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"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.
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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,
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By a typographical error F has ap¬
peared instead of S in the word Saoir¬
se in the third line of the first verse of
the Seanbhean Bhocht; also, Seanbhean,
should have been eclipsed by t but the
Gael was in press when we received
the correction. Also, the last line by
a misconception was made 'Leo an
seanbhean bhocht instead of, 'Seo an sean¬
bhean bhocht However, the form by mis¬
take substituted fully expressed the
sentiment — "Ah! they shall never say
that the old woman is theirs.
THE AMERICAN GAEL AGAIN.
The numerical strength of the Irish-
American element in this country (25,¬
000,000), as shown in the last Gael,
has caused considerable discussion be¬
cause the Catholic Directory gives on¬
ly 8,647,221 Catholics, of all nationali¬
ties, to the United States. Our opinion
is that there cannot be less than 12,¬
000,000 Irish-American Catholics in
the United States, but that through
ignorance and false shame a large num¬
ber of them deny both their religion
and nationality. And here, the perti¬
nent query arises and has to be met —
What is the cause of this ignorance and
false shame seeing that those consider¬
ed as fairly versed in English litera¬
ture are their victims? We answer. It
is the erroneously supposed lowly social
condition of the Irish race.
In 1841 the population of Ireland was
8,175,124; it is to-day about four mili¬
ions and a half. Since the former date
England and Scotland have doubled
their populations, so that all who emi¬
grated from their shores to the United
States since 1841 were Irish who pass¬
ed over to earn their passage money.
Hence, the strength of the Irish elem¬
ent in America is not over-estimated.
Discussing the falling off from Cath¬
tholicity of the Irish-American element
the Chicago CITIZEN said:
What the main causes are, it is not for THE CI¬
TIZEN to say. That is a matter for the hierarchy and
clergy, although we might respectfully suggest
that the pulpit of a great church is hardly the place
in which to put a preacher upon whom, undoubt¬
edly, the fire of the Holy Ghost has not conferred
eloquence although it has sanctity.
We beg to differ with the CITIZEN
in this regard, or if a Fr. Tom Burke
were to occupy every Catholic pulpit
in America it would have no effect so
long as the badge of lowliness is being
