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3 unusual facts about Bulmer Hobson


Bulmer Hobson

With the poet Alice Milligan, she organised the Irishwomen's Association whose home reading circle met in the Hobsons' house.

After his retirement in 1948, Hobson built a house near Roundstone in Connemara.

Eoin MacNeill

Bulmer Hobson, a member of the IRB, approached MacNeill about bringing this idea to fruition, and, through a series of meetings, MacNeill became chairman of the council that formed the Irish Volunteers, later becoming its chief of staff.



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