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AN GAOḊAL
As a result of Fr. O Growney's and
the Gaelic League's efforts in the cause,
after the great meeting in Galway, at
which the Rt. Rev, Bishop Mc Cormick
presided, Father Dooley told his par¬
ishioners, from the altar, never dare
address him, on the street or in any
other place, in English [What a pity
that he is not archbishop of Tuam!]
Also, the Lessons published in the
Freeman's Journal from its 60,000 cir¬
culation, did much good, for any Irish
speaker who read the Freeman (ex¬
cept the variest dunce) can now read
the language.
Some time ago we proposed, at our
own expense, to supply the Irish-A¬
merican press with the made up mat¬
ter, in weekly installments, of the se¬
ries of Irish Lessons of the Dublin So¬
ciety — the publishers paying the cost
of stereotyping only. Some few jour¬
nals signified their intention to avail
themselves of the opportunity of thus
spreading a knowledge of native lan¬
guage ; others said, 'Send them along'
complimenting us by affording an op¬
portunity of getting rid of that myste¬
rious fund from which the Gael draws
its support !
The Providence school has over 200
members; it has two of the best prac¬
tical teachers of Irish in the country,
Messrs. Henehan and O'Casey. — natu¬
ral speakers of the langauge.
What we don't like to see. —
Long diphthongs accented;
,nna for ná [than]; aċt, will, testament
for aċ, but ; raiḃ for raḃ, was; faġáil
for fáġail, getting [aġ and aḋ having
the sound of the pronoun I, would ob¬
lige the reader to pronounce faġáil 'fy¬
awil', a form we never heard].
In giving the Irish of certain
words in last issue, we gave croiceann
an ċrainn as the Irish for the "bark of
a tree," forgetting for the moment that
cairt is, also, a name for it.
A subscriber calls our attention to
the word beb in one of the paradigms
on p. 363 of No. 7, saying that it was
called bás where he came from Cer¬
tainly bás is the most common form of
expression, but beb, and also eug, has
the same meaning, and the form em¬
ployed suited our purpose Also, the
pronunciation of cruinniuġaḋ, that it
was 'krinnew' in his neighborhood, but
he must have forgotten that we point¬
ed out that the pronunciation of the
double nn in 'cornnoo' was like the 'n'
in the word 'new'.
President Cleveland's earlier federal
appointments lent color to the assump¬
tion that he had been tinged with A P
A ideas; his later appointments are a
contradiction of any such presumption
and THE GAEL hastens to retract what
it urged against him in that particular
regard.
We now believe that a considerable
number of honorable, sincere Ameri¬
cans looked with favor on some of the
principles of the order, taking it for
granted that its promoters were patri¬
otic Americans. But when the ass's
ears protruded through the lion's skin,
thus exposing its Orange parentage —
the hereditary enemies of American
liberty — the rascals who seek to bring
these United States under the same
badge of slavery as the land of their
birth, these sincere Americans seem to
go as far in the opposite direction to
emphasize their abhorrence of it.
We have not seen in any Irish-A¬
merican democratic paper a report of
the fact that the Republican Mayor of
Brooklyn refused a permit to the Or¬
angemen to march on the 12th of July
though the Irish Democratic Mayor of
New York granted them one. Why?
The Gael congratulates its friend,
General Michael Kerwin, on his app¬
ointment to the Police Commission of
New York City — the right man in
the right place.
