30
AN GAOḊAL
THE SENTIMENTS OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS
Ala — Mobile, Rev. M F Filan.
Ariz — Globe, Ed Whelan.
Ia — Harpers Ferry, Rev. M Sheehan.
Idaho — ldaho City, P. Moriarty.
Mass — Holyoke, Thomas J Ashe — Springfield,
John F Donoghue, P F Hagarty — Worcester, T
Heneberry, The Free Public Library.
Mich — Detroit, Daniel Tindall — Pentwater, J.
M Cahill.
Mo — De Soto, Dr. W. M. Keany — St Louis, J.
M Tierney — Sedalia, Jerry Sullivan.
N Y — Brooklyn, Miss Mary Guerin. Dr. Shea,
N Heaney — City, Counsellor John L. Brower, T.
Young, Hon. Denis Burns, Miss Mary Needham,
per Hon D Burns, Richard Hayes.
Vt — Bellows Falls, John P Hartnett.
Ireland — Kerry, Cahirdaniel, M Moriarty, per
P Moriarty, Idaho City, Idaho — Waterford, Jas.
O'Callahan, St. Stephen's Schools, per Daniel Tin¬
dall, Detroit, Mich.
With this, the eighteenth anniversa¬
ry of the foundation of the Gael, is us¬
hered in a very important epoch in the
history of the Gaelic Movement in A¬
merica — the crowning of the move¬
ment — the organization of the Gaelic
League of America!
You, friends, friends, to whom we
speak in our native tongue below, can
answer the queries we propound either
positively or negatively:
Siḃse, a ċáirde, atá i ḃ-fiaċaiḃ do'n
Gaoḋal, a mesann siḃ go ḃfásann pái¬
péir mar é nádúrṫa ó,n gcré gan coṫ¬
úġaḋ láiṁe? Ameasann siḃ go ndeár¬
naiḋ an Gaoḋal obair ṁaiṫ, ċneasta,
saoṫar na teangan le linn, agus air
feaḋ, a ḃeaṫa? A measann siḃ go m-
ḃuḋ fiú teanga na h-Éireann a cosaint
agus a coimeud ó'n mbás ċum go gcong¬
ḃóċaide cinneaḋ na h-Éireann ó ḃeiṫ
sluigṫe suas le cinneaḋ na Sacsan?
A measann siḃ gur ċuidiḋ saoṫar an
Ġaoḋail le baca do ċur ar niḋ ċo táir
eaċ? Má ṁeasann íocaiġiḋ ḃur ḃfiaċ
a ḋó agus cuidiġiḋ leis,
In our last issue, we referred to
"Rich and Rare,” as representing
the highly moral, noble, character
of the Irish before their holy soil
was polluted by the lecherous, ac¬
cursed Sassanach We print the
song and translation in this issue.
In our last issue, we noticed a
a new book, “AN IRISH PATRIOT"
We do not very often review
books on Ireland because the majo¬
rity of them take their characters
from the Irish slums, and, by infer¬
ence, represent the mass of the peo¬
ple as of the same grade. The "An
Irish Patriot” is of a different type
and, hence, we would like to see it
in the hands of every Irish family.
Its price in green cloth is $1.
We saw a report in the papers a
few days ago that the French Can¬
adians would side with France in
case of a rupture between France
and England. There is no questien
of how the Irish would go.
The Gaelic League of America
being now a fact, we have placed
“Old Glory” as a protector on our
title page instead of the plain house
dog.
Friend Hagerty, Burlington, Ia,
is organizing a Gaelic class.
Worcester, Mass, is organizing
a Gaelic society.
Lawrence, Mass, is about reviv¬
ing its old-time Gaelic enthusiasm.
The falacy of the pretended good
will of England to this country is
riddled by two facts: First, when
we declared war against Spain, En¬
gland was in a great hurry to an¬
nounce her neutrality because two
our war ships were in her ports,
and kept them there, and her coal
supply to the Spanish fleet; second
Salisbury's insulting remarks in
his Guildhall speech.
