AN GAODHAL.
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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,
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students:
Sixty Cents to the general public, in advance; $1
in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 10 cents a line, Agate,
VOL 8, No. 2. SEPTEMBER 1890.
The best news item which has ever
come across the Atlantic is the ann¬
ouncement that the clergy of the Arch¬
diocese of Dublin have commended the
study of the language to their flocks.
Also, that a large number of the
gentry in and about Dublin have, of
late, been sending to Munster and
Connaught for Irish-speaking nursery
maids for their children.
Also, that the teaching of the lang¬
uage in the National Schools is obtain¬
ing a firm footing,
These are the most encouraging
news items that THE GAEL has been
enabled to announce since its founda¬
tion.
Then, now is the time for Gaels to
follow up the victory by organizing
societies and by circulating Gaelic lit¬
erature.
Since the above was put in type the
TUAM News has come to hand with the
announcement that the Tuam Town
Commissioners have passed a resolu¬
tion to have their advertising publish¬
ed in the Irish Language side by side
with the English. This action is ow¬
ing to the exertions of Mr. McPhilpin
proprietor of the TUAM NEWS — a paper
which should be in the hands of every
Irishman, at home and abroad. The
Irish Times, a liberal tory, comments
favorably on the action of the commis¬
sioners. Over one hundred of the Na¬
tional Teachers have certificates qua¬
lifying them to teach Irish, and it is
expected that Irish will be taught in
their schools immediately.
This is grand news, GAELS.
We see some of our friends cry out
for a "tony" Gaelic Journal. You have
that, friends, in the Dublin Journal;
circulate and support that. Our great¬
est present want is, the circulation of
cheap Gaelic literature such as An
Gaodhal, the Echo, TUAM NEWS, and
Nation, and a cheap Irish-English and
English-Irish dictionary for those who
are now learning the language, such
as that proposed by Mr. Markoe.
It should be borne in mind in this
connection that, generally, those now
learning the language in the schools,
and on whom its preservation so large¬
ly depends, are the children of the
poorer classes to whom a dollar is of
considerable consideration. As for the
buickeens, they never come into a
movement until, like a certain well
known quadruped, the work is done.
We announced in the last Gael that
we were about issung a short history
of the Gaelic movement. We do this
because that movement has been the
most effective ever organized in rel¬
ation to Irish Nationality, and because
we wish to transmit to posterity a true
history of the movement and the names
of those who took part in it.
The plan of the work is this, — We
shall set out with the re-production of
our first letter on the subject (which
appeared in the IRISH WORLD) in the
Spring of 1872; the organization of the
first Gaelic Class (the parent of the B.
P. C. Society) in that connection in the
Fall of the same year: the organiza¬
tion of the Boston and Brooklyn socie¬
ties in '73-4; the action taken by Frs.
Bourke and Nolan in Dublin in '76-7,
