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An GAOḊAL
aṁáin na ceudta & na mílte duine a
molaḋ Dé aċ fós mar tá d'a ḋeunaḋ
ins an Iobairt uaṫḃásaċ sin — Naoṁ
Iobairt an Aifrinn.
Dá mbeiḋeaḋ sé ndán 's naċ dtairg¬
fuiḋe suas an t-Aifrionn in aon teaċ
pobuil nó teampull eile 'sa doṁan aċ
an séipeul seo, & faoi 'n íobairt sin a
ḋeunaḋ aċ aon uair aṁáin, ṫiucfaḋ
daoine a triall ar an áit seo as gaċ
ceárda & as gaċ tír & gaċ náisiún a
deunaṁ iongantuis de, & ṗógfaidís na
cloca atá 'sa teampull mar ġeall air
an Rí óirḋeirc úd — Críost A ceusaḋ
Ṫusa, an t-aṫair Ieo, a ċuir an séi¬
peul seo ar bun, le úġdaras & beann¬
aċt an Easboig ṁaiṫ. Aċ ní raḃ an t¬
Easbog sásta le n-a ḃeannaċt aṁáin,
óir d' ḟosgail sé suas a sparán amaċ
& ċuir sé go fial farsing as cuid ṁór
d'a raḃ ann — mar is cleataċ leis a
ḋeunaḋ air gaċ ócáide go 'n t-sórt
seo — leis an obair Ċriostaṁuil a ċuir
ċum cinn. Suas réir sampla 'n Eas¬
boig & ṫré n-a beannaċt rinne cruinn¬
iuġaḋ mór do 'n t sagart Paráiste a
ḃus 's ṫáll. 'Na ḋiaġ sis & a lig, tá
déiláil airgid a taistáil fós ċum tros¬
gán a ċur 'san teaċ pobuil ró-ḋeas seo,
& le séipeul Rosmuc a ṁeuduġaḋ ion¬
nus go mbéiḋ sé taiṫneaṁaċ ḋe réir
mar a tá gaċ niḋ deuntar an-taiṫnea¬
ṁaċ os cóṁair Dé.
Tiuḃraiḋ muintir an ṗaráiste seo
go farsaing uaṫa in a m-boċṫanaċt,
mar tá siad a ḋeunaḋ, & mar ḟeuċann
siad le ḋeunaḋ a g-coṁnuiḋe ar óc¬
áide de 'n t-sórt seo, aċ taréis a n¬
diṫċill ní ḟeudfaḋ siad an cúngnaṁ a
tá riaċtanaċ leis an obair ḃeannuiġṫe
atá d'a ḋeunaḋ in seo a críoċnuġaḋ;
air an áḋḃar sin, ġeaḃfaiḋ siad cúng¬
naṁ go fialṁar ó Ċaitiliceaċa gráḋ¬
aṁuil, ní ṡé aṁáin uaṫa seo atá láṫ¬
air indiu, ach o ḋaoiniḃ ins gaċ ceárda
nuair a ṫroiġeas an fógraḋ seo iad
Ámén!
The Kansas Catholic is publish¬
ed now at Kan. City, Mo. It gives
the Catholic news of world — we
don't know how it collects it.
MISS GONNE.
On Dec. 27 Miss Maud Gonne finished her tour
through the States, with an enthusiatic final re¬
ception in N. Y. Miss Kathleen M. Hanbury (who
is no stranger to Gael readers), on behalf of the
Ladies' Auxiliary Committee, read an address,
first in Irish, and then in English, to Miss Gonne,
In replying to the address, Miss Gonne — un¬
doubtedly embarrassed, in a painful tone of voice,
expressed her regret at her inability to acknow¬
ledge it in the language of her country — the lan¬
guage in which it had been made by her youthful
and accomplished Irish-American sister. There is
no doubt that Miss Gonne's expressions of regret
were sincere, and we, in a manner, are sorry that
the address had been made in Irish, as it must
have been extremely painful to a noble, patriotic
young lady of Miss Gonne's sensitive nature to
be forced to acknowledge her inability to reply in
her native language — the language of her native
land — that land to promote whose freedom she
had undertaken a journey of 20,000 miles in an
inclement American Winter's atmosphere!
Possibly, Miss Gonne's vehement appeal to the
audience to cultivate and maintain the language
of Erin, at home and abroad, was entensified by
her own painful, personal experience, then and
there. A person of common, ordinary impulses
would over the above incident, or “jolly” it
off — that could never be done by a person of refi¬
ned, exalted patriotism like Miss Gonne.
She grasped the anomalous position, and made
the amende honorable.
The Irish Pennsylvaian has no¬
ted the Gael’s reference to the A.
O H’s Gaelic Chair in the Catholic
University. The Gael hopes that
there will be no cavil about the ob¬
ject for which the money was giv¬
en — a specific purpose — the found¬
ing of a Celtic Chair We hope sin¬
ister influences will not divert the
donation to an opposite purpose to
that for which it was contributed
by hard working, patriotic Irish¬
men. We shall keep track of that
money.
The Northwestern Chronicle of
St. Paul handles the A.P.A frater¬
nity without gloves aye, and clas¬
sically, too,
