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 her willingness to cease
to exist." — ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.
— "The Green Isle contained, for more centuries
than one, more learning than could have been col¬
lected from the rest of Europe. * * * It is not
thus rash to say that the Irish possess contempo¬
rary histories of their country, written in the lang¬
uage of the people, from the fifth century. No oth¬
er nation of modern Europe is able to make a sim¬
ilar boast" — SPAULDING's [Anti Irish] ENGLISH
LITERATURE, APPLETON & Co., N Y.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, - - - Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students, 60
cents to the public, in advance ; $1. in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 10 cents a line, Agate.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Eleventh Year of Publication.
VOL 8, No. 11. OCTOBER, 1891.
Remember that the First Irish Book is given free
of charge to every new subscriber.
Subscribers will please remember that subscrip¬
tions are due in advance.
As we go to press we learn that Rev. Father O'
Growney has been appointed to the Irish Chair in
Maynooth college — the most effective step yet ta¬
ken to rehabilitate the language. Our old friend
and co-worker, John Fleming, is overjoyed at the
good news. May he live long to see and enjoy the
fruits of his labor.
With this issue THE GÆL enters on
its eleventh year, so that it is now a
fixed quantity in the world of latters.
For this hopeful and satisfactory po¬
sition which THE GÆL occupies today
we might claim a small share of credit.
But no; the real credit belongs to
those patriotic men and women whose
names stand as a memorial of their
deeds in the “Sentiments" columns of
its pages. It is they who nursed it in
its infancy; clothed and supported it
in its boyhood, and who now usher it
into the world in the full bloom of
manhood.
The lines of the poet on another sub¬
ject might be applied with force to the
Irish language, aye, and to the people,
"Oft had it been chased with horns and hounds
And Scythian shafts and many winged wounds
Aimed at its heart, was often forced to fly,
And doomed to death tho' fated not to die."
Ballynacargy, Westmeath, Sept. 24th 1891.
Editor Gaodhal.
Enclosed find order for one dollar, my subscrip¬
tion to your courageus little paper.
The letter you publish from my friend Mr. O'¬
Brien in your last issue, page 120, ought to open
the eyes of our friends in America. See the good
done by one copy of the little Gaodhal; it remind¬
ed a man of his duty towards the language of his
forefathers, and having manfully done what he saw
was his duty, Mr. O'Leary has his conscience clear,
he has a man's share in the work of preserving this
greatest sign of our nationality.
But, my dear Editor, how proud will you be to
know that, thanks to that copy of the Gael, and to
his own courage and perseverance, Mr. Patrick O'¬
Leary is now, beyond doubt, one of the best scholars
of Munster. He is a real treasure house of know¬
ledge with regard to the beautiful dialect of the
south, and has made, and is yet making, valuable
collections of works on Gaelic as spoken in the west
of Cork, and especially in his own Beara.
Seeing this striking result of a cause so small in
itself, no wonder the Cork Herald in a recent arti¬
cle, pointed out how very easily indeed, the old ton¬
gue could be restored in West Cork, and the corres¬
ponding disgrace attaching to those who have charge
of the education of the country, and who either shut
their eyes to their duty towards the national lang¬
uage, or what is worse still, with their eyes open,
do their share to make us more and more English e¬
very day.
With regard to the translation of "Remember
Thee, Yes," on page 114, there must be some mis¬
take*; as you may see by looking back to Gael, p.
770.
Respectfully,
E. O'G.
[*Yes, the mistake was ours; we mixed matters
up a little — the English translation is what was
meant. — Ed.]
[Whisper, you who sought to injure THE GAEL
when you could not control it, were not your efforts
the disfigurement of the nose to spite the face? If,
by your conduct, you circumscribed its circulation
to the amount of one copy, should you not atone
for it to the Gaelic cause in sackcloth and ashes?]
THE ELECTROTYPES.
The reader has seen our proposition in last issue
to supply all Irish American papers willing to con¬
tribute to the cost of production, an electrotype cut
of the matter contained in the First, Second, and
Third Irish books weekly. The following papers
have responded to that proposition. —
The Irish Pennsylvanian, Pittsburg, Pa.
The Critic, New Orleans, La.
The Western Cross, Kansas City, Mo.
