Philo-Celts.
The drawing came off on July 1st, and Mrs. Ken¬
ny won the machine. She was fortunate, she has
got the best sewing machine now made: the High
Arm Family Singer, for 25 cents.
The Society meets at Jefferson Hall, cor Adams
and Willoughby Sts., every Thursday an Sunday
evening, when it imparts gratuitous instruction to
all who wish to cultivate a knowledge of the I¬
rish Language.
Philadelphia June 14 1886
Editor Gael,
Dear Sir — The fourth Anniversary enter¬
tainment of the Philo Celtic Society of this city,
came off on Wednesday the 9th in Philopatrian
Hall, and was by great odds, the most successful
the Society has yet given. Mr. Peter F. Murphy
the president of the Society, presided; the follow¬
ing programme was well carried out.
PART FIRST.
1. PIANO OVERTURE — Irish Airs
Mr. ANDREW LUTZ and MISS McGRATH
2. RECITATION — Cead Mille Failtha, Miss Meakim
3. ADDRESS BY CHAIRMAN, P. E. Carroll, Esq
4. OPENING CHORUS, Pupils of Irish school
5. RECITATION — Charge of the "One Hundred"
6. PIANO AND VIOLIN — selection of Irish Airs
Mr. Lutz and Miss Kelly.
7. song — Killarney, Miss Annie Tighe.
8. RECITATION, Miss Annie Dougherty.
9. SONG — Love of the shamrocks, Miss McGinley,
10. SONG IN IRISH — O'Donnell Aboo,
Mr. T. McEniry.
PART SECOND.
1. CONCERT SOLO Mr. Hugh McGinness.
2. SONG, Miss Kate Kelly,
3. KEADING IN IRISH — Padriac an Poibaire,
Mr. P. F. Murphy.
4. SONG, Miss Kate Duffy.
5. SONG, Miss Emma Bradley,
6. RECITATION, Mr. Luke Dillon,
7. SONG IN IRISH — Og-Laoc na Ran,
Mr. James Burke.
8. RECITATION — The Boys of Mallow,
Mr. John Regan.
9. SONG — God save Ireland, Pupils of Irish school.
Standing room could not be obtained in the Hall
after eight o'clock, and all who came later were
sady disappointed. All whose names appear on
the programme were encored several times. It
was after eleven o'clock before our fourth and poss¬
itively best entertainment was over.
Respectfully yours,
John Robinson,
Cor. Sec.
Every self-respecting Irish-speaking Irishman
should support and circulate the Gael because if
will expose the fallacious presumption of his
West-Briton upstart neighbors. These fellows
should be handled without gloves. Also, the pa¬
triotic English-speaking lrishman should circu¬
late it because though unfortunate in being ig¬
norant of the language of his country, it repres¬
ents the social superiority of his ancestry; the
enlightened world is beginning to study Irish
history aright, and will not put the children of
the far-famed and learned Gael on a par with
the offspring of pirates, even tho' daubed dukes,
marquises etc., by parties not a whit better than
themselves.
Every Irishman should take a personal inter¬
est in the Gael because though there are other
patriotic journals, the Gael alone bears the gen¬
uine stamp. No reference is required in con¬
nection with it — It in itself carries the passport
of its genuineness. It should be in the hands of
every Irishman; therefore, we hope its readers
will circulate it, — the cost — sixty cents a year, will
break nobody — send then, sixty cents in two-cent
or one-cent stamps.
Every Irishman should have a copy of Mr. Blaine's
Home Rule Speech. He handles the pretensions of
the piratical "nobility" of England without gloves.
However men may differ in American politics, it
is admitted that Mr. Blaine is one of the three
most brillant statesmen now living, the other
two being Gladstone and Bismarck.
Bigotry has killed Home Rule. Be calm, silent
but determined. Churchill says that they have
plenty of prisons and that rope is cheap. Let
him who has not the fact to keep his neck out
of the rope, suffer by it.
We have a long Gaelic letter from Captain
Egan of San Francisco, for next issue.
Friend Ward's song is held over this time, as
all must get a fair show in the Gael.
Sentiments of our Subscribers held over for
the next issue.
If Rossa got all the money that Parnell has
got, what would the result be?
what will achieve Home Rule?
"CÚMHACHTA DHONCHADH"! gan
chladhaireachd
THE GAELIC ALPHABET.
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