have been placed in circumstances which have made me rather familiar with the language as now spoken, I have at least a knowledge of the difficulties of those who, like myself, have no teacher. He was a founding member of the Gaelic League, which was created in Dublin in 1893 "for the purpose of keeping the Irish language spoken in Ireland", and later became its vice-president. Ill health and death In 1894, failing health caused him to go to Arizona and California, where he died. Some years after, with the aid of Irish sympathisers in the United States, his body was brought back to Ireland His funeral, held on 26 September 1903 at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, was attended by 6000 people, including members of the trade guilds, clerics, politicians, members of the nationalist Gaelic Athletic Association and students. He is buried in the cemetery attached to St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. There is a statue of Fr Eoghan O"Growney in Athboy by famed Irish sculptor James Power. References Sources Caerwyn Williams J.E & Ní Mhuiríosa, Máirín. Traidisiún Liteartha na nGael. An Clóchomhar Tta 1979. McMahon, Timothy G.. Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910. Syracuse University Press 2008. O’Leary, Philip. Prose Literature of Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921. Pennsylvania State Press 1994. External links The Irish Ecclesiastical Record Looking at places 1863 births 1899 deaths Irish writers 19th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests People from County Meath Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Academics of St Patrick's College, Maynooth Burials at Maynooth College Cemetery