AN GAOḊAL
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Ḃí ceol & daṁsa 'gus aḃráin go leor,
Ḃí cuid a caint cleaṁnais gan imníḋ,
gan brón ;
Mar na cailíniḋe 's deise d'ḟacaiḋ mé
fós,
Casaḋ liom iad i gCúl Ċeárnaiġ.
Seo saoire go Éire suairceas a's sóġ,
Ta mo ṁuintir leaṫ-ḃaraṁuil, an méid
a tá beo.
'S má ṫéiḋim a ḃaile a ċoiḋċe go deo,
Raċfaiḋ mé air cuairt go Cúl
Ċeárnaiġ.
THE SENTIMENTS of our SUBSCRIBERS
Cal — San Francisco, Dr. 4 T Leonard. J Deasy
M O’Mahoney, Martin P Ward, per Mr Ward.
Conn — Hartford, C O’Neill, per C O’Brien.
Mass — Holliston, Humphrey Sullivan. $5. (his
annual subscription for self and two schools) — Law¬
rence, M Ahearn, per T Griffin — Wollaston Height
P Donovan — Worcester, E Walsh.
Mich — Muskegon, Counsellor O’Sullivan, per M
Downey — Ocobock, Charles Henery, also, per M.
Downey, Montague — St. James, D McCauly.
Mo — Kansas City, T Houlihan, E Lynch, P D
Moynahan, W Rowan, M White, per Mr P McEni¬
ry. There are good Gaels in Can. City — Liberty,
Rev. P J Cullen.
Nev — Reno, Rev M Kiely.
N Y — Brooklyn. L Slavin — Greenfield, PA Dou¬
gher — Syracuse, Rt. Rev. Bishop PA Ludden.
O — Martin's Ferry, P Carney, per M Lally
Wheeling, W Va — Springfield, Rev. Martin L
Murphy, who has the harp and shamrock in green
on his stationery (Gaelic letter forgotten until all
the Gaelic type ran short).
Pa — Phila. Mr Thos. McEniry sends $8 for self
and the Misses L McSorley, E O'Connor, E O'Lea¬
ry, B Lynch, and Messrs. M Walsh J Hunt M
Gleeson ; James J Hughes, Philo-Celtic Society,
per Mr Hughes — Allegheny City, Rev. M Carroll
W Va — Wheeling, J Lally P Cearney, per M
Lally; M Moran, P Lynch. per P McDermott; J
Monaghan, J Nomine, T F Burke, P O'Connor,
Rev. J Mullen (St. Mary's), per Dillon J McCor¬
mick; J Nary, A M Andrews, J Joice. W Lawrell,
J Mannion, J McCue, M Fitapatrick, M J Gateley
(Renwood), W Cearney, T Dougherty, T Barrett,
J Beadenbogh, T O’Brian, M J O’Kain, per Anth¬
ony Lally. This makes the 55th from the Wheeling
Gaels since the latter part of December last.
Ireland. —
Cork — Knocknagown, D Herlihy, per Rev Dan¬
iel Healy, Pierce City, Mo.
Dublin, R McS. Gordon, Esq. — Baldoyle, Revd
Brothers, per Jas. J Hughes, Phila. Pa.
Galway — Treun N School, W Gillan, per Martin
J Henehan, Providence, R I.
Kerry — Rockfield N School (2), Cahirdaniel N
School (2), both per Humphrey Sullivan, Holliston
Mass.
Limerick — Ballinamona, M Gleeson, per T Mc
Eniry,, Phila. Pa.
Sligo — Dunannedden, J O’Dowd, per M O’Dowd
Manchester, N H.
Tyrone — Gortin N School, M Conway, per Jas J
Hughes, Phila., Pa.
Let Gaels in the large cities try and imitate the
Gaels of Wheeling and Kan. City. Let us say that
five persons, on an average, has seen each Gael sent
by our Wheeling friends, and thus 275 persons are
made aware (in that locality alone) that they have
a written language. Let, then, the friends of the
language start out in twos and threes and drum up
their listless countrymen.
Within the past two months a distinguished Irish
Catholic priest, a native of Leinster, visited Bonn
He was introduced to learned and distinguished
German scholars. One of these was a great stu¬
dent of the Keltic speech — a disciple and a perfect
follower in literary research of Professor Zeuss.
When this simple savant had learned that the cle¬
rical gentleman to whom he had been introduced
was a native of Ireland, and a clergyman, his joy
became intense. “Just the very thing I have been
so long hoping for,” said he. "Here is a real liv¬
ing Irishman and a scholar.” Before many hours
had passed, the German consulted his Irish friend
on the proper pronunciation of the present spoken
Irish language, and wished to obtain some clearer
views than those he had learned from books reg¬
arding the orthography and pronunciation of cer¬
tain form of Irish speech. To his utter astonish¬
ment he found that the savant from Ireland did
not only not know one word of it, but that the lat¬
ter had not ever heard a word of Irish. Quite an¬
noyed at this discovery he took very little trouble
to consult him a second time on the subject of
home and foreign antiquities or languages.
Every person has heard of another distinguish¬
ed Irish ecclesiastic who in his own native Gaelic
had been addressed by the world famed Cardinal
Mezzofanti. “A dhuine choir,” said the Cardinal
ciannos a bh-fuil thu? Nach d-tuigeann thu
Gaodhailge? And the strange reply of the Irish
gentleman was, that “really he did not know
German" "It is not in German,” said the illus¬
trious Italian, “that I am addressing you; it is
in your own language.” The youthful ecclesiastic
blushed. He profited by the telling remark. On
his return to Ireland he learned to read, write and
speak the language of his Irish forefathers.
- CANON BOURKE'S Aryan Origin.
What is an Irishman ? How will you know him?
Is an Orangeman born in Ireland an Irishman ?
What is the difference between him and the Cath¬
olic man born there who does nothing to preserve
the nationality? What a man wants he seeks — if
a drink, you see him go to the fountain, if Ireland
a nation, you see him preserving her foundation.
We have been disappointed in the First Books
but we expect them soon, and all who have not
received them will be served.
O'Curry’ Lectures are crushed out this month.
Our youthful Gaelic friend, Katherine M Han¬
bury, has won her entrance to the Normal College
Let all subscribe for the Gaelic Journal.
