What was the Irish Self-Government Alliance?

Egghen

Question from left-field, but can anyone tell what the Irish Self-Government Alliance was? Came across archive material, dated to 1911-1912, written on an 'Irish Self-Government Alliance', which says they had committee and reading rooms in O'Connell Buildings?

Have trawled through various databases to learn more, but no luck. Any one able to shed some light here? It would be greatly appreciated.

Ascendant

Egghen wrote: »

Question from left-field, but can anyone tell what the Irish Self-Government Alliance was? Came across archive material, dated to 1911-1912, written on an 'Irish Self-Government Alliance', which says they had committee and reading rooms in O'Connell Buildings?

Have trawled through various databases to learn more, but no luck. Any one able to shed some light here? It would be greatly appreciated.

I had a look on the National Library site - usually a good place to start for obscurities, so all they had were a couple of draft poems by Thomas MacDonagh that were written on the Alliance's paperwork:

Manuscript draft of unpublished poem 'Journeys', with notes concerning proceedures for visitor admittance to the Irish Self-Government Alliance reading rooms,undated.

Manuscript draft of poem , inscribed on the verso of a partial letter concerning public action on behalf of the [Irish Self-Government] Alliance,

So other than how MacDonagh liked using their stationary paper for his own, so luck there, I'm afraid (cool digitization on the NLI links, though)!

Rechuchote

This pamphlet by Lecky and Frank Cruise O'Brien was published by Maunsel for them.

https://archive.org/details/clericalinfluenc00leckuoft

If they were against the Church in pre-1990s Ireland they were on a hiding to nothing.

O'Brien was part of the cabal including three of the Sheehy sisters' husbands (Sheehy Skeffington, Tom Kettle, O'Brien), as well as James Joyce - by then gone off to the continent - and Eimar O'Duffy, who was married to O'Brien's sister; they were an intellectual but rather conforming young outgrowth of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Oliver St John Gogarty too. All young university intellectuals, most Irish Volunteers. MacDonagh would have been at one with them in a distaste for clerical influence.