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 ber willingness to cease to exist." — ARCH¬
BISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained for more centuries than or
more learning than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe ... It is not thus rash to say that the Irish
possess contemporary histories of their country, written in
the language of the people, from the fifth century. No
other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar
boast." — SPALDING'S ENGLISH LITERATURE, APPLETON & Co.,
NEW YORK.
Who are the Scotch? A tribe of Irish Scots who crossed
over in the 6th century, overcome the natives, and gave
their name to the country. — J. CORNELL, PH.D., F. R. S.'s
Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th century and
were so rude that they had no written language until the
14th, when the Franco-Normans formulated the English. —
SPALDING.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation
and Preservation of the Irish Language and
the autonomy of the Irish Nation.
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Eighteenth Year of Publication.
VOL 13. No. 3 Dec. 1898
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Happy New Year.
From all parts of the old country
we have excellent Gaelic news. Now
that the Galic League of America is
a fixed institution in the country, all
Irishmen should join it. Write to the
secretaries for information in that res¬
pect. Irishmen, too, should circulate
the Gael for it carries with it a formi¬
dable weapon of defence and offence,
the Language. England's diabolical
tactics were so successful in illiterating
the people that foreigners and even
Irish-American youths — believe that
the uncultured condition of the Irish
was inherent in the race, and that we
are indeed to England for whatever
measure of civilization we now poss¬
ess!
A PROCLAMATION!
To The Impartial Citzens of The
World.
History accords to Ireland the
most brilliant antecedents of any
nation of Europe, as the following
extracts from the writings from
Protestant non-Irish writers dem¬
onstrate. England forbade the ed¬
ucation of the Irish people, and
when she had thus compassed their
illiteracy, she called them Ignor¬
ant and unfit to govern themselves
so as to justify, in the eyes of the
uniformed, her barbarous treat¬
ment of them; and her agents pur¬
sue, and try to crush them even in
this Land of the Brave and Home
of the free. —
"The Irish possess contemporary
histories of their country, written
in the language of the people, from
the fifth century. No other nation
of modern Europe is able to make
a similar boast" — Spalding's Eng.
Lit. [anti Irish, anti Catholic] Ap¬
pleton, New York.
"They (the Irish) were instruct¬
ors in every known, branch of
science and learning of the time,
possessors and bearers of a higher
culture than was at that period to
be found any where on the Contin¬
ent, and can surely claim to have
been the pioneers, — to have laid the
cornerstone of Western culture on
the Continent, the rich results of
which Germany shares today, in
common with all other civilized
nations." — Heinrich Zimmer, Prof,
Comparative Philology, Griefswald
University, Prussia.
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