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 the willingness to cease to exist." — ARCH¬
BISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained for more centuries than one,
more learning than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe ... It is not thus rash to say that the Irish
possess contemporary histories of their country, written in
the language of the people, from the fifth century. No
other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar
boast." — SPALDING'S ENGLISH LITERATURE, APPLETON & Co.,
NEW YORK.
Who are the Scotch? A tribe of Irish Scots who crossed
over in the 6th century, overcame the natives, and gave
their name to the country. — J. CORNWELL, PH.D., F. R. S.'s
Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th century and
were so rude that they had no written language until the
14th, when the Franco-Normans formulated the English. —
SPALDING.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation
and Preservation of the Irish Language and
the autonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 247 Kosciusko 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 — 20 cents a line, Agate.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Thirteenth Year of Publication.
VOL 10, No. 8. JUNE. 1894.
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.
THE DUBLIN REPORT.
The Report of the Dublin Society for the Preser¬
vaiion of the Irish Lanauage for 1893, which lies
before us, is very encouraging.
During the past year the Society sold 6,966 books
as compared with 4,634 in 1892, double the number
sold in 1891. Up to the present the Society has
put into circulation 115,291 elementary books for
the study of the native language. This does not in¬
clude the Society's books printed and published in
America.
Twelve additional Teachers have obtained certi¬
ficates qualifying them to teach Irish.
The number of pupils examined for passes in the
National Schools last year was 831, of whom 609
passed. The number who passed from the Inter¬
mediate Schools was 379, making a total of 988 —
increase last year over 1892, 297.
1882 being the first year that examinations had
been held, only 17 pupils, in all Ireland, passed. —
last year, 988! That is progress. In the twelve
years 6,178 have passed, and it is reasonable to
suppose from the largely increased activity late¬
ly made apparent by the bishops and clergy, and
the patriotic, educated classes generally, that the
number of passes for 1894 will double that of any
preceding year.
The Report is highly encouraging, and it does
not fail to accord An Gaodhal its deserved position
in the cause. — Congratulations all round.
No. 50 of the Gaelic Journal has been received,
and, as usual, is highly interesting. The Lessons,
commenced in No. 48, are continued in it. These
Lessons are important because they are produced
by a sensible patriotic man whose sole aim is — not
personal applause — the promotion to fruition of the
Gaelic cause. Hence, every Irishman ignorant of
his mother tongue should procure the Lessons for
himself and his family. Send 6s to the editor, Rev.
Eugene O'Growney, Prof. of Celtic, St. Patrick's
College, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland,
The Gaelic Journal reports that the language is
being studied privately by large numbers of persons
in the counties of Galway, Mayo, Donegal, Long¬
ford, Cork, and Kerry. But, why not? when any
one who speaks it can learn to read it in six months
The Gaelic Journal also reports with considerable
satisfaction, the progress which is being made by
the large Gaelic classes of Belfast, Cork, and Der¬
ry. The big Gaelic meeting in Galway was the
crowning of the movement in Ireland. The gentry
are now ashamed of their ignorance of their native
language, hence the report of the large numbers
who are studying it privately.
If, after the unprecedentedly glorious Gaelic
news which obtains today, and the part the Gael
has had in compassing it, a single subscriber re¬
main in arrears to it (excepting inability to pay),
then we say that that subscriber is coldhearted,
indeed. And, you friends, does it ever strike you
that the Gael should be dead were it depending
on you, for the printer and paper-dealer would
not give their time and goods without money. We
are well aware that carelessness and neglect are
largely accountable for the cause of our complaint.
Let us, then, after this spurring, have no occasion
to revert to it
BISHOP SCANNELL'S ADDRESS.
The shockingly-mutilated condition in which
the Rt. Rev. Bishop Scannell's Gaelic address be¬
fore the Hibernian Convention at Omaha has ap¬
peared in the Irish-American press, is most lamen¬
table. And this is so in journals that pretend to
know better. We will not criticise; the fact con¬
veys the inexorable moral. —
