AN GAODHAL.
79
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation.
— "The Green Isle contained, for more centuries
than one, more learning than could have been col¬
lected from the rest of Europe. * * * It is not
thus rash to say that the Irish possess contempo¬
rary histories of their country, written in the lang¬
uage of the people, from the fifth century. No oth¬
er nation of modern Europe is able to make a sim¬
ilar boast" — SPALDING'S ENGLISH LITERATURE. —
[Anti Irish], APPLETON & Co., N Y.
"A nation which allows her language to go to
ruin, is parting with the best half of her intellectual
independence, and testifies to her willingness to cease
to exist." — ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.
Published at 814 Pacific st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. J. LOGAN, Editor and Proprietor.
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to students, 60
cents to the public, in advance ; $1. in arrears.
Terms of Advertising — 10 cents a line, Agate.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter.
Tenth Year of Publication.
A blue wrapper indicates that the subscrip¬
tion has expired and solicits a renewal.
VOL 8, No. 7. APRIL, 1891.
Still they come. More bishops and
priests recorded in the patriotic cata¬
logue this month.
We give this month specimens of
the progress made by our Gaelic stud¬
ents. Theirs is the work that will pre¬
serve the Irish Nation. Will those pa¬
triots who would sacrifice their lives
for the cause spare their lives and, in¬
stead, contribute sixty cents a year to
compass the same end, or will they al¬
low Trench's charges (that they are
either hypocrites or imbeciles) go un¬
challenged?
A lady member of the P. C. Society
called on us the other day and implor¬
ed of us to not send the GREEN on
such mission as that of reminding Ir¬
ishmen of a national duty. We felt flat,
and the blue goes out instead. Had Ire¬
land 20,000 such children!
ENGLISH SLANDER!
If not trespassing too much on the
good nature and forbearance of our
patriotic countrymen, who would shed
the last drop of their blood in defense
of their country, we would, even at the
risk of being considered a little too im¬
portuning, call their attention to the
third paragraph from the shamrocked
harp on left hand column of this page
that they may notice the insulting in¬
sinuations made against their sinceri¬
ty by that noodle, Trench.
Had that insolent nincompoop been
present at our Robert Emmet and Man¬
chester Martyrs' Anniversaries and
had heard our Sullivans, our Morrisons
and our Bolands with uplifted arms
breathlessly breathing immediate ven¬
geance against the destroyers of their
Nationality — had he heard the tumul¬
tuous applause which greets our Na¬
tional orators as they descant on the
valor of our race and interject as proof
thereof such laudatory couplets as,
"On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, like eagles in the
sun,
With bloody plumes the Irish stand — the field is
fought and won !" —
had he been present at our St. Patrick's
Day Parades and had seen the thous¬
ands of our stalwart and patriotic
countrymen, with flags and banners
bearing the never-to-be-forgotten mot¬
toes of Fág an bealach and Érinn go
brách waving gracefully in the breeze
before them, march proudly and defi¬
antly to the soul-inspiring strains of
O'Donnell Aboo and Garryowen — had
he heard and seen all these evidences
of their undying patriotic devotion to
motherland, he dare not have the tem¬
erity to insinuate that they — for the
paltry consideration of a Dollar or Six¬
ty Cents a year to preserve their Na¬
tional Language, or a want of realiz¬
ing the utter impossibility of rebuild¬
ing the national structure without the
national foundation — were "Testifying
to their willingness to cease to exist' !
What a slander !
