Philo-Celts.
Now that the elections are over, we hope the
Brooklyn Philo-Celts will settle down to practic¬
al work.
Since vacation two of our members have become
one o— Miss Ellie Donnelly became Mrs. M. J.
Heaney. We hope to see them take the same in¬
terest in the society's affairs as they did heretofore.
If they do there will be no cause for complaint,
they were the life of the society. All we can
say now, and we say it with all the fervor at our
command, is, that their wedded life may be a con¬
tinuous sunshine.
The Boston IRISH ECHO has commenced a Gaelic
Department.
"Sentiments" in next issue,
We would direct our Gaelic students
to Mr. Wm. Russell's Contributions;
they are critically correct Gaelic.
We give the title page to Mr. Rob¬
inson this month, it being his first eff¬
ort ,and, taking the composition as a
whole, idiomatically as well as gram¬
matically, gentle reader, which has it
or the composition of some of our
"Big Irish Scholars" the greater num¬
ber of errors? and it is printed as we
got it. Pádraic. who is an excellent
Gaelic scholar now did not write four
years ago nearly as well as Mr. Robin¬
son for we have compared their manu¬
scripts — Pádraic's wanted a good deal
of "fixing up" then. So that there is
nothing like practice. One compositi¬
on for the press will exercise the wri¬
ter better than fifty ordinary ones.
Who, then, would discourage so effec¬
tive an agency ? a friend of the cause?
"Tá siad 'na ḃ-fearaiḃ móra;
is breáġ na fearaiḃ iad,"
The query in the last GAEL in relation
to the above couplet has been answer¬
ed by Capt. Norris, who tabulates all
the rules for their proper construction,
which is,
Tá siad 'na ḃ-fearaiḃ móra;
Is breáġ na fir iad,"
fearaiḃ, in the first line, being proper¬
ly governed in the dative case by the
prepositional pronoun, 'nna, in their.
Mr Walsh, of Syracuse who put the
query, admits that the Capt. is right,
according to rule, but asks why fear¬
aiḃ in the first line is considered cor¬
rect and condemned in the second ?
whereas both lines mean, simply
Is mór iad fir iad,
they are large men;
is breáġ na fir iad,
they are fine men.
Mr. Walsh maintains that 'nna, in their
has no place in the sentence, that the
verb is sufficient to indicate the state
of being, and that "fir," in both instan¬
ces is nominative, coming after the
verb, tá.
[The latter part of this argument de¬
serves consideration. We would like
to hear Mr. Donnell's views on the
subject; also other scholars who can
spare time. The question of the no¬
minative seems embarrassing, especi¬
ally when the dative form is not heard
in the spoken language. — Ed.]
We have received No. 25 of the Dublin Gaelic
Journal. It is replete with interesting Gaelic
matter. The price is now only 75 cents year,
so that everyone can have it. See what the Gaelic
Movement has already done? Then, support it.
A dollar a year (two cents a week), will never
break you.
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