AN GAOḊAL.
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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.
Tenth 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 8, No. 5. DECEMBER, 1890.
Gaels have another bit of good news
coming on the New Year — the Gort
Board of Guardians resolving to adver¬
tise their wants in the National Lang¬
uage. We have it now in the schools
and public bodies; let us push the ag¬
itation and we shall make it general.
Remember that the patriotism of the
comparatively few have saved nations.
You, Gaoḋail, have saved your Nation
for though self-government has receiv¬
ed an apparent set-back, there is no
doubt of its ultimate success once the
Nationality is preserved. Greece pre¬
served her nationality for 2,200 years
under the heel of the tyrant, and in
spite of the treachery of some of her
own degenerate children; but, having
preserved it, she is today the proudest
little kingdom in Europe. Let us re-
double our energies, Gaoḋall, and try
to bring our Anglicised countrymen to
a sense of what they ought to be — co-
workers in the grand effort to preserve
the old Gael from being contaminated
with the poisonous effluvia of the Go¬
tho-Saxon.
TO THE EDITORS OF THE IRISH¬
AMERICAN PRESS
Gentlemen. — We sent you from
time to time small circulars requesting
of you to bring THE GAEL under the
notice of your readers and to urge them
to assist the movement for the preser¬
vation of the National Language. Some
of you patriotically performed that du¬
ty; but others of you seemed to think
that such notices should be paid for.
Now, you who think that such notices
should be paid for, please tell us by
whom? Is it by us? If so, for what
reason? We have been in the real es¬
tate business over eighteen years. We
organized the Gaelic movement with a
view, if possible, of preserving our nat¬
ional language. As secretary of the P.
C. Society we were induced to produce
THE GAEL to publish its proceedings
and to advance the movement in gen¬
eral. But we had no intention, nor
have we now, to abandon our busin¬
ess for any publication the the real estate
business being our forte.
But, having undertaken the produc¬
tion of THE GAEL (we may say the first
Gaelic journal ever published), and it
being the outcome of the movement
which we organized, we resolved that
it should never cease to be published
whilst we lived in health if it did not
have a single subscriber; and its exis¬
tence today after battling for the last
nine years with the insideus assaults
of the enemy is a proof that that reso¬
lution has been kept inviolate. We
said, also, at the same time that the I¬
rish people had had a journal in their
own language and that it lay with
them to enlarge it and make it effect¬
ive.
Twelve months ago we sent you a
circular announcing the commence¬
ment of a new series of Gaelic Lessons
in THE GAEL. A large number of you
published it and, as a result, we recei¬
ved over 300 letters and postal cards
requesting membership, information,
etc, and of that number 200 are now
studying the language, and you, gen¬
tlemen, who published that notice, are
entitled to the credit of that particul¬
ar result. 45 of the inquirers, of whom
35 are now students, came through the
notice of one paper. We would like to
