It administers an income of some L6,000 a year, not reckoning what is spent by local branches, and has a paid staff of eleven officers, a secretary, treasurer, and nine organisers, together with a large number of voluntary workers.

It resembled the agricultural movement also in the fact that it made very little headway during the first few years of its existence.

But it had a nucleus of workers with new ideas for the intellectual regeneration of Ireland.

In face of much apathy they persisted with their propaganda, and they have at last succeeded in making their ideas understood.

So much is evident from the rapidly-increasing number of affiliated branches of the League, which in March, 1903, amounted to 600, almost treble the number registered two years before.