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AN GAODHAL.
ing across the ocean.
Gaels and Irishmen, you have the opportunity of
your lives to exhibit your social standing before the
world when your little island of 32,000 squared
miles contained more learning than all the rest of
Europe! Is there another people in the world that
would let such an opportunity pass by?
Now that the movement to preserve
the Irish language is no longer confin¬
ed to the exertions of a few patriotic
enthusiasts, all Irishmen and women
should take a lively interest in it. It
is of importance to them to scatter the
Gael broadcast through the land if for
no other purpose but the bringing of
the telling extracts from the bigotted
Spaulding before the public. They
should place these extracts in golden
frames and hang them over their man¬
telpieces that their children may have
an opportunity to refer to the history
from which they have been extraced
and to see for themselves the social e¬
minence of their forefathers when Eu¬
rope was enveloped in mental dark¬
ness, and centuries before the Gotho-
Saxon-Hun freebooter set his foot on
Irish soil.
To make money, the proprietors of
patent medicine, bitters, pills and oth¬
er nostrums flood the country with cir¬
culars, tracts, and newspaper articles,
how much more important to the Irish
people than money is the vindication
of their social rights against the on¬
slaught continually made on them by
their enemies — the Gotho-Saxon ele¬
ment and its subsidized press, both at
home and in this country (witness the
onslaught made on our minister to
Chili, and on Mr. Divver when app¬
ointed police justice in New York cit¬
y lately, notwithstanding that a large
number of the members of the Eng¬
lish house of lords are in the liquor
business).
Three-fourths of the Irish-American
youth to-day believe that they are de¬
scended from barbarism and ignor¬
ance (what else could they think from
the amount of filth with which they
have been daily bespattered without
anything to wash it off). But by di¬
recting their attention to such evid¬
ence to the contrary as the above, with
the language as an occular demonstra¬
tion of the same, they would have a
different opinion of themselves ; they
would become a credit to their race,
and their neighbors would accord them
that measure of respect and esteem
which, as a matter of course, is ever-
extended to aged respectability.
The Gael does not go to its friends
for evidence to prove the social supe¬
riority of his race and nation ; he pro¬
duces it in black and white from the
records of the enemy, and displays on
his title page the language itself as a
convincing corroborative proof.
Where are the Mac's and the O's?
Would not each individual of them
contribute one dollar a year to
scatter this conclusive evidence of their
social superiority among their neigh¬
bors of other nationalities, and to con¬
found and abash the ignorant of their
own? Scatter then, the Gael broad¬
cast and let its readers this year, 1892,
be counted, if not by the million, by
the hundreds of thousands.
Baile-átha-cliath, an ceathramhadh lá
de mhí dheiridh an Fhoghmhair, 1891
D' Fhear-eagair an Ghaodhail.
A shaoi dhíl,
Do bhí iongantas orm an uair do
léigheas alt an Bhuinneáin Aedharaigh do
cuireadh i g-clódh ins an nGaodhal déigh¬
ionach mar a n-abrann sé nach bh-fuil
Gaeghilge ga labhairt acht amháin ar fud
iarthair agus deiscirt na h-Éireann
Do ghní sé dearmad 'na thaobh so gan
amhras. Tá Gaedhilge fós 'ga labhairt
i n-deisceart Uladh & i d-tuaisceart
Laighean, & tuille fós, tá sí ag an aos
óg i g-cor áitibh, mar atá, i n-Druim-
an-tighe agus i n-Eo-méidh a atá i g-con¬
tae Lughmhaidh b agus i g-Cill-shléibhe c atá
i g-condae Árdmhacha. Tá Eo-meidh os
coinne an Phúinte d , baile mór atá i g-
contae an Dúin, agus tá Druim-an-tighe
i bh-fogus do tórainn chondae Árdmhacha.
Ní'l aon mháighistir sgoile 'g-ar féidir
