AN GAOḊAL.
963
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as second-class mail
matter.
Ninth Year of Publication.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, Editor and Proprietor.
Terms of Subscription — 1$ a year to students
Sixty Cents to the general public, in advance; $1
in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 10 cents a line, Agate.
VOL 7, No. 11. JUNE. 1890.
The Gael has received encomiums
from every quarter on the excellence
of the new system of teaching. We
shall have any amount of Gaelic scho¬
lars by and by.
The success which has attended the
Gaelic movement must be a matter of
profound satisfaction to our old friends
in the cause — the friends who sturdily
steered the Gaelic bark in the face of
the tempestuous storms of incredulity,
ignorance and unpatriotism, which be¬
set it. When, nearly nine years ago,
An Gaoḋal saw the light, people did
not think that it would live six months,
and looked upon its Editor with that
subdued expression of sympathy which
is generally extended to one "touched
in the upper story" who is engaged
in the furtherance of a laudable, tho'
hopeless, undertaking. Now, that it is
an established fact, we hope every sub¬
scriber, old and new, will resolve to
get, at least, one subscriber each. See
what that would do? — just double the
circulation. No one can say that he
cannot get one when Mr M'Cosker, in
the comparatively small city of Mobile,
Ala, could get over a hundred.
O'Currys Lectures alone is worth
ten times the subscription to any man
with a drop of Irish blood in his veins,
apart from the Gaelic matter and in¬
struction; and above all and before all,
is the principle underlying the Gaelic
movement — the preservation of the
life of the Irish Nation, and of the ev¬
idence of the social superiority of the
Irish race.
THE CATHOLIC PRESS.
The publishers of the Catholic press
are continually complaining of the scan¬
ty support which Catholics in general
accord them.
Friends of the Catholic press, four
fifths of your supporters are Irish-Am¬
erican Catholics; season your religious
articles with something really Irish
and Irish-Americans and their children
will support you. No matter how back¬
ward in literary knowledge the Irish-
American parent may be yet he would
be proud to hear his child read over
the history of his country now and a¬
gain; and that pride would be height¬
ened by the contemplation that the
child itself would become acquainted
with it. The two leading antagonistic
elements for mastery in the social scale
in this country to-day are, the Irish
and the English. The English, because
of the political power of the "Mother
Country" would fain look with con¬
tempt on the Irish; have those who
assume to lead Irish public opinion u¬
sed this same "Mother Country" as a
weapon to shatter this English preten¬
sion to social superiority? Anderson's
History of English Literture tells us
that it is only 560 years since the En¬
glish language was formulated. Have
our Catholic Editors ever suggested a
parallel between the social status of
that people who have so recently em¬
erged from barbarism and the Irish
people, the origin of whose learning
and civilization is wrapt in the mists
of antiquity? If they have we have
not seen it.
Friends, instead of your "Patent in¬
sides," give a page weekly, commenc¬
ing at page 1, of O'Currys Manuscript
Material of Irish History, and the An-
