Philo-Celts.
The Brooklyn Philo-Celtic Society
meets, as usual, in Jefferson Hall. Of
late the attendance seems to be slim,
What is the cause? If the members
keep away, who is to conduct the bu¬
siness of the society, or to meet its
demands? We would recommend the
society to drop from its rolls the ab¬
sentees.
The Hon. Denis Burns and our old
friends, Messrs. Hacke and Keeffe, are
the only New Yorkers who visit us
now; but the children of this genera¬
tion seem to care very little for their
parents. The Brooklyn parent nurtu¬
red its N. Y. offspring, fed and taught
them, and when they expressed a wish
to go house-keeping, the fond parent
went and hired the apartments, and
instructed them until they were fully
able to face the world. Yet they sel¬
dom visit their parents now, but such
is life.
ERRATA — In our notice of the birth of
Mr. Cromien's son in our last issue, a mistake
was made in the spelling. The first name should
read,
Connal Cearnaċ,
instead of the orthography employed.
The Brooklyn Philo-Celtic Society founded the
Gael over five years ago in order that the Gaelic
movement would have some sort of journal to bring
it before the Irish public. Now, that the move¬
ment has considerably extended itself, the amount
of Gaelic type the society has is too limitted to
bear the strain put on it by the daily increasing
volume of Gaelic matter which learners supply.
And as the Gael is no personal enterprise, the
Gaelic reading public should see that the corres¬
pondence of such learners should not be cast
aside for the want of Gaelic type to produce them.
The members of the S. pay as dues $3 a year.
Now, if the well to do readers of the Gael would
subscribe $3 they could become Hon. members of
the society, getting their cards of membership.
along with being noted in the Gael, and if a
hundred responded, a matrice could be manufac¬
tured, and all the type needed acquired.
We have at this moment more Gaelic matter
on hand than the Gael could print in two years,
with its present stock of Gaelic type. Let, then
our readers — those who take an interest in the
preservation and extension of the language — drum
up the necessary means to get up a matrice or
mould. Canvass among your neighbors for it.
No one should feel abashed at doing so, as it is
no personal matter to him. and as every subscriber
to it will be published in the Gael — an everlasting
monument to his part in the Gaelic movement.
P. R. Mr Wm. Russell, of Oil City,
is the oldest, and considered the best,
Irish scholar in America.
J. S. We have not “The Children of
LIR, but the price of the new edition is
80 cents.
CÍOS AN ĠAOḊAIL.
Tá sé gnáṫaċ,
In aimsir Nodlog,
Faoi ḃiaḋ 's deoċ,
A ḃeiṫ fial;
Mar sin, a ċáirde,
Deunuiġ ḃur móide,
Cíos an ĠAOḊAIL.
Do ḋíol.
Ní'l sé trom,
Air gaċ duine,
Aċt aig cóṁairioṁ
Gaċ h-uile ḃeagán,
A's iad bailiġṫe
A d-tennta i ċéile,
Meuduiġean siad toirt
An sparáin.
Tá an GAOḊAL
'Na ṁalraċ óg,
D-tioḋlamuiḋe taċ' 's
Caḃair a ċinne,
A ḃus 's ṫáll,
Ṡoir agus ṡiar,
In gaċ ceárda
Air fuid na cruinne.
Deunaiḋ, mar sin,
Suas an t-sliġe,
An cíos íoc
Do ḃur n-dalta,
A's gealfaiḋ sé
Duiḃ' a ċroiḋe
Naċ ḃ-fuil siḃse,
A ċáirde, feallta.
Nodloig ṡúgaċ, 's Bliaḋain Nuaḋ ṡeun¬
ṁar aig gach léiġṫeóir de'n ĠAOḊAL.
