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AN GAOḊAL
MR, TREACY'S LETTER,
NASHUA, N. H.
SEAĊTṀAḊ LA FIĊID DE'N
OĊṪṀAḊ MÍ, '83.
M. J. O'Lóċáin.
A Ċara Ḋílis. — Sgríoḃfainn ċugat
go minic aċt tá náire orm air an g-
caoi ḃ-fuil an sgoil Ġaeḋilge dul air
áġaiḋ ins an áit seo. Tamuid an-ṁall
sa g,caṫair seo aig deunaṁ níḋ airḃiṫ
a ċuideóċ le Éire. Giḋ go ḃ-fuil fir
ins an g-caṫair seo a tá síor-ráḋ go
raċfaidís go Éirinn troid, 'gus fós, tá
náire orra teanga a sinsear laḃairt.
Tá go leor fir 's mna in seo naċ ḃ-
fuil an dara focal beurla aċu go
ceart naċ laḃaróċ focal airbiṫ aċt é
le faitċíos go m-beiḋeaḋ na Puncam
(Yankees] 'g eisteaċt. Aċt cinnte is
tá 'n ġrian in áirde beiḋ Éire mar ta
si no go d-tigiġ an lá go seasuiġ gaċ
Eineannaċ suas go dána & a ṫaisbaint
do'n dóṁan ṁór go ḃ-fuil teanga fóġ¬
luimte aig Éireannaíġ mar ta aig gaċ
náisiún eile.
Ḋeun me mo ḋiṫċioll an scoil ċuir air
aġaiḋ, aċt deir siad go raḃ an aimsir
ró ṫeiṫ; naċ bacaċ an leit-sgeul é ? Níl
doċar ann. Béiḋ an Ġaeḋilge beo nuair
ḃeiḋ's siad marḃ, & ní mór an ḃris iad.
Ta go leor níḋṫiḃ in mo ḃealaċ-sa d
taoḃ an Ġaeḋilge, mar ta me boċt a
maoin an t-saoiġil seo, & ta ḟios agat
go ṁaiṫ naċ ḃ-fuil móran meas air níḋ
airbiṫ ḋeunas an fear boċt. Tá mí-áḋ
mór eile orm : ní raḃ me mo ċóṁnuiḋe
in taoḃ eile de ċloiḋe na tóirinn le gaċ
Éireannaċ ta na ċóṁnuiḋe 'sa g-caṫair
seo.
Ta me sásta naċ ḃ-fuil me 'nan m'
inntinn a ċuir air ṗaipeur mar ḃuḋ
ṁian liom é, aċt ta me ḃuiḋeaċ do Ḋia
naċ ḃ-fuil naire orm an ṁéid ta agam
a raḋ. Seo é an dara iarraċt do ṫug
me air sgríoḃ i nGaeḋilge air an áḋḃar
sin, tá dóċus agum naċ m-béiḋ do ċuid
léiġṫeóiriḃ mag'ḋ fúm, óṫarla go dtug
tú cuireaḋ & misneaċ dúinn sgríoḃ ins
sa teanga Ġaeḋilge. tiúrfaiḋ mé iarr¬
aċt eile air an scoil do ċur air bun gó
goirid. Cuirfiḋ me airgead agat gan
ṁoill air son an Ġaoḋail; ní'l sé agam
anois.
Go measaṁuil,
PÁDRUIC O'TREASE
THE GAEL.
With the coming issue the Gael enters on its
third year, in robust health, and with sanguine
anticipations for its future. The many difficulties
which beset the path of new enterprises have been
surmounted, thanks to that undying spirit of na¬
tional pride which still, notwithstanding centuries
of oppression, annimates the Irish heart.
This success should be an incentive to renew¬
ed exertions.
We are aware of the many shortcomings of the
Gael; but let our friends remember the conditions
under which the matter had been undertaken. It
had been undertaken that the Irish Language
movement might not be without an organ to rep¬
resent it, fully alive to the responsibility assumed
and trusting to indomitable patience and persever¬
ance and the patriotism of the cause to carry it
through.
This was its capital stock, and we are pleased to
say that it has not deteriorated in the adventure.
We calculated that if the Gael paid for itself, i.e.
paper, press-work, &c. that it would be a success.
It has done so, and our labor has been well repaid
by the consciousness that we have done something
towards the preservation of our native tongue,
Considerable typographical errors appear in the
paper from time to time. This is on account of
want of time to carefully read it, for we have our
ordinary business to attend to, and produce the
Gael with the object and intentions above stated
only, and during the time which we can spare from
that business. Hence, our friends, and the friends
of the cause which the Gael represents, will, we
trust, bear this fact in mind whenever they have
cause to find fault with its various shortcomings.
It was our intention to put a cover on the Gael
for the future but some of our co-workers in the
Gaelic movement think it more advisible to apply
the cost of such cover to circulating extra copies of
it until its income should be able to bear the ex¬
pense of turning it out artistically.
A large number who ordered the Gael a year a¬
go have not yet made returns. We hope they will
do so, as "Every little makes a muckle”, and bear
in mind that a movement like the Irish Language
Revival wants every penny it can scrape together
to propagate its principles. The Irish people,
whose social standing in the community of nations
the movement seeks to subserve, should not leave
its burthen on a few individuals.
In concluding our remarks we shall give Moore's
