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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.
"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,
APPLETON & Co., N Y.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation and
Preservation of the Irish Language and the au¬
tonomy of the Irish Nation.
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 — 20 cents a line, Agate.
Entered at the Brooklyn P. O. as 2nd-class matter
Eleventh Year of Publication.
VOL 9, No. 5. JULY, 1892.
Remember that the First Irish Book is given free
of charge to every new subscriber.
Subscribers will please remember that subscrip¬
tions are due in advance.
The Gael can now be bought off the news stand
for 5 cents in the following places. —
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We have received No. 41 of the Dublin Gaelic
Journal, which is, as usual full of interesting Gael¬
ic matter. In a Gaelic letter Mr Fenton Lynch of
Kilmakerrin, Co. Kerry, states that in his neigh¬
borhood, in eight schools, there are over 250 Irish
pupils. Rev. Professor O'Growney has now full
charge of the Journal, and those subscribing for it
in future will not be disappointed. Let them send
60 cents a year to Rev. Eugene O'Growney, Prof¬
essor of Celtic, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
The Dublin Freeman is publishing Gaelic Songs
and Stories of Connacht collated by Dr. Hyde.
Patrick O'Brien, 46 Cuff St., THE Dublin Gael¬
ic Printer, is about re-issung Father Furlong's
Irish Prayer book. Mr. O'Brien is now well equip¬
ped having bought type, press, etc.
THE HIBERNIANS AND THE GÆL.
We never entertained a doubt that
the Gaelic movement would be a suc¬
cess notwithstanding the many incre¬
dulous head-shakes which have accom¬
panied the labors of those engaged in
it. We believed that though the race
should suffer persecution and alienation
in the land which it had so long inha¬
bited, it would never permit the des¬
truction of its racial characteristics, and
that such belief was not visionary the
actions of the Hibernian Conventions
held lately through the states bear am¬
ple testimony.
At the biennial convention of the
Order in Missouri, held at Moberly last
month, the following was one of the re¬
solutions unanimously adopted:
"Resolved, That we commend to the members
of the Order in this State, THE GÆL, a month
paper published in Brooklyn, N. Y, and devoted
to the revival of the Irish language, the only paper
in the United States devoted exclusively to this
splendid object."
And Mr. James Hagerty of Burling¬
ton, offered the following resolutions at
the convention of the Hibernians of the
State of lowa, assembled at Des Moines:
Whereas, History demonstrates that the life of
a nation is in its language — Latium, being one-six¬
teenth of all Italy, Greece but two-thirds the size
of Ireland, yet each of these three was the mistress
or the teacher of the world while it preserved its
own tongue, Greece, after 2,000 years of bondage
awaking to freedom at the songs of Byron in her
ancient tongue; and
Whereas, In a representative assemblage of any
other nationality than ours the national language
is used whereas we use a stranger's tongue; and
Whereas, This state of affairs reveals our ignor¬
rance to all the world and leaves us without any
effective bond of union, as a race;
Whereas, The language of the conqueror in the
mouth of the conquered is the language of slaves ;
and
Whereas, The most reliable statistics prove that
the English element in the United States is out¬
numbered by the Irish in the ratio 5 to 1; and
Whereas, The Saxon Chronicle says of the de¬
feat at Hastings, in 1066, "The whole duguth of
them were there destroyed," even Britain herself
