AN GAODHAL.
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SMALL TALK
Tar a bhaile, come home
Bh-fuil fuacht ort, are you cold?
Tá ucras orm, I am hungry.
Tabhair deoch dam, give me a drink.
Feicim é, I see him.
Deun ceart, do right.
Bh-fuil Máire beo, Is Mary living?
Ca bh-fuil Tomás, Where is Thomas?
Tá sé imthighthe, He is gone.
Do shláinte, your health.
Is fear maith thú. you are a good man.
No cáin é, do not dispraise him.
Tá sé sean, he is old.
Téidh chuige, go to him.
Poighid, a magpie
Triall na g-cearc go h-Albain. The
hen's journey to Scotland.
Sean ráidhte, old sayings.
PROF. RŒHRIG is going to Europe, and will
pay the Dublin societies a visit. His eldest son, a
graduate of Cornell University, is established as
an architect at 111 Broadway N. Y. We wish the
learned professor a pleasant journey and a safe re-
turn.
There are over sixty Philo-Celtic societies in
the United States
At the Philo Celtic picnic in Schutzen Park
on September 3rd, President Gilgannon will deliv-
er an Irish address at intermission and the Society
will chorus O'Donnell Aboo. It is expected that
all conversations will be in Irish. and we hope to
see all the Irishmen and women in the city there.
The McHale School conducted by Mr David O'
Keeffe in St Patrick's Academy should be well at-
tended — Mr O’Keeffe being one of the best Irish
teachers in the country.
We have a lot of Irish matter held over this
mouth from Messrs Wm Russell, O’Keeffe, Ward
and our Maynooth friend.
Can there be a more pitiable object than an Ir-
ish man or woman who stares at you in stolid ig-
norance if you address them in the speech of their
forefathers? The queston is, can such persons
(critically considered) be termed Irish
Had the Dynamiters made a few more exhibitions
recently the Russians would be now in Herat and
possibly in Cabul. Neither the Mahdi or the Czar
can honestly be credited with the humiliation of
England — tis the Irish who kept the British troops
at home The Irish are slaves no longer unless
they will it so, but when we see them remaining,
slaves in speech it can hardly be expected that
they will make any effort to free their limbs tho'
they have the means at their feet
Bh and mh sound like w when followed
or preceded by a, o, u, as, a bhárd, his
bard, pronounced a wardh; a mhart,
his beef or ox, pronounced a warth ;
and like w when preceded by e, i, as,
a bhean, his wife, pronounced, a van, a
mhian, his desire, pronounced, a vee-un
Dh and gh sound like y at the beginning
of a word; they are almost silent in
the middle and perfectly so at the end
of words. Ch sounds like ch; ph, like f;
sh and th like h ; and fh is silent.
Sound of the Vowels — long. —
á sounds like
a in war,
as bárr, top.
é " "
e “ ere,
" céir, wax.
í " "
ee " eel,
" mín' fine
ó " "
o “ old,
" ór, gold.
ú " "
u " rule,
" úr, fresh.
Short. —
a " "
a in what
as, gar, near.
e " "
e " bet,
" bebh, died,
i " "
i “ ill,
" mil, honey
o " "
o " got,
" lot, wound.
u " "
u " put,
" rud, thing
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