AN GAOḊAL.
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MAĠNUḊAT ĊILL-DARA,
18aḋ Ḃealtaine '85.
A Ṡaoi Ionṁuinn:
Ó'n lá ṫainic na samplaiḋe sin de'n
Ġaoḋal do ċuiris ċúgam, níor ṁoṫuiġ
mé, dearḃaim duit, an t-am ag dul
ṫarm. Dá m-b' ḟeasaċ dam go raiḃ a
leiṫéid so de ṗáipeur le fáġail air
ḋruim talṁan, do ċuirfinn fios air go
práiḋineaċ fad ó. Aċt fá ḋeireaḋ, tá
páipeur do réir mo ṁian am' ṡeilḃ, &
is miṫid liom a luaċ air feaḋ bliaḋna
ċur ċúġat, agus dá ḃriġ sin, atá ord¬
uġaḋ trí sgilling air ṗosda Ḃruaiċlín
faoi 'n scáṫ so.
Ní ċualan sinne, air an taoiḃ aḃus
de'n ḟairge, tuairisg air an meud oibre
ag a ḋéanaḋ agaiḃ-se ṫall. Ní raiḃ a
ḟios agam nó go ḃ-facaiḋ mé an Gaoḋ¬
al go raiḃ Cumann air bun 'san Éirinn
is mó d'ar g-cosbóir le leaḃra saora
Gaeḋilge ċur amaċ, agus mar sin cúis
ar d-teangan d'agraḋ, agus do ċosnaḋ
agus, fá ḋeoiġ, buaiḋ a ḃreiṫ ḋí.
Cia h-iad na leabra ċuireaḃar amaċ
ċeana, agus cad é a luaċ fá leiṫ? An
ḃ-fuil an Hómeur úd Micéil le fáġail
agaiḃ, cloḋḃuailte air nós ċéilliḋe?
Ní gáḋ ḋúinne leis an nGréigis úġdar¬
aiġ.
Ní ċreidim go m-b' ḟéidir le h-aon-
duine, d'ar fios a Ġaeḋilge ḋúṫċais, &
ag a m-beiḋeaḋ aiṫne air an Gaoḋal,
déanaḋ 'na éagṁuis air aon ċor, óir
bainfiḋ se greann, múnaḋ & tír-ġráḋ
as, agus sin uile air son lea-ċorónaċ
'san m-bliaḋain.
Dob' áil liom iomlán an ċeaṫraṁaḋ-
leaḃar de 'n Ġaoḋal ḟáġail uait, más
féidir é. Ċuiris uiṁir Abráin mar
ṡampla ċeana, anois, más é do ṫoil é,
cuir na uiṁreaċa roiṁe, agus na diaiḋ
so, na h-uiṁreaċa a leanas, no go d-
taḃarfar ċum cinn é.
Go m-buḋ ḟada ḃéiḋeas an Gaoḋal
ag dul i ḃ-feaḃas agat.
Go measaṁuil,
"NÍOS ÁIRDE."
(Le freagraḋ ṫaḃairt do "Níos Áir¬
de" — naċ h-aisteaċ an t-ainm é ? — níor
ċloḋḃuail ar g-cummann-ne aon leaḃar
aċ an Gaoḋal. Támuid déanaḋ ar n-
diṫċill, aċ tá 'n t-airgiod gann — go
spesialta aig an muintir a ṫiúḃarfaḋ
cóṁnaḋ do ċúis na Gaéḋilge dá mbeiḋ¬
eaḋ sé aca. Aċ tiocfaiḋ an t-am, le
cóṁnaḋ Dé, agus sin go goirid, i ḃ-fuiġ
cúis na Gaeḋilge ḃuaiḋ air ḋeacraċt
na h-aimsire agus truailleánaċt Éir¬
eannaċ, F G-)
Through various causes the Gael
may not regularly reach its destination
we have not ceased to mail it regularly,
even to those who are in arrears but
who have not notified us to discontin¬
ue it. Hence any subscriber not get¬
ting his Gael will please notify us by
card or othewise.
We have not ceased to send the Gael
to those who got the first volume whe¬
ther they paid their subscription or not,
we do not want to act discourteously,
and we hope they will extend the same
courtesy to us by notifying us if they
do not wish to continue it.
THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG !
Every move of the satraps of the Administration
in the vicinity of New York and Brooklyn clear¬
ly demonstrates a puritan compact to weaken the
influence of the Irish element in this State.
Three-fourths of the Democratic voters come
from the Irish element, yet the Federal offices,
of patronage and emolument, are, for a purpose,
bestowed on mugwumps and anti Irish nominal
Democrats. Too late, gentlemen. If he who
tries to ignore the Irish element keeps his finger
on the point of his nose until he succeeds he
will have an everlasting appendage to it ! It is
within the memory of men not yet old that in the
city of Boston a few Irishmen had to fight puri¬
tan intolerance for their very existence. They
rule the city to day.
The congenial soil of this great, free country,
enriched by the sweat, aye, and the blood, of
patriots of all nations, is too prolific to have the
luxuriance of its growth evershadowed by the
dwarfed exotics which, by artificial means, for a
time, succeeded in producing a sickly miasmatical
blossom. This is the last spasm of expiring puri¬
tanical intolerance, and is so wild and reckless in
its aims as to foreshadow its fast approaching dis¬
solution.
