AN GAOḊAL.
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"A nation which allows her language to go to
ruin, is parting with the best half of her intellectual
independence, and testifies to her willingness to cease
to exist." — ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.
Read what the truths of history have compel¬
led the bigotted Spaulding (profr. of lgoic, Rugby
university, England) to write. —
"The Green Isle contained, for more centuries
than one, more learning than could have been col¬
lected from the rest of Europe. * * * It is not
thus rash to say that the Irish possess contempo¬
rary histories of their country, written in the lang¬
uage of the people, from the fifth century. No oth¬
er nation of modern Europe is able to make a sim¬
ilar boast" — SPAULDING's ENGLISH LITERATURE,
APPLETON & Co., N Y.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, - - - Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students, 60
cents to the public, in advance ; $1. in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 20 cents a line, Agate.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Eleventh Year of Publication.
VOL 9, No. 2. FEBRUARY, 1892.
Remember that the First Irish Book is given free
of charge to every new subscriber.
Subscribers will please remember that subscrip¬
tions are due in advance.
The Gael can now be bought off the news stand
for 5 cents in the following places. —
J F Conroy, 167 Main St. Hartford, Conn.
D P Dunne, Main St. Williamantic, do.
G F Connors, 404 Main St. Bridgeport, Conn.
Mrs Dillon, E Main St. Waterbury, Conn.
Mrs Bergen, S Main St. do. do.
M McEvilly, Wilmington, Del.
Mr Calligan, 23 Park Row, N Y City.
W Hanrahan, 84 Weybasset, st. Providence R I
J H J Reilley, 413 High st. do.
J N Palmer, P O Building, Tomah, Wis.
M J Geraghty, 483 West 12th st. Chicago, Ill.
J Dullaghan, 253 Wabash Av. do
H Radzinski, 283 N & 2863 Archer Av. do
Graham & Sons 115 S Desplaines St. do
J Richardson, 506 Bush st. San Francisco, Cal.
H Connelly, Cohoes, N Y.
Wm McNab. do.
We hope Gaels will send us the names and addresses
of newsdealers from all the large towns and cities,
The Gael reports good news all round this time.
There is Gaelic activity through the States, superin¬
duced by the agitation in relation to a Gaelic exhib¬
it at the World's Fair; the Dublin National Prees
is handling the matter, and in doing so extends a mer¬
rited tribute of praise to An Gaodhal; the news in
Mr. Sugrue's letter to Capt. Norris cannot be bet¬
ter. But what is a few copies of the Gael among
Mr Sugrue's class of 50 ? Let us send at least half
a dozen to each of these schools.
No. 40 of the Gaelic Journal has just come to
hand It is full of life. It is now under the edito¬
rial control of Father O'Growney, to whom all com¬
munications in relation to it should be addressed, —
Rev. Eugene O'Growney, Prof. of Celtic, Maynooth
College, co. Kildare, Ireland.
If this be done and addresses written plainly, there
is no doubt that the complaints of subscribers will
cease. The price of the Journal is 60 cents a year.
Friends, let us make THE GAEL circulate by the
hundreds of thousands ; let us show our friends at
home what we can do in this free, Greater Ireland of
the West now that we have emerged from the com¬
atose state in which the stunning blows of the op¬
pressor kept us in in the Ireland of our birth. Read
the following indisputable parallel between the
"Celt and the Saxon" for your Irish neighbor; sug¬
gest to him that the cost of the Gael for a year is a
dollar or six cents — dont dun him — for the man,
whether he know the language or not, who would
not contribute so much in defence of his social rep¬
utation willingly is not worth having.
THE CELT AND SAXON. —
A PARALLEL.
In our last issue appeared a letter from the Rev.
Father Carroll suggesting the exhibition of Gaelic
writings, manuscripts, etc. at the Columbian World's
Fair next year, and in commenting thereon we sug¬
gested to the Gaelic workers in a large number of
towns and cities to organize societies for the purpose
of carrying it into effect. Since then — on giving the
matter more serious thought — we consider it of such
moment to the Irish race and nation that a national
movement to carry it out should be inaugurated at
once.
It is known only to a comparatively few of the
leading scholars of continental Europe that up to
the close of the Dark Ages (the 11th century) all
the learned men and all the learned literature in
Europe were confined to Ireland. By exhibiting
this literature at the World's Fair (no other nation
in the world being able to make a similar exhibit —
see Spaulding), the fame of the Green Isle would
be wafted on the wings of the press all over the
known world and the Irish people placed in their
proper light before the nations, and particularly, the
American people, of whom they form so important
a part and to whom their interests are so closely al¬
lied.
Through fatuous blindness they have heretofore
permitted themselves to be reviled, aspersed and
maligned by the betters of the greatest fraud that
has ever been imposed on a gullable public, name¬
ly, "The Great Anglo-Saxon Race." Who and
what are what goes by the name of Anglo-Saxon?
Let history tell. —
In the closing years of the fifth century two pira¬
tical Saxon brothers, Hengist and Horsa, who with
their followers, had infested the shores of Britain,
were employed by one of the petty kings to re¬
pel the incursions of the Picts and Scots. In the
course of a few years these pirates resolved on con¬
quering the country for themselves and, to compass
