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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." — ARCH¬
BISHOP TRENCH.
"The Green Isle contained for more centuries than one,
more learning than could have been collected from the rest
of Europe ... It is not thus rash to say that the Irish
possess contemporary histories of their country, written in
the language of the people, from the fifth century. No
other nation of modern Europe is able to make a similar
boast." — SPALDING'S ENGLISH LITERATURE, APPLETON & Co.,
NEW YORK
Who are the Scotch? A tribe of Irish Scots who crossed
over in the 6th century, overcame the natives, and gave
their name to the country. — J. CORNWELL, PH.D., F. R. S.'s
Scotch History.
The Saxons Ruled in England from the 5th century and
were so rude that they had no written language until the
14th, when the Franco-Normans formulated the English. —
SPALDING.
A monthly Journal devoted to the Cultivation
and Preservation of the Irish Language and
the autonomy of the Irish Nation.
Published at 247 Kosciusko st., Brooklyn, N. Y
M. J. LOGAN, Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription — $1 a year to student, 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
Thirteenth Year of Publication.
VOL 10. No. 7. APRIL. 1894.
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.
D M — No more free sample copies to those who
know of its existence.
C O'B — He is not a priest.
J W — The price is $2.
J D — We have no time to look up the origin of
your name; besides, we think poorly of men like
you, who, a non subscriber, would not send a stamp
to pre-pay an answer.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Fitzgerald of Ross, Skib¬
ereen, has been elected vice President of the Dublin
Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language.
The orthography of the Gael's present address is
a stickler to many of our correspondents though
Kosciusko is an honored name in American history.
However, those who cannot readily swing the pen
around "Kosciusko" may, if they choose, address
the editor at Third & Prospect Avenues, to which
place he has removed his Real Estate business, and
where he will, during business hours, receive with a
ceud míle fáilte
all who have business to transact in that line.
At the branch meeting of the Gaelic League for
the preservation of Irish as a spoken language re¬
cently held in Galway, the Lord Bishop, the Most
Rev Dr McCormick, who presided, was supported
on the platform by the following clergy and gentry :
The Reverend J Dooley, W Conway, W Hay¬
den, T Curran, R McDonagh, J Kane, J Craddoc
J Greaven, Fr. Grilely, Fr. Goveny, Fr Carroll, Fr
O'Connor, Fr McCarthy, Fr Nestor, Fr Ralph, Fr
Walsh; Dr Rice, J. P.; J Glynn (TUAM NEWS);
Prof. Bainberger, Q's College; J P Hannon, J P;
Rev. Brother Lynch, Messrs. R Saint George, M.
Clayton, M Cunningham, T C; A G Scott, P L G
Mr J Sleator, L L Ferdinand, P Kearns, T C, P
L G, etc.
Dr. Douglas Hyde, President of the Gaelic Lea¬
gue; the Rev. Prof. O'Growney, Maynooth Col¬
lege, and Mr M Cusack, represented the central
branch.
— TUAM NEWS
[More than one-half of the Catholic clergy of Am¬
erica are Irish — We hope they will second the eff¬
orts of their home brethren by circulating the litera¬
ture here.]
The Rev. Prof. O'Growney delivered an address
in Irish before the Gaelic Society of Glasgow, on
January 30. The Highland chieftains generally
appeared in their full national costume. It was a
tony gathering and its tone would indicate that our
Brothers are tiring of playing second fiddle to the
offspring of the piratical freebooters of the North
Sea. Father O'Growney received a splendid ova¬
tion at the hands of his Scottish kinsmen, — a rem¬
arkable but an intelligent and patriotic change.
Sawny realizes the anomally of holding his bro¬
ther Pat — his flesh and blood — by the arms while
the upstart brutish stranger is pommeling and rob¬
bing him. And, for what? Because his brother
Pat would not leave a certain path which he believ¬
ed would take him to the next world. But now,
from all appearances, Sawny and Pat will take the
common, brotherly pathway in their pursuit of this
world's business regardless of the road to the next
world. — That's common sense.
THE BANE of the IRISH ELEMENT.
If we take this city as a sample, the cowardice
springing from the ignorance of Irish-American po¬
liticians in relation to their social standing among
the nations, is the bane of the Irish element in this
country. Let the greatest blackleg, public robber,
bank wrecker, and destroyer of character, shout Mc¬
Laughlinism, or any other Ism typical of leader¬
ship in the Irish-American element, and these lead¬
ers will slink from the public view and leave their
element exposed to the malignant taunts and scoffs
of their social, but inferior (as history declares), en¬
mies, instead of coming forward, maintaining their
