AN GAODHAL.
951
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as second-class mail
matter.
Ninth Year of Publication.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, Editor and Proprietor.
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VOL 7. No. 10. May. 1890.
Our Gaelic readers have an unusual¬
ly rich treat this month in the contri¬
butions of Father Growney, Mr. Hen¬
ebry, Mr. Lyon's song, An Buinneán
Aorach, E. L. Blake's story, and Mr
Byrne's address. What makes them
doubly interesting is, that they repre¬
sent three provinces — Munster Leins¬
ter and Connaught. But, for the mat¬
ter of that, it is not easy to tell from
what province the Gaelic scholar is for
all such write alike, the alleged prov¬
incialism to the contrary notwithstand¬
ing.
The Gaelic movement was never in
a more promising condition than it is
to day, and the supporters of An Gao¬
dhal can truly claim the credit for that
pleasing condition.
Through the medium of the Gael
we expect to see two dictionaries pro¬
duced, Irish-English and English-Irish,
and sold at a price within the reach of
all. Why, by organizing, the readers
of the Gael can accomplish anything
they take in hand.
From the moderation of the estimate
for printing the Irish Dictionary which
we have received from Dublin through
the kindness of Rev. Father Walsh of
St. Vincent's Cork, the readers of the
Gael would have no trouble in supply¬
ing themselves with all the Gaelic pub¬
lications at first cost by publishing
them themselves.
Take Gallagher's Sermons, for inst¬
ance; its price is $2.50, our readers
could publish them and have them at
a $1 a copy, and so of all other works
The thing could be done thus: Each
subscriber could notify us of his or her
intention to subscribe: we would place
on file all such notifications, and when
the amounted to the cost of publication
we would call for the payments, trans¬
mit them to the printer and have the
work done.
We see that the particle Cum is still
being discussed in the public press.
O'Brien, O'Reilly, O'Donovan, Arch¬
bishop McHale, Rev. Canon Bourke,
the Four Masters, and all the Irish
speakers and writers for the last two
centuries, have classified it as a noun,
conjunction, preposition, simple and
compound, and an adverb, and we sub¬
mit that those "Irish scholars" and
"professors" who did not know a word
of the language a few years ago are
rather cheeky, to say the least in see¬
king to ignore these authorities, nay,
they thereby insult the Irish race.
There is no more room for discuss¬
ing chum's position in the language
than there is for the word an, which is
also used as a noun, article, adjective,
adverb. etc.
If the lovers of the Gaelic movement
knew the motives of the party who
originated the discussion they would
drop it, for its continuance tends only
to promote the end of his questionable
purpose.
We hope all those who have a list of
Irish words which are in common use
but not found in the dictionaries, will
send them to us or to Father Growney
that they may be published.
