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AN GAOḊAL.
Dear Sir :
Messrs. Henehan, Logan, Balfe
and the undersigned met on June
3rd and discussed the following
questions :—
1. What name should be adopt¬
ed for the proposed Gaelic union?
2. When and where should the
Convention be held?
3. Should the executive business
be transacted in the afternoon and
a public meeting, with entertain¬
ment, be held in the evening?
4. Should the evening proceed¬
ings be wholly in Gaelic?
5. How many delegates should
each society send to the Conven¬
tion ?
6. What should be the main ob¬
jects of the organization?
7. What are your ideas as to car¬
rying on the organization ?
We all agreed on the following
answers:
1. The Gaelic League of Ameri¬
ca.
2. Nov. 2nd, at the chambers of
the N. Y Gaelic society, 64 Madi¬
son ave N.Y. City.
3. Yes.
4. One address in English, explai¬
ning the object of the organization;
all else Gaelic.
5. Two.
6. The cultivation of the lang¬
uage, literature, music, history and
art of the Gael.
7. Left unanswered.
Please consider these questions
carefully, and send your answers
to me at your earliest convenience
Yours, sincerely,
P. J. Boylan,
Secretary.
Send 60 cents for the Gael, for a year.
OUR FRIEND HANRAHAN.
It is with great pleasure that we
publish the following "jollying" com¬
ment on our remarks in a late issue of
the Gael on those subscribers who are
in arrears and who may be called to
the other side of the Jordan ere they
pay their indebtedness and the fate
which the Biblical writers declare a¬
waits them, and our action in relation
to them, which action is supposed to
proceed from our antipathy to those
Irishmen so void of common patriot¬
ism as to continue to receive the Gael
without helping to defray its expenses,
thus not only deriding the movement
for the preservation of Irish National¬
ity of which the Gael is pioneer and
representative, but cheating the la¬
borer of his hire — a sin which, we are
told, shall not be forgiven in this, nor
in the world to come. Some of the
Gael's debtors may not be able to read
the Gaelic text in which our remarks
were couched, but it is paragraph 1,
2nd column, page 109 of June issue.
So that all who are in arrears and un¬
able to read it, lay and cleric, should
at once secure the services of a friend¬
ly Gaelic reader, that they may know
the awful fate that awaits them.
Now, our old respected friend, Han¬
rahan, was, like ourself, a near neigh¬
bor of the Fairies of Knock Moy and
must be aware of the many curious
freaks which have been characteristic
of them. And, also, that they were,
under strong provocation, very vindic¬
tive and unforgiving, and would hard¬
ly be so inconsistent as to prevent us
from exercising similar propensities.
But our friend Hanrahan takes no
risks for he is always in advance, and
can well afford to jocosely — it may be
charitably — put in a soft word for
those to whom we had directed our
admonition. —
PORTLAND, ME.
July, 31st, '98.
Mr Logan,
Dear Sir .
As I cannot send the last farthing, enclosed I
