AN GAODHAL.
905
that is wanting to make the movement
to rehabilitate the language of Erin a
success is, united action.
SILVER JUBILEE OF DR. NULTY, BISHOP
OF MEATH.
We are indebted to the Rev. Father O’Growney
for the following Gaelic address from the Work¬
ingmen's Club of Mullingar, to Bishop Nulty, on
his silver jubilee.
DILEAGRA
O Chomunn Na Saothruightheadh, an Muil¬
ionn-Geárr, do'n Tighearna fíor-Oirbhid¬
neach,
TOMÁS, EASBOG na MIDHE,
air g-cathadh a Iubile-Airgeadtha dhó, 23
d' Ochtmhí, 1889.
A Thighearna Easbuig,
Is mór an t-áthas linn go léir, san
bh-fairche agus san tír air fad, go d-
tianig an bhliadhain seo do Iubile-Airg¬
eadtha; acht is nidh é is áthasach linne,
lucht na h-Oibhre, go mór-mhór.
Óir ní dhearnais-se dearmad de'n t-
Saoghruidhe bocht riamh, acht, air feadh
do shaoghail, do chosain tú go buan a's
go láidir an ceart & an chóir is dual dó.
San aimsir a caitheadh, righne tú mó¬
rán mór le biseach & feabhas a chur orr¬
ainn; & níor mhór leat, am air bith, do
dhithchioll féin no do mhaoin a thabhairt
mar chongamh d'ar g-cúis.
Le mór-shásamh, mar an g-ceudna,
cluinimid nach bh-fuil tú réidh fós le d'
obair air ar son, acht go bh-fuil tú air
ti do smuainte a chur i g-cló air an aigh¬
neas achrannach idir lucht na Maoine a¬
gus lucht na h-Oibre, a tabhairt do gach
taoibh a cirt féin. Tá muinighin againn
go n-deanfaidh do bhriathra barantamhla
cuid mhór de'n chúis seo a réidhteach ag¬
us a shocrughadh.
Agus anois. i Seanteanga na h-Éir¬
eann, guidhmid, go m-ba fada a fhágfas
Dia os ar g-cionn thú le treorughadh i
m-bealach a leasa, agus le cosaint mar
san am a caitheadh, do chloinne dílse.
Air son na saothruigheadh,
Pádraic O'Siadhrain, Uachdarán.
Philip O'Callaire, Sagart-Treornidh
Séamus Mac Aodha.
Micheál O'Muircheartaigh, Rúnaidhe.
An Muilionn-geárr, 23adh lá Ocht-mhí, '89
Glossary
fairche, diocese, fair-che.
áthas, gladness, aw-hass.
saoghruidhe, laborer, say-ree-eh.
biseach, improvement, bish-augh.
feabhas, good, well, fevus.
cosain, defend, kusin.
achrannach, entangled, achronach.
barantamhla, warrantable, borintholah
réidhteach, disentangle, raytaugh.
socrughadh to arrange, sock-roo.
O'Curry's Lectures.
ON THE
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL OF ANCIENT IRISH HIS¬
TORY.
Lecture III.
Delivered March 20, 1855.
(Continued).
The short notices we have given of the writings
of Flann and Gilla Caemhain are quite sufficient
to show that they were familiar with a large and
extensive range of general history; and their
chronological computations, parallels and synch¬
ronisms, prove that they must have industriously
examined every possible available source of the
chief great nations of antiquity. Such learning
was most remarkable at so early a period (A,
D. 1050) in Ireland, and even were it confined to
churchmen, it must be admitted to be evidence of
very considerable cultivation. But in the instance
of Flann of the Monastery we have proof that his
learning and cultivation were not confined to the
Irish ecclesiastics; for though we always find the
name of Flann associated with the Monastery of
St. Buithe, it is well known that he was not in or¬
ders. He is never mentioned as an ecclesiastic;
and we know that he was married and left issue,
as I have shown in the genealogical table pub¬
lished in the Celtic Society's edition of the Battle
of Magh Lena. In fact, his employment was that
simply of a lay teacher in a great school; and fil¬
led the office of Fer Leghinn, or chief professor in
the great College of St. Buithe (a college as well
lay as ecclesiastical), the ruins of which may still
perhaps be seen at Monasterboice, in the modern
county of Louth.
Flann's death is noticed by Tighernach, under
the year 1056, thus — "Flann, of the monastery, a
Gadelian (i.e., Gaelic or Irish) author in history,
in genealogy, in poetry, and in eloquence, on the
7th of the kalends of December, the 16th day of
the moon, happily finished his life in Christ." The
