AN GAODHAL.
435
gach am. Is mór an seó ná bainean ciot¬
arainn do na lán díobh mar bíd 'sa t-
slíghe dá chéile & 'g imeacht go mear le
saothar, ce go bh-fuil go leor daoine dí-
mhaoin an t-am so bliadhain.
Is maith an comhgar fairge tá 'g New
York & ag Bruaclínn. Cuan breágh,
fada, farsinn & é ró-mhór na h-aimsire
lán d'árthaídhe ó Shean-Shasana, ó 'n bh-
Frainc, ó 'n Spáinn & ó' s na h-Indiathibh
(East lndia), & ó gach tír fé luidhe na
gréine. Bíon báid 's árthaídhe 'g ruch a¬
steach 's amach thar a chéile a ló 'sas d'¬
oídhche 'sa tslíghe ná beach aon uamhantas
ort da m-baintheach batalann níos min¬
icídhe de chuid díobh.
'Tá seacht no h-ocht de challaídhe eidir
New York & Bruaclínn, & báid calla
gan seol gan crann 'g ruch anonn 'sa n¬
áll de ló 's oidhche, aimsir gharbh cho maith
le aimsir chiuin. Bíon capaill & cóisd¬
ídhe, trucuilaídhe & ualuídhe móra féir
& tuídhe air na báid seo & socraidídhe
mar an g-ceudna. 'Sé mo thuairim go
bh-fuil a bh-fad níos mó árthaídhé & trád¬
áil a teacht asteach go Bruaclínn. 's gan
trácht air New York, ná 'tá triall go
Luimne, go Corca & go Port-Láirge a
d-teannta chéile, & fós, ní'l níos mó ná
leach an uireadh daoineadh a m-Bruachlín
ná 'tá i New York, ach is mó an talamh
'tá fe Bruaclínn ná fe New York.
'Tá 'n droichead is mó & is breághtha
ar leagas mo shúil i riamh air idir New
York & Bruachlínn. 'Tá lár an droich¬
id seo suas le ceud-go-leith troig os
cionn na h-abhan 'n-uair 'g bíon sí lán
marra sa t-slíghe gur féidir le árthaidhe
buala fe aon am. Tá os cionn míle air
faid ó cheann de'n droichead dion g¬
ceann eile. Ní fhaca riamh súil chomh mór
le súil an droichid seo. Do leáthach do ra¬
dharc ort feuchaint a n-áirde go dí
bárr cosa an droichid seo, mar tá siad
os cionn dhá cheud-go-leith troig air
aoirde; iad deunta de chloch shnoighte &
iad a bh-fad níos aoirde 'ná aon tig
'sa dá chathair seo
Bíon na caraídhe 'g ruch anonn 'sa n¬
áll air an droichead do ló 's d'oidhche &
soíllse teínntreacha air lasa ann ó
thuitim na h-oídhche dí eiríghe an lae.
'Tá Lá 'n-Ollag air chois 'guinn a-
anois, agus go d-tugaig Dia 'n-Ollaig
mhaith díbh agus go mbo feárr a bheighmíd
goléir bliadhin o 'n tacasa fe ghrásda
is mó faoi pheacaídhe is lúghadh fe ghreann
Dé 'gus na ndaoine.
Slán leat go fóil,
SÉAMUS do BARRA.
THE GAELIC UNION.
19 Kildare Street, Dublin, Dec. 10, '84.
Dear Sir, —
Your issue for November of the GAEL having
been laid on the table at our meeting of to day,
all the members of the Council present expressed
their gratification at the fact of your friendly and
excellent periodical entering on its fourth year of
existence and, it is hoped, of increased success.
Accordingly I have been instructed by our Coun¬
cil to forward to you in its name a letter of con¬
gratulation, and to express its ardent wish that
you may may go on and prosper. The GAEL is
thoroughly Irish and not sectional, and is one of
the links to bind all our people together. You,
therefore, deserve all praise for your noble efforts
in a good cause.
* * * * * * * *
Mr. Thomas Flannery wrote to me about the
GAEL and I sent him a specimen number. He is
a good Irish scholar yet he had never seen the
GAEL. He was very much pleased with it. He
lives in London and is a prominent member of the
Southwark Literary Club. The club ought to get
several copies of the GAEL and probably will now.
You ought to write to the President, Mr. Fahy.
With my own best wishes as well as those of the
Council, I am,
dear Sir, Yours truly,
R. J. O'Mulrenin
Hon. Secretary Gaelic Union.
We thank the Council of the Gaelic Union for
their warm sentiments, and wish them, in return,
strength aud resourses to pursue the noble work
in which ihey are engaged
Now, in connection with the Gaelic Union it
may not be out of place to say that all its mem¬
bers are, like ourself. devoting their time gratuit¬
ously to the Gaelic cause ; and, like ourself, too,
have to earn their living in the pursuit of their or¬
dinary occupations ; so that the time they devote
to editing the GAELIC JOURNAL and the other bu¬
siness of the Union is taken from needed hours of
repose or ordinary recreation.
There are matters involving cosiderable expense
in connection with the Journal which the mem¬
bers of the Council cannot attend to, namely,
type-setting, wrapping, folding, cost of paper, etc.
