 Synge, Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde  and more recently in the writings of Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan, and Dermot Bolger.This national cultural revival of the late 19th century and early 20th century matched the growing Irish radicalism in Irish politics.Many of those, such as Pearse, de Valera, W. T. Cosgrave (Liam Mac Cosguir) and Ernest Blythe (Earnán de Blaghd), who fought to achieve Irish independence and came to govern the independent Irish Free State, first became politically aware through Conradh na Gaeilge.