AN GAODHAL.
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The Gael.
A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Cultivation
and Preservation of the Irish Language.
Published at 814 Pacific St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. — Sixty Cents
a Year, Five Cents a single copy.
Terms of Advertising. — 20 cents a line. 25
per cent discount to yearly advertisers.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as second-class
matter.
BROOKLYN, N. Y. APRIL, 1882.
SEÁGHAN O'CUINNEGÁIN AGUS
Teanga na h-Éireann.
Thug muid faoi dhearbh an lá cheana gur
dhubhairt an Saoi, Seághan O'Cuinnea-
gáin, m-Bord na Foghluimthe sa g-cathair
seo go rabh an Ghaedhilge marbh. Sgríobh
muid do 'n Iolrach, an páipeur a bh-fac-
amuid cúntas an rádh seo ann, agus
dubhairt muid nar bh-fíor an rádh, agus
d'a m-beidheadh Éireannaigh tír-ghrádhach
go m-beidheadh fios a d-teanga féin aca.
An dara lá na dhiaigh sin fuair muid
leitir gan ainm, da'r maslughadh agus
a glaoigeach tuataighe, breugadóiridhe,
dligh-bhristeóiridhe agus gangaideóiridhe
air mhuintir na h'Éireann. Tá an leit-
ir sgríobhthadh le Éireannach go cinnte.
Cia b'é 'n duinne a sgríobh í bhí na focla
a sgríobh muidne san Iolrach mío-thaith-
neamhach leis, gidh níor dhubhair muid aon
nídh 'n aghaidh aonduine go speisialta;
acht tá cineál Éireannaigh sa tír so agus
nuair a h-árduighthear iad air ghuaillibh a
d-tíreacha ó bhochtanas go saidhbheas, ní 'l
seasadh leo. Bhí sinn dul a fuagradh na
leitre acht chomharluigh Éireannach sinn bh-
fuil meas mór againn air, go m-budh mó
an dochar 'ná 'n sochar a dheunfadh sé, is
leig sinn dhi. Acht deirsinn an meud
seo: go m-budh chóir go Éireannaigh a
thabhairt faoi dhearbh an cineál daoineadh
a chuireas siad a g-cúmhachd.
REPORT OF THE DUBLIN SOCIETY FOR
the Preservation of the Irish Language.
The following Report was read by the Secretary of
Council, and adopted at the meeting held on Tues-
day, 28th February, 1882.
In placing before the members of the Society the
Report for 1881-2, the Council are enabled to state
that steady progress is being made, and that consid-
erable interest is being evinced, both at home and
abroad, in the Irish language movement.
Owing, however, to the continued unrest of the
public mind, the establishment of parochial and other
associations has not been successful. It is to be ho-
ped that such associations may yet be formed ; and
we already see encouraging signs in the fact that
some classes which had ceased working are again be-
ginning to resume their efforts. Until such united
and general action be taken the movement cannot
in any way be considered a national one ; and they
therefore request the particular attention of the
Irish people to this drawback, and respectfully in-
vite their earnest co-operation.
The Council feel pleasure in announcing that,
owing to their exertions, the quarterly fee of 2s. ex-
acted by the Board of National Education from pu-
pils studying Irish, has been abolished. The re-
moval of this drawback, it wil be remembered occu-
pied no inconsiderable portion of last year's report ;
and it was not until they had sent some of the prin-
cipal members of the Council to confer with Sir
Patrick Keenan, C. B., and had forwarded a circular
to the Irish Members of Parliament, requesting them
to use their influence with the Government to have
the Treasury regulation altered that this fee was
abolished.
The best thanks of the Society. and all who are
interested in the preservation of the lrish language
are especially due to Mr. Sexton M. P., for his ex-
ertions in procuring its abolition. It was mainly
owing to his efforts in prevailing on Mr. Forster,
the Chief Secretary for Ireland, that this vexatious
restriction was removed. By its removal teachers
may now give instruction in the Irish languag free
to their pupils. The children in the poorer Irish-
speaking districts, who were hitherto debarred from
learning Irish, have now an opportunity of doing so,
and the teachers ought to find it their interest to
promote the study of the language among their pu-
pils, seeing that they are paid 10s. a pass by the Na-
tional Board for each pupil.
The Council will persevere in their endeavor to
obtain permission for the children of the second
class and upwards to be examined for results in Irish,
and they will continue to use their infiuence with
the Irish Members of Parliament to obtain this con-
cession. They have already, in their circulars and
memorials, drawn the attention of the Irish members
to this matter.
