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AN GAODHAL.
FATHER MACKEY AND HIS CRITICS
It seems that the CONNECTICUT CATHOLIC (?) rebu¬
ked Father Macken of Cincinnati for “Wasting
valuable time in teaching an Irish Class," in
which rebuke the CATHOLIC VISION chimes in.
The I. C. B. U. JOURNAL makes a vigorous de¬
fense of the Irish Language Movement, and, in
turn, castigates those journals for their want of
patriotism. In reviewing the actions of the two
Catholic (?) journals the Editors of the HIBERNIAN
RECORD declare their regret and mortification at
not being able to speak the language of their
country when among Irishmen. The GAEL tend¬
ers its grateful acknowledgments to these gentle¬
men for their defense of the Gaelic cause. The
CONNECTICUT CAHTOLIC and the CATHOLIC VISITOR
are published ostensibly for the use of Irish-Am¬
erican Catholics, and for the promotion of Cath
olic principles, but we deny that they tend to
promote any such end : Their tendency is to pro¬
mote Anglicanism.
Examine the records of the protestant church¬
es in this country and it will be found that an
unusually large number of characteristically Irish
names will be found among them. In the coun
ty Galway where Irish is the living language of
the day, protestantism is less than five per cent
of the population. It is a notorious fact that the
proportion of Protestants to Catholics in Ireland is
greatest in the English-speaking districts. Now,
the cause of this is evident : the English influence
tries to picture the native Irish as lowly and mean
and that the use of the language is an evidence
of such lowliness. Weak-kneed ignorant Irish¬
men jump at this conclusion, never halting to con
sider that two hundred years ago no other lang¬
uage but Irish was spoken in Ireland, and if the
enemy's charges be founded on fact the Irish as
a nation were lowly and mean, notwithstanding
being accorded the title of Saints and Scholars.
Now, beleiving to be descended from a lowly,
barbarous ancestry, a large number of the above
class of Irishmen, in this country, when they get
wealthy, add to, or drop letters from, their
names to give them an Anglican complexion.
They do not want to be identified with anything
Irish, and become protestant or atheistical (Bee¬
cher has some of them). It is well known that
no Catholic ever changed his religion from con¬
viction, — it is always through worldly gain or a
sentiment that the Irish are a lowly race. Now
the Irish must be lowly if they had no learned
literature, but we have evidence that they had
and if our Catholic (?) cotemporaries exerted
themselves in placing that evidence before the
world, they would be doing something in the in
terest of Catholicity. The language is that ev¬
idence !
THE GAELIC JOURNAL.
We have heard persons say that they have not
seen the Gaelic Jonrnal in a long while. The
Gaelic Journal like other Gaelic publications can be
seen regularly if it is supported and paid for.
We venture a wager that a larger section of
Irish-Americans will read Miss Cleveland's big
oted book than have read the Gaelic Journal — Is
there any one prepared to accept our offer? We
guess not. This is the result of the Anglican
education which our 'Catholic' journals instill in¬
to the rising generation. It is a "waste of val¬
uable time" with these journals to cultivate the
speech of Saints and Scholars — They prefer the
language and Manners of the harlot of nations,
whose model, unfortunately, is being copied, tho'
slowly, yet surely, by a considerable portion of
our country people. These journals are literally
pursuing the policy sketched out by the late An¬
glican bishop. Trench, to Anglicise the Irish peo¬
ple.
Irish people, if you want a pure National li¬
terature you Must support it. This is the dec¬
laration of the greatest Irish patriot that ever liv¬
ed, — the late Archbishop McHale.
Support the Gaelic journal and you can have
it. The Journal, like the Gael, is no private bu¬
siness enterprise : it is a National enterprise in the
interest of which every Irishman should join. Can
it be expected that the producers of the Gaelic
Journal would expend their substance (even had
they it to spare) to benefit others? or would the
Irish people be so mean as to expect them do it?
Let no one be so mean as to skulk or sponge
on his neighbor in this grand National underta¬
king, but let all join in heart and hand to ad¬
vance the cause of their country, of Morality and
of virtue.
SENTIMENTS of our SUBSCRIBERS.
Cal. H. BAMBER, by J GLEESON. J DEASY.
J McGILLI UDDY. J McGRATH. M FLANAGAN. J
O'QUILLEY.
Conn. R. MARTIN (2), by P S GRAHAM.
lowa. J SHEEDY.
Ill. MRS. BRENNAN, by MISS GALLAGHER M
CORBETT, F G WALSH and MISS MAGGIE GALLA¬
GHER, by Mr. THOMAS McGUIRE.
Mass. E CAREY, by J J MURPHY.
N Y REV. J H O'ROURKE, HON. D. BURNS,
MISS MARY NEEDHAM, by HON DENIS BURNS. M
MURPHY, by J CARROLL, J E SULLIVAN. W CAN¬
NING and J GEOGHEGAN, by WM, W. MERSHON,
P. McGRATH by D. GILL ANNON, M GANNON. M
T WARD by MARTIN P. WARD, MISS K. WARD.
Ky M HEFFERNAN.
Mich J McCAULEY. D McCAULEY.
Neb MRS. GORMAN by D A COLEMAN.
O T ON VAN.
Par W T RPEY by J. J LYONS. J BROWN J
McDONALD, J O'CALLAGHAN by A P WARD M.
WARD by MISS KATIE WARD.
Tenn M GINLEY,
Wis M MOORE.
Ireland — Clare, J Burke by M DARCEY.
Donegal — J WARD and P WARD by A P WARD
Kildare, 'Níos Áirde."
Waterford, J Morrissey by J McGRATH.
England, REV. E D CLEAVER by J. NYHAN.
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