AN GAOḊAL.
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dear resurrection place in which are
the martyrs of holy Ireland!"
Feib adfeidim, as I relate.
The poem out of which the foregoing extract is
taken, is quite long, and would take up almost the
whole of the GAEL were it all inserted. The poet
enumerates the graves, leachts, of the numerous
heroes who fell in Leinster, and every now and a-
gain exclaims that "It was Leinster men who kill-
ed them!" He says in another place that if he had
seven heads and seven tongues in each head he
could not tell the exploits of Leinstermen. When
he partially exhausts the heroic exploits of his coun-
trymen, he commences to extol the natural beauties
and other excellencies of his province, praises St.
Bridget and St Kevin, and asks what rivers are like
the Suir the Nore and the Barrow, and refers
to them by calling them, "Tri Inghena
Sliabha Bladhma," the three daughters of Sliabh
Bloom, because the three rivers rise in that
same mountain. I am sure the readers of
the GAEL will be able to understand the whole of
the extract I have given with the aid of the explan¬
atory notes. I have followed the original spelling
as nearly as possible. The Book of Leinster is one
of the grandest monuments of antiquity possessed
by any nation, and the Irish race should feel justly
proud of it. This pride however must have a large
mlxture of sorrow in it; those old books are nothing
but monuments of shame to the great mass of the
Irish race, seeing that not one in ten thousand of
them can read a line of the language in which they
are written. Land Leaguers, Fenians, Clann na Gael
and the whole of them, could not do better than go
to school for a few years and learn the langage of
the country they want to set free.
T. O. R.
Mobile, an 22aḋ Bealteine, '82.
Ċum Ċloḋaire an Ġaeḋil.
A Ṡaoi Ḋíl. — Do ṫainic Gaoḋal na
Ḃealteine ċum láiṁ, agus tá me uaiṁ-
reaċ le feuċaint go ḃ-fuil aon ġaisgeaċ
aṁáin ameasg ar n-daoine ċum ar d-
teanga ṁín, ṁilis, ġlórṁar do ṡaora ó
ḋeamuid, agus tá dóċus agam gur
geárr go mbeiḋ sé amaċ gaċ seaċtṁain,
agus annsa teanga Ġaeḋilge go uile.
Is mór an onóir agus an meas dúinn
páipeur do ḃeiṫ againn ann ar d-téanga
féin, agus anois taḃairfiḋ me iarraċt
air beagán foċlaiḃ a láḃairt, ṫríd an
Gaoḋal, timċioll an talaṁ grianṁar
seo: sé sin, má's doiġ leat go ḃ-fuil sé
oireaṁnaċ le cur amaċ ann do ṗáipeur
míosaṁla; mar is fear óg me gan mór-
án eolais agam air ṫeanga mo ṫír ḋú-
ċais, agus tá náire orm é adṁáil, agus
tá eagla orm nach m-beiḋ sí so-ṫuigsiġ-
ṫe aċt deunfaiḋ mé mo ḋiṫċioll ċum í
ḃeiṫ soilléir.
Is dóiġ le mórán daoineaḋ san árd-
Ṫuaiġ naċ ḃ-fuil bail air aon niḋ annsa
talaṁ grianṁar seo; naċ ḃ-fuil aon
niḋ ann aċt an cuil-ċromanaċ agus an
nigar, agus go dearḃaḋ, tá go leor de
'n ċineál sin ann seo. Tá gob air an
g-cuil ċo fada le meanaḋ, agus caiṫfi¬
muid brat do ḃeiṫ croċtaḋ os cionn
an leabaḋ san oiḋċe no ní ḃeiḋeaḋ bal
dínn gan iṫeaḋ air maidin. Agus tá
na nigair ċo fairsing le coiníniḋ 'san
g-cloiḋ. Tár an aḃain, trí ṁíle ó Ṁoile,
áit do goirter baile na n-Éireannaċ, tá
timċioll fiċe teaġlaċ san gnóḋṫaḋ gar-
adóraċt, agus is doiġ liom nach ḃ-fuil
aon drong eile air ḋruim na talṁan
níos saoṫraċ ná iad. Tá teampoll deas
againn, agus tá aifrionn ann agann gaċ
Doṁnaċ,
Is féidir linn trí ḃárra do ḟás air
ḃal aṁáin talṁan san m-bliaḋain. Cuir-
eamuid amaċ cabáiste a meaḋon an
Ḟoġṁair; beiḋ an barr sin ċum baint
timċioll mí na Feaṁraḋ ; cuireamuid
asteaċ Ṗataoi an sin agus beiḋ siad
sin le baint san m-Bealtaine. Tá siad
a baint go mear anois, agus cuirfimid
asteaċ an dara bárr ṗotaoi san m-bal
ceudna arís san mí Iuil; sin trí ḃarra.
Tá luaċ maiṫ air gaċ niḋ d' ḟásamuid
ann seo, mar tá gaċ niḋ an luaḋ, agus
tigeann ceannuiġṫeóiriḋ ó 'n Iartar.
Tá ḋá ṫráin lán do ionfais aig im¬
ṫeaċt fa ḋó san ló as an g-caṫair seo.
Do Cara,
M. Mac Suiḃne.
P. S. Deunḟaiḋ me mo ḋiṫċioll ċum
an Gaoḋal do leaṫnuġaḋ ann seo a-
measg na n-garadóiriḋe.
M. M. S.
Da m-beiḋeaḋ h-uile logan ċo tír-
ġraḋ'muil le Mobile ḃeiḋeaḋ an Gaoḋ-
al an paipeur is mó sa tír seo sul ḋa
ḃliaḋain ó n-diu, — Fear-eagair.
Reader, tell your neighbor to get the Gael. It
costs only sixty cents a year!
