Editing Conradh na Gaeilge (section)

== In the Irish Free State ==
[[File:1943DouglasHyde GaelicLeague.JPG|thumb|left|100px|1943 stamp [[Douglas Hyde]] commemorating the [[Gaelic League]]]]
With the foundation of the [[Irish Free State]] many members believed that the Gaelic League had taken language revival as far as it could and that the task now fell to the new Irish Government. They ceased their League activities and were absorbed into the new political parties and into state bodies such as the Army, Police, Civil Service, and into the school system in which Irish was made compulsory.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The Gaelic League in the Irish Free State in the 1920s and 1930s – The Irish Story|url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2012/08/02/the-gaelic-league-in-the-irish-free-state-in-the-1920s-and-1930s/#.YESRaJP7TVo|access-date=2021-03-07|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=28 November 2015|title=The Gaelic League in the Irish Free State in the 1920s and 1930s|publisher=The Irish Story|url=http://www.theirishstory.com/2012/08/02/the-gaelic-league-in-the-irish-free-state-in-the-1920s-and-1930s/}}</ref> With the organisation paying a less prominent role in public life, It fared badly in the [[1925 Seanad election]]. All its endorsed candidates, including Hyde, were rejected.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Ireland's Unique Electoral Experiment: The Senate Election of 1925 |doi=10.1080/07907180500359327 |first=John |last=Coakley |journal=Irish Political Studies |date = September 2005|volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=231–269 |s2cid=145175747 }}</ref>

From 1926 there was growing disquiet among League members over the government's failure to implement the recommendations of its own Gaeltacht Commission. Despite being presided over by Blythe, one of their own, the Ministry of Finance baulked at the proposal for free secondary school education for Gaeltacht children (something that was not available anywhere in Ireland until the 1960s). The League was also alarmed by the Anglicising and cosmopolitan influences of state radio (great objection was made to its programming of Jazz). The failure of the Cumann na nGaedheal government to commit to a more comprehensive programme for defending and promoting Irish and what was perceived, typically in conservative folk terms, as its supporting culture, helped rally support for de Valera's anti-Treaty republican party [[Fianna Fáil|Fianna Fail]].<ref name=":1" /> Partly in recognition of his services in the League services, under [[1937 Irish Constitution|de Valera's new constitution]], Hyde served as the first [[President of Ireland]] from June 1938 to June 1945.

In 1927, [[An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha]] (CLRG) was founded as a subcommittee of the League to investigate the promotion of traditional Irish dance. Eventually, CLRG became a largely independent organisation, though it is required by its constitution to share three board members with the League.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cullinane|first1=John|title=An Coimisiún Le Rince Gaelacha: its origins and evolution|date=2003|publisher=Dr John P Cullinane|location=Dublin|isbn=0952795248}}</ref>