Government leading up to the Truce, July 1921.;

Gaelic League / Anglo-Irish Truce


Object Number:
HE:EW.4495


Institution:
NMI


Date:
1905


Creator:
Underwood


Place of production:
New York (city)


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