iḃ indiu, d'agair Tóruiḋe Ṡasanaiġ
Biosmarc, is mar seo do laḃair a d¬
Timere (the London Times) :— 'O! a
Ḃiosmarc mór-ċuṁaċtaṁuil, is agatsa
'ṁáin atá cúṁaċta an Eoirp do ċos¬
aint; is tú aṁáin atá ábulta Ċríosd¬
aṁlaċt & síḃialtas na h-Eoirpe do ṡá¬
ḃáil abair an focal & fillfiḋ na Ruis¬
íniḋe air 'n-ais."
Cluiseaṁ an impiġe ar feaḋ 'n doṁ¬
ain, aċt ḃí ciall ag Biosmarc & níor
ṫug sé áird air 'n mbúirfeaḋ, ḃí ḟios
aige gur b'é gaimbín Ḃriotain do ḃí ag
caint.
Duḃairt páipeur eile i Londuin 'san
am ceudna go gcaiṫfeaḋ Sasanaiġ
seasaḋ suas & cúṁaċt 'n Ṁuscuiḃite
do ṫiomáint trasna na Steppes & ord¬
uġaḋ ṫaḃairt ḋó gan dearca n-a ḋiaiġ
— Níor ṫoisiḋ 'n tomáint go fóil; aċt
is breáġ mór do lagaḋ goaiṫiġe páip¬
éiriḃ Londuin ó 'n am sinn. Anois dá
n-iarrfaḋ an Tsár an ġealaċ ḋéarfaḋ
h-uile Ṫóruiġ i Sasanaiġ, "Taḃair ḋó í"
Timċioll bliaḋain ó ṡoin, ḃí Sasanaċ
(canfuir) ag caint air 'n ngaol leis na
Státaiḃ, duḃairt sé —
"Tár linn 'san gcaṫa & crioṫnóċa¬
muid an Eoirp go h-uile, ag cosaint
Críosdaiḋ & ag smaċtuġ' Turcuiġ óg"
Ḃí 'n cuire ċóṁ fealltaċ, mar
"Siúḃal i steaċ in mo ṗárlús," ars
an duḃánalla leis 'n gcuileóig"
Eist! i gcluineann siḃ
Tóruiġe Ṡasanaiġ guiḋe,
Is sé an Turcaċ tá teaċt,
Caṫaḋ a scáile roiṁe.
[This is Brother Lally’s first ess¬
ay in Gaelic prose. He hits the
"bull"'s eye square As he point¬
edly asks, Where and what is our
civilization to-day? We hope Bro¬
ther Lally will give us more on
the same subject — Ed G.]
England dreads Emperor Will¬
iam; she is fortifying her coast
and laying dynamite bombs along
the German Ocean.
PHILO-CELTS.
On April 25th the Brooklyn Phi¬
lo-Celtic Society had an entertain¬
ment for the purpose or raising
funds to help the Gaelic League
Oireaċtas. The affair was a com¬
plete success, the only drawback
being that, about 9 o'clock, fully
one third of the audience had but
standing room.
A few minutes after 8 o’clock
President McDwyer called for or¬
der and in highly complimentary
terms introduced the editor of the
GAEL as chairman of the evening.
Opening the proceeding of the e¬
vening, the chairman said. —
We have assembled here this evening in the
interest of the Irish language — the language of
our native land, which many of us lisped at our
mother's knee — that language, as the poet has
sung,
“Whose youthhood saw the Tyrian on our Irish
coasts a guest,
Ere the Saxon or the Roman —
Ere the Norman or the Dane,
Had first set foot in Britain, or the Visigoth in
Spain,"
it is meet that I, on behalf of this Society, should
greet you in the mellifluous accents of its Nation¬
al salutation —
Ceud Míle Fáilte!
(great applause) and also to explain to you the
immediate purpose of this entertainment.
Our friends of the Dublin Gaelic League have
instituted an Oireachtas or Irish literary festival
with the object of holding annual meetings in
the principal towns and cities in Ireland in rota¬
tion, and offering prizes for competition in Irish
composition, in prose and poetry, and for Irish
oratory.
This will have the effect of bringing together
in friendly literary rivalry the educated men and
women of the Irish Nation. — It will be a renais¬
sance of that literary rivalry which obtained in
Ireland when she was known all over Christen¬
dom as
Oileán na Naoṁ agus na n-Ollaṁ —
the island of saints and scholars — and a telling
rebuke to the enemies of Irish autonomy who, af¬
ter prohibiting education in Ireland, would tax
the people with being too ignorant to govern
themselves (applause).
