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AN GAOḊAL.
PHILO-CELTIC SOCIETY, PHILADELPHIA
March 19, 1890.
Editor of the Gael; —
This Society celebrated Archbishop McHale's
anniversary with a free entertainment on last Sun¬
day evening, March 16. A number of addresses
were made both in Irish and in English. Mr. P.
Madden, as chairman, gave the introductoy ad¬
dress, and John J. Lyons gave a preliminary add¬
ress in Irish. The Rev. Daniel J. Murphy, of St.
Theresa's Church, made the principal address, al¬
so in Irish, eloquently setting forth the national
zeal and constancy of the Archbishop, who, he de¬
clared, was the bright star and pride of Erin ; ever
anxious for the welfare of his language and people,
actually compelling them to speak their mother
tongue.
The rest of the programme was as follows, —
Song in Irish and English by Chas. E. Cranney.
Recitation in Irish, Miss Sallie Meakim. Song, by
Miss Sarah Mallon, Song, in Irish, Thomas McE¬
niry, Recitation, J J. Hughes, Songs in Irish by
Messrs. P. Burke and T. Dolan, Bass solo by Jas.
Crosson, Song, Miss Kate Naughton, Recitation,
in Irish, John J. Robinson, Recitation in English
by Mr. Daniher, Song,
An Crúisgín Lán,
by Will. Devine. And an able address was deliv¬
ered by Edward Meakim. The concert was well
attended.
Chas. E. Cranney,
Cor. Sec.
It is a pleasure to us to note the very elegant
change which has been made in the general get up
of the Boston Irish Echo. It is now a sixteen
page journal with a handsome green cover The
managers of the Irish Echo are genuine Irishmen.
Mr. O'Farrell in writing to us the other day said,
"If there is anything that I can do for you here
in Boston, at any time, I am at your service."
These are the sentiments of a true Gael. We wish
for the Echo the largest measure of success.
T. F. Halvey, the Philadelphia wool
merchant, in sending his $5 subscrip¬
tion to THE GAEL, observes, —
"I consider your paper the only
true exponent of the rights of the Cel¬
tic race in America, or even in Ire¬
land; and that it has not a circulation
of half a million a month is a disgrace
to the Irish race."
M. J. Linnane, another wool merch¬
ant, of Duane st. N. Y., called to see
us and dropt a $5 bill (his second sim¬
ilar donation) into The Gael's treasu¬
ry to help its circulation. We wish
there were more Irish-American wool
merchants like Messrs. Linnane and
Halvey.
We have received two copies of Fa¬
ther Nolan's St Patrick's Prayerbook,
re-published by his permission by the
Rev. E. D. Cleaver, Dolgelly, North
Wales, an old member of the Dublin
Gaelic Union, one an Emerald, and the
other, an olive green with gilt cross¬
es. In this edition the Irish only has
been published; there is not one word
of English in it.
The Rev Mr. Cleaver is well known
to our readers, for all have heard of
the Cleaver Prizes which he bestow¬
ed on children proficient in Gaelic.
Mr Cleaver, also, paid the cost of
Mr. Hyde's (Craoiḃín Aoiḃinn) Leaḃ¬
ar Sgeuluiġeaċta, and offered to con¬
tribute £5 towards the re-publishing
of Dr. McHale's Irish-English Catech¬
ism.
We hope the catechism will be repro¬
duced for it is the best possibile text-
book, the Irish and English being on
opposite pages It is the first Irish
book we ever read, and in our early
school days, the Catechism "task" was
the first to be released, and heard by
the "master" or his deputies, every
morning Before the age of twelve we
had it "off by heart" from cover to co¬
ver; so that we have an old nádúr for
that book. One of our class-mates at
that time was the Rev. Wm. Joyce, at
present parish priest of Louisburgh, co
Mayo but we left him miles behind in
the Irish catechism.
Let all our well-to-do readers send a
$5 or other bill to Mr. J. Glynn, TUAM
NEWS, Secretary Irish Language Com.
mentioning that it is towards the Cat¬
echism Fund, and there is no doubt
but the catechism will appear soon.
And when it does we hope to see the
alphabet, sounds of letters, accent, as¬
piration, eclipsis, etc, etc. given as an
addenda to it.
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